Display Your Favorite Album Artwork in iTunes -- Love your iPod but miss the album art? In iTunes 4, you can associate an album's artwork with a song so it can be displayed while you play the song. Wei-Meng Lee shows you how to use two free programs, Clutter and art4iTunes.com, to simplify the task. For more tricks and tips on using your iPod photo, check out Wei-Meng's latest eDoc, All About Your iPod Photo (PDF).
Top Ten AppleScript Tips--AppleScript lets you control
Microsoft Word, Adobe Photoshop, FileMaker Pro, and hundreds of other Mac
programs with just a few lines of code. But if you think of AppleScript as
just a nerdy workflow-automation tool, you're missing out on a lot of power.
Adam Goldstein has hand selected ten of the most useful tips for making
AppleScript work for you. Adam is the author of AppleScript: The Missing Manual.
Something
That Reeks of Honesty -- Andrew Leonard writes in
this Salon.com book review, "Reading Revolution in the
Valley, you may feel as though you're sitting in a bar listening to
engineers swap stories. You may not understand every word, but you know
you're getting the real thing, and that has value." Learn how the Mac
was made: Revolution in The
Valley.
DTG's Best
Books of 2004 -- DT&G;: Design, Type &
Graphics Magazine has announced its selection of the best products
in 2004 for the visual communications fields. O'Reilly titles won in
several categories: Best in Digital Photography went to Digital
Photography Hacks; We the Media took the Best for All
Computer Users category; and The Cult of Mac (by O'Reilly
publishing partner No Starch Press) was named the Best for Macintosh
Computer Users.
2004 MDJ Power 25 -- MDJ has released its fifth annual list of the 25 most influential people in the Mac world. We're proud to see that our own Tim O'Reilly, David Pogue, and Derrick Story all made this year's list. For all the latest happenings in the Mac world, visit O'Reilly's Mac DevCenter.
Reclaiming Hacks -- The books
in O'Reilly's Hacks series celebrate the positive aspects of the
hacking spirit. The curious nature of the hacker ethic, whether
prompted by a spark of genius or the urge of an annoyance, is all about
rolling up one's sleeves and taking action. But "hack" means different
things to different people, and for some it has negative connotations.
Hadley Stern discusses some of the issues he faced while writing iPod and iTunes Hacks.
Five Favorite Mac Annoyances
-- As much as we love our Macs, we've got to admit that
sometimes they annoy the patience out of us. Don't get mad; get clever.
Here are John Rizzo's favorite annoyances, along with their fixes, of
course, from his book, Mac
Annoyances.
David Pogue's "CBS News Sunday Morning" Wins an Emmy -- The National Television Academy has announced the winners of the Annual Emmy Awards for Business and Financial Reporting. In the category of "Outstanding Interpretation and/or Analysis of a Business News Story -- Regularly Scheduled Newscast," David Pogue's "CBS News Sunday Morning" won the Emmy: "David Pogue takes complex technological applications such as Google or Spam and makes them comprehensible to the ordinary, non-technophile viewer." David is the creator of the Missing Manuals Series.
Book Review: iLife '04: The Missing Manual -- In this Applelinks book review, Kirk Hiner writes, "iLife '04 is written and laid out in a way that makes it both easy to read from start to finish [and easy] to find only the information you need." The book covers iTunes, iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD, and GarageBand, making it a veritable "Greatest Hits" collection. Get the book that should have been in the box: iLife '04: The Missing Manual.
Hacking iPod and iTunes
-- Your favorite toy just got better. Push the envelope of
your iPod's capabilities: turn it into a universal remote, permanently
install it in your car, run Linux on it, make smart playlists, and tame
iTunes with AppleScript. These hacks are excerpted from O'Reilly's iPod and iTunes
Hacks.
Mac OS X Power Hound Helpful Hints
-- Here are eight tricks to help your Mac OS X run
smoother, along with some new ways to personalize your working
environment. Examples include activating Exposé with a
multi-button mouse, saving iTunes Music Store videos and trailers, and
customizing the Dock "poof." You'll get hundreds of secrets for easier,
faster, and better ways to use Panther in O'Reilly's new Mac OS X Power Hound, Panther Edition.
