The Mac Experience in Business & Home: Help, Tips, Discussion & Radio Show Notes

You can now watch a guided tour of many of the 300+ new features in Leopard, Apple’s new version of OS X, version 10.5, here . There are so many new features, and many existing features and applications have been drastically improved upon. This release of Leopard was well worth the extended wait.

Since you have no doubt heard by now that the tv has been delayed, I thought this would be an excellent time to share some tips that will make your impending digital home theatre experience all the more sweet. As an added challenge, I will try to subtitle each entry with a Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers song. So, here we go!

In this installation, I want to tackle content. Apple offers movies on the iTunes Store now, but who wants to pay for iTunes-compatible versions of movies they already own? Who wants to wait for all the legal battles to be fought so that they can finally download their favorite films on iTunes? Not this Mac addict.

Everyone’s talking about the iPhone (although no one is talking with it yet), and while this article is about communication, this is the last sentence that will mention the iPhone. For the moment, pass on, you hordes of latest gadget-lovers! We have other fish to fry. Last Website Wednesday Night we had a caller bring up the question of video conferencing between Macintosh OS X and Windows XP. In the past we’ve promised we’d share at least one way to make this work, and today is that day.

Pop quiz, hotshot. You’ve got to create a product catalog in InDesign. The product name has to be bold and small caps. The product code uses a smaller font and is in color. What do you do?If you’re thinking character styles, you’re getting warm. Character styles let you apply all kinds of formatting to selected text in a paragraph with just a click. Best of all, you can save and change the formatting. It’s a nice timesaver. But before you can apply your styles you still have to manually select the text to be formatted, which is a pain. A better answer is InDesign’s nested styles. This powerful feature, when used properly, can save you hours and hours and hours of work. What’s that? You say you haven’t used them? Well what are you waiting for?