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Thinking of a Smartphone? Check out iPhone, BlackBerry, and More

Envious of your friends who are constantly answering e-mail, surfing the web, updating a calendar and texting friends and associates from their phone? It may be time for you to take the plunge and invest in a smartphone. The good news is that with intense competition between the major U.S. carriers, there are some very good deals to be had on a variety of excellent devices. Included is a list of what may be considered the current flagship phone for each carrier, with a few honorable mentions thrown... learn more

Get Listed in TutorialBlog.org’s Designers Link Directory

Looking to showcase your awesome new design software? Want to promote your stock photography site to TutorialBlog’s 10,000 daily readers? Or, maybe you’re a designer that wants to share your portfolio with the world.  Whatever the reason, you should be in the new Designers Link Directory on TutorialBlog.org. The link directory is brand new. And, that means that is your chance to get in on the ground floor of what is sure to become a massive resource for design professionals and other... learn more

Myspace vs Facebook: Is Myspace Still Relevant?

It seems like it was just yesterday when Myspace was the rave. Users could customize their own backgrounds, add music and videos and write on each others’ pages. Yet with the rapid growth of Facebook and now Twitter, it seems that Myspace has just been left in the dust. This begs the question, is Myspace still relevant? Should you even consider deleting your Myspace account?  Like all social networking sites and especially new startups, Myspace has come up against some bumps in the road, including... learn more

Better Design, a Better Conference

Princeton University’s Student Design Agency is hosting its second annual graphic design conference, Better: Design for Social Causes, taking place on Saturday, February 28th, 2009 from 10AM to 6PM. The conference brings together student designers from all over the nation to learn about how graphic design can serve as a vehicle for social change. Design luminaries Abbott Miller, Jessica Helfand, William Drenttel, Brian Collins, and Jeffrey Zeldman are currently among the confirmed speakers.... learn more

Editing Movies with iMovie

One of the great things about Macs is that they come with iMovie, an application that makes editing video easy. In this tutorial you learn how to use iMovie to cut and paste video clips together.  By the time you’ve finished reading this tutorial you should feel comfortable creating your own movies in iMovie. Hardware & Software Required Macintosh Computer iMovie 7.1.4 or later learn more  Read More →

Five Great Resources for PowerPoint Tips and Tricks

I heard a good story this week about an astronaut who wanted to make a point with NASA bosses. So he created a YouTube video (it’s fun—take a look) because he didn’t want to do a “boring PowerPoint.” Which is yet another reminder that most of the many PPT presentations getting made every day are not interesting, not creative, and not very effective. So how can you rise above the boring average and make great stuff with PowerPoint? How can you develop presentations faster/smarter? There’s... learn more

How to: Post iMovie Files to Youtube

YouTube is the easiest way to share the movies you make with family members and the world.  In this tutorial you learn how to create a YouTube account, how to post a movie from iMovie to that account, and how to send a link to that movie to your friends and family. Hardware & Software Required Macintosh Computer iMovie 7.1.4 or later Internet Browser (ex: Mozilla or Safari) learn more  Read More →

Importing Video into iMovie

Apple’s iMovie  is part of the iLife suite of software products that comes free with every Mac. The iLife apps are designed to enhance users digital lives by making playing and working with digital media easy for all users. As it’s name suggests, iMovie is about about video editing.   iMovie can import video from a wide variety of sources. You can bring video in from your digital camera over a USB or Firewire cable, import it through your Mac’s built in camera or even pull it... learn more

9 Useful Tools for Analyzing Web Design

We all understand how important it is to know just how site visitors navigate a site, what they click on, where they come from, where they go when they leave the site and similar indicators of behavior. These are the factors on which great Web designs are built. I’ve pulled together a list of sites I think will help you understand how a Web site looks and works to optimize design and copy. You can also think of these sites as services you can sell to your clients: In your initial pitch provide... learn more

Why Web Designers and Web Writers Should Talk

I often write about Web design, although I’m not a designer. Oh sure, I can muck around with Macromedia’s Dreamweaver, HTML, Adobe Photoshop and other tools of the trade, but I didn’t get a degree in graphics design. Mine was in mass communication. Most of what I know about Web design comes from working with some very good designers over the years and a goodly amount of my studying on the side. I’ve learned to speak the designer’s lingo and I so respect the work they... learn more

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