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2006-02-25

WebWatch
Mac 911: Bending iWeb to your will
Use iWeb as a NetNewsWire Weblog Editor
Easiest Way to Prepare Movies for Your iPod
Make iWeb create text instead of images
Set some hidden preferences in iPhoto 6
iPhoto postcards
Reduce iWeb and Pages disk space utilization

Convert videos for iPod directly in iTunes
How to boot an Intel Mac from an external drive

Listen to the sounds of network traffic
Upgrading RAM: FAQs
Modify graphics in iWeb templates
Create fully customized iWeb templates
Avoid a security vulnerability in Safari

Boot Intel Macs from iPods and FireWire drives
MacBook Pro Reviewer's Notebook
2005-10-24

Quickly share home video via iChat
Use your video camera and iChat to stream video directly to another iChat user.

http://www.macworld.com/weblogs/macosxhints/2005/09/ichatvideoshare/ index.php?lsrc=mwrss

Make iTunes treat an MP3 podcast as a regular MP3
If any of the tags in an MP3 contain the text "podcast," then iTunes will treat that MP3 as a podcast. The problem is that iTunes won't let you edit all the tags that may contain this text...

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20050917182133400&lsrc=osxh

Automatically add lyrics to the entire iTunes Library
A new feature of iTunes 5 is the ability to store song lyrics in the ID3 tag of the song file. But iTunes can't automatically get lyrics for your existing songs. So here's an easy way to do just that.

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20050920111153279&lsrc=osxh

Mini Media Mac: mini PVR with EyeTV and ConvertX
No, this isn't the first Mac mini - PVR tutorial, but new products hand software have made this more interesting than ever before.

http://www.macmerc.com/articles/Mini_Media_Mac/327

Mac OS X Hints: Silence the volume-changing beep
Here's a simple but very useful trick for your Tuesday morning.

http://www.macworld.com/weblogs/macosxhints/2005/10/silencechange/ index.php?lsrc=mwrss

Convert an iTunes Podcast file into a standard MP3 file
iTunes organizes the podcast files in the Podcasts folder. That's a problem for podcasts that post individual MP3 music files, and not radio shows. iTunes recognizes these files as podcasts, even when you change the info on...

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20051014133654579&lsrc=osxh

Easily mute QuickTime Player movies
In the bottom left corner of a QuickTime window, there is a slider for the volume. If you click on the speaker icon, it will mute the volume and disable the slider control -- but leave the slider in its current position.

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20050918134146676&lsrc=osxh

Secrets: Whip up a widget
Sure, you can download a widget that finds the nearest Pizza Hut or that flips a virtual coin. But what if you simply want to keep track of the days until your next vacation? You don't have to settle for downloaded widgets when it's so easy to make your own.
http://www.macworld.com/2005/09/secrets/octgeekfactor/index.php?lsrc=mwrss

Make any folder a burn folder
If you haven't yet realized just how useful burn folders are in Tiger, this hint should do the trick for you.
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=2005091721191684&lsrc=osxh

Play Ogg Vorbis files in iTunes 5 / QuickTime 7
Install Arek's OggVorbis QuickTime component, and you can listen to Ogg Vorbis files in QuickTime 7.

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20051005112822984&lsrc=osxh
how-to: automatically download and convert tv for your ipod

http://www.hackaday.com/entry/1234000100064041/

Vary the iMovie 4 maximum clip size
I go to a lot of stand-up comedy shows. Sometimes I bring my video camera and record the shows, and make DVDs for the comics. When iMovie 4 "captures" a video stream from my camera, it stores the incoming DV stream as a set...

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20051010061935780&lsrc=osxh