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Photo by Bruce Heavin | This month, our courses show how to manage your note-taking with Evernote and delve into typography principles for InDesign. We’ll also introduce you to a member who’s watched more than 500 courses on lynda.com! We’ve got previews of the new Windows and Office releases, and new courses to help you build apps for Mac and iOS devices. | Evernote: Efficient, accessible note-taking |  Many great ideas start with a scribble, and Evernote provides an efficient way to take and share notes that you can access from anywhere. Use it to synchronize your notes, photos, and audio recordings across mobile, desktop, and laptop devices. Manage recordings of lectures or meetings, snap and store pictures of an idea-scrawled blackboard, and even search for words within those pictures. Spend some time with our Up and Running with Evernote for Mac and Up and Running with Evernote for Windows courses to find out what else Evernote can do.
| Sneak peek at new Windows and Office releases |  Microsoft is gearing up to release new versions of Windows and Office, and you can already download previews of both. We have two courses to give you a peek at the most anticipated updates and new features of each. Windows 8 Release Preview First Look covers the new user interface and collaboration tools, as well as how to chat, organize images, and use gestures and touch. Office 2013 First Look explores suite-wide enhancements like improved cloud integration and touchscreen sensitivity, as well as changes to Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and more.
| | | | | Stay up to date with access to the Online Training Library®! We are constantly adding new software training courses and inspirational documentaries to help you reach your creative and career goals. 
| | | | Typography lesson in InDesign |  Created for all levels of InDesign users, our new InDesign Typography course explores type options, features, and preferences of the page-layout program. Pointing out that typography underpins everything we create in InDesign, author Nigel French shows how to put typography principles into practice, from setting up pages and working with styles to setting dashes, ligatures, special characters, and different spacing widths.
| App creation for Mac and iOS |  Three courses have been created or updated to help you design Mac, iPhone, and iPad applications. With Cocoa Essential Training, explore how to build desktop apps for the OS X operating system by exploring the frameworks and essential design patterns in Cocoa. iOS SDK: Building Apps with MapKit and Core Location shows how to add maps and location awareness to iPhone and iPad apps. In Objective-C Essential Training we’ve made more than a dozen updates to focus on new features like Automatic Reference Counting, custom classes, and memory management in Objective-C, the most popular language for developing iOS apps.
| lynda.com member completes over 500 courses |  Meet Bruce Rich, a dedicated lynda.com member who watched 508 of our courses—and wallpapered his entire office with the certificates of completion he earned. A commercial printer from Illinois, Rich says he watches training videos instead of TV. He’s viewed more than 25,000 individual movies on lynda.com. His favorite courses so far? Photoshop CS4 One-on-One Mastery with Deke McClelland (“Deke is a very energetic guy”), InDesign CS5 Essential Training with David Blatner (“truly a time-saver”), Illustrator CS6 Essential Training with Justin Seeley (“can be used for just about everything”), Acrobat X Essential Training with Anne-Marie Concepción (“all the features in explicit detail”), and Dreamweaver CS6 Essential Training with James Williamson (“having never written code, by the end of this course I found that not only can I read it, I really understand it”). Learn more about Rich on our blog, where you can also let us know how many certificates of completion you’ve earned. Check them by logging in, and choosing certificates of completion from the my courses menu.
| | Until next time, happy learning!
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 Keep an eye on the site for these and many other new courses coming soon: - Acing Your Interview
- Bert Monroy: Dreamscapes
- Cinema 4D Essentials 1: Interface, Objects and Hierarchies
- Cinema 4D Essentials 2: Polygon and Spline Modeling
- Cinema 4D Essentials 3: Cameras, Animation, and Deformers
- Cinema 4D Essentials 4: Materials, Texturing, and Lights
- Cinema 4D Essentials 5: Rendering and Compositing
- Documentary Editing with Avid Media Composer
- Documentary Editing with Premiere Pro
- EaselJS First Look
- Google Drive Essential Training
- HTML Essential Training (2012)
- Inkjet Printing for Photographers
- iPad Music Production: GarageBand
- Java Advanced Training
- Lighting for Photographers: Portraiture
- Matting, Framing, and Hanging Your Photographs
- Melodyne Advanced Techniques
- Muse Essential Training (Update)
- Photoshop CS6 One-on-One: Advanced
- Photoshop Insider Training: Enhancing Photos
- Sales Skills Fundamentals
- SEO Fundamentals
- Up and Running with Captivate 6
- Up and Running with Encore CS6
- Up and Running with Facebook
- Up and Running with Photoshop Elements 11
- Up and Running with Prelude CS6
- Up and Running with Story
- Using Lightroom and Photoshop Together
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—Derek M. Read more great feedback. | Tip of the month |  You can choose which keyboard shortcut to use when starting Dictation, or create your own. | | Talking to your Mac using Dictation from Mac OS X Mountain Lion New Features
New with Mountain Lion is the Dictation feature, which translates your speech into text. Turn on Dictation by opening any application that supports it—just create a new document and go to the Edit menu and choose Start Dictation. Otherwise, you can open System Preferences, go to Dictation & Speech, and select Dictation there.
Be ready to see warnings pop up from Apple: your spoken words must be sent to Apple, where they’re converted into text and returned to you. When you use Dictation, Apple learns something about your Mac and keeps a record of what you say. When you switch off Dictation in the Dictation & Speech preference, your user data is removed from the Apple servers, so if you’re concerned about the security of your information, that’s a way to clear it out quickly.
To begin dictating, be sure to speak clearly—you don’t have to speak slowly, but don’t mumble. You’ll also have to speak the punctuation you want to use, so you’ll have to say the words “period” and “comma” where you want them to appear in the sentence.
Click Done, or remain silent for several seconds, to see your words transcribed. When the Mac isn’t clear about what you’ve said, a blue line appears under the questionable word, and you can go back in and correct it. To continue dictating, go back into Edit and select Start Dictation again or use the keyboard shortcut: press fn (Function key) twice. You can also go back into System Preferences and change the shortcut.
Interested in more Mountain Lion tips? Check out Christopher Breen’s full course, Mac OS X Mountain Lion New Features. | |
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