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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Technorati Tags: Macintosh, mother’s day, accessibility, Extreme Reader, iCal, Honda, Archos

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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Technorati Tags: Macintosh, HDR, hard drive, ICY DOCK, USB speed tests, screencast

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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Technorati Tags: Macintosh, iPhoto, Jonathan Coulton, HP Calculators, HP67, LXVII, phishing, Lost Marauders, video compression

Homework assignment - find people in Africa, Asia, and Antartica to check in, more Twitter clients at twitter.pbwiki.com, KeyXL from keyxl.com for keyboard shortcuts by operating system. Texter breaks for Mike too, request for Podcast lessons from Gérard, DiscLabel from smileonmymac.com. How I still can’t get a good backup, and Bart and I discuss Martin’s instructions at blog.grummel.at on how to install Linux applications on the Mac during Chit Chat Across the Pond.

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Donald Burr of Otaku No Podcast reviews the EeePC including pictures at gallery.mac.com/donburr. Check Off from checkoffapp.com, FOSSwiki from foss.librarianchick.com. Texter for Windows from lifehacker.com. Honda Bob replaced Kyle’s radio. In Chit Chat Across the Pond Bart and I make some Twitter corrections and additions including Twhirl from twhirl.org and Twitterfox from naan.net and the RTSP flaw in Quicktime has been repaired (again). Finally Bart gives us his review of MarsEdit from red-sweater.com/marsedit/. announcing the return of the MacRoundtable with additional hosts including me!

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Connor’s rantlet, AWSOM PixGallery for Wordpress photo galleries from awsom.org. Michael Gorman’s review of the Nokia N810 Internet tablet: Nokia N810 main page, Specifications Page, OS 2008 Page (operating system for the Nokia N810), Maemo Linux Project page, Wavefinder Page for the Nokia N810. Buffalo tech support rocks from buffalotech.com when they help me diagnose my problem and install firmware AND are Mac friendly! Honda Bob from hdabob.com helps us put a radio in Kyle’s car, Tooble from tooble.tv makes it trivial now to download YouTube videos, convert them and plop them into your iTunes video library. In Chit Chat Across the Pond Bart and I discuss various Twitter clients for the Mac: Twitterific from iconfactory.com, Twitterpost only available at apple.com/downloads/macosx/email_chat/twitterpost.html but it doesn’t work, TwitterPod which DOES have proxy access but a lame interface from drikin.com/twitterpod, and finally Spaz from funkatron.com/spaz which works, but has no proxy access and has an offensive name in some languages. here’s a link to Bart’s blog where he talks about each of them: bartbusschots.ie. And finally my rant about not being able to sync contacts to my iPhone or iPod for two days.

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Technorati Tags: Macintosh, iPhone, Twitter, podcast, Nokia 810, accessibility, freeware, shareware, Buffalo, networking, Youtube, Honda Bob

iPhone whining about batteries and not being able to send .mac mail over EDGE, Sam Caldwell on Microsoft vs. Apple service (hint, Microsoft wins), Sam’s podcast is at http://web.mac.com/inetsynch/iWeb/Site/Welcome.html. Idea for encouraging audio CAPTCHAs on websites for accessibility, box.net for storing and sharing files, Disk Inventory X from derlien.com for recovering wasted disk space, Zoho from zoho.com for online software applications, and Inquisitor 3 from inquisitorx.com/safari for Spotlight-like web searching in Safari. Skitch is the coolest application I’ve played with in a long time, from plasq.com.

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Ryan corrects Allison on SSH access from GoDaddy, Salling clicker review by listener Ben from salling.com, HDA Bob on the brake system at hdabob.com, Get Clicky from getclicky.com for cool web stats, ustream at ustream.tv to create your own streaming TV station. I start a search for interesting podcatching clients that are cross-platform, but only find MyPodder from podcastready.com which only works on Windows. GrandPerspective from sourceforge.net to see your file sizes to reclaim disk space. Digital picture frame from pandigital.net, and digital photo keychain at costco.com. Growl-enabled applications Part 5 with Eudora Notifier from amsaya.info, Gmail+Growl at wafflesoftware.net/gmailgrowl, and AFPStatus from sparrer-online.de. Permalinks changed with advice from Michael at tickertape.org. Tamrac camera/laptop backpack at Tamrac 5549 and Timbuk2 laptop bag at Timbuk2 site. Great comedian Brian Regan video “I Walked on the Moon” and CD Brian Regan LIVE.

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Show #1 from May 13th 2005, Chainsaw for Mother’s Day, hard disk failure - do YOU have a backup? HDA Bob on the Electrical System and why Steve is so smart, Bart on Noscript extension for safe surfing, Growl Part 4 featuring Balzac from mecanisme.net. Sputtr. from sputtr.com for searching through many services, Namely from amarsagoo.info as a quick application launcher.

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Correct pronunciation of Fauxto, how to set FreeRuler to show correct dimensions by screen resolution, MPEG Streamclip from squared5.com to demux audio tracks out of DVDs, PDF Filler web-based application to fill out PDFs from pdffiller.com, HDA Bob on the ignition system at hdabob.com/Ignition.htm, Neo Office 2.1 from neooffice.org, Growl Part 3 with Coccinella at sourceforge.net/projects/coccinella. Call Recorder from ecamm.com/mac/callrecorder to record Skype calls, Garmin StreetPilot 300 review, AutoSlideshow add-on for Firefox from AutoSlideshow, Leo’s tutorial at macinstruct.com.

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