- Podcasting: Evolution or Revolution?
- Dec 30, 2004
- Is podcasting to iPods really what Tivo is to television? Jake Ludington explores.
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- Comparing Floorstanding and Bookshelf Speakers
- Dec 10, 2004
- Should you buy big floorstanding speakers for your home theater system, or more compact bookshelf speakers? Michael Miller walks you through the different types of speakers available, pointing out the pros and cons of each.
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- From Sound Card to Stereo: Connecting Your PC to Your Stereo
- Nov 5, 2004
- Learn how to analyze the a/v equipment you've got to make sure outputs and inputs are compatible for connecting your PC to your home stereo.
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- How To Create Final Cut Pro Effects Using iMovie
- Oct 22, 2004
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- Dave Cross's Top Ten New Photoshop Elements Features
- Oct 15, 2004
- Photoshop Dream Team Instructor David Cross narrows down the many possibilities to come up with the top ten features of Adobe's popular image-editing software.
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- Shopping at the iTunes Music Store
- Oct 15, 2004
- This sample of the book Macintosh iLife 04, The: An Interactive Guide to iTunes, iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD, and GarageBand by Jim Heid takes you on a tour of Apple's popular online music store and offers some tips for improving your online experience.
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- The Making of a Moblog
- Oct 8, 2004
- Delve into the world of moblogging, or "mobile web logging," the art of using a phone or other mobile device to publish content on the Web. Find out what motivates people to post personal photos for the world to see — and learn how to choose a moblog site once you get hooked!
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- Creating Audio CDs from Any Source
- Sep 17, 2004
- Mix tapes are a thing of the past. Today, it's all about mix CD's, and in this chapter, Bob Starrett and Josh McDaniel give you the basics of burning a music CD with a minimum of judgment regarding your musical tastes.
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- Basic Audio Editing in Cubase
- Sep 10, 2004
- Editing digital audio is a completely different story from analog. This sample chapter will introduce you to editing techniques in Cubase SX2.
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- Styling a Photo Collection Using CSS
- Aug 13, 2004
- Eric Meyer walks you through a web page design project to present a collection of photographs for sale.
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- Real World Digital Video: Shots and Shot Plans
- Aug 6, 2004
- Pete Shaner and Everett Jones explain the importance of shot plans and storyboards in helping visualize how you're going to tell your story with a sequence of images.
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- A Quick "Rip" Through Digital Audio File Formats
- Jul 30, 2004
- Plenty of audio formats exist for storing and playing back digital music. Get the lowdown here on which format is right for you.
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- Capturing Video on your Mac
- Jul 16, 2004
- You have 100 hours of favorite TV programs and movies sitting on the hard disk of your DVR. So how do you get some of them into your Macintosh and thence onto a DVD disk? "It'll cost a few bucks, but it's easy!" says author Dave Taylor.
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- What Every Geek Needs to Know About Cellphones
- Jul 16, 2004
- The cellphone is fast morphing into a mobile computing device with plenty of voice, sound, cell, and video capabilities. Take a look at the factors catapulting this technology into the spotlight.
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- His and Her Gadgets
- Jun 4, 2004
- Do men and women look for different things when shopping for cool gadgets? Explore how gender matters in high-tech toys.
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- Taking Your iPod Beyond Music
- May 13, 2004
- Avowed Windows lover Matthew David became enamored of a little white box full of favorite tunes. Now he has found that his Apple iPod can do even more than fill his life with music.
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- Modding Your PC's Case
- Mar 19, 2004
- No Editor
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- Import a CD into iTunes 4
- Jan 1, 2004
- iTunes 4 features the ability to import tracks from your audio CDs in AAC (Advanced Audio Encoding) format, which, when encoded at 128 kbps (kilobytes per second), produces a smaller, better-sounding file than an MP3 file encoded at 160 kbps.
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- Leo Laporte's 2004 Technology Almanac for February 2004: Games and Entertainment
- Dec 12, 2003
- Check out this excerpt from "Leo Laporte's 2004 Technology Almanac" devoted entirely to the noble pursuit of games and entertainment for PCs, Macs, game consoles, and PDAs.
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- iTunes and Mac OS X
- Aug 20, 2001
- This article by Maria Langer explains how you can get iTunes for your Mac and use it to record and play MP3 music.
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