Take Control of iPhone Photography, 2nd Edition
The big 2nd edition of my book on how to take great photos with your iPhone is now available!
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Best US Barista
The New York Times has an article about Phuong Tran, this year’s United States Barista champion. I saw her get the title last month at the US Barista Championships, which was fun and a new experience. I’ll be at the SCAA (Specialty Coffee Association of America) conference this weekend, which is being held in Seattle, ...
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iMovie HD 5.0.2, iDVD 5.0.1, iPhoto 5.0.2 Updates
I’m still downloading the following updates, so I haven’t had a chance to test them out. But they look promising. iPhoto 5.0.2 (a 5.5 MB download) gains stability and improved performance, especially on PowerPC G3-based Macs. It also allows resizeable thumbnails in book layout mode and improves slideshow performance. iMovie HD 5.0.2 (a 2.7 MB ...
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Pregnancy Virus
Saw this link on CNN’s home page this morning: Britney Spears says she’s pregnant, who’s next? Wow, I didn’t realize pregnancy was so infectious! Good thing I haven’t spent any time around Britney lately. Who knows what I could contract?
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cf/x Plug-ins Updated for HD
I just noticed that cf/x! has updated several of its iMovie plug-ins to work with iMovie HD. I pointed someone at the iMovie discussion boards to my tutorial on how to rotate video clips, and then Christian Franz at cf/x noted that their free turn clip plug-in does the same thing. Very cool.
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Making Slideshows on the Mac
I forgot to post this when it was live, but my last Seattle Times column covered making slideshows on the Mac, using iPhoto, iMovie, and iDVD: So many iPhoto options make creating slide shows fun (the headline doesn’t make sense, since it’s not just about iPhoto, but I didn’t write it).
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Too Nice Not to Share
Sometimes the life of a computer-book author is lonely, which is why the following email truly made my day today. Thank you so much for publishing your Visual Quickstart Guide to iMovie and iDVD. My daughter had a project (a DVD about Middle School Band) that all of a sudden was due last Friday. She ...
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Morgan Stanley Web Rant
Like many people right now, I’m putting together my taxes. My wife and I have investments and a shared money market account through Morgan Stanley. I need some information from the money market account. Although we have lots of paper statements at home, I figured it was time I put all of it into Quicken, ...
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Red ink falling out of favor with teachers
My mind reels. Apparently, using red ink to grade students’ papers is “too stressful,” so an elementary school in Connecticut has banned the color from teachers’ editing arsenals: Red ink falling out of favor with teachers (CNN). Are we raising children to be so coddled that they can’t handle the color red on their homework? Maybe ...
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MPEG-1 Movies Import without Audio
Following my review of iMovie HD in Macworld, a reader wrote to say, “While you stated that iMovie can now import MPEG-4 video, you didn’t mention that it can import ONLY video. There is no sound. One of the main reasons I got iMovie was so I could use it to create a video using ...
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5-star Review of Making a Movie…
macCompanion.com reviewed Making a Movie in iMovie and iDVD: Visual QuickProject Guide, giving it five stars (out of five)! I have an iMac G5 with a SuperDrive, so I’m halfway there. All I need is a video camera and I’d be set to really enjoy this book and the necoffee.com website to the fullest. That, ...
Jeff Carlson | Never Enough Coffee Creations 