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5 Amazing Children's Books Apps for the iPad
The iPad is proving to be a big hit with kids. They already love the iPhone but they love the iPad even more because its bigger. A fast becoming popular category is the Children's books. With the iPad's gorgeous screen, audio capabilities and that great touch input allowing interactivity, it's not difficult to see why. Here's a list of some of the best iPad children's Books Apps that are available:
Aesop's Fables Audiobook
A beautiful rendition of 20 classic all-time favorite fables that teach morals. Next, think of spinning the wheel of fortune. Before reading any stories, children have to spin the wheel that makes selection of fable story fun and exciting. Readers are also rewarded with simple spot-the-difference games after reading fables. It also has both pre-recorded and recording audio functions in different languages. With intuitive and fun elements, children will grow to love this reading experience.
link to iTunes
Guide to Selecting Laptop Computers
There are too many laptop computers flying around us. This makes me often scratching my head searching for best laptop. And I know, sometimes you will wonder, "What should I buy?" or "Where can I get access to useful information regarding laptop computers?".
Obviously, I can't give you detailed, unbiased information regarding to laptop computers. There are times when my friends ask me what laptop computers they should buy. I only have one very simple, biased answer, "MacBook". Why? I don't know, I just love it.
I know it's not a great answer to help you determine what laptop computers you should buy. But there is a great site, Laptopical, that helps you determine it clearly. Let's see what can you get here.
When Mac Users Get Bored
What will you do with your Mac? If I were you, I think I will..
Exhaustive Tutorial for iMovie
This tutorials and all the details are written by Kelly Swee. Thanks, Kelly!
Starting Your Project (Command N)
After importing it into the mac, you will find your imported videos under the events library. To start, go to File ▸ New Project. The new project is found in the Project Library. Select and drag the video clips from the Event Library into the Project Library.
Addition of Audio (Command 1)
Click on the icon or shortcut key Command 1 to add audio tracks. You may choose a range of audio tracks from the default files, iMovie' 08 Sound Effect and iLife Sound Effects . There are so many different sound effects that you can choose from. I would advise taking some time off to go through them and get familarized so that you could refer to them as you shoot and edit videos from different ocassions. You may also obtain tracks from your iTunes and Garageband.
WWDC 2008: Welcoming iPhone 3G
First of all, I really want to thanks Apple for its kindness to provide us "only" this screenshot of iPhone 3G after WWDC 2008 finished.
Actually, I hope to see live broadcast of this year WWDC from Apple official website. After refreshing hundreds of time on the site, I decided to give up my stubbornness.
Update: Apple has uploaded WWDC 2008 Keynote Address.
Quick Way to Set Image as Desktop Picture
There is a bunch of ways to set an image as your Desktop picture, such as using Quicksilver or using Automator.
Recently, I've found another quick way to do that. Do you want to know what's that?
Mac OS X 10.5.2 Update
There is an update for Mac OS X to 10.5.2 which they claim can improve the stability and performance of current version of Mac OS X 10.5.1. together with security update.
Macbook Paper!
Found this video from youtube, very creative idea, cool. Please go to this website to download the pdf to create your very own MacBook Paper! Enjoy!
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Preview Tutorial - Embed Icon into Stack Drawer
It's Something Like This..
You Only Need Preview..
The drawer above can be easily made with only your Mac OS X Leopard little humble Preview.
Leopard Take A Look - Terminal
Leopard packs Terminal differently in such a way that it will definitely increase your productivity.
Old Tiger's Terminal
Let's see our Terminal way of saying by our old Tiger, in which I discussed in my other article Styling Terminal
Leopard Take A Look - Mail
Leopard Mail supports AOL, Yahoo! Mail and Gmail. And many features added, including RSS.
Mail and Spotlight
You will be really often to use Spotlight inside your Mail. Spotlight can spot messages, to-dos, notes, or even RSS feeds inside your Mail. And I love the new smarter Spotlight ranking system. Let's see how Spotlight search the keyword Leopard for certain RSS. You can compare with Spotlight search result with the very same keyword for entire Mail.
Leopard Take A Look - Desktop
I believe you don't want to miss all this features, such as Quick Look and Fan View.
Automatic, Fan and Grid View
Control-Click on your Folder that sits on the Dock. When the contextual menu appeared, mouse hover the View as and there will be three types of new view for Leopard : Automatic, Fan, and Grid.
If you choose automatic view, Leopard will automatically switch to fan view if your folder only has some contents and will switch to grid view for folder with a bunch of contents.
Road to Leopard
Time for Upgrade : 1h 53m 14s
Time for Clean Install : 1h 2m 27s
Total Time Estimation : 2h 55m 41s
Backing Up Data
You can use Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper. You can see my older post related to this.
Preparing to Install
Once you inserted the installation disk and run the installation, something like this will appear. Restart your Mac to make it reboot from disk. The big 'X' logo is so eye-catching that it's hard to notice there is a Restart button at the bottom-right corner.
Hi, Leopard
Finally, we come into this very exciting moment. The arrival of Leopard.
Styling Terminal
Increasing your productivity and your interest in using Terminal can be started from customizing and styling your Terminal.
Terminal Inspector
Terminal Inspector will be needed to customize your Terminal. To show up Terminal inspector, you can either pressing Command-I when you're inside Terminal or tracing through menu bar File → Show Info.DIY Replacing Mac Harddisk
Replacing harddisk for Mac is not difficult if we already have the knowledge. Click on the title to see the DIY tutorial.
Quick and Easy Photoshop Shortcuts on Mac
It's very lucky for me to discover shortcuts for photoshop CS3 and CS2 presented by Trevor Morris.
It's really amazing, great, and wonderful. However, we have to set them (can see how Jennifer make it..) and the most difficult part is we have to memorize them all. It's like my dull memory being insulted every time I tried to memorize and accidentally forgot them all in an instant.
But hey, why don't we set our shortcut to be windows way? We just need to quickly access to the menu bar and pull down all the menu inside, sounds nice.. Let's give it a try!
First of all, we need a very powerful keyboard shortcut to access directly to the menu bar. And for the sake of our comfort, I prefer to change it (and also recommend you) Command-[?].
Now we can easily reach our menu bar just like those windows fellows' *ALT+F*. The difference is, the pop down menu won't reveal itself unless it's told to do so.
Thing is getting more and more interesting now. After make sure that your Apple is highlighted, you can jump from one menu to another menu by typing a little portion of menu tab you want to go.
Changing Shortcuts for Accessing Menu Bar
- Invoke your QuickSilver Option-Space
- Type in keymouse to enter Keyboard & Mouse Preference Pane.
- Go under Keyboard Shortcut tab
- The one highlighted in image below is what you should press (or maybe change) in order to access to menu bar
DVD Player - Setting Autoplay
Have you ever watched DVD using Mac? Or listen to your CD via iTunes?
Whenever you insert the DVD, Mac will ask you what to do (expect you've set up the autoplay), it's really annoying, can it be automated? Of course it can. Now let's set up the autoplay.