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October 31st, 2009

About My New Fifth Generation iPod Nano

Holy cow!

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April 8th, 2009

iTunes 8.1.1 Update Now Available

Information from Software Update.

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March 12th, 2009

iTunes 8.1 Now Available

Information from Software Update.

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January 22nd, 2009

Welcome to Macintosh

A movie review.

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April 3rd, 2008

iTunes 7.6.2 Now Available

Information from Software Update.

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February 21st, 2008

iTunes 7.6.1 Now Available

Information from Software Update.

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January 17th, 2008

A Trip to Macworld Expo 2008

A few thoughts about this year’s trip.

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January 15th, 2008

iMovie Update 7.1.1 Now Available

Information from Software Update.

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January 15th, 2008

iTunes 7.6 Now Available

Information from Software Update.

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December 13th, 2007

Using Leopard’s Mosaic Screen Saver

A very cool screen saver for folks with a lot of photos stored on their Macs.

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August 2nd, 2007

iTunes 7.3.2 Now Available

Information from Software Update.

With iTunes 7.3, you can now activate iPhone service and sync it with your music, TV shows, movies and more. Also, you can now wirelessly share and enjoy your favorite digital photos from any computer in your home with Apple TV.

iTunes 7.3.2 provides bug fixes to improve stability and performance.

July 11th, 2007

iTunes 7.3.1 Now Available

Information from Software Update.

With iTunes 7.3, you can now activate iPhone service and sync it with your music, TV shows, movies and more. Also, you can now wirelessly share and enjoy your favorite digital photos from any computer in your home with Apple TV. iTunes 7.3.1 addresses a minor problem with iTunes 7.3

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June 29th, 2007

iTunes 7.3 Now Available

Information from Software Update.

With iTunes 7.3, you can now activate iPhone service and sync it with your music, TV shows, movies and more. Also, you can now wirelessly share and enjoy your favorite digital photos from any computer in your home with Apple TV.

May 16th, 2007

Gila Monster

My first Final Cut Express video project.

After spending three days going through a tutorial to learn Final Cut Express HD, I was ready to create my first video project. I’m sharing it with blog readers so you can see how much effort a person can expend on 25 seconds of video.

About

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April 13th, 2007

Using the Multiple Item Info Window

A quick tip (with video) for Macintosh users.

Suppose you have a bunch of files in a folder and you want to know what the combined size of several files would be.

Select all the files you want to include. You can hold down the Command key to select multiple files. Hold down

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March 16th, 2007

iTunes Update 7.1.1 Now Available

Information from Software Update.

With iTunes 7 and the iTunes Store, preview and purchase high-quality hit movies plus new and classic games designed exclusively for the Fifth Generation iPod. Flip through your collection by album cover with Cover Flow, protect your iTunes library by backing up to CDs or DVDs, and much more.

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March 13th, 2007

Creating a Slide Show for iDVD

A shortcut with good results.

Over the past few weeks, I’ve been banging away at an iDVD project. The goal is to show still images from my helicopter tours and excursions as slide shows with music. I’m rather picky about these things and decided that I wanted to use the Ken Burns effect with

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March 6th, 2007

iTunes 7.1 Now Available

Information from Software Update.

With iTunes 7 and the iTunes Store, preview and purchase high-quality hit movies plus new and classic games designed exclusively for the Fifth Generation iPod. Flip through your collection by album cover with Cover Flow, protect your iTunes library by backing up to CDs or DVDs, and much more.

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December 11th, 2006

Managing iTunes Downloads

Maria Speaks Episode 33: Managing iTunes Downloads

Transcript:

Although iTunes doesn’t need an Internet connection to work, its real strength lies in its ability to get new content from the iTunes Music Store: songs, music videos, television shows, movies, and, of course, podcasts. You interact with iTunes to choose the content you want to

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October 31st, 2006

iTunes 7.0.2 Now Available

Information from Software Update

With iTunes 7 and the new iTunes Store, preview and purchase high-quality hit movies plus new and classic games designed exclusively for the Fifth Generation iPod. Flip through your collection by album cover with Cover Flow, protect your iTunes library by backing up to CDs or DVDs, and much more.

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September 28th, 2006

iTunes 7.0.1 Update Now Available

Information from Software Update.

With iTunes 7 and the new iTunes Store, preview and purchase high-quality hit movies plus new and classic games designed exclusively for the Fifth Generation iPod. Flip through your collection by album cover with Cover Flow, protect your iTunes library by backing up to CDs or DVDs, and much more.

Continue reading iTunes 7.0.1 Update Now Available

September 12th, 2006

iTunes 7.0 Now Available

Information from Software Update

With iTunes 7 and the new iTunes Store, preview and purchase high-quality hit movies plus new and classic games designed exclusively for the Fifth Generation iPod. Flip through your collection by album cover with Cover Flow, protect your iTunes library by backing up to CDs or DVDs, and much more.

Continue reading iTunes 7.0 Now Available

August 9th, 2006

WWDC Keynote

Keep up to date with what’s coming up.

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