TUAW reader Irice22 wrote "I accidentally switched over to iTunes Plus. How do I go back to the old format?" Here's how:
Apple's "Apple Camp" is a series of workshops at retail stores intended for younger kids - aged 8 to 12 years - and their families. The schedule for 2007 has been made available, and all sessions will take place in July. Topics to be covered include making a podcast, iWeb and iPhoto, working with digital music and making a movie. 
You've got a window open, any window. A Finder window, say, or in many of the built-in Apple apps like TextEdit. Ever wonder exactly which directory you're looking at? Here's a simple trick that may be new to you if you're a switcher.
See the name of your file or folder at the top of that OS X window? It usually has a small icon right next to it. Command-click the name or title in that title bar and OS X will show you the directory tree that leads down to the item you're looking at.
And if you click on a folder in that list? Finder automatically opens a new window showing that folder. Very convenient.
Today with so many of us using our digital cameras to shoot short video segments, it's especially easy to forget that we're dealing with videos and turn the camera on its side for a portrait orientation. Unfortunately, most video programs are not set up to handle portrait video. The video ends up displaying on its side. QuickTime Pro makes it easy to recover from this kind of shooting calamity and restore the orientation you intended. Here's a gallery showing you how.
Gallery: Rotating a video with QT Pro
TUAW's earlier post showed you how to create an overlay using transparency and sized to match your QuickTime video. In this, the second of two how-to galleries, you'll learn how to open your overlay in QuickTime Pro and merge it with your video to create a translucent bug in the corner of your movie. Be aware: you do need to upgrade QuickTime to "Pro" to take advantage of these powerful video-editing features. Gallery: Overlaying a video in QuickTime
You know those logos that appear in the corner of your TV, overlaying your TV shows? It isn't hard to create the same effect using an image editor like Photoshop and the hidden features of QuickTime Pro. In this, the first of two how-to galleries, you'll see how to prepare an overlay using your favorite photo editor. You need to make the overlay the same size as your destination video, and you need to take advantage of your editor's "alpha" transparency features to create a translucent logo that will overlay your video. Gallery: Preparing a QuickTime Overlay
Apple has a support article up today discussing how and in which order your iTunes Store credits get redeemed. Here's the run-down in a nutshell:
If you have a free song credit from, for example, a Coke or Pepsi promotion and you're buying a song, that credit gets used first. It doesn't matter what other credits or allowances you have in your account. Buy a song, use the song credit.
Gift certificates, prepaid cards and allowances form the second line of use. If you're buying an album (can't apply free song credits to albums), or if you've used up all your free song credits, these credits get used. If the cost of your items is less than your credits, you're done and dandy. If not, the balance moves up to your credit card.
Your credit card only gets charged after you've exhausted all these other kinds of credits, and only for the remaining balance after applying the free songs, certificates, cards and allowances to your purchase. The credit card is basically the last line of defense, picking up any extra billing at the end of the purchase.
About a month ago I swallowed the poison and picked up a Cingular BlackJack, a new Windows Mobile Smartphone (I know, I know). I had been looking to step up to some sort of a PDA phone so I can surf and keep on top of WIN/TUAW business without having a MacBook sewn to my head, and so far it's been working out well. The one thing I haven't been able to figure out yet is how to use this cutting-edge HSPDA phone (a new high-speed wireless data network) as a modem - until now. Continue reading How To: Tether a Samsung BlackJack to get your Mac online
OCD sufferers of the world unite! Do the little bits and bobs of dirt and fluffy things that grow in your keyboard annoy you? Are you tired of trying to q-tip between your keys without really getting the job done?
Fortunately for you, you're not alone. Website the mini Blog offers a great how-to today that guides you through the steps of getting your Apple keyboard shiny and clean and fluff-free.
Don't forget to take a picture of your keyboard before disassembling it. It will really help when you need to reattach all your keys.
After discussing how my iTunes library is set up with a few readers in the comments on my First Impressions/2G iPod nano post, I figured this might be a handy tip for readers who find themselves running out of room to store an expanding iTunes library. My only machine is a MacBook Pro with a 120GB hard drive, but after installing ~ 40GB of the entire Final Cut Studio suite and other various software and projects, I don't have room for my ~ 35GB iTunes library.Continue reading How To: keep your iTunes library on an external hard drive
Brian at FreeMacBlog works for a company called Macminicolo, which will store your Mac mini in a nice, friendly server cage where it can sit with its friends and distribute web pages, email or whatever you want. After setting up and maintaining a large number of minis for clients, Brian decided to take what he has learned and create a video series on the nuts and bolts of setting up your mini (or any OS X Mac for that matter) as a server. The first video can be found here, and focuses on the initial setup. Check it out, and put that Mac of yours to work.
Continue reading How To: Run other OSes on your Mac with Parallels Workstation
So Google
has released a web calendar that supports the iCal format.
Big deal, right? I use iCal, so what do I care? Well, you can use iCal to subscribe to any shared Google Calendar, and
it works like a charm, though keep in mind that Google Calendar doesn't support Safari (I used Camino to make this how
to).Continue reading HOWTO: Subscribe to a Google Calendar using iCal
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