Snagit Beta for Mac

Snagit Beta for Mac In this tutorial we will go over on how to use Snagit for Mac which is really great. I personally have been waiting for a Mac version to be released for a long time now. Some of the feature we will try out is the screen shot mode and scrolling effect as well, along with the text effects. For more info & details I will include the link to the Techsmith for this product.

http://www.techsmith.com/snagitmac/get-beta/

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Kandalu ImageBrain

Kandalu ImageBrain In this tutorial we will go over on how to use some of the new features in ImageBrain. Please keep in mind that at the time of this video this product is currently in beta & does not represent the finished product. What this program allows you to do if to locate duplicates of the same image on your computer or external hard drives that may be connected to your machine. What makes this program different in the way that it works compared to other duplicate finders is that not only does it locate the same image but it does it regardless of name or file extension, by using the identification technology (PSNR-K).

http://www.kandalu.net/uk/products/imagebrain/index.html

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MAC Create Multiple iTune Libraries

MAC Create Multiple iTune Libraries In this tutorial we will go over on how to create multiple itune libraries on Mac OS X, using the Option-Shift Command. This can also be done using a shareware program from Dougs Apple Scripts. This video was inspired by iTunesiHelp whom has done a version for Windows XP/Vista.

http://dougscripts.com/itunes/itinfo/ituneslibrarymanager.php

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Burn Blu-ray with a Mac? Here is a workaround tip

Burn Blu-ray with a Mac? Here is a workaround tip

Video by Brandon of YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/losslesscodecs

Even though macs do not come with blu-ray drives, it is possible to burn blu-rays with a mac configuration. Here are a couple of workarounds.

Link to blu-ray burner http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Other%20World%20Computing/MRF8UEB6XSM
Link to ken stone blog http://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/blu-ray_fcp_fields.html

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FCP: Edit Multiple Clips Duration & Transitions

FCP: Edit Multiple Clips Duration & Transitions In this tutorial we will go over on how to edit multiple clip durations and transitions within Final Cut Pro. This is useful when creating photo slideshows or just making edits to existing projects within your timeline.

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How to convert .pictClipping

How to convert .pictClipping This tutorial will show you how to convert those .pictClipping files to any format using two different programs on Mac OS X. You will usually find these files if you save those cover art albums from you iTunes library.

Great program to use is Graphic Converter from: http://www.lemkesoft.com/

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Kandalulite Video Encoder

Kandalulite Video Encoder Kandalulite is a new video encoder designed to save you space on your computer, while it maintains the video quality but at a fraction of it’s size compared to H.264 codec. It uses it’s own decoder to play the videos via a Quicktime plugin. For a limited time this is available for $6.99 from it’s regular price of $26.99 from http://www.kandalu.net/.

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Turbo.264 HD vs Turbo.264

Turbo.264 HD vs Turbo.264 Here we will review both the Turbo.264 & Turbo.264 HD as to speed & quality of encodes. We will be using a 6 min vob file & converting it to Apple TV format. Let’s see which is faster.

As with the new updates to the turbo.264 HD it now supports encoding to 1080p & 720p which is great for folks that want those hi res videos. Currently the new version also takes advantage or your systems cpu along with it’s own hardware encoder to speed up the process of encoding your files. Some folks may not like that idea to much but in order to take advantage of those 1080 & 720p encodes it’s a must. Which is why the previous version of the Elgato turbo.264 had so many limitations when it came to encoding.

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MAC: Convert DVD to .VOB

MAC: Convert DVD to .VOB Here is a quick tip in order to convert your DVD’s to a .vob file. This is a great way to archive your movies to use with Toast to burn to DVD, or to play on your PS3 so long as you keep it under 4GB due to the FAT32 file system limit. Both of these programs are about $50 in price & offer many different options as to what you can do with them. Both of these programs use the VIDEO_TS folder from any movie that was ripped to your hard drive or directly from the DVD it self as long as it is unencrypted.

DVD2oneX2 $55.00 US Dollars from $39.99 Euro: http://www.dvd2one.com/

DVD Remaster Pro $49.99 US Dollars : http://www.metakine.com/products/dvdremaster/

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iTunes: Organize Playlist

iTunes: Organize Playlist Here is a quick tip in order to help keep your ever growing playlist to a minimum while viewing them in iTunes. We will be creating folders then moving the playlist into them even can be done with your smart playlist as well.

If your looking for a more automated way of doing this then I recommend using a apple script from Doug’s Apple Scripts for iTunes. I will provide the link to it via his site.

http://dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/ss.php?sp=moveplaylisttofolder

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Connect: Final Cut Pro and ADVC-300

Connect: Final Cut Pro and ADVC-300 This tutorial we shall be going over on how to connect your ADVC-300 or similar device to your computer running Final Cut Pro, in order to capture your video. In my example I am using a Sony VHS to DVD Recorder, but in most cases you may be using a regular VCR which the steps outlined will still be the same. Make sure that you have your ADVC-300 device connected and both your computer & device turned on. Keep in mind that some applications such as iChat or Screen Sharing can conflict with your device so be sure not to be running those while doing your capture. Just follow the video tutorial for the rest of this setup.

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How to copy VHS Tapes with Macrovision

How to copy VHS Tapes with Macrovision In this short tutorial I will go over on a certain device how to record those precious vhs tapes you have onto your computer. This is done using a Mac but can also be done on a PC.

The device we will be using is a VCR connected to a ADVC-300.

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Part 1: How to copy VHS Tapes with Macrovision using ADVC-300
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iWeb 09: Gradient Features

iWeb 09: Gradient Features With the new release of iWeb 09, many new great features were added. Now introduced is a Advanced Gradient feature, whereas before it was only a 50/50 split. Now you can customize it to the way you want it to look for example a 30/70 split, Linear, Radial, Reverse Angle. So if you were on iWeb 08 and upgraded to iWeb 09 now you can spice up those previous pages you had created.

Feel free to comment or leave your suggestions on iWeb 09.

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iWeb 09: Publish Features

iWeb 09: Publish Features With the new release of iWeb 09, many new great features were added. Many of these were requested by iWeb 08 users. Particularly users that have there own web host rather then Dot Mac or Me Dot Com. Now iWeb 09 users can not only publish to there ME/Account but also to a specified folder & ftp/sftp account. Maybe one of the best features is now that when you update your site it only updates the site your working on rather then all of your sites, and to the selection you picked for it.

So if you build sites for others they no longer need to be on you Me/Account they can be saved somewhere else. Another great addition is the FTP upload directly within iWeb 09 is self. This is great if you don’t already have a ftp client of your choice to use.

Feel free to comment or leave your suggestions on iWeb 09.

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MAC OS X make favicon ico image

IcoMaker for MAC OS X is a freeware application used to create those favicon.ico files for your web browsers url. This is a lightweight & small application which currently supports Tiger (Universal), Jaguar, Panther, & Puma. Just to note I’ve been using this on Leopard 10.5.5 without any issues at all & has been working flawlessly. So if you want an easy way to make or create to favicon images this is the MAC way to go.

You can find this free program at: http://homepage.mac.com/t_ogihara/software/OSX/icom-eng.html

Hope you enjoy it.

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MassReplaceIt aka MRI

MassReplaceIt aka MRI or as some people may call it, Mass Replace It. This free program is a great time saver when ever you want to change multiple files in several folders all at one time, rather then going threw each file to do a search & replace. This also works very well with iWeb 08 especially if you use the Blog & Podcast pages and you need to modify links quickly.

You can find this free program at: http://hexmonkeysoftware.com

Hope you enjoy it.

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Using iWeb Blog or Podcast on Personal Host

Using iWeb Blog or Podcast on Personal Host, Here we will go over a few ways on how to take control of your iWeb site when using the blog or podcast pages on your personal host rather then on dotmac.

When you first create your site you will give it a name for example: Site.
Then you go ahead a create your first page which is usually named Welcome or what ever it may be. Now what we will do it take that first page & rename it to “index” minus the quotes. Go a head & create your pages as normal including your blog & podcast pages. Once you have completed that, we will need to modify a few things.

First of all on a personal host the Search & Comment section is not available to us. So do not include that in your pages. Then if your gonna use the RSS image use your own custom image rather then the default that is used by iWeb due to the way the URL structure is setup then manually add you RSS link to it based on your actual domain name. For example: http://www.My Domain Name.com/Blog/rss.xml same can be done with the Podcast RSS as well.

Now if you want to add a comment section to your blog or any page for that matter you will need to sign up for a free account with http://www.haloscan.com Set it up how you like and use their code to add the comment section to your pages. Now I have modified my code to be able to use any color for the text and pipe bar on my pages so I will provide it below.

< head >< script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.haloscan.com/load/Your-Haloscan-Name-Here"> < /script >

< a href="javascript:HaloScan('Put Page Name Here');" target="_self" class="style1">< script type="text/javascript">postCount('Put Page Name Here');< /script >< /a > |< /span > < a href="javascript:HaloScanTB('Put Page Name Here');" target="_self" class="style1">< script type="text/javascript">postCountTB('Put Page Name Here'); < /script >< /a >< /body >

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iWeb 08 How to Edit Your Blog & Podcast Page

iWeb 08 How to Edit Your Blog & Podcast Page, Many people ask how can I edit my iWeb Blog & Podcast page to be more unique rather then the typical layout. Well In this tutorial we will be going over how to edit your iWeb Blog & Podcast page. This way it will be more to your liking rather then having it look like everyone else’s iWeb page.

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iWeb 08 How to Index Your Site

iWeb 08 How to Index Your Site People always ask how can I get my iWeb pages to be index in search engines like google. Well In this tutorial we will be going over as to why your iWeb site is not index by search engines & google. There a two alternative to this, the most simple way would be to create a sitemap for the search engines or to disable the navigation links & manually create the links to each of your web pages. Which in turn will allow for search engines to crawl your pages & index them.

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Drive Genius 2: MAC Maintenance

Drive Genius 2: MAC Maintenance This is for those that are looking to increase the performace of their hard drives. This will work on both your boot & connected hard drives.

Using a program from http://www.prosofteng.com/products/drive_genius.php

Called Drive Genius. After running this on my main boot drive & I defrag it, I noticed a system that was more responsive & snappier. While still keeping everything stable. So if your looking to get the most out of your system after long months of usage then surely take a look at this program.

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My Current Dock

My Current Dock This is just how I currently have my dock setup for easy use & quick access.

To remove the arrows:
$ cd /System/Library/CoreServices/CoreTypes.bundle/Contents/Resources
$ sudo mv AliasBadgeIcon.icns AliasBadgeIcon_OFF.icns
$ killall Finder

Change it Back:
$ cd /System/Library/CoreServices/CoreTypes.bundle/Contents/Resources
$ sudo mv AliasBadgeIcon_OFF.icns AliasBadgeIcon.icns
$ killall Finder

Mouse Over effect:
$ defaults write com.apple.dock mouse-over-hilte-stack -boolean YES
$ killall Dock

Change YES to NO to revert it back then type
$ killall Dock

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Dock Tip 1

Dock Tip 1 Just a quick tip on how to hide & unhide your Dock when needed for what ever you may be working on at the time when you need more space for viewing.

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Review VMWare Fusion 2 Beta

Review VMWare Fusion 2 Beta Just a review on the latest beta version of VMWare Fusion 2 Beta for the MAC.

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MAC Tip: Users Share Folders or Drives

MAC Tip: Users Share Folders or Drives In this tutorial I will show you how to share your folders or hard drives on your home network, especially if you use Back To My Mac, and or use the same Admin user on both computers while you have regular users set up.

Example of a problem: When I turn File Sharing ON on my iMac, it doesn’t just share my “Public Folder” like I tell it to, it shares everything!!!… my entire hard disk and external drives attached.

Have fun & enjoy.

Terminal Tip: Word Counting

Terminal Tip: Word Counting In this short tutorial I will be going over the ‘wc’ command in Terminal so that you can count the number of lines, words, & characters in a .txt file via the terminal.

Photoshop Boricua Style: Intro

Photoshop Boricua Style: Intro This is just a short little intro I was working on, it’s Boricua style. I created this using Photoshop CS3, I then went on to redoing the images in Adobe Illustrator then redid my project in PS CS3. I will show the final product in another video by it self.

Convert Extract Web Archive

Convert Extract Web Archive In this tutorial I will go over on how to convert files & also extract .webarchive files via terminal & a program as well.

Have fun & enjoy.

In Terminal to convert the web archive type:

textutil -convert html webpage.webarchive

Hit return.

iWeb Tip: Features-Video-Flash

iWeb Tip: Features-Video-Flash In this short tutorial I will show you how you can add flash or even quicktime videos to your iWeb site without actually putting it in your web page. Simply by using your iDisk and creating a folder to actually store your video files.

Also I will show you some useful tips on resizing text areas or even pictures on your iWeb site.

Web Sharing Apache2 & PHP5

Web Sharing Apache2 & PHP5 In this tutorial I will show you how you can take advantage of the built in Apache Server on your MAC OS X “Leopard” install, and show off your web pages to the world not just your own home network.

First you will need to make all files unvisible via terminal type:

defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles YES

to undo this type:
defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles NO

go to folder path: private/etc/apache2/httpd.conf

and open up httpd.conf with a text editor such as Text Wrangler which is free.

once opened up scroll down the page till you see.

#LoadModule php5_module libexec/apache2/libphp5.so

and remove the # symbol save your page & restart your Web Server from the sharing pane.

Now your able to view php files not just html files.

Address Book Tip 1

Address Book Tip 1 In this short tutorial I will show you a quick tip in Address Book on how to look up mapped address right from your address book it self on mac os x leopard.