Posts Tagged ‘transition

Reviewer Stephen H. Wildstrom (businessweek.com) calls Snow Leopard an “inexpensive and painless upgrade” that “also completes the transition from 32-bit to 64-bit computing, which enhances performance and allows the use of vast amounts of memory. Apple has pulled it off seamlessly.”

Keynote provides a variety of visual effects for use as transitions between slides.

If you’re experience problems with Visual Voicemail after your transition to the new iPhone, a reader passes along a quick fix.

If you’re ready to make the move from iPhoto to Aperture 2, professional photographer Derrick Story is here to help. In “iPhoto to Aperture: Going Pro,” he offers an informative training course designed to smooth your transition. Before signing up for his Lynda.com course, you can even sample several course sessions, including “Ten reasons to move to Aperture.”

“We’re looking at how to get news and information to people in the way they want it, when they want it,” says Mark Morneau, Gannet’s Vice President of Information Technology. Determined to transform its 900-plus print publications into interactive, always-on digital media, the media giant has already developed an iPhone app for its flagship USA TODAY

Filed under: How-tos , Tips and tricks , Odds and ends You can create some wonderful visual effects with Keynote ‘09 ; good enough, in some cases, to make experienced After Effects artists say “You did that in Keynote?!,” which is always very satisfying. Despite Keynote’s power for presentations, there are a few things that it doesn’t do natively — play video during a transition, for instance. Fortunately, some of these tricks can be accomplished by a long-honored approach known as “faking it.” If you have a video playing in the background of a slide while you trigger a dissolve transition to the next slide, ordinarily you’ll see a distracting freeze of the video playback as the transition effect runs. The way around this, usable for many (not all) slide transitions, is to pull the transition forward into the slide with the video

Filed under: iLife , Tips and tricks Being the Kool-aid sipping, Apple fanatic that you are, I’m sure you have already updated to the latest versions of iLife and iWork, right? If you have then it’s not unlikely for you to be experiencing the same kind of problem that Rob Griffiths over at Macworld is dealing with as well. Following his recent upgrade to the latest (and greatest!) version of iPhoto, Rob noticed some inconsistencies in the way Help was providing him information. Specifically, he had trouble with locating documentation on the new Faces feature when navigating through iPhoto’s Help menu and launching the Help application

Filed under: How-tos , Tips and tricks , Odds and ends , Mac 101 More Mac 101 , our ongoing series of tips and tidbits for new Mac users.

Filed under: Tips and tricks , iPhone , iPod touch The social media movement has trained us well to tag just about everything we see. The presence of tags on photos, videos, blog posts and even to-do items has become ubiquitous.


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