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Using Spaces — one of the great features in Mac OS X Leopard — you can stay organized and avoid desktop clutter by putting applications in their own Spaces: Pages and Numbers in one; iTunes in another; Mail, iChat, and Safari in a third Space. But what if you want to use Mail and iChat regardless of the Space your working in? Find out how by watching the latest Quick Tip of the Week.
You don’t have to be a magician to make your Mac speak. In fact, the ability to speak text in email messages, Pages documents, PDFs, spreadsheets, and other text-based files is built in to every Mac. You turn it on in System Preferences, where you’ll find all the Text to Speech options made available to you in Mac OS X Leopard. You can read about them in the latest Pro Tip.
The “latest iPod nano continues to hold the edge over competitors,” observes Tom Rose (bostonherald.com), “thanks to two main factors: ease of use and third-party accessories.” Rose points out that the iTunes Store “remains the best. The store’s navigation is brilliantly simple. Likewise, the syncing between iTunes and iPod could not be easier.”
They were teenagers, New Yorkers, members of “the greatest generation,” when the world suffered through the economic and geo-political upheaval of World War II. Many years later, thanks to the PBS station WNET, they sat across from six high school filmmakers to tell the story of what it was like to live during those tumultuous times. Enoy Over Here on iTunes U.
Opening October 3, Rachel Getting Married stars Anne Hathaway as Kym, a troubled ex-model who returns home to attend the wedding of her sister Rachel (Rosemarie DeWitt). Written by first-time screenwriter Jenny Lumet, Rachel Getting Married is the most recent film from the Oscar-winning director Jonathan Demme. Watch the trailer and an exclusive film clip on our Movie Trailers site.
On a Mac, you can drag a file from Location A to Location B, moving the file from its old residence to a new one. But what if you wanted two copies of the file: one at Location A and a second one at Location B? Or, here’s another option, what if you wanted the file to live at Location A but have an “alias” live on the Desktop? Learn how you can drag yourself to all three outcomes by watching this week’s Quick Tip.
“Some things,” says Bob Levitus (chron.com), “are inevitable.” Such as “new and improved iPods.” He’s pleased that the new 120GB iPod classic offers more storage for less money and that the new iPod touch “supports the Nike + iPod sensor in my running shoes” without an additional receiver. And he certainly admires the “gorgeous new curved aluminum and glass enclosure” of the new iPod nano.
Not only did Ryan Kim (sfgate.com) find the new iPod nano “great for video,” but he also found the new Genius feature “surprisingly helpful in mixing up my listening habits.” Genius allowed him “to create a new playlist on the fly that made my listening experience feel fresh again.”
Wish you could copy that new proposal to your iPhone and review it on the plane? Now you can. Air Sharing ($6.99) from Avatron Software lets you wirelessly connect iPhone or iPod touch to a Mac, PC, or Linux computer. Drag documents (including MS Office docs, Pages documents, Keynote presentations, PDFs, images, and others) to your iPhone or iPod touch. And view them on the go.
After he learned how to use Final Cut Pro during his weekly One to One training sessions, Larry Newman created his very first movie. The other day, Newman picked up his first Emmy Award. His film, “Children’s Music Workshop: 2007 All Schools Honor Orchestra,” reports Filip Truta (softpedia.com) took the Emmy “in the category of Outstanding Achievement in Children/Youth and Music Programming.”