Alright, I have finally got a good idea to include my viewers in my videos. I am going to continue to publish videos that I think of, but I would like my viewers to contact me with questions they have about ANY OS X applicaiton. I don’t even have to have it installed on my computer and I will help you with this problem. If I do have the applicaiton I will more than likely turn it into a video for YouTube. This is also going to be incorperated into my Ustream channel. I will begin a live tech support stream, but only every Friday night. Every other day is just going to be regular streaming. Alright, that was just a quick update for you guys, any questions can be either messaged to me on YouTube or sent to me via the Contact Me page on this site. Thanks for the support, and I should have a new video up on YouTube tonight!

OK, sorry this post is a little last minute, but I am going to be streaming live tomorrow during the WWDC Keynote tomorrow, and we can discuss the products and services that are introduced and updated at WWDC. Go over to the stream at live.aheidinger.com and check it out tomorrow. I should be streaming most of the day!

So, I just got done making a page on the website dedicated to my YouTube videos. So, I still want you to go over to the YouTube Channel and subscribe to the channel, but If it is more convenient, you can just come over to the website and watch the videos, while having easy access to the videos, read the blog, and watch the stream on at the Live page. Thanks for reading!

OK, so I have my first big application review for you, and it is on a great piece of software for the Mac known as Mailplane. Mailplane is basically and application that allows you to access the Gmail interface from a desktop application. In this review, I am only going to cover a few big parts of Mailplane. If you wish to view a more in-depth review of the application, then go over to my YouTube Channel and view the video entitled “Mailplane Review: Part x”. The reason that I put in an x is because this is such a great application, it is going to take way more than 1 YouTube video to do a good review. Alright, now for the text review.

Mailplane is a sort-of email client that allows you to access Gmail’s web client, along with the Mailplane interface, and this gives you lots of new possibilities. I have included a screenshot of the Mailplane interface below.



Along the top bar in Mailplane you have your typical refresh, open, and overview buttons that allow you to navigate Gmail, but then the buttons that make Mailplane special. The next button is Archive your mail, and I did not do this before in Gmail, when I was using Firefox, but boy do I ever use it now. This also applies to the star button. I love starring my mail in Mailplane now, and it works great. The next few buttons are expected in any mail client, the Print, Reply, Foreword, Send, and Delete buttons. The next button is also really great, the Screenshot button. This allows you to push one button, take a screen capture of part of your screen or the whole screen, and it automatically saves and attaches it to the mail. I have used that feature countless times, and it is great. The next four buttons are separated from the other buttons, as they are quite different. The next button is Google Talk and allows you to bring up a new window with your chat in it. I don’t use that feature, but I do use the built in AIM compatibility. The button that follows Google Talk is the Downloads button, and this allows you to bring up Mialplane’s own Download window, which really helps. The iMedia button brings up a Media Browser window that allows you to navigate multimedia on your computer and attach it to an email. The last button, Accounts, pops out a drawer on the left side of the window that allows you to change Gmail account that you are connected to, since most people have more than one email account. The last button on the toolbar allows you to customize the interface of the application. I have included a screenshot of the toolbar below.



Well, that is a quick overview of the Mailplane interface and some of the features in the application. I will have a multi-part review up on YouTube by the beginning of next week. Thanks for subscribing - Alex

This quick video is a quick tip on how to quickly import your video clips into iMovie. Kind of a backdoor way of doing it, but hey, I've got it working for me and it cuts about 28 minutes of import time for me. Go over to the YouTube channel at http://www.youtube.com/alexheidinger to watch this video and to subscribe to the channel. Thanks for viewing and subscribing - Alex.

OK, today I published a video to YouTube all about the application known as Fluid. It runs about 8 minutes, I believe. I am trying to pump out a few more videos before I go back to school. I will probably get another couple up today and maybe a couple tomorrow. Go over to the YouTube Channel at http://www.youtube.com/alexheidinger to check out the new video and subscribe to my channel. Thanks for subscribing, Alex.

Ok, so I just recorded a video for Youtube today, and it was all about my future on Ustream and some updates about videos that I will be putting up on Youtube over the next two weeks of my spring break. If you would like to check in on me on Ustream then simply click the "Live" tab at the top of the blog. If you are not on the blog and you would like to check in on me then you can point your browser to live.aheidinger.com and this will take you to the same page that the Live tab will take you to. Please go over to the YouTube channel and subscribe to the channel, as this is the only way that I know that anyone is watching the videos. Thanks.