Distributing the Future Podcast -- In this pilot of O'Reilly's audio magazine program "Distributing the Future," Phil Torrone of Make magazine says you may not want to upgrade your PSP 2.0; Nat Torkington previews EuroOSCON; David Smith and Doc Searls discuss issues of identity; Chris Adamson tells you how to get started with the Dance Dance Revolution; David Pogue has tips on using Spotlight on Mac OS X Tiger; and Richard Giles interviews John Battelle.
What Is Flickr (and Hot Tips for Using It)
-- Flickr is an online photo management and sharing
application, and it's also one of the most innovative photo services
available today. In this article, Giles Turnbull shows you how Flickr
works, then introduces you to some of the great tools you can use to
interact with it.
Automator Automation Poguecast
-- Listen to David Pogue cover Automator workflows that
can help save on computing time. Learn how to use Automator to automate
backups, zip up applications, and set alarms for automatic processing.
Then check out all of David's Poguecasts.
Jump
Start Your Career in Programming with the O'Reilly Learning Lab
-- Learn programming, systems, and networking skills
through the O'Reilly Learning Lab. All Learning Lab courses are online,
self-paced, and provide the technology environments needed to develop
and practice new skills. In addition, every student is assigned a
personal O'Reilly instructor for coaching and feedback throughout each
course. Completion of selected course sequences earns students a
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and start today!
What Is FireWire (and How Best to Use It)
-- FireWire is a high-speed, data serial interface that
has many practical uses. In this article, you'll learn the ins and outs
of this powerful technology, plus some inside tips to take advantage of
its unique features.
My Favorite Macworld Product: The IRISPen
-- Have you ever said, "If I learn just one great thing,
then the whole conference was worth attending"? Last month, at Macworld
Boston, Adam Goldstein discovered the IRISPen, and he shares the
details of this handy text-scanning device with us. Adam is the author
of AppleScript:
The Missing Manual.
PowerPoint Personal Trainer: Drawing and Working with
Graphics -- Even if you don't have any artistic
ability, PowerPoint makes it easy to add graphics to your slides,
making them look as though you hired a professional graphic designer.
Chapter 4 of PowerPoint 2003 Personal Trainer explains how to
add lines, shapes, and text boxes to your slides, how to add pictures,
and how to move, resize, align, group, flip, and rotate graphic
objects. If you like this chapter, read the whole book (and up to nine
others) on Safari with a free trial subscription.
What Is Preview? (and Why You Should Use It)
-- Apple's Preview app is best known as a PDF viewer and a
Macintosh alternative to Adobe Reader. This software, however, is also
a capable image viewer, and you can even edit your pictures with its
tools. Giles Turnbull shows you that there's more to Preview than first
meets the eye.
Going to the Movies (and More) in iTunes
-- Have you played with the video functionality in iTunes?
If not, J.D Biersdorfer presents a few things that Steve Jobs has
mentioned--and a few he hasn't. J.D. is the author of iPod and iTunes: The
Missing Manual, 3rd Edition.
David Pogue Is Podcasting --
David Pogue's first podcast is all about Spotlight. Listen to David's
secret Tiger tips for Spotlight super searches and learn how to use
spotlight to help access your data faster, streamline searches, and
even launch applications faster. And for everything you need to know
about Tiger, pick up a copy of David's newly updated Mac OS X: The
Missing Manual, Tiger Edition.
Ten PowerPoint 2004 Tips to Beat Tight
Deadlines -- PowerPoint 2004 lets you turn text,
graphics, sounds, and movies into dazzling presentations that get your
message across in high style. But what if you're on a short deadline?
Franklin Tessler shows you ten ways to use PowerPoint to put together
slideshows in no time. Frank is the coauthor of Office 2004 for
Macintosh: The Missing Manual.
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.
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.
