Episode #006

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

Macworld Expo Predictions: Week 3
Our final round of predictions for products Steve Jobs will announce at January’s Macworld Expo.

News:
> Parallels Beta 3 released.
> VMware Fusion Public Beta now available. Does anyone care?
> New security updates from Apple and Microsoft
> Apple][Go – Virtualize your old Apple II on the Mac. Super cool!

HOW-TO:
We continue our answer to Angela and Jason. This week: Choose the right Mac desktop. We compare and contrast Apple’s current line up.
Mac mini
$999 iMac
iMac
Mac Pro

Also a bit of advice to Bekki on purchasing a Macbook Pro vs. Macbook / iMac combo.

PROGRAMMING NOTE:
Looking for your input on next week’s show. Should we do our regular show on Monday and cover Macworld Expo the following week or should I do a special Macworld episode Tuesday night or Wednesday? Call me or drop me an e-mail to share your thoughts!

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MEO-006-010107 (41’05, 18.9mb, 64kbps)

Episode #005

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

Macworld Expo Predictions: Week 2
Second in a series of my predictions for products Steve Jobs will announce at January’s Macworld Expo.

…more next episiode.

News:
Photoshop CS3 Beta Released

Video Preview at Macworld.com

Bootcamp Video Drivers Fail on 24″ iMac
notMac Challenge. Can you do it?
David Pogue Skewers Windows Vista (sent in by Rob) [NYT Link] / [YouTube]
iPhone To Be Announced December 18th?

UPDATE: Blah, nothing to see.

HOW-TO:
Choose the right Mac notebook. We compare and contrast Apple’s current line up.
MacBook
MacBook Black
MacBook Pro 15″
MacBook Pro 17″

PROGRAMMING NOTE:
Unless something major comes up, there will be no episode next Monday, December 25th. I’m taking the week off to spend time with the family for the holidays. Happy Holidays everyone!

Our next episode will be Monday, January 1st, 2007.

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MEO-005-121806 (38’20, 17.6mb, 64kbps)

Episode #004

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

Macworld Expo Predictions: Week 1
First of a series of predictions of products Steve Jobs will announce at January’s Macworld Expo.

…more next week.

News:
FTPd buffer overflow: How are you affected?
Windows Office 2007 Doesn’t Play Nice? So what’s new?
Christmas Decorations Flummox WiFi
New Beta of Parallels Desktop for Mac:

• Features
• Video of coherence mode

HOW-TO:
Use Mozilla Thunderbird to mail photos from iPhoto. It’s a kludge, but it works.

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MEO-004-121106 (30’05, 13.9mb, 64kbps)

Episode #003

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

Essential Mac Apps:
The top 10 most essential apps that should be loaded on every new Mac:
1) SuperDuper
2) An Office Suite

Microsoft Office (standard / student)
NeoOffice

3) Mozilla Firefox
4) Adium
5) Cyberduck
6) Chicken of the VNC
7) Skype
8) Growl
9) Flip4Mac
10) A Different Mail Client

Mozilla Thunderbird

Runners Up: HamachiX, Senuti, Klondike Forever, Quinn

Pimp My Safari

News:
DMG Security Flaw Update – Turns out it’s not so much?
Apple Security Update 2006-007 (intel / PowerPC)
Kevin Smith Talks Too Much
Mac App a Day
Three New Get a Mac Ads
Toontown for the Mac!
2100 year old computer

HOW-TO:
Create a Zip file in OS X
BetterZip

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MEO_003_120406 (46’20, 21.3mb, 64kbps)

Episode #002

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

Dead Apps:
For Mac Eyes Only mourns the loss of the following apps. Cause of death? Apathy:
Hamachi for the Mac (use HamachiX for a Mac GUI)
Juice Receiver
Transistr
OpenOffice for the Mac (use NeoOffice for a version with proper Aqua interface)

News:
2nd Gen iPod shuffle going fast!
(In the time I recorded and posted the new show, the iPod Shuffle sold out at Amazon.com! Incredible…)
OS X flaw in Apple Disk Image Controller
iAdware
MacTalk Magazine

HOW-TO:
Duplicate a Data CD in OS X.

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MEO_002_20061127 (27’44, 12.7mb, 64kbps)

Episode #001

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

News:
iPhone really coming this time? Forbes says so.
Zune and iPod support for podcasting. What’s real and what’s not.

HOW-TO:
Pick the right MP3 player — with an iPod slant, ‘natch!

iPod Nano
iPod Video 5.5 gen

Get your Right Mouse button back.

Sorry about the “clipping” folks. I accidentally over-drove the mic and didn’t realize until the recording was done. Hope the higher bit rate makes up for it a smidge….

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MEO_001_20061120 (29’33, 27.08mb, 128kbps)

Episode #000

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

Background:
Who am I and what’s this show all about?
My history with Apple and the Mac.

MacCast (http://www.maccast.com)
MacBreak Weekly (http://www.twit.tv/mbw)
Mac Pro Podcast (http://www.macpropodcast.com/)
Mac Roundtable (http://macroundtable.com/)
Apple II (http://apple2history.org/)
Sinclair ZX80 / ZX81 / Spectrum (http://www.nvg.ntnu.no/sinclair/computers/computers.htm)
Apple Lisa (http://oldcomputers.net/lisa.html)
NeXT Cube (http://www.lowendmac.com/next/cube.html)
Commodore 64 (http://www.commodore.ca/products/c64/commodore_64.htm)

HOW-TO:
Load Windows 98 in Parallels

Parallels (buy at Amazon / home page)
Windows 98 Book Disk (bootdisk.com)
wdm_a394.exe AC97 Sound Driver (Google Search)
Clam AV (http://www.clamav.net/)
AVG AntiVirus (http://www.grisoft.com/)

Featured Application:
Adium (http://www.adiumx.com)

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MEO_000_20061113 (51:42 23.7mb 64kbps)