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Presentations

  • Aug 2009 - Audio on the Mac. A survey of many audio projects and applications. Store, organize and play music. Listen to Internet radio and streaming audio. Grab audio from the Internet and applications, Digitize records and tapes. Play, edit and record MIDI files.
  • Apr 2009 - Importing music and audio books into iTunes, joining tracks and making them bookmarkable, Creating a music or MP3 CD and backing up iTunes to a CD or DVD.
  • Mar 2009 - A review and demo of iWork (Pages, Numbers and Keynote), a successor to AppleWorks.
  • Feb 2009 - EXIF data. Info that your camera attaches to your photos telling how, when and where the picture was taken. With GPS tagging this will become increasingly important.
  • Aug 2008 - Is Starbucks Safe? - A 19-page PDF presentation on the safety of using the Internet in public places - coffee shops, airports and hotels. It includes a simple explanation of SSL (Secure Socket Layer) and Digital Certificates.
  • July 2008 - iMovie demo. These are slides I used to introduce my sample video and demo of iMovie 5. I've added a few slides since giving the talk.
  • Oct 2007 - Image Editing - 24 Slides from a talk on image editing with emphasis on the capabilities of GraphicConverter
  • Feb 2007 - Convert Vinyl Records and Tapes to CD. A topic of interest to many people, I revised it once, and although some software has changed the approach is still valid.
  • Nov 2006 - Passwords. Mac OS X passwords, Keychain, password managers and form autofill. A 16-page PDF presentation.
  • July 2006 - Mail. An 18-page PDF presentation of the various flavors of mail. Needs updating but it still has useful information.
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Newsletter Articles and Presentations

Mouse over the year to view articles I've written in that year. Articles from 2004 to 2007 are collected into 12-page composite PDFs for each year. View and/or download them. Technology is evolving rapidly so topics and programs even a few years old can already be out of date. Panther anyone? Still, some are timeless.

Some presentations or mini-presentations I gave at the Beginners Q&A or the main meeting. I prepared them using Keynote and then exported them as PDF files. You don't need anything special to view them, just Apple's Preview or Adobe Reader.

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Jan Panther and The Missing Manual, Panther Edition

 

Feb MIDI & eMedia Piano & Keyboard Method

 

Mar More cool Panther features

 

Apr Cool Freeware from www.pixture.com

 

May Web authoring software & Freeway Express

 

Jun Wi-Fi Guide from O'Reilly, Email spies & Camino 0.8

 

Jul Cocoa, the Services menu and how to deal with Spam

 

Aug The Big Mix, a collection of audio programs

 

Sep You've got Mail - Web mail services

 

Oct Managing Photos and a review of iLife '04 Missing Manual

 

Nov Search engines (other than Google) and RSS readers

 

Dec Transfer files from an old Mac to a new Mac

 

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Jan History of the Mac, NeoOffice/J and FireFox

 

Feb Share Photos in OS 9 and X

 

Mar iWorks and AppleWorks

 

Apr Plug-ins, Gmail and Google

 

May Docs and Apps. Sometimes double-clicking works

 

Jun Mac Music and Audio

 

Jul Security. Keep out of trouble on the Internet

 

Aug Missing Manuals for iLife 5 and Drive Genius 1.1.1

 

Sep Dragon Burn 4.1 for creating CDs and DVDs

 

Oct Back up to a cheap, bootable, Firewire drive

 

Nov Address books and compatibility.

 

Dec Web browsers and Safari features.

 

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Jan Streaming media and players

 

Feb More about iTunes

 

Mar Manage all those passwords and keep them safe

 

Apr Organize and store bits of information

 

May Now Up-to-Date & Contact; iWork 2.0

 

Jun Free alternatives to Microsoft Office and Word

 

Jul Some of my favorite freeware programs

 

Aug Encrypt sensitive data using disk images

 

Sep POP, web mail and spam

 

Oct Skype, free Internet Telephone

 

Nov Apple Disk Utility

 

Dec Eliminate Spam on the server

 

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Jan Passwords

 

Feb Creating web pages

 

Mar Creating audio books with iTunes

 

Apr How I use my Mac

 

May System update strategy

 

Jun Email Etiquette

 

Jul Protect yourself against spam and bad guys

 

Aug Burning CD/DVDs with Toast 8

 

Sep Text Editors for text manipulation

 

Oct Amadeus audio recording software

 

Nov iWork '08

 

Dec Photo slide shows using iPhoto, GC and Keynote

 

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Jan Photoshop CS3 Standard & Extended

 

Feb iData 3, a database for the rest of us

 

Mar Mini graphic apps, when you don't need heavy artillery

 

Apr RSS readers and NetNewsWire

 

May Adobe Photoshop Lightroom

 

Jun Creating web sites with Freeway 5

 

Jul Toast 9 for burning CDs and DVDs