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From the show floor at Macworld Expo, Phil Gibson, the founder of Digital Media Academy, talks about the training solutions his company offers for those who want to get up and running in short order in pro-level topics like audio and video production, web design and more. Phil also explains why their partnership with the The John Lennon Educational Tour Busis so important to them, and how it fits with their model of partnering with universities to deliver their services.

Taped live in the PodLoft at Macworld Expo, the panel of Bryan Chaffin, Tonya Engst, Andy Ihnatko and Bob "Dr. Mac" LeVitus join Chuck Joiner to discuss this year's show, what might happen at next year's show and what it has to do with the Great London Fire, deliver some show picks, and comment on the nomination of Andy for NASA Administrator.

In their first live appearance as a group, members of The Mac Roundtable took the Macworld Learning Center Stage at Macworld Expo to discuss Phil Shiller's keynote, the future of Macworld Expo, some of their product picks from the show, and more. Participating members included (in order of appearance) Allison Sheridan, Adam Christianson, John Chambers, Victor Cajiao, Katie Floyd, Chuck Joiner, David Sparks and Don McAllister.

With storage prices dropping, RAID solutions are becoming more affordable...but not always easy to administer. CalDigit's Jonathan Schilling explains how their new CalDigit VR not only offers an effective RAID solution, but boasts a graphical user interface that anyone can understand. Configurable from the front panel, the unit includes hot swappable drives and quadruple connectivity options.

With some of the new features in iPhoto '09, geotagging photos is suddenly a hot topic. Pierre Bernhard of Houdah Software talks about how their HoudahGeo product takes the pain out of the process by working with your iPhoto library and many GPS track loggers to easily match up images with longitude and latitude information. Pierre demonstrates how to geotag hundreds of photos with just a drag and a couple clicks.

Not exhibiting at Macworld Expo this year didn't stop Paul Kafasis and the team from Rogue Amoeba from releasing new products. We caught up with Paul wandering the show floor to talk about Pulsar, the app that brings satellite radio to your Mac, and Radioshift Touch, their first iPhone/iPod Touch App that lets you leverage recordings made with their desktop Radioshift product.

From the PodLoft of the Macworld booth at Macworld Expo, Joe Klein of NewMediaCreative provides his perspective on the rise of New Media and social networking. Joe talks about coming off the sidelines and getting back in the game, lured by the many new opportunities for interaction with audiences of all types, makes the case for "blogcasting," and profiles his new company.

From the equinux booth on the show floor at Macworld Expo, Christian Rueb talks about their new iPhone apps that support iSale, The Tube and the TubeStick, as well as SongGenie, their brand new utility to help you clean up your music library tags and make the Genius feature of iTunes more effective.

While walking the show floor at Macworld Expo, we ran into Michael Butler of The Rock and Roll Geek Show, and chatted with him about some of his most recent interviews, his new cooking segments, and his position at Mevio, where he controls the music programming.

From their booth at Macworld Expo, Kelly Thompson, the Chief Operating Officer of iStockphoto, talks about their extensive collection of stock photos and illustrations, explains why they added video to their service, and their soon-to-be latest enhancement, stock audio. Kelly also reveals a new project, codenamed Dexter, and talks about why it is Mac-only (for now).

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.