GarageBand for the Musical Newbie
-- If you don't play an instrument but you have a good ear, a G4 laptop, and GarageBand, can you create an interesting song? Giles Turnbull explores. Whether you're a maestro or a newbie, you'll be able to turn inspiration into demos with the help of O'Reilly's upcoming GarageBand: The Missing Manual.
Virtual Book Signings
-- Snaggy & Nitrozac have used their virtual book
signing events to demonstrate the power of iSight and iChat AV. Now
they want to stir your creative juices to find other ways to apply
these technologies. Snaggy & Nitrozac are the authors of The Best of The
Joy of Tech.
Building Applications with AppleScript and
FaceSpan -- How can you take advantage of AppleScript to write stand-alone Cocoa applications? Matt Neuburg
introduces you to FaceSpan, a self-contained, program-building
environment that leverages the power of AppleScript. Matt is the author
of AppleScript: The
Definitive Guide.
Managing Packages on Panther with
DarwinPorts -- Ernest E. Rothman provides an
overview along with installation and update instructions for DarwinPorts, one of Mac OS X's many packaging options. Ernest is a coauthor of Mac OS X Panther
for Unix Geeks.
Your O'Reilly Account: New, Single Sign On -- O'Reilly customers and guests now have a single address and one password to access all things O'Reilly, from oreilly.com and Safari Bookshelf to all of the O'Reilly Network sites and DevCenters. When possible, we've consolidated your prior, separate accounts into one new account. Logging into the new system is quick and easy; details on how to do it have been emailed to you, and you can read more about O'Reilly's single sign on in Tony Stubblebine's weblog.
Panther Command-Line Tools: The Missing Manpages
-- Finally, Mac OS X system administrators and developers
have a quick reference to the command-line utilities that have missing,
incomplete, or inaccurate manpages. Find the command syntax, a brief
description, and the command's directory location in Appendix B of
Mac OS X Panther for Unix Geeks. If you like this chapter, read the whole book (and up to nine others) on Safari with a free trial
subscription.
FileMaker-to-Oracle Migration on Mac OS X -- David Simpson provides step-by-step instructions on using FmPro Migrator on Mac OS X to automate the transition from FileMaker to Oracle. For all of O'Reilly's Oracle books and articles,
visit oracle.oreilly.com.
Resizing an Image with Photoshop -- Learn how to modify image size, when to resample, and how to handle resolution issues from Photoshop expert Deke McClelland. We've included a sample video file so you can get a taste of the hands-on video tutorials that are an integral part of Deke's recently released Adobe Photoshop CS One-on-One .
Creating Online Help with Tinderbox -- Apple's online help system, Apple Help, has a dubious reputation among some Mac users, mainly because of pokey performance, but Panther has improved the situation. Matt Neuburg outlines the process he used to build an online help system for a Mac application using a note-taking hypertext outliner called Tinderbox. Matt is the author of AppleScript: The Definitive Guide.
Unix on Panther: Accessing the Internet -- Learn how to remotely access your Mac from other computers, how to copy files between computers, and how
the Connect to Server capability of Terminal can make common connections a breeze, in this excerpt from Learning Unix
for Mac OS X Panther.
What's New in Photoshop CS? -- Photoshop CS may have fewer new features than version 7, but quality counts more than quantity, and Ken Milburn is pretty jazzed about the quality. Read about the new features in CS he's most excited about. Ken is the author of the just-released Digital Photography: Expert Techniques.
Dev to Dev: Panic Interview -- The folks at Panic have been producing great software for the Mac since the System 7 days. James Duncan Davidson interviews the Panic cofounders to discuss Cocoa, Xcode, surviving with Apple, and making it as an independent developer. James is the author of Running Mac OS X.
Are You Talking to Me? Speech on Mac OS X -- Apple's just-announced
Spoken Interface has put speech recognition back in the news, but Mac OS X has included speech recognition and synthesis technologies for quite some time. This article delves into the often-misunderstood world of talking to your Mac.
