Year: 2005

O’Reilly releases ‘Mac OS X Tiger in a Nutshell’

Posted by | Nov 29, 2005 | |

O’Reilly today announced the release of “Mac OS X Tiger in a Nutshell,” by Andy Lester, Chris Stone, Chuck Toporek, and Jason McIntosh. “The most popular and most complete desktop reference book on Mac OS X now systematically documents Tiger (Version 10.4), focusing on the BSD Unix layer. It familiarizes readers with more than 300 of Tiger’s Unix commands, the Terminal application, file management, system and network administration issues, and more.” The new 528 page book is priced at US$39.95.

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‘Total Training’ for Final Cut Pro 5 now available

Posted by | Nov 29, 2005 | |

Total Training today announced the availability of Total Training for Final Cut Pro 5: The Essentials. “Visual effects guru Brian Maffitt helps viewers get up to speed on the leading Mac-based video editing application. With 12 hours of comprehensive videos and access to the same footage used by the instructor, viewers are able to sharpen their skills as they experiment with new techniques,” notes the announcement.

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Broadband Tuner 1.0 released

Posted by | Nov 29, 2005 | |

Apple today released Broadband Tuner 1.0. The company says: “The Broadband Tuner allows you to take full advantage of very high speed Internet connections that have a high latency (5 Mbps or greater). The installer tweaks some system parameters.” In addition, Apple says, “The installer increases the default values for the size of the TCP send and receive buffers. With larger buffers more data can be in transit at once.

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The Ultimate Photoshop Quiz is launched by NAPP

Posted by | Nov 28, 2005 | |

The National Association of Photoshop Professionals (NAPP) today announced the “Ultimate Photoshop Quiz,” which allows participants to determine their knowledge and expertise of Photoshop in a 20 question, 20-minutes-or-less interactive format. “The Ultimate Photoshop Quiz is developed by NAPP President and renowned Photoshop guru, Scott Kelby along with NAPP’s very own Adobe Certified Instructors — Dave Cross and Matt Kloskowski.

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