Learning to use the powerful automation tools in OS X is easy.
Welcome to the Workshops section of MACOSXAUTOMATION.COM. Here you will find complete course outlines and materials for delivering guided hands-on workshops, designed to teach attendees how to use the powerful automation tools built into OS X.
If you are a teacher, trainer, or even an Apple Retail employee, these workshops are excellent tools for delivering fun and informative 45-minute immersive sessions, that walk attendees step-by-step through the process of creating, installing, and implementing interesting automation solutions. Each workshop contains leader notes and instructions as well as downloadable demo materials.
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In this guided hands-on workshop you will learn how to use the automation tools of OS X to quickly transform existing text, text files, and digital media such as images, and audio/video clips, into digital books, saved in standard EPUB format, viewable on computers and mobile devices.
If you are searching for a way to speedily publish existing content to standardized portable digital publications (EPUB books), without the use of word-processing or authoring applications, this workshop is for you.
Use Automator and the built-in speech technology of OS X to add narration tracks to your GarageBand slideshow podcasts.
One of the challenges in creating your own slideshow podcasts is recording the narration track that accompanies the display of images. Creating a usable narration track requires proper microphones, a quiet environment, and speaking clearly and accurately without mistakes and false starts. Use the built-in text-to-speech abilities of OS X and Automator to convert written phrases to audio files you add as narration for your GarageBand podcast project.
IMPORTANT: GarageBand version 10 no longer supports podcasts. Use GarageBand version 6.0.5 or earlier.
In this guided hands-on workshop you will learn how to use the automation tools of OS X to quickly transform existing text, text files, and digital media such as images, and audio/video clips, into simple web-applications, saved in standard HTML format, viewable on computers and mobile devices.
If you are searching for a way to speedily publish existing content to standardized HTML web-applications, without the use of word-processing or authoring applications, this workshop is for you.
The creation of digital content is only the first half of the learning process. Content is meant to be shared, and there is the challenge: to be able to easily share the content you develop with others in your local network or classroom.
Fortunately, OS X provides multiple methods and architectures for quickly sharing content locally, even to iOS devices. This workshop will introduce you each of these built-in sharing tools, and define a strategy for their use in the classroom or small business environment.