Mac Basics - Mac Graphics File Formats Charles W. Moore 06/26/2002 If you're new, or even not so new to the Mac, you may find the variety of cryptically - named graphics file formats -- TIFF, GIF, PICT, etc., confusing.
Optical Character Recognition - Mac Basics Charles W. Moore 12/06/2001 Optical Character Recognition or OCR software can save you a lot of keystrokes transcribing printed text from documents, articles, books, or letters, into editable text on your computer.
Desktop Pictures - Mac Basics Charles W. Moore 11/21/2001 Nothing personalizes the appearance of your Mac desktop more than your choice of the desktop picture.
Screen Shots - Mac Basics Charles W. Moore 11/13/2001 One of the cool Mac OS features is its ability to take snapshots, or "screenshots" of whatever happens to be displayed on your monitor at any given time.
How To Share Your Vacation Using Your Mac: Movies Kirk Hiner 11/08/2001 This month's edition isn't so much a "How To," but more of a "The Ways To." We'll take a look at various tools to help capture edit and compress your video, and get it up to your iTools account.
Hard Drive Partitioning - Mac Basics Charles W. Moore 11/06/2001 With HFS+ formatting an option since Mac OS 8.1, is there still any reason to partition your hard drive? I think so
Macs and Mics - Mac Basics Charles W. Moore 10/24/2001 A microphone connected to your Mac can be useful, but which mic?
Using Aliases - Mac Basics Charles W. Moore 10/22/2001 Mac OS Finder aliases are duplicates of file icons, essentially convenient links to files located anywhere else on your hard drive
Disabling Formatted Email - YES!!!! Charles W. Moore 10/12/2001 I regard formatted email as a regressive plague, and I strongly advocate disabling it for all mailing unless you know that the recipient will appreciate it
How To Share Your Vacation Using Your Mac: iTools Kirk Hiner 10/11/2001 Now that the hard part--photo preparation--is out of the way, we can take advantage of Apple's iTools to get those vacation photos online. It's so simple, I didn't even need to do screen captures. Of course, it's also very slow.
