Posts Tagged ‘Mac OS X’

A Beginner’s Guide to Video Editing in iMovie ‘09

In preparation for a class that I’ll be visiting on Monday morning, and because I have found myself explaining these things a bunch of times this year, I have put together a quick series of screencasts that give an introduction to basic video editing in iMovie. I do this not because I think that my [...]

Convert Word Processing Files to PDF

This post is part of a series that are components of my “Expert Plan” at my school, looking to create a shared resource for my colleagues as the school moves towards greater adoption of laptops and technology in our pedagogy.
This AppleScript application converts any word processing files that Pages can open into PDFs. This application [...]

Fixing PowerPoint 2008 Web Exports

So, I’ve spent the last few days wrestling with a curriculum unit that an outside consultant built. In PowerPoint. On Windows. And which we have been trying to set up in such a way that we can share the interactive document with students. Who are using Macs. And, perhaps, without asking each student to download [...]

Synergy on OS X

Having just spent some time fiddling with Synergy on OS X, it seems that there aren’t any current instructions on how to make Synergy start automatically on OS X Leopard (and starting it manually is kind of a hassle). My approach is based on Jan Varwig’s instructions, which needed yet more modification for my purposes. [...]