iPhoto Tips and Tricks

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Title: Informit News for October 24, 2004

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In This Issue OCT 24, 2004   Business & E-Commerce Certification Database Design & Creative Media Digital Lifestyles Hardware IT Management Networking Operating Systems Productivity Applications Programming Security Web Development If iTunes is the overachieving, multi-degreed type-A first child of Apple, then iPhoto is the quiet and creative middle child. iPhoto is Macintosh's tool for managing digital photos. It lets you create Web pages, photo albums, slide shows, and even CDs and DVDs. If you want to learn now to organize, edit, and share photos, then read the MacAddict Guide to iPhoto, an excerpt from The MacAddict Guide to living the iLife. To dig even deeper, read Maria Langer's article on creating a custom screen saver with iPhoto. Also feel free to explore our digital lifestyle article archives for more i-themed fun, including these articles on shopping at the iTunes store and how to create Final Cut Pro effects with iMovie. Finally, visit our friends at Peachpit Press, where you can enter to win a copy of Apple's iLife '04 Software and find some great savings on iLife books. Happy reading, Jennifer Bortel Associate Editorial Director [EMAIL PROTECTED] Business & E-Commerce Avoiding Mistakes That Can Destroy Your Organization A little mistake today can have catastrophic ramifications down the line. Find out how this happens and how you can lead your organization to do it right the first time. What Is Wrong with America? America has its problems, and John Talbott asserts that they seem to be getting worse. Before possible solutions can be suggested, the problems themselves have to be well understood. Only then, says Talbott, can the American people come to the necessary consensus to institute real democratic reform. More Articles in Business & E-Commerce Certification Certification Reference Guide This week is bargain week as Ed Tittel tells how you can save big money on various certifications. More Articles in Certification Database SQL Server Reference Guide Does certification in database technologies mean anything? What's involved in getting one? In the new professional development section of the SQL Server Reference Guide, Buck Woody tackles these tough questions. What Has Driven Delta Dental to a SQL Beta Next Year? Microsoft customers are testing SQL Server 2005 on different timetables. Some are old hands with the beta, but others have decided to wait a while. Tech journalist Jacqueline Emigh spoke with Karl Mudra to find out what he expects to get from a beta deployment early next year. SQL Server Transactional Replication Agents If replication performance matters to you (and if you have the "honor" of maintaining replicated environments), you don’t want to miss this latest article by Baya Pavliashvili. Want to find out how replication agents work under the covers, how to tune agents' performance and log agents' output? Read on! More Articles in Database Design & Creative Media Flash Reference Guide Macromedia has gone to great lengths to make it easy to load data into Flash.� This week, Matthew David focuses on posting data out of Flash to a server. Photoshop Reference Guide Creating, saving, and loading your own custom color sets can be critical in maintaining image consistency on big projects. Shane Rebenschied walks you through creating your own. Web Design Reference Guide Do you prefer GoLive or Dreamweaver? If you're into GoLive, we have some tips and news about upcoming features. More Articles in Design & Creative Media Digital Lifestyles Digital Lifestyles Reference Guide Michael Miller walks you through the different PDA operating systems, features available today, and a list of the most popular models in both Palm OS and Pocket PC flavors. Buying a Home Theater System, Part 2: Separate Components If you really want a high-performance home theater system, Michael Miller advises how to build it from separate components. The MacAddict Guide to iPhoto iPhoto is Macintosh's powerful tool for managing digital photos, allowing you to create Web pages, photo albums, slide shows, and even CDs and DVDs. This MacAddict guide gives you the skinny on how to get the most out of iPhoto. Haptics: Cybertouch and How We Feel About It If you really want to feel the wind beneath your virtual wings, you'll love the study of haptics. Take a peek here at this amazing technology and its implications for our world. Creating a Custom Screen Saver with iPhoto You probably have hundreds of images of family, friends, and vacations just sitting on your hard disk collecting digital dust. Why not use them to dress up your workspace by turning your favorites into a screen saver? With iPhoto 2 and Mac OS X 10.3 Panther, it's easy. More Articles in Digital Lifestyles Hardware Motherboards & Core-Logic Chipsets: The Deep Stuff Learn everything you wanted to know (and plenty that you need to know) about how motherboards work, chipsets, overclocking, and sockets. Need recommendations on what to buy next? You'll find it all here. More Articles in Hardware IT Management IT Management Reference Guide Rich Schiesser discusses the last 5 of 11 steps necessary to design and implement a world-class process to manage problems. He also provides a worksheet for use in assessing and streamlining any organization's current problem management environment. Grid Computing: Is It Right for Your Company? Grid computing has a very bright future; it brings many benefits and savings to IT. Richard Murch recommends that all IT senior staff evaluate, plan for, and implement grid technology. But successful grids must start with a comprehensive and well-thought-out plan. 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Wireless Networking with a Macintosh The elegance built into Mac networking becomes evident when you design and configure a new wireless network. Apple assistant programs can guide you through the processes, or you can customize any of the network parameters as needed for your particular situation. Larry Loeb explains how the Mac can serve you well in a wireless network. More Articles in Operating_Systems Productivity Applications Microsoft Office Reference Guide One of the very cool features in Microsoft Word is bookmarks, which let you jump to hyperlinks in document sections. Learn how bookmarks can help you create more dynamic documents and simple Web pages. Get Connected Through E-mail in Windows XP For the novice, this chapter by Shelley O'Hara offers a guide to setting up and using e-mail in Windows XP. For the experienced user, there are still tips and tricks to customizing your e-mail experience for greater efficiency and usability. 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C++ Reference Guide In the last of his three-part series about the Standard Library's containers, Danny Kalev demonstrates how to use the associative containers map, multimap, set and multiset. .NET Reference Guide Jim Mischel recently familiarized himself with the large library of Application Blocks for .NET. These blocks of code provide implementation of tasks that are common to most applications. They're user-tested, typically well optimized, and relatively bug-free. They are quite useful when developing software for clients, and Jim thought you should know about them. More Articles in Programming Security Security Reference Guide Seth and Cyrus cover Reverse Engineering, one of the key skills for many security professionals. This excerpt is from Exploiting Software: How to Break Code, which outlines the legal/social issues associated with reversing. High-Tech Crimes Revealed: An Interview with Stephen Branigan Stephen Branigan, one of the founders of the New York City task force on cybercrime and author of High-Tech Crimes Revealed: Cyberwar Stories from the Digital Front, talks to Seth Fogie about hacker motivations and how to solve cyber crimes. More Articles in Security Web Development XML Reference Guide Nick Chase adds some handy resources to go with last week's discussion of WS-Addressing. More Articles in Web Development Advertisement Big Six Publisher Sale: 45% Off Check out the killer deals on 1841 great books from Sams, Que, Peachpit Press, New Riders, Macromedia Press, and Adobe Press on Bookpool.com. 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