iBooks Author is Apple's brand new eBook authoring application.
Previously a hugely complex operation, iBooks Author has simplified the process of creating beautiful, interactive eBooks for publication on the iPad. Extending and enhancing the capabilities of eBooks, iBooks Author makes ebook authoring available to everyone with a Mac and Lion. Best of all, it's free!
This first part of the iBooks Author tutorial introduces you to the new application, takes you through some of the new interactive features available and starts off by looking at adding text to your eBook.
Move and Zoom your windows on your Mac, easily and quickly using your Mouse, Trackpad or Keyboard.
Moom is a great application that integrates seamlessly with OSX to give you complete mastery of your environment. Move and resize windows, move them out of the way or even send them to different monitors.
You can even create "Window Layout Snapshots" to allow you to postion your favourite application windows just as you like them, then store for future use. With a simple command, all your windows will reposition themselves exactly as you saved them. You can even set automatic triggers based on your screen resolution or available monitors.
Quicktime is the foundation of Apple’s multimedia offerings. With the introduction of QuickTime X in Snow Leopard, Apple have begun the process of re-writing QuickTime from the ground up.
This second of a two part series examines some of the more advanced legacy features of QuickTime, and how you can use QuickTime 7 player as well as some 3rd party tools to access and manipulate QuickTime file contents.
Quicktime is the foundation of Apple’s multimedia offerings. With the introduction of QuickTime X in Snow Leopard, Apple have begun the process of re-writing QuickTime from the ground up.
As a result, many of the original capabilities of the QuickTime 7 player have been left out of the latest version of QuickTime X. This first part of a two part series takes a look at both QuickTime X and QuickTime 7, and examines the features still available via the legacy player.
iTunes Match is Apple's unique service that allows you to access your iTunes music collection in the cloud, from any supported device - Mac, iOS or Apple TV.
This tutorial takes you through the intricacies of setting up your iTunes music collection with iTunes Match.
The third and final part of the Mac Basics series, originally published as part of the SCOtutor for Mac application. 
This week's episode is aimed at new Mac users, but contains a wealth of information for existing Mac users too!
As promised, it's time to check out some of the more advanced features of Alfred, the superb application launcher and productivity enhancer from Running with Crayons. 
I covered the basic operations of the free version of Alfred in a previous show (SCO0325).
In this week's show, I take a look at some of the more advanced features, enabled by the installation of the optional PowerPack module.
Last show of the year so I thought I'd do something different. 
This week I take you through the ScreenCastsOnline workflow, from preparation, through recording and editing, on to encoding and subtitles to final testing and publication.
The whole process is fairly complex so I've broken it down into manageable chunks.
So you're new to the Mac? Perhaps a recent switcher across from Windows? Or maybe you like what you see with the iPad and iPhone and decided to get a Mac?
This is the second part of a multi-part series to be spread out over the next month or two, to bring you up to speed on the basics of using a Mac.
No prior experience needed, the tutorial takes you through first principals of owning and using a Mac.
You can now purchase the full Mac Basics episode (over 2½ hours long) as SCOtutor for Mac via the Mac App Store or iTunes App Store
One of the best ways you can improve your productivity is to learn lots of keyboard commands so that you can control your Mac, without having to take your hands off the keyboard. Or maybe you like what you see with the iPad and iPhone and decided to get a Mac?
This is the second part of a multi-part series to be spread out over the next month or two, to bring you up to speed on the basics of using a Mac.
This week, I start off by taking a look at the free version of Alfred (available via the Mac App Store) and see what basic functionality is included. If you've never used an application launcher before, you may be impressed with what's available "out of the box".
Time for another Mac Montage show but this one is a bit different.
As it’s Christmas Eve next week, I’ve put together this double length show and won’t publish a show next week. So you can either watch this one right the way through and take a week off, or watch half and put the rest aside for next week. I’ve even put a marker in the show so you know when you’re half way through!
It’s a fairly mixed bag this week, with both Mac and iOS 4 content, and even a mini hardware review.
Have we really not covered iChat before?
iChat AV is the latest version of Apples instant messaging client included as part of OSX Leopard. It allows you to send and receive text, audio and video directly to your OSX desktop.
As promised, this is a short supplementary show to SCO0265 - Plex/Nine for Mac OS X.
In this supplementary show, I describe the features of the new iOS application for the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad.
Another project based show this week, as I take you through some of the recent changes behind the scenes at ScreenCastsOnline. If you've been following me on Twitter or on my blog, you'll probably already know that I recently updated the ScreenCastsOnline production studio with another Mac Pro!
It’s well known that you can run Windows on your Mac using Bootcamp on your Mac, 
as well as third party software solutions.
But did you know you can now run OSX on your Mac in a virtual machine! With Lion, Apple have relaxed the licensing arrangements and now you can run multiple instances of OSX on your Mac in Virtual Machines.
The final part of a number of shows, all looking at the different aspects of sharing on your Mac. In this week's show, I take a look at Internet sharing, Web Sharing and Xgrid sharing, with demonstrations of all three.
A new full release of iTunes from Apple is covered this week - iTunes 8.
ITunes 8 includes three major new features plus a host of minor tweaks and fixes to increase the functionality and capability of what is rapidly becoming the dominant digital media organiser and playback application.
