- iTunes and You
- Mar 9, 2007
- iTunes is a powerful tool by itself. When paired with an iPod, it creates a unique audio experience. This excerpt will show you how to use your iPod for more than just podcasts; photos and videos can also be viewed on the device.
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- Remote Mac Management on a Budget: Low-Cost Alternatives to Apple Remote Desktop
- Mar 9, 2007
- Observing and controlling computers remotely is a great tool for systems administrators, help desk staff, teachers, and even home users. Apple Remote Desktop gives you that power and more, but if you only want the most basic remote observation and control features, there are low-cost and free options for Mac OS X. Ryan Faas gives you the best alternatives.
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- Master Mac OS X Users and Groups by Making Your Mac Think It's a Server
- Mar 2, 2007
- One of the challenges of creating a small Mac network (or even sharing files among multiple users on a single Mac) is that Mac OS X doesn't allow you to create groups of users or share folders (among local users or over a network) other than preset Shared and Public folders. But, as Ryan Faas illustrates, when you have the right tools, you can get Mac OS X to support groups, permissions, additional shared folders, and even managed user preferences.
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- The Top Five Mac Hard Drive, Diagnostic, and Repair Utilities
- Feb 23, 2007
- Macs are notoriously reliable computers, but even the best computers sometimes have problems: be it a hard drive crash, Mac OS X problem, or a more extensive hardware failure. Having the right diagnostic, repair, and data recovery tools can make all the difference for recovering your data and for diagnosing or resolving issues. In this article, Ryan Faas identifies and compares the five best tools for working with the hard drive, keeping your Mac running, and diagnosing problems.
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- The Top Five Shareware Alternatives to iWeb
- Feb 16, 2007
- iWeb is often the first thought for many Mac users wanting to easily create websites, blogs, and podcasts without needing to deal with creating code or dealing with server issues. And although iWeb is a great tool, it isn't always the best or the easiest to use. Ryan Faas describes five shareware tools that all offer one or more of the features of iWeb (including publishing to Apple's .Mac service), but they also each offer one or more distinct advantages over iWeb, making them the top five shareware alternatives for Mac users.
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- Making Movies with iMovie HD
- Feb 2, 2007
- Best-selling author Jim Heid shows you just about everything you need to know to make movies in iMovie HD. By the end of this chapter, you'll have learned how to work with clips, add photos and audio to movies, create titles, dazzle with effects and transitions, and more.
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- Don't Move! How to Add Motion to Your Movies
- Jan 19, 2007
- One of the advantages of a small camera is that it easily moves with you. However, when you're shooting, motion can become a character in its own right. Slowly moving across a scene imparts a different feeling than quickly scanning your surroundings, for example. This chapter addresses the most common ways of moving the camera to add motion to your movie, including the number one rule: don't move.
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- Top Five Shareware Tools for Getting More Out of .Mac
- Jan 19, 2007
- Many commercial and shareware Mac applications offer some type of integration with Apple's .Mac service, typically for publishing content to the Web. However, a handful of tools actually offer features that go beyond web publishing and make for a better .Mac experience. Here are Ryan Faas's picks for top shareware tools that make .Mac easier and more useful.
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- How to Work With a Project in Final Cut Express HD
- Jan 5, 2007
- In this 60-minute Apple-certified lesson, you'll learn how to open the Final Cut Express HD program, identify and work with the elements of your editing project, organize those elements, and begin working within the Final Cut Express editing interface.
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- Managing the Mac Classroom: Tips for Teachers
- Jan 5, 2007
- Many schools have invested in Macs in the classroom. As Macs and the Internet become more entwined with learning, teachers need to develop new techniques to manage computer and online use and then use these new tools effectively. Ryan Faas provides a series of suggestions for how teachers can use Macs to enhance learning based on his experience working with Macs in education.
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- Organize Your Images With iPhoto
- Dec 29, 2006
- There are two types of people when it comes to photos. First are the Martha Stewart types who manage to organize every picture into precious handmade albums constructed of used tissues and old grocery bags. Then there are the rest of us, who dump our pictures in a box, and that's if we remember to develop the film in the first place. In this chapter, Adam Engst focuses on iPhoto's organizational features. Some require a little effort, but even with no work, your digital photo collection will be far better organized than the box in the closet.
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- Mac OS X VPN Solutions, Part 3: Using SSH Port Forwarding
- Dec 29, 2006
- Although VPN solutions are great for securely connecting to and accessing resources on remote networks, they require some expense and setup. When you only occasionally need to securely access a remote Mac OS X computer, server, or even a whole network, you can use a technique called SSH port forwarding to create secure connections to access specific types of resources. This gives you many of the benefits of VPN but without the cost or effort of creating a permanent VPN solution. In this final article on his series on VPN setup for Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server, Ryan Faas shows you how to configure and use port forwarding.
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- iTunes and You
- Dec 25, 2006
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- Mac OS X VPN Solutions, Part 2: Configuring VPN Under Mac OS X Server
- Dec 22, 2006
- In Part 1 of his series on VPN solutions for Mac OS X, Ryan Faas illustrated the process of connecting a Mac to a remote network using VPN. Ryan now continues the discussion from the other end of the spectrum by showing you how to enable, configure, and control VPN access to your network using Mac OS X Server.
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- Beginner's Guide to Editing in the Final Cut Pro HD Timeline
- Dec 15, 2006
- In this 60-minute Apple-certified lesson, you'll learn how to use the Timeline in Final Cut Pro. By the end of the hour, you'll have learned how to select and move clips in the Timeline, copy and paste clips, select multiple clips in the Timeline, work with the Snapping control and more.
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- Mac OS X VPN Solutions, Part 1: Connecting to a VPN
- Dec 15, 2006
- Connecting to a remote network using VPN technologies gives users secure and easy access to resources by using the Internet as a conduit for communication. Although the basic technology is the same for Mac OS X, Windows, and many network devices, the actual process of implementing a VPN solution can vary widely between computing platforms and depends on the VPN protocols being used. In this first of three articles covering VPN solutions for Mac OS X, Ryan Faas explains the common VPN protocols and concepts and how to configure the VPN client included in Mac OS X.
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- Mac OS X Server for Intel: Should You Make the Switch?
- Dec 8, 2006
- With the release of Intel server hardware, Apple has also provided an Intel-native version of Mac OS X Server. Migrating from a Power PC server to an Intel server poses some unique questions and challenges not encountered with the client version of Mac OS X. In this article, Ryan Faas walks you through such potential pitfalls as choosing an install and configuration method, moving data and services, and deciding whether to make the move to Intel server hardware now or after the release of Leopard, the next generation of Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server.
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- Pod’s Theme: iPod Essentials
- Dec 8, 2006
- Scott Kelby covers everything that makes your iPod work on the inside: from rating your favorites to changing the volume to setting the EQ, this chapter covers most iPod functions controllable from the main menu.
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- 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.
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- iMovie HD: Making Movies
- Nov 20, 2006
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