In his exclusive interview with MusicRadar, Noel Gallagher reveals that “following the ‘four and a half year’ struggle to record Don’t Believe the Truth,” Gallagher and his Oasis bandmates “ditched his elaborate home studio” and took up GarageBand. Using GarageBand, Gallagher says, “we actually do our demos now in Gem’s bedroom” or on the band’s tour bus.

On September 19, New York becomes a Ghost Town. At least for Bertram Pincus (Ricky Gervais). Revived after being dead for seven minutes, Pincus sees ghosts all over Gothan. And one, Frank Herlihy (Greg Kinnear) haunts him mercilessly, offering to make all the other ghosts leave Pincus alone if he breaks up the impending nuptials of Frank’s fetching widow Gwen (Téa Leoni).

They rescued the country from despair, resigned amid scandal, ushered in the atomic age. “American Experience: The Presidents,” available for a limited time on iTunes, tells us how presidents from Roosevelt to Bush transformed the country and affected American citizens long past their presidencies. Enjoy more than 20 free hours of the highly rated biography series thanks to PBS, WGBH, and iTunes U.

onOne Software recently announced that by the end of this year, it will ship versions of PhotoFrame 4 Professional Edition, Genuine Fractals Print Pro, PhotoTools Professional Edition, and FocalPoint for Aperture 2.1. “We’re excited to bring the functionality of our award-winning Photoshop plug-ins to the Aperture 2.1 platform,” said Craig Keudell, president of onOne Software.

Nik Software today announced the availability of Sharpener Pro 3.0, “the most advanced and powerful sharpening solution for photographers.” Without leaving Aperture 2.1, photographers can use the plug-in to selectively and precisely sharpen objects within images using Nik Software’s patented U Point technology. And be sure to review all the plug-ins available for Aperture 2.1 from Nik Software and others.

Awarding Bento a 4 mouse rating (out of 5), Dan Moren (macworld.com) lauds the “consumer-friendly database.” Bento, he says, “aims to do for the database what Numbers and Pages did for the spreadsheet and the page layout program, respectively: make them easy and accessible for the rest of us.”

Fifteen artists. One cause. Bringing an end to cancer. Download the exclusive single from iTunes and make your stand. (Proceeds from the sale of the single donated to SU2C.)

When you need answers and want to speak with a real, live customer service rep, Dial Zero (free) and Direct Line ($0.99) can get you there fast. Both applications perform the call tree navigation for you, letting you bypass all the option selecting and get to a person ASAP. Press one for…

Here’s a contest you’ll want to enter. Submit one of your best photographs to win a chance to shoot side-by-side with a pro photographer in Olympic, Grand Tetons, Yosemite, or Yellowstone National Park. And learn from Apple-certified trainers how to use Aperture 2.1 to process, perfect, and promote all the great images you capture. It’s all part of the Aperture Nature Photography Workshops.

Written and directed by Darren Grodsky and Danny Jacobs, Humboldt County tells the story of disillusioned medical student Peter Hadley (Jeremy Strong) who finds himself in California’s picturesque but remote “Lost Coast” among an eccentric family of marijuana farmers. Humboldt County opens in theaters on September 26.

Thanks to iTunes U and the University of Utah, you can put your feet up and enjoy a classical guitar recital or two this Labor Day weekend. Choosing among audio and video podcasts, you can listen to student musicians and Tully Cathey perform works by Tárrega, Torroba, Berkeley, as well as original compositions by Cathey, a classical and jazz guitarist who teaches at the College of Fine Arts.

Available for rental ($3.99) or purchase ($14.99), “21” tells the story of card-counting MIT students who turned the tables on Las Vegas casinos. Directed by Robert Luketic, the movie stars Jim Sturgess, Kevin Spacey, Kate Bosworth, and Laurence Fishburne. Got an Apple TV? You can enjoy 21 in HD.

You probably know that many Mac applications underline misspelled words as you type, calling attention to the presumed error with a broken red line. But did you also know that you could check for the correct spelling of the word with a simple right-click of your Mighty Mouse? You’ll find out how when you read the latest Mac OS X Leopard Pro Tip.

iTunes may have let him enjoy his music all over the house and even on his patio, but Nick Wingfield (wsj.com) has been waiting for “someone to come up with a good, affordable remote control that lets me change tunes no matter where I am in the house.” Then he realized that he “already owned that device. It’s an iPod touch,” with the free Remote application installed.

Can’t get to Fashion Week in New York this year? Not to worry, it’s coming to you. On iPhone. As Eric Wilson (nytimes.com) explains “STYLE.COM, the online home of Vogue, is introducing an iPhone application this week designed to enable dedicated followers of fashion to watch runway shows during New York Fashion Week next month on their phones, within hours of the last model’s exit from the catwalk.”

While he knew that iPhone generated a significant amount of Internet traffic to popular websites, even Peter Burrows (businessweek.com) was surprised when he perused the analysis Engadget recently posted. With iPhone ringing up nearly 80% of the traffic to engadget.com and iPod touch holding on to 16%, that meant that all other mobile devices combined accounted for the remaining 4%.

Road warriors take note. With iSpend installed on your iPhone, you can track expenses like never before. Easily enter expenses into iPhone as you incur them; quickly assign categories to separate lodging from travel from dining expenses. iSpend lets you generate reports and email comma-separated files for import into Numbers or Excel. iSpend travels well, too, letting you set the default currency for each expense log.

The Print dialog offers numerous options (e.g., black and white/color, letter/legal, single or double-sided) for controlling how your documents print. If you find yourself returning to the same set of options frequently, you can save your custom print settings as a preset and save yourself some time the next time you print a similar document. Find out how by watching the most recent Quick Tip of the Week.

“House hunting? Forget the listing agents and classified ads. Now you can find homes for sale with a few taps on a smartphone,” reports Prashant Gopal (businessweek.com). Those taps can launch the Trulia Real Estate Search, “one of the Web’s most visited home listing sites” and a recent App Store addition, StreetEasy Real Estate, Home Finder, or FrontDoor.com, which Gopal says, will be on the App Store market soon.

“I’m still impressed,” writes Mark Kellner (washingtontimes.com). He finds iPhone 3G “a powerful little device, capable of doing a heck of a lot of things, and it does this in a small, sleek package that’s easy to operate.” Particularly impressed by the App Store, which he calls “quite smart,” he notes that the “ability to load third-party applications…makes the iPhone more like a miniature computer than just a phone.”