- Calibrating Your Home Theater System
- Sep 23, 2005
- To get the best performance from any new video display, you have to move beyond the factory default settings to fully calibrate the brightness, contrast, and color settings. Michael Miller shows you how to calibrate your entire home theater system for both video and audio performance.
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- Making a Slideshow with iPhoto 5
- Sep 23, 2005
- iPhoto 5 includes some pretty exciting tools for creating a slideshow to show off your vacation photos or a display a presentation for work. This chapter includes detailed instructions and helpful tips to help you get started on a slideshow.
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- Home Theater Upgrade Diary Part 2: Audio and Video Components
- Sep 9, 2005
- Continuing his series on the successes and problems of setting up a new home theater system, Michael Miller explains why and how he chose the audio and video components of his new home theater system.
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- Home Theater Upgrade Diary Part 1: Determining What to Buy
- Sep 2, 2005
- Michael Miller just finished setting up his new home theater system and put together a diary of his travails. In Part 1 of a three-part series, he takes you through the process of deciding which components to buy.
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- I Heart iMovie: Why Apple's iMovie HD Beats Windows XP Movie Maker 2
- Aug 19, 2005
- Apple's easy-to-use iMovie software turns your home movies into slick productions, often comparable to those of professional editors. Jeff Carlson explores the features that will make Windows users sick with envy.
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- An Interview with Visual Effects Creator Mark Christiansen
- Aug 12, 2005
- Visual effects creator Mark Christiansen talks about magic, cotton balls, and animating splatting brains in 3D.
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- My Life, Your Life, Apple iLife '05
- Jul 22, 2005
- With iLife '05, Apple bundles a suite of tools for the creative and the imaginative. If you want to flex your creative muscles, join Matthew David to see how iLife can work in your life.
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- Photoshop Tips for Photographers
- Jul 1, 2005
- Your sister's wedding photos are tainted with red eye and the sweeping landscape you shot in Yosemite is muddy looking and off-kilter. What's a photo hobbyist to do? Photographer Helen Bradley shows you great techniques for fixing these, and other common image problems, with Photoshop tools.
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- Broadcasting Video Over the Web
- May 20, 2005
- And you thought access to 200 cable channels was more than enough? Now there could be millions more. Per Matthew David, the time has finally come for video to be successfully broadcast over the Internet.
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- Publishing Your Photos on the Web with iPhoto
- May 20, 2005
- Armed with a digital camera, a .Mac account, and iPhoto, you can easily publish your photos online. Maria Langer shows you two different ways to accomplish the task, and both of them are really easy. And fun. Did we mention fun?
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- Hacking iTunes: Programming iTunes on the Windows Platform
- May 6, 2005
- In his continuing series on hacking your iPod, Matthew David gives you the skinny on developing the plugins and extensities you need to make iTunes for Windows rock.
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- Hacking Your iPod: Building Windows Solutions to Load Content onto Your iPod and iTunes
- Mar 18, 2005
- Like your iPod? But don't you wish it could do just one more thing? Stop complaining and start programming! Matthew David exposes you to the fundamentals of programming iTunes to store more on your iPod.
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- Shuffle That Data! Using Your iPod as a Data Repository
- Mar 11, 2005
- OK, so you've sprung for the iPod shuffle. You learned how to play Shuffle Roulette. (Random mode on! Click! Song. Click! Song. Click!) But you want more, more, more. The iPod shuffle can hold more than music; it can also hold your data. Larry Loeb looks at some of the tools that can help make your data synchronized and accessible.
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- Media Management, Part 2: Audio/Video Solutions for the Home
- Feb 25, 2005
- This article concludes David Gulbransen's two-part series on the convergence of computer networking and media technologies. Part 1 discussed some of the current media management technologies for corporate and educational applications. This article looks at the scaled-down versions of these technologies emerging for home entertainment.
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- Extending Your iPod for the Mac
- Feb 18, 2005
- Matthew David tells you how you can add more content to your iPod when you are running Mac, how you can extend the content on your iPod with third-party tools, and why you should really be using a Mac for your iPod.
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- Media Management, Part 1: Technologies for Corporate and Educational Applications
- Feb 4, 2005
- This article is part 1 of a two-part series in which we take a look at some of the media management technologies for corporate and educational applications. In part 2, we'll take a look at the scaled-down versions of these technologies emerging for the home market.
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- Digital Scrapbooking 101
- Jan 28, 2005
- Helen Bradley teaches the ins and outs of digital scrapbooking including harnessing the power of Photoshop for photo editing and finding online resources like background, fonts, and even complete page layouts.
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- Turning Your Pictures into Movies with Microsoft Photo Story 3
- Jan 28, 2005
- Matthew David shows how easy it is to create a movie out of your digital images with Microsoft Photo Story 3.0 for Windows XP.
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- Top 10 Things to Do with Your PDA
- Jan 21, 2005
- Looking for some cool things to do with your PDA? We've got the top 10 ways to use your PDA for productivity and just plain fun.
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- How to Shoot DV Outdoors Without Movie Lights
- Jan 14, 2005
- It's not always possible to use fancy movie lighting when you're shooting your amateur videos. Thankfully, there are ways to work with natural light to provide quality video lighting for your digital videos. Find out how in this article by Gerald Everett Jones.
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