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Movies Made Easy in iPhoto 5  One of the best features in the current crop of consumer digital still cameras is their ability to capture high-quality video. iPhoto 5 is in step with this evolution and provides a great environment for taking those snippets and creating real movies. Derrick Story shows you how.   [MacDevCenter.com]

Programming With Cocoa
Programming With Cocoa: Inside StYNCies, Part 2  In the first part of this two-part series, Matthew Russell showed you how to develop a user interface that lives up in your menubar like the system clock. In this final installment, he covers how to reverse-engineer the storage format of the StickiesDatabase file to develop your own API to Stickies.   [O'Reilly Network]

Exploring the Mac OS X Firewall  Like so many tools built in to Mac OS X, the firewall just works. But what is really going on inside it? Peter Hickman explains why the firewall works so well, and then takes you inside and shows you how to fiddle with things. In the end, he returns you safely to the default settings.   [MacDevCenter.com]

Turn Your Mac into an Audio Transcriber  With these simple AppleScripts, you can transform the QuickTime Player into a virtual Dictaphone. Control playback of songs and movies from your word processor—or any app. Slow them down, speed them up, bookmark the current location. Here’s how.   [DigitalMedia.oreilly.com]

Programming With Cocoa
Programming With Cocoa: Inside StYNCies  Stickies is one of the handiest little apps out there. It's been bundled with Apple's operating systems for ages, but Apple hasn't yet taken advantage of the new possibilities for it. This first installment of a two-part series works through building a partial implementation of StYNCies, a neat little utility that synchronizes your Stickies to your iPod and/or iDisk.   [MacDevCenter.com]

High Tech Hybrid: the Casio EX-P505 Digital Camera  The Casio EX-P505 is a smart-looking, 5-megapixel camera that fits in the palm of your hand. It captures full frame, full motion digital movies with ease, and it's packed with creative features sure to stir the imagination of fun-loving photographers. Derrick Story helps you decide if this is a high-tech toy or a real photographic tool.   [DigitalMedia.oreilly.com]

Getting Things Done with Your Mac  Even the most savvy Mac user can have problems staying organized. A number of tips for using a Mac to help organize your life are available from 43 Folders and other sources. This article takes a look at them with the help of Merlin Mann himself.   [MacDevCenter.com]

Podcasting with Your iPod Photo  With Apple's release of the iPod photo, podcasting just got more fun. Using iPodderX, a podcast client for the Mac, you can download audio, movies, images, documents, and any other kind of files from the internet onto your Mac. Cool, huh? Wei-Meng Lee explains how. For more fun tips for your iPod photo, check out Wei-Meng's All About Your iPod Photo.   [MacDevCenter.com]

Muscle Up Your Mac FTP  Here's a much better and vastly safer way to FTP on the Mac than using the built-in FTP software in Jaguar or Panther, which is an Apple-modified version of FTP software that works fine with other Unix variants, but has its problems on the Mac. Glenn Fleishman explains.   [MacDevCenter.com]

Build an iTunes Remote Control  AirPort Express is great for streaming music from your Mac, except when you have to change tracks from another room. There are commercial solutions available, but here's a great evening project using your web-enabled cell phone and the power of Mac OS X.   [MacDevCenter.com]

Applying "Digital Hub" Concepts to Enterprise Software Design, Part 6  So far, Adam Behringer has covered an enterprise software architecture based on a flexible hub that stores and vends data to a number of cross-platform tools and apps using a standard XML spoke. In this final installment, he shows you how to use web services to pull weather information out of the database hub and chart the data using Perl and AppleScript.   [MacDevCenter.com]

Display Your Favorite Album Artwork in iTunes  What good are a bazillion iTunes without the album art? Bring the two together again on your iPod photo. Wei-Meng Lee shows you how using two free programs: Clutter and art4iTunes.com. For more useful tips and tricks for using your iPod photo, check out Wei-Meng's latest eDoc, All About Your iPod Photo (PDF).   [MacDevCenter.com]

Scripting Dot Mac  Recently we compared .Mac to Spymac's Wheel, and in the process provided a good overview of .Mac services. One of the tools missing, especially for those who want to publish web pages on their .Mac account, was server-side scripting. Well, just because it isn't in the package doesn't mean you can't do it. Take a look at this tutorial and see how.   [O'Reilly Network]

iPod shuffle Tips and Tricks  The iPod shuffle is the easiest-to-use iPod to date. But that doesn't mean you can't customize how you listen and upload music. Scott Knaster shows you some very handy tips and tricks for the shuffle and iTunes 4.7.1.   [MacDevCenter.com]

Apache and AppleScript  AppleScript traditionally interacts with Mac applications and Apache is the web server that powers most of the Internet. David Miller shows you how AppleScript can invoke Unix utilities through its do shell script command, thereby creating some interesting intersections with Apache.   [MacDevCenter.com]

High Definition in Focus at 2005 Sundance Festival  Cheaper than film, bigger and better than plain, old digital video, high-definition digital video definitely came into its own during this year's Sundance Film Festival. According to Sony, nearly half of the features, documentaries, and shorts screened in Park City were shot in HD. Susan Boyer reports.   [DigitalMedia.oreilly.com]

Spymac's Wheel vs. Dot Mac for Easy Web Services  For Mac users who like a convenient package of web services, two major players have emerged -- Apple's .Mac and Spymac's Wheel. Christopher Roach takes both services for a spin and reports on the strengths and weaknesses of each offering.   [MacDevCenter.com]

Stewart Butterfield on Flickr  Not even a year old and still in beta, Flickr is a revolutionary photo storage, sharing, and organization application boasting roughly 270,000 members. Richard Koman catches Flickr CEO Stewart Butterfield for a few words on what has made Flickr so revolutionary and where it may be headed.   [O'Reilly Network]

Schedule HackTV with iCal  In this second article in a series about watching TV with Apple's (free) HackTV utility, you'll learn how to convert your Mac to a low-end but working PVR. You'll see how to control HackTV through Apple's GUI scripting extensions for AppleScript (at least as much as Mac OS X will let you) and how to schedule your recordings with iCal.   [DigitalMedia.oreilly.com]

Output Like a Pro with iPhoto 5  Earlier I discussed how iPhoto 5's RAW capability lets you input like a pro. But some of its new output features are quite sophisticated, too. Here's a look at how to create sophisticated slideshows and QuickTime downloads using only iPhoto 5.   [MacDevCenter.com]

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. Truth is, AppleScript has lots of hidden tricks and timesavers built in -- and they all come for free with your Mac. Adam Goldstein, author of AppleScript: The Missing Manual, has hand selected ten of the most useful tips for making AppleScript work for you.   [MacDevCenter.com]

Scripting a Binary Tree Using Tcl  Here's a thought that will surely make the pragmatic C programmer's head spin. Michael Norton puts the Tcl language to work managing binary trees.   [O'Reilly Network]

Build Your Own PVR (for free) with HackTV  HackTV is a developer app for Mac OS X that you can download for free. It enables you to watch TV (or any video source) on your Mac. Better yet, it enables you to download that content to your hard drive. Erica Sadun shows you the ins and outs of HackTV.   [DigitalMedia.oreilly.com]

How to Record a Podcast  Podcasting involves two distinct tasks. First you have to record the audio and prepare it for listening. Then you need to syndicate it via RSS so others can subscribe to your programs. In this tutorial, Glenn Fleishman shows you some nifty tricks for recording your audio, especially if you want to capture phone interviews for syndication.   [MacDevCenter.com]

Embedded Development with Xcode  Until OS X, there never was much interest in, or support for, embedded development on the Mac. Now, with the UNIX underpinnings of Mac OS X, we can benefit from the huge open source effort supporting small microprocessors. Jim Schimpf explores.   [MacDevCenter.com]

A RAW Look at iPhoto 5  Apple overhauled much of iPhoto in version 5 and presented photographers with a more robust tool for managing their media files. Derrick Story looks at importing existing iPhoto libraries, using the new editing tools, and working with RAW and QuickTime files. Image samples of RAW comparisons are included.   [O'Reilly Network]

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