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Windows Tips: Free Add-Ons Bring Out the Best in Windows
Try these free add-ons to bring Windows up to snuff.How-To
Hands On: Easy Mac Maintenance
Just like your car, your Mac needs routine maintenance in order to run smoothly. Unlike your car, your Mac can perform some of this maintenance on its own. Two important tasks to perform regularly are Disk Utility's Repair Permissions and OS X's Unix maintenance scripts.How-To
Mac OS X Hints
Take a look at some ways to see more in Finder windows, tweak your iChat messages so they contain multiple lines, print pages to PDF, assign multiple genres to iTunes tracks, know how much is in your Trash, take advantage of Unix's redirection command, train Mail only once, and more.How-To
Mac 911
Do you rue the range of your Graphite Base Station, seek softer cell-phone ring tones, find PC viruses vexing, or loathe the limitations of your iTunes music library? There's no need to feel hemmed in by transitory travails when help is at hand. This month's Mac 911 gives you a beneficial boost over each of these barriers.How-To
Digital Focus: Clean Up Scanned Images
Use an image editor to wipe away dust, eliminate scratches, and fill-in tears.How-To
Digital Focus: Colorize Old Photographs
Add a little life to old black-and-white photos–the easy way.How-To
Create a Snazzy Slide Show
Here's how to have fun with your digital images this holiday season.How-To
Mac 911
If you're vexed by menu-bar items that won't go away and the hard-drive space annexed by unnecessary language files, this month's Mac 911 is for you. Join Christopher Breen as he details handy methods for removing extraneous items. He also addresses syncing e-mail with Palms and converting audio files for Final Cut Pro.How-To
Bugs and Fixes: Halt Worms and Viruses in Their Tracks
Take the steps necessary to protect your PC from Internet nasties.How-To
Mac 911
This month's questions — the bulk of which were submitted by academics — underscore how prevalent Macs are in our colleges and universities, and that even the erudite can be perplexed by Mac OS X. So open your blue books and keep your eyes on your own paper as we cover font smoothing, picture cropping, HyperCard stack conversion, clock clicking, enhancing CDs, mail forwarding, and stubborn mailing.How-To
Your Digital Music Studio
If you want to enjoy digital music, here's what you need to know to get started. Plus, learn how the technology works behind the scenes.How-To
Excel Chart Art
Microsoft Excel X may be a champ with numbers, but when it comes to displaying numerical information graphically, Excel's standard chart formats don't pack a lot of punch. But this doesn't have to be the case. Here are some easy techniques for creatively using Excel X's built-in tools to give your charts more visual impact.How-To
FreeHand Type Design
With the release of FreeHand MX, Macromedia has added an impressive collection of new features that make it easier than ever to design eye-catching text on even the tightest deadline. We'll show you three simple yet effective type techniques that can be adapted to a variety of projects, so you can start to take advantage of some of these new tools.How-To
BBEdit Version Control
Minor coding errors can create major problems. Avoid snafus with version-control software.How-To
Mac 911
Christopher Breen explores some underilluminated aspects of OS X, such as services, invisible database files, and shuffled iMovie export options. And to round things out, he corrects lopsided sound, pushes the envelopes, and counsels a family in need.How-To
Speak Your Mind
With a digital voice recorder and MacSpeech's iListen 1.5.2 — the only speech-recognition software that can transcribe audio files onto your Mac — you can dictate your memo, e-mail message, or short story on-the-go, and later download the file, push a button, and watch while iListen types what you said.How-To
Squeeze Play
You need to burn a few copies of your movie to CDs (for both Macs and PCs) that you can hand out at a meeting, and you want to put it on your Web site for a worldwide audience. You could shell out big bucks for the $449 Sorenson Squeeze 3 Compression Suite or $599 Discreet Cleaner 6, but if you're on a budget, Apple's $30 QuickTime 6 Pro can do the job.How-To
Mac OS X Hints
Mac OS X is a complex and powerful operating system, and even those of us who have been using it since its initial release have to admit that we don't know all its secrets yet. Here are some tips and tricks you probably haven't encountered in your everyday use of OS X — they can help you customize your computing experience for greater efficiency and enjoyment.How-To
Mac 911
As the parent of a two-year-old, I've learned that to remain sane, a person has to set limits. Yet as a Mac user, I understand my toddler's tantrums — when my Mac and its applications present seemingly arbitrary limitations, I sometimes react with a grown-up tantrum. If computer restrictions are giving you a case of the terrible twos, join me as we overcome iDVD's 30-second motion-menu limit, short-circuit the Dock's Turn Hiding Off command, capture audio snippets from commercial DVDs, and play Riven and Myst III: Exile without once having to swap discs.How-To
Mac OS X
Customizing OS X's Windows File Sharing (Samba) server to share specific directories, or to restrict access to read-only, requires that you manually edit some fairly complex configuration files. The newest version of the Personal File Sharing utility SharePoints — now with support for a number of Windows File Sharing options — makes working with Samba a whole lot easier. We'll tell you how.How-To
Mac 911
This month deals with issues associated with syncing portable and desktop Macs, keeping disparate Safari bookmark files in line, and logging in to a desktop Mac from the road.How-To
Productivity
Microsoft Word's Track Changes feature makes it easy to annotate and revise documents without creating a mess of cramped marginal notes and scratch-outs. But turning an edited file littered with additions, deletions, and comments into a unified whole can be tedious work Here are some timesaving tricks for dealing with even the most-complicated editing scenarios.How-To
Mac OS X
Mac OS X's graphical user interface is elegant, graceful, and powerful enough to let most of us ignore what's happening behind the scenes. But if you're bent on finding new ways to streamline your work, it may be time to roll up your sleeves and dig into Mac OS's guts — the Unix command line.How-To
Recycle Old Macs
Not able to upgrade or find a use for that ancient Mac? Here are some tips on selling, donating, or recycling that outdated hardware.How-To
Soup up your PowerBook
There’s no need to toss your aging PowerBook on the scrap heap. Christopher Breen shows you how to replace the hard drive and upgrade the RAM in a Wall Street PowerBook G3 and a Titanium PowerBook G4.How-To
Easy Online Updates
Once you have a functioning catalog site, you'll need a way for clients to add new products to your database. Creating an online form to do just that is a snap. Dreamweaver MX provides simple wizards for creating insert pages (to add new records) and update pages (to edit information already in the database).How-To
Amazing AppleScript!
Learn Apple's Simple Scripting Language, and Your Mac Will Be at Your CommandHow-To
End font frustration
At first glance, fonts and font management in OS X may appear complicated—but we can help you understand them.How-To