Podcast - Mac Geek Gab #82: IR Remotes, Batteries, Freezing Macs, and More!

by , 10:10 PM EST, December 11th, 2006

Show notes for TMO To Go: Mac Geek Gab For December 11th, 2006

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After a week-long hiatus, Dave and John are back in full swing, answering your questions and playing your comments about remote controls, iChat nicknames, freezing Macs, and more!

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Stuff mentioned:

• Disney Cruise
• Meatspace
• Remote Buddy
• Use your Mac's remote control
• Keyspan Remotes
• iMac specs
• Apple Specifications
• Recycle Your Batteries here
• Apple and Recycling
• AirFoil
• The Princess Bride
• JetBlue
• Patron Silver
• Tortuga Rums
• Chax
• Starship Titanic
• Intel-based iMac SMC reset
• VLC Media Player
• Pure-FTPd
• PureFTPd Manager
• Pseudo
• Red Pill
• Blue Pill

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This podcast is recorded on a Mac using Audio Hijack Pro. As for equipment, John is using a Behringer C-1 microphone going through a Behringer Eurorack UB1222FX-PRO mixer, monitored with Etymotic ER-6i Isolator earphones, then straight in to his Mac. On Dave's end, a Heil PR-40 microphone is used, and the whole show is mixed "live" through a Mackie Onyx 1220 FireWire-enabled mixer before being pumped back into the Mac (via FireWire, of course), and is monitored with Ultimate Ears UE-5c earphones. Each microphone is run through a channel on a Behringer Autocom Pro-XL MDX1600 compressor, a touch of reverb is added with an ART FX-1 processor, and the whole thing is then compressed in software on the Mac. The show is recorded to AIFF, and then converted and uploaded with an Automator script. Michael, aka Computernap, then goes through and enhances the show to provide you with the AAC version. You can hear more details of the setup and how it's mixed on Episode #32.

Theme Music: "The Answer", written by Jeff Steblea and Brian Ayles, as performed by Go Figure. "Made On A Mac" bumper by Mark Fleser

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