Media Production
We’ve given our site a redesign, and along with it we’ve moved it from Drupal CMS (content management system) to WordPress CMS. We thought it was time for a refresh, but also we did this because WordPress gives us an unprecedented ease of use in creating and maintaining our own content. Hosting This move is … Read more
Auditory Vortex Volume 2 sound set is finally released as a Refill for Propellerhead Reason. It’s been a while since the volume 1 release, and has been eagerly anticipated. The new volume is even bigger than the last one, at over 900 Thor patches! It’s also currently on sale, so please have a listen to … Read more
So you’ve downloaded an FLV file, and now you’d like to convert it to another format, to view it on another device, edit it, etc? I’d like to share with you some great open source software I’ve found for converting FLV videos. I recently tried to convert an FLV file to another video format that … Read more
I've recently been looking at a number free File synchronization utilities. I'd previously used SyncToy from Microsoft. It worked well for me for a little while, but then I ended up loosing a number of files because it removed files that I didn't actually want to delete. The horror of loosing precious files made me … Read more
I've recently come across some good articles on Actionscript optimization, so I thought I'd share them with those of you who are Flash coders. If you want to make your code/animation run faster, then there's a good chance something here will help. This article talks about optimization in general, including a few non-code things: http://www.nbilyk.com/optimizing-actionscript-3 … Read more
Adobe CS5 is out now, and we're using CS5 Master Collection, which includes a boat load of creativity and media production software. CS5 has really wowed us with some incredible new features, so we figured we'd share our favorites with you. But first, for those who aren't acquainted with every Adobe app, here's a list … Read more
So you've got your self a shiny new web site, and now you want an icon for it? Just create a graphic sized 16×16, and save it as an ICO file. What? Photoshop doesn't save .ico files? Well, I found a few other softwares which didn't work well for my needs, before I came uppon … Read more
Uniphonic has just released a new refill: Auditory Vortex – Thor Volume 1. What beter way to ring in the new year, than a new refill for Propellerhead Reason? This killer Refill has over 400 Thor patches and over 170 Combinator patches featuring the Thor synth. 100% of the sounds in the demo song are … Read more
For my Flash projects, I’ve started using a debugger called MonsterDebugger which allows you to debug right from the browser, or if you’re creating an AIR app, right from the app it self. This is great because the default Flash debugger doesn’t allow you to do much if your app is embedded in a CMS … Read more
Ever wondered why your hard drive was so full? Ever wondered what was taking up so much space? Wouldn’t it be great to have a visual representation of all of your files at once? If you said yes to any of those questions, WinDirStat might be just the program you’ve been looking for! WinDirStat can … Read more