Benefits:
Teachers can use ScreenFlow to record their lectures, tutorials, or instructions for students, or to create rich-media presentations. The beauty of ScreenFlow is that they only need to record their message once and students can access the video at any time that fits their schedule.
ScreenFlow Trial Version can be downloaded from here:
http://www.flip4mac.com/screenflow_download.htm
Learning ScreenFlow Features:
1. Trimming Clips
Use ScreenFlow to record some events on your Desktop (move folders around, open and switch between applications, and so on—see our first how-to for more on Screenflow’s basic recording features). Once you’re done, the editing interface launches and the footage you took is automatically placed in the Timeline, ready to be modified. Start by trimming the beginning to just before something interesting happens. To do that, click on the clip to select it (it gets highlighted in yellow), then drag the playhead to the desired place on the Timeline. Next, go to Edit > Trim Front To Scrubber (or use the keyboard shortcut W).
2. Fade
With the footage still selected, go to the panel on the right and choose the Video tab (the first icon, top left of that section). Click the Add Video Action button. A yellow rectangle is added where the playhead had been located. Move the playhead to the start of that rectangle and change the Opacity slider located in the Video tab to 0% to create your first fade-from-black transition.
3. Stretch the effect
Altering the length of the effect is very straightforward: Move the cursor to the end of the effect, and it turns into a resize tool. When that happens, click and drag the rectangle’s edge to either lengthen or shorten the effect. You can also choose to reposition it somewhere else on the clip by clicking and dragging it.
4. Removing some portions
There might be a section in the middle of your footage that you’d rather not use, in order to speed up your screencast, for instance, or to remove a glitch. To do so, move the playhead to the beginning of the part you want to trim. Go to Edit > Split Clip (or use the Shift-Command-T keyboard shortcut). Move to the end of the unwanted clip, click on it to select it, and perform the same action. Hit the Delete key to remove the middle part from the Timeline.
5. Layers
Now that we have two clips in the Timeline, let’s work with multiple layers. Click on the second part and drag it straight down to place it on another layer. Then, drag it so that about a second of it overlaps the one above. Next, click on the first clip’s fade effect from step 2 to select it. Copy that effect (Edit > Copy or Command-C).
6. Cloning Away
Move the playhead so that it is at the start of the second clip (the playhead should snap to the edit point as you near it; if it doesn’t, go to View > Snapping). Select both clips by clicking on one and Shift-clicking on the other. Then, paste the copied effect (Edit > Paste or Command-V) to add it to both clips at the same time.
7. Effect Alteration
With the playhead still in the same place, select the new top effect (make sure it’s the only selected item in the Timeline). Its Opacity slider should be at 100%. Select the bottom effect; set that Opacity to 0%. Move the playhead to the end of the top clip. Change the top effect’s Opacity to 0% and the bottom effect to 100%. You’ve just created a cross-dissolve.
8. 3D
Move the playhead to the right of the cross-dissolve. Select the last clip and use the keyboard shortcut Command-K to create a new Video Action. Use the panel on the right to change the Scale to 40-50% and the Y rotation to -45 degrees. Play back the effect and watch your Desktop shrink and rotate clockwise.
9. Animate
You can use actions to animate absolutely anything. For instance, move the cursor so that it’s a second or so after the rotation effect. Create a new Video Action. This time, tick the Reflection box and move the slider until it reaches 70%. Next, drag the new effect until it touches the previous one (actions cannot overlap each other). As you play the effect back, the reflection increases over time.
Sources: http://www.maclife.com/article/howtos/a ... creencasts
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( 0 / 0 )Untuk membuka koneksi ke Samba Server dari Mac OS X, kita dapat membuka Finder - Go to Server atau dengan shortcut Command+K
Selanutnya kita dapat mengetikkan path dari server, misalnya:
smb://itserver
Kemudian kita dapat memasukkan username dan password kita, sehingga selanjutnya kita dapat mengakses folder2 yang ada di server.
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( 0 / 0 )Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) comes with both Apache 2.2.6 and PHP 5.2.4 preinstalled, but they're not enabled by default. The following instructions should help you get up and running.
1. Open BBEdit or TextWrangler (a free, cut-down version of BBEdit available from www.barebones.com). From the File menu, select Open Hidden. In the Open dialog box, select All Files from the Enable drop-down menu. Then navigate to Macintosh HD:private:etc:apache2:httpd.conf, and click Open.
2. This opens the main configuration file for Apache 2.2.6. It's a system file, so you need to unlock it by clicking the icon of a pencil with a line through it at the top-left of the toolbar, as shown in the following screenshot:
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3. You will be told that the document is owned by "root", and be asked to confirm that you want to unlock it. Click Unlock. This removes the line through the pencil, and readies the file for editing. Normally, when editing system files, it's a good idea to make a backup. However, it's not necessary in this case, because backup copies of all the Apache configuration files are in the original subfolder of the Apache2 folder.
4. Scroll down until you find the code shown on line 114 in the following screenshot (although the line number is likely to be the same in your version, it's the code that's important, not which line it's on):
5. Position your cursor at the beginning of that line, and remove the hash or pound sign (#). It should now look like this:
LoadModule php5_module libexec/apache2/libphp5.so
This enables PHP 5 on your computer.
6. Save the file. Because it's owned by "root", you will be prompted to enter your Mac password. That takes care of the basic configuration. In theory, you could now start Apache and PHP would be up and running. However, the default installation doesn't use the PHP configuration file php.ini. You need to need to make a copy of a file called php.ini.default, and edit it.
7. Unfortunately, you can't open php.ini.default in BBEdit or TextWrangler and save it with a different name. You need to go under the hood of OS X by opening Terminal in the Applications:Utilities folder. Similar to the Command Prompt in Windows, Terminal gives you direct access to the underlying operating system on a Mac.
8. With Terminal open, type the following series of commands, each followed by Return:
cd /private/etc
sudo cp php.ini.default php.ini
This moves you into the private:etc folder, and then copies php.ini.default to php.ini in the same folder, using the sudo command. You need to use sudo because it's a system file. Enter your Mac administrator password when prompted. Terminal should now look something like this:
9. Open php.ini in BBEdit or TextWrangler using Open Hidden in the same way as with http.conf. You should find php.ini in Macintosh HD:private:etc. Click the icon of a pencil with a line through it to enable editing.
10. How you edit php.ini is mainly a question of preference, but the most important change is to a command called error_reporting. The default setting (it should be on line 305) looks like this:
error_reporting = E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE
Change it to this:
error_reporting = E_ALL
This ensures that PHP reports all errors. Although no one likes error messages, it's vital to eliminate any errors (even seemingly minor ones) before deploying scripts on a live web server.
NOTE: There are several lines that look similar. Make sure that you edit the line that does NOT begin with a semicolon. A semicolon at the beginning of a line in php.ini indicates a comment, which is ignored by the server.
11. Save php.ini.
12. You can now start Apache by going to System Preferences. Click Sharing in Internet & Network. Then place a checkmark in Web Sharing. When Apache starts up, System Preferences should display Web Sharing: On.
13. Click the link under Your computer's website. This should launch Safari and display an Apache web page.
14. Create a page called test.php, and type in the following code:
<?php phpinfo(); ?>
Save it in Macintosh HD:Library:WebServer:Documents.
15. Load the following URL into your browser:
http://localhost/test.php
If you see the PHP configuration screen, you're up and running!
NOTE: If you did an upgrade install of Leopard, you cannot view pages stored in your personal Sites folder, because the necessary file(s) won't have been copied to the correct folder for Apache 2. To copy the file(s), open Terminal and type the following commands, both followed by Return:
cd /private/etc/httpd/users
ls
You should see at least one file that uses your Mac username followed by .conf. For example, on my computer, it's called davidpowers.conf. You need to copy this file for each user to a folder where Apache 2 can find it. Type the following command, using the name of the file on your computer instead of davidpowers.conf:
sudo cp davidpowers.conf /private/etc/Apache2/users
If there are several .conf files to copy, you can use the following command instead:
sudo cp *.conf /private/etc/Apache2/users
However, if you have previously installed the Mac PHP package from Marc Liyanage, do not copy entropy-php.conf.
For this (or any other) change to take effect, go to Sharing in System Preferences, deselect Web Sharing, and then reselect it. This restarts Apache and implements any changes made to the Apache or PHP configuration.
© 2006-2008 David Powers
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( 0 / 0 )Comic Life adalah program under Mac yang menyediakan template-template komik yang dapat dicustomize dengan sangat gampang.
Jika kita suka menggambar komik, kita dapat menscan komik kita dan memasukkan ke dalam program ini untuk mengatur kotak2nya dan dialog balonnya. Berikut adalah "komik" saya saat training Mac di Jakarta tempo hari...
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( 0 / 0 )Quartz Composer salah satu kegunaannya adalah digunakan untuk membuat screen saver dalam environment Mac. Kali ini kita akan mencoba membuat screen saver yang terdiri dari lingkaran besar dan kecil yang muncul dan hilang secara acak. Outputnya adalah sebagai berikut:
Sebagai langkah pertama, kita akan drag Gradient patch ke editor dan kita bisa ubah2 komposisi warna Gradient sesuai selera. Langkah berikutnya, kita masukkan Particle System Patch ke editor. Patch ini adalah patch yang langsung dapat generate object yang muncul dan hilang secara acak. Kita perlu mengubah blending menjadi over.
Selanjutnya, kita bisa masukkan Lenticular Halo Patch ke editor, dan hubungkan imagenya ke image yang ada di Particular System.
Sampai pada langkah ini, composer kita sudah jadi. Kita dapat menambahkan variasi dengan menggunakan patch Sun beams, ataupun patch Image with Source untuk menggunakan image kita sendiri.
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