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First Look: Photoshop CS6 Beta is dark, swift, and content aware
Advances in content-aware technology, cropping, blurs, and Camera Raw are just some of the new features found in the newly released beta version of Photoshop CS6.
Creative Suite 6 or Creative Cloud: Which one is best for you?
Adobe sees the Creative Cloud as Creative Suite 6 with benefits. It will include new products and services, new features as they become available, and help in defining effective workflows.
How to create an animated GIF from a video clip
Take a video snippet and turn it into an animated GIF

Locating and dispensing with old applications
If you've had the same Mac for a long time and tend toward pack-ratness, it's possible that your Applications folder is full of items you no longer use. Chris Breen shows you how to find them.
Sync services gone crazy!
If your Mac is being bogged down by syncing and you're using Microsoft's Entourage or Outlook, Chris Breen has a way to stop the bogging.
Gifting Mac App Store apps, emailing videos, and more
Time again to flush out the old mailbag with short hits from Mac 911.

Justnotes is an elegant notes app that syncs across devices
Justnotes is an elegant plain-text-notes app that syncs across devices using Simplenote and Dropbox.
Mac Gems for even less cash
The Mac Gems blog focuses on reviews of great, inexpensive software, but every once in a while we call your attention to past Gems that are currently even less expensive. Here are 13 Gems you can get for a steal.
Promising Prospect: EdgeCase enhances multiple-display setups
EdgeCase is a unique utility that gives you the user-interface benefits of a single display when using multiple displays.

Copy events, delete Mail messages
Two quick tips--one from an OS X Hints reader for copying events from one calendaring app to another, the second from a Macworld editor for quickly deleting messages in Mail.
Organize videos by groups in iTunes
By classifying all kinds of videos as TV Shows in iTunes, you can make them easier to organize.
How to delete the Dock delay
If you have the Dock set to disappear when it's not in use, you can make it reappear by moving the cursor to the edge of the screen. But when you do that, there's a slight delay before the Dock actually reappears. Here's how to make it appear immediately.

Looking forward to WWDC
On this week's Macworld Podcast, senior editor Dan Moren and staff writer Lex Friedman discuss what to expect at WWDC with developer guests.
Reviewing Creative Suite 6
Adobe Creative Suite experts Jay Nelson and Lesa Snider stop by to discuss the latest versions of Adobe's software for creative professionals -- specifically InDesign and Photoshop.
The Macalope returns
We’ve reached podcast number 300. To mark this special occasion we’ve invited everyone’s favorite genetic abomination, The Macalope, to offer his unique view of today’s world of technology.

Two useful Automator workflows
Macworld's Chris Breen demonstrates some of the power of Apple's Automator by creating two helpful workflows.
Set parental controls on your Mac
In this week's Macworld Video, we'll walk you through setting up an account with parental controls, and just what controls are available to you.
Seven iPad keyboard tricks
If you use the iPad's keyboard, here are seven tricks--for entering special characters, ending sentences quickly, splitting the keyboard, and more--that you ought to know about.

Review: Lower East Side Audio Dock Air is a quality AirPlay speaker
The Lower East Side Audio Dock Air sounds amazing and doesn't take up much space, but it's not without some odd design choices.

Five hidden Gmail tricks for power users
Whether you use Google's Gmail service at work or for personal purposes, you probably have a good handle on the basics: organizing your contacts, sending emails...
The expert's guide to Instapaper
Marco Arment's Instapaper service-and-app is a great way to save Web articles for later reading on your iPad. If you haven't tried it, here's a quick guide to getting started. And if you already use it, here are some tips for getting more out of it.
Inside the mysteries of Mission Control
Mission Control provides a bird's-eye view of all your open applications and windows. Here are answers to frequently asked questions about using OS X's screen-clutter controller.

Q&A: Lytro's Charles Chi talks light field, battery life, and licensing
The executive chairman of Lytro—a small company doing big things in the world of photography—discusses the technology behind a light-field sensor, the possibility of licensing its camera tech to phone manufacturers, and the future of sensors.
First Look: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4 Beta
Lightroom 4 Beta, which runs in Snow Leopard or Lion, promises to be a compelling upgrade for all Lightroom users.
Establish a photo editing process that works for you
Digital workflow is a fancy term that describes the sequence of things you do between the time you take a photo and when you share it with others.