Cortados on the Beach with CoffeeGeek Mark Prince
Mark Prince, founder of CoffeeGeek.com, made cortados for my wife and I at a beach in Victoria, BC using portable espresso equipment.
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New Power Mac G5s with Dual-Layer SuperDrives
Apple announced new Power Mac G5 models today, speed bumping the processors and lowering prices. In addition to more power, all models except the low-end single 1.8 GHz configuration include dual-layer SuperDrives, which can burn up to 8.5 GB of data (or three hours of MPEG-2 video). According to Apple’s Power Mac G5 page, iDVD ...
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Hotwire Coffee
I’ve been working all hours lately to finish iMovie HD & iDVD 5 for Mac OS X: Visual QuickStart Guide, but there’s only so much time I can spend at my regular office or in my home office. So a few nights ago, Kim and I ventured out to a coffeehouse I’ve been wanting to ...
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Pricing Deal on iMovie HD/iDVD 5 QuickProject
It’s funny, but Amazon has offered discounted books for so long that I just assumed that discounts automatically apply. But when I last looked at the Amazon page for Making a Movie in iMovie HD and iDVD 5: Visual QuickProject Guide, it has no discount. (Of course, the book is ridiculously low-priced at $12.99, but ...
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Slick 1.0.3 Update
GeeThree has released an updater that fixes some title issues and other glitches in their Slick iMovie plug-in packages. The updater is a 6 MB download.
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Typo in iMovie 4/iDVD 4 QuickProject
Alert reader John pointed out that a sentence was cut off on page 72 of the first edition of Making a Movie with iMovie and iDVD: Visual QuickProject Guide. In the last “extra bits” column, the sentence should end, “… via Bluetooth in the Share dialog.” Fortunately, that error was corrected in the second edition ...
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FC Studio, Adobe, and NAB
My brain is exploding today. Partly that’s because I was up until 3 am editing today’s super-packed TidBITS issue (which will go online later today, and by the way, TidBITS turns 15 this week!). But also because Apple announced Final Cut Studio at NAB, which includes Final Cut Pro 5 (with native HDV support, not ...
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Erasing Unfavorable Information
I know I give the Bush administration a hard time because, well, I think they’re doing a terrible job and are bad for the country. But I also recognize that a lot of people are trying to do the best they can, with the ultimate goal of helping the US – I just don’t think ...
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Vintage Espresso Machines
In conjunction with the SCAA conference, Hines Public Market in Seattle is showing off some vintage espresso machines. I hope to get over there on Sunday and see them for myself, but in the meantime here are some pics that someone snapped: espresso museum.
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Menu Icons and Tiger
My latest Seattle Times column is now online, which looks at the valuable menu bar utilities and notes the upcoming release of Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger: Menu-bar icons prove invaluable.
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Menu Icons and Tiger
My latest Seattle Times column is now online, which looks at the valuable menu bar utilities and notes the upcoming release of Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger: Menu-bar icons prove invaluable.
