Give Us One Minute

Here’s the first in our new GUOM Quick Tip series that we hope to post from time to time in the midst of all of our other content. Today we take a quick look at simple video editing with Quicktime Pro. You’ve probably heard this before if you use Quicktime, but Quicktime Pro is the [...]

Today we continue to enhance our Mac productivity skills using the free application, Quicksilver. We won’t go into a detailed description of Quicksilver here (after all, we only ask for a minute or so of your time). If you want more info on the app, check out the What is Quicksilver page.
We feel every [...]

We continue our series on becoming more productive using our Macs by sharing yet another use for keystroke combinations – placing special symbols within your documents. Each of these symbols begins with a simple press and hold of the Option key.
Below are a few of the commons symbols we use on a regular basis. While [...]

Previously in our series we presented some basic keyboard combinations to move around within our documents. Today we demonstrate how not to touch your mouse to control your applications? That’s right, with simple keystroke combinations we can open applications, switch between them and close them.
Opening Applications:
We imagine that most new Mac folks open applications using [...]

The last article in our Mac Productivity series presented numerous keystroke combinations to automate repetitive operating system tasks and to apply basic formatting. Today we take a look at how to use our keyboard to move around within our documents in most text editors and word-processing applications that conform to Apple user interface standards. These [...]

The foundation for being productive on any computer is knowing how to use the hardware. Apple (or for that matter, any computer manufacturer) provides a keyboard with every computer (and we don’t count the Apple TV as a computer during today’s discussion). They also provide a mouse. Did you know that? Of course you did. [...]

We’ve not done such a good job of living up to our title of Give Us One Minute. Sure we’ve provided some interesting news from around the web that you can digest in a minute or so, but it seems all of our original content has been lengthy and not in sync with our over [...]

Say it isn’t so! Last week, Apple made it official. They will not be able to roll out the latest version of the operating system until October pushing their possible Spring 07 release date WAY back. Here’s a quick snippet from the Unofficial Apple Weblog.
Apple has just issued a press release statement announcing that Mac [...]

If you are not familiar with Joost, check out their web site to find out why we are excited. We’ll be sure to complete a full write up at a later time. First our Apple TV and now Joost. There just isn’t enough time to watch all this video content. Now that we have been [...]

We would say something really witty and cool about this new Mac Pro, but our tongues are hanging out and covering our keyboard. Eight processors (2 quad-cores) in a single Mac and each one running at 3.0 GHz? Yeow! Here’s the low down from the Apple site:

Quad-core or 8-core, all Xeon
Every Mac Pro packs [...]