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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SCO0237 - Mac Montage 12 [Members Show]
In detail. the show covers:
| Quix Bookmarklet: The
bookmarklet to rule them all! If, like me,
you're building up a lot of bookmarklets in
your bookmarks bar, this amazing utility may
be the answer to all your problems.
Basically, Quiz is a single bookmarklet
containing over 100+ built in commands,
allowing to access all sorts of functionality
from your browser. These commands support a
wide range of functions including Basic
commands, Social commands, WordPress, SEO,
Webmaster, Quix, Analytics, URL Shortening
even App and Mac Integration commands, all
built into the single Quix bookmarklet. It's
like LaunchBar for your browser. Even better
still, Quix is extensible and allows you to
create your own Quix commands, removing the
need for all those individual bookmarklets.
The icing on the cake though is that Quix
works on your iPhone or iPad. If you're a
MobileMe user, Quix will synchronise with
your mobile device and give you all the Quix
functionality whilst you're out and about!
In the show I show you how to install Quix and invoke it with a keyboard shortcut in Safari, demonstrate some of the commands and show you how to create a custom quiz command based on the "add to Boxee" bookmarklet from last weeks show. In addition, I take a look at Quix on the iPhone and demonstrate its use. |
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| Notational Velocity:
We've already looked at NV in a previous show
but one question I keep getting is how to
synchronise NV across Macs. The latest
version of NV has just been released with
support for syncing your notes via Simplenote
- a free web based service.
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| Simplenote: A free web
based service for creating and storing simple
notes! With the built in integration with
Notational Velocity, you now have a robust
and powerful workflow. Simplenote also has a
free iPhone app so it's now possible to sync
you notes across Macs, to the web and to your
iPhone or iPad - Amazing! This part of the
show demonstrates setting up a Simplenote
account and synchronising with NV. I also
show you how it works on the iPhone.
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SCO0235 - Path Finder 5
Packed with features, Path Finder 5 allows you to customise your view of the Mac's file system with ease, exposing tons of information is easily configurable modules. With Tabs and Bookmarks, it's possible to create shortcuts and groups of locations allowing you to quickly jump from folder to folder. Add in a fantastic dual pane option to see two completely independent locations at a time, and the time saving DropStack, Path Finder 5 really does give you all the control you need to manage your files.
As well as the core browsing and file management capabilities, Path Finder 5 also has lot's of built in utilities such as a fully featured text editor, an image editor, application launcher, the stuffit compression engine and much more.
The show covers:
- Start
- Installation
- Path Finder User Interface
- ToolBar
- Customising Views
- Smart Sorting
- Coverflow
- QuickLook Support
- Dual Pane View
- DropStack
- SideBar
- Bookmarks
- Tabs
- Path Navigator
- Path Finder Modules
- Path Finder Drawers
- Using Path Finder 5
- Using Filters
- Using Selection
- Application Launcher
- Text Editor
- Create Disk Images
- Image Editor
- Stuffit Compression Engine
- Using as a Finder Replacement?
- Wrap Up & Special Offer
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SCO0234 - Mac Maintenance [Members]
Too good to be true?
Well not really, but human nature being what it is, it would be nice to understand what OSX is doing under the hood and perhaps keep an eye on how things are going. If the worst does happen and your Mac starts to slow down, or your favourite application starts to misbehave, what are the simple checks or processes you can undertake to try and fix things?
This week's show takes a look at both maintenance tasks and some simple troubleshooting tips to keep you Mac in tip top condition. This members only show covers:
- Daily, Weekly & Monthly Maintenance Scripts
- Checking Correct Operation of Scripts
- Running Scripts Manually via Terminal
- Third Party Maintenance Utilities
- "Maintenance" & "Onyx"
- Checking Permissions
- Rebuilding Spotlight Caches
- Speeding Up Mail
- Monitoring S.M.A.R.T Drive Status
- File System Check with Safe Boot & Safe Mode
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SCO0230 - Mac Hints & Tips Montage - 11 [Extra Members]
In detail. the show covers:
| iTunes DJ : With the
ever increasing numbers of iPhones and iPod
touches in circulation, why not leverage the
power of iTunes 9 and your wifi network to
hand control of your Christmas or New year
party playlist over to your guests! This
section shows you how to set up iTunes DJ to
allow guests to select, promote and demote
songs from your iTunes playlist using the the
free Apple Remote application directly from
their hand held device.
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| Christmas Wallpaper &
ScreenSaver: Why not spruce up your
Mac with some gorgeous Christmas Wallpapers
and a nice snowy screensaver. This section
gives details of a superb resource of not
just cool yule wallpapers, but also
replacement icons and other such goodies. I
show you how to install and configure some
new wallpapers and screensavers with the
addition of a fun time-lapse video of how one
of the wallpapers was created.
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| PhotoBooth SlideShows with
QuickTime Pro: One of the most
popular applications, not just at Christmas
time but all year round, is PhotoBooth. The
source of endless hours of fun and probably
the reason for a lot of Mac sales, PhotoBoot
allows you to create literally hundreds of
fun photos from the built in iSight camera on
the Mac. But what to do with all those
photos? Why not create a video montage of all
the photos? THis section shows you how to
create a standard Quicktime movie of all your
photos at whatever speed you like. In
addition, I show you how to use Garageband to
add an audio track to your movie.
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| PhotoBooth SlideShows with iMovie
09: OK, so spending £20 to get the
Pro version of Quicktime 7 may not be for
you, so this section shows you how to do the
same using iMovie 09 only better (and for
free if you've already got iLife!) Using the
relatively unknown feature of Beat Markers in
iMovie 09, it's a breeze to cut still photos
or even movie clips to the beat of your
musical accompaniment. I use the PhotoBooth
photos to demo but this is a fantastically
powerful technique to use in your normally
movie making, especially if you fancy your
hand at becoming a music video producer!
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SCO0228 - Readability, InstaPaper & Notational Velocity [Members]
The first part of the show includes a couple of great bookmarklets which allow you to remove all distracting ads and extraneous content from web pages, so you can just focus on the content.
These first two bookmarklets are excellent if you have time to read long articles when you find them. More often than not, we don't have the time to read them there and then. That's when we need InstaPaper!
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SCO0225 - LaunchBar 5 - Part 2
Objective Development, the developers of LaunchBar have been increasing the functionality with each release, adding not just cool but stunningly useful features. The bottom line is that the application very quickly becomes an indispensable tool once you've started using it for even just a few hours.
LaunchBar 5 creates an index of all the "stuff" on your Mac - Applications, files, folders, documents, preference panes, web bookmarks, Web history, your iTunes library, your address book, your iPhoto library and much more. It allows you to create abbreviations to search and access all this "stuff" without moving your hands from the keyboard, making it so much more efficient that picking up your mouse and clicking all over the screen. Add in some extra features such as the built in actions and my favourite - integration with webs services and web search templates, you'll wonder how you ever did without it
You really do need to watch the first part of the two part show, details of which can be found here - SCO0223 - LaunchBar 5 Part 1
In this week's show I cover:
- Instant Send
- Clipboard History & ClipMerge
- iCal Integration
- iTunes Integration
- Searching in SpotLight
- Using the Calculator
- The LaunchBar Index
- Creating a Search Template
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SCO0223 - LaunchBar 5 - Part 1
It's no secret that LaunchBar has been one of my favourite applications, probably from since I first started on the Mac. At it's core, LaunchBar is an application launcher but to call it just an application launcher does it a disservice. Objective Development, the developers of LaunchBar have been increasing the functionality with each release, adding not just cool but stunningly useful features. The bottom line is that the application very quickly becomes an indispensable tool once you've started using it for even just a few hours.
LaunchBar 5 creates an index of all the "stuff" on your Mac - Applications, files, folders, documents, preference panes, web bookmarks, Web history, your iTunes library, your address book, your iPhoto library and much more. It allows you to create abbreviations to search and access all this "stuff" without moving your hands from the keyboard, making it so much more efficient that picking up your mouse and clicking all over the screen. Add in some extra features such as the built in actions and my favourite - integration with webs services and web search templates, you'll wonder how you ever did without it
Although I've explored LaunchBar before in previous shows, for this show I thought I'd start from scratch, so you don't need to dig out the old shows.
In this week's show I cover:
- Introduction & Installation
- Initial Configuration
- LaunchBar 5 Basics
- Launching Applications
- Instant Open
- Opening Recent Documents
- Using Address Book Data in LB5
- Skype Integration
- Working with Files in LB5
- Accessing Websites via LB5
- Using Web Search Templates
- Searching and Accessing Bookmarks & Web History
The next free show will take a look at some of the other new features of LaunchBar 5
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SCO0222 - Mac Hints & Tips Montage - 10 [Extra Members]
In detail. the show covers:
| Copying and Pasting Email
Addresses : Snow Leopard has changed
the default behaviour so I point to a
terminal command that set things back the way
they should be!
Links: MacDaddyWorld |
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| Modifying Grid View in iTunes
9: Lots of complaints about the
white background on the Grid view in the
latest version of iTunes. How to reset it to
a darker colour. Update -
Would you believe that Apple brought out
9.0.2 the night before this show was released
and that they fixed the problem with a
preference option! Luckily, I had chance to
make the change to the show!
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| Hidden Keyboard
Shortcuts: Some pretty neat keyboard
shortcuts to allow you to control your audio
plus access some system preference panes
directly
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| ClickTo Flash: At last,
a way to tame the beast that is Flash! A free
Safari plugin that allows you to control what
Flash content is displayed as you browse the
interwebs. Cut down the distractions, stop
your CPU from revving up and keep the heat
down on your laptop. This great plugin also
allows you control over YouTube, letting you
default to H.264 formatted content and even
download YouTube videos to your Mac in H.264
format for direct use in iTunes.
Links: ClickToFlash |
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| Email Tools and Processes
:This section covers how I've
adapted my email workflow to allow for the
sharing of the ScreenCastsOnline mailbox with
Mrs Don, and demonstrates how I pass emails
on for further processing using a combination
of automated and manual rules processing. I
also include a rather smart utility from
eCamm which allows you to have multiple
badges on your email dock icon to keep track
of the contents of multiple mailboxes -
Dockstar. There's even a 35% discount coupon
included!
Links: DockStar |
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SCO0221 - Things for iPhone
In previous shows I've taken a look at Things for the Mac but in this weeks show, I take a closer look at the mobile version of the application, allowing you to take your tasks and to-dos with you wherever you go, as well as create and manage your tasks on the move.
Although Things for the iPhone has almost all the features of Things for the Mac, and will fully synchronise with its Mac counterpart, it's a fully featured task management application in its own right, capable of running completely independently.
In this weeks show, I explore the features of the application and the mobile interface. I also take a look at synchronising Things for iPhone with Things for Mac.
Things - Part 1 can be found here
Things - Part 2 can be found here
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SCO0219 - Things - Part 2
This week I take a look at some of the slightly more advanced features of Things, allowing you to take full advantage of its power in your workflow. The show covers:
- Using Projects in Things
- Making Projects Inactive & Using as Project Templates
- Delegating & Distributing To Dos
- Synchronisation with iCal
- Using Things on Multiple Macs via DRopBox
- Integration with LaunchBar
Update: In the wrap up, I mention that the iPhone application doesn't support Areas of Responsibility. To clarify, it actually does support syncing Areas from the Mac version, it just doesn't (currently) support the creation of them from the iPhone.
Things - Part 1 can be found here
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SCO0217 - Things - Part 1
I've had lots of requests to cover Things for a while now, but I've always felt it needed a few tweaks on the integration side, especially due to my personal reliance on using both a task management application along with the standard Apple email application. Thankfully, with the release of Things 1.2, the wait was over, as not only was superb email integration delivered but some other unexpected features as well!.
As there is so much to cover, I've split the Things tutorial into two parts, the second part to be published in two weeks time.
This week, it's part one and I cover:
- Creating To Do Items
- Using Tags
- Creating Hierarchical Tags
- Updating Notes using Drag & Drop
- Quick Entry Panel & AutoFill
- Assigning Due Dates and Repeating To Dos
- Organising To Do Items using Lists
- Using the Today List
- Using the Scheduled List
- Using the Someday List
- Creating and managing Projects
- Areas of Responsibilities
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SCO0212 - Mac Hints & Tips Montage - 09 [Extra Members]
Rather than focus on a single topic or software application, I include a number of different hints and tips, all intended to help you get the most out of your Mac!
| Removing Duplicate Photos from
iPhoto : Following on from last
week, as promised, I take a look at a
relatively inexpensive utility that allows
you to purge your iPhoto library of duplicate
photos. I explore the most effective methods
of using Duplicate Annihilator and
importantly, cover how to safeguard against
finding false duplicates, along with some
suggestions for double checking your results.
Links: Duplicate Annihalator (25% off using CPN7756165310) |
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| QuickLook Plugins:
Introduced in Leopard, QuickLook allows you
to see the contents of all sorts of files
directly from the Finder, just by tapping the
space bar. Apple have made the QuickLook
architecture extensible allowing third party
developers to create custom QuickLook
plugins. In this section, I take a look at a
great web resource for Quicklook Plugins,
along with how to install and configure them.
I also cover the installation of three free
sample Quicklook plugins - BetterZIP,
Photoshop Brushes and Suspicious Packages.
Links: QuickLook Plugins Website |
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| The Zoom Button in OS X:
The source of frustration for many Mac users
especially switchers from Windows. What on
earth does the "Zoom Button" actually do? Why
doesn't it maximize the screen when that's
all that I want it to do! The reasons behind
the usual behaviour of the Zoom button are
explained in this section along with a handy
little tip on how to resize the iTunes window
without it turning into a mini player - don't
you hate it when that happens! In addition,
if you really hate the standard behaviour of
the Zoom button, I show you how to install a
great free utility that changes the the
default behaviour of the Zoom button to a
"Windows like" maximise button.
Links: RightZoom |
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| Security “On the
road”: In this fourth and
final section, I take a look at some of the
considerations you need to bare in mind when
traveling with your laptop. I look at some
easy tips on making your laptop more secure,
tips which can also be applied to desktop
machines too. You don't have to follow all
the suggestions but the section covers most
of the basics to make your machine more
secure when travelling.
Links: PGP TrueCrypt |
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SCO0211 - Managing Multiple Macs - Part 3
This week, I take at look at how I manage organising and moving my digital images and videos between my laptop and desktop Mac.
As well as the multitude of applications available to use to work on our digital assets, we are faced with an ever expanding number of gadgets and gizmos that enable us to create images and video too. So as well as how to move your digital images and video around, I also take a look at "Cameras" - a simple yet ingenious preference pane application that allows you to configure exactly what happens when you plug your digital devices into your Mac, albeit open iPhoto, Aperture, iMovie, automatically download or even, just do nothing at all.
I also take a look at using external hard drives as an option to swap iPhoto libraries between machines, as well as a third party application called "iPhoto Library Manager". This brilliant application allows you to copy images between separate iPhoto libraries using simple drag and drop, as well as allowing you to merge complete iPhoto libraries.
To finish off, there's even a short section on moving Aperture projects between machines.
Links:
Cameras,
iPhoto Library Manager (15% off using JVVDD0XTFLMIG1CN)
Duplicate Annihilator (25% off using CPN7756165310)
Recent Podcasts:
The Mac Roundtable (Episode #67),
The MacJury (Episode #910)
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SCO0210 - Managing Multiple Macs - Part 2 [Members Show]
So the only option was to start syncing my iPhone with my laptop rather than my desktop Mac. That way, I could always have up to the date podcasts ready to sync no matter where I was. The only problem then is how to manage multiple iTunes libraries.
Well in this show, I demonstrate how to accomplish all this and more using a third party application called SuperSync.
As an added bonus, you can also use Supersync to set up a web server to access all your music via a web browser or your iPhone either locally or via the Internet. Know you will have to set up "Port Forwarding" on your local network to get this to work, but I also demonstrate how to set that up in the show too!
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SCO0209 - Managing Multiple Macs - Part 1
The genesis of the show is that I've received many requests on "How to effectively manage multiple Macs" and whilst preparing for the show, I realised that many of the areas have already been addressed, but in separate shows.
So this week, I've tried to pull all the information together in a two part episode, discussing how I manage my multiple Mac setup and the reasons why I use the tools and techniques that I do. The show is heavily littered with references to previous shows, so if you want to go back and receive more in depth information on any of the tools and techniques, you can!
In this weeks show, I cover:
- Synchronising settings with MobileMe
- Using iDisk
- MobileMe iDisk Application
- Back To My Mac
- Managing EMail
- Sharing Documents using DropBox
- Sharing information using EverNote
- Replicating Files & Folders using ChronoSync
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SCO0207 - Mac OS X Utilities #2
Hidden away within the Mac OS X Applications folder is a folder called "Utilities", installed as part of a standard 10.5 installation. In this folder are 24 free utilities covering many different aspects of using your Mac. Last week, I covered the first 12 utilities, so this week, it's the final 12.
This second part covers:
- Grapher
- Java Preferences
- Keychain Access
- Migration Assistant
- Network Utility
- ODBC Administrator
- Podcast Capture
- RAID Utility
- Remote Install Mac OS X
- System Profiler
- Terminal
- VoiceOver Utility
Link to the iWeb website for the next show - MacMania09
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SCO0206 - Mac OS X Utilities #1 [Members Show]
Following on from a request for suggestions for topics for the Mac Montage shows, Steve Housley, a regular ScreenCastsOnline viewer, came up with a brilliant idea.
"How about starting at the top of the Utilities folder?"
Brilliant!
Hidden away within the Mac OS X Applications folder is a folder called "Utilities", installed as part of a standard 10.5 installation. In this folder are 24 free utilities covering many different aspects of using your Mac. So this week, I'll be covering the first 12 utilities, with the final 12 in next weeks show.
This first part covers:
- Activity Monitor
- Bluetooth File Exchange
- Boot Camp Assistant
- ColorSync Utility
- Console
- DigitalColor Meter
- Directory Utility
- Directory
- Disk Utility
- Grab
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SCO0205 - Bento 2 & Bento for iPhone
Bento 2 has been updated with many new features but more importantly, they've addressed some of the failings of the first version especially in the area of viewing your data, designing forms, importing and export and printing. They've even made it easier to use for people more used to manipulating data in spreadsheets with the incorporation of some new "spreadsheet like" features.
This full free show covers:
- Bento User Interface Changes
- Working with Data
- Spreadsheet Type Controls
- Message List Fields
- Templates and Printing
- Bento on the iPhone
- Synchronising with the Mac
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Links: Bento Template Exchange
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SCO0202 - Mac Hints & Tips Montage - 08 [Extra Members]
Rather than focus on a single topic or software application, I include a number of different hints and tips, all intended to help you get the most out of your Mac! A fairly mixed bag included this week, with some simple and some more complex hints and tips.
| Photo Location Information
Updates: Apple have introduced some
handy new features to help you assign
location information from photos taken with
the iPhone across to photos taken with a
normal "Non-GPS" enabled camera. This tip
shows you what is involved and also takes a
look at a simpler way to move a locations pin
to provide more accurate placement on your
iPhoto maps.!
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| Spurious Zooming on
MacBooks: Whilst I love the
multi-touch gestures on the new unibody
MacBooks, there is one that drives me to
distraction, and that's zooming in Safari and
Mail. This only seems to affect those of us
used to the older MacBooks with the single
button, where we used one hand for clicking
the button and the other for moving the
mouse. It's really hard to relearn not to use
button finger and on the new MacBooks, this
leads to inadvertent zooming in Safari and
Mail. Very annoying. Well as Apple don't
provide a way to turn this off, one
enterprising coder decided to create an
InputManager to disable this function. This
tip shows you how to install this
InputManager and retain your sanity!
Links: Original Instructions |
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| Creating Symbolic Links with
Automator: I've looked at this
technique before of using DropBox to
syncronise application data using symbolic
links. One of my favourite applications has
now been enabled to use this technique, and
that's TextExpander. Rather than show you the
typicalway of implementing this, I stumbled
upon some third party Automator actions that
remove the need for typing long commands into
terminal to set this up.
Links: Automator Actions Manual Instructions |
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| Monitoring Disk Usage:
This segment features two of my favourite
utilities for seeing just where all that
precious disk space has gone -
GrandPerspective and OmniDiskSweeper. Both
utilities do the same job of showing you
which files and folders are taking up the
most space on your drive, but each has a
different approach on how the data is
presented. I take you through both utilities
and describe how I use each one.
GrandPerspective OmniDiskSweeper |
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SCO0192 - Mac Hints & Tips Montage - 07 [Extra Members]
Mac Montage shows ar eturning out to be one of the most popluar types of ScreenCastsOnline shows. Rather than focus on a single topic or software application, I included a number of different hints and tips, all intended to help you get the most out of your Mac! A fairly mixed bag included this week, with some simple and some more complex hints and tips.
| Renaming Files In situ
: You know when you’ve
just saved a file and realise that you should
have actually called it something else? Yes
you can File Save As or rename the file in
the Finder once you’ve saved it, but
this little tip is so much simpler!
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| Accessing Bento via Multiple
Machines: If you’ve more than
a single machine, it can be quite frustrating
to have your Bento database accessible via
one machine and not another. This hint shows
you how you can use DropBox to synchronise
your Bento database across multiple machines.
There are some caveats such as this
isn’t supported by Filemaker and you
can’t use Bento as a multi-user
database, but it’s a neat way of doing
it and could be useful for other
applications, not just Bento.
Links: Bento, DropBox, BentoUsers website |
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| Configuring Spelling in
OSX: Although OSX supports many
different spelling using many different
languages, it’s not always that easy to
understand how? It’s OK if you’re
one of the people that thinks color is the
correct spelling, but this can be a minor
irritation to some people!
This section shows you how to change the default language settings for Finder and Menus, as well as how to switch on the various spelling dictionaries in your applications. |
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| Clearing out iPod and iPhone
Files: Two tips in this hint to help
you reclaim some of your disk space. Whenever
you update the firmware on your iPod or
iPhone, OSX keeps a copy. After a few
upgrades this can use up a fair slice of your
disk space.
In addition, iPod touch and iPhone users, did you know that each time you install or upgrade a mobile application, iTunes keeps all the old unneeded copies. They may be small, but it soon adds up! This hint shows you how to clear them out and get some disk space back. |
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| 16 Cores in Action: A
couple of viewers have asked to see how I
utilise the two Mac Pros to encode my videos
using Compressor. Well small segment shows
you just that. See the power of 16 cores
roaring into action!
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SCO0189 - Archiving Mail with MailSteward
Are you using an IMAP account with thousands of emails needing to be synchronised every time you access that account on another machine? Is your email client struggling with the number of emails in your archived mailboxes?
Wouldn't it be great to collect all these emails into a separate application, designed to archive your email, and make search and retrieval a breeze.
Perhaps you're a big Gmail or MobileMe email user but feel slightly nervous about having all your important and sensitive emails held in the cloud? Wouldn't it be nice to gather all these emails up, place them in an optimised database locally and then delete all those copies hanging around in the cloud.
What about backups? Do you know the current state of your email backups? Can you even access you old backups or are your old emails locked in some proprietary email format?
Well the answer to all these issues and more is provided by the subject of this weeks show and that's MailSteward
Organise and search your emails using tags, including support for emails previoulsy tagged with MailTags by Indev software.
This show takes a look at all the major features of MailSteward including:
- MailSteward Introduction
- Preparing For Email Archiving
- MailSteward Settings
- Running an Archive Process
- Using MailSteward
- Printing, Saving & Exporting
- Using Tags
- Searching in MailSteward
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SCO0187 - Mac Hints & Tips Montage 06
The show covers:
Using Keyboard Shortcuts
- Using the ALT or OPTION Key
- Using Keyboard in Face Naming in iPhoto 09
- Using the Save Dialog Box
- Monitor Sleep Key Combo
- Sliders and Palettes
- Using The Magnifying Glass
- Using Colour Swatches
- Creating a Custom Palette
- Sharing Custom Palettes
- Extending via Plugins
Together with a specially extended section only available in the Extra members version of the show:
MobileMe File Sharing
- MobileMe File Sharing via the Public Folder
- Setting Permissions on the Public Folder
- Sharing Individual Files
- Setting Permissions on Individual Files
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SCO0184 - Project: How I Create the SCO DVDs [Extra! Members Only]
Something different this week in that I've created another tutorial based on a project rather than a single application.
It's a peek behind the scenes to see how I create the ScreenCastsOnline DVD Archives. These are data DVDs I create each year as a service for ScreenCastsOnline Extra! members. Each DVD contains all the HD versions of the shows for the previous year, allowing members to clear down iTunes and keep a copy of the shows for future reference.
This weeks show takes you through how I use Rapidweaver to create the main ScreenCastsOnline website and then the multi-stage process to create the mini website from the very same RapidWeaver project.
Along the way, I also touch on:
- Mousepose
- Desktop Curtain
- Rapidweaver 4.2 (Affiliate Link)
- TextWrangler - Editing Multiple Documents
- A Better Finder Rename
- Burning DVDs with OSX
- Payloom - Creating a Shopping Page in Rapidweaver
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SCO0182 - Mac Hints & Tips Montage - 05 [Extra! members only]
Even more unusually, this is the second Mac Montage show in a row! This week I've recorded a show in advance as it's Macworld week and there is no way I could record a normal show whilst at Macworld, so I thought I'd do one in advance for you.
Four new hints and tips in this weeks show:
| SpaceSuit: It's always
struck me as strange that Apple never built
this functionality into Spaces itself - that
being the ability to use separate wallpapers
or images for each space you have setup. So
this free utility fills the gap and allows
you to do just that, making spaces seem just
more useable.
Links: SpaceSuit |
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| Dock Spaces: Another
free utility, but this time enhancing the
functionality of the Dock. It has two modes,
either giving you multiple configurable docks
as well as Spaces integration. No you can
have a different dock for each Space in
Leopard. Combine this with SpaceSuit and
suddenly Spaces takes on a whole new level of
functionality.
Links: Dock Spaces |
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| Full Keyboard Access:
Built right into OS X, Full Keyboard Access
allows you to control all aspects of the OS X
interface just by using the keyboard. Want to
activate a different button on a dialog box
than the default? Just TAB and Space and
you're done - No mousing required.
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| Creating an EMail Signature using
TextExpander: Another request - How
do I create my email sig to include a graphic
and embedded links. All is revealed and
TextExpander is the answer!
Links: TextExpander |
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SCO0181 - Mac Hints & Tips Montage - 04 [Extra! members only]
This week I cover three separate hints and tips to get the most out of your Mac:
| Secrets: A very smart
preference pane that gives you access to a
database of hidden settings for both OSX and
many popular OSX Applications. No need to
chant incantations or type long and unwieldy
commands in terminal, Secrets gives you a
simple GUI to access the settings and also
buttons to restart Applications and services.
I examine just a fraction of the hidden
settings available including resetting and
changing the appearance of the Dock, plus an
exceptionally handy tip for iTunes.
Links: Secrets Website |
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| Fiwi: Ever wished that
Finder had two panes by default. Ever so
handy when comparing folder contents or
dragging and dropping. Well Fiwi is a simple
utility that allows you to fire up two finder
windows with one click and have them align
and resize next to each other automatically,
either in row or column configuration. You
can even set a specific window configuration
if you'd like. Very handy!
Links: Fiwi |
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| Smart Playlists: Still
using the Podcast section in iTunes to sync
and manage your podcasts on your iPod or
iPhone? In this section, I show you how I
manage my podcasts using smart playlists to
create sorted playlists which manage
themselves.
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SCO0180 - Adv. OmniFocus & iPhone Client
OmniFocus is a professional-grade personal task management solution which allows you to capture, organise and do all the many different personal and work related tasks and goals we pick up every day. OmniFocus becomes your "trusted" system allowing you to offload all the things you need to keep track of in a powerful, yet flexible application. Although inspired by the David Allen "Getting Things Done" methodology, OmniFocus is flexible enough to be used to fit in with many different types of productivity methodologies.
OmniFocus also includes comprehensive syncing capabilities using a variety of technologies including MobileMe, Bonjour and WebDav services allowing you to sync your tasks and goals across multiple macs. There is even a full iPhone/iPod touch OmniFocus client allowing you both sync and create new tasks and goals on the move.
If you've not had a chance to see part 1 yet, you really do need to! Part 1 covers a lot of the fundamental principles needed to understand some of the basic principles of using OmniFocus.
Once, you're familiar with the basics, this weeks show tells you all about some of the advanced features of OmniFocus enabling you to take your productivity to the next level!
This episode is split into two parts, the first covering some of the more advanced topics in OmniFocus including:
OmniFocus Desktop Client - Advanced Tips
- Using Inspectors
- Action Inspector
- Growl Integration
- Group Inspector
- Project Inspector
- Reviewing Projects
- Context Inspector
- Using Perspectives
- Integration with other Apps
- Clipping from a Web Page
- Clipping from the Finder
- Mail Integration
- iCal Integration
- Sync & Other Preferences
iPhone & iPod Touch Client
- Installing in the iPhone Dock
- Sync with MobileMe
- Creating Actions on the iPhone
- Location Aware Contexts
- Viewing Attachments
- Creating Audio and Image Attachments
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SCO0179 - Mac Switcher & MacUpdate Holiday Bundles
To be honest though, it's not really the savings but more the fact that the bundles contain some of the finest Mac software available and I really don't want you to miss out on the opportunity of buying these applications at amazing prices. But for one of the bundles, you'll need to move very fast as it finishes on the 18th December 2008. To get the message out to the widest audience, this weeks show is not the scheduled members only show, so I'll be doing a couple of members shows in sequence in a couple of weeks.
Mac Switcher Bundle
For full disclosure I should point out that I've also contributed 10 ScreenCastsOnline videos from the archive, all aimed at the new mac switcher.
As I've covered both 1Password and TextExpander in previous episodes I've mentioned them in passing, but as Witch has not been covered before I've done a full section on Witch. Witch is a super window switcher for the Mac. Why do we need a window switcher when we already have Expose? Well, Witch allows you to switch between open and minimised windows of all running applications via the keyboard.
Four Safari windows open? Switch seamlessly between them with a few simple keystokes.
Witch displays an on-screen panel allowing you to see all open or minimised windows and navigate between them using the keyboard or even the scrollwheel on you mouse.
Check out the Mac Switcher Bundle here for links to all the applications. The bundle is available util 31st January 2008
MacUpdate Holiday Bundle
Containing applications we've covered before, new applications and updated applications, the MacUpdate Holiday Bundle is 10 applications at a killer price! I think it's fair to say that several of the applications are worth the price of the bundle individually if not more.
The bundle comprises the full versions of Rapidweaver, Drive Genius 2, Default Folder X, KeyCue, VirusBarrier 5, Little Snitch, WhatSize, MacPilot, iVolume and MacGourmet Deluxe.
The show gives a brief explanation of each application drilling into more detail for Drive Genius 2, Default Folder X, KeyCue, VirusBarrier 5, Little Snitch and WhatSize. Rapidweaver 4 will be explored in a full show in the new year so it may be worth snagging your copy now!
The MacUpdate Holiday Bundle segment of the show has not been sponsored or endorsed by any of the software vendors or MacUpdate but you can show your support for ScreenCastsOnline by using the special ScreenCastsOnline affiliate link - ScreenCastsOnline.com/mupromo
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SCO0178 - OmniFocus Basics
OmniFocus is a professional-grade personal task management solution which allows you to capture, organise and do all the many different personal and work related tasks and goals we pick up every day. OmniFocus becomes your "trusted" system allowing you to offload all the things you need to keep track of in a powerful, yet flexible application. Although inspired by the David Allen "Getting Things Done" methodology, OmniFocus is flexible enough to be used to fit in with many different types of productivity methodologies.
OmniFocus also includes comprehensive syncing capabilities using a variety of technologies including MobileMe, Bonjour and WebDav services allowing you to sync your tasks and goals across multiple macs. There is even a full iPhone/iPod touch OmniFocus client allowing you both sync and create new tasks and goals on the move.
This episode is all about OmniFocus Basics and covers:
- OmniFocus Principles
- Installation and UI
- Capturing Information
- Evaluating Tasks and Goals
- Creating Projects
- Smart Match
- Single Action Lists
- Quick Input Panel
- Understanding Contexts
- Task Availability & Project Folders
- Working with Dates
- Using Focus & the View Bar
- Completing Actions & Projects
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SCO0176 - Organise Your Email - Mail Act-On v2
So this week I've put together a tutorial all about Mail Act-On v2
Mail Act-On allows you to assign keystrokes that allow you to tag and move your emails, all from the keyboard, dramatically reducing the amount of time it takes to manage and organise your mail.
In this weeks show I cover:
- Introduction to Mail Act-On
- Using the Pop Up menu
- Mail Act-On Rules
- Setting up Mail Act-On Keystroke Rules
- Setting up Mail Act-On OutBox Rules
- Mail Act-On Preferences
You can find out more about Mail Act-On by visiting the Mail Act-On website or take advantage of the 10% discount (please note - only available up to December 31st 2008) by visiting the special webstore for ScreenCastsOnline viewers.
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SCO0175 - Working with Large Monitors (and Small!)
For viewers of the free feed, I've included a full segment from the Extra! members only show as a taster but also to see if we can boost the sales of this particular app, for reasons that will become apparent as you watch the clip.
In this weeks full Extra! members only show I cover:
| My Mouse Recommendations
- A quick look at my Mice of choice - The
Logitech MX Revolution Mouse and the VX Nano
Mouse. I also give you a demonstration of the
benefits of the dual function scroll and
flywheel mechanism.
Links: Logitech MX Revolution Wireless Laser Mouse Logitech VX Nano Cordless Laser Mouse for Notebooks |
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| SteerMouse - A fully
featured advanced driver for USB and
Bluetooth mouse. SteerMouse allows to to
fully program a wide variety of Mice and I
show you my most favourite feature - a way to
make your mouse pointer zoom across the
screen automatically and land dead center on
the default button of dialog boxes - no wrist
movement required!
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| DejaMenu - A real boon
for large screen or multiple monitor setups.
You know how OSX arranges the Application
menu bar across the top of the primary
display? Well it can be a real pain
constantly moving the mouse pointer from the
left, right or bottom of the screen all the
way to the top. And when your application
window is on a separate monitor from the
application menu bar - grrrr! Well DejaMenu
is a free utility that comes to the rescue by
allowing you to assign a key combination to
pop up the application menu right under your
mouse pointer - no matter where it's located
on the screen. In the show I also show you
how easy it is to remap the DejaMenu key
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SteerMouse.
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| MercuryMover - (This
full segment is included in this weeks
sampler version of the show and available for
free) Whilst all these tips assist you
using your mouse, true power users know that
the keyboard is the way to go to speed up
your workflow. On any Mac, constantly moving
and resizing windows using the mouse can be a
real time drain. The constant moving from
keyboard to mouse and back again can add
seconds to your workflow that over the space
of a day, a week and a year, can waste an
extraordinary amount of time.
So wouldn't it be great to be able to resize and move windows directly from the keyboard with a couple of simple keystrokes? Well you can using MercuryMover! This simple but effective application allows your to move and resize windows by 1 pixel, 10 pixels or 100 pixels at a time and will also allow you to move or resize to the edge of the screen. You can even center or maximise your selected window with a single keypress. As well as these built in shortcuts, MercuryMover also allows you to save custom keyboard shortcuts that will allow you to save the size, position or both for any window on screen. Do you always want Safari to be the same size and position when you use it? Well you can reapply a saved setting via MercuryMover and resize and repostition the window everytime with pixel point accuracy. MercuryMover is currently available at a reduced price but ScreenCastsOnline viewers can get an additional 10% off by visiting a special store page. With each copy of MercuryMover sold, $2 of the purchase price will be donated to the National Cancer Coalition Link: MercuryMover Special Offer Page |
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SCO0174 - Organise Your Email - MailTags v2
If you're an organised person, you may already have a system in place that handles your email effectively along with all the other sources of information that we need to manage each day. If you're a productivity ninja, you may already have a fully blown "Getting Things Done" or GTD system in place allowing you to be the master of all your information and live in a perment state of nirvana!
More than likely, you may still be looking for the best solution to fit your needs!
Over the next couple of months, I'll be covering some of the top GTD applications for the Mac, but it's possible that you may not need an extra layer of complexity if you can just get on top of using your email. That's where this weeks show comes in, and introduces you to MailTags, a great plugin for Apples Mail application.
Mailtags allows you to tag your individual emails with additional information such as as keywords, project, reminders, colours and notes. It also allows you to directly integrate your emails with iCal using to dos and events. Once you've tagged and classified your emails, Mailtags then allows you to organise and retrieve your emails in many different ways such as enhanced mailbox list views, smart mailboxes and spotlight searches.
This show takes you through:
- Introduction to MailTags
- Installation & Setup
- MailTags Configuratiom
- Tagging Using MailTags
- Keywords & Project Tags
- Tickler Dates & Priority
- Message Colour
- To Dos & Events
- MailTag Notes
- Accessing Your Mail Using MailTags
- MailTags List View
- Searching Using MailTags
- MailTags and Smart Mailboxes
- Example Smart Maiboxes
- Tagging using Rules
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SCO0171 - Dropbox [Extra! Members Ony]
The free version of Dropbox gives you a whopping 2GB of free storage space, but don't make the mistake of treating this as just another online storage system. Dropbox has all sorts of extra features allowing you to share your files and photos easily via publicly addressable URLs, full file versioning and easy recovery, recovery of deleted files, special online photo galleries and much more. This weeks ScreenCastsOnline Extra! members show demonstrates all these features and more. The full show covers:
- Intro & Setup
- Using Dropbox
- Using the Dropbox folder
- Sharing Files From Your Public Folder
- Dropbox Web Interface
- File Versioning and Restoring
- Syncronising & Sharing
- Syncronising Between Macs
- Sharing Dropbox Folders
- Recovering Deleted Files
- Using Photos and Dropbox
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MacReviewcast
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ScreenCastsOnline Forums
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SCO0170 - PDFPen v4 Update
As well as PDFPen, I also take a look at a side benefit of some of the new features of PDF Pen that will help Evernote users in enabling PDF files to be fully searchable in Evernote.
As we're talking about PDFs, I also take a look at a free utility that allows you to take a standard full sized PDF and convert it automatically into a printable A5 booklet - very cool!
PDFPen has always been a great low cost PDF editor with some features previously only found in very expensive, top end editing applications. With the advent of PDFPen 4, there are even more features and the show will take a look at:
- Newly revised User Interface
- New Thumbnail view in the sidebar
- Optical Character Recognition (OCR) - This is a big one, enabling you to take your scanned, uneditable and unsearchable PDFs and convert them automatically to have full searchable and editable text.
- New Highlighting & Annotation Features
- New Print options for Comments and Notes
- New TIFF Output
- Using PDFPen to convert your PDFs for Evernote
- Installing and using Create Booklet 1.0.1
SmileOnMyMac
Evernote
ScreenSteps
NosillaCast
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SCO0166 - Circus Ponies NoteBook v3.0
Update: Circus Ponies Notebook V3.0 is now available from the Circus Ponies website
Circus Ponies NoteBook is a fully featured information manager which uses the metaphor of a familiar paper notebook interface complete with pages, tabs, sections and sub sections and now sticky notes and flags. It allows you to store text, outlines, to-dos, images, sketches, web clippings, email clippings, movies, PDFs or other documents on the pages of the notebook itself and then organise them with keywords, highlighting and even voice annotation.
Once you've got your information stored, NoteBook makes it really easy to search all of your information. A comprehensive indexing system is built right into NoteBook giving you instant access to all the information multiple index pages, just like the index in a book. In addition, all of a Notebooks unencrypted text is now also accessible via OSX spotlight searches.
As well as all this functionality, Circus Ponies NoteBook allows you to share your information easily and simply with other users and can even publish your notebooks to the web as fully functional websites directly to MobileMe or to any other Web Hosting Provider.
It's been quite a while since we covered v2.1 of Notebook, way back in April 2007 so I'll make no apologies for covering some old ground rather than just focussing on the new elements. The application has taken the notebook metaphor to a completely new level with this release and includes some stunning new features which we'll cover as we move through the tutorial.
Wherever possible, I've indicate new features by displaying this icon
This weeks show covers:
- Introduction to NoteBook
- New - Info Flags
- New - Inspector Changes
- New - Toolbar Changes
- New - Detachable Pages
- Adding Pages and Media
- Adding media files to NoteBook
- New - Support for Sketching & Writing
- New - Support for Pen Devices
- New - Diagramming & Sticky Notes
- New - Sticky Notes
- Outlining and Annotation
- New - Date Popup
- Web and Email Clippings
- Multidex Indexing
- Sharing your NoteBook
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SCO0164 - Twitter Desktop Clients
The Twitter web interface is functional but could be better. Luckily, and some would say one of the catalysts of Twitters success, the Twitter developers have released a Twitter API or Application Programming Interface, that allows third party developers to create external clients for Twitter for the Desktop and Mobile devices. In this weeks show I cover three of the top Twitter Desktop clients:
Twitterrific - A native Mac application that is the application of choice for many, many Mac users. A combination of small desktop footprint, support for keyboard shortcuts and access to many of OSX's inbuilt functions such as spell checker, makes this application ideally suited to the Mac environment. Link
Twhirl - The first of two applications built on Adobes AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime) - a cross-platform runtime environment for building rich Internet applications using Adobe Flash, Adobe Flex, HTML, or Ajax, that can be deployed as a desktop application. Consequently, Twhirl can run both on OSX and Windows. The only downside is that this application doesn't have access to standard OSX components like Twitterrific, or support for keyboard shortcuts. This is offset by a much more feature rich Twitter environment along with support for other social networks built right into the Application. Link
TweetDeck - The second application built on AIR, TweetDeck takes a unique approach by organising your Tweets into a multicolumn layout as well as keeping a local store of all your tweets. Add in support for some great realtime search features plus some other specialised support for Twitter services make TweetDeck a great option, but you need to have plenty of screen real estate to get the most out of it. TweetDeck is ideally suited to those of us with multiple monitor setups. Since this show was recorded, a new version of TweetDeck has been released with support for 12seconds, a sort of Twitter service but for video clips. Link
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SCO0163 - Twitter
Twitter has long transcended its original intended usage and has been transformed by the user base into an indispensable social and business communications tool.
Basically it’s a simple centralised messaging system, which allows you to post text messages of up to 140 characters.
Simple!
You can follow other like minded people, news sites, commercial organisations, friends, family, colleagues, in fact all sorts of people and organisations and exchange messages with them. Twitter is both a noticeboard and a conversational tool allowing you to have your own “virtual watercooler” and feel more connected in this ever increasingly digital age. You really have to try it to fully understand the benefits it can bring.
Update: @jane73 from Australia has posted a typical story about a new twitter user finding her way around over on her blog - Twitter Explained, Well Sort Of... - worth checking out!
So this weeks show takes you through the basics of Twitter. The show covers:
- Setting up a Twitter Account
- Twitter Settings
- Using the Twitter Web Interface
- Finding People Using Twitter
- Twitter Messages
- Twitter @Replies
- Twitter Direct Messages
- Using Twitter Notices
Next week, I’ll be taking a look at some popular Twitter clients that further enhance the usability of Twitter and make it even easier to use.
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SCO0161 - MobileMe Web Services [Extra! members only]
This week I take a look at some of the Web services and components that make up Apple new cloud computing platform and look at some tips on using them and some “workarounds” that may help you out if you use subscribed calendars. This weeks show covers:
- Using Fluid to create a MobileMe Site Specific Browser (SSB)
- MobileMe Web Email & Contacts
- MobileMe Web Calendar
- Syncronisng "Subscribed" Calendars with MobileMe
- Google Calendar and BusySync
- MobileMe Web Galleries
- MobileMe iDisk
- MobileMe Settings
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SCO0160 - 1Password on your iPhone/iPod Touch
Regular viewers will know that 1Password is one of my favourite apps for the Mac and I use it each and every day to manage my passwords, my internet identities and also to protect me against phishing scams. Although, previous versions of 1Password offered support for the iPhone via Safari bookmarklets, I've been longing for the day when a native 1Password application would be available for my iPhone.
Much to my delight, a few days ago, Agile Web Solutions released a native iPhone/iPod Touch 1Password application via the iTunes App store. What's really amazing is that the App is a free download!
In its standalone form, it allows you to keep a secured database of your usernames and passwords (and notes) for your commonly accessed websites. However, its real power comes when you combine it with the 1Password desktop application (available from Agile Web Solutions). 1Password for the iPhone allows you to sync over WiFi with your desktop 1Password data, giving you access to all your stored URLs, usernames, passwords and secure notes in your pocket! Just configure the iPhone application to securely connect to your Mac over WiFi and transfer all your invaluable web data to the iPhone or iPod touch.
This show covers:
- Installing the iPhone Application
- Setting up the 1Password Desktop Application for Sync
- Configuring the iPhone Application
- Syncing your 1Password data
- Accessing your Logins
- Using your Logins
- Using the 1Password Mini Browser
- iPhone 1Password Settings
- Accessing Secure Notes on the iPhone
- Additional AntiPhishing Support
- New Autosave prompt in Safari
- Go&Fill HUD in the Web Browser
Correction: One slight error in the screencast - The keyhole icon in the mini browser is in fact the list of "Logins available for the current website" not the current open browser sessions. Mind you, the developers like that idea, so you never know!
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Link to the free iPhone App - App Store
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SCO0158 - iChat AV
Updated in Leopard, iChat AV also has some new advanced features enabling you to share your screen or even deliver remote video presentations via iChat Theatre.
In this weeks show I cover:
- iChat Basics
- iChat Accounts
- Using iChat on a Bonjour Network
- Text messaging with iChat
- Audio messaging with iChat
- Setting up and Using an iChat Room
- Sharing a Keynote with iChat Theatre
- Screen Sharing with iChat
As promised, here are the links to some of the topics and people:
Chris Marshall - Blog
Klaus Lovgreen/Geoff Smith - RingtoneFeeder and Digital Album
Allison Sheriden - NosillaCast and Podcast on Podcasting
Thanks also to Justin and Danny for popping along to the Chat room!
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SCO0156 - Leech Download Manager
Peter has now turned his considerable talents to develop a brand new lightweight download manager - Leech
Leech was designed to be small yet powerful, with all the features you need to efficiently and quickly download files using full integration with the top OS X browsers - Safari, Camino, OmniWeb and FireFox (using the Flashgot plugin for FireFox).
With a simple yet elegant user interface, Leech was built from the ground up to be a great example of an OS X application.
In this weeks show, I take you through:
- Leech Features
- Installation and Configuration
- Using Leech to download files
- Creating and Using Leech Rules
- Using Leech History
- Camino and FireFox Integration
There is an additional discount available for users of other download managers who might want to purchase Leech. Just send proof of purchase of the other download manager to info@manytricks.com for futher information on obtaining the additional discount.
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SCO0154 - Fluid - Managing Your WebApps
Fluid comes to the rescue!
Fluid is a Leopard only application that allows you to simply and easily create "Site Specific Browsers" or SSBs.
A "Site Specific Browser" is a completely separate desktop application just for one single WebApp. In effect, it turns the WebApp into a manageble service with a dedicated desktop application that's configured just for that WebApp. Each SSB you create will have its own Menu Bar, Dock Icon and runs completely independently from other SSBs or browser sessions. So now you can launch SSBs at login, switch to them using CMD TAB, basically treat it as a desktop application.
In addition to these features, Fluid also gives you the ability to convert your SSBs into MenuExtra SSBs which reside in your menubar and are accessible at the click of a mouse. If you'd like your SSB permanently displayed as your OS X Desktop, it even supports Embedded SSBs to allow you to do just that!
Along with window customisation, an extendible plugin architecture, support for GreaseKit based Userscripting and most importantly, supported by 1Password, Fluid is a simply must have application.
In this weeks show I cover:
- Installation
- Creating Simple SSBs (Examples: Gmail and Google Docs)
- Window Customisation
- Creating MenuExtra SSBs (Example: Using Hahlo for Twitter access)
- Installing Userscripts
- Creating Embedded SSBs (Example: Using Google Calendars as your OSX Desktop)
- Fluid Plugins
- Finding Fluid Icons via flickr
- Updating Fluid Icons to High Res versions
LInks:
Flickr Fluid Icon Group
Fluid Icons From Chris Ivarson
Hahlo Userscript by YungSang
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SCO0152 - Evernote for Mac - Part 2
This week I finish off by looking at some additional features of Evernote including:
- Drag and Drop Support
- Using iSight Notes to catalogue and search your business cards
- Evernote Client Views
- Creating And Organising Tags
- Using Attributes
- Creating Saved Searches
- Accessing the Evernote Web Client
- Using Emails to Send Data to Evernote
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SCO0151 - Evernote for Mac - Part 1 [Extra! Only]
And then as for thinking up ways to organise and label things so that you can find it again - nightmare!
This weeks show is all about Evernote - a personal information manager which seems to address all the requirements I have for my information store.
There's so much to cover, I've had to split this show into two parts, the second part will be released next week.
Evernote is many things!
- Firstly, at its core is a web based service that allows you to access your information via any industry standard web browser.
- Secondly, Evernote has local client applications for both the Mac and Windows that allow you to capture and store information locally and syncronise with the Evernote Web service.
- Thirdly, Evernote has mobile clients, plus an iPhone optimised web interface, so you can access all your information on the move.
Next weeks show will look at some additional features of Evernote including some pretty handy tips on using Evernote with your iPhone.
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SCO0150 - TextExpander
It's TextExpander from Smile On My Mac.
On first glance, it looks like a very simple utility to help you save time. It allows you to create small textual abbreviations that, when typed, will expand into words, sentences, paragraphs or even images. It can even trigger AppleScripts, just by typing a few characters or even a single character!
What's really special is that it's a system wide utility so you're not restricted to just your email or word processor, TextExpander works with all the applications on your Mac.
Speed up your typing, use it to auto-correct commonly misspelt words, respond to emails in a flash, generate tons of CSS or HTML code, TextExpander really does give your productivity a boost.
In this weeks show I cover:
- Some common uses of TextExpander
- Creating your own Snippets
- Using Date and Time Variables
- Positioning the cursor in Snippets
- Using text selections to create Snippets
- TextExpander Groups including
- Adding from a File and URL
- Predefined Snippet Groups
- AppleScript Support
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SCO0147 - JumpCut, DejaMenu & SoundSource [Extra Only]
What's even better is that they are all free!
| JumpCut - A great clipboard buffering application which takes a minimilistic approach to give you access to your recent clipboard entries. Go back in time and select from a list of recent clips from either your menu bar or via a hot key and bezel - Website Link | ![]() |
| DejaMenu - Large or multiscreen setup? Fed up of having to travel all the way to the top of the screen to access your applications menu? Or even worse, having to traverse monitors to get access? DejaMenu allows you configure every applications menu to pop up right where your cursor is, saving you effort and time. You can even assign your menus to popup with a click of your mouse! - Website Link | ![]() |
| SoundSource - Constantly juggling different audio outputs and inputs on your Mac? SoundSource gives you access to all your audio devices quickly and easily through a single icon in your menu bar as well as a volume control for each device - Website Link | ![]() |
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SCO0146 - Automator
Automator is a way of creating special applications or plugins that allow you to "automate" repetitive tasks. Each workflow is built up from a number of predefined actions that are bundled in with most of Apples own applications and an increasing number of third party applications. Initially introduced in Tiger, Automator has received a significant make over in Leopard with the introduction of some brand new features, mainly the ability to record tasks using the new "Watch Me Do" feature along with the introduction of user and system generated variables to use in your workflows.
So if the thought of AppleScript sends shivers down your spine, check out some the new features of Automator.
The show covers:
- Automator Basics
- The revised Interface
- Creating a Sample Workflow to resize images
- Creating a Sample Workflow with Text and Speech
- Saving Workflows as Applications
- Saving Workflows as Plugins
- Creating a Sample Workflow with "Watch Me Do"
- Creating and Scheduling an iCal Plugin
- Variables in Automator
- Creating a Sample Workflow including Variables
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SCO0142 - Pages 08
Addressing the major complaints about Pages'06, mainly that it wasn't a "proper" word processor, Apple have completely revised Pages '08 to include a brand new "word processor" mode, in addition to its original page layout mode. To make it even easier to use, Apple have also introduced the context sensitive format bar in line with the other iWork applications to allow for less reliance on the inspector panels and give you control of the common elements right within the application window itself.
Following on from the previous show I did on Pages '06 (nearly two years ago!), this show will bring you up to speed on lots of the new functions and capabilities of this outstanding package!
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The show covers:
- Introduction to Pages '08
- Using the Format Bar
- Paragraph, Character & List Styles
- Page & Section Breaks
- Tracking Changes in Documents
- Working with Images in Pages
- Instant Alpha
- Wrapping Text around images
- Masking Images and Picture Frames
- Text Flow in Page Layout Mode
- Exporting
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SCO0141 - ScheduleOnce [Extra Only]
Well recently I've been in just that position trying to schedule recording sessions for the Mac Roundtable! 10 very busy podcasters across 4 different time zones all trying to synchronise our activities and come up with a shared free slot to record.
In this age of Web 2.0, I thought there must be a service somewhere that could come to our rescue and sort out this complex organisational task.
So a quick bit of research and I found it! - ScheduleOnce
After using it for a day or so I was so impressed I thought I'd spread the word to help out ScreenCastsOnline viewers who are also tasked with sorting out meeting schedules. So I abandoned my plan for this week and did a show all about ScheduleOnce, especially as its completely free to use.
As a web based service its totally cross platform, you don't need to register and did I mention it's free. You don't even need to know what time zones all the participants are in.
It's simply a matter of setting up a meeting notice (which takes 2 minutes) and emailing a special link to your invited participants. They respond using the link, and the system gives you a view of all the responses and allows you to select the optimum time and email them with the confirmed date and time, all formatted in their local timezone.
This weeks show takes you through setting up a meeting, let's you see what the invitees receive and show you the responses and how you process them!
I hope this makes your life easier as it did mine!
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SCO0140 - ScreenSteps and ScreenSteps Live
Screensteps is cross platform application for both the Mac and Windows, which allows you to create libraries of "lessons", each lesson being a step by step process covering whatever tasks you want to document. Available in both a free version and a pay for version, the application has comprehensive tools built right in for screen capture and image annotation to easily and quickly build up step based documentation. Once you've created your lessons, ScreenSteps also has some powerful export functions that allow you export your lessons in either customised PDF or HTML format (in the pay for version) or even directly to a hosted ScreenSteps Live web service (included in the free version as well as the paid for version).
As well as exporting individual lessons, ScreenSteps allows you to organise your lessons into topics and sections, allowing you to create individual PDF files or HTML output containing an entire Library of lessons complete with a table of contents and easy navigation. The PDF version collates all your lessons into a multi page PDF whilst the HTML output provides all the code you need to upload to your website for online documentation.
If you're not sure about uploading HTML files to your website (or if you don't have a website) be sure to check out Part 2 of this ScreenSteps show where I'll be taking a look at ScreenSteps Live, a free service to host your ScreenSteps lessons. ScreenSteps Free and ScreenSteps Live are tightly integrated and it's really easy to export your lessons directly and automatically to ScreenSteps Live from within ScreenSteps.
As well as the free options, there are Standard and Pro versions of ScreenSteps which allow you to export locally to PDF and HTML so once you've tried the package, you can upgrade to get the full features.
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