The Joys of Quick Look

The Joys of Quick Look
by Claire J Rottenberg
CJRTOOLS ebooks
One of the great new features of Leopard, Quick Look, can change the way you view documents, images and video files. Before discovering the joys of Quick Look, I was constantly wasting time launching different programs to view files. Now, I just hit the Space Bar and [...]

CJR Tools looking for reviewers

CJR Tools is looking for reviewers for the iPhoto ‘08 guide and private course. Also available is iTunes 7 in 6 Easy Lessons.
Let me know if you’d like to participate in this program.

The Digital Photography Companion

Brent Petersen, Kachemacs

Product Title: The Digital Photography Companion
Author: Derrick Story
Price: $24.99 retail (remember our group discount!)
Publisher: O’Reilly Media, Inc
Publisher Phone #: (800) 998-9938
Website: www.oreilly.com
Summer is approaching and its time to get out your digital camera for some great shots. If you are a beginner or need to refresh your skills, or [...]

Online Video Network, The Digital Lifestyle

We received this message from through the blog and I’m giving the Kachemacs an opportunity to check it out.
Hi,
I’m the producer of TheDigitalLifestyle.tv an online video network of Apple news, rumors, and lifestyle. I wanted to let Kachemacs know about the channel, not only because of the general Apple relevance, but also because we’re always [...]

New review copies from O’Reilly

Just in, we have some great titles from O’Reilly. Now available for review:
Switching to the Mac, Leopard Edition
Photoshop Elements 6 for Mac
Office 2008 for Macintosh
Thanks, O’Reilly! I need help from the Kachemacs finding homes for these handy references.

Mac OS X: The Missing Manual, Tiger Edition

Cheryl Riley, Kachemacs

Product Title: Mac OS X: The Missing Manual, Tiger Edition
Author: David Pogue
Price: $29.95 retail (remember our group discount!)
Publisher: O’Reilly Media, Inc
Publisher Phone #: (800) 998-9938
Website: www.oreilly.com
As a new Mac computer user I found this book to be very helpful. I enjoyed the introduction as it [...]

Needed: pen and paper artists!

We are really getting into the product reviews. I would like to make a set of graphics to depict the ratings of our products. I’m thinking for a scale of 1-5, we need 5 thumbnail pictures of which one can go on each review.
My thoughts are to tap into the marine theme of [...]

Monthly study sessions?

The success of the study session we had today leads me to propose to the group a possibility of continuing this practice.
In order for study sessions to be a success there need to be enough varying levels of proficiency so that we can get a lot of one on one. I’m hoping all sorts [...]

Saturday study session

We had a great turnout in the library today! We had great chemistry, with just enough people of varying skill levels. All new users got attention they needed, and some of us veterans had a chance to help people out and make their Macs work for them, not against them.
The attendees were generous [...]

MarsEdit2 for the Kachemacs

Hooray!
Red Sweater Software has given us a copy of MarsEdit2 to use for posting to our group blog. MarsEdit2 is an editor for many popular blogs which enables the user to compose posts while offline in an easy to use format. This is my first post using the software, and I’m [...]