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5/31/2007
iTunes Innovations
Apple Launched iTunes Plus and iTunes U on the iTunes Store yesterday. Now you can download "DRM-free music tracks featuring high quality 256 kbps AAC encoding for audio quality virtually indistinguishable from the original recordings - for just $1.29 per song." and listen to "free content such as course lectures, language lessons, lab demonstrations, sports highlights and campus tours provided by top US colleges and universities including Stanford University, UC Berkeley, Duke University and MIT." 5/26/2007
Indie Mac Development in the UK
Giles Turnbull interviews a group of UK-based indie developers to ask them a little about their lives, how they stay in touch with Apple, and why international exchange rates make such a difference to them. Read More... 5/21/2007
Misunderstood Photoshop: Channels
In the eighth part of her series on handy Photoshop tools that are often overlooked or misunderstood, Helen Bradley discusses channels, a feature that not only provides information about your image but can also be used for photo editing. You learn how to use channel data to convert an image to black and white and even how to save a selection in a channel for reuse later on. Read More... Misunderstood Photoshop: The Apply Image Command
Photoshop's Apply Image command is a tool for blending two images or layers. You can use it to apply masked borders to images and to create interesting collage effects. It's also one of the quickest ways of creating a mask from an image. Helen Bradley explains the basics of using the Apply Image feature in Photoshop. Read More... What Does Photoshop CS3 Mean for Aperture Users?
Aperture's comprehensive set of photo management tools keep users within the Aperture environment for the bulk of their work. But for more complicated image editing tasks, round tripping to Photoshop is often the workflow of choice. CS3 offers improved performance and new tools, many of which will be of interest to Aperture users. In this article, Josh Anon take you on a tour of the best of these improvements. Read More... 5/17/2007
Stupid OSX Tricks: Playing with the Dock
Another tip from Ron Miller Not long ago, a friend was demonstrating something on his Mac Book Pro and I noticed his dock was on the right side, not the bottom. It got me thinking about how to configure the dock. If you're not familiar with this process, read on. Amazon goes after Apple
Amazon.com Inc. is getting into the digital music market, taking on Apple Inc.'s iTunes Music store. But the move may end up helping Apple instead, analysts say. Read More... TranslateIt! - onetoutch translation
Press Release- A new version of multilingual dictionary for Mac OS X - TranslateIt! for Mac 7.3 is released. 5/16/2007
Top Ten Mac OS X Tips for Unix Geeks
From starting up to shutting down, there are big differences between Mac OS X and Unix machines. Brian Jepson, coauthor of Mac OS X for Unix Geeks offers 10 tips he gathered while working on the book. If you're a Unix geek moving to Mac OS X, these tips will help smooth the way. Read More... 5/11/2007
Using Python and AppleScript Together
In this hands-on article, Noah Gift introduces the major concepts behind using AppleScript with Python and provides some fun working examples. Read More... The Top Five Tools for Managing Your Mac's iTunes Library
Although you can create playlists of any length and combination of music with iTunes, creating a playlist when you have thousands or even tens of thousands of songs to choose from can be a daunting prospect. Keeping playlists updated as you add new music (or delete music) can be just as onerous. The five tools discussed by Ryan Faas in this article can help ease the process of managing your music collection and can even help you look at it in new ways. Read More... Creating Interactive Movies
From "Apple Pro Training Series: QuickTime Pro Quick-Reference Guide" QuickTime container files can hold much more that just audio and video. In fact, you can add entire layers of interactivity to your media. “Wiring” your movies transforms the audience’s experience from merely watching the movie play to playing with the movie while watching it. Read More... 5/05/2007
The Art of TextEdit
Need a fast and easy-to-use word processor/page layout program with lists, styles, tables, advanced typography, and support for multiple languages? Ladies and gentlemen, Neale Monks wants to introduce you to TextEdit, which is a viable, attractive alternative to heavyweight word processors. Read More... The Top Five Add-ons for Apple's iPhoto
Ever since its initial introduction, Apple's iPhoto has been a great tool for anyone with a digital camera. As great as iPhoto is, however, longtime users with libraries containing thousands of photos know that the application does have some areas that need enhancing to make it more powerful and seamless for today's digital photographers. Ryan Faas gives his top five iPhoto plug-ins and helper applications to help tame your iPhoto library and expand your iPhoto experience. Read More... 5/03/2007
Using Your iPod to Record Audio and Podcasts
Back in the day, if you wanted to record an interview or a conversation, you used a portable cassette recorder. Technology evolves, of course, and the standard cassette recorder morphed into the microcassette recorder (using smaller tapes) and the digital audio recorder (using Flash memory for storage). Given that the iPod, in data storage mode, works similarly to a Flash memory storage device, why can't you use your iPod for voice recording? Read More... Jobs vows greener Apple
From insidebayarea.com His company under attack for its environmental record, Apple Inc. Chief Executive Steve Jobs on Wednesday chalked the issue up to a PR problem - but did vow to make changes. Read More... 5/02/2007
Building Custom iQuiz Data
iQuiz is a brand new, flashy iPod game from Apple that allows users to create custom games and run them using the iQuiz interface. In this tutorial, Erica Sadun shows how to create custom iQuiz files and provides sample code and files. Read More... 5/01/2007
Alternate Authentication Methods Under Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server
Using smart cards or similar products can greatly enhance the security of a network and of individual workstations (including portable computers and those used for remote access). Ryan Faas shows you how to implement these alternatives to static usernames and passwords on the Macs in your network. Read More... |
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