Archive for the 'Macintosh' Category
Sunday, April 29th, 2007
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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Sunday, April 22nd, 2007
Powerwashing listener Margaret’s driveway, Übercaster screencast tutorials ubercaster.com/movies.shtml, listener Chris runs too many OS’s , Quantum Question #1 from listener Bruce at mrgadgets.blogspot.com, Growl Part 2 with Chax from ksuther.com/chax, Talkshoe from talkshoe.com with Paige from the Views From the Coop podcast and Mark Rizzn Hopkins, a political technologist who has a daily podcast called Rizwords hosted at rizzn.com. Carburetors explained at hdabob.com/Carburetor.htm. Online photo editing tools compared to picnik.com: Preloadr from preloadr.com, Snipshot at snipshot.com, Picture2Life from picture2life.com, Fauxto from fauxto.com, and Pixenate from pixenate.com. Caffiene to keep your Mac awake from Bart’s Blog at bartbusschots.ie/blog.
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Sunday, April 15th, 2007
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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Saturday, April 14th, 2007
Back from the martian death flu with most of my voice, my favorite podcasts: MacBreak Weekly at twit.tv/mbw, 2SmartChix podcast with Paige Eissinger and Kristi Hicks, everything TWIT, Bart’s Irish Astronomy Podcast at irishastronomy.org. Joost from joost.com, HDA Bob on engine lubrication at hdabob.com. Google Part 17 with 133t Speak at google.com/intl/xx-hacker and http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A787917, google/ig themes, Google My Maps - see my childhood home. Übercaster from ubercaster.com.
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Sunday, April 1st, 2007
Gear Media Tech class, Google Part 16 with Google Bookmarks from google.com/bookmarks, Google free in-home wireless broadband from google.com/tisp, and Gmail Paper at mail.google.com/mail/help/paper/more.html. Integrity to check weblinks from peacockmedia.co.uk and Meander to measure map paths from meander.macpaq.com, Colloquy IRC chat client from colloquy.info. Xmenu menu bar app to bring back an OS9 feature from devon-technologies.com/products/freeware, and Linux commercial from novell.com/linux/meetlinux.
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Sunday, March 25th, 2007
Pre-Gear Media Tech excitement, CSUN Technology & Persons with Disabilities Conference in Los Angeles with Susan Gerhart of apodder.org & her friend Harold, Icon PDA for the blind from levelstar.com, bookshare.org text books for the blind, meebo.com to chat without a client, exhaust systems explained at hdabob.com, open source Krank game from krank.sourceforge.net, panoramio.com to see pictures of the world in Google Earth, Quicksilver from quicksilver.blacktree.com for the Mac and Launchy for Windows from launchy.net. iForgot from largemouthsoftware.com, Bart’s PasswordVault2Go Review from Bart - PasswordVault is from lavasoftware.com, no more Google Product reviews, Open Source Food from opensourcefood.com.
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Sunday, March 18th, 2007
Visiting my mom, waxing a friend’s Acura, InstantShot! update, Democracy gets a name change to Miro, irreverant James teaches me about slideshow in Finder, X vs. XP at xvsxp.com, Path Finder from cocoatech.com, Google Part 15 with Froogle Mobile from wml.froogle.com and Google Groups from groups.google.com, and VisualHub from techspansion.com/visualhub.
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Sunday, March 4th, 2007
New camera (Nikon D40), Errata in the forums, added Podzinger search to the website, HDA Bob’s Element Modification Movie, KIT for organizing your life from reinventedsoftware.com, Blender for 3D modeling from blender.org, freeware image viewer called Xee, from wakaba.c3.cx/s/apps, and a new beta shareware image editor called Chocoflop from chocoflop.com. NetNewsWire 3 pre beta review from newsgator.com by Bart Busschots, and FreeRuler for measuring things onscreen at pascal.com/software/freeruler.
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Sunday, February 25th, 2007
Use Quicktime for AVI files with perian.org, HDA Bob’s cousin Patrick’s Drawings, nowonder.com or macosx.com to get or give help to other Mac folks, Vdownloader to convert flash to iPod from softpedia.com, apology to my brother Grant, Amazon Mechanical Turk from mturk.com if you want to work for the machine. Google Part 13 with Google Ride Finder at labs.google.com/ridefinder and Google Personalized Search at google.com/psearch. Songbird instead of iTunes from songbirdnest.com, and Shapeshifter unsanity.com.
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Sunday, February 18th, 2007
Allison plays with a chain-saw, Schoolhouse 2 from loganscollins.com, LineRider from linerider.com and lineridervideos.blogspot.com, hdabob.com and his index of symptoms. Google Part 12 with Google Suggest at http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=1&hl=en, anwers.com, Google Sets at labs.google.com/sets, Google Docs & Spreadsheets, and it’s from docs.google.com/, pando.com, Tubesock from stinkbot.com, TubeSockLoader at versiontracker.com, Quicktime Pro for audio and video recording, Why I love the internet, plugin embedding QT into Wordpress from channel-ai.com/blog/plugins, iRecord from mindsprockets.com.
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