Web Applications

SCO0263 - File Sharing [Members Show]

With so many options available for sharing files with friends and colleagues, it's difficult to know which tool or service to use.

This week’s show examines some tools and techniques that cover a range of file sharing scenarios.

From sharing a few files between Macs using Bluetooth File Exchange, to sharing a movie file with your Twitter friends in a drag and drop action, creating sharable links for your Dropbox files and also a rather neat method of requesting a file from a non techie to be delivered into your Dropbox account.

Something for every situation!

In detail, this weeks show covers:

File Sharing via Bluetooth
Setting up Bluetooth File Exchange
Sending a File
Setting up a Service & Keyboard Shortcut
Browsing files via Bluetooth
Sharing Files via CloudApp
Registering for CloudApp
AutoUploading Screenshots
CloudApp Privacy Settings
CloudApp Raindrops
Shareable Links on DropBox
AirDropper

Links:
CloudApp
Dropbox
AirDropper

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SCO0260 - MacMontage 17 [Members Show]

A lot happened in the Mac world this week!

New iMacs launched, new Mac Pros and Apple Cinema displays announced, as well as a brand new input device - The Apple Magic Trackpad. As well as these announcements, Apple also released Safari 5.0.1 which included the launch of the new official Safari Extensions Gallery. So time for a Mac Montage I think!

This week's show covers a first look at the new Apple Magic Trackpad and some of the new enhanced gestures, not just for the trackpad but also for Apple laptops with multitouch enabled. I also take a look at some third party software that allows you to use the new trackpad for signing electronic documents.

Apple - Safari - Safari Extensions Gallery-2

Apple - Safari - Safari Extensions Gallery-3

With the introduction of the official Safari Extensions Gallery, Apple have made available many new extensions that install within Safari with a single click.

I take a look at installing and using two new extensions - Twitter for Safari and Coda Notes (A great way to annotate and send markups of live websites).

I also take a look at one of the most useful Mac troubleshooting tools - AppleJack. This is a low level suite of applications that allow you to repair your Mac, even in the event of your Mac being unable to load the GUI. Install in advance and when needed, just boot your Mac into single user mode and run AppleJack. This section takes you through the installation and running of AppleJack in auto pilot.

Finally, an extended wrap up section where I explain some of the issues with the new MobileMe CAlendar beta and BusyCal, along with the promised review of the recent ScreenCastsOnline survey on including iPad and iPhone content on the show.

In detail the show covers:

Magic Trackpad
Autograph for Magic Trackpad
Safari Extensions
Twitter Extension for Safari
Coda Notes Extension
AppleJack
Wrap Up & Questionnaire Results
BusyCal & MobileMe Calendar Beta
ScreenCastsOnline Questionnaire

Links:
MacFixit Article on AppleJack
MobileMe News - Calendar Beta
BusyCal Update

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SCO0254 - RSS, Google Reader and Reeder

Something for everyone in this weeks show as I cover the Mac, the iPhone and the iPad!

Can you believe it's almost 5 years since I first covered RSS - Really Simple Syndication on the very first ScreenCastsOnline show.

Things have moved on a long way since that first show, the core basics of RSS remain the same, but we have so many different tools and platforms on which to consume RSS feeds.

This show takes you through the basics of what RSS is and how it can help you in both your online and offline life.

I take a look at Google Reader, the de-facto standard RSS aggregator, along with my favourite tools fro reading RSS feeds on the iPhone and iPad. In detail, this weeks show covers:

RSS Overview
Viewing RSS in Safari 5 & Mail
Viewing RSS Feeds in Apple Mail
RSS with Enclosures
Google Reader
Feedburner
NetNewsWire
RSS Reading on the iPhone
Mobile Google Reader
Reeder on the iPhone
Reeder on the iPad

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SCO0253 - Safari 5 [Members Show]

Just a short show this week.

A review of some of the new features in Safari 5 and a brief look at transferring ScreenCastsOnline tutorials to the iPad using GoodReader
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SCO0247 - Transmit 4 [Members Show]

Hold the press!

I abandoned my current plans for this weeks show the second I laid my eyes on a significant new application release this week.

Panic Inc. launched a new version of Transmit - the premier Mac OSX File Transfer application, now released as version 4.

Transmit 3 was released in 2005 and although Panic have kept updating the application with minor new features and bug fixes, Transmit 4 brings the application completely up to date with a virtual re-write of the application and a gorgeous new User Interface.

With support for iDisk, FTP, SFTP, Amazon S3 and WebDav, Transmit 4 allows you to seamlessly connect to the multitude of storage solutions on the web. One of the core new features of Transmit 4 is the incorporation of MacFuse technology allowing you to connect to and mount any of these external remote file systems right into the Finder, allowing you to treat them just like local drives. Drag and drop files from your desktop straight onto Amazon S3 or your FTP server, straight from the Finder.

The show covers most of the new features, including some you may never had thought you needed!

The full members show covers:

Installation of Transmit (incl MacFuse)
Transmit & File Transfer Overview
Using The Local Browser Pane
Places Grid
Setting View Options
Setting Up Remote Services
Setting up an FTP Service
Bandwidth Throttling
Setting up Favorites
Mounting Remote File Systems as a Disk
Organising Favorites
Creating & Using Droplets
Using Sync
Using DockSend
Using Transmit with Bonjour
Link Folder Navigation

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SCO0197 - Tweetie for the Mac

I’ve been a huge fan of Tweetie, the Twitter client for the iPhone and it's been my firm favourite for quite a while. Imagine my delight when I discovered that the developer was working on a new version of Tweetie, but this time, for the Mac desktop.

The Mac community has been buzzing with anticipation for quite a few weeks until finally, the application was launched this week.

Well, has it lived up to expectations?

Most definitely, and then some!

Tweetie for the Mac has firmly established itself, in just a few short days, as the application that brings the Mac experience to Twitter users. Packed with features, tons of eye candy and rock solid, Tweetie certainly delivers on all accounts.

This week's show takes your on a tour of Tweetie and introduces you to some of its great new features. The full show covers:

Introduction to Tweetie
Tweetie user Interface
Reading Tweets & Conversations
Preferences
Sending Tweets
Viewing Profiles
Replying to Tweets
Search & Bookmarklet
Multiple Accounts

Links: Tweetie

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SCO0196 - Safari 4 Beta [Extra Members]

How did I forget to do a show about Safari 4 Beta?

Although it's been out for a couple of months, I bet there are still some features in Apples latest version of its flagship browser that most people don't know about, so this week's show sets out to put things straight. Unusually for a beta product, Safari 4 is a solid application and one that Apple feels comfortable about enough to encourage most people to download and try out for themselves. If you do get into problems or if you just want to go back to the old browser, they've included an uninstaller package in the disk image file to let you revert pretty seamlessly. Not that I think you'll need to!

This week's show covers:

Safari 4 Download and Installation
Top Sites
Coverflow in History
Coverflow in BookMarks
Tabbed Browsing
Smart Address Fields & Google Search
Full Page & Text Zooming
Developer Tools
Safari Hacks - Link

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SCO0171 - Dropbox [Extra! Members Ony]

Amazing!

Yes, that's the word I'd use to describe this brand new service which allows you to store, sync and share your files and photos. The new service is called "Dropbox" and is fully cross platform with clients for the Mac, Windows and Linux. Add in a fully featured web interface plus an iPhone optimised web site, and your files and data can be seamlessly synced across all your computers and accessible from any machine with an internet connection. In some respects, Dropbox looks to be the service we were all hoping iDisk was going to be when re-launched as part of MobileMe.

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

In addition, I also demonstrate how 1Password users can migrate from MobileMe syncing of their 1Password data to use the brand new Agile Keychain facility within 1Password, and use Dropbox to synchronise instead. This allows for a more feature rich, efficient and more robust syncing solution than using MobileMe.

Links:
Dropbox
MacReviewcast
macbites
1Password Blog
ScreenCastsOnline Forums

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SCO0164 - Twitter Desktop Clients

As promised, this weeks show follows on from last week, and covers some of the top Twitter clients available for the Mac (and Windows in two cases)

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! If you haven’t used it, you don’t know what you are missing! Launched in 2006, Twitter has become the de-facto standard for micro blogging and even after suffering problems with downtime and the famous “failwhale” people still go back to it, refusing to jump off Twitter onto the other micro blogging platforms. Ok, they might try others out, but they always keep one foot firmly in the twitter camp!

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

That’s just for starters and will give you a good grounding in Twitter basics and using Twitter on the web.

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]

Finally, MobileMe has stayed up long enough to complete my short series of MobileMe related shows. Despite lots of moaning and groaning (including from me and the rest of the guys over on the MacRoundtable podcast!), it looks like MobileMe is finally starting to stabilise and is now a usable service, despite some holes still waiting to be filled.

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

That probably finishes off MobileMe for a while!

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SCO0160 - 1Password on your iPhone/iPod Touch

It's here! One of the most eagerly anticipated applications for both the iPhone and iPod Touch is here - 1Password.

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

In addition, the first part of the show covers a few of the major changes to the Desktop application since we last looked at it back in December. These include:

Additional AntiPhishing Support
New Autosave prompt in Safari
Go&Fill HUD in the Web Browser

Along with some invaluable preparation tips you need to undertake before syncing your iPhone or iPod touch with 1Password for the first time.

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!

Link to buy 1Password Desktop edition - ScreenCastsOnline Affiliate Link
Link to the free iPhone App - App Store

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SCO0157 - MobileMe Setup and iTunes 7.7 [Extra! Only]

What a week for Apple! First iTunes 7.7, then the App Store, then MobileMe and finally the iPhone 3G. All in three days!

In the spirit of such an ambitious program, I thought I’d cover the rollout of MobileMe and what you needed to do to setup your Mac and iPhone using the MobileMe installer.

Leaving the show for the very last minute, I waited until Apple started the 6 hour migration task and then proceeded to cover the installer based on a pre-release of the utility. Little did I know that the 6 hour migration window scheduled by Apple would turn out to be so much longer. In fact over 24 hours later it still hadn’t finished or stabilised.

So this weeks show is really the first part of using MobileMe, and I’ve had to leave the web applications until they are generally available. I also took some time to look at the new iTunes release and the brand new App store in iTunes.

So a relatively short show this week but enough to help you out with your MobileMe migration.

Links:

Apples MobileMe Site

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SCO0156 - Leech Download Manager

Peter Maurer is a name familiar to many Mac users, as the original creator of Textpander (re-launched as TextExpander by Smile on my Mac) as well as many other excellent Mac utilities we've touched on in previous episodes of ScreenCastsOnline (ServiceScrubber and Displaperture to name but a few!)

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

In addition, I also include details of a special ScreenCastsOnline discount code to get a 20% discount off the usual price of Leech, kindly supplied by Many Tricks, the sponsors of this weeks episode.

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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SCO0155 - Preparing for MobileMe [Extra! Only]

Following on from several requests, this weeks show is all about preparing for MobileMe, the new .Mac replacement service due to be launched in early July 2008.

The show covers the basics of MobileMe and gives you some useful tips on how you can prepare for MobileMe if you're an existing .Mac user, or even if you're considering signing up for .Mac in advance of MobileMe. Topics cover:

Not a .Mac User?
.Mac Services Being Withdrawn
Preparing for MobileMe
Preparing for MobileMe Mail
Preparing for MobileMe Calendar
Preparing for MobileMe Contacts
Preparing for MobileMe Web Gallery
Preparing for MobileMe iDisk
Other MobileMe Considerations
Signing up for .Mac

Also included in this weeks show is an update to the Evernote service, recently feature on ScreenCastsOnline (SCO0151 and 152). Fresh out of closed beta, Evernote has now launched its premium services and some new changes to the services it provides.

Links:

Apples MobileMe Site
Evernote Site

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SCO0154 - Fluid - Managing Your WebApps

As we start to spend more and more time using Web based applications (or WebApps), the standard web browser is becoming more and more critical. The problem is that with the advent of tabbed browsing, individual WebApps become harder to manage and locate on your desktop. Add in the fact that a single bad website can sometimes crash your browser or make it unstable, you can end up losing all of your browser sessions in one fell swoop!

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

Fluid is completely free and available to download from www.fluidapp.com

LInks:
Flickr Fluid Icon Group
Fluid Icons From Chris Ivarson
Hahlo Userscript by YungSang

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SCO0152 - Evernote for Mac - Part 2

Following on from last weeks Extra! members only show, this week is a free show and completes the tutorial on using Evernote - the cross platform and web based information management tool.

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

I also include a really handy tip on using your iPhone to capture images and have them appear in Evernote as searchable items - very, very handy!

Evernote Invites? Share yours here or see if there are some spares!

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SCO0151 - Evernote for Mac - Part 1 [Extra! Only]

I think I may have found the answer to my perpetual quest for an efficient and effective way to keep all the bits of information I accumulate everyday. You know the problem - lots of bits of texts, web pages, ideas, thoughts, images, reminders, notes, etc,. So much "stuff" but nowhere sensible to store them so that I have access from any computer or any device.

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.

Not only that, but Evernote includes some amazing character recognition technology so that any photos or digital images with text (even handwritten text) that you capture in Evernote, become searchable!! You really have to see it to appreciate it and of course this weeks show will show you!

Next weeks show will look at some additional features of Evernote including some pretty handy tips on using Evernote with your iPhone.

Evernote Invites? Share yours here or see if there are some spares!

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SCO0141 - ScheduleOnce [Extra Only]

We've all been there - You need to organise a meeting between a group of people and end up with an avalanche of emails from people who can make this day but not that. Or change their availability three times in a week. As for trying to arrange something across time zones with daylight savings time thrown into the mix - absolute nightmare.

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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SCO0132 - RWMultitool - Rapidweaver Theme Editor [Extra Only]

[Extra Members Show] It's been a good few months since I did a Rapidweaver related show so I thought I'd do one on a tool I get a lot of requests about.

We all know that Rapidweaver is one of the simplest, yet most powerful web creation tools available for the Mac but one of its strengths is also one of its weaknesses. It's a template based package and uses themes to give your Web site its look and feel. Now unless the theme developer gives you lots and lots of options, your creativity might be a bit stifled by sticking to a particular theme...."If only I could just insert my logo just there in that header!"

Well with RWMultiTool, the underlying graphics of virtually every theme are made available to you to alter or even replace if you want to!

Insert your own images or overlay extra graphics on your Rapidweaver theme headers or anywhere else in your theme really easily and quickly. No coding is required, just drag your images on to the existing theme elements, one click and your new graphic is instantly part of the theme. You can even see the changes instantly to your Web site in Rapidweavers Preview mode.

The best part is that RWMultiTool is available in both free and Pro versions and the show will give you a brief comparison between both versions.

RWMultiTool Site
SeyDoggy Rapidweaver Themes

Rapidweaver Tutorial Part 1 is available here
Rapidweaver Tutorial Part 2 is available here
Rapidweaver Tutorial Part 3 is available here
All Rapidweaver related tutorials here

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SCO0129 - 1Password Update

Time for a product update this week. It's been over 12 months since I covered 1Passwd (not a typo - it used to be called 1Passwd!), the brilliant password manager and web form filler from Agile Web Solutions.

This is one of the must have applications for the Mac and makes managing and using passwords and web identities a breeze. Since the last screencast ( SCO0078 ) , the product has been re-launched as 1Password and has had a significant re-write with lots of new features and is now even better!

In addition to the new features built in to 1Password, the guys have come up with a unique feature to enable to securely copy all your 1Password information in encrypted form to your iPhone or iPod touch. So now you can have all your data with you on the go!

This weeks show covers:

1Password Basics
Using 1Password for Authentication
New 1Password GUI
New 1Password Identities
New 1Password Wallet Items
Sync to iPhone and iPod Touch

Unfortunately the ScreenCastsOnline discount has expired but if you can buy 1Password via this special link 1Password I'll get some commission!

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SCO0125 - OmniWeb Web Browser

This week's sponsored show features OmniWeb, the featured packed web browser from the Omni Group.

OmniWeb is unusual in that it's one of the few browsers that you have to buy, it's not free! Consequently, it has to be something special to compete against exceptionally strong competition, but you'll be glad to know that it delivers a brilliant browsing experience.

The shows covers all of the advanced features of OmniWeb including:

Using Tabs & Thumbnails
OmniWeb Workspaces
Web & Search Shortcuts
Bookmarks
Site Preferences
RSS Support

A 30 day trial of OmniWeb can be downloaded from the Omni Group Web site

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SCO0115 - Rapidweaver Plugin: Blocks

A break from iLife and iWork this week with a look at the spectacular additions to an already powerful RapidWeaver plugin.

This week I take a look at the latest release of the Blocks Plugin from Yourhead software. Blocks allows you to create free form pages within Rapidweaver turning it into a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) web creation tool, limited only by your own creativity.

You can can check out the previous screencast on Blocks here (SCO0066) or check out all the Rapidweaver related screencasts via this page RapidWeaver Category

This new version of Blocks brings you:

Blocks Library - Create your own library of Blocks and Blocks Pages to re-use and share
Smart Blocks - Create and Install specially designed Blocks that prompt you for data.
Master Pages - At last, a way to create dynamic master layout pages that are linked to child pages. Change the master page and all the linked child pages change automatically. This one you have to see!

YourHead have kindly extended a special discount to ScreenCastsOnline viewers of 25% off both the upgrade and full price of the Blocks plugin.

Visit the Yourhead store and use the code SCO25 to get your discount. The code is valid up to the 15th October 2007.

Rapidweaver Tutorial Part 1 is available here
Rapidweaver Tutorial Part 2 is available here
Rapidweaver Tutorial Part 3 is available here
All Rapidweaver related tutorials here

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SCO0108 - Downloading Content From UseNet

You'll really need to concentrate for this weeks show! I covered this topic many moons ago and it was in fact, the very first pseudo members only show but before we had the Extra! membership scheme!

This week is all about searching, accessing and downloading from the amazing wealth of content that's available from the UseNet binary groups.

There's an awful lot packed into this week's show so you'll need your wits about you. The show covers:

Usenet - All about UseNet
GigaNews - A commercial UseNet host service
NewzBin - A Commercial UseNet Indexing service
MacPar Deluxe - A great par checker and unpacker
Split & ConCat - A concatenation utility

Update November 2008 - Since recording the show I’ve stopped using iGrabNews due to the lack of support for Leopard. I now use Unison from Panic software to use the NZB files to download from GigaNews. Unison is a commercial application but does the job brilliantly and is much more stable than iGrabNews.

By the end of the show you'll have a good idea on how to harness the power of the UseNet binary groups and fully understand how to access and download tons of content.

As promised, here are the links for the various services and software packages described in the show:

GigaNews
NewzBin
NB Since the original show was published, access to NewzBin is by invitation only. If you need an invitation, please email me at screencastsonline at gmail dot com with the subject heading of “NewzBin Invitation” I’ll try and deal with these on a first come first served basis,
MacPar Deluxe
Split & ConCat

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SCO0107 - Single Sign On with OpenID

Imagine being able to sign on to hundreds if not thousands of websites with a single username and password. Usually, this would be frowned upon as it could be a highly risky strategy with most standard websites. But there is a safe, secure and free solution to the holy grail of single sign on and thats OpenID OpenID .

Wikipedia describes OpenID as " ... a decentralized single sign-on system. Using OpenID-enabled sites, web users do not need to remember traditional authentication tokens such as username and password. Instead, they only need to be previously registered on a website with an OpenID "identity provider", sometimes called an i-broker. Since OpenID is decentralized, any website can employ OpenID software as a way for users to sign in; OpenID solves the problem without relying on any centralized website to confirm digital identity.
OpenID is increasingly gaining adoption among large sites, with organizations like AOL acting as a provider. In addition, integrated OpenID support has been made a high priority in Firefox 3 and Microsoft is working on implementing OpenID 2.0 in Windows Vista."

Don't worry, it's really easy to use as can be seen from this week's show!

I'll take you through signing up for a free OpenID identity and demonstrate just how easy it is to use various OpenID enabled sites!

Some useful links as mentioned in the show:

A simple explanation of how OpenID works
A List of OpenID Indentity Providers
The Nitty Gritty!
JanRain Website
MyOpenID Website

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SCO0106 - Managing Your Bookmarks

As Mac users, we're faced with a tremendous choice in the various browsers available to us! If you're like me, it's really hard to stick to one so we're constantly switching between browsers or trying new ones as they get updated.

Wouldn't it be great if you could manage all your browser bookmarks centrally and them have all browsers use the same set of bookmarks seamlessly!

If you've a number of macs, how about being able to syncronise not only between browsers on the same machine, but between multiple browsers plus your desktop and laptop?

And what about the iPhone? Sure iTunes will sync your Safari bookmarks but what if you're a Firefox or Camino user on your desktop machine?

Well this weeks show will provide you with the solution to all these problems with a single piece of software and that's Bookit from EveryDay Software. Bookit is a low cost application that allows you to do all these things.

The show explains in detail:

Installation
Initial Configuration
Bookmark Syncing on a Single Mac
Bookmark Syncing between Multiple Macs using .Mac
Other Bookit Features

Also this week is a special Extra! members section only available in the Extra! members versions of the show. This special section covers a free utility designed to provide fully PC compatible zip files using drag and drop. Also included is a really neat way of configuring the Finder to accomodate drag and drop applications in a very cool way!

The special session is only available to Extra! members, full details on how to become an Extra! member and access the special versions of the shows including HD and Apple TV versions (1280x720) can be found on this page - ScreenCastsOnline Extra! Membership Special Offer

Membership also gives you access to over 100+ previous ScreenCastsOnline shows - over 24 hours of premium content!

Links for shows and information contained in this week's show:

SpeedDownload
1Passwd

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SCO0102 - RapidWeaver 3.6 Update

Yes, as alluded to last week (thanks Cynthia!), this week's show is all about the new release of RapidWeaver - version 3.6.

It's the first paid upgrade for a while, so this show takes you through the enhancements and new features of the premier template based web creation tool from RealMac software, the sponsors of this weeks show.

The show covers:

Changes to the UI
New Site and Page Inspectors
New Theme Styles and Colour Pickers
New Categories and Tags within Blog pages
New InLine Comments within Blog Pages
Signing up to HaloScan
Enhancements to the Photo Album Pages
Displaying EXIF data
New Photo Slideshow Visual Effects
Adding Sound to SlideShows
Snippets
HTML List Formats
RapidWeaver Add-Ons

A pretty comprehensive list of new features and pretty much well worth the $25 upgrade from fully paid previous versions!

RapidWeaver can be obtained from : RealMac Software

Rapidweaver Tutorial Part 1 is available here
Rapidweaver Tutorial Part 2 is available here
Rapidweaver Tutorial Part 3 is available here
All Rapidweaver related tutorials here

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SCO0078 - 1Passwd - Secure Login & Password Management

Another indispensable Mac application this week to help you manage your Internet logins and passwords securely. I don't know about you but I have so many logins and passwords for the various web services I subscribe to, that it has become a major effort to keep them all in check. The easy option is to use simple passwords or even to use the same password for different services but this is really dangerous if your password gets compromised. Mix in the multitude of browsers we also have available to us and things get very complicated.

This week, I look at 1Password from Agile Web Solutions. This is a fantastic application that allows you to manage all your Internet logins and passwords using a single master password, securely encrypted in a special keychain. What's really cool is that this is integrated across most (all?) of the major Mac browsers enabling you to switch between browsers and still have access to all your logins and passwords. What's even better is that it's integrated with .Mac so you can backup all your logins and passwords using .Mac and even sync them to multiple machines.

1Password also has an automatic form filler built in that allows you to complete web forms with a single click - It even has the ability for you to store multiple "Personalities" that con hold different types of information to allow you to pick the right set of information for the required form.

This is all accomplished very easily, so checkout the screencast for information on installing, configuring and using 1Password.

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SCO0069 - Flickr - Extra! Members Only

This week is another Extra! members only show. The free version on this site and included in the free feed will give you a taster of the full 30 minute show. If you want to get the full version of the show in glorious HD (1280x720 or 960x540) you'll need to sign up as ScreenCastsOnline Extra! member, or you can purchase the individual show from the link at the bottom of this post.

Flickr is a superb web based application which allows you to store, search, sort and share your digital photos.

Acknowledged as one of the premier Web 2.0 applications, Flickr has all the elements common to the new wave of powerful web applications including tagging, AJAX interfaces, social networking, groups, full RSS support and many other impressive features. One of the newer features is the ability to geotag your photos with location based information and the screencast covers this new function in detail. Other features covered in this weeks show:

Differences Between Free and Pro Accounts
Uploading Photos using Flickr Uploader
Creating PhotoSets
Adding Notes to Photos
Adding Photos to Groups
Posting Flickr Photos to Blogs
Geotagging Flickr Photos
Creating Flickr Badges
Exploring Flickr
Creative Commons Licences
........and much more

The show also announces the winners of the September Extra! members draw for all new and renewing Extra! members for September. Special mention and thanks to GBM Digital Technologies for donating the ScreenCastsOnline Extra! Members Draw prize for September - An Apple Wireless Mighty Mouse.

The full show is available automatically to ScreenCastsOnline Extra! members in high definition as part of the 6 monthly membership along with another 6 Extra! only shows available for immediate download - over 3 hours additional content - See here for details

Promo Show: Duration: 14:38 | Size: 23MB
Member Only Show: Duration: 30:42 | Size: ??MB
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SCO0057 - Flock Web 2.0 Browser

I'm really excited about this application as it provides amazing functionality as standard.

It's Flock Beta 1 which I had a chance to play with over the weekend. I was so impressed I just had to do a screencast to spread the "Flock goodness" around.

Flock is an astounding browser built on FireFox and features integration with...

* Delicious & Shadows - for social bookmarking
* Flickr & Photobucket - for photo sharing
* Blogging - Has a built in blogging tool for virtually any blog tool
* RSS Reader - Fully featured RSS reader

It's available for Mac OSX, Windows and Linux and is a must try application.

Highly recommended! If you want to checkout the "My Own Reality" blog featured in the screencast, here's the link

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This weeks show is available automatically to ScreenCastsOnline Extra! members in high definition as part of the 6 monthly membership - See here for details

Duration: 30:44 | Size: 60MB | Discussions: Forum

SCO0005 - Google - Demo of Google Maps and cool map hack

A 8 minute screencast demoing Google maps and looking at a cool Google maps hack - gMap Pedometer

Using the hack we work out how far John Lennon would have had to walk to visit Paul McCartneys house when they were living in Liverpool, UK !!!

Duration: 8:00
Size: 19MB
Platform: mac or pc
Level: Simple
Links:
Google Maps
gmapPedometer

SCO0003 - RSS - Automated Web Surfing

Ok, so you've heard about RSS but don't really know what it is or how it might benefit you?

This short screencast gives a quick overview on how you can use RSS to automate your web surfing and remove the tedium of manually checking websites and blogs. The screencast is based on mac applications but the basic principles are the same on the windows platform so please check it out if you are a windows user!

Duration: 6.17
Size: 8MB
Platform: mac
Level: Simple

Applications: Safari 2.0, NetNewsWire 2.0.1

PS - I forgot to mention to use the Spacebar in NetNewsWire to view unread posts consecutively - much easier!

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