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 →

Final Cut Pro Basic Techniques Series #11: Top-Down Typing

In the western world, typing usually goes from left to right. But why not typing top to bottom? So this VTC illustrates how to make a typed title credit vertically appearing. And if you go this far, it’s not hard to make letters appear from the left-hand side or the right-hand side. Continue reading →

The thinnest pixel of border you can use in tables is 1 at least with Adobe Dreamweaver 8. However, setting it to 1 pixel is not so simple because of shadow, which actually makes the pixel size look like 2. This short video tutorial shows how to set the size of border to 1 pixel, using CSS. Continue reading →

This brief video tutorial demonstrates how to remove voices from audio to make karaoke music. We use the Mac version of Audacity, a free, cross-platform audio application, to read an MP3 file and then eventually to remove human voices. Continue reading →