Chad Capellman

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Chad Capellman is a Web Producer for O'Reilly Media.

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Tips and Tricks for FileMaker Pro 10

January 08 2009

The following tips are from the upcoming book FileMaker 10: The Missing Manual, by Susan Prosser and Geoff CoffeyNew Live Reports lets you edit sorted data and see the changes in  real time. Edited records change categories and your summaries... read more

Macworld Keynote - Absence Is In the Eye of the Beholder

January 07 2009

Greetings from Macworld! OK, that's not exactly true. I was keeping the Missing Manuals fort warm in Cambridge, Mass. today while many of you were in the Moscone Center in San Francisco for Macworld. Hopefully those of you who are... read more

Basic Tips for Mental Fitness from Your Brain: The Missing Manual

November 20 2008

So what can you do to keep your brain in its best working form? There may be no way to dodge bad genes, bad luck, injury, and disease, but studies of brain aging consistently identify a few characteristics in... read more

Music, Interrupted and Other Feature Gripes and Hopes

October 29 2008

We're back with some more dips into the Twitterverse. And man, is that space large and growing. It is impossible to find everything people are talking about out there, which is our way of reminding you to follow us on... read more

Flash, Apps and all things iPhone dominate the Twitterverse

October 14 2008

After searching through Twitter, the Missing Manuals "Missing Feature" blog gathered quite a few requests. While there were an abundance of requests related to the iPhone, we also found requests for Excel, Facebook, iPhoto, iPod, iTunes, Leopard, Outlook, Photoshop, Typepad, Windows Vista, and Visual Studio. read more

Built-in radio with the iPod

July 30 2008

J.D. Biersdorfer, author of iPod: The Missing Manual, Sixth Edition, longs for a radio component, and an in-the-box cable for her iPod that she doesn't have to spend extra money for. Get the latest Flash Player [Javascript required to view... read more

Cutting and pasting on an iPhone

July 30 2008

At Macworld, Lorene Romero, president of the North Coast Mac Users Group, says she would love to be able to cut and paste on an iPhone, as well as to be able to do more with attachments. Get the latest... read more

Auto- GPS and metadata digital photography features

July 30 2008

Photoshop CS3 RAW and Lightroom Adventure author Mikkel Aaland wants a digital camera that fully utilizes GPS capabilities and also is smart enough to apply better meta data to his photographs. Get the latest Flash Player [Javascript required to view... read more

David Pogue waiting for Leopard 10.5.2

July 30 2008

David Pogue, founder of the Missing Manuals series, says his Missing Feature is Mac OS, version 10.5.2. Get the latest Flash Player [Javascript required to view Flash movie, please turn it on and refresh this page] document.getElementById("player_pogue011808").style.display = ""; var... read more

Image metadata in iPhones

July 30 2008

Derrick Story, Digital Media Evangelist and co-author of iPhoto '08: The Missing Manual, wants to bring over the meta data with the images he drags from his iPhone into iPhoto.... read more

Merging data in an address book

July 30 2008

Lesa Snider King, production editor on several of David Pogue's Missing Manuals, is desperately seeking a sane solution to her current address book situation. Get the latest Flash Player [Javascript required to view Flash movie, please turn it on and... read more

Image metadata in iPhones

February 01 2008

Derrick Story, Digital Media Evangelist and co-author of iPhoto '08: The Missing Manual, wants to bring over the meta data with the images he drags from his iPhone into iPhoto.... read more

Progress bar on YouTube uploads

January 31 2008

"The waiting is the hardest part ..." Tom Petty, headliner for this year's Super Bowl halftime show, almost had it right with this lyric. The hardest part is actually not knowing how long the wait will be. Which brings me... read more

Auto- GPS and metadata digital photography features

January 22 2008

Photoshop CS3 RAW and Lightroom Adventure author Mikkel Aaland wants a digital camera that fully utilizes GPS capabilities and also is smart enough to apply better meta data to his photographs. Get the latest Flash Player [Javascript required to view... read more

David Pogue waiting for Leopard 10.5.2

January 22 2008

David Pogue, founder of the Missing Manuals series, says his Missing Feature is Mac OS, version 10.5.2. Get the latest Flash Player [Javascript required to view Flash movie, please turn it on and refresh this page] document.getElementById("player_pogue011808").style.display = ""; var... read more

Merging data in an address book

January 22 2008

Lesa Snider King, production editor on several of David Pogue's Missing Manuals, is desperately seeking a sane solution to her current address book situation. Get the latest Flash Player [Javascript required to view Flash movie, please turn it on and... read more

Built-in radio with the iPod

January 22 2008

J.D. Biersdorfer, author of iPod: The Missing Manual, Sixth Edition, longs for a radio component, and an in-the-box cable for her iPod that she doesn't have to spend extra money for. Get the latest Flash Player [Javascript required to view... read more

Cutting and pasting on an iPhone

January 22 2008

At Macworld, Lorene Romero, president of the North Coast Mac Users Group, says she would love to be able to cut and paste on an iPhone, as well as to be able to do more with attachments. Get the latest... read more

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