Google Earth now lets you explore the fourth dimension—time. Peek under the Layers panel, open the Featured Content folder, and select Rumsey Historical Maps. You’ll find a number of historical maps that can be laid over the globe, including World Globe 1890, Middle East 1861, and San Francisco 1853.
MAKE: Blog also has a list of [...]
This weekly(ish) podcast offers dozens of Photoshop tutorials (including how to create digital mats, enhancing aged photos, and working with RAW), many of them videos, and all of them short enough to complete on your coffee break.
My article for the Create column in the February issue of Macworld, “Take command of color,” is available online. You’ll find several simple, useful tips for working with OS X’s Colors panel, along with some recommendations for color resources on the Web.
Just came across this tip for speeding up Safari. This simple tip really does seem to work.
Here’s how to give Safari a quick speed boost:
Quit Safari if open.
Open the Terminal application.
Enter this line (or copy and paste it; be sure it is entered on one line): defaults write com.apple.Safari WebKitInitialTimedLayoutDelay 0.2.
Hit Return, quit [...]
The pea-sized scroll ball in the hermetically sealed Apple Mighty Mouse gives some people pause (”how am I going to clean the damn thing?”), but I haven’t had any problems with my Mighty Mouse—until today. This morning, eating breakfast at my desk while surfing, the ball went slippery on me, my finger sliding over [...]
Dougal Charteris, who read my article “Solve printer problems” in Macworld, wrote in with an excellent tip for solving banding problems. I’ve had a few images in my iPhoto books marred by banding; this tip would have solved the problem.
Dougal writes:
Banding is a common problem when going to print when an image has had [...]
Macworld has posted my Digital Photo piece, “Solve printer problems,” to the Macworld web site. Now you don’t have to wait for the September issue to hit the stands. I cover some of the most common causes of hair pulling when you go to make prints with your inkjet printer.
You’ll find it all here. [...]
It’s been a few days since I got my new Apple Mighty Mouse. Aside from the occasional needless Control key press and the accidental Scroll Bar click (I have a heavy finger), it’s almost a familiar friend by now. I’ve had two-button scrolling mice before, so it hasn’t been too difficult to make use [...]
I take a lot of screenshots writing for Macworld and this blog. Most of the time I use Tiger’s built-in keyboard shortcuts, saving the pictures to the desktop. Then I open them in Photoshop, edit them, save them for the web, and delete the original. But poking around the Grab Help file, I noticed [...]
My wife had to copy a receipt the other day to submit expenses, but the original was so faded that when I scanned it the text was barely readable. Naturally, I fired up my EPSON Scan utility, switched to Professional Mode and fiddled with the settings. After a couple of additional scans, I had [...]