#350 Macworld 2012, Blindfolded!, Avatron, Nite Ize Gear Ties, ParaSync, Powis iCase, WPS Flaw in Wifi, Star Photography

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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#338 Time Machine, Blindfolded, Photography and the Mac, Quit All Apps, 3 in 1 Camera Lens, Apple Sandboxing

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.

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#249 Awesome Bar, Ubuntu Packages, Kupfer, Logitech Lap Desk, CarMD, Faking Motion Blur

Dual monitor with iTunes problem solved, the Awesome Bar in Firefox explained, Sara Jane from Ireland says hello, and I explain how I allowed my mom to hear the audio from Murder by Death using Audio Hijack Pro. I continue on my Ubuntu adventures inspired by a whole host of characters, the Matt gives us another great review, this time of Kupfer from kaizer.se/wiki/kupfer. A review of the Logitech Lap Desk N315 by me, followed by a testimonial about ScreenSteps by Kirschen. Next up is a review of CarMD from carmd.com by Steve. Honda Bob sends along a message explaining his view of the recent recalls by Toyota. In Chit Chat Across the Pond Bart teaches us how to fake motion blur using Photoshop Elements; see the video at typicalshutterbug.com.

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#209 Hugin, HP Photosmart Stitch, Pano, iStorage, Lenovo S10, wp-dtree, DVI-disasters

In this exciting episode, we cover three panorama applications: Hugin from hugin.sourceforge.net, HP Panorama Stitch from hp.com and Pano application for iPhone from Debacle Software. iStorage to allow downloads to your iPhone from iStorageapp.com. Donald Burr of otakunopodcast.com brings up a review of the Lenovo IdeaPad s10 from lenovo.com (buy at Amazon.com. wp-dtree to improve the menus on my website from wordpress.org. In Chit Chat Across the Pond Bart tells us about how Apple can be a bit misleading on DVI adapters – listen closely!

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#142 ICY Dock, USB speed, pbwiki, Common Craft, screencasting

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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#134 EeePC, Check Off, FOSSwiki, Texter, MarsEdit, MacRoundtable

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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Show #97 Salling Clicker, Get Clicky, uStream, PanDigital frame, Tamrac & Timbuktu bags, Brian Regan

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 #93 MPEG Streamclip, PDF Filler, Neo Office, Call Recorder, Garmin 300, AutoSlideshow

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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Show #91 CNET search, Picnik, Growl, aMSN, Aquatik, Altec Lansing M602

iFastViewer from csperandio2002.free.fr, HDA Bob on Fuel Injection at hdabob.com, CNET search on Podcasting returns the Zune, watch the Great Tits (or Parus Major) lay eggs at dutchnature.com/parusnest, Picnik web-based photo editing at picnik.com, Growl-enabled Applications Part 1 from growl.info with the aMSN open source MSN Messenger clone from amsn-project.net and Aquatik from tickertape.org. Altec Lansing M602 iPod speakers

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