I regale you with tales of the New Media expo with photos on Facebook, I was on TWIT Live! thanks to The MacMommy of themacmommy.blogspot.com and Rob Hanson of switchmacdotcom.blogspot.com. Adium suggested as a better chat client than iChat, in Dumb Question Corner Eddie explains a better podcast playlist method, and Al asks a question about headphones. Get 25% off of Screensteps at screensteps.com with coupon code NOSILLA. Jane continues her Canon Story, I get interviewed by an animated podcaster at viddler.com. In Chit Chat Across the Pond, Bart discusses his attempt to find replacements for MobileMe functionality - dropbox from http://getdropbox.com/home beats iDisk but what can he use to replace iCal syncing (and he hopes to keep using iCal).

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In this espisode I talk about a new tip in Garage Band, go over some more detail on Wordpress.com and then I do a full tutorial of how to set up your Podcast using Feeder from reinventedsoftware.com

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My adventures helping my friends buy two MacBooks, in Dumb Question Corner we learn how to delete old podcasts, the meaning of the word shenanigans, and how to combine PDFs using Preview. Rose teaches how to take a screen capture on the iPhone and how to use MobileMe on IE6. I review the HP Mini-Note 2133, model KX868AT. More than you’d ever want to know about cables at Gizmodo.com, and how the MacAlly Protection Shell for MacBook saved George’s MacBook from his cat. In Chit Chat Across the Pond we discuss the DNS poisoning problem a little bit more, then we debate whether Apple should cut apps from the app store on their whim, and we talk about Bart’s first time on the Mac Roundtable.

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You have to hear about my vacation to Cancun but at least I include a description of the tech our little geek family brings along on vacation. Then in Dumb Question Corner we discuss how a large percentage of computing is simply black magic, Sam Caldwell of the windows2apples.com podcast tells us about Mixcraft from acoustica.com/mixcraft for Windows which he likes better than GarageBand. Jing from techsmith.com finally comes out of beta and it’s still free! Jane from Perth tells us about a useful litle utility called Jiggler from sticksoftware.com, and Willie tells us about how he’s getting great use out of DropBox from getdropbox.com. In Chit Chat Across the Pond Bart and I discuss how lax Apple has been at patching the DNS vulnerability that everyone else has already patched and why we should care - http://www.bartbusschots.ie/blog/?p=936

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A nice note from Rose, a great review of Inquisitor by Jane, a Dumb Question from Listener Debbie T, three iPhone Apps reviewed by Bart, and a Chit Chat Across the Pond with Lovely Listener James.

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I know, I skipped a week - so sue me! what was I thinking trying to do two podcasts a week plus the Mac Roundtable plus a full time job??? In this week’s show we’ll cover the details of how to encode your huge AIFF file into an MP3 file that people can actually use as a podcast. Before I get too far in though, I want to give you a little more philosophy…

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How I fixed a $6 20 year old bucket, The Levelator IS a compressor, Fotomagico corrections, in Dumb Question Corner we answer the question, is it legal to load Tiger on an old machine? Rose from Hobart tells us about her Nikon D60 and why she bought it, and Jane from Perth tells about her adventures attempting to get an iPhone. Why you should love Firefox 3. In Chit Chat Across the Pond, Bart and I walk through every single thing Apple did wrong in the release of four major new products at the same time.

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FotoMagico from boinx.com compared to Photo to Movie from lqgraphics.com. panorama movie from FotoMagico . Screensteps 15% discount with coupon code NOSILLA at screensteps.com. Dumb Question Corner answers who the jingle for Dumb Question Corner is from, why is WEP bad and WPA good. Willie returns with a Jott update. Then I drone on about all the fun iPhone 2.0 apps Kyle and I are enjoying. Bart winds up the show with a solo act telling us about the scariest security hole of all time and how you can protect yourself.

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Don McCallister of screencastsonline.com on his video file stackup, and then we dive deep into how to configure Garageband and set up recording.

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Kyle and I lunch with Crazy Listener James, Dumb Question Corner: what’s an m4a file? (link in the shownotes to the wikipedia entry) Is there a view-only Windows calendar? (jsiCalendar at pcworld.com) How do I mail an iTunes url? ( ScreenSteps tutorial) Can you extract vocals out of an mp3? Screensteps coupon is NOSILLA at screensteps.com. David Hill reviews Tape Deck from tapedeckapp.com. When is phishing not phishing? In Chit Chat Across the Pond Bart and I talk about how to protect yourself from trojans on OSX: bartbusschots.ie/blog.

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