Macsparky Screencasts

This screencast covers email management from top to bottom including such subjects as: 1. Pop v. iMap; 2. Gmail v. MobileMe; 3. Best Practices (managing your inbox and smart folders); 4. Spam; 5. Archiving old mail. As usual, it is in Apple TV format.

This screencast explains how to customize the toolbars in your OS X applications with your most commonly used tools and buttons.

This screencast goes back to basics and explains usage and customization of the OS X dock along with a very nice little terminal command to give you a recent applications/recent documents icon in your dock.

This short screencast walks you through the process of setting up a smart playlist in iTunes that will allow you to sync 50 of your favorite songs to your iPod that you haven't listened to in the last month. The smart playlist automatically updates itself so every time you plug in, you get new music.

OS X 10.5 Leopard made a lot of improvements to Apple’s ubiquitous PDF and Image manipulation application, Preview. This screencast covers several of my favorite features and tips.

This screencast explains the new “Spaces� feature in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. It explains the set-up and usage of this virtual screen technology now built into the Mac operating system.

This screencast demonstrates one of my favorite add-on applications, Default Folder X.

Screencast 7 discusses some of my favorite Safari tips and tricks including Inquisitor, keyboard shortcuts, email shortcuts, and (of course) Quicksilver.

Screencast #6 demonstrates an outstanding calendar/clock menubar application, MagiCal.

Screencast #5 walks you through the various Quicksilver tricks available for supercharging the Apple Address Book.

This little application has really grown on me. In this screencast I walk through the various effects available with Omni’s cursor enhancement program.

Here is screencast #3 explaining how to use Quicksilver to set timers and alarms for large text on screen and play iTunes music. The file is in Apple TV format.

Don't carry your laptop around with confidential financial or other data available to anyone who gets their hand on it. This screencast walks you through the steps of creating a secure disk image in OS X.

This short screencast walks you through the steps of appending text files in OS X with Quicksilver. It both makes you more productive and impresses your geek friends. Check it out!