Archive for November, 2007
How To: Create an Encrypted Disk Image
A disk image is a file on your Mac’s hard drive that very much acts like if it was a regular disk that you can write to, read and delete things from, etc. Disk image files typically end with the “dmg” extension and are common in the Mac world, especially to distribute software on. But [...]
Photoshop Tutorial: Spice Up Your Pictures For Publication
This tutorial is a continuation of last issue where I added some Photoshop special effects to what considered as normal or plain image. What we want to do is spice the picture up a bit so we can place it in any publication. You can download the finished image from www.emiratesmac.com/Image used is from www.iStockphoto.com, [...]
Peel the Apple
Q: I forgot my password for my account? What can I do?
A: First, try all the likely candidates for passwords that you normally use. Look around your wallet, office, desk, etc. for little Post-it notes on which you may have written the password down on. Yes we know we shouldn’t write our passwords down like [...]
Profile of a Mac Seller
Name: Samer Bsawmaii
Title: Sales Executive
Store: iStyle, Abu Dhabi Mall, Abu Dhabi
Q: When did you start working for iStyle?
A: January 2007.
Q: What did you do before working at iStyle?
A: I studied information systems at Freddy Attalah College, Lebanon.
Q: When was the first time you used a Mac and what was your first impression?
A: About three years [...]
Reflections from the Hayah Film Competition
Instead of a diary I decided to publish the two speeches given by Omran and myself at the press conference announcing the Hayah Film Competition (www.hayahfilm.com) winners.
Magnus
I would like to take this opportunity to give you some background information regarding the Hayah Film Competition and the EmiratesMac Apple User Group. This competition came up in [...]
Review: BenQ FP222W Monitor
Not long ago I was looking for a reasonably priced monitor at around 20 inches to use with my MacBook at home and after some searching I found the BenQ FP222W. Let’s get to the good stuff first. This is a very good monitor at a very good price. It may not be for those [...]
Convert DVDs for playback on iPhone
Wouldn’t it be great if you could watch your purchased DVDs on your iPhone, iPod, or AppleTV? In this article I will show you how to extract the video from your DVDs, then compress and convert it to a format your Apple products understand. I will even show you how to turn your home network [...]
Perian: Universal Video Codecs
You know how sometimes when you’re trying to watch a movie on your Mac and QuickTime says it cannot play that movie for some reason? You get frustrated and upset because it’s not working. Chances are that it’s an issue of you not having the right codec installed. Movies can be saved in different formats, [...]
Apple’s iPhone: Not So Green
In the October Shuffle issue you could read about Greenpeace’s campaign “Green my Apple”, which is an attempt to make Apple and other big electronics companies produce their products and services in a more environmentally friendly way. In this article Zeina Al Hajj from Greenpeace International says, “Steve Jobs in his announcement [from May 2007] [...]
In the Spotlight: Ummah Films
We have been following Ummah Films short clips on YouTube for quite some time (www.ummahfilms.com). When we asked the guy behind the films, Ali, about how he put them together and how he got started, we found out that he’s a Mac user. Since [...]
Experiences of an Apple fan: Apple’s Amazing Financial Results
Before I write anything about my experiences, it is great to note Apple’s quarter profits have beaten analysts estimates by a wide margin and that Apple is doing very well. Kudos to Steve for re-igniting the fire at Apple Inc. Profits grew by 67% and touched $904 million for the fourth quarter. Just to put [...]
QuickTime Pro
Until recently, the main reason for many to pay for QuickTime Pro (www.apple.com/quicktime/pro) was to be able to play videos at full screen, but this reason disappeared in version 7.2. Now that reason is gone why would you want to pay $29.99 for the Pro version? Here are a few of the main reasons:
To edit [...]
Shuffle: One Year Old
In some ways it feels like yesterday that we put the first issue of Shuffle online a year ago. Back then, and strangely enough still today, Shuffle is a dream. It was a dream back then to try to publish regularly something as a PDF. If you had asked me back then if I thought [...]
Web Sites For iPhone
Really, the title should read “Web Sites for iPhone and iPod Touch” but it becomes too long to write so I settled on just iPhone. But these sites should also work fine on the iPod touch since it has the same version of Safari we find on the iPhone. I was almost finished with this [...]
May I have a word please? Remembering Leopard’s Heritage
Since this is our anniversary issue you would probably expect me to write about this significant event in this column. However, instead I thought I would discuss with you the big news – that Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard has been released. We’ve lived with Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger for almost three years. Tiger [...]
