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101 Photoshop Tips in Five Minutes - (Found June 24, 2008 )

If you've ever read a computer magazine, you know the idea behind "101 Tips." One gala issue, lots of first-rate contributors, lots of quality information. And lots and lots of pages. But when's the last time one lone guy tried to capture 101 tips in video In just 5 minutes of video Set to music This is the realm of dekePod, the once-every-other-weekly series from Deke McClelland. It's bold, it's brash, it's ridiculous. It's a podcast with serious issues. Enjoy.
http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/2008/06/24/dekepod-101-photoshop-tips.html

Screencasting from Your Desktop with ScreenFlow - (Found June 24, 2008 )

ScreenFlow grabs audio and video from the computer and external sources, provides a timeline for editing these recordings, and offers a range of effects aimed specifically at creating on-screen software presentations. This screencasting studio is easy to use and affordable. And if you have a Mac running Leopard with ScreenFlow loaded up, you're suddenly in the educational movie making business. Jochen Wolters reviews this application and provides plenty of video samples.
http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/2008/05/01/screenflow-review.html

Meet The Hardy Heron: What's New in Ubuntu 8.04 - (Found June 24, 2008 )

Ubuntu 8.04 (code named Hardy Heron) is out, and Brian DeLacey not only has the scoop on the new features, but a look at some of the players who made it happen, places it's in use, and what machines it's running on.
http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2008/05/06/meet-the-hardy-heron-whats-new-in-ubu...

Layout Tool Disguised as Aperture's Book Making Function - (Found June 24, 2008 )

Aperture 2.1 includes a more versatile book-making tool than we saw in earlier versions. So powerful in fact, that calling it a book making tool is really selling it short. It's actually a flexible layout application with some very useful output options. In this podcast, Derrick Story talks with Joe Schorr and tries to uncover all the hidden gems buried in Aperture 2.1.
http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/2008/05/06/aperture-layout-application-schorr.html

Does Enterprise Development Have to Be Painful (Part Two) - (Found June 24, 2008 )

After several years away from anything resembling enterprise software, chromatic accepted a challenge from SAP Labs to try their new software development platform. What lessons have they learned from dynamic languages and frameworks Has developing big serious software truly become more agile In this second of three articles, chromatic uses SAP NetWeaver Composition Environment to build a bare-bones application from the data model to the UI.
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2008/05/05/does-enterprise-development-have-to-be-...

Review: Marantz PMD620 Handheld WAV Recorder - (Found June 24, 2008 )

With an exotic OLED display, baby-simple controls, good sound, and an attractive price, the Marantz PMD620 aims to stand out in the crowded world of portable digital audio recorders. How well does it perform Mark Nelson frails a gourd banjo to find out.
http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/2008/05/08/marantz-pmd620-recorder-review.html

Creating Applications with Amazon EC2 and S3 - (Found June 24, 2008 )

Cloud computing has become the new hot thing (Web 3.0) Amazon was one of the first vendors to offer a cloud development environment, the Elastic Compute Cloud, or EC2. They followed it up with a storage capability called S3. This tutorial will show you how to set up and get started developing applications on EC2 and S3.
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2008/05/13/creating-applications-with-amazon-ec2-and-s3...

Reader Submitted Tips for Aperture - (Found June 24, 2008 )

One of the fun things about running the "Inside Aperture" site is receiving reader contributions. Every now and then a clever new technique shows up in our apertureoreilly.com mailbox, many of which I try. But why should I get to have all the fun So, this week I'm sharing a handful of reader-submitted techniques. My guess is that you'll find one or two particularly useful.
http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/2008/05/15/reader-aperture-techniques.html

Getting Started with the Google App Engine - (Found June 24, 2008 )

Continuing the trend started with Amazon's Elastic Cloud (EC2), Google plans to make their vast resources available to developers who wish to deploy massively scalable applications on the Google Infrastructure. In this tutorial, you'll get a look into the APIs and database capabilities that Google is providing, and how to leverage them in a sample application.
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2008/05/20/getting-started-with-the-google-apps-engine....

Review: Olympus LS-10 WAVWMAMP3 Recorder - (Found June 24, 2008 )

After capturing 65% of the voice-recorder market, Olympus has now aimed its zoom lens at portable WAVMP3 recorders. Guitarist Mark Nelson tests this 24-bit, curvaceous, aluminum-clad beauty and likes what he feels and hears. Telephoto mics, anyone
http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/2008/05/22/olympus-ls-10-recorder-review.html