SCO0173 - Mac Hints & Tips Montage - 03 [Extra! members only]
This weeks tips in detail are:
| Finding and capturing HiRes Icons in OS X: Now that Leopard supports huge 512x512 icons, application designers have gone to town, creating beautiful HiRes icons for all of your favourite applications. Not only that, but Apples own designers have created many, many beautiful HiRes icons for folders, software and even Apple hardware devices. This tip will show you how to find them on your system, copy them safely and create your own transparent png graphics for use in graphic projects and presentations - all for free. The tip also includes a handy little trick for capturing those gorgeous 512x512 icons from third party applications too! |  |
| Creating eMail Stationery Templates: Another new feature in Leopard was the inclusion of full colour HTML based email templates to brighten up your emails. Whilst, the pre-built templates are all very nice (!) wouldn't it be great to design your own personalised eMail templates for personal or business use? Well this tip shows you how to do just that! By examining an existing email template, this tip steps you through the structure of the template and shows your how to amend the template to suit your needs, then save it as a custom template. |  |
| Using The OS X Dictionary: he dictionary has been around for a while, but has been greatly expanded in Leopard to allow you direct access to a Thesaurus, and Apple dictionary and even direct access to Wikipedia. This tip also shows you a simple keyboard shortcut that allows you to look up words in any Cocoa app without having to load the full dictionary application - very cool! |  |
| Capturing Single Frames in
Quicktime Movies: This simple tip
shows you how to capture a single frame in a
Quicktime movie and export it to png or jpeg
format.As promised, the second of an
occasional series of various hints and tips
on getting the most out of your mac. Instead
of the show focussing on a single piece of
software or subject, I mix it up with several
unrelated hints and tips on various aspects
of using a mac. Each tip is directly
accessible via chapter marks so you can
either watch all the tips in sequence or jump
straight to the tip you'd like.
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SCO0169 - Mac Hints & Tips Montage - 02 [Extra! members only]
This week, the tips include:
| Numbers and OS X: Easily set up OS X keyboard shortcuts to access your most commonly used menu items. I found a few frustrations in switching over from Excel in that my normal keyboard shortcuts were not available in Numbers. A few clicks later and I was able to replicate them in Numbers and boost my productivity at a stroke! The really neat thing is that you can use the same technique for creating your own customised keyboard shortcuts in all your favourite applications. |
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| Numbers: Another frustration was the absence of the Excel command for "Convert to Columns" to convert imported CSV files. Whenever I imported CSV (Comma Separated Variable) files, they didn't format properly! The answer was blindingly obvious and you'll kick yourself if this has been tripping you up too. All is revealed in this weeks show. |
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| Safari: Despite all the choices we have as mac users with a plethora of browsers, I still keep coming back to Safari as my browser of choice. It's fast, fully compliant and integrates fully with the iPhone. Safari also has some pretty nifty features on how it handles tabs, windows and bookmarks including integration with address book. This section alone gives half a dozen tips on getting the most out of Safari |
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| iTunes: Following on from the recent show covering iTunes 8, another feature is the inclusion of artwork for Genres in Album view. It can get a bit messy when you have none standard genres and no artwork. This tip shows you how to access a free utility to manage and update your iTunes genres artwork plus gives you access to some free genre artwork via Flickr. |
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| OS X, Launchbar, Google Translate: This tip allows you to set up your mac to do virtually instant translation of foreign language text snippets. Frustrated by not being able to follow my non English speaking friends on Twitter, this tip shows you how to use Launchbar and the Google Translate service to quickly and easily translate virtually any language to any other language using a few simple keystrokes. Even if you're not a Launchbar user, you can still utilise copy and paste and the Google Translate service to accomplish this but not as impressively! |
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Links:
iGenres
Genres Flickr Pool
Iconaholic blog
Radio Lingua Network
Cava and Twitts
Launchbar
Previous ScreenCastsOnline Launchbar Tutorials
Google Translate Service
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SCO0133 - Setting Up Your Mac - Part 2 [Extra Only]
Thought I'd break myself back in gently by putting together Part 2 of the mini series - Setting up your Mac.
In this weeks show, I make a couple of slight alterations from Part 1 as suggested by pman and wastern, then it's straight into a section on configuring your new shiny aluminium keyboard to get the most out of it.
Then onto a list of some of the top freeware and donationware applications to install on your brand new Mac (or existing Mac if needs be!)
A few suggestions on commercial software I can't live without, topped off with an announcement on the new ScreenCastsOnline 2007 DVD now available (members only - sorry!).
Finished off with news of a groovy prize draw for all those people who buy a DVD before the end of February.
You know what, I didn't break myself in gently at all!
Some links for products mentioned in the show:
iStat Menus - Website
VLC - Website
Adium - Website
Onyx - Website
AppTrap - Website
AppZapper - Website
Hazel - Website - ScreenCastsOnline Episode
1Password (Affiliate Link) Website - ScreenCastsOnline Episode
Launchbar - Website - ScreenCastsOnline Episode
Rapidweaver - Website - ScreenCastsOnline Episode
SpeedDownload - Website - ScreenCastsOnline Episode
SpamSieve - Website - ScreenCastsOnline Episode
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SCO0110 - LaunchBar, RapidWeaver and SiteMap [Extra! Only]
Some significant updates have
been released to applications I've
previously covered on ScreenCastsOnline. Mix
in a new website design on the
ScreenCastsOnline website plus installing
and configuring a cool Rapidweaver template
to provide automated site maps and you have
the basis of a pretty packed show this week!
I'm pretty jazzed about the new website
design so I thought I'd share it with you as
I know the majority of ScreenCastsOnline
viewers get all the shows via iTunes.
Objective Development have
released a new version of one of my
favourite Mac apps and that's
Objective Development (actually 4.3.1 came
out just after finishing recording). LaunchBar is
much more than an application launcher as it
enables you to search, switch and launch and
gives you compete control over your mac with
just a few simple keystrokes. LaunchBar has
introduced some additional features in this
release that extend its power considerably
and without getting too much into the
QuickSilver vs LaunchBar debate :-) I've
found that LaunchBar is a killer app for the
mac!
Yes, I know we only did the
introduction of Rapidweaver 3.6 a short few
weeks ago, but RealMac Software have just
released RapidWeaver
3.6.2 which further extend the
usefulness and ease of use of what already
is an amazing product! A quick run through
and demo of the new features in included in
this week's show.
One of the new features I
introduced with the new ScreenCastsOnline
site is the introduction of some SiteMap
pages. SiteMaps are great for allowing users
to see the entire contents of your website
on a single page and easily find and
navigate to content. SiteMaps are also
incredibly useful in ensuring that your SEO
or "Search Engine Optimisation" is in good
health. Google and other search engines use
sitemaps to fully crawl through your website
and ensure all your content is indexed and
searchable. Rather than attempt to do this
by hand, I stumbled on SiteMap
by LogHound. This is an inexpensive
RapidWeaver plugin that does it all for you
with minimal configuration. It's also useful
for finding pages that still have the
default RapidWeaver settings. In this weeks
show, I take you through an expalination on
how to configure the product and demonstrate
the results!
This week is also the start of the revised scheme for Extra! members in that there will now be an Extra! members show every two weeks instead of one a month, and this is the first such show. If you're not an Extra! member, you'll only get the first 5 minutes or so of this weeks show but as a consolation, it will be in HD. Back to a full free show next week but if you'd like to get all the shows in future plus get immediate access to a library over 100+ screencasts, just follow this link to get full details and instructions to sign up.
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SCO0018 - LaunchBar Part 3
Check out the previous screencasts on LaunchBar for a full review of the basic functionality.
Duration: 14:29
Size: 27MB
Platform: mac
Level: Easy
Links: LaunchBar
SCO0012 - Launchbar Tutorial - Part 2
Includes some additional configuration steps to integrate your address book with SkypeOut. Also includes some great tips to add in some additional search templates to access the superb YubNub!.
Duration: 16:20
Size: 31.5MB
Platform: mac
Level: Simple
Links:
Launchbar
Skype
YubNub
SCO00011 - Launchbar Tutorial - Part 1
This is the fourth ScreenCast originally distributed on macTV at the beginning of this week. It is replicated here for any ScreenCastOnline subscribers who are not subscribed to macTV.
Duration: 20:26
Size: 30MB
Platform: mac
Level: Simple
Links: Launchbar