Episode #016

A weekly podcast for the Mac community offering different perspectives on current Mac news and events.

This week on For Mac Eyes Only we discuss rumors leading up to NAB, hot news for Pro Mac users, faux iPhones, and one more way to replace .Mac.

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News:
> Adobe announces launch date for CS3
> RUMOR: Leopard launching same day as CS3?
> Apple special event at NAB
> RUMOR: Final Cut Pro 6 at NAB?
> iPhone on a PocketPC?
> JaJah to support iPhone
> Online Photoshop within 6 months
> VMware Fusion runs 3D!
> Parallels Desktop updated
> Apple TV on Display yet?
> Create your own Apple rumor

HOW-TO:
Replace .Mac one piece at a time: iCal Calendar Sharing

Links to Know:
What Is In The Box? (video)
Google’s Picasa
Picnik
Box.net

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MEO-016-030507 (25’53, 11.9mb, 64kbps)

Episode #015

A weekly podcast for the Mac community offering different perspectives on current Mac news and events.

This week on For Mac Eyes Only we discuss iTunes gift cards, Macs on campus, a slew of updates coming soon and wireless encryption on your AirPort Extreme router.

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News:
> New iPhone commercial
> Apple TV display in the Apple Stores (UPDATE!)
> New seminar from Apple for lucky new Mac users
> EMI backs out of free and clear MP3 offer
> Wilkes University goes Mac
> Ballmer blames pirates for crappy Windows Vista sales
> Fire calls it quits. Check out Adium instead.
> RUMOR: Final Cut Pro, Adobe Photoshop CS3 AND new Macs coming soon?
> Apple.com is 20 and Jobs turns 52.
> Out of the Gene Pool shops for a Mac (Series begins here).
> Are we a cult? Yes… the Cult of Mac.
> macCompanion’s I Love My Mac campaign! Winners to be announced on Mac ReviewCast

HOW-TO:
Enable WPA encryption on your new AirPort Extreme router.

Links to Know:
Apple Support: enabling WPA on the AirPort Extreme
Gibson Research’s Perfect Password Generator

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Episode #014

A weekly podcast for the Mac community offering different perspectives on current Mac news and events.

This week on For Mac Eyes Only we rip on a non-responsive shareware developer, give our thoughts on some of the top headlines this week and talk about conditioning your Mac portable’s battery as well as how to share your contact information.

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News:
> Rumor: More to the DRM dustup than we thought?
> Apple seeks more game developers
> Security issue on the new AirPort Extreme?
> Shop for Macs in Second Life … well, we can pretend. (SLURL)
> Microsoft Updates Office 2004
> Parallels puts out RC3 of Parallels Desktop
> Apple releases slew of updates
> Gates vs Jobs in iWorld

Promo: macCompanion’s I Love My Mac campaign!

Reader Mail: from Michael B.

HOW-TO:
Condition your Mac’s battery
> PowerBook or iBook (Apple KB)
> MacBook Pro or MacBook (Apple KB)

HOW-TO:
Share your contact information with Address Book

Links to Know from the Show:
Titanium Software’s OnyX
Apple’s Pippen
Second Life Notes Podcast
Tim Verpoorten’s Mac ReviewCast

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MEO-014-021907 (25’31, 11.7mb, 64kbps)

Episode #013

A weekly podcast for the Mac community offering different perspectives on current Mac news and events.

This week on For Mac Eyes Only we speculate on the lull before the eruption, opine on some of the top headlines this week and give hints for bringing your MacBook Pro’s wireless back to life.

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News:
> Rumor: AppleTV delayed until March?
> Senator tries to save iPod users from themselves
> Steve Jobs challenges the Music Industry
> Apple legal screws up another good thing
> Rumor: Apple to replace all iPod drives with flash?
> Rumor: CompUSA knows something we don’t know?
> Apple Stores prep for Vista Questions
> Turn on the floor lights, Disco hits 1.0
> Lava (brand) Lamp for your Mac (Marc’s Blog)

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HOW-TO:
A FIX for the AirPort Extreme Update 2007-001 for MacBook Pro owners.

Links to Know:
Performing an Archive and Install
MacFixIt’s Guide to restoring your wireless connection
OS X for Intel 10.4.8 Update
Pacifist 2.0.1

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MEO-013-021207 (33’28, 15.4mb, 64kbps)

Episode #012

A weekly podcast for the Mac community offering different perspectives on current Mac news and events.

This week on For Mac Eyes Only I rant about the inferiority complex Windows Wackys seem to have and I rag on Vista… but just a little bit. Honest!

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News:
> SuperBowl not so super for Apple fans
> Apple Inc and Apple Corps agreement
> Apple ships AirPort Extreme and 802.11n enabler
> Apple releases 5 new colors for iPod Shuffle
> Adium 1.0 and Skype 2.5 ship
> Microsoft breaks iTunes, Apple fixes it.
> Buy something special for that special someTHING(?) in your life

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HOW-TO:
Brian asks, “Will Leopard run on my Mac?”

Other Cool Things I Mentioned:
Scrivener – A Project Management Tool for Writers
Getting Things Done

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MEO-012-020507 (28’08, 12.9mb, 64kbps)

Episode #011

A weekly podcast for the Mac community offering different perspectives on current Mac news and events.

This week on For Mac Eyes Only I discuss the merits of Mac v. PC and point out some of the hidden costs of the Windows platform.

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News:
> Rumor: Apple to hold a Special Event on February 20th?
> Apple updates the Xserve RAID
> Two updates from Apple this week
> Rumor: Apple will charge for Boot Camp?
> Norway, Holland, Germany and France give Apple grief…

January 29, 2007 – PRESS RELEASE: Podcaster declares it illegal to add DRM to his shows. The ESC!Cast Network fights back and forms the E.N.A.A.! It is an infringement of our copyrighted works to modify any show found on the ESC!Cast Network by adding DRM of any kind without express written permission. Got that you Zune Goons?

> Joy of Tech shows just how confusing the Windows Vista market is. (read)
and, while you’re at it, don’t miss User Friendly!

HOW-TO:
Restore the album art on your iPod.

Fellow Podcasters and Bloggers Mentioned This Episode:
MacBreak
The Mac Lawyer

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MEO-011-012907 (26’01, 12mb, 64kbps)

Episode #010

A weekly podcast for the Mac community offering different perspectives on current Mac news and events.

This week I eat my own dog food and share my personal experiences with Apple Care and the Genius Bar at the North Michigan Ave Apple Store in Chicago.

News:
> Light the Torches! A charge for the 802.11n Enabler?
> Rumor: Apple to license FairPlay
> Rumor: MacBook Pros will switch to LED Backlights
> Rumor: Beatles on iTunes?

SuperBowl 2007: Could it be another 1984?

> Three new Get a Mac Ads
> Mac Pro Sales Slowdown
> True cost of iPhone — or a whole lot of something over nothing?
> 45 iPod Cases

HOW-TO:
Replace .Mac one piece at a time
This week: What to Back Up?

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MEO-010-012207 (39’31, 18.2mb, 64kbps)

Episode #009

A weekly podcast for the Mac community offering different perspectives on current Mac news and events.

News:
> iPhone to be a “closed platform“
> Cisco Sues Apple – “Apple iPhone”?
> It’s “iPhone Gate“!
> David Pogue’s iPhone FAQ
> Microsoft Office Security Update
> Parallels Desktop for Mac RC1 is released
> Feeling comical? Comic Life 1.3 released
> Intel-only Adobe Premiere?
> iTunes Store wipes more blood from its jaws
> Wartoddling!

HOW-TO:
Replace .Mac one piece at a time
This week: Online Storage

Automator Script for Friendlier Webdav Uploads (link)

HOW-TO: Take Screenshots on the Mac

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MEO-009-011507 (29’25, 13.5mb, 64kbps)

Episode #008

This year’s Macworld Expo keynote by Steve Jobs was notable as much for what was not announced as for what was.

In this episode of For Mac Eyes Only we take a first look at the two products Jobs touted in his two hour presentation including the new Apple TV and the iPhone.

I guess for those who live in caves this will be news — though you probably don’t listen to podcasts anyway — but I’m going in to this assuming you know already what’s been announced and I will stick with giving my opinions on the new products rather than delving too deeply into the specs.

So there ya have it, when Apple announced the dropping of the word “computer” from their corporate name today, it seems to have underscored that this Macworld was about everything but … Macs.

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MEO-008-010907 (25’43, 11.9mb, 64kbps)

Episode #007

We’ll postpone our regular episode of For Mac Eyes Only until after Steve Job’s keynote speech at Macworld Expo in San Francisco tomorrow.

The rumors ARE flying like Frisbees however, and everyone seems to be betting on one thing: the “iPhone”

I’m getting a little nervous about my prediction that the “iPhone” won’t appear until at least April — if ever — but I’ll stand by my word, and all my other predictions as well.

So I thought I’d take a moment and type up a quick recap of the For Mac Eyes Only predictions from the past few weeks:

FMEO Predictions Round 1: (December 11, 2006)
Apple will buy Parallels and incorporate its functionality into Leopard.
I realize I was climbing out onto a rather precipitous limb here, but after making this prediction, Parallels made a number of changes that seem to support my reasoning behind this. They included support for running off of your Boot Camp partition, they added the ability to “dock” your Windows applications and the drag and drop between OS X and Windows is now seamless. All it takes now is a little more tweaking to smoothen out some of the quirkier quirks and Apple’s blessing and we’ve got a winner on our hands.

FMEO Predictions Round 2: (December 18, 2006)
8-Way Mac Pro.
Since making this prediction, I’ve seen it pop up on a number of other sites as well. Why not? It’s been shown before that the new quad-core chips are drop in replacements for the current dual-core Xeons being used now. My fear is that Apple will only put ONE proccy in the lowest end Mac Pros and if you want and Octo-Mac, you’ll have to dump upwards of 3 – 4K to get it.

Consumer Cinema Display.
At $699 and up, the Cinema Displays have always been targeted at the “pro” user. It does not make sense to me that Apple would sell a headless Mac mini, but offer no option for the buyer to get a reasonably priced display to go along with it? Does it make sense to ask the buyer of a $599 Macintosh to pay $699 for the display on top of that (as well as a keyboard and mouse)?

Rumors of other display sizes have popped up, but the majority of folks seem to think a built in iSight is what we’ll see introduced on any new line of Cinema Displays. Err, yeah, I missed that prediction … dang!

No iPhone.
My thinking is that because of the level of involvement needed from others in the industry (cell phone carriers namely), it would be extremely difficult to keep something like this under wraps. That’s my thinking anyway.

FMEO Predictions Round 3: (January 1, 2007)
iTV Finalized, Named and Delivered.
There are too many companies jumping on the bandwagon since Apple announced their intent to produce the “iTV” for Apple to ignore. The iTV needs to come out with a bang and what better place to do so than at Macworld Expo with the eyes of the entire world on Jobs?

Widescreen iPod.
Unlike everyone else tittering about the iPhone, I’m thinking Jobs will finally throw us a bone and release the widescreen video iPod. What better companion for the iTV than that and let’s not forget it would be Jobs’ opportunity to drive the last nails into the sarcophagus of the Zune.

iLife ’07 and iWork ’07.
These are just assumed. We’re looking for better podcasting support in Garageband, an improved iPhoto and a new spreadsheet application in iWork. If these two are NOT released, I think people we be much more surprised than if they are.

OS X Leopard.
I think that Steve Jobs wants to get the drop on Vista. Folks who’ve seen Leopard say it’s pretty stable and good to go. There are just a few key things missing and those are the things we’ve not been told about yet. Tightly wrapped under NDAs, those who DO know can’t say anything. Beating Microsoft to the punch by getting Leopard in the hands of consumers before Vista arrives on January 31st would be a big win … and Steve Jobs likes to win.

So there ya have it, a short recap of the predictions we made here at For Mac Eyes Only over the past few weeks. After the keynote tomorrow we’ll release another episode with a recap of what really went down. I did this because I thought it was important to get them all down on paper so when every one of them is proven wrong you can all laugh in my face.

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MEO-007-010807 (10’59, 5.1mb, 64kbps)