The readers of this web log are some of the savviest Mac users around and , because they are , they often suggest sweetening to entrance in this web log . I ’d like to take this chance to go along along some of these capital suggestion .
Export podcast to AIFF
Recently I delineate a method for exporting GarageBand podcasts as AIFF files rather than as compressed MPEG-4 or MP3 files — suggest that one simply needs to blue-pencil the podcast rails and GarageBand will export to iTunes in AIFF format .
Podcast maven , Adam Christianson , who host the ever - so - tastyMaccast podcastpoints out that there ’s an easier ( and less destructive ) way . Simplyhidingthe podcast track will do the whoremaster .
Just select that podcast track at the top of GarageBand ’s window and choose Track - > pelt Podcast Track . As the mastery implies , the podcast course will disappear . When it does , the Send Podcast to iTunes command change to get off Song to iTunes , which is the hint that the file cabinet will be send in AIFF format .
When you need your podcast track back again , just choose Track - > Show Podcast Track .
Spam filtering via Gmail
In response to my recent ledger entry about avoiding spam , MacUser.com’sDerik DeLong suggested a method I had n’t consider : UseGmail’sfilters . In his forum post he writes :
The benefits are twofold . First , you get a first rate spam filter ( I ’ve find to to be somewhat accurate ) . secondly , you ’ve now got an archive of all your email . Even if you manage to mislay your chain mail archive , you may at least appear it up again .
Displaying presentations via Apple TV
While I was sequestered with my Apple TV , Macworld’sChief Gemologist , Dan Frakes , sat in and offered two techniques for displaying presentations on an Apple video . Since that entry , Michael Zapp update his $ 18iPresent Itutility to stomach the Apple tv set . Using iPresent It you could automate much of what Dan wrote about .
Like former versions , the belated iPresent It will convert slides from Keynote and PowerPoint presentations ( as well as PDF files ) into standalone computer graphic files . These files are then saved to your iPhoto depository library in an record album create by iPresent It . plainly sync this record album to your Apple TV and then follow Dan ’s instructions for displaying them .