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Listening to Internet Radio on iTunes

At times, nothing beats the radio. Fortunately, you can use iTunes to listen to Internet radio on your Mac. When you click Radio in the source list, you have access to streaming Internet radio stations [more…]

How to Find a Song on iTunes

You can find music for your Mac's version of iTunes at the iTunes Store, where people have downloaded more than five billion songs since Apple opened it. Buying music online is useful because you have [more…]

How to Write Music Reviews and Create iMixes on iTunes

In Apple iTunes, everybody can be a music critic, so feel free to contribute your own reviews of songs or albums. In fact, on iTunes, you can go a lot further than being a critic. You can compile a list [more…]

Searching iTunes without Using the Genius Sidebar

If you haven't set up your Genius sidebar (iTunes version 8.0 or higher), iTunes lets you search for music in a variety of other ways. Check out the following list for alternatives to find your favorite [more…]

How to Buy Songs from iTunes

You’ve found a great song on Apple iTunes and you want to buy it. Before you can buy songs on Apple iTunes, though, you have to set up an account with Apple [more…]

What You Can and Can’t Do with an iTunes Song

When you buy a regular compact disc, you can pretty much do with it whatever you like: play it in as many CD players as you want, or copy the songs onto your computer. However, when you purchase music [more…]

How to Buy an iTunes Gift Certificate or Monthly Allowance

If you have trouble coming up with gifts, Apple iTunes may be your salvation. You can give the gift of music through Apple iTunes gift certificates, in amounts ranging from [more…]

How to Buy Audiobooks, Movies, and Non-Music Products from iTunes

The iTunes Music Store is now just called the iTunes Store because you can purchase a lot more than just music for your iPod. Whether you’re an audiobook fan or a TV buff, or a lifelong learner, you can [more…]

How to Touch Up Photos in iPhoto

Apple iPhoto comes with several handy editing tools for removing red eye or applying special effects. Using iPhoto’s full-screen viewing option, you can view large images and edit your photos in this mode [more…]

How to Create iPhoto Slideshows on Your Mac

Using your Mac and iPhoto, you can create slideshows. You can even go a step further and include both pictures and soundtracks and slowly zoom in and out of photos employing the Ken Burns Effect, named [more…]

How to Record a Voiceover in iMovie

Your movie may not be complete without a voiceover. Fortunately, you don’t have to hire a professional to record a voiceover in Apple iMovie. You can narrate a movie and add your voice anywhere you want [more…]

How to E-Mail Pictures on Your Mac

You can e-mail pictures from your Mac using Leopard’s Mail program. To use your Mac's Mail program to e-mail pictures: [more…]

How to Create Books, Cards, Calendars, and Themed Prints in iPhoto

Apple iPhoto makes it easy to transform your photos into books, cards, calendars, and themed prints. Not only can you show them off in your own home, but you can present these professionally printed creations [more…]

How to Publish Pictures to the MobileMe (Mac) Gallery

As part of your MobileMe (formerly .Mac) subscription, you can publish your pictures to the new MobileMe Gallery. Here’s how you can you upload all the great pictures on your Mac and share them with others [more…]

Using iWeb to Add Photos to Web Sites

iWeb, Apple’s Web page and blog creator, is built around predesigned templates and placeholders for, among other things, pictures. You can export photos from Apple iPhoto to iWeb and then drag those pictures [more…]

How to Burn Pictures to CDs and DVDs in iPhoto

Apple iPhoto makes it simple to burn CDs and DVDs. Just select the photos you want to copy (individual pix, albums, events, or your entire library). Choose Share→Burn and insert a disc into your CD or [more…]

How to Import Videos into iMovie

You can import movies that already reside on your hard drive, including video you created in iMovie HD, into iMovie. Importing video into iMovie does not erase any of the scenes from your camera. [more…]

How to Group Video by Events in iMovie

You can group all your videos in a single unified video library based on events. Although iMovie Library groups all events by a given year, you can sort them by hard disk instead [more…]

How to Skim Videos in iMovie

By mousing over the dynamic filmstrips representing your footage in Apple iMovie, you can skim through your entire video in lightning speed. Images move in both the filmstrips and the larger iMovie viewer [more…]

How to Play Back Video in iMovie

You can play back your video in Apple iMovie from any starting point. You can place the pointer where you want to begin watching your video and press the spacebar. You can double-click to start playing [more…]

How to Mark Video in iMovie

Individual segments or video clips that make up an entire event look like filmstrips in Apple iMovie, and a typical event has several clips. As you skim your video in iMovie, you’ll prefer certain parts [more…]

How to Crop Video Clips in iMovie

Just as you can crop a still image in Apple iPhoto, you can improve your video in Apple iMovie by cropping to the best part of it. You can highlight an area of a scene or focus in on an otherwise distant [more…]

How to Improve the Sound of Video Clips in iMovie

Your Apple iMovie video clip looks great, but the sound in one video clip is barely audible, while in another you must turn down the volume. Fortunately, you can tweak the audio in your video so that the [more…]

How to Create a Project in iMovie

When you have finished video, you’re ready to create an Apple iMovie project. You can combine all those segments from an event, taken at various times during the day, into one project so that you can edit [more…]

How to Add Music or Sound Effects to Your iMovie

Music is a vital part of most movies (even non-musicals), setting the tone for your video, and Apple iMovies are no different. You can add music to your iMovie as a background score. Even better, you can [more…]

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