Help From Apple
Apple has lots of tutorials on their website on how to use your mac in different ways:
http://www.apple.com/findouthow/mac/
Everyone knows that you can download the daily show on Itunes for 2-3 bucks and watch it on the go, but you can also watch the daily show for free! (with commercials...) if you have an internet connection.
http://www.cbs.com/late_late_show/
http://www.thedailyshow.com/full-episodes
http://beta.sling.com/show/list
http://beta.tidaltv.com/#65242
http://www.inner-live.com/index.php
http://www.tvchannelsfree.com/
Imovie will let you make dandy movies, but it will also make a great slideshow as well, I will show you the basics in that.
To convert video into Imove, it has to be either DV or quicktime.
http://www.edsupport.cc/mguhlin/share/index.php?n=Work.VideoGrabVLCflv2mov