iFontMaker for iPad makes it easy to create your own fonts. After drawing your alphabet, simply send the file to 2ttf.com.

You’ll quickly receive a link to the company’s website where you can download your Open Type font.

My first effort – Fat Finger – is free to all.

Check out the gallery of staff favorites, too

iFontMaker is available from the iTunes store for $7.99

As an editor, I constantly ask myself, how do I get from here to there?

One road post to look for are transitional words like but, however, and therefore. These words connote change. They pivot the narrative making them great words to cut on.

“I was was walking to the store, but” – walking-to-the-store image.

“I decided to go home. ” – relaxing-at-home image.

As a general rule, I cut after the transition.

The grammar of language and the grammar of editing flow together. Don’t overlook their connection.

The Global Governance Monitor: Public Health is the fifth installment of the Council on Foreign Relations Global Monitor. I produced the six-minute overview.

The problem with command-shift-4 is that it saves the image to the desktop, an intermediary step before I attach it to an email message.

Thanks to this TUAW.com article, I discovered a solution. If you use command-shift-4 + the Control key the screenshot will be sent directly to the clipboard, making it super easy to paste in to an email while keeping your desktop clean, too.

Driftless: Stories from Iowa by Danny Wilcox Frazier was nominated in the New Approaches to News & Documentary Programming: Documentaries category.

Surviving the Tsunami: Stories of Hope was nominated in the New Approaches to News & Documentary Programming: Current News Coverage category.

Congratulations also go out to my good friend and former colleague Bob Sacha whose MediaStorm collaboration with Reuters, Times of Crisis, was also nominated in the New Approaches to News & Documentary Programming: Current News Coverage category.

The project includes brilliant interactivity designed by Tim Klimowicz.

For a full list of nominees see the Emmy Award website.

You can read it here on the MediaStorm blog.

In my haste to announce my new film Three Women, I neglected to post two other projects recently released on MediaStorm.

The first is Lisa Robinson’s Snowbound, which I produced and edited. The project was a bit of a departure as it’s the first non-narrative piece I’ve produced at MediaStorm.

From the description:

Snowbound explores the mystery of a winter landscape. This journey may lead one to discover a sense of peace in an often uncharted world.

View Snowbound here.

The second project is Airsick by Lucas Oleniuk. This piece was originally produced by the Toronto Star. At MediaStorm, I re-edited a handful of scenes and helped oversee the creation of new titles by the abundantly talented James Gundersen.

See Airsick here.

Check it out on her blog here.

Safari Extensions – a new feature with Safari 5. Empower your browser. Instillation instructions here.

zootol.com – a sort of delicious.com for images. Gorgeous UI that allows for easy posting across social networks.

Cloudapp – a menu bar app that allows users to store web pages for later cloud-based reading. Excellent as a way station for later consideration.

Unlike other camera apps, like the omnipresent Hipstamatic, Plastic Bullet offers no real way to control the look of your image.

For each picture you take, Plastic Bullet offers four alternate versions. Don’t like what you see? Simply press the randomize button and you’ll see four new choices.

Fortunately, most options are pretty stunning.