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20 Cool Tiger Features You Might Not Have Heard About Even though Tiger has been out for a while now, many of its major features have nuances that haven't received much press--and there a zillion minor tweaks to discuss. Scott Knaster takes you on a tour of clever, and sometimes even obscure, Tiger goodies. [MacDevCenter.com] Magnificent Seven: What's New for Users in QuickTime 7 Tiger is cool, but it's not the only new cat on the block. Apple has also released an updated version of QuickTime. Chris Adamson examines the user-visible features and changes in QT 7, including QT 7 Pro, renovations to the QuickTime Player application, and the implications of the powerful new H.264 video codec. [MacDevCenter.com] Build a Dashboard Widget A little HTML, a dash of JavaScript, and a sprinkle of CSS and you can create your own Dashboard widget. Andrew Anderson shows you how. [MacDevCenter.com] The Soul of WWDC 2005 A few years ago, Apple moved WWDC from San Jose to the brand new Moscone West building in San Francisco. The new location improved the face of its developer conference. This year, Apple wants to enhance its very soul. Here's how O'Reilly is going to help them do that. [MacDevCenter.com] Write Your Own Automator Actions Tiger introduces Automator, which lets users string together preinstalled script steps--called Actions--into a workflow that can be run and saved. For developer types, these Actions are a convenient way to distribute scripts. And in this tutorial, Matt Neuburg shows you how to write your own. [MacDevCenter.com] Everything You Need to Know to Install Tiger Installing Mac OS X Tiger can be as easy as inserting the OS disc and clicking a few buttons. But if you want to customize your install and take this opportunity to tidy up your Mac in the process, this exhaustive tutorial will show you everything you need to know. [MacDevCenter.com] Housecleaning Tips for Tiger Is your Mac ready for a smooth transition to Tiger? Maybe you're in need of a Spring housecleaning anyway. Check out these tidy tips from Derrick Story, then roll out the red carpet for Mac OS X 10.4. [MacDevCenter.com] Building Cocoa-Java Apps with Eclipse Eclipse is a gloriously powerful, open source IDE, which is a joy to use when working with Java. It makes sense, then, when writing Java-based Cocoa apps, to use Eclipse. But how? What does Eclipse know about the esoteric world of Cocoa-Java? Well, with a little help from Ant, the flexible build system, you can tell it everything it needs to know. Mike Butler shows you how. [MacDevCenter.com]
Mac Mini Eye for the Linux-Windows Guy Todd had no intention of giving up his Linux and Windows boxes to become a "Mac switcher." But he had heard good things about OS X, so the Mac mini presented the opportunity for him to become a Mac-tryer. He details his experiences here. [O'Reilly Network] 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] Click here for all Mac content listed in chronological order.
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