Cover Flow

I love my digital music. But I miss the days of the beautifully designed album and CD covers, the concept first invented, I recently

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Web Browsing on the Fly

DeskBrowse http://www.deskbrowse.com/ Free I haven’t blogged on MyMac in while, but I thought start back up by sharing a neat little open source web

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15 Tips: NetNewsWire

I haven’t posted a 15 Tips article in a while, so I thought I’d contribute some tips for an application I use a couple

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The Death of .mac?

Okay, I read, yesterday, one, two, three articles about the “trouble with .mac” and while there’s much to agree with, I can’t say I’m

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iTunes Gets More Visual

There are and will be several articles about today’s expected iTunes upgrade, but I just want to take a little time to write about

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Why Aperture Wins Out for Me

Yesterday, Adobe and Apple seemed to square off and take center ring at Photokina with updated versions of their powerful, pro-level photo management and

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Checkit: iLike for iTunes

If you’re into the internet social networking thing, you might want to give iLike a try. It’s basically a iTunes plug-in which becomes a

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TinyURL.com

I may be the last person to hear about this, but just in case I’m not, I want to share a great resource site

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Bookpedia Gets An Update Too

In reading Clau Wolf’s excellent review of Delicious Library 1.6.4, I thought I’d share a quick review of the book cataloging application I use:

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The Digital Photography Book
Book Review

Author, Photoshop guru, and photographer, Scott Kelby is widely known for his popular tips books about such creative software as Adobe Photoshop CS2 and Elements, Apple’s OS X, and even tip books for the iPod. So how is his latest book?

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Beyond Snapshots
Book Review


Though I’m not an historian of digital photography, I would say that second wave of the digital photography revolution was the advent of photo blogs. I’m not alone. The plethora of books published on the subject seems like a monthly occurrence, and the demand for them seems equally great. Here are two reviews of some of the latest.

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Better Workflow in Photoshop
Book Review

Author, digital photographer, and lecturer Eddie Tapp, who this month was inducted into the Photoshop Hall of Fame at the Photoshop World Expo in Las Vegas, and who also serves as the Chairman of the Committee on Digital Advanced Imaging for Professional Photographers of America, has written the first in a series of books on effectively using Photoshop in the areas of professional color management, creative enhancement techniques, and professional production techniques.

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The Printshop For Mac
Review

If you use iDVD and its themes for home or professional use, you can’t afford not to have The Printshop For Mac Version 2 software. I’ve been using this latest version since it was introduced at the Mac World conference last January for all my DVD labels and cover designs. While I could also do DVD cover layouts in InDesign or Apple’s Pages, The Printshop offers a less time consuming integration with iPhoto, iDVD, and iTunes that you simply won’t find in the larger, more expensive design programs.

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Charge While You Listen – DLO’s TransDock micro
Review

One of the first features that drew me to this iPod gadget was the battery charger. I listen my iPod (using a cassette player adapter) mostly in my car and I can’t count how many times the battery has come close to running down or out because I hadn’t charged it for several days. So when I saw that DLO’s TransDock micro would charge my 4th generation iPod while it broadcast my music , I wanted to check out its other features as a possible upgrade to my current transmitter.

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Create a Mother’s Day Letter or Card with Apple’s Pages

A true Mac user would never be caught buying a Hallmark greeting card when he or she has TextEdit, AppleWorks, Pages or some other graphic layout program installed on his or her Mac. If you have Pages installed, you can whip a out nice Mother’s Day letter that will be more meaningful and personal than all the store bought cards you’ve purchased in the past.

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Cooking with Photoshop
Book Review

Flip through any creative, cutting edge magazine or website and you’ll discover what professional and crafty users of Photoshop are doing with photography. Up until flipping through John Beardsworth’s Photoshop Blending Modes Cookbook for Digital Photographers, I had little appreciation and knowledge for what could be done if you would only stretch the use of Photoshop beyond the quick fixes and enhancements.

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