iPhoto 4: The Missing Manual, 3rd Edition -- Users will find a lot to like about the new iPhoto 4, and the Missing Manual covers it all in detail and with scrupulous objectivity. But this witty and authoritative guide goes further, giving readers the basics they need to make iPhoto really work, including coverage of the essentials of photography, editing basics, and photo presentation. iPhoto 4: The Missing Manual, 3rd Edition covers all of these elements step by step, and offers details on even the smallest nips and tucks.

Mac Fan, Yech -- A Mac owner and Missing Manual reader wrote to David Pogue to object to the use of "Mac fan" in David's books. "I don't like to be called a Mac fan any more than I like being called a Dummy." David explains that this choice of words is quite deliberate, but he's also open to other suggestions. Read about it in the latest From David's Desk.

Mac OS X Conference Call for Participation -- If you're pushing the Mac envelope, we want you to speak at our third annual Mac OS X Conference this October. We're looking for proposals from developers building new apps, admins tapping the open source toolbox, small business owners powering their bottom lines, and digital musicians leveraging X's muscle--but we're open to surprises, too. The deadline for proposals is June 11.

RAW, iPhoto, and Mac OS X -- iPhoto breaks the digital photography chain of pain--as long as you're working with JPEGs and TIFFs. What if you want to use RAW files, which aren't directly supported by iPhoto? Learn how to have your iPhoto and shoot RAWs, too, in this article by Derrick Story, coauthor of the new iPhoto 4: The Missing Manual, 3rd Edition.

GarageBand for the Musical Newbie -- If you don't play an instrument but you have a good ear, a G4 laptop, and GarageBand, can you create an interesting song? Giles Turnbull explores. Whether you're a maestro or a newbie, you'll be able to turn inspiration into demos with the help of O'Reilly's upcoming GarageBand: The Missing Manual.

Virtual Book Signings -- Snaggy & Nitrozac have used their virtual book signing events to demonstrate the power of iSight and iChat AV. Now they want to stir your creative juices to find other ways to apply these technologies. Snaggy & Nitrozac are the authors of The Best of The Joy of Tech.

Building Applications with AppleScript and FaceSpan -- How can you take advantage of AppleScript to write stand-alone Cocoa applications? Matt Neuburg introduces you to FaceSpan, a self-contained, program-building environment that leverages the power of AppleScript. Matt is the author of AppleScript: The Definitive Guide.

Managing Packages on Panther with DarwinPorts -- Ernest E. Rothman provides an overview along with installation and update instructions for DarwinPorts, one of Mac OS X's many packaging options. Ernest is a coauthor of Mac OS X Panther for Unix Geeks.

Your O'Reilly Account: New, Single Sign On -- O'Reilly customers and guests now have a single address and one password to access all things O'Reilly, from oreilly.com and Safari Bookshelf to all of the O'Reilly Network sites and DevCenters. When possible, we've consolidated your prior, separate accounts into one new account. Logging into the new system is quick and easy; details on how to do it have been emailed to you, and you can read more about O'Reilly's single sign on in Tony Stubblebine's weblog.

Panther Command-Line Tools: The Missing Manpages -- Finally, Mac OS X system administrators and developers have a quick reference to the command-line utilities that have missing, incomplete, or inaccurate manpages. Find the command syntax, a brief description, and the command's directory location in Appendix B of Mac OS X Panther for Unix Geeks. If you like this chapter, read the whole book (and up to nine others) on Safari with a free trial subscription.

FileMaker-to-Oracle Migration on Mac OS X -- David Simpson provides step-by-step instructions on using FmPro Migrator on Mac OS X to automate the transition from FileMaker to Oracle. For all of O'Reilly's Oracle books and articles, visit oracle.oreilly.com.

Resizing an Image with Photoshop -- Learn how to modify image size, when to resample, and how to handle resolution issues from Photoshop expert Deke McClelland. We've included a sample video file so you can get a taste of the hands-on video tutorials that are an integral part of Deke's recently released Adobe Photoshop CS One-on-One .

Creating Online Help with Tinderbox -- Apple's online help system, Apple Help, has a dubious reputation among some Mac users, mainly because of pokey performance, but Panther has improved the situation. Matt Neuburg outlines the process he used to build an online help system for a Mac application using a note-taking hypertext outliner called Tinderbox. Matt is the author of AppleScript: The Definitive Guide.

Unix on Panther: Accessing the Internet -- Learn how to remotely access your Mac from other computers, how to copy files between computers, and how the Connect to Server capability of Terminal can make common connections a breeze, in this excerpt from Learning Unix for Mac OS X Panther.

What's New in Photoshop CS? -- Photoshop CS may have fewer new features than version 7, but quality counts more than quantity, and Ken Milburn is pretty jazzed about the quality. Read about the new features in CS he's most excited about. Ken is the author of the just-released Digital Photography: Expert Techniques.

Dev to Dev: Panic Interview -- The folks at Panic have been producing great software for the Mac since the System 7 days. James Duncan Davidson interviews the Panic cofounders to discuss Cocoa, Xcode, surviving with Apple, and making it as an independent developer. James is the author of Running Mac OS X.