Saturday, January 7, 2006

Designer Not Included
Whether you're designing a garage sale flyer or a 76-page Mac magazine, chances are you'll need a layout application. However, with so many competing titles on the market, which app is best for you? In this feature, we take a look at three consumer apps (Apple's Pages, BeLight's Swift Publisher and PlasQ's ComicLife) and two prosumer apps (Adobe's InDesign CS2 and Quark's QuarkXPress 6.5) and show you what they can do, how they do it and how you can become an instant expert in each. We also take a look at font management, covering essential applications.
by Chris McVeigh, Mark Edwards, Amy R. Wood and Stephen Beals

TV Goes Mini-ature
One of the great things about living in 2006 is the abundance of awesome technology. Take LCD TVs for instance. Not only do they look great, they take up less room than conventional "boob tubes" and offer a host of features; including, in many cases, the ability to act as your Mac's monitor. In this piece we profile four LCD TVs, cover their compatibility with Apple's bring-yourown- monitor Mac Mini and discuss some essential media center hardware that you simply must consider owning.
by Markkus Rovito

Create a Family Wiki
Keep your family in touch with a custom wiki.
by Michelle A. Lemire

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• Widget of the Month
• Shutterbug: Analyzing Exif
• Yahoo Photos Custom Postage Stamps
• Video Gaga: Essential Shooting Tips
• Four Entertaining New Games
• Make iTunes Fun with Muquiz\
• Macintoons
• New Product Rundowns
• Convert Videos for iPod Viewing
• OS 10.4.3 Updates Disk Utility
• Six Fun iPod nano Cases
• Five Non-Music Ways to Use Your iPod