eMedia Learn to Play Keyboard Pack USB Version
Company: eMedia Music
http://www.emediamusic.com
Our original review of the instructional software can be found here:
This week, podcast hosts Tim and Chad talk about iPod nano quality control problems, Warner Music and their new PR battle against Apple Computer, the Doom 3 Demo, and much more.
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iPod nano
Company: Apple Computer, Inc.
Price: $249
http://www.apple.com/ipodnano/
No day at the beach
The iPod nano. The name just oozes music technology. OK, so it doesn’t exactly inspire the image of a couple walking hand-in-hand along a sun-drenched beach with their iPod nano supplying music through the headset (each person has one headphone plug, isn’t that cute?) as the sun (with a stupid cartoon-like grin) slowly melts away. What it did give me however is severe techno lust.
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As I mentioned in my first article, a lot of the topics for these articles are going to be coming from help requests I receive from coworkers at my school. We take a lot of digital pictures at work, and I have found myself giving mini lessons on iPhoto recently. iPhoto is a great tool for simple editing of photos, emailing photos, and more. (For more iPhoto instructions, please see Nemo’s iPhoto Ten Point Tutorial #1)
Before you can do anything with a photo in iPhoto, you have to get the photos from your digital camera into your iPhoto library. Your library is like a catalog of all your photos. This couldn’t be any easier!
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News from MacMinute.com, a new Dashboard Minute and Not Mac News, and Chad returns from vacation!
Topics – The end of Macworld Expo Boston, price hike in iTunes Music Store, Fujitsu ScanSnap, Tim gets his hands on a iPod nano, and much more.
What’s this about a possible NEW MyMac.com podcast? Listen to the show to get all the details.
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Serious Editing in iPhoto 5
J. Kevin Wolfe
Books That Don’t Go Bad
http://www.booksthatdontgobad.com
126 pages/5 megabytes
US $24.95
The conventional wisdom, according to graphics cognoscenti, is that iPhoto is for amateurs, snapshot takers, who don’t care about high quality images. Even if they did care, iPhoto hasn’t got the moxie to do decent photo editing.
J. Kevin Wolfe authored the ebook Serious Editing in iPhoto 5 to disprove the conventional wisdom. Serious Editing in iPhoto 5 will surprise those who think iPhoto is just an over hyped digital shoebox. In 126 pages, Wolfe demonstrates that you don’t need to run PhotoShop to do serious, high-quality editing work on your images.
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Vanishing Point!
When combining images to create a scene, you might find a need to add texture or a pattern along what is supposed to be a three-dimensional object. You might, for example, add a product box to a photo of a kitchen and need to add a logo to the front of the box. Or maybe you will create a room, perhaps in a castle high on a hill, and you’ll need to add a realistic stone texture to the walls. Use the new Photoshop CS2 Vanishing Point feature to “map” a pattern to angled surfaces, such as walls, floors, buildings, and boxes.
Vanishing Point, using information that you provide, automatically determines the correct angle, scale, and perspective. (Vanishing Point is rather complex, so for simple jobs, you might want to stick with the Paste and Edit–>Transform commands.)
To use Vanishing Point, you follow a specific sequence of steps:
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After writing my last (and first) article called “3 Things a Switcher Should Know,” I had a list of seven more things which were originally going to be part of that article. So when I sat down to start this one, I decided to go with 3 of the most important things off that list (as I see it). So here they are:
The Dock
In Windows you have the start menu. In OSX you have the Dock. When you start your computer for the first time the Dock will appear on the bottom of the screen with a collection of icons on it. These icons can launch programs, websites, files, or allow access to folders (if you want). You can add items to the dock, and remove them. To remove an item from the Dock click the icon in the Dock and drag that item off the Dock and let go. The icon will disappear in a “poof of smoke.” To put something in the Dock, drag the icon of the application or folder into the Dock until space is made for it automatically. Let go and it should be in the Dock. Folders, files, and websites go to the right; and applications go to the left. Want to store a website link? Drag the address from your browser.
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When you have a bunch of photos suitable for a nice slide show, iPhoto can easily group the images and then export them into a handy QuickTime presentation that will play on most Apple and Windows computers having the latest free QuickTime application. Here’s the link to obtain the software, if necessary.
Let’s get started!
1. OPEN iPHOTO and click on the plus (+) sign, lower left, to create a new Untitled Album, then type in a name for it, such as “First QuickTime Show,” and click CREATE.
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Take Control of Customizing Office September 2005 Version 1.01
Kirk McElhearn
http://www.takecontrolbooks.com/
ISBN: 0-9759503-8-X
US $10.00
Kirk McElhearn, one of the original Take Control ebook authors, has scored another hit with the recent publication of Take Control of Customizing Office.
Unlike his more general-purpose books (iPod & iTunes Garage), Take Control of Customizing Office (TCCO for short), is a tightly focused explanation of one of Microsoft Office’s most powerful, yet most obscure features; how to customize your work environment.
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As Chad is on vacation this week, host Tim Robertson spends an hour with Chris Seibold, as well as a great talk with John Farr!
Due to software problems, the audio quality of this show is not up to our usual standards. Also apologies to PlayList magazines’ Chris Breen, who graciously took the time to participate in a planned feature on the new ROKR phone, but due to technical problems with the recording software, the conversation was lost.
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When I heard MyMac.com Publisher’s Tim Robertson announce on the weekly podcast that he was looking for someone to write a “How to” column for MyMac.com I thought, “I can do that.” At work and at home I am the person everyone calls when they have a problem or need help with their Macs. I figured I could put something together that made sense. So, a few emails and a phone call later, here I am starting my first article.
When I was trying to figure out what to write about for these articles, I decided to go with what I help people do on their Macs every day, and just turn those experiences into articles. Within the last month several people at the school where I teach have become “Switchers” and are using Macs for the first time. When I set up their computers I gave them a quick crash course on the Mac. A perfect topic for my first article.
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TuneBox
Company: Griffin Technology
Price: $39.99
http://www.griffintechnology.com
First off, I’m impressed with the speed at which Griffin has been pumping out products to support the iPod. Several of their recent offerings have already been reviewed on this website or given away for contests on the weekly MyMac.com podcast. So, of course, I wasn’t surprised to see the press release for the TuneBox, a portable speaker/charger for the iPod shuffle.
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Hacking Mac OS X Tiger: Serious Hacks, Mods and Customizations
Scott Knaster
Wiley Publishing
378 pages
ISBN 0-7645-8345-X
US$ 24.99 CA$ 31.99
Scott Knaster knows what he’s talking about. Seriously. He’s been writing about programming the Mac for years, including the classic How To Write Macintosh Software. Hacking Mac OS X Tiger: Serious Hacks, Mods and Customizations is his latest effort.
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Like many people, I had spent the previous few days glued to the television and news websites, watching the horror that was inflicted upon the Gulf Coast states of the United States. What struck me was just how bad this was going to end for many people. People, who had worked all their adult lives to own a home, fill it with memories, only to see everything lost in just a few moments in time. What was worst, frankly, was seeing the poor and destitute all but left to fend for themselves days after Hurricane Katrina ravaged their cities and homes.
The helplessness I felt was shared by millions of others. I knew there was little I could do outside donating the few dollars I could spare to charity and relief efforts. Somehow, it just did not feel like enough. I wanted to give more than I could afford, but how?
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Like many people, I had spent the previous few days glued to the television and news websites, watching the horror that was inflicted upon the Gulf Coast states of the United States. What struck me was just how bad this was going to end for many people. People, who had worked all their adult lives to own a home, fill it with memories, only to see everything lost in just a few moments in time. What was worst, frankly, was seeing the poor and destitute all but left to fend for themselves days after Hurricane Katrina ravaged their cities and homes.
The helplessness I felt was shared by millions of others. I knew there was little I could do outside donating the few dollars I could spare to charity and relief efforts. Somehow, it just did not feel like enough. I wanted to give more than I could afford, but how?
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This week, Tim and Chad go over the latest Apple news from our friends at MacMinute.com, including the new iPod nano, iTunes Motorola Music Phone ROKR, and our impressions of both.
The Dashboard Minute Returns, this week with outtakes!
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Like many people, I had spent the previous few days glued to the television and news websites, watching the horror that was inflicted upon the Gulf Coast states of the United States. What struck me was just how bad this was going to end for many people. People, who had worked all their adult lives to own a home, fill it with memories, only to see everything lost in just a few moments in time. What was worst, frankly, was seeing the poor and destitute all but left to fend for themselves days after Hurricane Katrina ravaged their cities and homes.
The helplessness I felt was shared by millions of others. I knew there was little I could do outside donating the few dollars I could spare to charity and relief efforts. Somehow, it just did not feel like enough. I wanted to give more than I could afford, but how?
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MyMac Podcast 41
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This week, Tim and Chad make a list of the “Top Ten Mac Items” they feel every Mac user should own. Do you agree or disagree? Let us know.
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