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SCO0241 - BusyCal [Members Show]
BusyCal is an application by BusyMac, developers of the very impressive BusySync product. After a couple of years work creating the hugely impressive syncing technology in BusySync, they've now decided to build on their success and create a replacement application for iCal. BusyCal is a fully featured calendar application intended to be used as a direct replacement for iCal.
iCal really hasn't had a lot done to it recently, in fact, many people thought iCal took a backwards step when the latest version was released in Leopard and Snow leopard.
BusyCal adds the functionality missing in iCal but in a seamless and very clever way. BusyCal uses the same underlying technologies that iCal does, OSX Sync Services. So all you iCal data is immediately available in BusyCal, you can even bounce between the two when you're trying it out. In addition, because BusyCal uses OSX Sync Services, synchronisation with your iPhone or other Macs is handled automatically using MobileMe.
The new UI in BusyCal is very similar to iCal so there's a very easy learning curve, an BusyCal takes advantage of some additional features including core animation, support for rich text throughout, multiple alarms, configurable snooze periods, Stick notes, journal entries and many more features.
With BusyCal also comes the ability to seamless synchronise your calendars across your LAN with other BusyCal users making it ideal for both small workgroups and families. Add in support for seamless synchronisation with Google Calendar and BusyCal really is iCal Pro!
The full show covers:
- iCal Limitations
- BusyCal Overview
- Day View
- Week View
- Month View
- List View
- Holiday Calendars
- Weather & Moon Phases
- Event Types in BusyCal
- Standard Events
- Setting Alarms
- Floating Info Panel
- Banner Events
- Sticky Notes
- Journal Events
- To Dos in BusyCal
- MenuBar Icon
- Sharing Calendars
- Syncing with Google Calendars
- Wrap up & Special Offer
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SCO0240 - Aperture 3 - Part 2 [Members Show]
Previous versions have been aimed squarely at the professional photographer, but with this new release, Aperture has been repositioned as a tool for both prosumers and professionals. One of the reasons many people have held off moving to Aperture was the inclusion of Faces and Places in iPhoto '09. Without them, Aperture 2 was not really a compelling upgrade for iPhoto users. All has been fixed now in Aperture 3 with the inclusion of both these features and over 200+ new improvements.
Aperture 3 now gives "Pro performance with iPhoto simplicity"!
- Adjustments & Adjustment Presets
- Brushing in Adjustments
- Lifting & Stamping Adjustments
- Faces
- Places & GPS
- Manual Location Placement
- Embedded GPS Metadata
- Using a GPS Track Log
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SCO0239 - Aperture 3 - Part 1
Previous versions have been aimed squarely at the professional photographer, but with this new release, Aperture has been repositioned as a tool for both prosumers and professionals. One of the reasons many people have held off moving to Aperture was the inclusion of Faces and Places in iPhoto '09. Without them, Aperture 2 was not really a compelling upgrade for iPhoto users. All has been fixed now in Aperture 3 with the inclusion of both these features and over 200+ new improvements.
Aperture 3 now gives "Pro performance with iPhoto simplicity"!
As I've never covered Aperture before, I thought I'd best start from the ground up and cover the basic functionality in this weeks show. No prior knowledge of Aperture is assumed and I approach the subject as an iPhoto user considering moving over to Aperture. Next week I'll take a look at some of the new and enhanced features.
In this weeks show I cover:
- Installation & Setup
- Aperture 3 Introduction
- Aperture Libraries
- Importing Digital Media
- Import Settings
- Viewing Images in Aperture 3
- Split View
- Comparing Images
- Rating Images
- Browser View
- Using Stacks
- Viewer
- Full Screen View
- Using the Loupe
- Using Metadata
- Allocating Keywords
- Metadata Views
- Exporting & Merging Libraries
- Exporting Versions
- Exporting Masters
- Exporting Projects
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SCO0238 - VoiceOver 3 [Members Show]
This week, I take a look at one of the Accessibility tools provided with every copy of Leopard and Snow Leopard - that's VoiceOver 3. Designed to assist partially sighted and blind Mac users, VoiceOver 3 is the latest version of the hugely impressive screen reader utility for the Mac. With VoiceOver, it's possible to have all the screen elements described and read back to you, using the built in speech technologies. Not to be confused with just Text to Speech, VoiceOver uses the concept of a VoiceOver cursor to highlight individual elements on screen (Text, menus, dock, icons, panels, dialog boxes, pretty much everything!) and have the contents of the VO cursor read back to you. With a multitude of keyboard commands, you're able to navigate the screen and interact with all the elements exposed with VoiceOver.
If you have a Mac laptop with a multitouch trackpad, you can use a new feature called "TrackPad Commander" to control VoiceOver using gestures.
As well as the core functionality, VoiceOver has been significantly enhanced to provide easy Web browsing using Safari with the addition of the new Web iTem Rotor.
Although VoiceOver is aimed primarily at visually impaired or blind users, this weeks show provides an overview of the VoiceOver technology for sighted people and web/app developers to foster an understanding of some of the features and promote the adoption of providing accessibility enhancements in third party apps. The full show covers:
- VoiceOver Introduction
- Using The VoiceOver Keys
- VoiceOver Setup
- Navigating using VoiceOver
- TrackPad Commander
- Web Browsing with VoiceOver
- VoiceOver Utility
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