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Creating video animations on the cheap with keynote.

Who needs motion? For most of us, motion is a little overkill.  Sure it creates pretty little animations for your videos, but so does keynote.  Yup, you heard me right. Keynote lets you create an animation and export it as a .mov file, so you can use it in your home videos, podcasts, screencasts, and [...]

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Managing multiple iPhoto libraries

In the “early” days we had to use third party applications to maintain multiple iPhoto libraries. With iPhoto 08 Apple has given us the tools we need to do it in iPhoto. In this screencast, we’ll show you how to manage multiple libraries. Download it here

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Change any icon (mostly) that you want in Leopard

A couple quick tips and you’re well on your way to customizing leopard beyond the dock location.  You have the ability to switch the icons all over the place.  You finally have all the control you need with native applications. download it here PS.  You can change the finder Icon by following these steps

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Disk Inventory X Lets me clear up room for my… uhh.. music?

Sometimes our hard drives get really really really full and we have no idea why.  We could use the terminal to find huge files sizes, but we could also use Disk Inventory X to get a visual representation of the files on our system.  Get a quick look at huge files so you can remove [...]

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Rotate your videos: I can’t believe I have to clarify this.

It’s 2008 and somehow some people continue to think that a movie camera works just like a still frame camera. Is it me, or did everyone suddenly jump off the short bus all at once? If you rode the short bus as a kid, chances are you’re probably not gonna get what I’m saying [...]

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