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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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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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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Technorati Tags: Macintosh, iPhone, Twitter, podcast, EeePC, accessibility, freeware, Buffalo, Open Source, Honda Bob

This is a special episode of the NosillaCast - it’s an impromptu discussion I had on Talkshoe with Paige Eissinger of the 2SmartChix Podcast, hosted at viewsfromthecoop.com and Mark Rizzn from the RizWords podcast hosted at rizzn.com. Paige and I were testing out TalkShoe for the first time, which is a way to host a podcast live, where people can actually call in and participate in the show. Mark spontaneously joined us, and after we got done blathering about how to use TalkShoe, we got into some interesting tech discussions so I thought I’d share this with you.

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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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My quest to leave VizaWeb, including learning about MySQL, a little unix work, and a lot of help from my friends. Blue Screen of Death screensaver from Microsoft, why aren’t I talking more about Vista, Vista Genuine Advantage can’t make up its mind whether I’m legal or not, senior geek on Leo’s KFI podcast, Flying Toasters screensaver from uneasysilence.com/toast, MorphX from norrkross.com, GroupBar from Microsoft Research.

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Forums taking off, new theme for Podfeet coming, Part 3 of our multi-part series on putting Youtube videos on the iPod, now using youtubex.com and keepvid.com, play Flash movies on your Mac with FLVLauncher at http://c5h12.hp.infoseek.co.jp/jjc/flvlauncher/index_e.html, Allison’s pics on Youtube - http://www.youtube.com/user/BaratsAndBereta and “White and Nerdy” by Weird Al Yankovic, spamex.com to avoid spam in your email, call for Mac recipe software for Dean, new .mac web-based email at mac.com/1/webmail.html, Research Assistant Bart on bookmark syncing between browsers with Bookit from everydaysoftware.net/bookit, workfriendly.net to fake like you’re working, Vista RC2 installation of Java and IE7 adding Favorites, httrack.com to download websites to browse offline, comparing HTTrack to Ice-Nine discussion of Ice-nine from wikipedia, making fun of Windows Live Search advertisement.

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Forums added to Podfeet at podfeet.com/forums, Levelator review from gigavox.com, @podder review from apodder.org, fix your own iPod through ifixit.com, listener Bart gets a new title, SwitchProxy Firefox extension at addons.mozilla.org/firefox/125, Spirited Away from drikin.com to make your apps disappear to keep them from distracting you, Stitchh PDFs using Automator, Boinx Ivezeen from ivezeen.com to turn your iSight into a video recorder, Vista RC2 review continued, Andy Walker & Sean Carruthers from labrats.tv interview Allison at the Podcast Expo.

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Trip to Disneyland, MacBook Pro hard disk replacement, QA Director Steve is mislabled, audio improvements, The Levelator from gigavox.com/levelator, PDFLab from iconus.ch/fabien/pdflab, Bart’s Blog at bartbusschots.ie, Podzinger at podzinger.com, magnetictime.com, David Day’s sleepless night, turn off Fast Save in Microsoft Office, Screenshot Plus from apple.com/downloads/dashboard, Apple isn’t flawless, Vista RC2 on Parallels, Periodic Table of the Elements using Google Images.

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