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iLife: The Missing Manual iLife '04: The Missing Manual gives you everything you need to unleash your creative genius with iLife '04, Apple's suite of five programs--iTunes 4.6, iPhoto 4, iMovie 4, iDVD 4, and GarageBand--that is revolutionizing the way we work and play. Celebrated author David Pogue makes sure there's nothing standing between you and professional-caliber music, photos, movies, and more. He highlights the newest features and improvements, covers the capabilities and limitations of each program, and delivers countless goodies you won't find anywhere else: undocumented tips, tricks, and secrets for getting the very best performance out of every one of these applications.

iMovie 4 & iDVD: The Missing Manual iMovie 4 & iDVD: The Missing Manual, 4th Edition -- Many annoyances have been eliminated and polished touches added to the new incarnations of iMovie and iDVD. This witty and entertaining guide from celebrated author David Pogue has been updated to reflect all of the changes in detail and with scrupulous objectivity. The book covers every step of iMovie video production, from choosing and using a digital camcorder to burning the finished work onto DVDs. The book also provides a firm grounding in basic film technique. Make your movies look like Hollywood hits with iMovie 4 & iDVD: The Missing Manual, 4th Edition.

GarageBand: The Missing Manual GarageBand: The Missing Manual -- Imagine how many thousands of musicians, though enormously talented, remain undiscovered because they lack recording studios and backup bands. For them, GarageBand may open doors--or just offer a lot of fun. GarageBand can turn the inspiration of musical novices into commercial-sounding demos, but you have to know how to take advantage of all that the program offers. This book provides that knowledge. GarageBand: The Missing Manual is an authoritative, witty guide to constructing your digital recordings. Check out the GarageBand Examples CD available for download via the Missing Manuals site.

Google:  The Missing Manual Google: The Missing Manual -- Google, the planet's most popular program for finding stuff on the web, has no manual. It may seem like an easy-to-use program, but Google has many hidden tricks and tools that can turn your simple searching into powerful--and successful--discoveries. You just have to know where to look. This book is your guide, covering search techniques and tricks, must-have tools, and those little-known corners of Google. Get more out of your Google searches with this friendly deskside companion. Sample Chapter 3, Googling Further: Images, News, and the Directory, is available free online.

iPod & iTunes: The Missing Manual iPod & iTunes: The Missing Manual -- iTunes and the iTunes music store aren't just for Mac fans anymore. Anyone running Windows XP or 2000 can now cash in on all the capabilities of this music store jukebox. Our new version of iPod & iTunes: The Missing Manual has been thoroughly updated to reflect these changes. No matter what kind of music moves you, this book will help you get much more out of your iPod--and much more into it.

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Mini Manuals

Book cover.iLife '04 Mini Manual (PDF)
David Pogue's newest booklet covers the latest features available in iPhoto 4, iMovie 4, iDVD 4, and GarageBand, four of the programs you'll find in iLife '04, Apple's suite of media applications. This mini manual also offers a sneak preview of the books we'll release this spring: 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.

Book cover.iPhoto 2: The Mini Manual (PDF)
This booklet, excerpted from iPhoto 2: The Missing Manual, is a quick reference to some of the best features in Apple's highly regarded iPhoto 2 digital shoebox, including importing and editing pictures, emailing photos, and making big iPhoto libraries a lot faster.

Book cover.Mac OS X Hints Sampler (PDF)
This booklet is a sampling of the 560 high-octane secrets included in Mac OS X Hints: Jaguar Edition, such as making quick exits, stifling irrelevant software updates, minimizing all open windows, iTunes and iPhoto tips, and mail, calculator, and disk copy tips.


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Missing Manual guy 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.

iLife '04 Missing Manual 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.

Panther 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."

MDJ 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.

Cheetah 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.

iPod 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.

Jaguar 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.

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