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ScreenCastsOnline is a weekly video podcast delivering a brand new tutorial on getting the most out of your Mac, iPhone and iPad, each and every week! With over 300+ HD video tutorials available, ScreenCastsOnline is one of the leading resources available on the internet for quality Mac and iOS based tutorials. But don't take our word for it, just read some of the comments from satisfied viewers by reading the customer reviews below. Check out the free content in these superb HD resolution video tutorials and if you'd like a new HD tutorial every week, visit the ScreenCastsOnline website for information on becoming a ScreenCastsOnline Extra! member.
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| 1 | VideoIOS0042 - Skitch for iPad [Trailer] | Skitch for iPad is a fantastic free annotation tool for the iPad. Skitch for iPad allows you to capture photos, screenshots, web pages, maps or just doodle on screen. Once captured, Skitch has a full set of annotation tools to mark up any images with lines, shapes arrows or text. Once you've annotated you images, you can share via email, Twitter or save them to your camera roll. If you're an Evernote user, you can even save then directly to your Evernote account. With full AirPlay support on iPad 2, Skitch turns your iPad into a really useful presentation device. Annotate images in real time and have the display appear on a remote HDTV or Projector via an Apple TV. You can even enter a "Separate Canvas Mode" and just output your full screen image. There's a full demonstration of this feature in the tutorial - very cool! In detail, the tutorial covers: * Capture Modes * Annotating Photos * Annotating Screenshots * Annotating Web Pages * Annotating Maps * Annotating Blanks * Exporting & Sharing Annotations * AirPlay Support | 1/27/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 2 | Video331 - QuickTime X vs QuickTime 7 [Trailer] | [Trailer for Full Show] Quicktime is the foundation of Apple’s multimedia offerings. With the introduction of QuickTime X in Snow Leopard, Apple have begun the process of re-writing QuickTime from the ground up. As a result, many of the original capabilities of the QuickTime 7 player have been left in the latest version of QuickTime X. This first part of a two part series takes a look at both QuickTime X and QuickTime 7, and examines the features still available via the legacy player. In the first section of the tutorial we look at some of the great new features of QuickTime X including screen recording. The tutorial also includes a section on the new video encoding capabilities of OSX Lion, as well as looking at extending the core capabilities by the use of OSX services and Automator. In the final part of the tutorial, we start to examine some of the additional features in QuickTime 7 including editing and exporting. The full members tutorial includes sections on * QuickTime Overview * QuickTime X Player * Screen Recording with QuickTime X * Editing with QuickTime X * Movie Inspector in QuickTime X * Exporting with QuickTime X * Encoding in OSX Lion * QuickTime 7 Overview * Installing QuickTime 7 * Editing with Quicktime 7 * Exporting with QuickTime 7 * HUDs in QuickTime 7 | 1/27/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 3 | VideoNew ScreenCastsOnline Website Overview | THus video walks you through some of the new features of the ScreenCastsOnline website and contains important information for existing members | 1/12/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 4 | Video328 - Alfred Part 2 - PowerPack [Free Tutorial] | As promised, it's time to check out some of the more advanced features of Alfred, the superb application launcher and productivity enhancer from Running with Crayons. I covered the basic operations of the free version of Alfred in a previous show (SCO0325). In this week's show, I take a look at some of the more advanced features, enabled by the installation of the optional PowerPack module. I was impressed with the free version of Alfred, but as a staunch LaunchBar user, I missed some of the more advanced features. However, once you purchase and install the optional Alfred PowerPack, many advanced features are enabled and accessible to you. This week's tutorial takes you through most of the advanced features that take Alfred to the next level, and turn it from being merely useful to indispensable! The free show covers: * Installing the PowerPack * New PowerPack Features * Fallback Searches * URLs & History * Email and Address Book * iTunes Support * Clipboard History * File Navigation * Terminal The full members show also covers: * Alfred Extensions * Search Filter * File or Group * Shell Script, AppleScript & Workflow * Global Hotkeys Please note that this show has not been sponsored or endorsed by Running with Crayons and is a completely independent production. | 1/6/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 5 | Video327 - ScreenCastsOnline - Behind the Scenes! [Trailer] | [Trailer for members show] Last show of the year so I thought I'd do something different. This week I take you through the ScreenCastsOnline workflow, from preparation, through recording and editing, on to encoding and subtitles to final testing and publication. The whole process is fairly complex so I've broken it down into manageable chunks. Whilst not intended to enable you to make your own screencasts (although it can be quite simple), the show this week is in response to the may requests I get each week asking to "peek behind the curtain", and see just what is involved in producing the weekly show. The last "Behind the Scenes" show was back in episode 200, over two years ago. The basic workflow has remained pretty similar but I've introduced some additional refinements, as well as making a ton of extra work for myself. Believe it or not, the actual process is even more complex than this as there are some minor steps I've left out. I'm hoping to streamline the publication side of things in the New Year with the launch of a new website based on a bespoke content management system, which should automate a lot of the manual processes involved in producing the RSS feeds and publishing to the websites. Once that is in place, I'll need to start looking at automating or outsourcing more of the video production work. But until then, take a look at how things are organised now and wonder how on earth I manage to produce a show every week - I know I do! | 12/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 6 | Video326 - Mac Basics - Part 2 [Trailer] | [Trailer for Members Show] So you're new to the Mac? Perhaps a recent switcher across from Windows? Or maybe you like what you see with the iPad and iPhone and decided to get a Mac? This is the second part of a multi-part series to be spread out over the next month or two, to bring you up to speed on the basics of using a Mac. No prior experience needed, the tutorial takes you through first principals of owning an using a Mac. No prior experience needed, the tutorial continues the process of taking you through first principals of owning and using a Mac. Despite having over 300 tutorials in the ScreenCastsOnline archive, the realisation struck that the original episodes covering Mac basics are very, very old. So old in fact, that they are based on Tiger! These new episodes assume no such knowledge, and are intended for complete Mac beginners, although some of the sections do have some very useful stuff for not so new Mac users. In this second part, I take a look at installing, using and deleting Applications from your Mac as well as giving some recommendations for "must have" applications, an introduction to the Finder with some basic file and folder operations, using the OSX Save and Open dialogues, an introduction to Apple mail and managing Application windows. You can now purchase the full Mac Basics episode (over 2 hours long) as SCOtutor for Mac via the Mac App Store or iTunes App Store - just visit http://screencastsonline.com/apps or search the App stores for "SCOtutor" | 12/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 7 | Video325 - Alfred & Announcement [Trailer] | [Trailer for Members Show]One of the best ways you can improve your productivity is to learn lots of keyboard commands so that you can control your Mac, without having to take your hands off the keyboard. Another way is to use an Application Launcher to start applications as well as lots of other tasks from your keyboard. I've covered LaunchBar in the past, and had settled on that as my Application Launcher of choice, but recently, I've been getting lots of requests to try out Alfred. Alfred is similar to LaunchBar but has both a free version and a more advanced version for sale. So this week, I start off by taking a look at the free version of Alfred (available via the Mac App Store) and see what basic functionality is included. If you've never used an application launcher before, you may be impressed with what's available "out of the box". As well as the installation and configuration of Alfred, the show also covers basic Application Launching, but also takes a look at what other ways Alfred can boost your productivity including Finding and opening files, web searches, spelling, definitions, calculations and controlling your Mac. All without lifting your hands from the keyboard. I also include a special section on creating a custom web search to search the ScreenCastsOnline website. In future weeks, I'll take a look at the optional Powerpack to see how Alfred can be extended. Also in this week's show, I've included a special segment on the new ScreenCastsOnline tutorial applications available via the Mac App Store and iTunes App Store, including new iPad versions, and a brand new app - SCOtutor for iPad | 12/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 8 | Video324 - Mac Basics - Part 1 [Free Show] | So you're new to the Mac? Perhaps a recent switcher across from Windows? Or maybe you like what you see with the iPad and iPhone and decided to get a Mac? This is the first part of a multi-part series to be spread out over the next month or two, to bring you up to speed on the basics of using a Mac. No prior experience needed, the tutorial takes you through first principals of owning an using a Mac. Despite having over 300 tutorials in the ScreenCastsOnline archive, the realisation struck that the original episodes covering Mac basics are very, very old. So old in fact, that they are based on Tiger! This episode addresses this failing by starting to cover the basics of using a Mac using a modern Mac with Lion. We've covered Lion before, but from the perspective of an existing Mac user upgrading from Leopard or Snow Leopard, and those tutorials (including the SCOtutor for Lion App), assumed some basic knowledge of using a Mac. These new episodes assume no such knowledge, and are intended for complete Mac beginners. In this first part, I take a look at first principles including configuring your Mac, how you interact with it as well as using the basic features of the Desktop, MenuBar and Dock. | 12/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 9 | VideoSpecial Bonus 2 - Even More Winter Bundles -2011 [HD] | Can you believe it! Since posting that short video on friday, another three bundles have been drawn to my attention. Feel free to skip this overview but one of the bundles is actually pretty impressive. No more bundle videos for this year - promise ;-) | 12/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 10 | VideoSpecial Bonus - MacLegion Winter Bundle - 2011 [Special Segment] | By special request, a quick run down of the 10 apps in the latest MacLegion Winter Bundle - 2011 | 12/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 11 | Video323 - iA Writer/iCloud & Remote iPad Support [Introduction Only] | [Introduction Only]Apple still haven't fully released all the components of iCloud for it's own applications. Most notably, "Documents in the Cloud" is great on iOS but iWork on the Mac doesn't fully support it yet. Beating Apple to the punch is iA Writer, a simple text editor that has just been updated with "Documents in the Cloud" support, to seamless work on documents on your Mac and on your iPad. This tutorial explores how this new and exciting feature has been implemented on the Mac. This tutorial also features a rather unique and innovative way to provide remote iPad support using iCloud and Apple TV of all things! One of the biggest disappointments with the iCloud launch was the lack of an updated version of iWork for the Mac, that fully embraced "Documents in the Cloud". This is Apples new service (part of iCloud) that allows applications to seamlessly share documents stored in iCloud. At the time of writing, only iWork on iOS fully supports this feature. Create a document in Pages on your iPhone, and it appears on your iPad, available for editing. However, if you have Pages on the Mac, you have to fire up a web browser to access the file - not ideal. We had hoped that Apple would release a new version of iWork to fully support iCloud, but no sign as of yet. However, that hasn't stopped third party developers from updating their Apps to take full advantage of iCloud. Several apps have now started to use iCloud syncing to keep settings in sync, but one of the first to support "Documents in the Cloud" has just been updated. The application is iA Writer by Information Architects. This is a minimalist text editor, ideal for working with Markdown, which has both a Mac and iPad client. You can now move documents to the cloud using iA Writer and seamless edit them from either device (no iPhone app at the moment unfortunately). As it is one of the first apps with this feature, I was intrigued to see how they had implemented it, and if it may be a good sign of how all apps will behave in the future. I thought you would be interested too! So in this episode, I skip over the main features of iA Writer (there aren't that many as it is very minimalist), and focus on how it creates and handles documents on the Mac and the iPad. I'm very encouraged by how useful "Documents in the Cloud" looks although there still are some issues to be ironed out based on this first implementation. Take a look and see what you think. I also include a section inspired by an email from a ScreenCastsOnline viewer (so sorry I can't give them a name check!). Now that we are in the "Post PC" era, and along with the advent of iOS5, it's perfectly reasonable that people may be using iPads as their sole computer. Perfect for family members with no heavy computing needs. Give a iPad 3G to Granny, and she can email, surf the web, etc,. Which is great, but invariably, we sometimes get sucked into supporting remote family members. Sometimes difficult on the Mac, even with the abundance of remote support tools, but what about the iPad? This section shows you how to support a remote iPad with just iCloud and Apple TV. Absolutely brilliant! <img src="ht | 12/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 12 | Video322 - Parallels Desktop, VMware Fusion and VirtualBox [Introduction Only] | [Introduction To Members Show]It’s well known that you can run Windows on your Mac using Bootcamp on your Mac, as well as third party software solutions. But did you know you can now run OSX on your Mac in a virtual machine! With Lion, Apple have relaxed the licensing arrangements and now you can run multiple instances of OSX on your Mac in Virtual Machines. In this weeks tutorial, I take a look at three different virtualisation packages, all designed to allow you to run multiple operating systems on your Mac. Not just Windows, but MSDOS, Linux, OS/2 and many more, as well as Lion 10.7 Desktop and Server. Ideal for testing, training, development to name but a few, your Mac can now host as many Operating Systems as your disk capacity can stretch too. Just don't try and run them all at the same time! This week's show was prompted by a viewer email as well as the news that VMware had removed the imposed limitations of installing Snow Leopard desktop in a Virtual Machine. Great! So now people could upgrade to Lion and run any Snow Leopard dependant apps in a Virtual machine. A bit like when Apple included support for older Apps when OSX was introduced. Not so fast! Whilst recording the show, it was announced that this was an error by VMware and they are going to remove that feature at the next update. Shame. Regardless, I continued and left in a segment showing Snow Leopard desktop running in a VM on Lion - for posterity! Regardless, there are still huge benefits to be had running virtual machines, so this show takes you through two commercial applications plus one free one! Parallels Desktop for Mac, VMware Fusion and VirtualBox The tutorial isn't meant to be an in-depth review of each application. It's intended to give you a look at all three applications and decide which one might be right for you. It focuses mainly on running Lion in a VM although I do touch on Windows. | 11/24/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 13 | Video321 - OSX Notifications with Growl & Prowl [Introduction Only] | [Introduction to Members Show] Now that iOS5 has a great notification service, isn't it a pity that OSX doesn't! All is not lost, however, as you can add a system wide notification service into OSX, with the installation of Growl. Even better, application events captured by Growl can now be forwarded to your iOS device using Prowl. Well you can do all this and more with the installation of two third party applications - Growl and Prowl **Growl** - Growl has been around for a while as a free open-source Mac service. The original version has been supported by lots of the leading Mac applications and acts as a framework to collect, collate and display alerts from installed applications on your Mac. The latest version has recently been released in the Mac App Store, for the first time as a "paid" application. The new version is Lion enabled and contains many new and improved features such as support for sandboxed applications, some new networking support and a rather nifty "roll up" display. As it is a brand new version, some applications previously supporting the older version of Growl will not work with the new version, and will need updating. In the screencast, I demonstrate the install process and how to configure alerts and notifications on an application by application basis. I also demonstrate some typical scenarios using Twitter and iVi video encoder. **Prowl** - Prowl is an inexpensive iOS universal application for your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch. In conjunction with a free plugin for Growl and a free web service, Growl is able to send alerts from your Mac directly to you iOS device, and have the alerts appear as notifications - very cool! The screencast demonstrates the installation of Prowl and it's plugin, along with the configuration of some simple alerts. I also take you through some of the other features of Prowl such as send alerts from any service using your own Prowl email address. In addition to the main topics of the tutorial, I've also included a small section on how to search the ScreenCastsOnline website to track down previous tutorials. | 11/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 14 | Video320 - Fantastical [Full Free Show] | Fantastical is a brilliant new way of creating and searching events in your Calendar. It enables you to use “Natural Language” when creating events, and parses your entries for dates, locations and even people in your Address Book. Although fully compatible with iCal, BusyCal, Outlook and Entourage, Fantastical works, even when your Calendar application isn’t running! This week’s sponsored show takes you into some of the hidden features of Fantastical, a great application to help you manage your calendars. Fantastical runs independently of your main calendar application, but is fully compatible. Rather than having iCal, BusyCal, Outlook or Entourage running all the time, just a quick keyboard shortcut and Fantastical pops up, waiting to create your event, Creating an event couldn’t be simpler. Enter the details of your event in plain natural language - no complex syntax to learn. Fantastical parses your entry and extracts the date, location or even names of people in your Address Book, and populates the correct fields in your event automatically. Press Enter and it's done! Fantastical synchronises your event with your chosen application. Not sure of the date? Fantastical recognises entries like "next wednesday" or "the last tuesday in December", all automatically. As well as automatic location entry and support for recurring events, creating events has never been easier. Fantastical also allows you to search through all your events quickly and effectively. Now in version 1.1, Fantastical also supports editing and deleting events, directly from the Fantastical interface, as well as adding Notes. This tutorial takes you through all these features and more. | 11/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 15 | Video319 - OSX and iCloud Features [Introduction Only] | [Introduction to Members Show] I covered the OSX 10.7.2 and iOS5 upgrades last week, but only skimmed the surface of what iCloud brings to the Mac. This week I explore some the new iCloud features in depth but specifically looking at the impact on the Mac. Having touched on some of the changes in OSX 10.7.2 last week, I thought I'd record a short segment just filling in the gaps. However, a couple of hours later, I realised there was more than I had anticipated. A new user account to be explained, new ways to "Find My Mac", as well as subtle changes in Safari, Mission Control and the Mac App Store. I also took a more in depth look at iTunes in the Cloud and Photo Stream. So if you thought 10.7.2 wasn't a significant upgrade, check out this week's tutorial. | 10/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 16 | VideoSpecial Message - SCOtutor for Lion [HD] | Just a short 9 minute video to announce the launch of the project I've been working on for the past couple of months! | 10/24/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 17 | Video318 - OSX 10.7.2, iOS5 & iCloud [Introduction Only] | [Introduction to Members Show] This week's members tutorial guides you through the minefield of the OSX 10.7.2 upgrade for your Mac, the migration from MobileMe to iCloud and the upgrade of your iOS devices to iOS5. As well as the installation, migration and upgrade processes, I also take your through some of the stunning new features of iCloud and iOS5. Despite the system meltdowns on launch day, things have settled down and iCloud is proving to be a great replacement for MobileMe... If you understand the limitations and plan your migration accordingly. That's where this week's ScreenCastsOnline members tutorial comes in! Rather than a flashy, high level overview of the services, I take you through some of the details of iCloud and help you assess if iCloud is for you, and if now is a good time to take the plunge. If it is the right choice for you, the tutorial takes you through the full migration process. From installation of OSX 10.7.2, to migrating your MobileMe account to iCloud, I explain using multiple Apple Ids to access the correct systems and take a look at the new iCloud web interfaces. The tutorial also takes an initial look at some new iCloud and iOS5 features: *Photo Stream* - A great way to automatically send your photos to all your iOS devices, as well as iPhoto and Aperture. I take you through the Photo Stream setup and configuration, as well as showing you how to reset your Photo Stream to delete photos. *Documents in the Cloud* - Another great feature in iCloud, but at the time of recording, seamless transfer of documents into iCloud is only available on iWork for iOS devices. I demonstrate how this works on both iPhone and iPad. Integration of Documents in the Cloud with your Mac isn't quite automatic yet, but I show you how to transfer documents in and out of iCloud from your Mac, using Safari. As well as setting up iCloud, the tutorial also takes you through the upgrade to iOS5. Once installed, I take you through the process of configuring your iOS device to access iCloud as well as the iTunes store. With all the configuration tasks out of the way, I explain some of the new features of iCloud such as iCloud backup and configuring your iOS device to sync with iTunes over WiFi, as well as setting up Twitter integration. I'll take a look at some of the other features of OSX 10.7.2 and iOS5 in next week's show! | 10/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 18 | Video0317 - Hover - Domain Name & Email Management [Full Show with Subtitles] | Ever thought about getting your own personal domain name? Have you setup a website with a long, unwieldy and totally unmemorable url? What about your current Domain Name Registrar? Fed up with the constant up sell and garish website? This week, I take a look at the potentially complex subject of Domain Name Registration, but find a new way of making it simple and uncomplicated. This full, free show (sponsored by Hover.com) takes you through some of the basics of just what Domain Name & Email Management is all about. It includes some sections on why you might want a domain name or new email address, and shows you some examples of how you can use a personal domain name to create an unlimited number of links, or collect all your useful links into a single page. How about setting up your personal domain name pointing to your About.Me page? It's all explained in this week's tutorial. I also show you how to use a personal domain name in conjunction with your iWeb website - it's really very simple. The show also covers setting up a mailbox to match your new domain name, accessing it via webmail, configuring Apple Mail to use it and forwarding your new email address to an existing email address. Hover also have some great services to allow you to move any existing domain names to them to take advantage of their great tools and services. | 10/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 19 | Video316 - Geektool [Introduction Only] | [Introduction to Members Show] This week, a greatly misunderstood, free utility to allow you to customise your OSX desktop - GeekTool Create “Geeklets” to echo the contents of textual log files, display multiple images or even run Unix scripts, directly on your Desktop. GeekTool is a great utility but it suffers in one area, and that’s in the documentation. It can do so much, but it’s a little bit impenetrable for most people! That’s where this week’s ScreenCastsOnline tutorial comes in useful. I take you through the basics of GeekTool, now available via the Mac App Store. In the tutorial I explain and demonstrate how to configure and use "Geeklets". These are the components that allow you to add different types of content to your desktop. **File Geeklets** - These allow you to display the contents of text files directly onto your desktop. Not just static files, but files being updated in real time. Want to keep an eye on a log file? Just create a File Geeklet and the contents of the file are echoed to your desktop as the file is updated. Full control of the frequency of when the file geeklet is refreshed, it's position and size and even the colour and font of it's display/ **Image Geeklets** - Display images or sequences of images on your desktop. The images can be from your local filesystem or hosted somewhere out on the web. Again, full control of how the images are displayed. **Shell Geeklets** - Probably the most powerful of all the geeklets as these allow you to run anything from a simple Unix command to a full shell script. This section demonstrates some simple commands that can be run from Shell geeklets to build a dynamic calendar on your desktop. | 10/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 20 | Video315 - Yoink, AirDrop and LaunchBar Refresher [Introduction Only] | [Introduction to Members Show] It’s a MacMontage this week - a collection of utilities, hints and tips that don’t warrant a show on their own. Yoink - A peek at a new application that makes copying files in Full Screen Mode a snip. AirDrop - Previously only available to newer Macs, this simple hack will open it up for all your Macs LaunchBar Refresher - Not still using LB just for application launching are you? This segment shows you some useful actions and services. Some great utilities featured in this week’s members tutorial **Yoink** - A very smart way of copying files around your system. Originally developed for use with Lion and full screen apps, Yoink pops out a handy side panel whenever you start to drag a file. Just drag the file to the side panel and it’s stored for copying somewhere else - a full screen app or somewhere else on your system. Configure the shelf to open on the left or right hand side of your screen, or under your mouse - very neat. If you’re quick, you can enter a prize draw to get one of 10 copies of Yoink available to ScreenCastsOnline members. Just send an email to screencastsonline+yoink@gmail.com before the 4th October to be entered into a prize draw. **AirDrop** - Previously only available to newer Macs, this simple hack will open it up for all your Macs. Using a simple terminal command, you can enable Airdrop to work on most Airport devices that don’t support the newer PAN (Personal Area Networking) protocols. There are some caveats but this is a great way to transfer files between your Macs on the same WiFi network. **LaunchBar Refresher** - Not still using LaunchBar just for application launching are you? This segment shows you some useful actions and services to get more out of LaunchBar. I take a look at some common actions and explain how to use "Instant Send" to act on files in the Finder. I also take a look at installing a Timer action, to enable you to run multiple timers through LaunchBar using an AppleScript created by Justin Blanton The segment also shows you two new services built into Lion that allow you to encode video and audio files right from within Finder, without the need for any third party applications, accessible via LaunchBar or via the standard OSX services. New to LaunchBar, is built in integration with Fantastical, the very smart calendar application that allows you to use natural language to set up your events. This segment shows you how to configure and use the Fantastical integration. Finally, if you're using LaunchBar or any other application launcher, why use the Dock? Following on from a suggestion from Pat Mahon, I show you how to change your dock configuration to remove those garish blue lights and just use your Dock to see what applications are running. Check out the segment to see what I mean! | 9/30/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 21 | Video314 - 1Password & New Safari Extension [Introduction] | [Introduction to Members Show] One of the most, if not the most, useful applications for the Mac has just been released for Lion via the Mac App Store. This week’s tutorial takes you through a clean install of 1Password and Dropbox as well as describing some of the changes brought about by the introduction of the new 1Password Safari Extension. 1Password is the ultimate Password and Identity Manager for the Mac, but bringing it to Lion was not without it’s challenges. Due to changes brought about by Lion and the new version of Safari, Agile Bits have had to re-write parts of 1Password and the essential Safari extension. This extension allows you to access your 1Password data from inside Safari, and allows you to seamlessly login to various websites and services with just a few simple keystrokes. With 1Password now being available via the Mac App store, you can install it on all your Macs, and with a free DropBox account, sync all your 1Password data easily and securely. If you’re a mobile 1Password user, this also allows you to sync your data across all your iOS devices too (not forgetting your Windows machines). This episode is a refresher on using 1Password as well as a peek at the features and functionality of the newly redesigned Safari extension | 9/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 22 | Video313 - Easy Timeline & Timeline 3D V3 [Full Show with Subtitles] | Easy Timeline and Timeline 3d are two amazing applications that allow you to create stunning, cinematic, timeline based interactive presentations and beautiful documents. This week’s tutorial takes you through the basics of timeline creation and illustrates the differences between the two applications, with Easy Timeline now available via the Mac App Store for the first time. Easy Timeline and Timeline 3D both offer a simple way to create and enhance timeline based presentations. Each allows you to simply add events and multimedia clips to a timeline and display your timeline in an interactive 2D or 3D visualisation. Ideal for live presentations, both applications have been enhanced to allow for easy control in a live situation via onscreen controls, the keyboard or an Apple Remote. Simply create events adding titles, dates, descriptions and even images, audio and video clips and the applications will render them into a gorgeous 2D or 3D display with full control on the "look" of the timeline. **Easy Timeline** has just been released via the Mac App Store and gives you all the functionality of timeline creation, just like Timeline 3D, the "Pro" version of the app. Create and present your timelines using all the standard tools available. Created with students and the occasional user in mind, this inexpensive app really is timeline creation "for the rest of us! **Timeline 3D** has the same creation and display functions as Easy Timeline but allows for much greater flexibility when creating and exporting your timelines. Timeline 3D allows you to import events directly from many standard Mac applications such as Address Book, Aperture, Basecamp by 37signals ,iCal, iPhoto, iTunes, NetNewsWire by Black Pixel, OmniFocus by OmniGroup, Skitch by Plasq, Software Updates, The Hit List by Potion Factory, Things by Cultured Code, even RSS / Atom Feeds or information pulled from Software Update, as well as via Custom import via AppleScript, Custom import via tab-delimited text. (Easy Timeline supports the Custom import options only). Once you have created your timeline, Timeline 3D has a wealth of export options to allow you to export your finished timeline as a fully rendered HD Quicktime movie, export directly to YouTube or even integrate with Keynote, allowing you to incorporate fully interactive 3D animated timelines within your Keynote presentation. Both applications are fully localised in multiple languages allowing you to create timelines in globalised formats including localised date formats. The tutorial takes you through the basics of timeline creation and explores many of the features of both Easy Timeline and Timeline 3D | 9/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 23 | VideoSept 2011 Software Bundles | Not a usual show, this is just short update on a couple of Software Bundles currently available. I’ve had several requests from people asking about the latest bundles and my take on them, so I’ve made this short video with my take on some of the applications available. As usual, even if you only get two or three great apps in each bundle, it’s usually worth the price, and you effectively get a ton of software for free. The video contains some affiliate codes for ScreenCastsOnline. You can access all these codes from http://screencastsonline.com/bundles | 9/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 24 | Video312 - Lion - Preview, Address Book & iCal [Introduction] | [Introduction to Members Show] A further look at the changes to some of the core utilities in Lion. This week, it’s the turn of: Preview - OSX’s PDF and Image viewer and annotation tool Address Book - For managing your contacts iCal - The latest version of the Calendaring application OSX Lion isn’t just an Operating System, it's a platform packed with lot’s of utilities and applications you might have to buy separately with other platforms. This week’s show takes a look at three such utilities: Preview - OS X has always had terrific support for PDFs and images built right into the OS, but in addition to this, Apple provide Preview for viewing and annotating your PDFs and images. As well as some UI improvements, Preview has been fully “Lionised” with support for Full Screen View, Auto-Save, Versions, etc. In addition, it contains some great new features including the & "Magnifier" as well as a rather neat new way of capturing and using digital signatures. Address Book - Your Contacts Manager has had a complete face lift! Some new views and now it includes the ability to use &"Faces" from iPhoto or Aperture to populate the images in your Address Book, as well as adding in some overdue support for Social Networking profiles. iCal - If you think Address Book has had a face lift, wait until you see iCal! A radical change (perhaps not to everybody's taste), iCal takes skeuomorphism to the next level, by faithfully recreating a desktop calendar or day planner. (Heck. it even has torn out bits of paper stuck in the binder). With support for Quick Entry tasks and a new Year View with & "heat gauge", this section explores some of the new features. | 9/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 25 | Video311 - Using Mail in Lion [Trailer with Subtitles] | View the subtitles in this trailer in iTunes by selecting Controls -> Audio & Subtitles -> English Back to Lion this week - time to look at the new features of the Mail application. In addition, this week includes something brand new - subtitles! Mail is another area in Lion that has received a major facelift in Lion. As well as some significant changes to the user interface, Apple have also introduced some new features that help you read and organise your mail. This week's tutorial takes you through the new widescreen three pane view and the new "Favourites" bar. Want to move emails around your mail folder system? Mal now contains some neat new keyboard shortcuts to help you do just that. Another new feature in Mail is the ability to set flags on your emails to colour code or prioritise your mail items. You can even create your own flag system. Brand new to Lion is the ability to view your mails in a "conversation" view, allowing you to read all the emails in a threaded email conversation. Not just the emails you receive, but also your replies. It's really easy and surprisingly effective to read your emails in this new view. Add in the ability to remove the messy and distracting nightmare of replies within the same email and your mail becomes a pleasure to use. Something special this week, I've included full English subtitles in the tutorial for the first time. As well as chapters for easy navigation, the members versions of the tutorial contain a separate English subtitle track. Obviously, this will assist hard or hearing or deaf viewers follow the tutorial, but it will also help anyone who may have trouble keeping up with my speedy delivery! The first part of this week's tutorial explains how to access the subtitles, as well as some tips for using QuickTime 7 to adjust the speed, volume and even the pitch of the video whilst viewing the tutorials. | 9/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 26 | Video310 - Subscribing Using iCatcher! [Trailer] | Time for a break from Lion, so this week I cover one subject I seem to be getting a lot of emails about - how to subscribe directly to podcasts from your iPad, iPhone or iPod touch. There are a lot of 3rd party "podcast catchers" but I recommend one that is universal, is optimised for video playback, and plays nicely with ScreenCastsOnline members tutorials - iCatcher! The traditional "wired" model of having to sync your iOS device with a Mac to access the latest podcasts is just too limiting and extremely frustrating. It means always having to be near to your Mac to sync the latest stuff - not always possible, especially if you're travelling. There is also a move to start using different iOS devices for different things (if you're fortunate enough to have both an iPad and and iPhone/iPod touch). The iPad is perfect for video podcasts and the iPhone/iPod touch for audio podcasts. There are many 3rd party "podcast catchers" available to allow you to download podcasts directly to your iOS device, but nearly all have a couple of "issues" or missing features. Some are iPhone only, but you can use them in 2x mode on your iPad - not the best idea. Some don't support "protected feeds", so that makes them unusable with ScreenCastsOnline and other premium content. Some don't support chapters. Some are just out and out buggy! Eventually, I've managed to find an application that works great on the iPhone, iPad and iPad touch, supports fully "protected feeds" and is optimised for video podcasts allowing you to access chapters directly. A major plus is that it also has a pro-active and passionate developer who continues to support his application. It has a ton of other features too, including an easy way to migrate your podcasts from iTunes using OPML and eMail. The application is called iCatcher and is available from the iTunes store for just £1.49 This week's tutorial takes you through the process of initially subscribing the ScreenCastsOnline members feeds in iCatcher!, allowing you to download the members tutorials directly to your iOS device. I also take you through a tour of some of the playback controls as well as demonstrating how effective iCatcher! is at playing video podcasts with chapters. The second part of the tutorial takes you through the process of exporting your iTunes library via OPML, and splitting the file in separate files for video and audio podcasts, then using those files to migrate all your audio files to your iPhone or iPod touch, and your video podcasts to your iPad. Very simple to do and could save you a lot of time manually re-subscribing! | 8/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 27 | Video309 - Lion - Finder & Safari [Free Sampler Show] | Continuing with the Lion theme, this week I start to take an in-depth look at some of the core OSX applications supplied with Lion. Finder - the OSX file management application & Safari - Apple's flagship browser. This tutorial takes you through all the subtle (and not so subtle) changes in these important applications. Both Finder and Safari have had some significant changes in Lion, both cosmetically, and under the hood. In the first part of the tutorial, I take you through some of the principal changes in Finder. The sidebar has had an overhaul and there are some new tricks to learn. The Finder also includes a new way of "grouping" your files by use of the new "Item Arrangement" button. Some significant changes to QuickLook and some brand new features such as "All My Files" and some new ways to move files around using keyboard shortcuts. I also take a look at AirDrop, a neat way of moving files between Macs using Lion with Zero Configuration - it just works (as long as your WiFi card supports it!). The Finder section finishes off with the answer to the "missing" Library folder as well as some tips on accessing your Library folder in Time Machine. The full show is for ScreenCastsOnline members and contains the following additional sections Safari has some new features to explore too! A brand new downloading mechanism - there's now a pop up panel rather than a downloading window, and this section explains how to get the most out of it. As well, as Reading List - a new bookmarks manager. Not too impressive on this first release but with a lot of potential. As an added bonus, I also include a section on the new "[Lion Recovery Disk Assistant](http://support.apple.com/kb/dl1433)" If you didn't manage to create an Installer disk during the original install process and you haven't got a copy of Lion to recover from, this is for you! | 8/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 28 | Video308 - Lion - Resume, Auto-Save & Versions [Trailer] | Lion includes some game changing technologies and this week’s tutorial takes you through three of them. Resume your applications when restarting your Mac, Auto-Save to keep your data safe and Versions, giving you access to multiple versions of your documents automatically. | 8/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 29 | Video307 - Introduction to Lion - Gestures & More! [Trailer] | We’ve prepared for Lion (SCO0304) and we’ve installed Lion (SCO0305a), now it’s time to start using Lion! This tutorial takes you through some of the core technologies of Lion including Gestures, Scrolling, Full Size Apps, Mission Control, App Exposé & more. This week’s tutorial finally allows us to get to grips with Lion and start exploring some of it’s ground breaking features. There is so much to cover, this initial tutorial will start you off with the basics, introducing you to some of the new components within Lion. We start off with Gestures and Scrolling, picking up some tips on changes to Windowing, Spotlight and Scroll Bars taking a look at the new features for zooming and looking up information. Swiping is a big deal in Lion and this leads us on to using Full Screen Applications, with full explanations of how best to use Full Screen Apps and even some handy (and unknown) tips on using Full Screen Apps on a dual monitor setup. A big addition to Lion is Mission Control - a new way to organise your Desktops and Spaces. This part of the tutorial gives you a complete overview on how Mission Control works and can be mastered with swipes and even assigning keystrokes. Finishing off with a look at App Exposé and LaunchPad, this episode will get you on the right path when starting off with Lion. In future tutorials, I’ll be exploring the amazing new Resume, Auto-Save and Versions, as well as looking in depth at the changes to the Applications supplied with Lion. | 8/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 30 | Video306 - Final Cut Pro X - Part 2 [Trailer] | This second part of a two part show takes you through some of the more advanced features of FCP X and shows you how you can easily upgrade your iMovie of Final Cut Express skills. This show covers: Introduction Advanced Editing Using the Precision Editor Using the Blade Tool Connecting Clips Auditioning Clips Retiming Your Clips FCP X Browser Panels Effects Browser Audio Effects Photo Browser Music and Sound Browser Transitions Browser Text & Generator Browsers Theme Browser Auto Colour Matching Audio Enhancements Audio Sync Working with Images in FCP X Using Keyframes for Animation Sharing & Exporting Projects Burning a Blu-Ray in FCP X Wrap Up | 7/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 31 | Video305a - Lion Installation [Free Show] | Lion is out! So perhaps you would like some installation advice? This show takes you through a standard upgrade plus shows you how to create your own Lion Installer USB drive. | 7/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 32 | Video305 - Final Cut Pro X - Part 1 [Trailer] | One of the most controversial product launches ever - Final Cut Pro X This first part of a two part show takes you through the basics of FCP X and shows you how you can easily upgrade your iMovie of Final Cut Express skills. Heck, it’s even good enough for Pro videographers too! Despite howls of criticism from the top end “broadcast” pro video editors, Apple have, in fact, released a stunning video editing app. Final Cut Pro X is full of cutting edge features, wrapped up in an all new user interface, built to perform with full 64 bit support. If you don’t need the “missing” import and export features (and most people don’t), Apple have given iMovie and Final Cut Express users a brilliant and relatively affordable upgrade path. The web has been awash with some (and some not so much) justified criticism of the latest flagship video editing package from Apple. However, these criticisms really only impact the top video editors in the Movie and TV industry - those who need to interwork with other industry professionals or use complex multi-cam rigs. Most prosumer users, currently limited by iMovie or struggling with Final Cut Express, now have a valid upgrade path to the Pro level package. Apple have built FCP X from the ground up with performance and capability in mind. Built on a full 64bit architecture, FCP X is extremely speedy and uses background processing for many tasks, allowing you to get on with editing. The new interface is both simple and complex. Simple enough to allow you to get in and get on with some rudimentary editing. as well as allowing you to use its more complex features as and when required. Add in some breathtaking new features such as Auditions, Audi Sync (my favourite), Auto Colour matching, drag and drop Retiming, full keyframe support, magnetic timeline... to name but a few, FCP X is the new foundation for the future of video editing. This week’s tutorial takes you through the basics of FCP X explaining some of the core concepts behind it. The tutorial also takes you through The new user interface and controls Reviews how you can import media from file based systems and camcorders Shows you how the new Event Library works, allowing you assign metadata (automatically and manually) to organise your media Create projects and assign media Basic Audio and Video editing The second part of the show, to be released in two weeks, takes a look at some of the more advanced features. | 7/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 33 | Video304 - Getting Ready for Lion [Trailer] | Are you ready for Lion? Well. it’s now July and Lion will be making an appearance very soon. This week’s show gives you a heads up on what you can do to prepare your Mac for Lion, the first version of OSX to be available via the Mac App Store. | 7/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 34 | Video303 - Information Workflows on the Mac & iPad [Trailer] | A two part show this week. Following a lot of positive feedback from last week’s show, where I demonstrated creating Markdown documents on the iPad, I had some requests for recommendations on what to use on the Mac for editing Markdown documents. In the first section, I show you ByWord, a beautiful, fully featured text editor with great Markdown supporas well as some examples of converting Markdown documents for use in virtually any word processor, even Mail. The second part of the show is all about managing the deluge of information available to us on the web. I now defer all my reading to InstaPaper on the iPad, then once I’ve read it, I either delete it, keep it in Evernote for future reference or send it over to OmniFocus to act on. This section shows you how these applications integrate both on the Mac and on the iPad, allowing you to create a smart information workflow Although the support for Markdown on the ipad is pretty mature and there are lot’s of applications with Markdown support built in, the same can’t be said of the Mac. With it’s origins of being a formatting tool for the web, it’s only recently started to be adopted by editing programs meant for long form writing, not just code editors. In the first part of the show, I mention a number of Text editors that don’t quite meet my requirements and explain why. I then show ByWord, a relatively new word processor for the Mac, Byword is great in that it has been designed to allow for long form writing, it's beautiful in its appearance, and has full support for Markdown formatting. As well as showing you ByWord and how you can use it it, I also show you how to export your formatted documents from the application. I demonstrate how to convert Markdown documents into RTF using TextEdit, and also by the use of a simple Automator workflow, you can create beautifully formatted e-mails. There are also some tips about using TextExpander snippets within your MArkDown documents in ByWord. In the second part of the show, I explain how I handle the deluge of information I seem to come across every day. During the day, it's very rare that I will actually read something on the web, preferring always to send it to InstaPaper for later perusal. InstaPaper on the iPad is a great reading environment, but once I've read something, there are usually several options that I need to consider. Do I delete it, send it to Evernote for archiving and later retrieval, or do I need to send it to OmniFocus to create a task to act on the information. This section of the show shows you exactly how I achieved this workflow, as it is now possible to integrate all these different applications not only the Mac, but also on the iPad. | 6/24/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 35 | Video302 - Writing Kit for the iPad [Free Show] | It seems like there are hundreds of text editing applications available for the iPad, quite a few with Markdown and DropBox support built in. Understandable really, as the iPad is the perfect tool for creating documents on the go, with Dropbox allowing you to sync with your Mac, and Markdown giving you the ultimate in portability and flexibility. But which iPad application do you choose? Well, I must have tried them all, but I’ve finally found one that I most comfortable with, one that is simple to use, but very powerful. That application is Writing Kit for iPad. The iPad really came into it’s own on my recent trip to WWDC. Two seven hour flights, each way, gave me plenty of time to watch a few films and write a few documents and blog posts. Even though my 13” MacBook Air is lightweight and portable, it’s still just a bit too big to sit nicely on the seat tray in Economy (or coach to our US friends). The iPad however, is just perfect. I’ve been looking for the perfect writing app for the iPad for ages, and must have tried everyone on the market. There always seemed to be just one or two features missing. I’d settled on the strategy of using plain text files, formatted using the Markdown language as the perfect solution for portability. Files created on the iPad could be whisked across to my Mac without any worries of cross application incompatibility. My search seems to have come to an end with Writing Kit for the iPad. Writing Kit has full support for DropBox allowing you to seamlessly transfer your file to your Mac. A dedicated keyboard takes away the hassle of trying to remember Markdown commands or fighting with the standard keyboard to access symbols and other characters. A good selection of fonts, resizable with a pinch or the fingers as well as a unique way of moving your cursor, character by character, or word by word with just a few taps. Working on a long document? Writing Kit also allows you to view an outline of your document and jump to any heading quickly and easily. Want to create blog posts with images from your camera roll? Writing Kit has integration with CloudApp, allowing you to select an image, upload to the cloud and insert an image link in a single process. If you’re using Writing Kit to create a document requiring research on the net, it’s built in research tools and browser means you can do everything within the application - no need to keep switching back and forth with Safari. Once you have your quote, link or image from the web, Writing Kit allows you to paste them into your document with just a few taps, all correctly formatted and annotated. There’s also integration with services like InstaPaper, Evernote, Delicious, Pinboard.... too many to mention. This week’s tutorial takes you through all the main components of Writing Kit, demonstrating many of it's features. | 6/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 36 | Video301 - Creating Web Content with Hype [Trailer] | Want to create beautiful animated or interactive web content? The latest and greatest technologies that allow you to do just that are HTML5, CSS3 and Javascript - but perhaps that all sounds very complicated! However, If you do adopt these technologies, your content will be playable on most modern browsers, as well as the iPhone and iPad. But how to get to grips with all that coding? Well the good news is you don’t have to. This week’s tutorial is all about Hype, a brand new tool that allows you to create amazing web content, without a single line of code. Just drag in images, videos and animate them using simple keyframes using the Hype user interface. Add scenes and buttons to make it interactive, then generate the required code to include in your webpages, or even publish directly to Dropbox. No previous web development skills required. It really is amazing what can be achieved using HTML5, CSS3 and Javascript. These latest technologies allow you to create beautiful animated and interactive web content, with the benefit of your content being accessible from most modern browsers and mobile devices. Previously, you would need skills in Adobe Flash or Dreamweaver to create this sort of content, something that would required in depth technical knowledge and web development skills. Even with these tools and the required skills, content generated with these proprietary tools could not be displayed on the latest iOS devices. The iPad/iPhone and iPod touch have excluded Flash playback, relying instead on standards based technologies such as HTML5, CSS3 and Javascript. These new technologies are capable of displaying some amazing visual tricks such as transforms, reflections and other effects, all without taxing the processor and affording a wide range of support on many devices and browsers. The problem is, how to learn these new technologies? Well with Hype, you don’t need to! Hype is a new application that allows you to create simple or complex animated and interactive graphics using simple drag and drop. Just create some text and drop an image on the scene. Then use a simple timeline and keyframes to animate the text and graphics as you need. Fade in, move around the scene, all easily accomplished. Add additional scenes and buttons to create fully interactive content, all without a single line of code. Once you’ve created your content, preview it directly in your browser, without leaving the application. Publishing your content is a snip. Just export to a file and all the required HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript code and supporting files are generated for you. Just copy into any existing webpages and upload to the web and you’re done. Or, Export to Dropbox and see your content published to the web instantly, Hype even provides the links to the newly published files to send via email. It really is that easy. This week’s tutorial takes you through the basics of using Hype, with plenty of examples on how to create stunning web content. <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/scofree/~4/lcQAgx9maGM" height="1 | 6/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 37 | Video300 - Bluetooth & Dictation [Trailer] | There are some really good bluetooth headsets on the market now, which offer full audio support for the Mac, iPhone and iPad. So why can’t you use them with Dragon Dictate? Well the good news is you can! This tutorial demonstrates how to set up a Virtual Audio driver on your Mac to take advantage of the latest bluetooth headsets, as well as demonstrating how to dictate on your iPad and iPhone via bluetooth. Although USB headsets are great, most of them are tethered, meaning it’s very difficult to move away from your Mac. The latest bluetooth headsets are light and portable, giving you freedom to wander about the room, dictating to your hearts content. Most new bluetooth headsets also support A2DP, allowing you to use them with your iPad and iPhone. In episode 295, I demonstrated Dragon Dictate, the premier solution for dictation on the Mac. Surprisingly, Dragon Dictate doesn’t support bluetooth headsets? In this tutorial, I show you how to use two free software utilities to create a virtual audio device on your Mac and use it in conjunction with Dragon Dictate - it works amazingly well. Once you have your bluetooth headset, you can also use it to dictate on your iPad and iPhone - even dictate and send emails - very useful if you struggle with the virtual keyboard. This is achieved using the free Dictation application on your iOS device. | 6/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 38 | Video299 - Concentrate & Keyboard Maestro [Trailer] | Two applications to cover this week in an extended tutorial: *Concentrate* - A brilliant way to help you focus on the task in hand. Concentrate allows you to remove all distractions and will even open the required apps to enable you to get on with the job - automatically! *Keyboard Maestro* - If you ever find yourself doing simple tasks over and over again, Keyboard Maestro gives you the ability to create powerful macros to take away the pain. | 5/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 39 | Video298 - HandBrake Batch & iVI [Free Show] | Two applications to cover this week in a quick update tutorial: *HandBrake Batch* - A new GUI which allows you encode your videos in Handbrake using batch mode via drag and drop. *iVI Video Encoder* - A really simple application to encode and add metadata to your movies, TV Show and Home Movies, but with some extra features. Multi-core support for fast encoding plus the option of creating dual SD And HD movies in iTunes for support for all your Apple devices Additional Information *HandBrake Batch* - HandBrake is the fantastic, free video encoding application but it’s let down in one area and that’s limited support for batch encoding. It’s great if you just want to encode a single file or even a couple, but what if you have a folder full? I covered using AppleScript in episode 290, but that’s a little bit fiddly for some people, and not ideal for just encoding a batch of files “on the fly” That’s where HandBrake Batch comes in! HandBrake Batch is a simple user Interface for HandBrake that allows you to encode a batch of files via drag and drop. Just drag the folder across to HandBrake Batch, select the preset, select the destination and press OK. HandBrake batch will process all the files with no further interaction *iVI* - iVI is a utility that converts your video files into iTunes compliant format and imports them directly into iTunes. I’ve covered a similar application to iVI before and that’s iFlicks back in episode 288. iFlicks is great but didn’t support encoding using all the multiple cores on my Mac. To speed up the process, I ended up encoding in Handbrake and then using iFlicks to “flatten” the file and add the metadata. Well with iVI, it does both! With full support for my multiple cores, iVI will blast through the encoding and add the metadata in a single process. It supports Movies and TV Shows and even allows you to transfer and encode you AVCHD home movie files off your camcorder. If you have a mixture of Apple playback devices such as new Apple TVs/iPhone 4’s and older iPhones or iPads, iVI will also allow you to create a “dual” version on a file that appears once in iTunes (with a SD/HD) label but is in fact, two files - one formatted for HD and one formatted for SD. Selection is automatic depending on which device you are syncing with iTunes - pretty neat! iVI also has a whole host of features to allow you to setup automation of your video encoding and import into iTunes, either scheduled or on-demand. | 5/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 40 | Video297 - SCO Website Update & Fluid 1.0 [Trailer] | The theme for this week’s extended show is update - First, we’ve been working hard behind the scenes to update the ScreenCastsOnline website. The first section takes you through some important updates to the ScreenCastsOnline website to make searching and accessing tutorials easier for members. The second section is an update on an application we’ve covered before - the new version of Fluid - a brilliant app that converts web applications into Mac applications. I’m delighted to be able to start working on some of the back end systems and offer even more value to ScreenCastsOnline members. The new features we’re starting to roll out, all help to make the ScreenCastsOnline experience even better! In this first re-launch, we’ve created a brand new presentation of the tutorials with the introduction of Members “show notes”. These are the descriptions of each tutorial accessible via a new members website. The members versions of the show notes are free from trailers and promotional material and include links to all versions of the tutorials and the newsletter, directly from the show note page itself. Access to the new show notes is either via members.screencastsonline.com or via a special link embedded in the public version of the show notes. We’ve also added in a new “Members Information Page” on the public site, so if you can’t access the members website (for instance if your membership has expired), you can still manage your membership via your members panel or access help and assistance via the FAQ or email. This is just the start of changes happening ove the next few months, so please bare with us whilst we sort a few things out - it may take a few weeks to bring all the members show notes to the new format and embed the links in the public versions. The other section in this week’s show covers one of my favourite applications, and one I use every day for accessing some of my favourite web services. The app is called Fluid and has just been completely re-written from scratch and relaunched as version 1.0. It allows you to “encapsulate” virtually any web service (think Twitter, Facebook, MobileMe) and turn it into a fully featured Mac app, complete with it’s own icon and place in the Dock. No longer do you need to mess about with tabbed browser windows, each Fluid app runs completely independently, allowing you to use standard OSX commands to switch between them. Fluid v1 is available as a free version and a licensed version, with the licensed version allowing you to: Create Fluid Apps with Separate Cookie Storage Pin Fluid Apps to the Mac OS X Status Bar. Use Userscripts or Userstyles in your Fluid Apps. The tutorial takes you through the basics of Fluid and demonstrates how to take advantage of some of these new features | 5/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 41 | VideoUrgent - MacLegion 2011 Spring Bundle | Just a quick urgent message about a new software bundle with just a few days left to go! The bundle offer finishes on Friday 13th May 2011 so you'll need to act quickly - sorry for the late notice. | 5/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 42 | Video296 - Archive & Compression in OSX [Trailer] | One of the many things built in to OSX that we take for granted, is the ability to both compress and archive files without any third party applications. This show takes you through the basics of compressing (and un-compressing) files and folders, including a look at an application you may have seen make a fleeting appearance in your Dock - Archive Utility. Did you know that you can tweak your compression and archive settings? Or even that you can configure Archive Utility to reside in the Dock or even as a System Preference pane. I also take you through how to encrypt your compressed archive files with a password via the Terminal. As well, as un-extracting via the Terminal. Finishing off with a peak at a free utility that allows you to un-archive password protected archive files, without having to fire up the Terminal. In detail, this weeks show covers: + OSX Archive & Compression + File Compression + Archive Utility + Setting Archive Extraction Preferences + Setting Archive/Compression Creation Preferences + Archive Utility Preferences To System Prefs Pane + Encrypting with a Password + Extracting via The Unarchiver | 5/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 43 | Video295 - Dragon Dictate 2.0 for Mac [Trailer] | As an IT professional, and someone who spends too many hours in front of the computer each and every day, I have to admit to being a terrible typist. Answering e-mails, writing blog posts, creating show notes – all these tasks require a huge amount of typing. As a typical hunt and peck typist, I know that this process slows me down greatly. Wouldn't it be fantastic to just talk your computer and have your words translated automatically into nicely written text. Well you can, with Dragon Dictate 2.0 for Mac. Dragon Dictate is the premier application for speech recognition on the Mac. Previously known as MacSpeech, Dragon Dictate has been relaunched using the world-renowned Dragon speech recognition engine. With just a few minutes training, Dragon Dictate can take your spoken word and converted into perfectly formatted text. The speed and accuracy of Dragon Dictate is really amazing, and allows you to blast through any tasks that previously required typing, up to 3 times as fast. The speech recognition technology built into Dragon Dictate, also allows you to control your Mac and your applications. With hundreds of built-in commands and the ability to create your own custom commands, Dragon Dictate allows you to take full control of your overall computing experience, all by just using your voice. In this week show, I take you through the basics of Dragon Dictate, including both the installation and also the training. Once we have the application installed, I demonstrate just how easy it is to dictate, navigate and correct your document using just your voice. The show also includes sections on commands, using Dragon Dictate with various applications, and even a section on using it with Mail. In detail the show covers: + Selecting the correct version + Installation & Training + Creating a Profile + Training Dragon Dictate + Training Completed! + Dragon Dictate User Interface + Dragon Dictate Modes + The Dragon Dictate Note Pad + Basic Dictation + Making Corrections + Navigating Around Your Document + Modern Terms + Adding Custom Words + Numbers & Fractions + Using the Recognition Window + Using Command Mode + Using Voice Shortcuts + Application Specific Commands + Using TextEdit with Dragon Dictate + Using Mail with Dragon Dictate + Creating Custom Commands | 4/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 44 | Video294 - OSX Keychain, App Switching & MPlayerX [Free Show] | Last minute change of plan this week. As I explain in the show, I’ve had to reschedule the planned extended show for this week and bring forward the mini montage show I’d already prepared for next week. In this week’s show I take a look at: #### OSX Keychain One of the more mysterious aspects of OSX, but knowing about the keychain andthe Keychain Access application can be useful. #### OSX Application Switching Some simple (and not so simple) tips on switching applications in OSX with keyboard shortcuts and gestures. #### MPlayerX A quick look at a great open source video player for the Mac. | 4/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 45 | Video293 - PinPoint & Upgrading MobileMe Calendar [Trailer] | Two short sections this week, as it’s time for a mini montage show. PinPoint First up is a great new utility from Lagente Software - PinPoint. This is actually a promo video I did for them a few weeks ago but I was impressed with the application so I thought I’d run it in the show. I’ve been experimenting for a while using different techniques to make the standard mouse cursor more visible in the screencasts I create. The small black mouse pointer can be hard to follow, especially if you’re visually impaired. Until finding PinPoint, the solution I used was to create a custom cursor and replace the standard cursor in post production within ScreenFlow. Not difficult, but fiddly and a bit of a time sink. With PinPoint, I can replace my pointer and use it for live recording. It includes a number of different animated pointers and you can even create your own. The application also includes the ability to echo your keystrokes to the screen too. making it perfect for live demos and presentations. Upgrading your MobileMe Calendar Consider this a public information message! Apple have significantly upgraded the Calendar in MobileMe and urging everyone to make some changes to their setup by 5th May 2011. If you don’t, you may find your Macs and iOS devices stop syncing Calendar data after that date. Luckily, the upgrade is fairly painless although there are some extra steps required if you’re a BusyCal user. This section takes you through the upgrade process step by step and discusses some of the new Calendar features. | 4/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 46 | Video292 - ABFR & 802.11n Wi-Fi Networking [Trailer] | Another extended show this week, with two completely different topics: A Better Finder Rename As promised, this section takes an in depth look at one of my go to utilities whenever I need to rename files. A Better Finder Rename. This application takes care of the heavy lifting, whenever you need to rename a bunch of files and allows you the ultimate flexibility. With categories such as Text, Characters, Positions and Ranges, Conversions, Truncations, Sequence Numbers, Roman Numerals, Date & Time, Alphabetical Sequences, Image Dimensions, MP3/AAC tagging, Parent Folder Name. Path Components and Advanced & Special, it’s amazingly versatile. Add in the ability to create multi stage renames, plus support for droplets and presets, A Better Finder Rename is the ultimate file renaming utility 802.11n WiFi Networking 802.11n, 802.11b/g, 2.4 GHz, 5 GHz, Simultaneous Dual Band!!! Are you confused with the current jargon surrounding WiFi? With the advent of more and more WiFi enabled devices, the need for faster and more reliable WiFi networking becomes more important. iPhones, iPads, iPod touches, Apple TVs not to mention MacBook Airs, MacBook Pros and virtually every other Apple device now either relies on or utilises WiFi. But what’s the best solution? What’s the difference between 802.11n 2.4GHz and 802.11n 5 GHz? What do my devices support? What’s the fastest? This section takes an in depth look at the current state of WiFi networking in relation to Apple products. I explain simply Apple’s strategy for 802.11n and how it differs from device to device. The section explains the pros and cons of each and why, if you have older devices on your network, you may not be getting the best performance out of your current network setup. Apple have a range of AirPort devices that allow you to create a powerful dual band WiFi network to allow you to take advantage of the increased performance of more modern Apple devices such as the iPad, and I give a full description of each one. It’s all very well understanding the theory but this episode takes you one step further by demonstrating screen by screen, how to setup an Airport Extreme to create a dual band network. I also take you through creating a “roaming” network with multiple Airport devices, allowing you to flood your environment with strong WiFi and allowing your devices to seamlessly switch between them. Finally, I demonstrate using some open source tools to measure the throughput between various devices on both a 2.4 GHz network and a 5 GHz network. You may be surprised at the difference! | 4/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 47 | Video291 - ScreenFloat, DashKards & PhotoSync [Trailer] | Time for another Mini Montage show this week, and I’ve decided to cover three great utilities, two for the Mac and one for the Mac and iOS #ScreenFloat You know what it’s like when you’re working in full screen mode within an application, and then you want to reference some information on another application. It’s either a matter or switching two and fro between windows, or you start resizing and repositioning windows so you can see one whilst working in the other. It’s even worse if you’re working in Spaces! Well ScreenFloat is a Mac app that allows you to grab a section of the screen and then “floats” it above the screen, allowing you to see it always. It will even follow you from space to space. As well as allowing you to capture these “shots”, it also provides you with a browser, enabling you to optionally store these mini clips for later retrieval. #DashKards I’ve covered DashKards before, but they’ve had a significant update. DashKards are incredibly useful “cheat sheets” that live in your OSX dashboard. There are DashKards available for lots of OSX applications as well as more general DashKards, web apps and other stuff. The big change is that they no longer require you to create Safari Web clippings for each DashKard you wish to install. They are now contained in a proper dashboard widget. This section demonstrates installing this new widget, and some of the new features and benefits of the latest version of DashKards. #PhotoSync You know how irritating it is to have to wait until you’re back at your Mac to transfer photos off your iOS device to your Mac. And then having to physically connect it with a USB cable! Or how daft is it that to transfer photos or videos off your iPhone or iPod touch to your iPad, you have to buy a $40 camera connection kit, and then have to wire them together? It is 2011 isn’t it? Well, PhotoSync brings you Mac and iOS devices into the wonderful world of wireless transfers! This section shows you how to use PhotoSync to wirelessly transfer your photos and videos directly to your Mac. You can send your photos and images directly to a folder, straight into iPhoto or even straight into Aperture - no USB cable required. Want to send from your Mac directly to your iOS device, no problem! PhotoSync will allow you to sync both ways. Want to use the new iMovie on your iPad 2 to take advantage of the larger screen size but you shot your video using your iPhone. No problem, as PhotoSync will let you wirelessly transfer your video from your iPhone to your iPad. It even allows you to transfer your images directly from your iOS device into Flickr - all done wirelessly | 4/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 48 | Video290 - Batch Encoding, AppleScript & More [Free Show] | As promised last week, time for some OSX goodness! Quite apt really as this week sees the 10th Anniversary of the launch of OSX. So in this week’s show I take a look at a number of different topics, all connected with OSX. ## Batch Encoding and Processing with Handbrake & AppleScript Following on from the recent show (SCO0288) where I discuss moving your media collection to iTunes, it can be problematic re-encoding a lot of media. HandBrake is a great utility, but it only includes limited support for batch encoding. Ideally, we want HandBrake to take a bunch of files in a folder, and process the lot, unattended. Well this is possible, but you need some AppleScript voodoo plus the HandBrakeCLI. In this section of the show I take you through the rudimentary batch support in Handbrake, but also how to setup an AppleScript to automate your encoding. ## Setting Up Folder Actions I also demonstrate using the AppleScript as a Folder Action. Just drag some files to the folder and they’ll start encoding automatically.iFlicks is another application we looked at in SCO0288, and I take a look at how to install and operate Folder Actions to automatically add metadata to your converted movie files. ## Running AppleScripts as an OSX Service One of the most useful features of OSX is to create your own context aware services to run common operations. In this section with a look at converting the iFlicks AppleScript to run as an OSX Service. Just select the file in the finder, CTRL or right click, then add to iFlicks to update and transfer the file into iTunes. ## NoteTote Whilst I’m looking at importing video into iTunes, I cover a new application that allows you to download any public file from the Internet, video, audio, images, etc. If it has a public URL, NoteTote will download it. I specifically take a look at how you can download YouTube videos directly to your Mac and transfer them into iTunes automatically. ## MacUpdate 2011 Spring Bundle I haven’t covered any software bundles for a while, mainly because I haven’t really been impressed. However, with this new bundle, MacUpdate have included some pretty heavy hitters and I regard at least 6 of the 11 apps to be well worth the purchase of the bundle. I’ll take a look at some of the other apps in future shows, but in this one I take a closer look at the MacUpdate Desktop App. A neat solution for keeping track of updates for all the apps you have installed. The bundle includes the MacUpdate Desktop software plus a six month subscription to the service. You can check out the rest of the bundle (and get some commission for ScreenCastsOnline if you purchase) using this (link)[http://www.screencastsonline.com/mupromo] | 3/25/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 49 | Video286 - Apple Remote Desktop 3 [Free Show] | Apple Remote Desktop 3 (ARD) is the sophisticated management software used in many organisations for the control and administration of multiple Macs. ARD has been designed and developed to manage many hundreds, if not thousands of Macs from a single desktop. Used extensively in Industry and Education, ARD contains many features that would make managing a smaller group of Macs easier, but the $399 price tag was always prohibitive for home users or small businesses. With the launch of the Mac App Store, Apple Remote Desktop is now available for just $80 and supports an unlimited number of clients. So now, even if you have just a handful of Macs or even less, Apple Remote Desktop is a valid option to help you manage your environment from a single Mac. This week’s show focuses on how you might use Apple Remote Desktop to manage a small number of Macs at home or in a small office environment, and takes you from installation right through to using Apple Remote Desktop to keep your Macs up to date. | 2/25/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 50 | Video284 - Markdown and more! [Free Show] | The full, double length show is only available to ScreenCastsOnline Extra! members, the free version of the show is just the first 20 minutes or so. This week’s show has a theme but covers lots of different tools and technologies - something for everybody! The main theme of the show is Markdown - a simple formatting language that allows you to use plain text files for all your writing on your Mac, iPad or iPhone. As it’s based on pure text files, Markdown gives you complete freedom and flexibility in the way you create documents and in the way you can share them with colleagues, family and friends. Originally developed for web designers, Markdown is rapidly becoming adopted across the board as a simple, portable method of creating, editing and formatting text, with many applications starting to have native support for Markdown built in. The short, free version of the show covers the basics or Markdown and describes and demonstrates some of the syntax used. The full members version of the show covers this plus many more topics including: DashKards - A great way to have a Markdown crib sheet at your fingertips via Dashboard (as well as many other top Mac applications) Markdown and Applications - A look at some of the best text editors available including NValt and TextMate. This section also shows you how to add a QuickLook plugin in to OSX to view Markdown files in all their glory using QuickLook. Web Publishing with Markdown - A look at some of the most popular blogging tools and services with support for Markdown included. I also take a look at how you can add Markdown support to Rapidweaver 5 by using a PlugIn. MultiMarkdown - Want to use Markdown for more complex projects or documents. MultiMarkdown will give you all you need and more. Specially extended to allow for a much richer and complete set of formatting tools and conversion utilities, MultiMarkdown enables the creation of complex, highly formatted documents for simple text files. In this section, I show and example of using MultiMarkdown file imported into Scrivener and exported to RTF format for Pages - pretty neat! Printing from iOS - Finally, I take a look at printing form the iPad and iPhone using iOS 4.2. Unfortunately, only a select few HP printers will give you AirPrint functionality, but with the addition of a simple, inexpensive Mac preference pane application, you can print to any shared printer on your local Mac network. No only that, but you can print to your Mac and even print to DropBox. I finish off this section with full instructions on adding integration with Evernote, just by adding some Applescript and Folder actions. Show Summary In detail the show covers: Free Show What is Markdown? Markdown Syntax Un-Ordered and Ordered Lists Links Full Members Show The contents of the free show plus: DashKards Markdown and Applications Notational Velocity | 1/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 51 | Video283 - Mac New Years Resolutions [Trailer] | The first full show for the New Year and it’s the time to catch up on some things you know your really should do with your Mac. This members only show gives you some ideas on what to set as New Year’s resolutions for your Mac. Mac New Years Resolutions Passwords - We’re all guilty of occasionally slipping into the bad behaviour of using the same password for multiple web services, even if you’re a 1Password user! Why not take the time to weed out all those services and start the New Year with a strong unique password for each service? But how do you know which services you’ve left compromised? Well if you’re a 1Password user, this section shows you how to easily identify those services and systematically put them right. If you’re not a 1Password user, I couldn’t recommend it highly enough. Here’s an affiliate link to their site - 1Password Even if you’re very conscientiousness and have methodically set a unique password on all your services, you still need to change them regularly. This section also shows how to use the 1Password Strong Password Generator in both browsers and also in standalone mode. Backups - We all know just how important backups are but are you backing up? If not, stop reading this, go out and buy a USB or FW external drive and switch on Time Machine! In this section, I local at several aspects of starting a good backup strategy. Local Backups - I explore using an external drive to create both a Time Machine backup and a bootable SuperDuper backup as well as discussing the reasons why both types of backups are useful. Offsite Backups & Online Backups - Just a local backup really isn’t enough! You really should have at least an online backup with a reputable backup service and ideally, a third backup offsite. I demonstrate a number of tools that will help you in these areas: Backup 3 - If you’re a MobileMe user, you’re already paying for a local and online backup service so why not use it! You can also use Backup 3 to create backups to physical media so you can create off site backups easily. This short section takes you through some of the features of Backups including how to download and install on your Mac, as well as creating some “Custom Plans” CrashPlan - With both a free version and a paid for version Crashplan allows you to seamlessly backup to local devices, and even friends computers across the internet allowing you to create both local and offsite backups in one east step. With Crashplan Pro, you can also send your data to Crashplan Central, a low cost online backup service, at the same time - all bases covered. With support for attached volumes as well as the ability to “seed” your backup onto a drive and send to Crashplan, and also have your data restored to a hard disk and sent back to you, Crashplan looks like one of the most comprehensive backup systems available. I explore all aspects of Crashplan and show you just how easy it is to set up and operate. I also demonstrate just how easy it is to backup your Mac to a friends, as well as the local and online backup. Arq - If you d | 1/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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