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In this video tutorial, you'll learn how to create a simple PHP/MySQL registration page using Adobe Dreamweaver. For more, or to get started creating your own registration page without having to do any hard coding yourself, take a look.

Mocha is a cool new piece of software that is included in the After Effects CS4 bundle. Mocha is a planer tracking system that works as an assistant when doing things like creating and adjusting screens. See how to use Mocha in this After Effects CS4 tutorial and make tracking in After Effects a whole lot easier.

Take a tour of the new Dreamweaver CS4 interface. This Dreamweaver CS4 tutorial explores some of the new features, which include links to new instruction videos on AdobeTV, a split code view, a split vertical view, related files tab, the new insert panel, and the new code navigator, just to name a few. So if you are ready to start learning Dreamweaver CS4, you'll want to start with this tutorial.

One of the more impressive new features in Dreamweaver CS4 is the ability to work with Smart Objects between Dreamweaver and Photoshop. It's now possible to import a fully-layered, fully editable Photoshop file into Dreamweaver. Dreamweaver will help compress the file by comparing different format choices. And if changes are made to the original PS document, Dreamweaver CS4 will recognize them and ask the user if they want to automatically update the embedded file. Check out these really cool...

Geoff Blake goes through some of the new CSS features of Dreamweaver CS4. Whether you are a CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) rookie or veteran, you're going to enjoy the new CSS tools and layout which make it easier to apply and remove formatting, creating external style sheets, and reviewing related files to your current document. You will also see how well the new properties inspector works. Familiarize yourself with the new CSS tools and layout in Dreamweaver CS4 in this Adobe tutorial.

Fireworks CS4 is bridging the gap between graphic design and CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) with it's new CSS and images export script. Jim Babbage shows you how the CSS and images export script in Fireworks CS4 works in this Adobe CS4 tutorial. Let Fireworks CS4 do some of the work for you with the help of this tutorial and the new Export CSS and images script.

Newly-added flex skinning commands in Fireworks CS4 allow quick access to skin design elements so that designers can edit the appearance of skins in their layouts. See how to work with these new flex skinning commands in this Adobe Fireworks CS4 tutorial.

Fireworks CS4 has some new and improved layout features to take advantage of. This Fireworks CS4 video covers: display rulers, traditional guides, the new tool tips feature, smart guides, and align panel improvements. See how to use these new layout tool features in Fireworks CS4.

Keeping the client involved with the design process is very important. Jim Babbage discusses using Fireworks CS4 to export designs to interactive PDFs that can be shared with the client. Increase your productivity and profits by learning how to export PDF's from Fireworks CS4.

With CS4, Adobe has taken the fun of using Blend Modes in Photoshop and brought it over into Premiere Pro. In this Premiere Pro CS4 tutorial, we'll use blend modes in creating a simple project that uses video, logo, and a title overlay. Get ready to have fun playing with blend modes in Premiere Pro CS4, it's not just for Photoshop anymore!

Premiere Pro CS4 has made it easier to apply multiple effects to multiple clips, either by cutting and pasting attributes from one clip to another, or by creating an effects preset that can be applied to any clip with one step. See how to work with multiple effects and multiple clips in this Premiere Pro CS4 tutorial.

Rich Harrington talks about one his favorite new features in Premiere Pro CS4; the audio transcription options. Audio transcription is very powerful and it comes in real handy when editing by helping to locate audio clips in Premiere Pro CS4. The transcription information can also be exported with the video. See how to use the audio transcription option in Premiere Pro CS4 in this tutorial.

Illustrator CS4 introduces the new Blob Brush tool to users. Instead of a regular brush stroke, painting with the blog brush gives you a filled, compound path. Any new shape painted with the same color and stroke will automatically merge with existing shapes with the same settings. The Blob Brush tool will pick up style attributes from other objects and has numerous other options to explore and play around with. See how to use this fun new tool, the Blob Brush in this Illustrator CS4 tutorial.

Create and edit complex gradients with the new Gradient tool in Illustrator CS4, which has undergone a complete makeover. There's a new reverse gradient button, and gradient widgets that allow users to edit applied gradients visually. There are also new transparency options. Cheryl Graham explores these new features of the Gradient tool in Illustrator CS4 and takes viewers through a quick design project, creating the ringed planet of Saturn.

Flash CS4's new inverse kinematics tools allow users to create and arrange symbols in a collection called an Armature. These armatures contain bones that have relationships with other elements which can be animated. Users can create and control their own dancing puppet. You could be the next South Park and you never need a stop motion camera! Just the new inverse kinematics tools in Flash CS4 and this tutorial.

The new motion editor in Flash CS4 is a welcome addition to the Flash toolkit and it has some new options to speed up motion tweening. However, there are still some techniques that will require users to employ the classic tween. David Stiller goes over one of those techniques and looks at some of the new motion tweening features in Flash CS4 and the Flash CS4 motion editor.

A.J. Wood explores the new link panel in InDesign CS4. This is an important feature because this is where InDesign users go to check the status of the places objects in their documents. This includes using the panel to re-link, update, and sometimes even edit the original files. If you have a copy of InDesign CS4 check out this tutorial and learn how to work with the link panel.

Before InDesign CS4, placing image content and aligning it on the page without the use of guides and frames would be difficult, but with the new smart guides feature, InDesign has given users the tool to accomplish these tasks without a lot of layout preparation. Watch and see how easy it is to place content with smart guides in InDesign CS4.

Rich Harrington demonstrates how to use After Effects CS4's guides and device central tools to make sure that your video content will display correctly on whatever device your viewers will be using. After Effects CS4 has made it easier to design for special devices like high definition tv's and cellular phones. Learn how to work with these new guides and controls in After Effects CS4.

Rich Harrington explores the new realistic behaviors of light and shadow in After Effects CS4. In this software video, Rich concentrates on creating and positioning light sources and creating shadows. He also moves the camera around to create a small action clip. Start with a basic scene in After Effects CS4 and see how to properly add 3D lights and cameras and adjust them for a great animation.

This motion graphics software tutorial shows you how to create cartoon effects in After Effects CS4. Experiment with the settings of the cartoon effect to give your video a unique look and combine those effects with the Bilateral blur. Learn how After Effects CS4 allows users to adjust the processor settings of their system to render effects quicker and also has search fields for all of the modules in the new interface. So watch and see how to speed up your cartoon effects in AE CS4.

AVG Free from Grisoft provides you with basic antivirus and antispyware protection for Windows and is available to download for free. The only trick is finding it on the AVG website. In this video tutorial, you'll learn how to find and install AVG on your own Windows PC. Take a look!

In this video tutorial, you'll learn how to use the Second Copy backup application, for the Windows operating system, to protect your most important data. For step-by-step instructions on installing and using Second Copy, take a look at this backup how-to.

Many seasoned users of Microsoft Excel, who have been using spreadsheets for years, still scroll through their spreadsheets, laboriously, with the horizontal and vertical scrollbars. In this software tutorial, you'll learn how to navigate around in Excel both quickly and efficiently. For more, take a look!

This Rhino 3D video tutorial is a very basic introduction to the software. This is not meant to be modeling 101 or anything of the sort. This video is really meant for anyone that has never used the Rhino application and is curious as to how it hows. Graet for those that are just wondering how Rhino works.Topics Covered-Interface explained-Creating Geometry (lines and simple surface)-Using the command line-Navigation and orbiting the viewport.

This 3D software tutorial shows how one can start to use Rhino's implicit history tool for parametric design. The commands used in Rhino are Loft, and FlowAlongSurface. Using the implicit history tool in Rhino 4 allows you to update models by changing earlier steps or parts of the model and having those changes follow through to the end result. This procedural approach to modeling in Rhino means you can make changes quickly without starting over.

Do you have a bunch of .FLVs (Flash Video Files) that you would like to play, but don't have a Flash Video player? Worry not, Perian is a free download application that installs as a preference in Mac OSX so that you can play FLVs inside of the Quicktime Player. See how to use Perian to watch .flv videos on a Mac.

Do you have hundreds of assets in your Final Cut Pro project, but you are only using a percentage of them in your sequences? Want to find out how to get rid of the unused assets in your Final Cut Pro project quickly? Watch this Digital Media Dude podcast and learn how to search for unused assets in Final Cut Pro.

This tutorials shows you how to get started with Camtasia. It addresses techsmith online tutorials, audio recording devices, and basic editing (cut and insert).Watch as Mike Lively of Northern Kentucky University walks you through setting up Camtasia 5 and prepares you to start recording screencast videos and tutorials.

In this tutorial, Mike Lively of Northern Kentucky University shows you how to annotate a video using a Bamboo pad and Edit it using Camtasia studio.PART 2: show you how to do basic editing and zooming in Camtasia. PART 3: shows you how to process your Camtasia Video and get it up on YouTube. It also shows you the best settings for a YouTube video as well. PART 4: shows you how to produce an FLV video with a player and send it up to the web using FileZilla. You will be creating annotated...

Mike Lively of Northern Kentucky Universtiy demonstrates how to grab a website's resources for reconstruction in Flex using HTTRACK and Wireshark. This tutorial is especially helpful for sites you want to grab that think they are very locked down and secure. All with the free softwares HTTRACK and Wireshark.

In this tutorial Mike Lively of Northern Kentucky University shows you how to get started with Wireshark. Wireshark is a network protocol analyzer for Unix and Windows. It is used for network troubleshooting, analysis, software and communications protocol development.PART 1: shows you where to get Wireshark and how to use it to grab packets going between your browser and server. HE also discuss filtering and examining the http address.PART 2: show you how to examine cookies and grab a password...

This software tutorial demonstrates how to build with primitives in 3DS Max for Papervision3D. This first part demonstrates 3D Studio Max basics and how to build a column base using primitives. This second part demonstrates how to use the Shift clone tool. This third part demonstrates how to create a Collada file using 3DS Max and Swift3D and some of the problems with large polygon files. This tutorial was created by Mike Lively at Northern Kentucky University and assumes you have a basic...

Do you wish there was a way to make more organic objects in Second Life? Are you an online Flash programmer looking to make your Papervision3D projects run faster? Do you like model rockets? If your answer to any of these questions is yes, then wait until you here about Sculpting Primitives. In this tutorial, Alex goes over the basics of what 'Prims' are and introduces a program called Sculpty Paint, which will help release the Michelangelo trapped inside you.So you've learned a thing or two...

This tutorial is on GIMP Basics. GIMP is a free Photoshop substitute available for all platforms and pre-loaded in Linux operating systems. The tutorial covers the scale, crop, cut with transparency, flip, and rotate commands of GIMP. Part 2 covers saving and file size reduction in GIMP.

This tutorial is on using SketchUp to draw a simple 3D model with textures and using Google's 3D Warehouse. In addition, the potential for use with Ppervision3D is discussed through SketchUp's 3D collada export.Mike Lively, Director of Instructional Design at Northern Kentucky University, shows you how to get started modeling in SketchUp and how to integrate it with your web projects.

Ever wanted to wrap text around a picture in Microsoft Word (or most any other comparable word processor) but weren't sure how to do so? If so, you're in luck: this video tutorial will take you, step by step, through the wrapping process. To get started wrapping your own text around your own graphics in Microsoft Word, take a look.

Microsoft Office is the defacto standard for document creation, but you can get that functionality and compatibility without paying a dime. For Macintosh users, use NeoOffice and learn to save your docs automatically in the MS Office formats.

If you use Microsoft Word quite a bit and have never used the Format Painter tool, it's a technique you need to learn, and learn today, because it's a technique that will save you a lot of time and a lot of grief in the future. To learn how to use the Format Tool in Microsoft Office Word documents to streamline the formatting process, watch this how-to.

This software tutorial is on downloading and using Sizer to resize windows for exact screen grabs. Sizer is a free open source software that allows you to size a window to an exact numeric size instead of dragging the window around randomly. This is great for screen recordings with softwares like Camtasia, or for image screen grabs. See how to download and use Sizer in this tutorial.