SPECIALS | 02/13/09 – 02/20/09

__Originally featured Friday, June 13th, 2008__

The MacBook Air and newest MacBook Pros include Multi-Touch-capable trackpads that let you rotate, resize, and gesture your way through many common tasks. For instance, you can increase and decrease font size in Safari by making a pinching gesture with two fingers on the trackpad.

You can use three fingers swiped left or right to go forward or back in your browser history. I very recently discovered that the three-finger trick works in Mail on my MacBook Air: three fingers to the left gets you to the previous message, and three fingers swiped to the right gets you to the next message. Pretty cool!

I’m hoping to get some more snow over the next week so that we can show off some great winter conditions next weekend when my parents come up.

Next week, we’ll have more news, specials and other fun things for you. Thanks for reading this issue of Kibbles & Bytes!

Your Kibbles & Bytes team,
__Kali__ (with help from my Small Dog contributors!)

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Valentine’s Day seems to conjure up very strong emotions–you either love it or hate it. Either way, you’ll need a soundtrack.

We’ve channeled our emotional sides to bring you some iTunes iMixes of love and loathing (“interestingly enough, so did NPR, even naming their playlist similarly!”:http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=100411956).

If you’d like to check out what Small Dog employees need to get them going, “click here to view our entire playlist.”:http://www.smalldog.com/imix The link to purchase our iMix will be featured there shortly!

*How to Make Your Own iMix*

An iMix is a playlist from your iTunes library that is published for all to view and purchase through the iTunes Store. To make your own, follow these steps:

* Create a playlist of your favorite songs in iTunes
* Click “Store” from the Menu Bar and select “Create an iMix”
* Name the playlist, provide a description and select Publish

Apple will notify you when your iMix has been published!

Yes, this is be more of an iPhone tip, but it’s a great one! If you have an iPhone and a library of music that you’d love to hear on your phone, this is for you.

* Open GarageBand and iTunes
* In GarageBand, open a new project and delete the default track (it usually opens with a Piano track; get rid of it by selecting “Track” from the Menu Bar and click “Delete Track”)
* Find the song you want to use in iTunes and drag it into GarageBand
* In GarageBand, click on the Cycle Region button (it looks like a version of a “recycle” image)
* Click the Measures button (the musical note to the right of the Cycle Region button), and select Time
* Edit the song’s length (keep it under 40 seconds) to what you want to loop as a ringtone
* When finished, select “Share” from the Menu Bar and select “Send Ringtone to iTunes”)
* In iTunes, you will see your new ringtone in the Ringtones section in the left hand column

I’ve gone a little crazy, and created custom ringtones for most of my friends and family…

__Note: This tip is for the Mac only. To get instructions for Windows, “check this article on CyberNet.”:http://cybernetnews.com/2008/08/21/cybernotes-create-free-iphone-ringtones-using-itunes-in-windows/#more-14702

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