Please refer to me now as Little Mrs. Podcastenstein. Connor sets me straight on how MobileMe DOES still have the beautiful galleries. Three reviews from first time reviewers: Megan (Not Nurse Rached) reviews Piclens, aka CoolIris at cooliris.com/ and her blog is at notratched.wordpress.com. Rod tells us how to spoof a MAC address, and William tells us about Scrabble for the iPhone. Elliott comes back for a review of Midomi and Shazam for the iPhone - check out his YouTube videos at ElliottMediaGroup videos. Get 25% off on ScreenSteps by putting in the coupon code NOSILLA at screensteps.com. Freeware MindNode for creating mind maps on Mac OSX at mindnode.com as compared to the open source FreeMind from freemind.sourceforge.net. Links to the output from MindNode in rtf, an html, an opml, and a pdf. In Chit Chat Across the Pond Bart and I drop the serious security talk and argue about whether the latest Indiana Jones movie was any good and then we turn back to technology with a discussion of why Bart thinks iChat is junk (he’s wrong) and why Adium is marvelous (he’s right). Email me at nosillacast@gmail.com, and be sure to check out the live show recording at ~5pm GMT-8 at ustream.tv/channel/nosillacast-mac-podcast. Except not next Sunday, I’ll be at Demo!

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Recording from the Admiral’s Club while stuck at the airport. In Dumb Question Corner we get answers to the nagging question of whether it matters to have your headphones in the right ears. Rundown of my favorite photo sharing options, including jAlbum, Picasa Web Albums, Facebook, and not using Flickr or MobileMe. Willie tells us 238 other ways to delete podcasts in iTunes, and Michelle tells us about a great new Adobe Air application called Social Addict from twistermc.com. Jane and Rose tee off with Chit Chat Across the Nullarbor, and in Chit Chat Across the Pond Bart and I discuss how MobileMe is running in clear text and letting your information float freely about the interweb.

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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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