Mac Roundtable Podcast

This episode is hosted by: Katie Floyd: www.macpowerusers.com, www.katiefloyd.me, @katiefloyd Steve Stanger themacattack.tv, about.me/sstanger, @tmasteve Victor Cajiao http://www.typicalmacuser.com @victorcajiao Chuck Joiner http://macvoicesgroup.com @chuckjoiner Mac OS X turns 10 years old! Anything we still miss from the Pre-OSX days? Where is OS X still lacking? What features do you want to see added? No iPhone, Macs at WWDC 2011 (rumor) WWDC June 6th-10th Apple?s 2011 World Wide Developers Conference has sold out after not even being open for more than 12 hours. The conference, which costs $1599 to attend Sources claim no hardware announcements at WWDC. No iOS5 announcement (another rumor of the release being moved to the fall). I say good. Lets focus on the Mac and OSX! Katie's Recent AppleCare "Deal" Fiasco Buying from a third party reseller on Amazon almost cost me. Tips for buying AppleCare Is there ever a perfect time to buy a Mac? I want a MacPro but now waiting for Thurderbolt I want a Macbook Air (heck Katie and David enabled me right into one,) but I'm waiting for Sandie Bridge Apple I have money in the bank ready to give to you but your secrets keep me from doing anything at this point. Picks: Katie: Evernote: Relying on it heavily to organize my house building project, Steve: PictureShow iPhone camera app. Victor : Thanks to Tim Verporten and his posterous page for this.  Sendoid lets you instantly transfer big files up to about a gig  to another person through a browser connections . Chuck: TopXNotes  

Cast: Allison Sheridan NosillaCast Mac Podcast - http://podfeet.com @podfeet Jonathan Cost - http://www.Thinkmac.net & Mac Tips Daily! Podcast -- Twitter @mactipsdaily Joseph Nilo - HiLo Media http://josephnilo.com / @josephnilo David Sparks - http://macsparky.com / http://macpowerusers.com / Twitter @macsparky John F. Braun - http://macgeekgab.com / http://macobsever.com / Twitter @johnfbraun You can also follow us at @macroundtable iPad 2 Specs: http://www.apple.com/ipad/specs/ how can a 1024x768 device support 1080 video via mirrored mode in HDMI??? Someone asked me what would happen if you plugged the HDMI adapter into an iPad 1...and I didn't know the answer http://www.apple.com/ipad/features/mirroring.html Who is upgrading and why? STEVE IS ALIVE Smart Cover the color they demo'd with was freakin' butt ugly, BUT what an ingenious design!  I kept thinking, how does ANYONE keep up with these guys??? iOS 4.3 Mobile HotSpot! Toggle switch, a "Feature" Home sharing goodness Not available on iPhone 3G or Verizon CDMA iPhone 4 iOS 5 Notification? The "Post-PC" world David's post - http://www.macsparky.com/blog/2011/3/2/thoughts-on-the-post-pc-world.html Applications for iOS: Printopia from Ecamm - Lets any printer work with Airprint. http://ecamm.com/mac/printopia/ Garageband What (good) options are there for audio in? Internal mic is awful accelerometer for how hard he played the piano - how crazy is that? Midi in - iConnect - http://www.iconnectmidi.com/ JAM from Apogee Electronics: http://www.apogeedigital.com/products/jam.php iMovie if you don't buy an iPad 2, is there a way to get videos in from say your iPhone or a flip? Without syncing through a computer that is... Maybe premature to know until we have an iPad 2 to test it. My guess is that if you have synced videos to your iPad via iTunes then you might be able to edit them if they are in a compatible format. MacBook Pros None of my enabling Mac Roundtable friends have been able to come up with a good reason for me to replace my 28 month old MacBook Pro - since I put the 60GB Mercury Extreme SSD in it - it's so fast I never wait for it!  Please try to convince me? update - OWC says I can take the data doubler and the SSD out of this one and pop it into the new model! New MBP - ThunderBolt, quad core, 1GB VRAM [Joseph's new 15" MBPro is en route from Shanghai] Engadget Review: http://www.engadget.com/2011/03/04/macbook-pro-review-early-2011/ And now for something completely different. fseventer http://www.fernlightning.com/doku.php?id=software:fseventer:start - Shows what files are being created/destroyed, great for diagnosing issues where your HD is churning and you don't know why. http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/find_out_whos_messing_with_your_drive_with_fseventer/ fs_usage - command from the terminal that shows similar information. atmonitor - stumbled across this when diagnosing allison had with son's macbook gpu performance.  one of the few utilities that shows gpu vram use and utilization.  like activity monitor, but will pull description of what app/process does from various sources. http://www.atpurpose.com/atMonitor/ PICKS: David: Tom Bihn Ristretto for 13" MBA - $120 http://www.tombihn.com/page/001/PROD/300/TB0223 Jonathan: Flick Tunes - iOS - http://flicktunes.com/FlickTunes/Welcome.html Epson R1900 - http://www.epson.com/cgi-bin/Store/jsp/Product.do?sku=C11C698201 Joseph: Canon EOS 60D DSLR: http://www.usa.canon.com/cusa/consumer/products/cameras/slr_cameras/eos_60d John : KisMAC http://kismac-ng.org/ Allison: Boom $5 from http://globaldelight.com

The panel for this show includes: John F. Braun - Mac Observer's Mac Geek Gab / Twitter Victor Cajiao - Typical Mac User Podcast and Typical Shutterbug Podcast / Twitter Steve Stanger - The Mac Attack / Twitter Chuck Joiner - The MacVoices Group / Twitter Topics include: - The experiences of two new Verizon iPhone owners, and the revelation that you *can* surf and talk at the same time - A complex purchasing experience for a Mac Pro and monitor - The security of solid-state drives - Light Peak and whether we will see it anytime soon - What we want and can expect in the next generation of MacBooks and MacBook Pros Apple Care for iPhone through AMAZON Picks: John - Angry Birds and Red Laser Steve - Magic Trackpad along with BetterTouchTool and Inklet The Macworld article that sold Steve on the Magic Trackpad Victor - Disk Radar Neat tool to find the big files on your hard drive. Limited-Time Introductory Pricing is $12.95 for single use and up to $29.95 for family pack Chuck - Special Home Theater Deal - Yamaha RX-V667 7.2-Channel Home Theater Receiver and Harman Kardon HKTS 20BQ 5.1 Home Theater Speaker System

Chuck Joiner: MacVoicesGroup.com Katie Floyd: MacPowerUsers.com Joseph Nilo: HiLoMedia.com David Sparks: MacPowerUsers.com Kan Ray: MacOSKen.com Tim Verpoorten: MacReviewCast.com Allison Sheridan: Podfeet.com Don McAllister ScreencastsOnline.com Victor Cajiao: TypicalMacUser.com John Chambers: OneMinuteTip.com The Mac Roundtable gets together at Macworld 2011 and discusses the future and the evolution of the Mac Operating System and iOS. This audio was recorded from the Macworld Live stage at Macworld 2011. Special thanks to Paul Kent, Kathy Moran, IDG and Macworld.com for making this live show possible.

This week's show was hosted by: Steve Stanger - The Mac Attack themacattack.tv twitter.com/tmasteve Victor Cajiao - Typical Mac User Podcast typicalmacuser.com twitter.com/victorcajiao Allison Sheridan - NosillaCast podfeet.com & twitter.com/podfeet John F. Braun - Mac Geek Gab macgeekgab.com twitter.com/johnfbraun Joseph Nilo - josephnilo.com twitter.com/josephnilo David Sparks - macsparky.com macpowerusers.com twitter.com/macsparky Apple Resources Resources for those that got new Apple goodies this holiday season. sites, books, etc. iPad Guide: 25+ Essential Resources for Your Apple Tablet: mashable.com/2010/12/27/ipad-apps-tips-accessories/ Mac OS X The Missing Manual Series by David Pogue: Amazon.com Mac At Work by our very own David Sparks: Amazon.com Dr. Bob Levitus' books - he writes iPad for Dummies, iPhone for Dummies, Snow Leopard for Dummies: boblevitus.com New & Upgraded Macs in the MRT House Joseph Nilo talks 12 Core MacPro and LED display. How is this beast, who needs one etc. John F Braun: MacBook Pro Repaired! Replaced logic board (claimed GPU issue, I've heard of this before with some Nvidia chipsets) upper case (which includes trackpad which was reporting errors in console) and keyboard. While MacBook was being repaired, took drive out and decided, rather than wrestle with PowerMac G5 and data migration, get a Mac mini instead! - Migration Assistant - 2GB of RAM is not enough! - Getting old Time Machine Backup working with new machine - 10.5: Repair Time Machine after logic board changes - hints.macworld.com - Requires use of "fsaclctl" command, which isn't included with Snow Leopard! - Pacifist, extract it from Leopard DVD Allison Sheridan - MacBook Pro added 60GB SSD from OWC in optical drive bay macsales.com David Sparks - MacBook Air 13" Tagging Photos and more How about the benefits of tagging photos, music, files etc on our Macs as well as other places on the net like Flickr etc? Do we do it? should we do it? Tags from Gravity Apps gravityapps.com Picks of the Week Allison - Twelve South Compass Portable Stand for iPad apple.com/store $39.95 Victor: Good Sync goodsync.com/mac $29.99 Steve - Ergonomic Snow Shovel & Flickpad for the iPad - flickpadapp.com John - Calcium Chloride for melting snow.  Gets melting point down below other chemicals, and doesn't damage concrete/pavement like some other chemicals. Melting Snow and Ice with Salts: chemistry.about.com But seriously, this is the external case I got EZQuest Pro Audio/Video Enclosure FireWire 800, and High-Speed USB 2.0 with EZQuest IDE/ATA to SATA Adapter eshop.macsales.com Joseph: Glenlivet single-malt scotch for when the power goes out. And Colorista 2 from redgiantsoftware.com and FxFactory Pro from noiseindustries.com David: Hazel - noodlesoft.com/hazel.php Brookstone Helicopter -- brookstone.com

This week's show is hosted by: Allison Sheridan:podfeet.com twitter.com/podfeet Don McAllister screencastsonline.com twitter.com/donmcallister Katie Floyd macpowerusers.com twitter.com/macpowerusers Reading on iPad ? Katie's family's kookie book policy ? Which eReader application do we like? Kindle because it has books ? We're all reading more than ever before because of the iPad? Complaint about Screen Rotation Lock While it's futile to complain, the Screen Rotation Lock is now FIVE operations instead of one - push, push, swipe, touch, touch. What a waste of time! And mute doesn't even mute everything for crying out loud! But Steve has spoken Do we really care about printing? Then there's a question, do we really care about printing from the iPad or is it truly necessary?  I'm more intersted in why the feature was promised and then so royally not delivered? What went so wrong and how did they not see that coming?  I've noted that, on my iPod Touch with the latest iOS, my HP B8550, which can be seen by HP's iPrint Photo software, can't be seen by iOS.  WTF?  Network printing isn't that new an invention, and I though what they were doing was somehow based on HP's technology, here's a list of the supported printers: ? http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4356? Then of course there's Printopia, what are they doing that Apple isn't? Print to PDF and Print to Dropbox FTW! ? http://www.ecamm.com/mac/printopia/? Do iPhone/iPod Touch Users care about iOS 4.2? What difference does 4.2 makes to iPhone/Touch users?  I know it's huge for folders and multi-tasking on iPad but since we had that on iPhone, is there more?  (other than security updates) Air Print was suposed to be the biggie-but not so much Lots of security updates - etc. See above, it hasn't really changed the way I use my iPod touch, and HP's software does the printing I'd like to do.  Being able to print other documents would be nice, but not a deal breaker. What about AirPlay - if you have an Apple TV can make a big difference. Don't get me started on the Apple TV 2nd gen not working on my UK TV though... OK, if you must! Picks - what we want and don't have Don ? JamBox by JawBone - jawbone.com ? Mophie Juice Pack Air for iPhone 4 - mophie.com Allison ? SSD for older MacBook Pro in the Optical Bay: OWC Data Doubler + 60GB Mercury Extreme Pro SSD - $200 eshop.macsales.com ? External optical enclosure - $25: eshop.macsales.com? ? ScreenCastsOnline Members Show on SSD installation - screencastsonline.com ? Light box for photographing stuff - $140 comes with light box + 2 lights + case + table top tripod: squareperfect.com Katie:  ? Livescribe Smartpen: livescribe.com (Consider SoundNote for iPad: soundnote.com) ? MacBook Air (cheating) ?

This Episode is hosted by: Allison Sheridan - http://podfeet.com, Twitter This special episode is all about the Beatles coming to iTunes!

This Episode is hosted by: Katie Floyd - http://www.macpowerusers.com, Twitter Chuck Joiner - http://www.macvoicesgroup.com; Twitter John F. Braun - http://www.macgeekgab.com; Twitter Adam Christianson - http://www.maccast.com; Twitter Tim Verpoorten - http://www.macreviewcast.com; Twitter Discontinuing the Xserve Introduction of Mac Pro Server iLife '11 Black Friday can be the best day to buy an Apple Computer if you're in the market. In addition to Apple's discounts (usually around 5% or so) resellers traditionally also have great deals especially on previous generation models. Favorite Black Friday Sites: Black Friday Info: www.blackfriday.info Deal Brothers: http://www.dealbrothers.com/ DealMac http://www.dealmac.com Deal News - http://www.dealnews.com Deal News Black Friday - http://dealnews.com/black-friday.html The Invisible Hand Safari Extension - http://www.getinvisiblehand.com/ Thoughts on MacBook Air Picks: Tim: Air Video: http://www.inmethod.com/air-video/index.html John : Lumix DMC-ZS7 http://panasonic.net/avc/lumix/compact/zs7_tz10/index.html Chuck:  Red Laser: http://redlaser.com/ Katie: Camel Camel Camel  http://camelcamelcamel.com/

The panel for this show includes: John F. Braun The Mac Observer's Mac Geek Gab Twitter John Chambers One Minute Tip Twitter Katie Floyd: Mac Power Users Twitter Dave Hamilton - Mac Geek Gab Podcast Twitter Chuck Joiner The MacVoices Group Twitter Don McAllister ScreenCastsOnline Twitter Allison Sheridan The NosillaCast Mac Podcast Twitter Members of The Mac Roundtable were in Las Vegas for BlogWorld 2010, and gathered to discuss the structure of the conferences, the show floor, and some changes they would like to see. Two members discuss their own sessions, the ways both audio and video podcasts are consumed, and the importance of live streaming media.

This week's Hosts are: Allison SheridanThe NosillaCast Mac Podcast http://podfeet.comTwitter: @podfeet John F. Braun The Mac Observer?s Mac Geek Gab http://www.macgeekgab.com/ Monday?s Mac Gadget http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/features/mondays_mac_gadget/ Twitter: @johnfbraun Don McAllister ScreenCastsOnline - http://screencastsonline.com The MacScreencast Guy http://themacscreencastguy.com Twitter: @donmcallisterBart Busschots Personal Blog: http://www.bartb.ie International Mac Podcast: http://www.impodcast.tv Twitter: @bbusschots Changes in iWork on the iPadBetter Office IntegrationAccess to MobileMe iDiskWebdav - anyone actually know of any WebDav services? I do - I run it on my own servers sometimes - just a simple loadable apache modulehttp://www.box.net/ 1gb freeIs Box.net still working with WebDav? Thought they'd removed the webdav interfaceah could be my info is datedhttp://icloud.com/en/webdav 3gb free?Enough to start actually using iWork on the iPad?Still having to manually manage versions of files but a step in the right directionSpiderOak https://spideroak.com/2GB free, 100GB for the same price as Dropbox charges for 50GB ($10/month or $100/yr)(Knightwise from http://knightwise.com turned me onto SpiderOak)Mac OS X Server? Impending Apple TV Out this week?Who has pre-ordered one?AirPlay in General? (Airplay is a standard radio broadcasting industry term http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airplay)I see that iTunes 10 is using the AirPlay terminology for the audio streaming to an AirPort Express.Is Apple taking a risk by moving to a streaming model, in light of Net Neutrality and/or providers charging for certain levels of data consumption? Blu-ray on MacSteve (Sheridan) suggested this topic.Problem statement:  He makes home movie DVDs with chapter markers, scene selections, music, and pretty covers to give to family and friends after shared events.  For example he's created a 2 DVD set of our European vacation for Don, Bart and Knightwise, including a 30 minute slideshow to music.  The sad part is that while the source material is high def, he can't easily make high definition DVDs since Steve Jobs believes that physical media is over and there's no Bluray burning capability built into the Macs of todayThe Question(s):  Is there yet a (reliable) Bluray burner/software combination that would allow us to make Bluray DVDs?Where do you see this going for the future?  Bart and I talked about maybe we'd be able to post a disk image online for friends/family to download (someday when bandwidth levels increas) - is this the future? or what other ways could we accomplish this same goal?John likes this topic, just got a Blu-ray player!Maybe Steve J was wrong when he called Blu-ray a "bag of hurt?"Phil chimed in with "We have the best HD movie and TV options in iTunes."Unless you can match the price of my local library (free) or redbox (1.50 a night) I'd like more optionsBlu-ray looks very nice from a storage capacity point of view (25GB single/50GB dual layer)I have the same question, can't you just get a Blu-ray burner and use something like iDVD?Final Cut Pro 7 will actually export to Blu-ray: http://www.apple.com/finalcutstudio/whats-new.htmlAccording to the guy from Roxio I talked to last year at MacWorld, even their stuff matched with a BluRay burner wasn't any good. That was a year (or was it 2 years ago?) though so maybe it's better now? Picks: Allison: Launchbar ($35) from obdev.at/products/launchbar Haven't recommended on MRT since 2008, time for some fresh love! Don: Plane Finder AR for iPhone 4 ($2.99) Just for a bit of fun. my.pinkfroot.com/page/plane-finder-ar John: treamWatcher ($15) eloquentsw.com/streamwatcher.html Bart: totally stupid time-waste, but I love it all the same iQuarium for iOS ($1) idreams.pl/iQuarium

The panel for this show includes: Katie Floyd: Mac Power Users Twitter Bart Busschots The International Mac Podcast Twitter Chuck Joiner The MacVoices Group Twitter The Mac Roundtable discussed the announcements from Apple's September 1st Music Event. Including the new iPods, Apple TV, Television Rentals, iTunes 10, iOS and more. iPod Shuffle Pod Nano iPod Touch iTunes 10 Apple TV Keynote Video

The panel for this show includes: John F. Braun The Mac Observer's Mac Geek Gab Twitter Victor Cajiou: Typical Mac User Typical Shutterbug Twitter Katie Floyd: Mac Power Users Twitter Tim Verporten The Mac Reviewcast Twitter Chuck Joiner The MacVoices Group Twitter Safari 5.0.1 and Extensions About Safari Extensions on Apple's Developers site Safari Extension Recommendations: Twitter for SafariTinEye Reverse Image SearchNew York Times Breaking NewsExifExtRotten TomatoesShortlyCoda Notes A Cleaner YouTubeYouTube5NoMoreiTUnesBugMeNotAutoPagerize Sources for the Extensions: Apple's Extensions Site Tumblr Safari Extensions.org Bandwidth Throttling - how to do it and why you should care. SNMP Status Bandwidth throttling in OS X on Mac OS X Hints Apple's Magic Trackpad - thoughts and experiences. Apple Magic Trackpad The Need for Higher End Macs - The group discusses how the newest Mac Pro desktops do and don't meet the needs of the highest-level Mac users, and why Apple's support of this market segment are important Picks - the crew choose some of their favorite hardware and software. Katie - Hulu + John - Namebench Victor - Zoom H4n Portable Digital Recorder Tim - Turbo.264 HD Software Chuck - MailPlane