Sean Colins owns Core Professional Services, a consultancy in Beverly Hills, California. Core Professional Services provides services ranging from system setup for the home user through enterprise-class IT services. Core Professional Services specializes in the needs of small businesses that depend on Apple technology.

Sean is a certified member and Regional Champion of the Apple Consultants Network in the southwestern United States. He has been working with Mac OS X, Mac OS X Server, and related technologies since Rhapsody and has worked diligently to help others gain their certifications in OS X and OS X Server.

In addition to his consulting business, and authoring for lynda.com, Sean has also been a speaker at Macworld Expo. More information about Sean and Core Professional Services is available on the web at: http://www.corequick.com

In Pages Essential Training, Sean Colins will teach you how to use Apple's page layout and word processing application to create a wide variety of documents. You will learn how to adapt the many pre-designed templates that come with the product to suit your specific design needs. Sean will show you how to add content, alter page behaviors, design with shapes and images, and even add movies and music. Exercise files accompany the training videos, allowing you to follow along and learn at your own pace.

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$ 49.95

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02NYL355

4.5 Hrs
1 CD

In iMovie HD + iDVD 5 Essential Training, Sean Colins, a Certified Apple Consultant, teaches the essentials of the software. Sean also covers how to plan for successful video projects, tips for shooting great video, and how to publish video projects to a variety of formats. Together, iMovie HD and iDVD 5 make it easy to use video to communicate and share stories with colleagues, clients, students, and family. These movie-based tutorials walk you through the process of transferring video to a computer and editing clips into finished presentations that deliver professional and compelling results. Exercise files accompany the training videos, allowing you to follow along and learn at your own pace.

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$ 49.95

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02NYL353

12 Hrs
2 CD's

In Mac OS X Server 10.5 Leopard Essential Training, instructor Sean Colins explains the three types of Leopard servers (Advanced, Workgroup, and Standard), and shows how to set up a server environment and configure each of the major services. The tutorial breaks down this complicated subject and focuses on just the elements that are essential to getting up and running. It is ideal for both experienced administrators as a quick primer on the changes to Mac OS X Server and for newer server admins as a complete and detailed walkthrough of every essential service and function needed to set up a Mac OS X Server.

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$ 149.95

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02NYL668

11 Hrs
1 DVD

Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger Essential Training, with Sean Colins, a Certified Apple Consultant, provides a guided tour of Tiger that teaches tools you need to start using your new operating system right away. Whether you just want to know how to communicate with family and friends on the internet, or you want a comprehensive tour of the new features of Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, this is the course for you.

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$ 49.95

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02NYL337

12 Hrs
2 CD's

Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger Beyond the Basics will take you beyond what is covered in Tiger Essential Training into more advanced territory. In Beyond the Basics you will learn how to use Automator to create useful scripts, and you will be introduced to the many features of Disk Utility, including burning data to a CD-R more than once. You will even be gently guided into the shallow end of the pool known as “Terminal.” By the time you have completed the essential training and this course, you will have been exposed to virtually every new feature of Tiger, as well as many advanced features that are not new, but that you probably didn’t know about.

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$ 49.95

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02NYL346

7.7 Hrs
2 CD's

Apple has successfully wrapped over 100 open source projects into its server software, and has built powerful and easy-to-use tools to manage them. In Mac OS X Server v10.4 Tiger Essential Training, Certified Apple Consultant Sean Colins delves into the details of the software’s services and configuration options. Sean will teach you how to tap into Mac OS X Server’s power and stability at the basic to intermediate level of server administration. You’ll learn everything required to set up Mac OS X Server to do just what you need, from getting the recommended hardware to testing your server. Sean also teaches you about server management services and server administration, network sharing, and working with both human and hardware clients.

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$ 149.95

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02NYL501

8 Hrs
2 CD's

Keynote 2 Essential Training with Sean Colins will help you understand how Apple's renowned presentation software really works. Sean walks you through all the tools of the program, goes deeply into custom theme creation, and demonstrates how to integrate with other Apple and third-party tools. You are given Web resources for further research, and practice files are included so you can follow along to create a beautiful custom Keynote theme that can be used over and over again. If you thought it was easy to build presentations using what Apple provides out of the box, you'll be thrilled to see how easy it is to build a unique look, using Keynote.

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$ 27.95

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02NYL347

4.6 Hrs
2 CD's