Peachpit's tutorial text for iLife software suite.

The CD-Rom companion to O'Reilly's tutorial text for GarageBand.

Updates, loops, and plug-ins for GarageBand.

This site is the online companion to my book, The Macintosh iLife '06, published by Peachpit Press and Avondale Media.

Amadeus II is a very powerful sound editor for Macintosh. It runs on MacOS 9.2 and up, as well as natively on MacOS X.

Transcriva is transcription software for the Mac. Whether it's your meeting minutes, interviews, lectures, home movies, dictation, speeches, or your favorite TV show, Transcriva can help you transcribe them all. You do the typing, Transcriva takes care of

MacLibre is an Open Source Software Distribution for Mac OS X. It's simple, intuitive with applications you need. It brings a new way of software installation on your Mac.

I've created this site because so many of the Macintosh users that I have encountered have expressed frustration that they don't know what to do, or what to use, for performing routine maintenance on their Macintosh running OS X. There is also a huge amou

VirtualBox is a powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that i

Transcribe! offers many features aimed at making the transcription job smoother and easier, including the ability to slow down music without changing its pitch, to analyse chords and show you what notes are present, and the capability of adding markers an

Digital audio to MIDI converters and plugins for Macintosh and Windows.

Resources for Sibelius music notation software including reference materials, web sites, plugins, utilities, and forums.

ATMac covers all Apple products with a slant towards disability. We have an interest in users with a disability, adaptive and assistive technology, and making accessible programs and content.

A story about the Stanford Laptop Orchestra (SLOrk), an ensemble of student computer scientists and musicians that uses 20 MacBooks to compose and perform new music.

Planbook lets you enter your schedule- from the simplest 6 period school day to 2-week rotations, adjust for holidays and cancelled school days (snow days!) with a single click, add lessons on Saturdays and Sundays, quickly modify plans for those times wh

In both the laptop and desktop showdowns, Apple’s computers were the winners. Oddly, the big difference didn’t come in our user ratings, where we expected the famously friendly Mac interface to shine. Our respondents liked the look and feel of both operat

Solfege is free music education software.Use it to train your rhythm, interval, scale and chord skills. Solfege - Smarten your ears!FeaturesRecognise melodic and harmonic intervalsCompare interval sizesSing the intervals the computer asks forIdentif

A great new tutorial for beginners, including a free instructional video…“It’s easier than you think to get your groove on with GarageBand. While recording and mixing music on a computer has been possible for years, many audio recording and editing tech

Plex bridges the gap between your Mac and your home theater, doing so with a visually appealing user interface that provides instant access to your media. Plex can play a wide range of video, audio and photo formats as well as online streaming audio and v

Tech-Ease is your source for just-in-time answers for classroom technology questions. This collection is a part of the Educational Technology Clearinghouse. Funding for Tech-Ease content development has been provided by the USF College of Education and va

DrumStepsDrumSteps is a great way to compose music. You don't need to know notation, you just need an imagination and best of all it's FREE.

Qualitative data analysis software for the Macintosh platform.

A tutorial on how to set up a Macintosh computer as a web server and how to install a content management system on it.

Capo is a musician's best friend. It lets you slow down your favorite songs, so you can hear the notes and learn how they are played.

MPEG Streamclip is a powerful free video converter, player, editor for Mac and Windows. It can play many movie files, not only MPEGs; it can convert MPEG files between muxed/demuxed formats for authoring; it can encode movies to many formats, including iP

Video tutorials for a variety of Macintosh software applications.

Jef Raskin (March 9, 1943–February 26, 2005) was an American human-computer interface expert best-known for starting the Macintosh project for Apple Computer in the late 1970s.

New and refurbished hardware - macs,ipods, etc.

iPod to Mac transfer software that lets users transfer iPhone, iPod Touch and iPod songs, playlists, videos, tv shows and much more to a Mac and into iTunes. Pod to Mac can rip music from all iPods and iPhones works with or without jail-breaking.

A "donation ware" digital audio workstation for Mac and Lynux.