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03 January 2010
New Podfeet license plates, MacWorld 2010 NosillaCast meetup, car waxing with an orbital polisher. In Dumb Question Corner we talk about DVD Region coding. Full product review of Launchbar from obdev.at and a hands on review of the Motorola Droid. In Chit Chat Across the Pond Bart and I talk about the Logitech MX Revolution and why to be cautious about the drivers and what you have to gain from them. Bart talks about two New Years tech resolutions and then his first impressions of Windows 7 from loading it for his grandfather.

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27 December 2009
My impressions of hearing the NosillaCast hosted by Bart and Chit Chat Across the Pond with Lola Wong. Tamrac Adventure 9 vs. LowePro Micro Trekker 100 camera bags. Matt Hillyer of the Stealth Mac Podcast thestealthmac.com gives us an update on the Tom Tom iPhone application and a freeware utility called Better Touch Tool from blog.boastr.net for controlling the Magic Mouse. Rose from Hobart tells the tale of her new 27″ iMac. In Dumb Question Corner Gaz asks a question that’s too hard about emptying the trash, and John asks a perfect dumb question about how to deauthorize a Mac for iTunes after you’ve wiped it and sold it. Steve Sheridan gives a review of the Canon HF S100 HD Camcorder, how he chose it and his impressions of the camera. In Chit Chat Across the Pond Bart teaches us how to do the Orton effect on photos using any pixel image editor, a great way to make awesome photos of your Christmas tree (bartb.ie/blog/?p=1494)

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20 December 2009
While Allison is away sunning herself, Bart from www.bartb.ie takes over to guest-host the show. Allison put out the call for content, and the listeners responded magnificently – we have a jam-packed show today! Allison was afraid there’d be too little content – not a chance, so buckle-up for a long show!

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13 December 2009
Sports Authority rocks, Evan on the International Mac Podcast app for iPhone, and Blind Search to see which search engine you really like from blindsearch.fejus.com. Extensive Blackberry Storm 2 review – Industrial design, touch screen, editing typos, orientation, keyboard and screen real estate, moving applications, documents, audio and camera. In Chit Chat Across the Pond we talk about the under appreciated Mac Mini.

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06 December 2009
More on two mic recording using Audio Midi Setup, and Caleb’s ideas on audio recording equipment that will only cost a kidney. Alesis 2 mic mixer: sweetwater.com/store/detail/MultiMix4USB, Shure SM58 mic sweetwater.com/store/detail/SM58 and Sennheiser E835 mic sweetwater.com/store/detail/E835, Audio-Technica lavalieres Allison’s Amazon link, mic stand sweetwater.com/store/detail/MicStdDesk, XLR male to female cables from monoprice.com. Why you don’t need to defrag a Mac from support.apple.com/kb/HT1375. ScreenSteps webinar bluemangolearning.com. WizMouse to solve your scrolling woes in Windows 7 and prior versions fo windows from antibody-software.com and KatMouse from ehiti.de/katmouse. Etherpad owner AppJet purchased by Google, read the blog about how they went Open Source: EtherPad blog. trickimages.com for my awesome mic sticker on my MacBook Pro. In Chit Chat Across the Pond Bart and i talk about Patch Tuesday, and finally an Apple Java update and then we dig into “What’s All This About DNS Cache Poisoning Attacks?” and why you’ll want to change to Googles Domain Name Servers at 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4.

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29 November 2009
Allister’s Listener Challenge, Steve’s dumb question about his banking site, and Curt’s dumb question about recording two people from one Mac without a Mixer. I’ll give you my impressions of Windows 7 after 4 weeks of nearly daily use. In Chit Chat Across the Pond Bart gives us a flood update on Ireland, we talk through a Zero Day Exploit on IE6 and 7 fro XP and Vista with no patch as of when we recorded. Then we talk about the implications of some of the major iPhone developers leaving the iPhone (but some leaving Android to concentrate on the iPhone).

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22 November 2009
VMware Fusion 3 on sale for $19 at Amazon, I finally get Belgian chocolates from Gazmaz of the UK. Michelle reviews Reminder from gravityapps.com and Evan reviews Ping! from pingmessaging.com. Buy your cables from monoprice.com for a steal. ScreenSteps is 40% off on Monday and Tuesday at screensteps.com. Full review of Screenflow 2 from telestream.net. Check out Honda Bob’s new website at hdabob.com. In Chit Chat Across the Pond Bart and I re-view the recommendation for Fluid with Safari for a site specific browser and change the recommendation to Mozilla Prism from mozillalabs.com/prism for Linux, Mac and Windows.

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15 November 2009
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.

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08 November 2009
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.

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06 November 2009
In this exclusive interview (don’t they always call it “exclusive” to make it sound cool?) I talk to Mitchell Baker the Chairperson and Chief Lizard Wrangler of Mozilla about how you go from a failure to 24% market share using primarily volunteer labor across the world. Links from our discussion include Mitchell and John Lilly’s op-ed piece on Net Neutrality at the Wall Street Journal: http://online.wsj.com and labs.mozilla.org and browser Market Share by Net Applications at marketshare.hitslink.com. Also Mitchell’s blog at blog.lizardwrangler.com.

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