Focus: Consumer Electronics iPhone Tip # 10 - Do Not Disturb! How to set and use the Do Not Disturb iPhone features
By Shirley Craig, Rev Up Transmedia The new Do Not Disturb feature on the iPhone allows you to be very selective about what calls you want to receive and what calls you don't. This is ideal if you're looking for peace and quiet after business hours or, if during the evening or night, you don't want to miss an urgent call, but you just don't want to talk to everyone ...Read More »

Focus: Consumer Electronics iPhone Tip #9 - Customize Your Music Controls New playing and accessing features
By Shirley Craig, Rev Up Transmedia How do you like to sort your music? Some people prefer to do it by playlist, others by artist or albums. There are seven ways to organize your music by Playlist, Artist, Songs, Albums, Compilations, Composers and Genres. Plus access your audio controls at anytime! ...Read More »

Focus: Consumer Electronics iPhone Tip # 8 - Scrolling Back To The Top Also how to set caps lock on when needed
By Shirley Craig, Rev Up Transmedia Often when you are scrolling through especially long web pages on your iPhone, it would be good to have a really easy way to flip back up to the top address bar. Every wish that? Well, with one single tap you can. Here's how. ...Read More »

Focus: Consumer Electronics iPhone Tip #7 - Weather At Your Fingertips You can also view weather for just the next few hours
By Shirley Craig, Rev Up Transmedia The weather around a lot of the country these past few weeks has been really awful, so we thought we'd make sure you know about a hidden feature in the Weather App on your iPhone. When you open the weather App, it gives you your Local Weather and then, of course, you can add as many cities as you would like, by tapping on the "i" button at the bottom right hand of your phone. ...Read More »

Focus: Consumer Electronics iPhone Tip #6 - Extra Keyboards You can add extra keyboards and character sets to your iPhone
By Shirley Craig, Rev Up Transmedia Are you one of those people who likes to add emoticons to your email and text messages? Or you've seen it and wondered how people do that? If so, did you know there is an entire keyboard which is dedicated to emoji which you can enable and access instantly while texting conversations, etc? Here's how to do it. ...Read More »

Focus: Consumer Electronics iPhone Tip #5 - Easy Email Tricks and Features FInd hidden drafts, add images within emails and more!
By Shirley Craig, Rev Up Transmedia Are you the type of person who writes a lot of draft emails but has trouble finding them? You like to check for new mail but don't want to push a button to do so? Want to add an image within an email on your iPhone? Read on! ...Read More »

Focus: Consumer Electronics Creating iPhone Text MSG Shortcuts! You can create your own shortcuts for phrases and special text messages
By Shirley Craig, Rev Up Transmedia Sometimes when texting you find that you will often type the same common phrase or a long URL, and writing it over and over each time can be tiresome. Well did you know, that you can actually create keyboard shortcuts that will represent those phrases or other combinations of key strokes? It's a really handy trick that you'll find you'll have lots of uses for. Here's how you do it! ...Read More »

Focus: Consumer Electronics Using iCloud With Photo Stream Snap a picture, push it to all your iCloud enabled devices - instantly!
By Shirley Craig, Rev Up Transmedia Photo Stream allows you to take a photo on any iOS device, or import a photo from your digital camera to your computer. Then, utilizing Apple's iCloud, Photo Stream instantly pushes a copy of that photo over any available Wi-Fi or Ethernet connection to the Photos app on your iOS devices, iPhoto on you or the Pictures Library on your PC. ...Read More »

Focus: Animators The Complete Guide to Creating Photoshop Filters The Filter Factory tutorial series, parts 1 through 7
By Dave Nagel I realized some time ago that it's simply too difficult for new readers of our publications to go hunting through the tutorials archives here to find all of the parts to our Filter Factory tutorial series. To date there have been six parts--two specific tutorials on generating 3D effects, one on customizing the interface of completed filters and three general pieces on working with the Filter Factory's expressions, functions and operators to generate effects. To this we now add our seventh and final part and conclude the series. ...Read More »

Focus: Post/Production Mark Syncs the Spot Learn how to use markers to replace the legacy in/out marks to create manual sync points
By Diana Weynand, James Alguire and RevUpTansmedia One of the most missed features of legacy Final Cut Pro is persistent in and out marks. That is to say, once in and out marks are set in a clip, they remain exactly where they are, as a part of the clip, until explicitly changed or removed. Unfortunately, this arguably essential feature for digital video editing did not make it into Final Cut Pro X. If you set in and out points on a clip then deselect that clip and reselect it, the in and out marks are gone. While it is true that you can use ratings, like Favorites, in FCPX to create persistent clip selections, in and out points have valuable uses beyond just marking a usable portion of a video clip. ...Read More »