The Black Sheep: Free iPhone Apps Snoop Contacts

Blackhat has started and not surprisingly, there is quite a bit of information coming out of Las Vegas that relates to the iPhone. Lookout revealed some results from its App Genome project, which analyzed about 300,000 apps that are available for the iPhone and Android. Sometimes you get what you pay for and that may [...]

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iPhone Programming Tutorial – Local Notifications

Way back when, when everyone was still complaining about Apple’s lack of support for (3rd party) multitasking, there was a simple solution put in place. This solution was known as push notifications. Push notifications solved many of the issues associated with background processing.  For example, when quitting the AIM application, the server could keep you [...]

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Create A Gas Giant Planet Scene In After Effects

In this tutorial you’ll learn how to create a Gas Giant planet, moons, sun and starfield totally in After Effects. This tutorial makes extensive use of Fractal Noise which can be used to create a whole host of visuals, and some expressions to link the light direction on the different elements we create. Tutorial Step [...]

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Quick Tip: Create a Damask Pattern Using the MadPattern Illustrator Template

Damask is a style of pattern that is easy to recognize, but not so easy to replicate. In this tutorial you will learn that with the right tools, anybody can make their own damask pattern that looks just as good as the ones you see on fancy hotel wallpaper, with the help of a template [...]

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Using Illustrator CS5 Tools to Create a Painted House – Vector Premium Tutorial

We have another great Vector Premium tutorial available exclusively for Premium members today. If you want to learn how to use a combination of the new Illustrator CS5 features – including the Perspective Grid and Natural Media Brushes – to create a 100% vector illustration with a painted finish, then we have an awesome tutorial [...]

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How to Use Vocoders in Remixes

So maybe you’ve just been given a vocal part to remix and no matter how hard you try you just can’t get it to sit with your style of music. Maybe the progression is just too ‘light’ or perhaps you already have a piece you want to use. Whatever the reason, vocoding could really help [...]

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Create a Fantasy Painting With Photoshop CS5?s Mixer Brush – Psdtuts Premium Tutorial

Today, we have another Psd Premium tutorial exclusively available to Premium members. If you want to take your digital painting skills to the next level, then we have an awesome tutorial for you. Learn more after the jump! This Premium Tutorial is Filled with Creative Tips Without a doubt, my favourite new feature in Photoshop [...]

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5 Basic Ways To Populate Mass Groups Within After Effects – AE Basix

In this tutorial we look at 5 individual ways of duplicating crowds. These methods are: Simple Masking (garbage matting) Rotoscoping Difference Matting Chroma Keying Camera Technique The tutorial explains each of the methods, the pros and cons, and goes in depth to show how to create the final preview using the difference matting technique. The [...]

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Core Art Skills: Part 5, Traditional Media Techniques

If you’ve been following the course you’ve hopefully been using your sketchbooks more and have have tried your hand at clay. If so, you should now be happy to get your hands dirty and make some textures. In this Session Ben Mounsey will continue on with the core art skills and show you different methods [...]

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Audiotuts+ Reader Survey

Our recent Tuts+ Survey showed that many of you have feedback on how we can make Audiotuts+ better for you. Now is your chance to let us know what you want from Audiotuts+. Please take a few minutes to complete our reader survey. All questions are optional. You only need to provide a response when [...]

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Quick Tip: Spice Up Your Drum Patterns With Reverse Hits

Using reverse drum hits is a great way to enhance a drum pattern or mix things up in an arrangement because it reuses the existing sounds, creates tension, and easily adds interest. Download audio file (afReverseDrumHits.mp3) Step 1: Starting Pattern First, here is the pattern we’ll be starting with. It uses four sounds from the [...]

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Seven Steps To Writing Memorable Melodies – Part 2

Welcome to the second part of this mini-series. If you missed part one, I recommend reading that first to get a better understanding of what is going to be covered in the following steps in this tutorial. You can read Part 1 here. So far we’ve worked out which notes we should use to get [...]

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Add Depth of Field to a 3D Scene with Lens Blur

In today’s quick tip tutorial, we will demonstrate how to add depth of field to a scene that we will be creating with 3D objects to help improve a presentation to a client. Step 1 First, create a new document (Cmd/Ctrl + N) and make it 600 pixels by 400 pixels. You could of course [...]

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Test Your Observation Skills With an AS3 Difference Game – Active Premium

Today, we have another Active Premium tutorial exclusively available to Premium members. If you want to take your ActionScript skills to the next level, then we have an awesome tutorial for you, courtesy of Stephan Meesters. Preview Test your skills of observation with the demo below! This Premium Tutorial is Filled with Creative Tips During [...]

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Manipulating Particle Motion with Stardust Particle Engine – Part 2

This is the second part of this tutorial. I’m going to show you how to manipulate particle motion with deflectors. Prior knowledge of motion basics and vector fields is required. I highly recommend that you complete the first part of this tutorial before moving on. Final Result Preview Take a look at the final result [...]

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