Mac Daddy Monday: Creating a PDF file

PDF is an acronym for Portable Document Format, and is a standard web image file for forms and documents. Anytime you need to e-mail or upload a resume, score, or other document, converting it to a PDF will ensure that your recipient will be able to view the file.

Creating a PDF file is very easy, and is the same process on all Mac applications. Simply go to the File menu and select Print

From the print dialog window, instead of printing, click PDF in the bottom-left

Now you have the option to save a PDF file to your computer, e-mail to someone, and more options.

-by LC Tech Blog contributor Chris Fitzgerald

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Uploading Files to Inside Berklee Courses

For students that are in fully online or blended courses, here is how you upload files to the Inside Berklee Courses system.

1.) Locate the assignments link on the left











2.) Select the homework assignment

3.) Locate the Upload files button

4.) Click Add then Locate file on my computer

5.) Click Choose File, then browse to find the file to upload, select it and click Upload this file

6.) Click Save changes, and double check to make sure the file uploaded properly

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Mac Daddy Monday: Recording OS X’s Internal Audio

Ever needed to record the audio tracks coming out of Firefox, iTunes or iDVD? Logic and Soundflower provide an easy solution to that. Soundflower is an OS X extension that allows passing audio among different applications. In simpler words, Soundflower will receive the audio coming out of an application (like Safari); the audio will then be routed to Logic (or any other Digital Audio Workstation), treating it exactly as the signal of the guitar you plug in your audio interface. Soundflower should already be installed in your Mac: in case it isn’t, you can download it for free from www.cycling74.com.

First thing to do it setting Soundflower as your output device: go to System Preferences and select the Sound panel.

In the Output tab, set Soundflower (2ch) as your output device and close the window.


Now create a new project in your DAW (Logic in the example) and add a stereo audio track. Launch the Preferences panel and in the Audio and Devices tabs select Soundflower (2ch) as the Input Device.


Apply changes and record enable the track (it should be already set on Input 1-2). Now launch the application you intend to stream the audio from: as soon as you’ll start the recording in Logic, all the audio coming from the application will be recorded.


Keep in mind that you can change Logic and Firefox with any other DAW or audio source. Those are just two variables, the equation doesn’t change.

-by LC Tech Blog contributor Andreas Russo

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