Update on Firefox accessibility on the Mac. In Dumb Question Corner Jacob asks about how to update themes in Wordpress.com, and Sam questions the need for SuperDuper! if we can make bootable backups with Disk Utility. Matt and I experiment with wetoku at wetoku.com for recording video interviews. I review a blog aggregator website I’m enjoying called Regator at regator.com. In Chit Chat Across the Pond Bart and I go through a pile of security updates in Security Lite for the Mac, Windows, Safari, iPhones and Wordpress. Then Bart explains why you should use Fluid from http://fluidapp.com/ to create a separate browser instance for doing your online banking.
Listen to the Podcast Once (1hr 9min)
Read More
Free audio sound files from Freesound Project from freesound.org and Sound Snap from soundsnap.com. Twitter lists – check out twitter.com/podfeet/nosillacast-live and twitter.com/podfeet/mac-roundtable. Matt Hilyer of the Stealth Mac Podcast at thestealthmac.com and twitter.com/bldgnerd reviews the Magic Mouse from Apple, see his pictures of the Magic Mouse unboxing: flickr.com/photos/baldingnerd. In Dumb Question Corner William asks me to explain what Flash actuallyis, and Jim Sewell asks where to find good Mac applications. Evan reviews the Night Camera iPhone app from sudobility.com. Review of the Brando Flexible Mini Capsule Microphone from brando.com and the great image editing program Acorn. in Chit Chat Across the Pond Bart tells us about the Topaz Bundle of plugins for Aperture and iPhoto from topazlabs.com.
Listen to the Podcast Once (1hr 14min)
Read More
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)
Read More
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!
Listen to the Podcast Once (44 min 13 sec)
[tags]Macintosh, iPhone, Twitter, podcast, EeePC, accessibility, freeware, Buffalo, Open Source, Honda Bob[/tags] Read More
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.
Listen to the Podcast Once (40 min 55 sec)
[tags]Macintosh, iPhone, Twitter, podcast, Nokia 810, accessibility, freeware, shareware, Buffalo, networking, Youtube, Honda Bob[/tags] Read More
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.
Listen to the Podcast Once (39 min 05 sec)
Read More
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.
Listen to the Podcast Once (38 min 43 sec)
Read More
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.
Subscribe to the Podcast –> 
Listen to the Podcast Once (37 min 45 sec)
Read More
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.
Subscribe to the Podcast –>
Listen to the Podcast Once (39 min 16 sec)
Read More
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
Subscribe to the Podcast –>
Listen to the Podcast Once (32 min 19 sec)
Read More
|
|
