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TMO To Go - The Mac Geek Gab Podcast - Inaugural Edition

by , 10:00 AM EDT, June 14th, 2005

Today marks the release of the inaugural edition of TMO's first foray into podcasting, TMO To Go: Mac Geek Gab.

This podcast features two long-time TMO staffers -- Dave Hamilton and John F. Braun -- talking about all things Mac. Dave is, of course, TMO's President (and you can visit his personal blog, too, to find out what else he's done), and John F. Braun is TMO's featured columnist for Monday's Mac Gadget. Being technologists (i.e. nerds!), Dave and John often have chats about technical topics, and also have a knack for translating most of that suff into language understandable by humans. Now you can listen in weekly and learn from the pros!

Mac Geek Gab will be coming to you fairly regularly (typically weekly, barring any technical or scheduling issues) and the first edition is now available for your listening pleasure.

Mac Geek Gab will be included in TMO's main RSS feed, and also in its own feed if you'd like to add it directly to your podcatching/ipodder client (soon iTunes, too).

Enjoy!

Show notes for TMO To Go: Mac Geek Gab, week of June 13th, 2005

Podcast Link: TMO To Go: Mac Geek Gab, June 13th, 2005

Today's podcast finds John and Dave talking about the benefits of defragmenting your hard drive (and the best way to do it!), a focus on Mac OS X Tiger's widgets (and how to manage them), and discussion of some great utilities for your Mac.

Products mentioned:

Drive Genius from Prosoft Engineering.

MenuMeters from Raging Menace.

Virex from Network Associates.

Widget Manager from Downtown Software House.

Little Snitch from Objective Development.

Skype from Skype Technologies S.A.

Widgets mentioned:

Sysstat
Marquee
Fontsee
TV Tracker

Theme Music: "The Answer", written by Jeff Steblea and Brian Ayles, as performed by Go Figure.

Have an idea for a future gab topic? Have a comment? or post in the comments below!

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Close Name:Ahnyer Keester Posts: 663 Joined: 25 Jun 2001
Subject: Dang, i wanted to hear what Bryan sounds like. : ) - nt

I said nt

Close Name:Dave -   TMO Staff Posts: 227 Joined: 11 Jun 2001
Subject: Bryan

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Ahnyer Keester wrote:
I wanted to hear what Bryan sounds like


Don't worry, we'll have him on a show soon enough.

Close Name:Al Swearengen Posts: 339 Joined: 10 May 2005
Subject: Can you just link to the mp3?

It would be nice to have a link to the mp3 so that I can download the podcast and import it directly without saving the QuickTime movie. I find the podcast software to be a bit clumsy.

I did enjoy the podcast and am looking forward to next week's edition.

Close Name:Dave -   TMO Staff Posts: 227 Joined: 11 Jun 2001
Subject:

Quote
Al Swearengen wrote:
It would be nice to have a link to the mp3 so that I can download the podcast and import it directly without saving the QuickTime movie. I find the podcast software to be a bit clumsy.


Actually, there is a link right in the article where it says "Podcast link". Perhaps we should highlight that better in the future?

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I did enjoy the podcast and am looking forward to next week's edition.


Glad to hear it. We're looking forward to producing it!

-Dave

Close Name:Al Swearengen Posts: 339 Joined: 10 May 2005
Subject: Links and iTunes

Got it!

Ummm, I am a member of the "Computing with bifocals" club, I was recruited by Nancy, and didn't see the link.

Are you going to be on the upcoming iTunes Music Store podcast directory?

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Dave wrote:
Quote
Al Swearengen wrote:
It would be nice to have a link to the mp3 so that I can download the podcast and import it directly without saving the QuickTime movie. I find the podcast software to be a bit clumsy.


Actually, there is a link right in the article where it says "Podcast link". Perhaps we should highlight that better in the future?

Quote
I did enjoy the podcast and am looking forward to next week's edition.


Glad to hear it. We're looking forward to producing it!

-Dave

Close Name:Guest
Subject: good and bad

Good info but man could these guys sound any LESS enthusiastic. Sounds like they both recorded it minutes after waking up in the morning.

Close Name:Al Swearengen Posts: 339 Joined: 10 May 2005
Subject: I liked that they didn't sound like

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Guest wrote:
Good info but man could these guys sound any LESS enthusiastic. Sounds like they both recorded it minutes after waking up in the morning.


I like that they didn't sound like Gilbert Godfrey, over enthusiastic sports casters, or that guy from the OxyClean commercials. Dave and John have an easy on the ear voice that kept me listening.

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