Apple Logo in iDVD -- If you make your own movies with iDVD, you may be troubled by the Apple logo that imposes itself upon your finished images. You and your viewers need not suffer through the persistent advertisement. David Pogue tells you how to get rid of the Apple watermark so your movies can be Blockbuster hits. Get a complete course in Macintosh filmmaking with iMovie 3 & iDVD: The Missing Manual.
Read David Pogue's weekly "Circuits" column in The New York Times for a review of technology news and tips. This week: A Computer With the IPod's Bloodlines.
The Fight Against Spam, Part 2 -- François Joseph de Kermadec continues his discussion of how to establish an anti-spam strategy by taking a close look at Mail.app's Junk Mail filter. Learn the math behind how it works, and then learn how to fine-tune and automate Mail's Junk Mail feature. Unleash the full potential of your Mac with Mac OS X: The Missing Manual, Panther Edition.
David Pogue's iLife '04 Mini Manual (PDF) is your guide to the new features in iLife, Apple's tightly integrated suite of media applications. This exclusive preview is the only documentation available until the spring release of our full-length books on these applications: iPod & iTunes: The Missing Manual; iPhoto 4: The Missing Manual; iMovie 4 & iDVD: The Missing Manual; GarageBand: The Missing Manual; and iLife '04: The Missing Manual. Meanwhile, be sure to check out the best Mac book, period: Mac OS X: The Missing Manual, Panther Edition.
Mac Fan, Yech
-- A Mac owner and Missing Manual reader wrote to David Pogue to object to the use of "Mac fan" in David's books. "I don't like to be called a Mac fan any more than I like being called a Dummy." David explains that this choice of words is quite deliberate, but he's also open to other suggestions. Read about it in the latest From David's Desk.
Hopscotch Reading -- Mac OS X: The Missing Manual includes comments about earlier editions of the Mac OS, comparing what was with what currently is. One reader says these retrospective comments make him come to a screeching halt. David Pogue responds in a letter From David's Desk.
Trouble Downloading to
iPhoto -- A reader asked David Pogue why all of the
pictures stored in her digital camera aren't downloading to iPhoto. David
explains it's a matter of file format, not memory, and he offers solutions
that are covered more fully in his book, iPhoto 2: The Missing
Manual.
David Pogue's Worst Nightmare -- A comic strip from "The Joy of Tech."
The 2003 MDJ Power 25 -- Four of the MDJ's Power 25 of the Mac
Industry are speaking at October's O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference: Adam
Engst, David Pogue, Tim O'Reilly, and Sal Soghoian.
Read about this year's program and register
today.
iPhoto
2: The Mini Manual (PDF) is a quick reference to some of the best
features in the iPhoto 2 digital shoebox, including importing and editing
pictures, emailing photos, and making big iPhoto libraries a lot faster.
This booklet is excerpted from iPhoto 2: The Missing
Manual.
Networking with Windows -- Microsoft Windows may dominate the corporate
market, but there are Macs in the offices of America. Mac OS X 10.2 allows
Macs and Windows machines to see each other on the network. Find out how in
Chapter 12 of Mac OS X: The Missing Manual, 2nd Edition. Get
a free trial to read this and four other O'Reilly books on Safari.
Mac
OS X Hints Sampler (PDF) -- Learn how to make quick
exits, stifle irrelevant software updates, minimize all open windows, and a
host of tips to get the most out of iTunes and iPhoto, in this sampling of
the 560 high-octane secrets presented in Mac OS X Hints: Jaguar
Edition.
The
Care and Feeding of Your iPod -- Here are ten basic
battery tips to help iPodders keep the tunes spinning, from J.D.
Biersdorfer, author of iPod: The Missing
Manual.
Managing
Large Image Libraries with iPhoto 2 -- You have
thousands of pictures you want to move to iPhoto 2. How do you set up
iPhoto to handle all the data without getting bogged down? This tutorial by
Derrick Story shows you how to import, organize, and archive vast image
collections in iPhoto 2. Derrick is a coauthor of iPhoto 2: The
Missing Manual.
Power Keys in Jaguar
-- David Pogue received a letter from a reader who couldn't put his Mac to sleep. The keyboard command described in Mac OS
X: The Missing Manual, 2nd Edition kept giving him a black screen
instead. David points the power user in the right direction in this From David's
Desk.
Rob's Top Mac OS X Hints, Part 1 -- Here are eight useful
and fun tips from Rob Griffiths, creator of macosxhints.com and
author of O'Reilly's Mac OS X Hints: Jaguar
Edition.