With the new Apple Final Cut Studio comes Motion4 packed with even more features, Jerry Leer takes us step my step through generating and working with 3D shadows. This is the first of our tutorials to be in High Definition which we are pretty excited about.
With the recent release of Apple Final Cut Studio comes Motion4. With Motion 4 is it even easier to create breath taking 2D and 3D motion graphics and is packed with a stack of brand new features.
Apple’s Production Manager for Apple Automator Sal Soghoian is no stranger to any Apple developer. One of the names behind Apple’s Automator Workflow application he shared the stage with Steve Jobs while introducing this whole new way to work. To many Automator is just another icon in OSX yet to be explored but the reality is Automator offers us all a much more efficient way to work.
Taking the example of the education setting Sal has put together a really simple to follow guide on how Automator can come to the aid of the teacher and is actually much easier to use than you would think.
Recently I have attended three different separate events where the speaker referenced video from YouTube. On all of the occasions the video definitely added value to the presentation but sadly the speakers had to quit from PowerPoint / Keynote and use the web browser to play the relevant video.
This interrupted the flow of the presentations and sadly for one speaker it was a total distraction as the wifi hotspot he was using couldn’t actually stream fast enough for the video to play at all.
There are now literally hundreds of great Dashboard widgets around from the ability to watch Apple Trailers right through to complicated currency converters and games.
Why not make your first step to becoming a developer my creating your first ever Apple Dashboard widget using your blog’s RSS feed. This tutorial will show you just how easy it is to make a widget and a offer a few tips on the way.
I have been a massive fan of the Getting Things Done (GTD) philosophy for a couple of years now. Like most people I am generally working on about a dozen projects at once and each project has a large number of “next action” tasks that I have to work through to keep everything just ticking over.
Managing my life using the brilliant ‘Getting Things Done’ application Things for Mac has really helped me become more efficient, and I now tend to remember to do those “must do that” tasks from conversations or emails.
One of the most exciting aspects of Guitar Rig 4 (Review Link) is the ability to share presets with other guitarists. Better still the presets can be shared regardless if they were created on the Windows version or on a Mac.
I decided I would try to recreate the guitar sound for one my favourite (live) Pearl Jam songs. I am no expert in replicating guitar sounds but I knew in my head what I wanted to create and decided to give it a go.
