Archive for July, 2008

#162 The TrabCast, Bart, Lovely Listener James, Jane, and Rose Entertain the Crowds

Sunday, July 27th, 2008

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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PoP #08 Encode to mp3 and set iTunes tags

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

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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#161 Rose vs. Jane, Firefox 3 rocks, Apple does a flaming belly flop

Sunday, July 20th, 2008

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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#160 FotoMagico, WEP vs. WPA, iPhone 2.0 apps, DNS breakdown

Sunday, July 13th, 2008

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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PoP #007 Video file size, dig into GarageBand for recording

Thursday, July 10th, 2008

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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#159 m4a, jsiCalendar, Mail iTunes url, Tape Deck, OSX Trojan

Sunday, July 6th, 2008

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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PoP #006 disk loss, family support, Heil PR-20, M-Audio Fasttrack

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008

Disk Inventory Tools with DiskInventoryX available at derlien.com and WhatSize from id-design.com. Make sure your family is on board before you start. More on hardware with the Heil PR-20 Large Diaphragm Dynamic Microphone and the M-Audio Fast Track US44010 USB Audio Interface.

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