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Building a Mac Home Media Center, Part 2: Watching and Recording TV with Your Mac
Nov 17, 2006
No home media center is complete without a way to watch TV. When building a Mac media center, Elgato's EyeTV software not only enables you to watch TV, but its digital recording capabilities also allow you to replace your TiVo or the cable company's DVR device. In part two of Ryan Faas's series on building a Mac home media center, find out what hardware you need to watch and record live and scheduled TV programming on your Mac, as well as all the ways you can use that video once it has been recorded.
Building a Mac Home Media Center, Part 3: Creating the Ultimate Home Media Network
Dec 1, 2006
What if you could build a home network that allowed you access to all of your movies, music, and photos in every room of your house--on TVs and computers--for everyone to share whenever they wanted? If that sounds too cool to be easy or inexpensive, think again. In this final article in his series on building the ultimate Mac media center, Ryan Faas shows you how to create the ultimate home media experience--much more simply and for less money than you think.
Building a Simple Image Processor with AppleScriptObjC (Cocoa-AppleScript)
Jan 28, 2013
Ben Waldie, author of Mac Automation Made Simple, demonstrates how to use basic application-building techniques with AppleScriptObjC and Xcode to create powerful applications for manipulating images - rotating, flipping, scaling, and more.
Can't We All Just Get Along? Easy Ways To Integrate Mac and Windows Servers
Dec 1, 2005
Life used to be simple: Your company was a Mac shop or a Windows shop. These days, the line between the two platforms is blurring, with many organizations using servers and workstations of both platforms for various functionalities. Ryan Faas explains some simple ways for system administrators to reduce the headaches of a multiplatform business.
Client Management in Xsan
Jan 29, 2009
Robert Kite shows you how to manage clients and users based on the access requirements of your environment.
Cocoa Recipes for Mac OS X: Add Controls to the Document Window
May 6, 2010
Controls are a commonplace of every application. They range from the simplest push button to complex devices like the date picker. In this recipe, Bill Cheeseman shows you how to create simple push buttons, navigation buttons with graphics, and complex controls, a date picker and a search field, for more sophisticated navigation.
Command Signatures and Control IDs in OS X
Dec 14, 2001
Join expert author Dan Parks Sydow as he explores command signatures and control IDs in a Mac OS environment.
Configuring Your OS X Unix Environment
Apr 4, 2003
Learn how to customize your OS X environment, including the shell prompt, shortcuts, installation of new software, and vi, by changing your configuration files, environment variables, and tbe path.
Creating a Data Entry Layout in FileMaker Pro
Jan 20, 2006
Sometimes, the default layout presented by Filemaker Pro will work just fine, but most of the time you'll want to do some customization. This chapter takes you step-by-step through the process of customizing a data entry layout in Filemaker Pro 8.
Creating a Newsletter Template in Apple iWork
Dec 1, 2005
In this chapter we'll begin building a template for the organization's newsletter. Using placeholder text and images we'll design a look and feel for the publication and create a file that can be used and easily modified each time we publish the newsletter.
Creating a Photo Book with iPhoto
Aug 5, 2005
In addition to being a great writer and pilot, Maria Langer is a terrific photojournalist. Well, maybe not. She's actually really good at taking digital pictures and using the easy steps she covers in this article to assemble those images into impressive photo books. Want to create picture books of your own with that professional look? Just follow along.
Creating Custom Color Profiles in OS X
Oct 8, 2004
This sample chapter from the book Apple Pro Training Series: Color Management in Mac OS X by Joshua Weisberg explains how to use a variety of applications to create device profiles in order to get the best results and most predictability from color management.
Creating Suspense with Sound Design in Soundtrack Pro
Apr 21, 2006
In this lesson, you’ll take the skills presented earlier in the book and apply them to the sound design of a suspense scene. First you’ll watch the scene and determine a strategy for the sound. Then you’ll add markers in the Timeline for specific sounds effects. Once the markers are in place, you’ll work with sound effects to add reality, illusion of space, and mood to the scene. Along the way you’ll also organize tracks, change track names and icons, and learn some new features and shortcuts.
Customizing iDVD Themes
Dec 1, 2005
Want to break free of the iDVD pre-set themes and create your own disc menu screen for your DVD masterpiece? From choosing background music to creating your own screen layout, Jaemi Loeb will help you take the best of what iDVD has to offer and make it distinctly yours.
Data-Recovery Options Under Mac OS X
Sep 9, 2010
Ryan Faas examines native and external options for Mac users who hope to get back their lost photos, client databases, and other precious files.
Dock vs. Sidebar: Which To Use?
Dec 3, 2004
Two ways to do the same thing? Not quite. Maria Langer clarifies the confusion and provides some tips for using these two Mac OS X 10.3 Panther features.
Editing and Recording Software Instruments in GarageBand
Aug 11, 2006
In this lesson, you are going to learn editing and recording techniques for building music with Software Instrument regions. You’ll also learn how to change the tempo, record your own beats, and split, join, and change instruments for Software Instrument tracks in the Timeline.
Events and Event Handlers in OS X
Dec 14, 2001
The number of different types of events that can occur in a Mac environment is vast. Your program won't need to watch for, or respond to, every type of event. Instead, you'll define the event types for which your program should watch.
Expanding Your Mac's Peer-to-Peer File Sharing Options
Jul 8, 2005
Because Mac users are largely overlooked when it comes to getting new products from software producers, most of them (happily) missed the Napster fallout. Plenty of safer (and legal) options are now available for Mac peer-to-peer sharing; Anne Zieger covers the possibilities you should be considering.
Exploring the Server App in OS X Server
Jan 3, 2013
Learn about the various panes available in the Server app, how to enable remote access to the Server app, and how to move the location your server uses to store much of its service data.

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