Ballard Inn at ballardinn.com, FlexClip at flex-clip.com and thiphone.com by ConnorP. Rose backs me up on Miro, and Mark Pouley rebutts Amber’s statement that there’s no community on the Mac. In Dumb Question Corner we go over how to delete old podcast episodes without deleting one at a time. Ben reviews Voice Central, aka Black Swan from Voicecentral.Riverturn.Com. I review Green Smoke, a high tech solution on how to quit smoking from greensmoke.com. Kirschen reviews Things from culturedcode.com/things to help Getting Things Done. In Chit Chat Across the Pond Bart tells us about his experience using the Open Source Virtual Box from Sun to run Windows on his Mac virtualbox.org and per a request from listener Ryan Bart explains how well Apple actually supports Open Source.

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In this special mid-week episode, I interview Amber Graner from the Ubuntu Women’s Group as she describes her journey from Mac Fangirl to all Linux all the time.

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Budsock giveaway rules, Twitter client Pino for Linux from pino-app.appspot.com from Matt, Tascam DR-07 Portable Digital Recorder review from Donald Burr, SimpleNote from simplenoteapp.com added to Notational Velocity from notational.net solve some new problems. Learn about my brilliant solution to cable mess. In Chit Chat Across the Pond Bart answers a Dumb Question about html5, and then we talk about alternative applications to the ones we’ve been using all along, and the varied success of those alternative adventures.

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BudSock from budsock.com to keep your iPhone/iPod headphones from tangling, another Flickr photo set about MacWorld with pictures of more Nosillacastaways. Video interview with Jeff Morgan from iFrogz about the CS40 Headphones followed by a review from Steve. My nightmare trying to install Aperture 3 and a review by Elliott of Elliot Media Group of the Eye-Fi Share Video SD Card from eye.fi. I then describe why I’ve given up on iTunes for video playback and how happy I am with Miro from getmiro.com. In Chit Chat Across the Pond Bart explains html5 to us and why we care, and then he describes HIS nightmare with Aperture 3.

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A Testimonial to Totes Umbrellas, and then talk about the fantastic NosillaCastaways party at Macworld Expo – picture available on the Flickr Photo Gallery of the NosillaCastaways party at Macworld 2010. In Chit Chat Across the Pond we go over the 238 Adobe flaws from this week and then we get into some fun talking about the different applications Bart is considering to replace ChaChing as his financial application. The top contenders are Moneydance from moneydance.com and Squirrel from squirrelapp.com.

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Rose (aka @OzRose) joins me live in my studio, review of GoGo WiFi on American Airlines, Posterino review from Ian at Zykloid Software. iFlash flashcard program review from loopware.com. In Dumb Question Corner we answer the question from last week about where do Notes go when they sync from iPhone to Mac? David teaches me how to set up CallerID on Skype, and in Chit Chat Across the Pond Bart and Rose torture me with tales about how simply wonderful their 27″ iMacs are.

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I try to backpedal and undo the damage I did with saying “I’m a PC” by trying to find things to hate about Windows 7, Rose tells us about Timer Utility from JR Productions and teases me about MacWorld Expo, and in Dumb Question Corner I answer Jonathan’s question asking what Simultaneous Dual-Band Wi-Fi actually is. I review iCall for iPhone from icall.com. In Chit Chat Across the Pond Bart and I talk about the iPad, but get this – he LIKES it!

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I’m Allison, and I’m a PC, video on how to use the Zoom H2 as a USB Mic at youtube.com. Claus does a review of the Powerline Network Adapter kit from devolo.com. Mark tells us about MacGourmet from macgourmet.com. The folks at ScreenSteps released an “Experimental ScreenSteps for Linux Beta”. Extensive review of the vector drawing program DrawIt from bohemiancoding.com. In Chit Chat Across the Pond we cover a LOT in Security Light, and then we talk about how the Mifi isn’t as secure as I hoped it would be. Finally Bart gives us his first impressions of Photoshop Elements 8.

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Glasses over contacts, send your email address in if you’re going to MacWorld and want to meet up, Pat Dengler Your Mac Doctor shares one of her hardware secrets. FLV Crunch saves the day moving VOB to dv files. Book recommendation: Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs by Carmine Gallo. Loving shareware developers, especially John Clayton of coderage-software.com and Mike Yenco of yenco.com. Full review of vector-drawing program Intaglio from purgatorydesign.com. Soundgate iPod unit for Acura/Honda/Goldwings from 2003-2010 at logjamelectronics.com. In Chit Chat Across the Pond Bart tells us about Patch Tuesday’s mildness this month, a zero day exploit from Adobe adobe.com/support/security. Try PDFCreator from sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator and Foxit Reader from download.cnet.com/Foxit-Reader instead of Adobe products. Zero day exploit in all IE’s at microsoft.com/technet/security and rounds it out with a phishing attack on MobileMe users at tuaw.com. In our first main topic Bart explains how to enable a free SSL Certificate to protect your Wordpress login, and in the second he explains how cool Services and Automator are in Show Leopard. See also MacBreak on Services at pixelcorps.tv/macbreak235

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