Mac Roundtable 2010.12.29 Episode #95




Mac Roundtable Podcast show

Summary: 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