Travelogue of our trip through Europe to meet Don McAllister in England, Bart Busschots in Ireland and Knightwise in Belgium including all of the tweetups. Recordings with both Don from the Conservatory about his initial ventures into using a Mac, and Knightwise gives the perspective from a small country like Belgium on the recent Apple announcements. In Chit Chat Across the Pond we talk about how Bart taught me to use Aperture mode on my camera – finally!

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Katie Floyd of Mac Power Users takes over the show this week while Allison and Steve are away on their Nosillacon European Adventure.  Katie discusses the Hulu Plus service and the many uses for an Airport Express. Continuing on her quest for the perfect note taking app on the iPad, Allison sent ahead her review of Noterize. We also have reviews the Square mobile credit card payment system, an alternative podcatcher app for the iPhone called Podfisher and the PLop boot manager for virtual machines.. In a most unique Chit Chat Across the Pond, Allison, Steve, and Bart talk about traveling with tech and fill us in on their adventures thus far.

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John Malonson joins the show to talk about his iPhone jailbreaking experience. Sites he mentioned are: Rock from rockyourphone.com, Cydia at cydia.saurik.com, and Redmond Pie at redmondpie.com. He recommends Google voice Mobile, MyWi for wi-fi tethering, but wasn’t impressed with Frash. Adam Hermann recommends ScreenSteps at ScreenSteps.com. A detailed review of Poll Everywhere from polleverywhere.com to replace those handheld gizmos for real-time voting at big events. In Chit Chat Across the Pond Bart describes what it’s like to visit where the bandwidth is 3KB/sec (not MB, KB) and the reactions of his family to the iPad from a two and a half year old to an 80 year old.

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No live show next week on 22 August, contact Katie Floyd at katie@macpowerusers.com to send her content for the show on the 29th. iClooly Multi-Touch Pen for the iOS devices from iclooly.com. Greg Devore from ScreenSteps joins us live on the show for the first time. Full review of MindNode Touch for iOS from mindnode.com. In Chit Chat Across the Pond Bart gives us his thoughts on the iPhone 4 and the buying experience in Ireland compared to the US.

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Katie’s running the show on 28 August so send in your reviews to katie@macpowerusers.com. An extensive comparison review of the four eBook readers: Apple iBooks, Kindle, Barnes & Noble, and Borders. George from Tulsa tells us about the tech gear he got his daughter for college: Acer TimelineX 3820, Fuji ScanSnap S1300, and the Brother-HL5370DW. In Chit Chat Across the Pond we do not just security lite, but security medium, spawned because of the Safari exploit shown by the iOS4 jailbreak. Bart finally ends his headphone quest with the PMX80 Sport from Sennheiser.

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Mom turns 90, Nosillacon III our European tour and podcast adventure starts to get planned and Katie Floyd of macpowerusers.com volunteers to cover the show while I’m gone. ShaiY tells the harrowing tale of buying an iPhone in Australia, including the modification of his SIM card via the instructions at buy-microsim.com. Jim Sewell, aka @deverill reviews MacJournal from Mariner Software at marinersoftware.com. Gaby asks a Dumb Question I can’t answer – about the best way to preserve your battery on a laptop, fill out the Mac Geek Gab survey to help them gain data on battery treatment at macobserver.com/tmo/article/mac_laptop_battery_life_survey/. Dean Elger uses the old fashioned phone to leave a message about how frightening it is to listen to Security Light 3 weeks after danger has been described. In Chit Chat Across the Pond Bart teaches some great techniques on composition in photography at bartbusschots.ie/blog/?p=1663.

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Flood-It for iPhone from labpixies.com, Super Flood HD for iPad from VirtueSoft.com to keep you from getting anything done and Sporcle for iPhone from sporcle.com to make you feel like a mental midget. Go Away Monster for iPhone from goawaymonster.com from one of the NosillaCastaways. Donald Burr gives us a video explaining how to correctly use the Flickr Uploader in Aperture 3. In Dumb Question Corner Zach asks me to explain what pivot tables are and what problem they solve and I oblige, and with the help of Ryan Gray, Buddy Brannan and Barry Fulk. In Chit Chat Across the Pond we teach you how to avoid the auto-fill vulnerability in your browsers, and debunk the panic behind the announcement that Apple has the spot as the most vulnerabilities in the OS. Finally Bart decides on a personal finance application – he has chosen Money 3 from jumsoft.com.

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The NosillaCastaways take over the show tonite so I could go to Disneyland! Don McAllister’s signup for the Liverpool Tweetup on Tuesday 24 August is at themacscreencastguy.com. In an iPhone antenna-free episode, Donald Burr of otakunopodcast.com reviews the HyperDrive Album from hypershop.com. There’s a new look on podfeet.com for the iOS devices using the iwphone plugin from iwphone.contentrobot.com. Michelle from theportablegamer.com reviews Hazel from Noodlesoft.com for the Mac. George from Tulsa gives us some Microsoft poetry, tells us how Steve Jobs pwned him with the iPad, how he likes the Zagg Invisible Shields and gives an updated on his gadgets. Brendan Finan from brendanfinan.com does his first review for the show when he reviews Scrivener from literatureandlatte.com. Mark Fawcett reviews Cinch from irradiatedsoftware.com and does a great job no matter what he says. Chris Eschweiler from chrisesch.com sent in his first review too of R-Studio for the Mac from http://www.data-recovery-software.net. In Chit Chat Across the Pond Bart and I discuss whether the Mac is dead.

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Call to arms, Catherine and Griffin rock from griffintechnology.com, Al and Steve get to drive a Tesla (watch the video), Jim Sewell’s dumb question on a dock that’s too clean, and he helps me modify podfeet.com. Full review of Office² HD for the iPad from ByteSquared.com. in Chit Chat Across the Pond we learn that Adobe’s patch to Reader and Acrobat didn’t fix the problem, iTunes store gets hacked, and three ways to unify your digital world.

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First Blind FaceTime with Darrel Shandrow of the Blind Access Journal, iPhone 4 Antenna and Bumper Fail. Podfeet.com FINALLY gets good search from Google Custom Search at google.com/cse. In Dumb Question Corner, Hai Vu does a reverse Dumb Question and reminds us of how lucky we are, and Bruce Barr asks about setting up iPhone sounds (make your own ringtones in Garageband by following this link in the shownotes to the Apple Support Document. Steve and I rush into 1998 as we embrace Netflix and I walk through the merits of Netflix through Tivo vs. PS3. Breaking news: Knightwise makes a confession! In Chit Chat Across the Pond we talk about the advances Flickr has (finally) made in their interface.

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