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

Derek Walter — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 18:00:15 +0000

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 in. (...)
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Get Listed in TutorialBlog.org’s Designers Link Directory

Barbara Holbrook — Wed, 27 May 2009 18:00:27 +0000

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 creative types.

We currently have categories set up for Art, Blogs, Business and Freelance, Creativity & Play, Design Resources, Designers & Portfolios, Photoshop, Web Design and Writing. (...)
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Photoshop Tutorial: How to Fake a Holga Photograph

Charles McNally — Wed, 20 May 2009 18:00:26 +0000

If you don’t already know, the Holga camera is a $15 plastic toy camera, made in China and celebrated by many photographers for it’s blur, vignette, light leaks and low-quality aesthetic.

I’ll assume that you don’t want to go through all the hassle of using film, developing it, dealing with negatives and printing and storing and all the rest, so I’ll show you the best way I know how to fake a Holga image using Photoshop.(...)
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Myspace vs Facebook: Is Myspace Still Relevant?

Spencer Spellman — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 17:00:28 +0000

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 how to deal with spammers, inappropriate content, privacy and most importantly for their creators, how to make money. Two of the biggest turnoffs recently for Myspace users has been advertisement and spammers.v(...)
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Better Design, a Better Conference

Barbara Holbrook — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 00:27:20 +0000

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. The program also includes a poster design competition, featuring a grand prize of $100 and a personal portfolio review by the speakers.

Registration for the event is now closed. Please visit their Web site for more information:

Editing Movies with iMovie

Nancy Fulton — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 18:00:23 +0000

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

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Five Great Resources for PowerPoint Tips and Tricks

Cynthia Giles — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 18:00:03 +0000

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 actually a lot of potential in PowerPoint if you know how to find it and use it, so check out these five (very different) resources for ideas and inspiration:(...)
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How to: Post iMovie Files to Youtube

Nancy Fulton — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 23:00:02 +0000

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)

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Importing Video into iMovie

Nancy Fulton — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 18:00:12 +0000

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 in from a DVD that’s been converted into a .mov file. In this iMovie tutorial you learn several ways to bring video into iMovie.

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9 Useful Tools for Analyzing Web Design

Michael Alexander — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:01:16 +0000

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 them with the option of your monitoring their Web site activity. That keeps you in touch with your clients after the initial work is done and you use the site-monitoring results to sell additional design services or updates.

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