Why do they tell me to “get a life”? Open .exe files on the Mac with the free Stuffit Expander 12 from Smith Micro or The Unarchiver from wakaba.c3.cx. ICY Dock review from icydock.com plus a study of USB speeds on the Mac vs. Windows (why is USB on the Mac 80% faster?). Drew switches to the Mac and how to do delete on the Mac. Why you should use a wiki like pbwiki.com and understanding wikis through Common Craft. Bart decides to make a screencast of his workflow in creating HDR photography - testing out Jing from jingproject.org and Screenflow from varasoftware.com and giving us his opinions. Bart’s screencast will be in the feed this week, but he says to be gentle in criticism!

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Al’s busy week on the Mac Roundtable, the Views from the Coop Podcast, the first MacDay LA event, and finally co-hosting the Typical Mac User Podcast with Victor Cajiao over on TalkShoe! Margaret points out I do go out with friends as long as they’re not James. Pixelmator from pixelmator.com gets constrained cropping, another good keyboard shortcut site at allhotkeys.com and Rose explains why she bought an iPod Touch instead of waiting for the iPhone in Ireland. in Chit Chat Across the Pond Bart explains High Dynamic Range (or HDR) photography editing (his site link on the subject: http://www.bartbusschots.ie/blog/?p=701) and a rant against Apple for pushing its software where it doesn’t belong!

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Sunday night at 5pm PST I’ll be co-hosting the Typical Mac User Podcast with Victor Cajiao.  Join us at Talkshoe at 5pm PST at talkshoe.com.Check it out early and get yourself an account - you can call in with Skype if you want, there’s a fun chatroom once you get it, it’s a blast!  hope you can join us. 

Still Alive from jonathancoulton.com, LXVII HP67 calculator emulator from tamburri.net (or versiontracker.com), Lost Marauders at lostmarauders.com/itunes. Phishing scam avoidance, and Honda Bob tries to take QA Director Steve’s job! In Chit Chat Across the Pond Bart and I discuss his photo management process using iPhoto, how he uses ImageMagic and Perl scripts to resize and watermark, and the GIMP to do fancy editing. Example of his colorizing an image so it’s part black & white and part colour at bartbusschots.ie/gallery and his LAB colour boost work to give a “post card” look at bartbusschots.ie/gallery, and Bart’s blog post linking to the tutorial for both the black & white fun and the colour boost. DiskInventoryX from derlien.com to find out where your disk space has run off to, and VisualHub from techspansion.com to convert your huge AVI files to mp4s.

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Sedona Panorama & using iPhone to search for Radio Shack. Antarctica will be claimed by Michael, Bruce calls in about his trip to Bangkok claiming Asia, but Africa stays at large. jalbum.net announces incorporation of web galleries from other hosts, song last week was Aperture Science from jonathancoulton.com. Connor solves my home folder missing in action woes. Comparison of screen cast software Camtasia Studio for Windows from techsmith.com, SnapZPro for the Mac from ambrosiasw.com, and the new ScreenFlow from varasoftware.com. Bart flies solo on Chit Chat Across the Pond and tells us about the nice upgrade to SoundSource and how Fluid lets you make web apps.

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ScreenSteps Redux, Paul claims South America - assisted by Scott from Minnesota, Paul reviews RemoteBuddy from http://www.iospirit.com and Touchpad for iPhone from touchpadiphone.blogspot.com. Jeremy suggests Base as part of the Open Office suite at openoffice.org for Honda Bob’s database needs, or Kexi from kexi-project.org. Martin suggested MySQL from mysql.com for Honda Bob. Rose gives a review of the U-Suit leather cover for the MacBook from Unia website, or buy it from Amazon. Hannes from Austria reviews Aperture 2 from apple.com/aperture. In Chit Chat Across the Pond Bart and I discuss how ICE “broadband” lied to him but he’s finally up (bartbusschots.ie/blog), and how dreadful the iPhone deal is in Ireland (bartbusschots.ie/blog).

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Technorati Tags: Macintosh, iPhone, ScreenSteps, Open Office, database, Ireland, U-suit