Macworld 2012 has come and gone, hear our experiences, how well Blindfolded! went, and hear interviews of vendors on the show floor. Avatron with Air Display on iOS in iTunes, Air Display in the Mac App Store, Air Sharing for iPhone in iTunes, Air Sharing universal for iPhone & iPad in iTunes, and Print Sharing in iTunes. Nite Ize brings us Gear Ties at REI, iPhone Connect Case Niteize.com Connect Case and Connect Case accessories: NiteIze.com Connect Case Accessories. Parat Solutions demonstrates the ParaSync to charge and sync 10 iPads (also models for 20 iPhones/iPods) at Paratsolutions.com. Powis iCase with 9 different positions at powiscase.com. The NosillaCastaways party was lots of fun at Macworld | iWorld, check out the photos on flickr.com/photos/nosillacast/sets/72157629089333159/ and Mark Pouley’s shots of just the Google Hangout we did with people who couldn’t come at flickr.com/photos/switchermark/sets/72157629087853459/. In Chit Chat Across the Pond Bart tells us about a dreadful flaw in WPS on most wifi routers (not in Apple Airports luckily). To look up your router to find out if it’s got the flaw and if turning off WPS will actually help, go to https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/lv?key=0Ags-JmeLMFP2dFp2dkhJZGIxTTFkdFpEUDNSSHZEN3c. If yours has the flaw and you want to be daring, install a non-standard router OS like the ones listed here: wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wireless_router_firmware_projects. After that Bart lightens things up with his tutorial on how to take photographs of stars without fancy kit: bartb.ie/blog/?p=2226.
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Christmas show will be on Friday night the 23rd of December at 5pm Pacific time at podfeet.com/live. I figured out the fiasco with GarageBand from last week. Two great applications from Eternal Storms Software, Screenfloat and Yoink. Blue Mango Learning’s Clarify makes the top 10 best apps of 2011 at mashable.com. Donald Burr of Donald Burr of Otaku no Podcast from otakunopodcast.com reviews the AYL Stylus. Piezo review from Rogue Amoeba, and Browser wars using omnibar as the discriminator. In Dumb Question Corner Todd McCann asks for an explanation of RSS feeds. In Chit Chat Across the Pond, I get to ask Rod Simmons of the Simple Mobile Review Podcast to explain Android to me and how it differs for good or bad from iOS. Time Machine review, Blindfolded accessibility update, Photography and the Mac Podcast Promo find it in iTunes. In Dumb Question Corner Professor Albert joins us again asking how to quit all running applications and gets a surprising answer. 3 in 1 Camera Lens review from Rod Simmons. George from Tulsa says some nice things about Podfeet.com and explains that you have to turn off Ad Block to see my Amazon Affiliate link, and then throws down the gauntlet about a lively discussion he and Bart had about Apple’s move towards Sandboxing. Bart comes back with a full Chit Chat Across the Pond explaining Sandboxing and why it’s a good, not scary thing. Professor Albert asks for help with his audio so the NosillaCastaways will let him play with them, and William asks for help making alerts for his son with Tourette’s Syndrome. My search for an iPad-friendly wiki ends with WikiSpaces from Wikispaces.com. My review of mind mapping software iThoughtsHD from ithoughts.co.uk. In Chit Chat Across the Pond Allister Jenks from zkarj.co.nz joins us to talk about aircraft photography. No PivotTable Charts in Excel 2011, Kirschen Seah gives us her Add Prefix String Automator action at http://www.freerangecoder.com. Zumocast from zumocast.com vs. AirVideo for video watching on the iPad. Accessible Mind Sweeper from Programar a ciegas at programaraciegas.es. iStopMotion review from boinx.com including Bastian Wolfe’s hysterical video and my 1 second stop motion movie. In Chit Chat Across the Pond performing artist Shai Yammanee of shaiyammanee.com joins us to talk about the tools he uses in photography, video and audio recording. Synopsis of Blogworld and New Media Expo. Scott Stratten from un-marketing.com as keynote, the good and the bad of the presentations. Two interviews from the show floor – the unusual Lexmark Genesis all-in-one scanner, and the future Bloomworlds will be a curated app store for family-safe apps for the Android. An interview with Army Major Ben Grimes describes troop blogging at armystrongstories.com. Great audience participation in my talk on How to Increase Your Audience Through Accessibility. Update on Firefox accessibility on the Mac. In Dumb Question Corner Jacob asks about how to update themes in WordPress.com, and Sam questions the need for SuperDuper! if we can make bootable backups with Disk Utility. Matt and I experiment with wetoku at wetoku.com for recording video interviews. I review a blog aggregator website I’m enjoying called Regator at regator.com. In Chit Chat Across the Pond Bart and I go through a pile of security updates in Security Lite for the Mac, Windows, Safari, iPhones and WordPress. Then Bart explains why you should use Fluid from http://fluidapp.com/ to create a separate browser instance for doing your online banking.
Free audio sound files from Freesound Project from freesound.org and Sound Snap from soundsnap.com. Twitter lists – check out twitter.com/podfeet/nosillacast-live and twitter.com/podfeet/mac-roundtable. Matt Hilyer of the Stealth Mac Podcast at thestealthmac.com and twitter.com/bldgnerd reviews the Magic Mouse from Apple, see his pictures of the Magic Mouse unboxing: flickr.com/photos/baldingnerd. In Dumb Question Corner William asks me to explain what Flash actuallyis, and Jim Sewell asks where to find good Mac applications. Evan reviews the Night Camera iPhone app from sudobility.com. Review of the Brando Flexible Mini Capsule Microphone from brando.com and the great image editing program Acorn. in Chit Chat Across the Pond Bart tells us about the Topaz Bundle of plugins for Aperture and iPhoto from topazlabs.com.
In this exclusive interview (don’t they always call it “exclusive” to make it sound cool?) I talk to Mitchell Baker the Chairperson and Chief Lizard Wrangler of Mozilla about how you go from a failure to 24% market share using primarily volunteer labor across the world. Links from our discussion include Mitchell and John Lilly’s op-ed piece on Net Neutrality at the Wall Street Journal: http://online.wsj.com and labs.mozilla.org and browser Market Share by Net Applications at marketshare.hitslink.com. Also Mitchell’s blog at blog.lizardwrangler.com.
In honor of Mother’s day I interview my mom about her newest tech gadget, the Extreme Reader from Guerilla Technologies. ooVoo for 6-way video calls at oovoo.com. In Dumb Question Corner we cover switching windows in Word, creating anniversary calendars in iCal using Dates to iCal from nhoj.co.uk/datestoical/, Keystroke to send Mail, how to restore a user directory from a thumb drive. We look at Honda Bob’s website to learn all about brakes at hdabob.com. And finally Donald Burr from otakunopodcast explains to me the virtues and few failings of the Archos 705 from archos.com. See his pictures at borg-cube.com, download Miro from getmiro.com, iSquint from isquint.org and Handbrake from handbrake.fr.
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