May 2007 meeting

No more DRM for Itunes

Right now you can buy an EMI record label song for $1.30 on Itunes without the Fairplay DRM.

The rumor is that most or all songs may be DRM free soon!

Keyboard shortcut of the day

If you click on an icon in the finder and want to rename it, just hit the Enter key on the numeric keypad!

Digital Cameras

My favorite website for digital camera reviews is Steve's Digicams. He give the most exhaustive, in detail review of most cameras out there. He also gives a rundown of the best cameras that are out there.

Several other websites are

The digital camera resource page

Digital photography review

Cameralabs

Keywords in Iphoto

To get started with using keywords, go to preferences and go to the keyword tab, and make the keywords you want to use. Then Click on the Key in the lower left hand corner of the screen. To assign a keyword to a picture or roll, drag it to the keyword you want. To remove a keyword, hold down the option key while dragging.

Pivot Tables

Pivot tables are a very powerfull tool in excel for summarizing data Microsoft has a very good page explaining it.

You can download my Sample file and play around with it.

 

Firefox extensions

Most mac users use Safari, and some use Firefox.

Firefox has a whole bunch of extensions to make it easier and better to use, here is my list of favorites:

1. Adblock Plus, or Flashblock: These let you block those ads, or pesky flash advertisements.

2. Flashgot, or DownloadThemAll! If you have ever needed to download 20 PDF's or 20 images from a website, then you can use one of these to turn it into a painless process.

3. Gmail manager. This one lets you manage more than one Gmail account with ease.

4. del.icio.us extension: Lets you add new bookmarks to del.icio.us easier.

Safari extensions

While safari is not as easy to write ad-ons for there is a website called Pimp my Safari Which has a few extensions.

IceClean

If your spotlight is not searching right, or something else needs maintence, Iceclean will try to fix that for you.

Mozy

Mozy is an online backup utility, which for free will let you backup 2 gigs a month, and for only 4.95 a month will backup all you files!