One of the new features in Elgato’s latest version of EyeTV 3 is a series link style system called ‘Smart Guide’. The system is not only particularly useful but it is also sophisticated enough to find missing episodes and ignore those you have already recorded.
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.
More and more people are venturing their way on to Social Networking sites such as MySpace and Bebo. Facebook is a big favourite with many of the people I know, and some would suggest Facebook is the realm of the more mature surfer, I’m not risking any comment ! Most people don’t realise just how public their information is when they sign up for a Facebook account.
If you visit a number of blogs regularly and ever comment on posts you will know that some users have images appearing beside their comments. These images are known as avatars and most blogs use a global system known as Gravatar.com to call a user’s avatar image. Many of the users commenting on DigMo! don’t have an avatar so I thought I’d cover how easy it is to set up and create your very own globally recognised avatar image.
Jerry Leer from the Apple Motion Template website MotionTemplate gives DigMo! readers an exclusive and easy to follow guide to customising templates in Apple Motion. This easy to follow tutorial will introduce the basis of the templates window, project pane, dropzones and editing text in Apple Motion and is a great start to new users of this motion graphics application.
If you are involved with any sort of Web 2.0 and social networking activities you will be no doubt swamped by emails. You have your blog comment approvals, Twitter follower notifications, Twitter Direct Messages, Facebook Friends requests, and Facebook event invitations to name but a few.
There was massive speculation in the run up to Macworld that iWork was about to enter ‘the cloud’. To a certain extent that prediction came true in the form of iWork.com. This article is an easy step by step guide for anyone thinking of jumping to iWork 09 and using iWork.com.
Over the last few years I have tried to move away from the traditional paper handout and explore offering course material in a range of different formats. With Apple Keynote I have offered iPod / iPhone versions of presentations to download via shared areas and VLEs
