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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
2006-01-27

Putting Google Video onto Your iPod
There's some pretty interesting stuff on Google Video. In this article, Erica Sadun shows you how to download videos, convert them to an iPod- friendly format, and load them onto your new 5G video iPod.

http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2006/01/24/google-video.html? CMP=OTC-13IV03560550&ATT=Putting+Google+Video+onto+Your+iPod

Modify one iWeb site on more than one Mac
When opening iWeb on another computer that is connected to .Mac, you will be presented with a blank iWeb site to start from scratch, and you cannot open a previously-created iWeb site to edit.

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20060114142358803&lsrc=osxh

Create clickable URLs in iCal events
Well known is the fact that you can add a URL to an iCal entry by pasting it into the URL section. However, if you drag and drop the URL to a given day, a new event is created with the URL surrounded by angle brackets...

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20060113094651714&lsrc=osxh

Removing the Classic environment from a Mac OS X system

http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20060123081545135

TMO Quick Tips - Avoiding Stuffit's Corrupt Zip Files
Despite the fact that Stuffit Deluxe and Stuffit Expander are capable of opening more archive types than most people are even aware of, sometimes these tried-and-true Mac tools get things wrong...

http://www.macobserver.com/tip/2006/01/22.1.shtml

Quickly lock your screen
Learn a number of different ways to easily and quickly lock your screen.

http://www.macworld.com/weblogs/macosxhints/2006/01/lockscreen/index.php? lsrc=mwrss

Stream live EyeTV video to EyeHome
If you own an EyeTV device and EyeHome, you are proably aware that you cannot view your live stream with EyeHome. I searched everywhere and couldn't find a solution, so I came up with one.

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20060109064616941&lsrc=osxh

Find the missing Keynote 2 animations in Keynote 3
The new version of Keynote (found in iWork '06) adds some great features, including some new transitions between slides and builds for the way content enters a slide. Curiously, this new version seems to omit...

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20060118144601537&lsrc=osxh

Play unplayable AVI/WMV files
I'm used to being able to play almost any video on my mac with either VLC or mplayer, so when I came across an AVI file that refused to play in any player I became rather frustrated.

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20060103193926854&lsrc=osxh

Mac 911: Alternate volume booting
You understand that you can boot your Mac from another volume, but how do you select that volume on startup?
http://www.macworld.com/weblogs/mac911/2006/01/altboot/index.php?lsrc=mwrss

How to send .Mac mail when SMTP is blocked
If you travel, or use your laptop at wireless hot spots, you've probably discovered that even though you can read your .Mac email using Apple Mail, many of these providers block access to SMTP...
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20060113084246213&lsrc=osxh

Pages is a Kinder, Gentler Way to Deal with .Doc Files
Apple's Pages has become my favorite way to create workbooks for teaching. But Pages 2 raises the bar, especially in terms of MS Word compatibility.

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/9035?CMP=OTC-13IV03560550&ATT=Pages+is +a+Kinder+Gentler+Way+to+Deal+with+.Doc+Files
Easy access to the .Mac iDisk web interface
.Mac now has a friendly web-based UI for access to iDisk -- there's an iDisk button on your .Mac account's homepage. But if you'd like to get there more easily (via your own bookmark, for instance), here's the direct URL:

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20060117041800419&lsrc=osxh

Subscribe to non-.Mac photocasts in iPhoto
While iPhoto only supports photocasting via .Mac, it can subscribe to any photocast. Since photocasts are basically RSS feeds containing pictures, it's possible to subscribe to already existing feeds.

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20060112092821456&lsrc=osxh

Apple announces PowerBook G4 (15-inch 1.67/1.5GHz) Memory Slot Repair Extension Program

http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20060123092434733

Stream Sirius satellite radio via VLC
Since Microsoft is no longer supporting Windows Media Player for Mac, they recommend installing the (free) Flip4Mac WMV QuickTime Components to allow QuickTime to play WMV files and embedded movies.

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20060116110611360&lsrc=osxh