Nowadays, many game and movie sites use QuickTime media skins. Making QuickTime media skins is not easy. Fortunately, Apple’s Developer Connections shows how to make ones. But it doesn’t fully show you all the steps in detail. Furthermore, if you search the Internet for ‘media skins,’ you won’t get much help. Continue reading →

The goal of this video tutorial is to create a QuickTime media skin. Many game and movie sites use QuickTime media skin to host their movie trailers. The first step is to create a QuickTime interactive movie. That is, we want to install clickable buttons on the QuickTime video screen. These buttons can be installed to direct visitors to a certain URL or to start video. Continue reading →

In this video tutorial, we show an easy way of making aqua buttons, using Adobe Fireworks 8. You can use other graphic-editing applications as well. We use Fireworks because it’s very easy to use.

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There are several Mac shareware titles that let you create your own Mac OS X icons. But you need not spend $10 or $15 just to create OS X icons. One shareware title even costs $79. $79!? No way! Well, that’s kind of outrageous for just making Mac icons, isn’t it? If you have a simple graphic-editing application, you can make your own OS X icons with this freeware title. You don’t have Adobe Photoshop? No problema nada. This is not a Photoshop plugin. It’s a simple standalone application. Continue reading →

Mac OS X comes with Disk Utility, which allows us to create disc images. Disk Utility is essential if you want to compress or password-lock disc images. On the other hand, Disk Utility is not very reliable because an error often occurs. So we can use an alternative application. Continue reading →