DigMo!

I am frequently asked what Mac video editing I would recommend, iMovie or Final Cut Express. Although I primarily teach students to use Final Cut I use both FCE and iMovie in roughly equal amounts but for different tasks so I decided I would write a post to outline how I use each application and the benefits and drawbacks of each. If you are hoping for a winner well it really depends on how you want to work and be creative with video. Read more

Not too long ago guitarists had to rely on arrays of individual stomp boxes or expensive rack equipment to obtain the guitar tone of their dreams. Furthermore recording guitar tracks was a complicated business with carefully placed microphones and speakers into multitrack tape recorders.

In the home studio environment guitarists used four track recorders to get their ideas down on tape or mini disk with more time being spent setting up the recording environment than actually playing. Read more

Today I have been experimenting with Wacom’s second generation Bamboo graphics tablet and I love it. If you consider graphics tablets to be the realm of the professional graphic artist or animator then it is time to seriously think again. Read more

We recently compared the Dropbox cloud file storing service with Apple’s MobileMe (read the article here). Still new to using Dropbox we asked veteran user @ColinNapier to take us through his top five uses of Dropbox. Read more

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. Read more