How to Create a Photo Book

by Chris Slate, Graham Barlow, and J.R. Bookwalter 0Comments

Now let’s take those design muscles you flexed while making your journal and push them a little harder. Using iPhoto on a Mac, you can create your very own book and have it shipped right to your door. (And once you know how to make a book, it’s a cinch to create a calendar or letterpress card in iPhoto as well.)

1. Choose the Kind of Book

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How to Use Valletta To Create PDFs and Word Documents

By now, you probably know that we love Markdown -- the simple and easy to use HTML editor. While there are many other capable tools out there, we recently ran across an app called Valletta that not only creates Markdown (.md) documents, but also lets you export your work to HTML, PDF, and  Microsoft Word documents.

What You’ll Need

>> Valletta ($6.99 on the Mac App Store)

1. Getting Started

To get started, open Valletta and begin typing out your Markdown document with the Markdown Source Editor or the Combined Editor. The source editor is just a straight, no-frills text editor that will allow you to see all of the Markdown syntax. The combined editor lets you see the syntax while you’re typing, but when you leave the block of text, it automatically converts the Markdown syntax to a preview.

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How to Create Email Signatures with Pictures and Links

by Cory Bohon 3Comments

Taking your email signatures from blah to bling is a simple way to set your messages apart from others, and it can be especially important if you need branded emails for your business. If you’ve ever seen one of those fancy email signatures that have Facebook, Twitter, or other social networking links, then you know what we’re talking about. Try as you might, but you won’t find any option in OS X’s Mail app to create image and link-based signatures. Fortunately, you don’t need any special software to pull this trick off. Continue reading to learn how it’s done.

Typically, your email signature in OS X Mail might look like something below. A little bland, isn’t it? We wanted our signature to be comprised of three main sections: name and title, titles and links to our websites, and then icons and links to our social networks Facebook, Twitter, Linked In, and AIM.

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How to Create a Presentation with Markdown

Markdown is a lightweight markup language that you can use to create content. We've shown you before how to create your own webpages with it, but did you know you could make presentations, too? Forget Powerpoint and Keynote. With Markdown Presenter, you can create simple, quick presentations using just a simple text editor. Read on to find out how.

What You’ll Need:

>> A Markdown editor (Mou or iA Writer), or TextEdit (included on your Mac)
>> Chris Hulbert’s Markdown Presenter (free download from GitHub)

Open and Edit

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