All articles filed under “Tutorial”
Media Queries
Since I’ve added my screencast on responsive web design to Nettuts, I’ve gotten a ton of awesome email and tweets asking for a list of all possible media queries. I’m not sure I know all of them, but here’s a brief outline of how to use them and some additional hooks not covered in the video.
Wrangling Twitter Lists
One cool feature of Twitter that seems pretty underutilized by most people I ask are lists. With the advent of the awesome Tweetbot and its ability to switch quickly between my Timeline view and list views, I’ve made it a point to clean up and organize my lists and take the opportunity to trim down my followers a bit.
Choose Your ProRes Wisely
In an attempt to be a more helpful, sharing individual this year here’s my second blog post helping you video folks make the right choice when determining what version of Apple’s ProRes codec you should use when working on your project.
Digitizing Your Physical Media
I’m finally setting out on the path of digitizing and cataloging my current DVD library (Shhhh! Don’t tell the Feds!) and thought I would share my findings on doing this with all of you fine people. So without further ado…
Bulletproof OS X Installation & Backup
As you may know, I recently purchased a brand new 15″ MacBook Pro that I am completely enamored with. Despite its raw power and ample hard drive space, I wanted to ensure that this machine stays as lean as possible in the event of catastrophic loss of data. Here’s my triple fail-safe process of setting up a new Mac, from start to finish.
Working with MySQL Databases in MAMP
Here’s the second video in a series focusing on using your Mac as a development server to test your pages locally.
Creating a Mac Server with MAMP
Stay tuned for the second post in this series where I delve into the practical application of creating a MySQL database using PHPMyAdmin and linking it the Wordpress content management system.
Recreating the Max Payne Effect
Here's a screencast describing one possible way to recreate some of the effects from the cinema interludes featured in the Max Payne series of games.
Creating a Color Vortex
This video tutorial will teach you how to create a color vortex in Photoshop to amaze your friends and shock your enemies.