No doubt, either version of Adobe’s Photoshop offers the best tools for photo enhancements, but Apple’s iPhoto image Adjustment tool provides a quick, down and dirty, method for enhancing your photos. I rarely print out or publish a photo to the web without at least using one aspect of this Adjustment tool.
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A Quick Start Guide to Gmail
Book Review
Like Peachpit’s other Visual QuickStart Guides, this book is a well illustrated guide that offers how-to information on setting up a Gmail account, using the interface, adding, editing, and importing contacts, using new mail notification features, composing, sending, filtering and managing mail, and enabling message forwarding if you would like to have your Gmail mail sent to your ISP account
Read MorePhotoBank
Review
Bakari takes a look at the recently released PhotoBank from SmartDisk. Find out if this is worth your time or money.
Read MoreHack Your Way Into Flickr
Book Review
If you’re new to Flickr or want to get more out of it, Flickr Hacks covers just about everything there is know about storing, sorting, and sharing your photos as a Flickr member. What has taken me months to learn and collect in my Flickr bookmark folder, you can learn in about a weekend.
Making a Simple Finder or Folder Action in Automator
Here’s a quick little Automator action you can put together if you want a way to automatically create a new folder that gathers a batch of selected files you’re selected in your Finder, most preferably on your desktop.
MyMac Design for Non-Designers Series
MacDesign out of the box
Book Review
As designer and writer for the last 25 years, Shalat integrates the how-to parts of his book with his philosophy about how to approach to good design.
Read MoreTwo Blog Book Reviews
Bakari takes a look at two blog books, Blogosphere – the Best of Blogs and Blog! – how the newest media revolution is changing politics, business, and culture.
iTunes 6 and iPod
Book Review
If you’re using iTunes for the first time, and you want to master all its useful features, Judith Stern and Robert Lettieri’s Visual QuickStart Guide: iTunes 6 and iPod is a very good how-to reference book for everything you need to know about using the software and any modern version of the iPod.
Read More15 Tips – Screen Capture
Fifteen tips for Apple’s screen capture? I bet you think I can’t come up with fifteen things you can do with a simple Mac feature.
Read MorePhotos from Macworld Expo 06 – Photo Gallery 1
MyMac Design for Non-Designers
Book Reviews
15 Tips – Making Better Use of iPhoto
Bakari gives fifteen tips for making the most out of iPhoto. If you find these tips useful, all we ask is that you donate $1,000 to MyMac.com. Okay, not really. Well, unless you really want to.
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Creating Projects with Photoshop Elements
Bakari looks at three different Photoshop Elements by Scott Kelby, Lisa Matthews, and Elizabeth Bulger.
Read MoreKenpo Jacket for iPod
Review
How are you sporting your iPod , out and about during the winter months? Ever thought about an iPod jacket? Well the folks at Kenpo Inc. have created a jacket specifically designed for iPod users.
Read MoreBlogging in a Snap
Book Review
Thinking of starting a Blogger.com blog site? Bakari checks out the new book by Julie C. Meloni on the subject.
Read MoreMyMac Non-Designer Series
Book Reivew
MyMac Design for Non-designers
Rapid Websites with RapidWeaver
When I badly needed to get my small business website up and running, I didn’t have the time, patience, or the bucks for the granddaddy of web programs like Dreamweaver. But when I cried for help, a fellow videographer turned me on to what could be considered the great grandson of Dreamweaver, RapidWeaver (RW). While not a Macromedia product, this little web development program, created by RealMac, should be something like the iWeb in the iLife suite.
Apple’s Tribute to Rosa Parks
Though I’m not a big fan of Apple’s Think Different ads, I think it fitting that Apple makes a tribute to the late great
Read MoreLearning to Shuffle
Since I got my 20gig iPod photo back in July, in addition to what I already had ripped to my iTunes, I’ve tried to
Read MoreSnap Access to iPhoto
For you iPhoto users, I just discovered that Tim Mansour of Offline Pixel, has created a dynamite little Automator application that gives you quick
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