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LinkBack: Applications Working Together Have you ever carefully created a chart or graphic and then pasted it into a report only to discover you needed to change it later? Apps should work together so you can make this sort of change with just a few clicks. That's now possible thanks to a new open source technology called LinkBack. Even better, you can add this technology to your own applications. Charles Jolley, creator of LinkBack, shows you how. [MacDevCenter.com] 17 Things You Might Not Know You Could Do with iWork If you've installed iWork on your hard drive but haven't had a chance to really dig into it yet, maybe this article will inspire you to do so. Giles Turnbull takes you on a romp through this production suite showing you lots of fun and useful things to do with it. [MacDevCenter.com] Protect Your Source Code: Obfuscation 101 You can protect your applications from attack by applying obfuscation techniques to convolute your source code. Matthew Russell shows you how. [MacDevCenter.com] Xsan and You Yes, interns are still running around media production houses with FireWire drives in hand copying files to workstations. Storage Area Networks (SANs) can improve efficiency dramatically, and Apple's Xsan is at the top of that list. Here's a practical example. [MacDevCenter.com] Developing in OpenGL Using Makefiles Yes, you can work strictly in Xcode for developing OpenGL apps. But if you want to work with platform-independent source code that runs on multiple Unix platforms, you'll want to go "old school" and use makefiles. Michael Norton shows you how. [MacDevCenter.com] HDTV on Your Mac Even though the Mac is a little late to the HDTV party, you can roll your own setup for not too much time or money. Erica Sadun shows you how. [MacDevCenter.com] Targeting Windows (too) for Your REALbasic Apps If you're using a multi-platform IDE such as REALbasic for your Mac applications, you might be interested in Aaron Ballman's tips for porting your software to Windows. My favorite reminder is, "Don't use terms like 'Windoze' or 'Wintel' in your product." [MacDevCenter.com] 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 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 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 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] Click here for all Mac content listed in chronological order.
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