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101 Photoshop Tips in Five Minutes ... If you've ever read a computer magazine, you know the idea behind "101 Tips." One gala issue, lots of first-rate contributors, lots of quality information. And lots and lots of pages. But when's the last time one lone guy tried to capture 101 tips in video? In just 5 minutes of video? Set to music? This is the realm of dekePod, the once-every-other-weekly series from Deke McClelland. It's bold, it's brash, it's ridiculous. It's a podcast with serious issues. Enjoy.
Digital Home Recording Tips, Part 1 ... Don't fix it in the mix — get it right the first time! DIY guru Michael Dean explains how to capture a clean signal so you don't have to mess with balky noise-reduction software after the fact. Get field-tested mic tips, computer tips, and more.
Digital Media Insider Podcast 25: Greatest Bits ... DMI hits 25! Listen in as we explore our favorite moments from the first 24 episodes and unearth some never-before-heard bonus material. From vocoders to space-helmeted cover bands, from the secret sound of Goldfrapp to harmonious fat men, here are Digital Media Insider's greatest hits.
Know Your Lens Model and Other Metadata Tricks in Aperture ... Would you like to know the exact lens you used for every shot in your Aperture library? In this podcast with Joe Schorr, Derrick Story learns about the new "Lens Model" field and how to use it. Plus Joe explains how to update your previously uploaded images in Aperture to also display this information. Other helpful techniques include tapping the power of the Query HUD and changes in Aperture 2 to help you better look inside Stacks.
Your Mac Knows When You're Home ... In the movies, smart homes automatically greet you when you return after a hard day's work. But in reality, this hasn't been very easy to do. In this article, Gordon Meyer shows you how you can program your Mac to know you're there. Once you get started, you'll find all sorts of useful ways your Mac can welcome you home.
Review: Olympus LS-10 WAV/WMA/MP3 Recorder ... After capturing 65% of the voice-recorder market, Olympus has now aimed its zoom lens at portable WAV/MP3 recorders. Guitarist Mark Nelson tests this 24-bit, curvaceous, aluminum-clad beauty and likes what he feels and hears. Telephoto mics, anyone?
Getting Started with the Google App Engine ... Continuing the trend started with Amazon's Elastic Cloud (EC2), Google plans to make their vast resources available to developers who wish to deploy massively scalable applications on the Google Infrastructure. In this tutorial, you'll get a look into the APIs and database capabilities that Google is providing, and how to leverage them in a sample application.
Reader Submitted Tips for Aperture ... One of the fun things about running the "Inside Aperture" site is receiving reader contributions. Every now and then a clever new technique shows up in our aperture@oreilly.com mailbox, many of which I try. But why should I get to have all the fun? So, this week I'm sharing a handful of reader-submitted techniques. My guess is that you'll find one or two particularly useful.
Under the Hood: Oracle Berkeley DB XML ... XML Databases, coupled with the power of XQuery, offer a potentially paradigm-changing way of dealing with data. The Oracle Berkeley DB XML database provides a rich XQuery-based engine that can be manipulated via XQuery, opening up possibilities for any web developer.
Creating Applications with Amazon EC2 and S3 ... Cloud computing has become the new hot thing (Web 3.0?) Amazon was one of the first vendors to offer a cloud development environment, the Elastic Compute Cloud, or EC2. They followed it up with a storage capability called S3. This tutorial will show you how to set up and get started developing applications on EC2 and S3.
Review: Marantz PMD620 Handheld WAV Recorder ... With an exotic OLED display, baby-simple controls, good sound, and an attractive price, the Marantz PMD620 aims to stand out in the crowded world of portable digital audio recorders. How well does it perform? Mark Nelson frails a gourd banjo to find out.
Beginner's Introduction to Perl 5.10, Part 2 ... Perl 5 has come a long way in the past few years. The newest version, Perl 5.10, added several new features to make your programs shorter, easier to maintain, easier to write, and more powerful. Here's how to start using files and strings in modern Perl.
Does Enterprise Development Have to Be Painful? (Part Two) ... After several years away from anything resembling enterprise software, chromatic accepted a challenge from SAP Labs to try their new software development platform. What lessons have they learned from dynamic languages and frameworks? Has developing big serious software truly become more agile? In this second of three articles, chromatic uses SAP NetWeaver Composition Environment to build a bare-bones application from the data model to the UI.
Meet The Hardy Heron: What's New in Ubuntu 8.04 ... Ubuntu 8.04 (code named Hardy Heron) is out, and Brian DeLacy not only has the scoop on the new features, but a look at some of the players who made it happen, places it's in use, and what machines it's running on.
Layout Tool Disguised as Aperture's Book Making Function ... Aperture 2.1 includes a more versatile book-making tool than we saw in earlier versions. So powerful in fact, that calling it a book making tool is really selling it short. It's actually a flexible layout application with some very useful output options. In this podcast, Derrick Story talks with Joe Schorr and tries to uncover all the hidden gems buried in Aperture 2.1.