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Have we really not covered iChat before? iChat AV is the latest version of Apples instant messaging client included as part of OSX Leopard. It allows you to send and receive text, audio and video directly to your OSX desktop. Updated in Leopard, iChat AV also has some new advanced features enabling you to share your screen or even deliver remote video presentations via iChat Theatre. In this weeks show I cover: iChat Basics iChat Accounts Using iChat on a Bonjour Network Text messaging with iChat Audio messaging with iChat Setting up and Using an iChat Room Sharing a Keynote with iChat Theatre Screen Sharing with iChat Something different this week is that I'm joined by a couple of other well know podcasters to help me out on the chat side of things, so you hear an appearance by Chris Marshall as we audio chat between the UK and Spain, along with Allison Sheridan from the NosillaCast podcast as we video conference all the way from the US. Please note that if you're receiving this notification via the ScreenCastsOnline email notification service, the link inserted below is for access to the free version (or trailer) of this show. If you're a ScreenCastsOnline Extra Member you should receive the members version of the show via iTunes or directly from the ScreenCastsOnline Extra Members website.

What a week for Apple! First iTunes 7.7, then the App Store, then MobileMe and finally the iPhone 3G. All in three days! In the spirit of such an ambitious program, I thought I’d cover the rollout of MobileMe and what you needed to do to setup your Mac and iPhone using the MobileMe installer. Leaving the show for the very last minute, I waited until Apple started the 6 hour migration task and then proceeded to cover the installer based on a pre-release of the utility. Little did I know that the 6 migration window scheduled by Apple would turn out to be so much longer. In fact over 24 hours later it still hadn’t finished or stabilised. So this weeks show is really the first part of using MobileMe, and I’ve had to leave the web applications until they are generally available. I also took some time to look at the new iTunes release and the brand new App store in iTunes. So a relatively short show this week but enough to help you out with your MobileMe migration. If you are receiving this via an Email Notification, the file mentioned at the bottom of the email is the trailer for the full show. Extra! members will receive the members versions of the show via iTunes as normal.

[Full Free Show] A new ScreenCastsOnline video tutorial has been published and is available via the ScreenCastsOnline iTunes feeds. Both the Extra! Members versions plus the free version (in a lower resolution) are now available. Peter Maurer is a name familiar to many Mac users, as the original creator of Textpander (re-launched as TextExpander by Smile on my Mac) as well as many other excellent Mac utilities we've touched on in previous episodes of ScreenCastsOnline (ServiceScrubber and Displaperture to name but a few!) Peter has now turned his considerable talents to develop a brand new lightweight download manager - Leech Leech was designed to be small yet powerful, with all the features you need to efficiently and quickly download files using full integration with the top OS X browsers - Safari, Camino, OmniWeb and FireFox (using the Flashgot plugin for FireFox). With a simple yet elegant user interface, Leech was built from the ground up to be a great example of an OS X application. In this weeks show, I take you through: Leech Features Installation and Configuration Using Leech to download files Creating and Using Leech Rules Using Leech History Camino and FireFox Integration In addition, I also include details of a special ScreenCastsOnline discount code to get a 20% discount off the usual price of Leech, kindly supplied by Many Tricks, the sponsors of this weeks episode. There is an additional discount available for users of other download managers who might want to purchase Leech. Just send proof of purchase of the other download manager to info@manytricks.com for futher information on obtaining the additional discount.

[Trailer for Full Show]Following on from several requests, this weeks show is all about preparing for MobileMe, the new .Mac replacement service due to be launched in early June 2008. The show covers the basics of MobileMe and gives you some useful tips on how you can prepare for MobileMe if you're an existing .Mac user, or even if you're considering signing up for .Mac in advance of MobileMe. Topics cover: Introduction Not a .Mac User? .Mac Services Being Withdrawn Preparing for MobileMe Preparing for MobileMe Mail Preparing for MobileMe Calendar Preparing for MobileMe Contacts Preparing for MobileMe Web Gallery Preparing for MobileMe iDisk Other MobileMe Considerations Signing up for .Mac Also included in this weeks show is an update to the Evernote service, recently feature on ScreenCastsOnline (SCO0151 and 152). FResh out of closed beta, Evernote has now launched its premium services and some new changes to the services it provides.

As we start to spend more and more time using Web based applications (or WebApps), the standard web browser is becoming more and more critical. The problem is that with the advent of tabbed browsing, individual WebApps become harder to manage and locate on your desktop. Add in the fact that a single bad website can sometimes crash your browser or make it unstable, you can end up losing all of your browser sessions in one fell swoop! Fluid comes to the rescue! Fluid is a Leopard only application that allows you to simply and easily create "Site Specific Browsers" or SSBs. A "Site Specific Browser" is a completely separate desktop application just for one single WebApp. In effect, it turns the WebApp into a manageble service with a dedicated desktop client that's configured just for that WebApp. Each SSB you create will have its own Menu Bar, Dock Icon and runs completely independently from other SSBs or browser sessions. So now you can launch SSBs at login, switch to them using CMD TAB, basically treat it as a desktop application. In addition to these features, Fluid also gives you the ability to convert your SSBs into MenuExtra SSBs which reside in your menbar and are accessible at the click of a mouse. If you'd like your SSB permanently displayed as your OS X Desktop, it even supports Embedded SSBs to allow you to do just that! Along with window customisation, an extendible plugin architecture, support for GreaseKit based Userscripting and most importantly, supported by 1Password, Fluid is a simply must have application. In this weeks show I cover: Installation Creating Simple SSBs (Examples: Gmail and Google Docs) Window Customisation Creating MenuExtra SSBs (Example: Using Hahlo for Twitter access) Installing Userscripts Creating Embedded SSBs (Example: Using Google Calendars as your OSX Desktop) Fluid Plugins Finding Fluid Icons via flickr Updating Fluid Icons to High Res versions Fluid is completely free and available to download from www.fluidapp.com

[Trailer for Full Show]Time for a show with a hardware bent! Lots of buzz around the internet about a product that enables you to "hack" your Apple TV simply and easily. All without opening the case and potentially voiding your warranty. The product is aTV Flash v3.0 from Applecore LLC. The steps are this: Buy the aTV Flash software and download to your Mac. Download a free disk image file from Apple. Insert a Flash USB drive on your Mac and run a script Restore your Apple TV to factory settings Insert the Flash USB drive into the Apple TVs USB port and reboot And that's it! This weeks show takes you through all these stages in detail and even shows you how to setup and transfer media to your Apple TV via FTP plus how to use some of the Applications installed as part of the aTV flash upgrade. Please note that this show has not been sponsored or endorsed by Applecore LLC.

Following on from last weeks Extra! members only show, this week completes the tutorial on using Evernote - the cross platform and web based information management tool. This week I finish off by looking at some additional features of Evernote including: Drag and Drop Support Using iSight Notes to catalogue and search your business cards Evernote Client Views Creating And Organising Tags Using Attributes Creating Saved Searches Accessing the Evernote Web Client Using Emails to Send Data to Evernote I also include a really handy tip on using your iPhone to capture images and have them appear in Evernote as searchable items - very, very handy!

[Trailer for Full Show] I think I may have found the answer to my perpetual quest for an efficient and effective way to keep all the bits of information I accumulate everyday. You know the problem - lots of bits of texts, web pages, ideas, thoughts, images, reminders, notes, etc,. So much "stuff" but nowhere sensible to store them so that I have access from any computer or any device. And then as for thinking up ways to organise and label things so that you can find it again - nightmare! This weeks show is all about Evernote - a personal information manager which seems to address all the requirements I have for my information store. There's so much to cover, I've had to split this show into two parts, the second part will be released next week. Evernote is many things! Firstly, at its core is a web based service that allows you to access your information via any industry standard web browser. Secondly, Evernote has local client applications for both the Mac and Windows that allow you to capture and store information locally and syncronise with the Evernote Web service. Thirdly, Evernote has mobile clients, plus an iPhone optimised web interface, so you can access all your information on the move. Not only that, but Evernote includes some amazing character recognition technology so that any photos or digital images with text (even handwritten text) that you capture in Evernote, become searchable!! You really have to see it to appreciate it and of course this weeks show will show you! Next weeks show will look at some additional features of Evernote including some pretty handy tips on using Evernote with your iPhone.

[Full Free Show] An invaluable utility this week, one that I seriously could not function without! It's TextExpander from Smile On My Mac. On first glance, it looks like a very simple utility to help you save time. It allows you to create small textual abbreviations that, when typed, will expand into words, sentences, paragraphs or even images. It can even trigger AppleScripts, just by typing a few characters or even a single character! What's really special is that it's a system wide utility so you're not restricted to just your email or word processor, TextExpander works with all the applications on your Mac. Speed up your typing, use it to auto-correct commonly misspelt words, respond to emails in a flash, generate tons of CSS or HTML code, TextExpander really does give your productivity a boost. In this weeks show I cover: Some common uses of TextExpander Creating your own Snippets Using Date and Time Variables Positioning the cursor in Snippets Using text selections to create Snippets TextExpander Groups including Adding from a File and URL Predefined Snippet Groups AppleScript Support The free version of this weeks show is sponsored by Smile On My Mac and they have kindly offered a 20% discount to ScreenCastsOnline viewers up to July 31st 2008. To purchase TextExpander using this discount, just visit the special ScreenCastsOnline landing page at http://www.smileonmymac.com/sco

[Trailer for Extra! Members Show] Time for some creativity & fun. GarageBand '08 is the latest version of the amazing music creation software included in the iLife '08 suite - free with all new Macs. Can't play an instrument? Never had the time to learn? Well don't be disheartened as GarageBand '08 is suitable for all levels of musicians, from complete novices to accomplished players. What's even better is that you don't need an instrument or even any musical skills to create polished music tracks. This weeks' show focuses on the music creation side of GarageBand '08. If you want to checkout how to create and enhanced podcast, have a look at SCO0042. The show covers: Software Instrument Tracks Using The OnScreen keyboard Using your Mac keyboard Interfacing Midi Keyboards Real Instrument Tracks Connecting Musical Instruments via USB & Firewire Recording in GarageBand All About Apple Loops Creating Songs using Apple Loops Master Track Automation Special Effects Automation Magic GarageBand Exporting Tracks And to create entire songs in one of nine different genres, I also looks at Magic GarageBand, a great new mode that does all the heavy lifting for you, enabling you to create a multitrack song completely from scratch, automatically.

Time for an update on an application I last looked at over 12 months ago. Acknowledged as the premier diagramming, charting and visualisation tool for OSX, OmniGraffle has recently been relaunched with a mojor upgrade - OmniGraffle 5. Available in both Standard and Pro versions, OmniGraffle is the tool that Mac users rely on to produce diagrams, process charts, UI mock ups and much more. Recognised as a perfect Visio replacement for switchers coming across to the Mac, OmniGraffle is a delight to use (see this recent blog post - "OmniGraffle makes it easy to leave Visio behind") combining simplicity with ease of use to deliver outstanding results. This weeks show revisits some of the functionality I examined in the last show but focuses more on the new features in OmniGraffle 5 including: User Interface Update New Toolbar Configuring Drawing Tools Mini Inspector Style Tray Tools Basics inlcluding: New Bezier Line Tool Diagram Tool New Layout Engine New Stencil Palette Graffletopia Integration New OmniGraffle Pro features including: Subgraphs Presentation Mode Visio Compatability This weeks free show is sponsored by the Omni Group.

[Trailer for Extra! Members Show] Something different this week, not one but three really useful utilities. What's even better is that they are all free! JumpCut - A great clipboard buffering application which takes a minimilistic approach to give you access to your recent clipboard entries. Go back in time and select from a list of recent clips from either your menu bar or via a hot key and bezel. DejaMenu - Large or multiscreen setup? Fed up of having to travel all the way to the top of the screen to access your applications menu? Or even worse, having to traverse monitors to get access? DejaMenu allows you configure every applications menu to pop up right where your cursor is, saving you effort and time. You can even assign your menus to popup with a click of your mouse! SoundSource - Constantly juggling different audio outputs and inputs on your Mac? SoundSource gives you access to all your audio devices quickly and easily through a single icon n your menu bar as well as a volume control for each device. In addition, the members version of this weeks show has a special section just for members which explains the renewal process and what to do to prevent your membership expiring, and what to do if it does!

[Free Show] We revisit one of OSXs most misunderstood features this week and that's the latest version of Automator in Leopard. Automator is a way of creating special applications or plugins that allow you to "automate" repetitive tasks. Each workflow is built up from a number of predefined actions that are bundled in with most of Apples own applications and an increasing number of third party applications. Initially introduced in Tiger, Automator has received a significant make over in Leopard with the introduction of some brand new features, mainly the ability to record tasks using the new "Watch Me Do" feature along with the introduction of user and system generated variables to use in your workflows. So if the thought of AppleScript sends shivers down your spine, check out some the new features of Automator. The show covers: Automator Basics The revised Interface Creating a Sample Workflow to resize images Creating a Sample Workflow with Text and Speech Saving Workflows as Applications Saving Workflows as Plugins Creating a Sample Workflow with "Watch Me Do" Creating and Scheduling an iCal Plugin In the Extra! members version of the show this week, there is an Extra! section only available to ScreenCastsOnline Extra! members: Variables in Automator Creating a Sample Workflow including Variables

[Trailer for Extra! Show] Preview is one of OS X Leopards hidden gems. Hidden so much so, that most people are only aware of a fraction of its somewhat surprising range of features and capabilities! Preview received a complete makeover with the release of Leopard, providing you with lots of additional power and flexibility. The great thing is, it's free and it's on all Macs so you never have to falter to make that image correction when your favourite shareware or freeware application isn't installed on someone else's Mac. In this show, I'll take you through all the basic features of Preview including: Image Capture Viewing Single and Multiple Images with Preview Slideshow Views Managing Images within Preview Color Correction Image Annotation Image Conversion and Resizing Opening and Re-arranging PDFs Annotation and Mark Up of PDFs Searching Bookmarks See, I told you there was a lot to Preview!

Simple. Intuitive. Powerful. That's the strap line for this weeks application which is VectorDesigner by TweakerSoft. Causing quite a buzz earlier this year by winning a "Best of Show" 2008 and also being featured as one of the premium applications in the last MacHeist promotion, VectorDesigner is a fully featured vector drawing application. Unlike raster or bitmapped based drawing applications such as PixelMator or Photoshop, VectorDesigner uses vector based graphics allowing you to create drawings that are infinitely scalable without any degradation or loss of quality. VectorDesigner has some pretty amazing features including: Fully editable Smart Shapes Bezier creation and editing Flowing text along a path Flowing text inside a shape Boolean operators Layers Image filters powered by Core Image and Quartz Composer iSight Integration Flickr Integration Scanner Integration iLife photo browser In addition, VectorDesigner also allows you to import or scan raster based images and convert them into scalable, editable vector graphics. This weeks show touches on all these features (OK, except for iSight integration, I don't think you're quite ready for my ugly mug in a screencast yet!) and even takes you through creating a vector image design from scratch. Of special interest is the Flickr integration that allows you to browse Flickr via a VectorDesigner Flickr browser and search for images and photos based on subject, colour or your own criteria. Once you've found an approriate image, just drag the image directly into your own VectorDesigner document as a new image or to add texture to an existing object. This week is a free show and is sponsored by TweakerSoft.

[Trailer for Extra! Show] Time Machine must be one of the most useful features of Leopard and should be mandatory for all Macs users. The fact is many people don't backup their critical or precious personal data and leave it until it's too late. Time Machine takes away the pain of undertaking and organising your backups but it does need additional investment in hardware. A simple firewire disk is adequate for most people, but what if you have several Macs? What if you'd like to buy a new disk but you want that wireless router as well? The answer is to take a look at Time Capsule, the latest backup device from Apple designed specifically for Leopard users and Time Machine. But in fairness, to call it just a backup device does it a disservice. It's a multi-function machine with many roles: Backup Device - 500GB or 1TB of storage built right in. Enough to service a single mac or multiple macs. Centralise all your Time Machine backups. Wireless Device - Includes a full blown 802.11n wireless hub allowing you to create a wireless network or join an existing wireless network. You can backup your devices wirelessly and automatically. GigaBit Network Switch - Includes three wired Gigabit ethernet ports so you can connect wired devices to your network. Expandable - Add additional USB drives to expand your storage - never run out of space for your backups! Print Server - Connect a printer and access your printer across the network from both wired and wireless devices. The real beauty of Time Capsule is just how easy it is to setup and use and that's where this weeks show comes in. In the show I cover: Time Capsule Overview Typical Networking Scenario Installing & Configuring Time Capsule Adding Additional Storage to Time Capsule Access Time Capsule with Time Machine As well as Time Capsule, Apple have also introduced the ability to add additional USB storage devices to existing Airport Extreme devices. It's not as straight forward as Time Capsule but if youe have an existing Airport Extreme, it's an extremely cost effective way of centralising your Time Machine backups. Consequently the show also covers: Adding Drives to Airport Extreme Configuring AirPort Extreme Disks Accessing Airport Extreme Disks via Time Machine.

[Free Show] Finishing off the trio of shows all about iWork '08, this weeks show brings you up to date with the newly revised Pages'08, Apples flexible, yet powerful, word processor and page layout application. Addressing the major complaints about Pages'06, mainly that it wasn't a "proper" word processor, Apple have completely revised Pages '08 to include a brand new "word processor" mode, in addition to its original page layout mode. To make it even easier to use, Apple have also introduced the context sensitive format bar in line with the other iWork applications to allow for less reliance on the inspector panels and give you control of the common elements right within the application window itself. Following on from the previous show I did on Pages '06 (nearly two years ago!), this show will bring you up to speed on lots of the new functions and capabilities of this outstanding package! This weeks show is a free show, but there is an extended show available for ScreenCastsOnline Extra! members with an additional 10 minutes of content and chapter marks. Extra! members will receive the extended show automatically as usual. The show covers: Introduction to Pages '08 Using the Format Bar Paragraph, Character & List Styles Page & Section Breaks Tracking Changes in Documents The Extra! members extended show also covers: Working with Images in Pages Instant Alpha Wrapping Text around images Masking Images and Picture Frames Text Flow in Page Layout Mode Exporting

[Trailer for Extra! Show] We've all been there! You need to organise a meeting between a group of people and end up with an avalanche of emails from people who can make this day but not that. Or change their availability three times in a week. As for trying to arrange something across time zones with daylight savings time thrown into the mix - absolute nightmare. Well recently I've been in just that position trying to schedule recording sessions for the Mac Roundtable! 10 very busy podcasters across 4 different time zones all trying to synchronise our activities and come up with a shared free slot to record. In this age of Web 2.0, I thought there must be a service somewhere that could come to our rescue and sort out this complex organisational task. So a quick bit of research and I found it! After using it for a day or so I was so impressed I thought I'd spread the word to help out ScreenCastsOnline viewers who are also tasked with sorting out meeting schedules. So I abandoned my plan for this week and did a show all about ScheduleOnce, especially as its completely free to use. As a web based service its totally cross platform, you don't need to register and did I mention it's free. You don't even need to know what time zones all the participants are in. It's simply a matter of setting up a meeting notice (which takes 2 minutes) and emailing a special link to your invited participants. They respond using the link, and the system gives you a view of all the responses and allows you to select the optimum time and email them with the confirmed date and time, all formatted in their local timezone. This weeks show takes you through setting up a meeting, let's you see what the invitees receive and show you the responses and how you process them! I hope this makes your life easier as it did mine!

ScreenSteps is a great application from Blue Mango Learning Systems that makes creating, annotating and publishing instructions or task based documentation a breeze. Now although ScreenCasts are a brilliant way to get across complex information, sometimes there's no substitute for step by step instruction manuals with clear screenshots and good, consise instructions. The problem with creating "printed" documentation is that it can be difficult to assemble and can go out of date very easily requiring Herculean effort to update. And as for trying to keep on top of changes to videos - forget it! Screensteps is cross platform application for both the Mac and Windows, which allows you to create libraries of "lessons", each lesson being a step by step process covering whatever tasks you want to document. Available in both a free version and a pay for version, the application has comprehensive tools built right in for screen capture and image annotation to easily and quickly build up step based documentation. Once you've created your lessons, ScreenSteps also has some powerful export functions that allow you export your lessons in either customised PDF or HTML format (in the pay for version) or even directly to a hosted ScreenSteps Live web service (included in the free version as well as the paid for version). As well as exporting individual lessons, ScreenSteps allows you to organise your lessons into topics and sections, allowing you to create individual PDF files or HTML output containing an entire Library of lessons complete with a table of contents and easy navigation. The PDF version collates all your lessons into a multi page PDF whilst the HTML output provides all the code you need to upload to your website for online documentation. If you're not sure about uploading HTML files to your website (or if you don't have a website) be sure to check out Part 2 of this ScreenSteps show where I'll be taking a look at ScreenSteps Live, a free service to host your ScreenSteps lessons. ScreenSteps Free and ScreenSteps Live are tightly integrated and it's really easy to export your lessons directly and automatically to ScreenSteps Live from within ScreenSteps. As well as the free options, there are Standard and Pro versions of ScreenSteps which allow you to export locally to PDF and HTML so once you've tried the package, you can upgrade to get the full features. There's a ScreenCastsOnline discount code available for both the Standard and Pro versions of ScreenSteps giving you a massive 25% discount off the normal online price. The discount code is: SCO25 and is valid up until the 1st May 2008 - NB, ScreenCastsOnline will also get some commission for every copy sold via this special promotion!

[Trailer for Extra Show] One of my favourite devices revisited this week - the Apple TV. Now revitalised with a brand new software update, this is the Apple TV Take 2. As announced at this years Macworld, Apple have released a brand new software update for the Apple TV that turns it into an amazing entertainment hub for the Living Room. For the first time, the Apple TV no longer needs a Mac or PC and can function as a network connected media center. This weeks full Extra Members show takes you through some of the new features of this ground breaking device including: Installing the Apple TV Software Update The Revised Interface for Movies, TV Shows and Music Podcasts On Demand Viewing Photos via .Mac Web Galleries Viewing Photos via Flickr Adding Flickr Contacts iTunes Automatic Sync iTunes Custom Sync AirTunes in the Apple TV

[Free Show] Not one but two top applications featured in this weeks show! This weeks episode is sponsored by Houdah Software and I cover both HoudahSpot and HoudahGeo. HoudahSpot is no stranger to regular ScreenCastsOnline viewers as we covered it back in March 2007. Since then, HoudahSpot has been completely re-written to take advantage of some of the new technologies in OS X Leopard. HoudahSpot is really what Spotlight should have been and even with the improvements to Spotlight in Leopard, HoudaSpot enables you to take search on the Mac to the next level. It doesn't replace the underlying Spotlight engine, it justs gives you a much more flexible yet powerful "front end" to your Spotlight data. Add in Templates, the new BlitzSearch Menubar icon, integration with Launchbar and much more, HoudahSpot is a great addition to your Mac. HoudahGeo is one of those applications you need to see to fully understand its capabilities! That's why we have ScreenCastsOnline! It's an application that allows you to easily "geotag" your photos with location data without needing access to a specialised GPS device or expensive GPS enable camera. HoudaGeo lets you simply add in location data visually using either a simple Map option or using its built in integration with Google Earth. But if you have got a GPS tracker, it can use that as well! But as well as allowing you to "Geotag" your photos, HoudahGeo allows you to share you photos with its built in uploading integration with Google Earth and Flickr. Once Geotagged, just a click of a button and your photos will be uploaded and placed in the correct position on global maps with Google Earth or Flickr - it's really that easy! Once you've exported to Google Earth, the show will demonstrate how you can create a virtual slideshow in Google Earth, flying from loction to location and displaying your photos at each location! Not only that, but you can email the slideshow to friends or family and they can watch it in Google Earth on their own computer (without needing a copy of HoudahGeo) - how cool is that! As mentioned in the show, there's a special discount on both HoudahSpot and HoudaGeo for ScreenCastsOnline viewers and is 20% off the usual retail price for all versions and licences (except for the already discounted student versions). This 20% discount is good until the 31st March 2008. Just use the coupon code SCO0138 when ordering your copy of either HoudaSpot or HoudahGeo. Please note that that is SC (the letter O) then zero 138.

[Sampler for Extra Show] As promised, this week concludes the two part show all about Bento, the personal database from Filemaker. As mentioned in the previous show, Bento is a very powerful application that harnesses the power of database creation and sophisticated data manipulation in a very stylish and easy to use package - the epitome of a mac application! As well as allowing you to create your own databases (or libraries in Bento terminology) from scratch or via imported data, Bento also gives you direct access to your Address book data, along with your iCal tasks and events to design your own forms to view and manipulate your data. Eye candy is plentiful with the use of pre designed themes and the ability to create your own special views of your data via easily customisable forms. Even if you don't feel the need to dabble with a database, Bento allows you to access, view and amend your Address Book and iCal data with a great new interface, straight out of the box. In the show I take you through some of the more advanced aspects of using Bento to manage your personal data including: iCal Event and Task Integration How you might use iCal integration Additional Bento Fields Printing Tables and Forms Creating Mailing Labels How to import Data into Bento Backing up Your Data Hopefully parts 1 and 2 of this tutorial will have you well on the way to managing your data more effectively and give you a fresh outlook on address book and iCal.

[Full Free Show] For the first show of the new year, I thought I'd offer a helping hand to all those new Mac owners fortunate enough to get a new Mac for Christmas. The theme of this show was suggested by a viewer and I enlisted the help of the guys and gals over at the ScreenCastsOnline forum to assemble a list of best practices and essential software for the new Mac user. The resultant list is just too much for a single show so I'll make it into an occasional mini series of shows for the new Mac user. This first show looks at several different aspects of setting up a brand new mac from the view point of a new Mac user. I look at: Basic Dock Customisation Converting to a Standard Account Using Parental Controls Switching on the FireWall Setting a Screensaver Password Pointers to Using Time Machine In addition to these common tasks, I also recommend six free software packages to get you up and running as quickly as possible (inlcuding running through the different installation routines for all of them) The software icludes: Firefox - Web Browser (although I do recommend at least trying Safari for a short while) TextWrangler - A Fully Featured Text Editor Paintbrush - A simple bitmap graphics tool based on MS Paint Perian - Some essential video codecs to allow you play many different types of video Flip4Mac - Windows Media Playback The Unarchiver - Free unarchive utility for many formats These are just the start and we'll look at many more useful utilities and applications in the following episodes.

Busy, busy week! Apple finally released Leopard 10.5.2 and in a flash, put right a lot of the issues and complaints people were having with the User Interface. So this week I take a look at some of the changes in the new update and the best way to install it. Also, I've been holding off doing a show on Spaces, the virtual desktop management system in Leopard, as I must admit, I did find it a little buggy! Hopefully 10.5.2 has fixed that so the second part of the show is all about Spaces. In this section I cover: Spaces Concepts Setting Up Spaces Moving Between Spaces Visualising Spaces This weeks extra section included in the ScreenCastsOnline Extra! members version of the show also includes: Moving Apps & Objects Between Spaces Organising Spaces by Task Some major changes to the show format this week in that I've introduced a brand new theme and and transition clips. The new theme was commissioned from Geoff Smith, podcast theme maker extraordinaire! To celebrate, I spent some time putting together a new opening sequence, a new chapter marker and a new ending. All in motion graphics. I hope you like them!

[Sampler for Extra Show] By popular demand, this weeks show is all about Bento by FileMaker. Bento is a very flexible and elegant database package that many people consider to be the application that was missing from iWork. It's a very powerful application that harnesses the power of database creation and sophisticated data manipulation in a very stylish and easy to use package - the epitome of a mac application! As well as allowing you to create your own databases (or libraries in Bento terminology) from scratch or via imported data, Bento also gives you direct access to your Address book data, along with your iCal tasks and events to design your own forms to view and manipulate your data. Eye candy is plentiful with the use of pre designed themes and the ability to create your own special views of your data via easily customisable forms. This weeks show takes you through the basics of Bento and even if you've no database experience, should give you enough information to start creating your own databases with ease. The show is an Extra members show and covers: ◦ Introduction to Bento ◦ The Bento Interface ◦ Core Concepts - Libraries and Collections ◦ Address Book Integration ◦ Records & Table View ◦ Form Views ◦ Creating a Library ◦ Adding Fields ◦ Form Customisation ◦ Themes ◦ Advanced Find ◦ Smart Collections More than enough to get you started! This is the first of a two part show on Bento and we'll look at some of the more advanced features in part two.

[Sampler for Extra Show] By popular demand, this weeks show is all about Bento by FileMaker. Bento is a very flexible and elegant database package that many people consider to be the application that was missing from iWork. It's a very powerful application that harnesses the power of database creation and sophisticated data manipulation in a very stylish and easy to use package - the epitome of a mac application! As well as allowing you to create your own databases (or libraries in Bento terminology) from scratch or via imported data, Bento also gives you direct access to your Address book data, along with your iCal tasks and events to design your own forms to view and manipulate your data. Eye candy is plentiful with the use of pre designed themes and the ability to create your own special views of your data via easily customisable forms. This weeks show takes you through the basics of Bento and even if you've no database experience, should give you enough information to start creating your own databases with ease. The show is an Extra members show and covers: ◦ Introduction to Bento ◦ The Bento Interface ◦ Core Concepts - Libraries and Collections ◦ Address Book Integration ◦ Records & Table View ◦ Form Views ◦ Creating a Library ◦ Adding Fields ◦ Form Customisation ◦ Themes ◦ Advanced Find ◦ Smart Collections More than enough to get you started! This is the first of a two part show on Bento and we'll look at some of the more advanced features in part two.