- 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.
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- Final Cut Pro for Avid Editors: Customizing Your Project
- Nov 17, 2006
- This 45-minute lesson takes a look at where and how to adjust your settings in Final Cut Pro. You'll learn how to select an editing preset, change audio/video settings, select user preferences, and more. This chapter also covers bin organization and describes storyboard editing, which is performed largely by working within a bin.
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- Organizing Photos
- Nov 13, 2006
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- The Camera in Motion
- Nov 13, 2006
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- Building a Mac Home Media Center, Part 1: How To Get iTV Capabilities Today, For Less
- Nov 10, 2006
- Apple's forthcoming iTV promises to place all your digital media on your TV. But what if you don't want to wait months before enjoying your iTune's music and video or iPhoto pictures in your living room? And is iTV really worth the price? Ryan Faas looks at the options that exist right now and tells you why you might actually be able to spend less money and get a more rounded solution today.
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- Working with a Project
- Nov 3, 2006
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- Inside iTunes 7
- Oct 27, 2006
- iTunes 7 brings new features and new ways to organize the music, movies, TV shows, and podcasts that you sync to your iPod or play using iTunes. Ryan Faas takes you on a tour of the new features and shows you how to use them to have even more fun with your digital media, if you can imagine that.
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- Mac OS X Server Mail Service Boot Camp, Part 3: Security, Filtering, and Other Advanced Topics
- Oct 20, 2006
- In the final piece of his three-part series on setting up mail services on Mac OS X Server, Ryan Faas explains how to secure your mail server, prevent spam and viruses from reaching users' mailboxes, and configure your mail server to support email accounts across multiple domain names.
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- The Mac Designer's Guide to Printing
- Oct 20, 2006
- Even though we live in a digital age, our day-to-day lives are still firmly rooted in paper. For the average Mac user, printing usually involves plugging in an inkjet printer and forgetting about it. For designers, however, there's a lot more involved and this chapter covers it all. Your print devices often include inkjet and laser printers, and plate and film imagers. This sample chapter will help you understand how these technologies work with Mac OS X, enabling you to create outputs that are correct, or simply print invoices for your clients.
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- Mac OS X Server Mail Service Boot Camp, Part 2: Advanced Mailing List Features and WebMail
- Oct 13, 2006
- How can you manage mailing lists from a web-based interface? Part 1 of this boot camp series explained the basic steps needed to configure Mac OS X Server as an email server. In this article, Ryan Faas continues that discussion, explaining how to enable and configure a custom web-based email client and advanced mailing list features using the MailMan and SquirrelMail tools that come bundled with Mac OS X Server.
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- Mac OS X Server Mail Service Boot Camp, Part 1: The Basics
- Oct 6, 2006
- Mac OS X Server includes a robust suite of mail services that make it a powerful solution for organizations looking to host their own email, webmail, and mailing list server. However, understanding how to configure those services properly is crucial to creating a reliable and secure mail server. In the first of three articles covering Mac OS X Server's mail services, Ryan Faas gives you the background and the basics you need to know to implement a Mac OS X mail server.
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- Apple Remote Desktop 3, Part 5: Automating Remote Desktop
- Sep 29, 2006
- Once you know how to use Apple Remote Desktop to manage workstations, deploy software, interact with users, and generate detailed inventory and system reports, you might think that's the extent of this powerful tool. But Apple has given Remote Desktop even more power and flexibility by making it completely scriptable and including easy-to-use scheduling and automation features. In this final article covering Apple Remote Desktop 3, Ryan Faas shows you how to schedule individual tasks and create automated workflows from combinations of tasks and reports, and provides an introduction to further programming Remote Desktop using AppleScript and the Mac OS X Automator utility.
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- Apple Remote Desktop 3, Part 4: Deploying Software, Files, and System Changes
- Sep 22, 2006
- Deploying small but critical updates and making minor changes to every computer across a network can be a daunting task. In the fourth installment of his series on Apple Remote Desktop, Ryan Faas shows you how to harness Remote Desktop to make installing anything from new fonts, to rolling out a complete list of Mac OS X and application updates, to making simple or complex configuration changes across every Mac in your network almost effortless.
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- Apple Remote Desktop 3, Part 3: Gathering Information about Remote Computers
- Sep 15, 2006
- Having accurate information about the computers in your company can be critical for any number of tasks. General inventory, purchasing decisions, software license compliance, tracking usage patterns, theft identification, upgrade planning, and update deploying rely on knowing as much as possible about the computer you manage. Constantly keeping track of that kind of information is typically a daunting challenge unless you make use of Apple Remote Desktop's vast reporting capabilities. In this third installment of Ryan Faas' Apple Remote Desktop 3 in-depth series, find out how easy it can be to have detailed and current reports on everything you need to know.
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- Using iTunes to Fill Your iPod
- Sep 15, 2006
- To best understand what makes the iPod's world turn, you must be familiar with how it and iTunes work together to move music (and pictures, in the case of color iPods) on and off your iPod. In this article, Christopher Breen will show you just that.
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- A Cause for Integration: How to Play Music on Your Mac (and Your iPod)
- Sep 8, 2006
- One of the coolest things about the Mac is how it handles music, especially when using your Mac with an Apple iPod MP3 player. The seamless way these two work together is just a beautiful thing to behold (and putting together and sorting your music collection is really a lot of fun. In fact, it's so much fun that compiling your library of songs can almost become a hobby of its own). In this 20-minute lesson from best-selling author Scott Kelby, you'll learn to import music into your Mac, download music from the Internet, and create a library of music. Then, you'll organize your music into playlists and import this music into an Apple iPod MP3 player.
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- Apple Remote Desktop 3, Part 2: Interacting with Users
- Sep 8, 2006
- After you have Apple Remote Desktop installed, you can use it to interact with users by text chat or one-way messages and alerts. Find out how to respond to user problems, observe one or more remote computers, and take control of Mac workstations remotely to improve security, enhance classrooms, and improve teacher/student interaction or help desk operations. It's all part of Ryan Faas' series on learning how to use and get the most out of the robust features of Apple Remote Desktop.
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- Apple Remote Desktop 3, Part 1: How You Can Plan a Remote Desktop Installation
- Sep 1, 2006
- Most users recognize the power of Apple Remote Desktop for observing and controlling remote Macs and Mac OS X Server, but that is only a small fraction of the features and capabilities offered by this powerful tool. In this first article in a five-part series, Ryan Faas shows you how much more Remote Desktop can be used to accomplish; and how to plan, configure, and deploy Apple Remote Desktop efficiently and effectively in a Mac network.
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- Organize and Refine Your Photos in iPhoto
- Aug 25, 2006
- When you start taking lots of digital photos of all the different events in your life, you'll want to keep them organized. Just as with traditional photography, you can create albums of digital photographs. One important difference is that digital albums are a lot more powerful. In this lesson, you'll learn the basics of organizing your collection into albums in iPhoto and making those photos look as good as can be, ultimately leading up to sharing them with friends and family.
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- Network Preferences for Mobile Computing on a Mac
- Aug 18, 2006
- Going mobile with your Mac laptop is all a matter of setup. John Tollett and Robin Williams explain a number of features to make sure you can get connected wherever you go.
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