Category: 701: Mac Treat #141: Import from the Title Bar, 90 Second iTunes Samples, Holiday Letterpress Cards

Grace is out on the road helping some friends move to Colorado, so what better time for football and poker! Some of the guys are coming over to watch the Patriots visit Soldier Field and the Bears. There will be at least a couple Bears fans because my friend and mentor, Dave Sellers (who is…

In an article published earlier this week, MarketWatch awarded the prestigious title of ‘CEO of the Decade’ to Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. Supplementing the almost identical award Jobs garnered from Fortune last year, the report cites the numerous attributes leading to the resurgence of Apple at the turn of the new Millennium. Noting the company’s…

It’s great to go paperless to lessen your footprint on the environment, but sometimes, an actual physical card can’t be beat. For me, the annual holiday card is one such time. In iPhoto ’11, you can create über sophisticated letterpress cards using your photos, their templates and printing service. The process works a lot like…

This past Wednesday, Apple began deploying extended song samples in iTunes. As indicated by a letter sent to various music labels last month, this marks a storewide transition for all songs over two minutes and 30 seconds. Previously 30 seconds long, the newly extended previews will allow buyers to get a better sense of the…

This is a useful tip that I recently picked up from the Apple Pro site. It often happens that you have a file open in a program such as Photoshop or Word, but don’t know where that file is saved on your hard drive. For example, you may have double-clicked on a file inside your…

_Dear Friends,_ The Green Mountains are white once again as we have had light but steady snow fall for the past few days. Some areas have received over a foot of snow but at my house, which is known a snow heavy micro-climate, we have only gotten a couple of inches. It is enough to…