Hacker "Boot Camp" Helps Launch Tech Careers By GrabNetworks
Dev Bootcamp is one of a new breed of computer programming school in San Francisco and other U.S. tech hubs. These hacker "boot camps" promise to teach students how to write code in two or three months and help them get hired as web developers. (April 12)
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Developer Breaks Down Amazons Super Smooth Menu By GrabNetworks
Drop down menus. These kitchen cabinets of the Internet are ideal for sorting information. One curious web developer was so baffled by the menu design of Amazon.com he had to figure out what made it tick.
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DT Daily: 'Leap second' bug wrecks the Web, Sony buys GaiKai By GrabNetworks
Sony buys gaming service GaiKai, Facebook email outrage continues, comedies take the weekend box office, Beats Electronics acquires music streaming service MOG, Android loses Adobe Flash, and the viral video bus monitor bullies get their punishment.
...Read More »
Word for Mac Essential Training: Part 11 of 13 By David Rivers
In Word for Mac Essential Training, instructor David Rivers examines each important feature of this ubiquitous word processing software. David explores the Word for Mac interface, goes over simple tasks such as creating and saving documents, and delves into advanced editing, formatting, and layout features. He also teaches how to proof documents, use the powerful Mail Merge Manager, and share, print, and collaborate on projects. In this installment we look at sending and sharing documents via email.
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Importing from iPhoto or Aperture By Diana Weynand, James Alguire and RevUpTansmedia
If you are an avid user of iPhoto or Aperture, Apple's consumer and professional photo management tools you probably have shoeboxes worth of photos, all carefully organized, cropped, color adjusted, keyword tagged, and now just crying to be seen. Somewhere. Anywhere?
...Read More »
How To Draw A Alien By GrabNetworks
This instructional video is a lesson in drawing. A graphic designer and illustrator gives a detailed step-by-step set of instructions on how to draw an alien.
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How To Draw Spider Man By GrabNetworks
Spider Man is a beloved comic book superhero. Graphic designer Declan Talbert leads aspiring artists through an exciting yet simplified way to draw Spider Man. This five-minute technique will let you capture the essence of the classic superhero.
...Read More »
How To Create A Collage In Photoshop By GrabNetworks
This Photoshop tutorial has a graphic designer describing to viewers the easy way to use shortcuts on the keyboard to maneuver the Photoshop tools. It's really not so hard, if you listen to Tom as he guides you step by step, arranging images from your ima
...Read More »
How To Draw A Peacock By GrabNetworks
A peacock is one of the most beautiful birds. Learn how to sketch this nature's beauty with this step-by-step tutorial from an experienced graphic designer.
...Read More »
Word for Mac Essential Training: Part 10 of 13 By David Rivers
In Word for Mac Essential Training, instructor David Rivers examines each important feature of this ubiquitous word processing software. David explores the Word for Mac interface, goes over simple tasks such as creating and saving documents, and delves into advanced editing, formatting, and layout features. He also teaches how to proof documents, use the powerful Mail Merge Manager, and share, print, and collaborate on projects. In this installment we look at reviewing changes.
...Read More »
GPU Computing Gems Jade Edition By Wen-mei W. Hwu, Mark Harris and Michael Garland
The NVIDIA Fermi GPU architecture introduces new instructions designed to facilitate basic, but important, parallel primitives on per-thread predicates, as well as instructions for manipulating and querying bits within a word. This chapter demonstrates the application of these instructions in the construction of efficient parallel algorithm primitives such as reductions, scans, and segmented scans of binary or Boolean data.
...Read More »
SmartDraw VP - the world's first visual processor
SmartDraw VP, the world's first visual processor, is a powerful tool for use in architectural, engineering and construction industries. The solution, which is fully automated and geared toward users without expertise in visual design and drawing, has an extensive variety of templates for visuals like floor plans, maps, flow charts, various diagrams, strategy plans and more.
...Read More »
Word for Mac Essential Training: Part 9 of 13 By David Rivers
In Word 2008 for Mac Essential Training, instructor David Rivers examines each important feature of this ubiquitous word processing software. In this installment we look at tracking changes.
...Read More »
Displaying Closed Captions in Windows Media Player By Gary Rebholz
With the improvements that we made to the closed captioning workflow in Vegas Pro 10 software, you can now create and export closed caption files for use with the videos you encode to WMV format whether for inclusion on a disc or for streaming over the web. That part's easy and we explain the exact techniques for doing so in our extensive training video that you'll find on the Seminar Series training package for Vegas Pro 10 software. In this article, I'll talk about how you can make those WMV closed captions viewable in the Windows Media Player.
...Read More »
Word for Mac Essential Training: Part 8 of 13 By David Rivers
In Word 2008 for Mac Essential Training, instructor David Rivers examines each important feature of this ubiquitous word processing software. David explores the Word 2008 for Mac interface. In this installment we continue to look at using graphics in Word, this time it's using WordArt.
...Read More »
Word for Mac Essential Training: Part 7 of 13 By David Rivers
In Word 2008 for Mac Essential Training, instructor David Rivers examines each important feature of this ubiquitous word processing software. In this installment we look at Text Boxes in Word. The course explores the Word 2008 for Mac interface, goes over simple tasks such as creating and saving documents, and delves into advanced editing, formatting, and layout features.
...Read More »
How To Draw Planes By GrabNetworks
This is an excellent instructional video that guides any illustrator through the steps of sketching an airplane from a blank canvas!
...Read More »
Word for Mac Essential Training: Part 6 of 13 By David Rivers
David explores the Word 2008 for Mac interface, goes over simple tasks such as creating and saving documents, and delves into advanced editing, formatting, and layout features. He also teaches how to proof documents, use the powerful Mail Merge Manager, and share, print, and collaborate on projects. In this installment we look at SmartArt in Word.
...Read More »
Word for Mac Essential Training: Part 5 of 13 By David Rivers
David explores the Word 2008 for Mac interface, goes over simple tasks such as creating and saving documents, and delves into advanced editing, formatting, and layout features. In this installment we look at working with shapes in Microsoft Word.
...Read More »
Word for Mac Essential Training: Part 4 of 13 By David Rivers
In Word 2008 for Mac Essential Training, instructor David Rivers examines each important feature of this ubiquitous word processing software. David explores the Word 2008 for Mac interface, goes over simple tasks such as creating and saving documents, and delves into advanced editing, formatting, and layout features. In this lesson we look at using pictures and clip art.
...Read More »
Word for Mac Essential Training: Part 3 of 13 By David Rivers
In Word 2008 for Mac Essential Training, instructor David Rivers examines each important feature of this ubiquitous word processing software. David explores the Word 2008 for Mac interface, goes over simple tasks such as creating and saving documents, and delves into advanced editing, formatting, and layout features. In this segment David discusses creating columns in publishing view.
...Read More »
Word for Mac Essential Training: Part 2 of 13 By David Rivers
In Word 2008 for Mac Essential Training, instructor David Rivers examines each important feature of this ubiquitous word processing software. David explores the Word 2008 for Mac interface, goes over simple tasks such as creating and saving documents, and delves into advanced editing, formatting, and layout features. In this lesson we look at using parallel columns.
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Word for Mac Essential Training: Part 1 of 13 By David Rivers
David explores the Word 2008 for Mac interface, goes over simple tasks such as creating and saving documents, and delves into advanced editing, formatting, and layout features. He also teaches how to proof documents, use the powerful Mail Merge Manager, and share, print, and collaborate on projects.
...Read More »
Drupal 6: Online Presentation of Data: Part 10 of 10 By Tom Geller
Drupal's built-in data presentation tools offer several ways for web designers to clearly and attractively package their data. In Drupal 6: Online Presentation of Data, Tom Geller explains how Drupal handles data so users can set up intelligent structures and implement them with Drupal's Content Construction Kit
...Read More »
Drupal 6: Online Presentation of Data: Part 9 of 10 By Tom Geller
Drupal's built-in data presentation tools offer several ways for web designers to clearly and attractively package their data. In Drupal 6: Online Presentation of Data, Tom Geller explains how Drupal handles data so users can set up intelligent structures and implement them with Drupal's Content Construction Kit.
...Read More »
Basics for Working with DVD Video By Rob Boirun, BurnWorld
On a typical day I usually receive around 5-7 emails about how to do a certain DVD burning tasks. To me these are simple answers and over the years I just assumed that the answers I was providing is now common knowledge. However this is clearly not the case as more and more people are just starting to get familiar with their DVD burners. So I decided to write about some of the hidden 'secrets' that everyone should know about while working with your DVD burner.
...Read More »
Updated: 300+ Free After Effects Tutorials Mega List
After Effects has always been a popular topic for our writers and editors. We thought it would be helpful to list - with direct links to them on our After Effects Channel - the more than 300 different After Effects tutorials we have so far. In this list are After Effects training videos, After Effects hands on tutorials and techniques, and lots of After Effects Quick Tips. All professional quality, and all free! Enjoy!
...Read More »
Drupal 6: Online Presentation of Data: Part 8 of 10
Drupal's built-in data presentation tools offer several ways for web designers to clearly and attractively package their data. In Drupal 6: Online Presentation of Data, Tom Geller explains how Drupal handles data so users can set up intelligent structures and implement them with Drupal's Content Construction Kit. In this clip we see how to include images as CCK fields.
...Read More »
Drupal 6: Online Presentation of Data: Part 7 of 10 By Tom Geller
Drupal's built-in data presentation tools offer several ways for web designers to clearly and attractively package their data. In Drupal 6: Online Presentation of Data, Tom Geller explains how Drupal handles data so users can set up intelligent structures and implement them with Drupal's Content Construction Kit. In this clip we see how to add date fields.
...Read More »
Drupal 6: Online Presentation of Data: Part 6 of 10 By Tom Geller
Drupal's built-in data presentation tools offer several ways for web designers to clearly and attractively package their data. In Drupal 6: Online Presentation of Data, Tom Geller explains how Drupal handles data so users can set up intelligent structures and implement them with Drupal's Content Construction Kit.
...Read More »
Drupal 6: Online Presentation of Data: Part 5 of 10 By Tom Geller
Drupal's built-in data presentation tools offer several ways for web designers to clearly and attractively package their data. In Drupal 6: Online Presentation of Data, Tom Geller explains how Drupal handles data so users can set up intelligent structures and implement them with Drupals' Content Construction Kit.
...Read More »
Drupal 6: Online Presentation of Data: Part 4 of 10 By Tom Geller
Now we're going to take a look at some settings that seem small, but can make a big difference in how your information appears. It's annoying that these settings are so hidden in Drupal because pretty much every time I design a site I wonder, "Where are those settings again?" Well, I'll show you.
...Read More »
Drupal 6: Online Presentation of Data: Part 3 of 10 By Tom Geller
There is one Drupal specific point I think we should address ahead of time, that is whether to store a personal data as nodes or as users. This issue comes up whenever you want to store information about people on your site, and you might want to let those people actually log into the site and change their own data.
...Read More »
Web Site Planning and Wireframing: Part 12 of 12 By Laurie Burruss
In Web Site Planning and Wireframing: Hands-On Training, Laurie Burruss, director of digital media at Pasadena City College, demonstrates the essentials of creating a web site with a polished, professional appearance and a compelling user experience. The goal of this hands-on course is to deconstruct a web site's home page in order to identify its structural elements and feature set. Using Acrobat Pro and the web developer's toolkit, Laurie shows how to capture a homepage and create, in another layer, its visual framework (wireframe).
...Read More »
Hacker "Boot Camp" Helps Launch Tech Careers
Dev Bootcamp is one of a new breed of computer programming school in San Francisco and other U.S. tech hubs. These hacker "boot camps" promise to teach students how to write code in two or three months and help them get hired as web developers. (April 12)
...Read More »
Developer Breaks Down Amazons Super Smooth Menu
Drop down menus. These kitchen cabinets of the Internet are ideal for sorting information. One curious web developer was so baffled by the menu design of Amazon.com he had to figure out what made it tick.
...Read More »
DT Daily: 'Leap second' bug wrecks the Web, Sony buys GaiKai
Sony buys gaming service GaiKai, Facebook email outrage continues, comedies take the weekend box office, Beats Electronics acquires music streaming service MOG, Android loses Adobe Flash, and the viral video bus monitor bullies get their punishment.
...Read More »
Word for Mac Essential Training: Part 11 of 13
In Word for Mac Essential Training, instructor David Rivers examines each important feature of this ubiquitous word processing software. David explores the Word for Mac interface, goes over simple tasks such as creating and saving documents, and delves into advanced editing, formatting, and layout features. He also teaches how to proof documents, use the powerful Mail Merge Manager, and share, print, and collaborate on projects. In this installment we look at sending and sharing documents via email.
...Read More »
Importing from iPhoto or Aperture
If you are an avid user of iPhoto or Aperture, Apple's consumer and professional photo management tools you probably have shoeboxes worth of photos, all carefully organized, cropped, color adjusted, keyword tagged, and now just crying to be seen. Somewhere. Anywhere?
...Read More »
How To Draw A Alien
This instructional video is a lesson in drawing. A graphic designer and illustrator gives a detailed step-by-step set of instructions on how to draw an alien.
...Read More »
How To Draw Spider Man
Spider Man is a beloved comic book superhero. Graphic designer Declan Talbert leads aspiring artists through an exciting yet simplified way to draw Spider Man. This five-minute technique will let you capture the essence of the classic superhero.
...Read More »
How To Create A Collage In Photoshop
This Photoshop tutorial has a graphic designer describing to viewers the easy way to use shortcuts on the keyboard to maneuver the Photoshop tools. It's really not so hard, if you listen to Tom as he guides you step by step, arranging images from your ima
...Read More »
How To Draw A Peacock
A peacock is one of the most beautiful birds. Learn how to sketch this nature's beauty with this step-by-step tutorial from an experienced graphic designer.
...Read More »
Word for Mac Essential Training: Part 10 of 13
In Word for Mac Essential Training, instructor David Rivers examines each important feature of this ubiquitous word processing software. David explores the Word for Mac interface, goes over simple tasks such as creating and saving documents, and delves into advanced editing, formatting, and layout features. He also teaches how to proof documents, use the powerful Mail Merge Manager, and share, print, and collaborate on projects. In this installment we look at reviewing changes.
...Read More »
GPU Computing Gems Jade Edition
The NVIDIA Fermi GPU architecture introduces new instructions designed to facilitate basic, but important, parallel primitives on per-thread predicates, as well as instructions for manipulating and querying bits within a word. This chapter demonstrates the application of these instructions in the construction of efficient parallel algorithm primitives such as reductions, scans, and segmented scans of binary or Boolean data.
...Read More »
SmartDraw VP - the world's first visual processor
SmartDraw VP, the world's first visual processor, is a powerful tool for use in architectural, engineering and construction industries. The solution, which is fully automated and geared toward users without expertise in visual design and drawing, has an extensive variety of templates for visuals like floor plans, maps, flow charts, various diagrams, strategy plans and more.
...Read More »
Word for Mac Essential Training: Part 9 of 13
In Word 2008 for Mac Essential Training, instructor David Rivers examines each important feature of this ubiquitous word processing software. In this installment we look at tracking changes.
...Read More »
Displaying Closed Captions in Windows Media Player
With the improvements that we made to the closed captioning workflow in Vegas Pro 10 software, you can now create and export closed caption files for use with the videos you encode to WMV format whether for inclusion on a disc or for streaming over the web. That part's easy and we explain the exact techniques for doing so in our extensive training video that you'll find on the Seminar Series training package for Vegas Pro 10 software. In this article, I'll talk about how you can make those WMV closed captions viewable in the Windows Media Player.
...Read More »
Word for Mac Essential Training: Part 8 of 13
In Word 2008 for Mac Essential Training, instructor David Rivers examines each important feature of this ubiquitous word processing software. David explores the Word 2008 for Mac interface. In this installment we continue to look at using graphics in Word, this time it's using WordArt.
...Read More »
Word for Mac Essential Training: Part 7 of 13
In Word 2008 for Mac Essential Training, instructor David Rivers examines each important feature of this ubiquitous word processing software. In this installment we look at Text Boxes in Word. The course explores the Word 2008 for Mac interface, goes over simple tasks such as creating and saving documents, and delves into advanced editing, formatting, and layout features.
...Read More »
How To Draw Planes
This is an excellent instructional video that guides any illustrator through the steps of sketching an airplane from a blank canvas!
...Read More »
Word for Mac Essential Training: Part 6 of 13
David explores the Word 2008 for Mac interface, goes over simple tasks such as creating and saving documents, and delves into advanced editing, formatting, and layout features. He also teaches how to proof documents, use the powerful Mail Merge Manager, and share, print, and collaborate on projects. In this installment we look at SmartArt in Word.
...Read More »
Word for Mac Essential Training: Part 5 of 13
David explores the Word 2008 for Mac interface, goes over simple tasks such as creating and saving documents, and delves into advanced editing, formatting, and layout features. In this installment we look at working with shapes in Microsoft Word.
...Read More »
Word for Mac Essential Training: Part 4 of 13
In Word 2008 for Mac Essential Training, instructor David Rivers examines each important feature of this ubiquitous word processing software. David explores the Word 2008 for Mac interface, goes over simple tasks such as creating and saving documents, and delves into advanced editing, formatting, and layout features. In this lesson we look at using pictures and clip art.
...Read More »
Word for Mac Essential Training: Part 3 of 13
In Word 2008 for Mac Essential Training, instructor David Rivers examines each important feature of this ubiquitous word processing software. David explores the Word 2008 for Mac interface, goes over simple tasks such as creating and saving documents, and delves into advanced editing, formatting, and layout features. In this segment David discusses creating columns in publishing view.
...Read More »
Word for Mac Essential Training: Part 2 of 13
In Word 2008 for Mac Essential Training, instructor David Rivers examines each important feature of this ubiquitous word processing software. David explores the Word 2008 for Mac interface, goes over simple tasks such as creating and saving documents, and delves into advanced editing, formatting, and layout features. In this lesson we look at using parallel columns.
...Read More »
Word for Mac Essential Training: Part 1 of 13
David explores the Word 2008 for Mac interface, goes over simple tasks such as creating and saving documents, and delves into advanced editing, formatting, and layout features. He also teaches how to proof documents, use the powerful Mail Merge Manager, and share, print, and collaborate on projects.
...Read More »
Drupal 6: Online Presentation of Data: Part 10 of 10
Drupal's built-in data presentation tools offer several ways for web designers to clearly and attractively package their data. In Drupal 6: Online Presentation of Data, Tom Geller explains how Drupal handles data so users can set up intelligent structures and implement them with Drupal's Content Construction Kit
...Read More »
Drupal 6: Online Presentation of Data: Part 9 of 10
Drupal's built-in data presentation tools offer several ways for web designers to clearly and attractively package their data. In Drupal 6: Online Presentation of Data, Tom Geller explains how Drupal handles data so users can set up intelligent structures and implement them with Drupal's Content Construction Kit.
...Read More »
Basics for Working with DVD Video
On a typical day I usually receive around 5-7 emails about how to do a certain DVD burning tasks. To me these are simple answers and over the years I just assumed that the answers I was providing is now common knowledge. However this is clearly not the case as more and more people are just starting to get familiar with their DVD burners. So I decided to write about some of the hidden 'secrets' that everyone should know about while working with your DVD burner.
...Read More »
Updated: 300+ Free After Effects Tutorials Mega List
After Effects has always been a popular topic for our writers and editors. We thought it would be helpful to list - with direct links to them on our After Effects Channel - the more than 300 different After Effects tutorials we have so far. In this list are After Effects training videos, After Effects hands on tutorials and techniques, and lots of After Effects Quick Tips. All professional quality, and all free! Enjoy!
...Read More »
Drupal 6: Online Presentation of Data: Part 8 of 10
Drupal's built-in data presentation tools offer several ways for web designers to clearly and attractively package their data. In Drupal 6: Online Presentation of Data, Tom Geller explains how Drupal handles data so users can set up intelligent structures and implement them with Drupal's Content Construction Kit. In this clip we see how to include images as CCK fields.
...Read More »
Drupal 6: Online Presentation of Data: Part 7 of 10
Drupal's built-in data presentation tools offer several ways for web designers to clearly and attractively package their data. In Drupal 6: Online Presentation of Data, Tom Geller explains how Drupal handles data so users can set up intelligent structures and implement them with Drupal's Content Construction Kit. In this clip we see how to add date fields.
...Read More »
Drupal 6: Online Presentation of Data: Part 6 of 10
Drupal's built-in data presentation tools offer several ways for web designers to clearly and attractively package their data. In Drupal 6: Online Presentation of Data, Tom Geller explains how Drupal handles data so users can set up intelligent structures and implement them with Drupal's Content Construction Kit.
...Read More »
Drupal 6: Online Presentation of Data: Part 5 of 10
Drupal's built-in data presentation tools offer several ways for web designers to clearly and attractively package their data. In Drupal 6: Online Presentation of Data, Tom Geller explains how Drupal handles data so users can set up intelligent structures and implement them with Drupals' Content Construction Kit.
...Read More »
Drupal 6: Online Presentation of Data: Part 4 of 10
Now we're going to take a look at some settings that seem small, but can make a big difference in how your information appears. It's annoying that these settings are so hidden in Drupal because pretty much every time I design a site I wonder, "Where are those settings again?" Well, I'll show you.
...Read More »
Drupal 6: Online Presentation of Data: Part 3 of 10
There is one Drupal specific point I think we should address ahead of time, that is whether to store a personal data as nodes or as users. This issue comes up whenever you want to store information about people on your site, and you might want to let those people actually log into the site and change their own data.
...Read More »
Web Site Planning and Wireframing: Part 12 of 12
In Web Site Planning and Wireframing: Hands-On Training, Laurie Burruss, director of digital media at Pasadena City College, demonstrates the essentials of creating a web site with a polished, professional appearance and a compelling user experience. The goal of this hands-on course is to deconstruct a web site's home page in order to identify its structural elements and feature set. Using Acrobat Pro and the web developer's toolkit, Laurie shows how to capture a homepage and create, in another layer, its visual framework (wireframe).
...Read More »
Turning your photos into works of art using PostworkShop - Tutorial 3 of 3
In this final tutorial we will cover some of the more advanced features within PostworkShop. Not all since that would take some time, but I will try to touch on some fun advanced features.
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Turning your photos into works of art using PostworkShop - Part 2 of 3
In this tutorial using PostworkShop by Xycod, we will be covering layering of styles for more complex image manipulation effects. There are several ways you can layer styles to more advanced results.
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