This video tutorial will show you how to use Ambrosia Software’s screen-capture software to record desktop movements and then encode audio and video for video editing beginners. This video tutorial comprehensively answers the following questions. Continue reading
Snapz Pro X from Ambrosia Software, Inc. is the industry-standard screen-capture software title under Mac OS. The performance of personal computers has improved such that anyone can edit self-filmed videos. And there is a great deal of demand for video tutorials. So there is a lot of demand for screen-capture software. The screen capture business is lucrative. There are now a dozen screen-capture shareware titles just for Mac OS. But no Mac shareware title is even close to outselling Ambrosia’s Snapz Pro X.
Two months ago, Ambrosia updated Snapz Pro to 2.1.0. It’s now Intel-Mac ready. Furthermore, the company released another update a few days ago to make small improvements to its screen-capture software. Continue reading
The game website dedicated to Mac OS says today that Texas-based video game distributor Aspyr Media is currently working to bring to Mac a sequel to the hit RPG game originally produced by BioWare and published by Atari. Well, Inside Mac Games says that Neverwinter Nights 2 is scheduled for release in December. So we have about 4 more months of waiting. Continue reading
Freeway 4 Pro from Softpress is a relatively expensive solution to building websites. A single package costs US$289. It’s nothing like other website design applications we have ever used. That doesn’t necessarily mean that we give it our ‘buy-it’ recommendation. We often use Adobe Dreamweaver to modify our PHP webpages. And we use Adobe Fireworks if we want to work on web graphics. They are separate applications. Freeway 4 Pro is interesting because you can work on graphic images and rotate and skew them without resorting to a graphic application. Continue reading
I don’t know why, but we have strange customers from time to time. For example, there was an old lady who came to our office a few weeks ago. She brought a broken sand clock and said that she wanted to replace it with a new one. And she showed me a receipt from WalMart. “Umm, … You are at a wrong place, old lady,” I said. Then she stared at me. I didn’t know what to say. Eventually, I said that I could design a new one digitally using Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop CS2. Then she nodded and smiled. Well, you know… As I always do, I launched Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop on my iMac. In a matter of 12 minutes or so, I created a brand-new sand clock for her.
The following tutorial shows steps to design a sand clock, using Adobe Illustrator CS2 and Photoshop CS2. Note that the screenshots below are extracted from a tutorial video with PNG compression. Therefore, their quality may not be the best. Continue reading