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Tips from Macworld

Thursday, 18 February 2010

It took me a little while to get my MacBook tethered to my iPhone after giving up the search for a café with wireless here in Wellington, but here I am ...

Shoot tethered to control your camera from your Mac: Interesting Macworld story tells you how to take pictures from your Mac by tethering to your DSLR, point-and-shoot, or even an iPhone.

Create a moving splash screen for your iWeb site using Keynote: Another goodie – Adam Berenstain at Macworld tells you how to create short, eye-catching QuickTime animations that introduce your iWeb site’s content.

More 'unexpected uses' – tooltips: You can do more with these little yellow rectangles than just identify items in toolbars, says supertipster Sharon Zardetto on Macworld. The little yellow rectangles of information that pop up when you hover your cursor over something do more than just describe the name and function of a button on a toolbar. 
You can use them to find the full name or path of a file in the Finder, to get a quick summary of a help topic, and more. 

Use iChat to chat with your friends on FaceBook: This only became possible recently, writes Rob Griffiths on Macworld, but it's easy to do.

HTML5 – the good, the bad and the interesting: Are you wondering what all the fuss is about with HTML5? The next web coding standard incorporates smooth, fast video, much to the displeasure of Adobe which wants its own Flash technology to fulfill these requirements. 
There's an interesting rundown on TBray ...