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Not many posts lately because we’ve been in the thick of it for a few weeks.  Here’s a quick recap:

I spent the last 2 weeks working with Hit Entertainment, transitioning them to HD.  They’ve had HD cameras for a couple of years now, but their post production workflow hadn’t been upgraded to allow for it yet.  So - they went all out with HDCam SR decks (6 of them) and new Media Composer Nitris DX systems.  I worked alongside James Johnson building cables and getting the decks setup.  Barney in HD!

We’ve also been getting ready for the upcoming Varsity Wired season. We had our annual meeting yesterday and it went well; we’ll be handling a few more events this year and we also have a couple of cool apps in the works to make things a bit easier on everyone.

I leave for Anaheim, CA for a shoot for an optical pharma company on Friday. I plan on stopping by the San Diego zoo while I’m out there (and the lego store!).

Just picked up the CS4 Production Premium bundle and so far I’m impressed - I’m looking forward to using OnLocation. Photoshop and After Effects seem like minor upgrades but Flash is rocking - I finally feel comfortable animating in Flash!

Teehan+lax just posted an iPhone mockup design kit psd file that contains almost everything you’d ever need to put together a good lookup design to land that much need funding for your iPhone killer app.  Now if Adobe would just get around to implementing Objective-C we wouldn’t need the iPhone SDK at all…

Useful tools for designing elements for iPhone applications:

• iPhone Interface Template
• iPhone Icon Template

A couple of things to note - the Icon template is setup to just give you an idea of how your icon design will look once the SDK adds all of the highlights/bevel/rounded corners - once you have a design you need to crop the image so that your icon fills the entire canvas and turn off all of the highlight effects/drop shadows.

Inserting a custom icon in an iPhone Application (XCode)

To add a custom icon to your application open your project in XCode and add your icon file (saved as a png file) to your resources folder.  Then open the Info.plist file and change the line for you Icon File to the name of your icon (in my case outbreakIcon.png).

Now run the iPhone simulator (build & go) and you’ll see your custom app icon.  If you need to tweak it just go back to photoshop and tweak away and save over the original png file - when you relaunch your app it the icon will update automatically.