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| CreativeTechs QuickTips #203 | Week of June 9, 2008 |
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Tip: Free
Editable iPhone Design Elements.
Welcome to our special iPhone tips edition. This Monday in San Francisco, Steve Jobs is kicking off Apple's World Wide Developer Conference with a keynote that should unveil Apple's new second-generation iPhone. If you find yourself with a hankerin' to start prototyping the next big iPhone gadget, we'd direct you to a free set of templates from Yahoo Developer's Network. This download includes (among other things) an editable collection of iPhone interface elements. Open up the PDF iPhone stencil in Illustrator and you can snap together your own iPhone design using dozens of editable elements. Link: Yahoo! Design Stencil Kit version 1.0 For designers who prefer an old school pencil-and-paper approach to designing. The iPhone sketchpaper collection: Link: iPhone Sketchpaper Source: Our own Jasson Lewellen, Seattle's Ponytailed Software Geek, is down at WWDC right now for a firsthand view of what's coming up next for the iPhone, Mac OS X, and Apple. We originally discovered the Yahoo! kits on the fabulous Creativebits blog, with a reminder posted on The Graphic Mac blog. |
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Tip: Embed
iPhone Friendly Videos on your Website.
It is pretty easy to embed an iPhone-optimized video in any website you are designing. Which can be a nice flourish to welcome the growing hordes of iPhone users who might be visiting your site. When a movie has been optimized for web-delivery, iPhone users in your audience will see a small blue play button in the lower right of the video thumbnail. Tapping that blue icon activates the iPhone's built-in QuickTime player and plays a special optimized version of the movie. Sound hard? It's not. Apple has added a special Export to Web option to QuickTime Pro ($30) that makes the process nearly automatic. Full Tip: Embed iPhone Friendly Videos on your Website. Source: Our example movie features Chase Jarvis RAW: Ninjas, a behind-the-scenes video detailing a fun Chase Jarvis photo shoot from last year. Thanks for letting us use this Chase! We started thinking about this iPhone video tip two months ago while writing about how to Create a QuickTime Video Landing Page for Seattle designer Darlin Gray. |
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