Personal Note: Farewell to Tim Russert.
Apple WWDC 2008 Keynote Video Now Available.
Apple’s Word Wide Developer Conference (WWDC) sold out this year for the first time ever. For those of us who aren’t lucky enough to be down in San Francisco this week, Apple has posted the 1 hour and 45 minute video.
Watch it online on Apple’s website:
Link: Apple WWDC 2008 Keynote
Or download the video to your own iPhone/iPod from Apple’s new Keynote Podcast in iTunes. This latest video has been posted along with many other historic presentations:
Link: Apple Keynotes Podcast
Too busy? Read past the jump for a great 60-second version of the WWDC Keynote.
Free Editable iPhone Design Elements.
Welcome to our special iPhone tips edition. This Monday in San Francisco, Steve Jobs is kicking off Apple’s World Wide Developer Conference with a keynote that should unveil Apple’s new second-generation iPhone.
If you find yourself with a hankerin’ to start designing the next big iPhone gadget, we’d like to direct you to a free set of templates from Yahoo Developer’s Network. This free download includes (among other things) an editable collection of iPhone interface elements. Open their PDF iPhone stencil in Illustrator and you can snap together your own iPhone design from dozens of editable elements.
Embed iPhone Friendly Videos on your Website.
It is pretty easy to embed an iPhone-optimized video in any website you are designing. Which can be a nice flourish to welcome the growing hordes of iPhone users who might be visiting your site soon.
Sound hard? It’s not. Apple has added a special Export to Web option to QuickTime Pro ($30) that makes the process nearly automatic.
Stanley Hainsworth’s New Seattle Creative Company: Tether
Clean up Shadows in Leopard Screenshots.
Take a Quick Screenshot of One Window.
Here’s a trick I rely on all the time. The keyboard shortcut to take a screen capture of a specific, isolated, window in Mac OS X:
Command+Shift+4, then tap the Spacebar.
Most designers know the Command-Shift-4 shortcut which gives you a small crosshair you can use to crop in on a specific part of your window. Tapping the Spacebar afterwards switches to a camera icon that takes a cropped picture of any window you click on.
Free Pinhole Camera Templates from Corbis.
We like to take a break from our technical focus during long 3-day weekends. This Monday take a break from your computer. Download a free PDF template from Corbis, and build a working 35mm pinhole camera. Perfect for sunny spring days.
The 10 Most Popular Creative Tips So Far.
The 10 Most Popular Tech Tips So Far.
Each week we bring you a pair of creative and tech tips drawn directly from our real-world experience supporting hundreds of Mac-based creative teams across the greater Seattle area. Take a moment to peruse the most visited tech tips over the last year.
Tech #1: Change Microsoft Office’s serial number, Easy!
Tech #2: Avoid serial number headaches with CS3!
Tech #3: Set default applications in Mac OS X.
Tech #4: My Mac Won’t Start! A Tiny Guide.
Tech #5: Six free Internet speed test sites.
Tech #6: Mac OS X Shortcuts! A Tiny Guide.
Tech #7: What is a good microphone for podcasting?
Tech #8: Garbled Fonts Troubleshooting Guide.
