Q: Do you know the title and the artists featured in the iPod commercials?

A: Macsupport, a Canadian based Mac and iPod site has an entry listing most if not all the songs that were used in iPod commercials. Among the songs used are Vertigo (U2), Technologic (Daft Punk), Feel Good Inc (Gorillaz), Walkie Talkie Man (Steriogram) and many others.

My personal favorite is Vertigo. Hey, I like U2 what can I say?!? What’s yours?

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Q&A: Songs from iPod Ads

A: Well Carine, it’s quite simple actually. Press Shift+Apple Key+3 and that will capture your screen and save it on your desktop. The default filename is Picture 1.

There’s another command, Shift+Apple Key+4 this will turn the mouse pointer into a cross hair and you can use this to select the portion of the screen that you want to capture. It will save it the same way with the full screen capture stated above.

I hope this helps.

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Q&A: Print Screen On Mac OS X

A: Well, there are many paint/graphics program for the Mac. Let me list down several software that might fit your needs. Starting from the free ones all the way to the expensive ones.

1. Poster Paint – This software is still in early beta. It’s a simple drawing program for Mac OS X. It’s a Universal Binary so it can run on both Power PC and Intel Macs. It can save files as BMP, JPG, GIF, PNG and TIFF formats.

Cost: Free

2.  ArtRage 2 – From Ambient Design, ArtRage 2 is a simple, stylish and easy to use paint program for the Mac. Several artistic materials are available. Create works in oil, pencil, airbrush, markers, etc. The tools work as how they should in the real world.

Cost: Free (limited version), $19.95 (Full Version)

3.  Sketchbook Pro – For me one of the best sketch programs around. When AutoDesk bought Alias, they inherited this great program. It really mimics real world materials such as pencils, markers and pens. However the downside is that it lacks other art materials such as oil, pastel, etc. The downside is the steep price. At $179 dollars, you’d have to be a serious artist to buy this one. Unfortunately I wasn’t. So after the trial expired I stopped using it.

Cost: $179

4. Painter X – In my opinion this is still the Mac daddy of all painting programs for the Mac. The Corel Painter X is the best natural media paint/illustration program for the Mac. From the variety of art mediums to the textures all the way to the brush engine that simulates real world brushes, Painter X takes the cake. It should! At $419 it should give you all that and more. If you’re a serious artist who wants to create digital artwork that is as beautiful as their traditional counterparts, this is the software for you.

Cost: $419

So Adina, I hope that this helps. Thanks for sending in the question.

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Q&A: MS Paint Alternatives for Mac OS X

A: This is something that has saved me time and time again. There have been times that I’ve forgotten to jot down or save important details of a conversation that I had. Luckily there’s the iChat log. I can search the conversation that I had and get the info from there.

Here’s how to do it. In iChat, go to Preferences. Then select the Messages icon. There’s a check box at the bottom, Automatically save chat transcripts. Make sure that this is selected. There’s an Open Folder button beside it. You can use this to save the chat transcripts in any folder that you want. There you go. It’s that simple.

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Q&A: Saving iChat Transcripts

A: Emailing a web page to someone is easy in Safari. On the menu bar select File -> Mail Contents of This Page. Safari will send the contents of the web page to Mail. Opening up a new mail message with the page contents inside.

The shortcut to this is cmd + I.

Thanks to my friend Arel. This was the question he asked me the other day that prompted me to think about starting this Q&A portion.

Was this helpful to you? Let me know.

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Q&A: Email Web Page In Safari

I can’t guarantee I’ll find the answer but I’ll be sure to try my best to find out what it is. This will be good both for you the reader as well as me. I think it will help us all to learn and live better with our Macs.

A question from my friend actually inspired me to start this. I’ll be posting his question in the first “Q&A Post”.

So send me your questions via juan@b5media.com or leave a comment.

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Q&A: Intro