Mountain Lion Dictation tricks
Mountain Lion includes a systemwide Dictation feature. But until you learn some tricks for better transcriptions, you can’t harness the true power of telling your Mac what to type.
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Macworld Video
Weekly video tips from the Apple experts
Exporting uncompressed podcasts
A great many more podcasters than you might imagine care about the audio quality of their work. And because they do, some would prefer to export their podcasts as uncompressed files rather than exporting them in a compressed format and then converting them to yet another compressed format.
Regrettably, GarageBand—a tool used by many podcasters—doesn’t provide an obvious way to do that. But there is a way and in this short video I show you how it's done.
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Mountain Lion video review
My Mountain Lion review includes a video overview of Apple’s OS X update. We’re reposting it here, so that Macworld Video subscribers can get an up-close look at the many new features you can expect when you upgrade to Mountain Lion.
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Copying content to Android devices from a Mac
Christopher Breen Senior Editor, Macworld
Chris has covered technology and media since the latter days of the Reagan Administration. In addition to his journalistic endeavors, he's a professional musician in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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As a loyal Mac user it’s far more likely you’ll look toward an iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad when considering a mobile device, but as Android tablets such as Google’s Nexus 7 become available for half the price of an iPad, some Mac users are going to cast an envious eye in their direction.
But given that iTunes doesn’t support these Android devices, how are you supposed to sync the content on your Mac to an Android phone or tablet? In under two minutes I show you how.
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How to create read-only PDFs in OS X
Scholle Sawyer McFarland Senior Editor, Macworld
When you want to share a document, saving it in Adobe’s portable document format almost always guarantees that the person on the other end will see what you intend. But how do you protect what you share? You can encrypt your PDFs so that others can't copy your text or images, or even print the document. Here's how to do it using only OS X's built-in tools.
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Navigating files, folders, and menus with the keyboard
If you’ve ever looked over the shoulder of a Mac power user, you may have noted how rarely such users reach for the mouse or trackpad: Moving your hands off the keyboard slows you down. Here are some tips on navigating files, folders, and menus with only the keyboard.
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Set up your Mac for remote file access
A while back I showed you how to remotely access your Mac’s screen, but what if you need to retrieve a file off that remote machine? There are a couple of options, but many of them rely on having a specific type of hardware or software already installed. Here’s how to turn your Mac into a SFTP server that you can access from pretty much any computer or platform.
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