Hype is Mac platform exclusive animation software by a company called Tumult. Hype generates HTML 5, CSS3 and JavaScript content intended to run in all modern browsers. It currently retails on the Mac Store for $29.99 and is as of this article in version 1.02. Their byline is Create. Animate. HTML 5.
Why waste the time to set this up? Why not just work with your files via FTP? Trust me, if you are a Mac user and do any work on fileservers / web hosts across the internet [such as accessing your University of Michigan IFS space] this tip can save you lots of time. And its free.
If you do any web design / development you are likely very familiar with juggling files via FTP and your editor of choice. Some editors have very nice integration with some form of file handling. I will commend Dreamweaver and Coda for this. My choice however is TextMate. TextMate has no integrated file handling. What is a guy to do.
After some digging I came across MacFUSE and Macfusion.
Macfusion is an open source Mac application that allows you to work with files on servers across the internet, as if they were sitting on your computer. – Macfusion’s web site
This means that it is now possible to mount your web hosted drive as a local disk. Read the rest of this entry »
We’ve recently had an increase of faculty members who would like to do basic video editing on their computers. Typically, they’ve already ripped the DVD and used MPEG Streamclip to convert it to a standard video file. You can use the same software to trim and combine video clips into one file. Take a look at the following video for instructions:
From the official Adobe Photoshop YouTube Channel:
One of the biggest requests we get of Photoshop is to make adding, removing, moving or repairing items faster and more seamless. From retouching to completely reimagining an image, heres an early glimpse of what could happen in the future when you press the delete key. How might you use this new capability in your workflow?
Timeline 3D, by beedocs is a Mac-based software that makes it easy for users to create and present timelines. Users can create multiple rows in the same timeline, add images, links and notes, and customize the theme, colors, fonts and date format of the timelines. It also offers multiple After registering your version of Timeline 3D, you can also export your timeline to a text file, email, to Keynote, to a portable device and also to a Quicktime movie file. You can also launch a “3D” presentation of your timeline within Timeline 3D itself, such as in the video below:
I am an Evernote devotee.
In fact, I am going to go all out and declare that I consider it one of the most useful computer applications. Ever. And I try out a lot of applications.
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