9 good tips for shooting video with your cell phone. http://desktopvideo.about.com/od/homevideotips/tp/Phone-Video.htm

It’s free and offers over 50 different audio, image and video file formats for conversion. http://www.zamzar.com/

Apple’s Preview, available on every Mac, is surprisingly powerful. Many people use it as their default PDF reader, but it can do a whole lot more. The next time you need to edit an image, try it. Faster and simpler than PhotoShop, it may be all you ever need. Some of the things it can do:

• Rotate and flip
• Make selections: marquee and magic lasso
• Crop and trim
• Adjust color, exposure,  brightness, contrast
• Adjust size and resolution
• Create annotations: text, oval, rectangle, arrow
• Create a slide show
• Save in 12 image formats: JPEG, TIFF, Photoshop, GIF, JPEG2000 and more

Do you have video on a DVD you would like to use for another project? Handbrake will extract the encrypted video on a DVD in a format you can work with in iMovie. Be respectful of copyright, and have fun!

If you want to create drawings of objects and buildings, but do not want to invest the time or money in high-end programs like AutoCAD, Sketchup is a powerful tool, and easy to learn.

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