- TextEdit for Word Processing in Mac OS X Lion
- Sep 22, 2011
- Robin Williams and John Tollett show you how to work with TextEdit, a small yet surprisingly powerful word processor, in this chapter from their book, Mac OS X Lion: Peachpit Learning Series.
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- The Mac OS X Lion Project Book: Making Magic
- Sep 12, 2011
- Lion comes equipped with tools that allow you to create professional-looking results without spending a professional amount of money. Scott McNulty shows you how to edit snapshots, create a slideshow, and create a simple Web site using Mac OS X Lion.
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- Mac OS X Lion: Visual QuickStart Guide: Window Views
- Aug 18, 2011
- In this chapter, Maria Langer tells you more about how to work with Mac OS X’s window views. By understanding how each view works and what features it offers, you should be able to decide which views work best for the things you need to do.
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- Mac OS X Lion Pocket Guide: Master Your Files
- Aug 17, 2011
- Files are the foundation of working within Mac OS X Lion. Jeff Carlson shows you how to make them work to your advantage.
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- Mac OS X Lion Finder Windows
- Aug 10, 2011
- This chapter walks you through a number of short exercises to help you feel comfortable using Finder windows, which are a fundamental element of your Mac.
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- Ten Lion Tips for Snow Leopard Users
- Aug 4, 2011
- There are a lot of little changes from Snow Leopard to Lion. Rather than concentrating on the big new features of Mac OS X Lion, Maria Langer covers ten smaller changes in an effort to help Mac OS X Snow Leopard users make the jump to Lion.
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- 10 Reasons to Switch to Mac OS X Lion
- Jul 21, 2011
- Mac OS X 10.7 Lion has a slew of brand-new features and improvements. Tom Negrino offers ten reasons why you should upgrade.
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- iMovie Beyond the Basics
- Jun 21, 2011
- iMovie includes many tools for dealing with special situations, as well as for improving what you've already shot. Jeff Carlson shows you how to use them.
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- iPhone Obsessed: A Video Interview with Dan Marcolina
- Apr 21, 2011
- Peachpit interviews Dan Marcolina about his book, iPhone Obsessed, tips for improving your iPhone photography, and what fuels his love of image making.
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- Final Cut Pro for Avid Editors: Speed and Motion Effects
- Mar 29, 2011
- By using a hybrid approach to building composites, you will learn how to scale, position, crop, distort an image’s perspective, and even set keyframes, all directly on the sequence clip in the Canvas.
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- Final Cut Pro for Avid Editors: Trimming Clips
- Mar 9, 2011
- Diana Weynand covers the basic Avid approach to trimming and shows how to perform those same functions in Final Cut Pro.
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- The App Holiday Survival Guide
- Dec 22, 2010
- Glenn Fleishman, author of Five-Star Apps: The Best iPhone and iPad Apps for Work and Play, shares some of his favorite useful, mind-bending, or just plain fun apps for the iPad, iPod touch, and iPhone.
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- Time Machine Enhancements and Alternatives
- Nov 3, 2010
- Fortunately there are some easy ways to customize Time Machine, and Mac expert Ryan Faas describes a wide range of alternative Mac backup options that can fit the needs of any Mac user.
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- App Anthem: Using iPhone Apps & the App Store
- Oct 14, 2010
- Scott Kelby and Terry White show you how to get apps from the iTunes and iPhone App store, update, delete, and organize your apps, and find the very coolest apps for your iPhone.
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- The iPhone Pocket Guide: Mail and Calendar
- Sep 29, 2010
- Seeking a less-immediate way to communicate than the phone or messaging? Can't figure out how to receive documents that you can view on your iPhone? Or is your life so tied to email that you can't stand to be away from your computer for more than a couple of hours? If so, you and the iPhone's Mail application are about to become best friends.
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- Tips and Tools for Managing Disk Space in Mac OS X
- Sep 16, 2010
- Whether your problem is trying to save routine work files or speeding up your Mac's sluggish performance, Ryan Faas offers a set of solutions to clear out the overflow and improve your storage organization.
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- 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.
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- The Top Mac Hard Drive Utilities, 2010 Edition
- Aug 4, 2010
- Ryan Faas, updating his highly popular article from 2007, evaluates some of the best tools for analyzing and repairing problems with Mac hard drives and directory structures.
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- Apple Pro Training Series: Final Cut Pro 7 Quick-Reference Guide: Ingest
- May 12, 2010
- Brendan Boykin shows you the three ways you can bring media into Final Cut Pro.
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- 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.
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