If you have already taken an nti course or feel you’ve gained extensive knowledge of Apple products through work or self-teaching, then you might be pleased to hear that you can also book our exam days separately. This means you could achieve accreditation without having to repeat learning.

Differentiate yourself to employers, and prospective clients as an Apple Certified Pro, and gain a competitive edge in the ever-changing job market. Apple certification programs create a benchmark for assessing users’ proficiency in Apple’s professional applications. By passing certification exams, you become an Apple Certified Pro for a chosen application.

Benefits of Apple Certification

Differentiate yourself and your business

Gain recognition for technical competency

Build credibility with clients and employers

Increase visibility and enhance your reputation in a competitive marketplace

Publicise your certifications on the Apple Certified Professional Registry

Display your personalised certificate and a logo that distinguishes you as an Apple Certified professional

Exams Offered by nti Leeds:

Aperture 101, Color 101, DVD Studio Pro 101, Final Cut Pro 101, Final Cut Pro 300, Logic 101, Logic 301, Mac OS X Support Essentials 10.5 and 10.6, Mac OS X Server Essentials 10.5 and 10.6, Motion 101 and Shake 200

Further Apple Exams are available please contact us for any specific requirements

The OS X User Overview is a one-day preliminary course for those new to Mac OS X who need to prepare for the Mac OS X Support Essentials course, or other technical Mac OS X training courses. This course focuses on getting to know the foundations of Mac OS X, with topics ranging from efficient window and application management to system customisation. You’ll also learn how to configure user accounts and manage files.

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Learning Blender with us is a fun and exciting way to reduce the time it takes you to understand Blender and give some extremely valuable insights into areas which you never would have attempted.

The amazing thing about Blender is its “freedom of use policy”. In other words, the software is free; which is simply staggering when you consider that the 3D software vendors charge upwards of £4000,00 for their software.

This one day, hands-on apple training course introduces clients to the primary features set and basic interface of Apple Final Cut Pro 100. In this course, you will learn how to perform basic editing functions while familiarising  yourself with the user interface. Topics include basic setup, adjusting and customising preferences and settings, capturing video and audio, various editing and trimming techniques, Ripple, Roll, Slip and Slide tools, audio software editing and audio creation, finishing and final output.

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Many searches for information about products and buying decisions begin with searches on one of the major engines: Google, Yahoo! or Live Search. Achieving a position at or near the top of the ‘organic’ rankings can take time and often requires a large investment of time and energy.

Pay-per-Click (PPC) can bring profitable results much more quickly by providing an instant source of targeted traffic, who are in active buying mode. The results of PPC marketing can be measured extremely accurately, so a business is always in control of its budget and can refine the campaign to ensure a good return-on-investment.

This course provides a one-day introduction to Pay-per-Click, including practical examples that help you to set-up, run and manage your own Google AdWords PPC campaign.

January 21st 2010 - January 21st 2010

Google Android is the first complete, open and free mobile stack for mobile devices including an operating system, middleware and key applications. Take a look a this exciting new platform and learn abut some of the in and outs of developing rich mobile applications using Android. This course is a hands-on guide to designing and building mobile applications using Google Android to explore the potential of developing applications on the Android SDK.

This extends the “Google Android Programming Essentials” training course and is focused on designing, building and delivering a mobile application through example exercises. It will introduce some core API features that will allow developers to utilise phone features including databases and  media players.

The day will involve the use of Android enabled phones supplied by the NTI.

December 8th 2009 - December 8th 2009

Understand what Android is, without the hype

Create Android user interface (activities)

Design and build a simple mobile application

Google Android is the first complete, open and free mobile stack for mobile devices including an operating system, middleware and key applications. Take a look a this exciting new platform and learn abut some of the in and outs of developing rich mobile applications using Android. This course is a hands-on guide to designing and building mobile applications using Google Android to explore the potential of developing applications on the Android SDK.

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Take a closer look at the online software that Google offers to help run and grow businesses including an easy to understand guide to search engine optimisation.

The course covers topics from day to day spreadsheet and word processing software, to sophisticated market research tools that ou can tart to benefit from instantly. The hands on teaching will ensure that you leave the course with greater understanding of the tools Google offers to help small businesses but also how to utilise these tools within your business.

These tools are a route to improving efficiency, communication and marketing within your business. In addition you will be able to effectively rack and analyse the sales process and increase marketing activity where it counts.

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Why not get trained by the authors and maintainers of Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) and Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)?

This course, taught by experienced professional instructors from Internet Systems Consortium uses a mix of lecture, discussion and hands-on laboratory work. This interactive training is focused on giving students the knowledge and skills to enable the most effective design and management of services based on ISC software.

Our trainer for this class is  Alan Clegg who, since joining the Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) staff in 2007, has been creating and providing workshops and training for ISC customers and users. These training classes and workshops have been delivered across the globe to private corporations such as Telstra, Cloudshield and Neustar and publicly to a vast array of system administrators and network operators.

This one day course provides a good all round introduction to Agile software development approaches.  Our trainer will equip you with the skills and knowledge you need to take Agile back in to your team. We’ve aimed this course at developers, testers, business analysts, database administrators, project managers and executives. The course is delivered as an interactive workshop, enabling you to learn from our trainer’s wealth of experience, as well as having the opportunity to address issues relevant to your own experience. This will help increase the likelihood of a successful adoption of Agile for your software development project.

We can also offer follow-on training. Because we believe adopting Agile is very personal each team and organistaion, we offer this  on an company basis. Our trainer works with your team to enable them to take on specific Agile roles. Typically this would be a two day on site coaching-style course, which would cover:

- one to one sessions with key team members including managers

- coaching on test driven development, continuous integration and other Agile techniques

- Development of an Agile process specific to your organisation

- Development of Agile documentation (user stories, product backlogs etc)

The funding also applies to this offer - please contact us direct to discuss your requirements and we will be able to provide further details and costs.

Your trainer is Nick McKenna, Certified Scrum Master and Practitioner. Nick runs his own successful software development house using Agile principles and practices. Nick is also treasurer for the Agile Yorkshire group which meets monthly to promote Agile development in our region.

Creatively manipulate, edit and retouch images using the open source image editor, Gimp.

It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It works on many operating systems, in many languages.

It is commonly used to create graphics and logos, resise and crop photos, alter colors, stitch multiple images together, remove unwanted image elements, and to convert between different image formats. GIMP can also be used to create basic animated images in GIF format. Gimp often used as a replacement for Adobe Photoshop.

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This two day course is designed to introduce delegates to a structured approach to planning, managing and controlling a project. Group and individual activities cover a range of project scenarios and practical tasks. The course provides a solid grounding in project management techniques and approaches, and is an excellent benchmark for project managers across a range of sectors, and sizes of organisation.

February 8th 2010 - February 9th 2010

The 4 day iPhone Develoment training course here at nti Leeds provides everything needed for developers to get up and running with the iPhone SDK and Objective C. The course focusses on providing comprehensive grounding in iPhone and iPad apps development techniques. Delegates will come away with not only the ability to build iPhone and iPad apps, but also an understanding of the concepts and patterns using in iPhone development.

Each delivery is restricted to a maximum of eight delegates to ensure an excellent training experience, and is held in our mac training suite with the developer environment set up for you.

The course has been designed, and is delivered by, Dave Verwer, developer of Balloons! and several other successful iPhone applications.

Dave describes himself as primarily an iPhone and iPad developer, rather than a full-time trainer, and so has experience in all aspects of designing, developing, shipping and marketing successful iPhone apps. Dave has been developing with the iPhone SDK since it was first released and previously to that developed several applications for Mac OS X.

We believe Dave’s expertise and track record  makes this course unique.   In January 2010 one of our delegates had flown over 10,000 miles to attend this course here in Leeds - a fantastic endorsement of the quality that we deliver. Read more about our globetrotting delegate here.

Course Details:

Learn hands-on how to use the major tools and APIs in the iPhone SDK 3.0, and how they fit together to develop mobile applications like the pros.

Get hands-on coding experience and answers to your questions so you can start creating your own iPhone application with confidence.

January 18th 2010 - January 20th 2010

March 24th 2010 - March 26th 2010

Are you looking to upgrade your operating systems?

Linux is now a mainstream operating system. This course will help you make Linux a part of your network and make the most of its stability and cost advantage.

You’ll learn to integrate Linux effortlessly synchronising users with your Windows Active Directory and Windows file-shares.

We’ll show you how you can continue to use your windows based software with WINE.

Learn to configure the desktop so that your users will feel comfortable with their new computers.

Save time in image deployment using Clonezilla. Find out about office alternatives and how you can access your MS Exchange Mailboxes with a free email client.

You will have a dramatic effect on your IT support effort and expenditure! Your boss will love you!

This is a one day introductory course to the Magento e-commerce system. Magento is an awesomely powerful cutting edge open source e-commerce package that is quickly gaining a large following due to its impressive array of powerful enterprise level features.

This course will give you the background understanding and practical skills needed not only to get the best out of your Magento store; but also presents principles which are relevant to all e-commerce platforms.

You will also leave with a clearer understanding of some of the more complex principles in Magento and will learn how to leverage some of the core features of Magento to get the most out of your store.

Joseph Edmonds, e-commerce specialist and trainer, recently asked some questions surrounding the Magento software and training course. Find out more by clicking here…

January 8th 2010 - January 8th 2010