MacVoices #10124: Maria Langer On The Changes in Microsoft Word 2011 and How To Learn Them
Maria Langer, the author of the brand new Word for Mac 2011 Essential Training for lynda.com talks about the new version of the venerable word processing program, and whether you really need it. Part of the new Microsoft Office for Mac 2011, Word 2011 has greatly reduced the number of available toolbars, eliminated the formatting [...]
MacVoices #10117: From BlogWorld 2010: BookBrewer and Borders Team Up To Sell Your Blog as a Book
In Las Vegas at BlogWorld, Dan Pacheco, Founder and CEO of FeedBrewer Inc., and Kelly Peterson, eBook Manager for Borders, discuss BookBrewer, the site that lets bloggers turn their sites into ebooks, suitable for publication and sale. Dan reviews the process, how much it costs, how web sites get converted to ebooks, how long the [...]
MacVoices #10102: The Smile Software Crew Introduce the Cool New Features of PDF Pen 5
Smile Software (formerly SmileOnMyMac) is at it again, upgrading one of their wildly useful tools with even more new and cool features. Jean MacDonald, Philip Goward and Greg Scown join us to talk about PDF Pen 5, New to this version is redacting of PDFs…real redacting, not just cosmetic graphic placement that can reveal confidential [...]
MacVoices #1066: Joe Kissell Helps You Get Started with DEVONthink
Mac expert Joe Kissell takes on a challenging subject in his latest book, Take Control of Getting Started with DEVONthink. Why challenging? DEVONthink is a sophisticated program that is almost in a class by itself, providing tools and capabilities to help organize and find virtually any kind of information. Joe talks about some of the [...]
MacVoices #1055: MacVoices at Macworld – Livescribe Adds More Functionality to the Pulse Smartpen
In the Livescribe booth at Macworld 2010, Maureen Keating and Eric Petitt show off the latest enhancements to the Pulse Smartpen. How smart can a pen be? Eric takes us through both the basics, including both capturing notes and audio from whatever you are doing, transferring that information to your Mac and thirty apps that [...]
MacVoices #1044: MacVoices at Macworld – Jay Nelson Talks Fonts, Design and His New Macworld Column
From the Macworld 2010 show floor, Jay Nelson of Design Tools Monthly and Design Tools Weekly helps us understand the importance of fonts in a world that seems to be increasingly moving away from paper. Understanding and choosing the right font for the job may be the easiest way you can improve the look of [...]
MacVoices #1037: MacVoices at Macworld – PaperShow Gives Telestrator Capabilities To Your Presentation Via a Paper Interface
From the show floor at Macworld 2010, Giulia Giovanelli of Canson provides a tour of PaperShow, a product that combines the best parts of whiteboard, telestrator and plain old pen-and-paper to give you new control and capabilities in your business presentations. Driven by a special pen interface, PaperShow users can annotate presentations, meeting notes and [...]
MacVoices #9119: Neil Ticktin of MacTech Magazine Discusses Their MacMod Acquisition and Their 25th Anniversary Issue
In a wide-ranging conversation, publisher and Editor-in-Chief of MacTech magazine, Neil Ticktin, talks about their acquisition of MacMod.com, where modding fits in the Mac community, and why there probably won’t be many iPhone hardware mods. Neil also starts the celebration of MacTech’s 25th anniversary, and reveals why they aren’t feeling the pain many other print [...]
MacVoices #9112: Jeff Carlson Visually QuickStarts Adobe Elements 8 And Calls for Photos for His Next Book
Jeff Carlson has been busy, and joins us to talk about his two latest books, Photoshop Elements 8 for Mac OS X: Visual QuickStart Guide and Photoshop Elements 8 for Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide, as well as his upcoming book, Canon PowerShot G10 / G11: From Snapshots to Great Shots, all from Peachpit. Jeff covers [...]
MacVoices #9102: Kelly Thompson of iStockPhoto Discusses Their New Legal Guarantee on Their Media Collection
Looking for stock photography, video or audio clips, but are concerned about licensing? Kelly Thompson, Chief Operating Officer of iStockPhoto talks about the latest upgrade to their media offerings, a new “Legal Guarantee” on their entire collection. With an automatic guarantee up to $10,000, and an Extended Legal Guarantee up to $250,000 available, iStockPhoto has [...]
