Guest Post: Sal Soghoian on Automator

Guest Post: Sal Soghoian on Automator

November 11, 2009 in Featured, Tutorials by David John

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 [...]

Create a simple RSS Widget with Dashcode

Create a simple RSS Widget with Dashcode

November 8, 2009 in Featured, Tutorials by David John

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 [...]

Syncing Things for Mac via Dropbox

Syncing Things for Mac via Dropbox

November 6, 2009 in Tutorials by David John

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 [...]

Sharing Presets in Guitar Rig 4

Sharing Presets in Guitar Rig 4

November 4, 2009 in Tutorials by David John

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 [...]

How to create an HTML signature in Mail.app

How to create an HTML signature in Mail.app

October 31, 2009 in Tutorials by David John

I recently scoured the web looking for advice on how to create a html signature to use within Mail as I had just switched from using entourage. I struggled to find any decent tutorials so I decided to make my own. This tutorial will be aimed more at the novice user. My current signature reads [...]

Guitar Rig 4 and Mac Audio

Guitar Rig 4 and Mac Audio

October 27, 2009 in Tutorials by David John

Native Instruments really have created the ultimate all in one guitar processing system for Mac. All you need is the Guitar Rig Kontrol Edition (read our review) and a Mac to easily recreate the guitar sounds of the masters. Over the last week I have been playing guitar through the headphone socket on the Kontrol [...]

How to Rotoscope with your Bamboo Tablet

How to Rotoscope with your Bamboo Tablet

in Tutorials by David John

Fresh on the heels of my look at the new Wacom Bamboo Fun 2nd Generation tablet I present the first creative use to get you started in the world of animation. I teach film and animation for a living and regularly have students using tablets to create digital animations. The tutorial takes the traditional rotoscoping [...]

Time Freeze in Final Cut

Time Freeze in Final Cut

October 16, 2009 in Pro Apps, Tutorials by David John

As you know we are massive fans of Daniel Wallace / Tim Burton’s Big Fish film. One the scenes we attempt to replicate in teaching basic Final Cut techniques is the time freeze scene. This the point in the film with Edward Bloom sees the love of this life, see below. The scene is brilliant [...]

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