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Animate Your Slides for a Killer Keynote Presentation: Aug 11, 2006; Adding animation to your slides is an important step in finalizing a presentation. You can create several types of animation in Keynote. Two of the most common are builds and transitions. This chapter will give you step-by-step instructions to animate your slides and give sizzle to your presentations.

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.

File Management in Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger: Aug 11, 2006; Finder allows you to manage files in Mac OS X. This chapter will help you use Finder to its fullest extent.

Making iWeb Your Own: Creating Your Own Themes and Templates for Apple's Web Design Tool: Aug 11, 2006; Do you like iWeb's ease of use but feel stifled by having to rely on Apple's cookie-cutter selection of themes and templates? Here's some great news: You can create your templates and themes for iWeb. Ryan Faas walks you through changing and adding to the reference files and ultimately creating your own personalized iWeb themes.

Organize and Rate Your Images in Aperture: Aug 4, 2006; Organizing images is one of a photographer’s most time-consuming and important tasks. You need to be able to quickly and easily find the image you need for a particular client or job. And the larger your image collection, the greater the challenge. Another critical task is evaluating images—judging not only their composition and aesthetic value but also the quality of the shots, including focus, lighting, and exposure. With Aperture, it’s easy to organize and rate images in a seamless process, and in this lesson you'll learn how.

Backing up Open Directory: Recovering the Foundation of a Mac OS X Server Infrastructure: Jul 21, 2006; Directory services such as Mac OS X Server's Open Directory (or Microsoft's Active Directory) are the critical bones of user account and computer management in a network. Because these systems are so mission critical, you need to ensure that you can back up and restore them properly with little downtime. Ryan Faas details the necessity, methods, and the special considerations involved in backing up Open Directory domains with Mac OS X Server.

Final Cut Express Presets and Preferences: Jul 21, 2006; This chapter explains Easy Setups—FCE's streamlined configuration feature—and then walks you through your preference options in the User Preferences and System Settings windows.

Managing User Accounts in Mac OS X: Jul 14, 2006; This lesson introduces you to the three types of user accounts in Mac OS X; how to create and manage user accounts; and your options for increasing account security.

Apple's .Mac Storage Solution: What You Need to Know About iDisk: Jul 7, 2006; iDisk is a .Mac utility that lets you store your files on servers maintained by Apple. In this chapter, learn how to use your iDisk—how to connect to it, how to copy files to it, and how to use the folders stored on it.

For Those About to Dock!: Mac OS X Docking Miracles Made Easy: Jul 7, 2006; OS X's dock is a tremendously useful and versatile launching tool, but some of its most useful functions aren't immediately apparent. This chapter will help you take advantage of these functions to launch and switch like a pro.

General Troubleshooting Theory for Apple Desktops and Portable Systems: Jul 7, 2006; Let the official Apple Training Series show you how the Apple systematic approach to troubleshooting theory and component isolation can benefit you and your customers by making your a better technician.

iLife Basics: Shooting Good Digital Snapshots and Putting Them in Your Mac: Jun 23, 2006; This lesson will demystify the way a computer can talk to (and control) a digital camera. It will give you some basic guidelines for handling your camera and creating impressive snapshots, as well as dealing with less-than-ideal lighting and subject orientation. It will also introduce you to iPhoto, the iLife tool for moving those photographs from camera to Mac, and ultimately organizing and sharing them.

The New Face of Podcasting: Creating Video Podcasts Using iMovie, GarageBand, and iWeb in iLife '06: Jun 9, 2006; The ease of podcast creating in iLife '06 can turn any Mac owner into the online equivalent of a radio star. But what if you want to star in your own online TV series? The answer is video podcasting, and Ryan Faas says it isn't much harder to put together than a traditional audio podcast.

Recoding iWeb Sites Part 2: Manipulating Code for iWeb-Created Page Elements: Jun 2, 2006; You like iWeb's overall ease of use, right? But what if you need to do something extra with a few of your pages? You designed a site in iWeb and now want to expand the site with other technologies and using a different Web design tool? In part two of Ryan Faas' series, find out about the type of code iWeb creates and how you can rework it for your own use.

Editing Action in Final Cut Pro 5: May 19, 2006; This chapter will teach you to edit action sequences in Final Cut Pro 5. Learning to cut action sequences is one of the most basic editing techniques that you'll need to learn to create your own movies. Action doesn't just mean fighting, so even if you don't intend an epic battle between the hero and the villain, you'll still want to read this chapter to find out how to edit these scenes.

OtterBox for iPod: Armor Plating for Your Music: May 19, 2006; Is the OtterBox for iPod worthy of its "waterproof, dustproof, dirtproof, sandproof, and drop-proof" claims? And is it a viable case for everyday use? Dustin Sullivan puts one to the test.

Recoding iWeb Sites Part 1: How to Combine iWeb Sites with Other Web Design Tools for Even Better Sites: May 19, 2006; Apple's iWeb makes creating polished Web pages incredibly easy because you never have to deal with the code. Unfortunately, that also means you can't add Web goodies to your site that require adding pieces of code directly to the page. Fortunately, modifying the code after publishing a site with iWeb is possible, and Ryan Faas fills you in on how to do it.

Keeping Your Mac from Catching a Bug: Top Choices in Mac OS X Virus Protection: May 4, 2006; 2006 has already seen the first dangerous virus threat for Mac OS X, proving that Macs are not immune to viruses. Ryan Faas is your guide to understanding viruses and the potential risks they can pose to Macs and using the tools to keep you Mac virus-free.