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Book Description

The book walks readers through how to train Dragon Dictate, allowing it to recognize the way readers speak. Readers will learn how to add specialized words and names and how to control Mac applications using their voice. The book then moves on to editing text documents, allowing readers to select, delete, capitalize and work with text. The book also covers having Dragon read text back to the user, allowing the user to proofread and edit dictated documents. Finally, the book covers more advanced topics, such as creating new voice commands for controlling Mac applications and controlling the mouse via voice commands.

Table of Contents
1. Getting Started
2. Using the Dragon Dictate Interface
3. Dictating Text
4. Editing Text
5. Fine-Tuning Speech Recognition
6. Controlling Your Computer
7. Using Application Commands
8. Customizing the Command Set
9. Setting Preferences

A. Menus & Shortcut Keys
B. Setting Up Dragon Remote Microphone Download Now »

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Completely revised for Final Cut Pro X and featuring compelling new footage, this best-selling, Apple-certified guide provides a strong foundation in all aspects of video editing. Renowned author Diana Weynand starts with basic video editing techniques and takes readers all the way through Final Cut Pro’s powerful features.

Each chapter presents a complete lesson in an aspect of video editing and finishing, using professional broadcast footage. The book covers Final Cut Pro’s exciting new features, including a completely redesigned interface, people detection, and Magnetic Timeline.

• DVD-ROM includes lesson and media files for over 40 hours of training
• Focused lessons take you step-by-step through professional, real-world projects
• Accessible writing style puts an expert instructor at your side
• Ample illustrations and keyboard shortcuts help you master techniques fast
• Lesson goals and time estimates help you plan your time
• Chapter review questions summarize what you’ve learned and prepare you for the Apple Certified Pro Exam

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Getting Started
Preparing to Edit in Final Cut Pro X
Lesson 1 Exploring the Interface Download Now »

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The power of Lion, at your fingertips. With the new Multi-Touch gestures in Mac OS X Lion, you can swipe, pinch, and tap your way to managing your Mac and organizing your life. Want your pictures to stand out? Grab files off the Mac at home while on the road? Tune out distractions? In this practical hands-on guide to Mac OS X Lion, you learn how to

• Throw away your DVDs: Encode an entire season of your favorite TV shows and manage the episodes from iTunes.
• Stay in touch: Have a video chat with far-off friends with iChat Theatre.
• Captivate your audience: Make a vacation slideshow that doesn’t stink.
• Keep your relatives informed: Build a family website with RapidWeaver.
• Survive the crash: Create an easy and comprehensive backup plan to secure your personal photos, movies, music, and more.
• Express yourself: Write and record podcasts worth listening to.
• Plus many more useful projects—both big and small—to help you do stuff with Mac OS X Lion.

Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Managing Your Mac
Chapter 2 Interacting from a Distance
Chapter 3 Managing Media
Chapter 4 Making Magic
Chapter 5 Getting Productive Download Now »

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Xcode 4 has a brand new user interface, built upon proven technologies that Apple itself uses to build Mac OS X and iOS, and that have produced over a quarter million Mac OS X and iOS apps.

This project-based book introduces readers to Apple’s development environment. The book is aimed at new Mac OS X and iOS developers and assumes the reader is familiar with programming and object-oriented concepts. The book starts at the basics–how to download, install, and start using Xcode–and moves to a detailed look at building and running applications. The last part of the book covers more advanced topics, such as testing, debugging, and source-code management. With the book’s approach, readers will be able to take the projects they build during the book and adapt them for use in their own projects.

Table of Contents
Part I: The Basics: Getting Started with Xcode 4
1. Discovering Xcode Tools
2. Starting a Project
3. Navigating a Project
4. Getting Help

Part II: Working with COCOA Applications
5. Creating User Interfaces
6. Adding Files to a Project Download Now »

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The latest update of Robin Williams bestselling guide will have you working miracles in no time with Mac OS X Lion. With this book, you can learn in your own way, whether it’s working through the lessons from start to finish, jumping straight to step-by-step exercises about new features, or looking up just what you need to know at that moment. There are hundreds of exciting tools and hidden gems in your Mac. And with the gentle, yet expert, hand of Robin Williams guiding you along the way, you will learn to take full advantage of all that OS X Lion has to offer. If you are new to Mac OS X, you’ll learn to use your Mac with help from a world-renowned teacher. From there, you can move on to customize it to suit the way you work. And if you’ve been using Mac OS X already, you’ll learn to use all of the new features in OS X Lion including Multi-Touch Gestures, Launchpad, Mission Control, the App Store, Mail, and much more.

Table of Contents
Mac OS X Basics for New Mac Users
Lesson 1 Introduction to the Mac OS X Desktop
Lesson 2 A Bit Beyond the Basics

Mac OS X Applications in Leopard
Lesson 3 Introduction to Mac OS X Applications
Lesson 4 TextEdit for Word Processing
Lesson 5 Mail for Email and Notes
Lesson 6 Address Book for Contact Info Download Now »

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Visual QuickStart Guides, designed in an attractive tutorial and reference format, are the quickest, easiest, and most thorough way to learn applications, tasks, and technologies. The Visual QuickStart Guides are a smart choice and guide the learner in a friendly and respectful tone. Visually presented with copious screenshots, the focused discussions by topic and tasks make learning a breeze and quickly take you to exactly what you want to learn.

The latest update of this best-selling Visual QuickStart Guide will have you up and running in no time with Mac OS X Lion. Respected, best-selling author Maria Langer will take you through all of Mac OS X Lion’s groundbreaking capabilities and new features including Multi-Touch Gestures, Launchpad, Mission Control, the App Store, Mail, and much more. With plenty of screenshots to clearly illustrate techniques, this effective tutorial and reference is packed with practical information for people who want to jump in and start working and playing with OS X Lion.

As a companion to this book, Peachpit offers more than an hour of short, task-based videos that will help you master Mac OS X Lion’s top features and techniques; instead of just reading about how to use a tool, you can watch it in action. It’s a great way to learn all the basics and some of the newer or more complex features of the operating system. Log on to the Peachpit site at www.peachpit.com/register to register your book, and you’ll find a free streaming sample; purchasing the rest of the material is quick and easy.

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