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.
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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. 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.
Paul Burns tells us about Mobile Fotos – Flickr Browser & Uploader , and Scott Rutowski tells us about Ootunes radio from www.ootunes.com. Drew sent in TimeScroller from timescroller.com which SOLVES my time zone challenge perfectly. Typinator from Ergonis Software takes a shot at the top spot as a snippet replacement tool, BJ demonstrates the Logitech ClearChat Comfort USB Headset. The PowerStick from Ecosol solves travel power problems. Matt Hillyer from TheStealthMac.com reviews the Tom Tom iPhone application.
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!
In this 4 year anniversary show, Steve gives us a “best of” show while I just get to give away software and photos! Steve pokes fun at me, recognizes the fans, and helps us laugh at Bart’s hiccups. I think you’ll enjoy it!
Listen to the Podcast Once (1hr 3 min) Sessions from Slau at sessionswithslau.com, Dumb Question Corner reveals laser-specific search in Spotlight from usingmac.com. DVDpedia from bruji.com/dvdpedia goes up against Delicious Library and wins for only $18 from bruji.com/dvdpedia. In Chit Chat Across the Pond, Bart explains that Adobe has patched their services and he does a review fo the $40 personal finance management software from Midnight Apps at midnightapps.com. Then Bart and I discuss how to get offsite backups without taking forever but still being secure, and he walks me through how to make an encrypted disk image to protect my offsite backup. I created a ScreenSteps tutorial on podfeet.com in the right sidebar on how to make an encrypted disk image too.
Listen to the Podcast Once (52 min) Addictomatic for aggregating web 2.0 searches addictomatic.com. Audio Hijack Pro from rogueamoeba.com and Azid from Softpedia at Softpedia. 32 Totally Essential (and Free) Apps for Every New PC maximumpc.com. Al finally releases her Audacity Tutorial in the right sidebar at podfeet.com under tutorials. Pat Dengler reviews theKindle 2 from Amazon, and Maxtor One Touch for the win. iV iPhone portable charging pack from FastMac. In Chit Chat Across the Pond I ask Bart to explain the difference between jpeg and raw, and why I might want to shoot raw. Bart’s blog post on the topic: http://www.bartb.ie/blog/?p=1295. In Security Lite he walks us through the Adobe Flash update to fix a vulnerability, and about two new vulnerabilities – one on Adobe Reader, one on my beloved Excel.
Listen to the Podcast Once (1 hr 10 min) This short tutorial is intended to teach you how to take your existing podcast feed and get it listed in iTunes. You will need to know the url of your podcast feed in order to execute this maneuver, so find it before you start. Frequently the form of the feed will be rss.xml but that isn’t always the case. You will also need to have an Apple ID – this is the free ID you use in order to buy music, movies and TV shows through the iTunes store. If you don’t have an Apple ID you can also use an AOL login. 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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