MacVoicesTV

Roxio announced the latest update to the venerable CD/DVD authoring program, Toast, at Macworld Expo, and Patrick Nugent, Product Manager for Toast 10, describes key new features, including web video capabilities and upgraded TiVo support. Patrick also profiles the new software bundle for the Pro version that includes some best-in-class software to help you put more sophistication in your media creations.

In the IRIS booth at Macworld Conference & Expo, Jean-Marc Fontaine talks about the various scanning solutions they offer to help you manage all that paper. Mark describes the IRISPen, a handheld pen scanner, IRISScan 2, a portable document scanner, and their IRISCard business card scanner. Marc talks about how each can be used, sometimes in unusual ways, and expectations of the OCR software that comes with their products.

From the Macworld PodLoft high above the Macworld Conference & Expo show floor, Adam Engst and Jim Dalrymple join Chuck Joiner to discuss Apple's keynote announcements. In a freewheeling, out-of-control discussion (so what's new?), the panel argue about the value of geotagging in iPhoto, beat up on Pages, provide some thoughts on the updates to iLife and iWork, and why the battery is the big story in the MacBook Pro 17".

Blackmagic Design, long known for their pro video gear, is making inroads into the consumer space with Video Recorder, their solution for transferring legacy video material to your Mac. On the show floor at Macworld Expo, Dan May talks about how it delivers user-selectable degrees of quality, its flexibility and why you might need to tell your spouse about it.

From the show floor at Macworld Expo, Etymotic president Mead Killion updates us on their line of high-quality earphones, the degrees of sound isolation that can be achieved by different earphone tips, and provides some information on faithful reproduction of sound.

Now SoftwareFrom the show floor at Macworld Expo, John Wallace, the president of Now Software discusses the successor to Now Contact and Now Up-To-Date programs, Nighthawk. The path for Nighthawk has been a challenging one; John talks about some of the lessons learned, announces the February release of a public beta, and the feature set users can expect.

Right after Phil Shiller's keynote address at Macworld Conference & Expo (and after the guards ejected us from Moscone West), The MacJury convened to provide some first impressions of the announcements. Phil's delivery, updates to iLife, iWork and the new MacBook Pro 17" are discussed by the panel of Adam Christianson, Chuck La Tournous, Bob LeVitus, Terry White and host Chuck Joiner.

MacVoicesTV premiers with host Chuck Joiner providing some background on why a video show joins the ranks of The MacVoices' Group's productions, and shares a real-world experience with a bad battery.