News, Reviews and more from Australia's Macintosh Authority
News, Reviews and more from Australia's Macintosh Authority
There are plenty of things you can do with iTunes that you can’t do easily with CDs. One of them is keeping track of how many times you’ve listened to specific songs or albums. While you’d need a pen and paper—or a spreadsheet—to do this for music you listen to on disc, iTunes does this automatically. Each time you get to the end of a track, iTunes increments the play count, and, at the same time, updates the last-played date. Your iPod and iPhone do this as well, though the iPod shuffle records as the last-played date the date and time at which you sync the device after playing songs.
Kirk McElhearn | Jul 29, 2009
With stunningly fast shutter speeds, today’s cameras can stop almost any motion. But some subjects—such as race cars and babbling brooks—become more interesting when you emphasise their motion, letting the action happen during the exposure.
Jennifer Wills | Jul 28, 2009
When your printer won't print, sometimes you'll try the basics of printer troubleshooting with no results. Whether your printer's Dock icon bounces endlessly or a message says you're stuck at "connecting," here's how to handle problems with your printer queue.
Ted Landau | Jul 28, 2009
Here’s a simple tip for those who follow RSS feeds in Mail (in OS X 10.5). Many sites’ RSS feeds, such as Macworld’s own feed, include author information with the other data fields such as subject, date, and content. In Mail, however, you won’t see this author information.
Rob Griffiths | Jul 27, 2009
We’ve all seen the wedding reception slide show featuring the happy couple growing up through childhood, dating, and then finally becoming permanently intertwined in each other’s lives. You can imagine how long it took an intrepid soul to build that production. But if you've used the Faces feature in iPhoto ’09 to identify the people in your photos, you can produce the same heartwarming tribute in just a few minutes.
Derrick Story | Jul 27, 2009
If you use Keynote for presentations, and like to provide handouts of your slides to the audience, you may find yourself frustrated by the apparent limitations in the Print dialog for generating handouts. If you select Individual Slides (in the Keynote section of the Print dialog), then you get one slide per page, which is a huge waste of paper. If you use Handout, the seemingly-obvious choice, you get a user-selectable number of slides per page—but each slide is tiny and left aligned, to leave room for the display of notes. You get this layout even if you don’t print the notes, so your slides are tiny and left-aligned, with huge amounts of white space to the right.
Rob Griffiths | Jul 24, 2009
As I type these words, I am waiting for Apple's Developer Connection web site to ease up sufficiently for me to download the long-awaited Software Developer Kit for the iPhone (and iPod touch, just by the by). In a way, I hate developer-oriented announcements — "here's a really cool thing we're working on, and it's available now, and hoi polloi can have it in about six months". Actually, it's the six months I hate.
