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Podcast - Mac Geek Gab #101: Printing, Prefs, Routers, and Rips (and Surround Sound!)
by , 10:05 PM EDT, April 30th, 2007
Show notes for TMO To Go: Mac Geek Gab For Monday, April 30, 2007
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Lots of listener feedback answered after the week off, including Printing Defaults, Surround Sound, Ripping DVDs, and mail servers. Don't miss it!
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Stuff mentioned:
- Huey Lewis and The News
- Saving a group of print options as a preset
- Rogue Amoeba SoundSource
- Surround sound
- Griffin FireWave
- Logitech Z-5500
- Creative DDTS-100
- Sound Blaster Live! 24-Bit External (PC only?)
- BookEndz Docking Station for 15" MacBook Pro
- Handbrake
- ffmpegX
- MPEG Streamclip (convert VOB and other video files)
- Battery Update 1.2
- XBattery
- coconutBattery
- TSA
- NRA
- iPhoneAlley
- Postfix Enabler
- Zamzar file conversion website
- CleanDesk
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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-7 Ambient 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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Observer Comments
Mon May 07, 2007 11:41 pm Subject: Option shortcuts to prefs
The shortcuts are option+ feature, where 'feature' is volume (up, down or mute) or brightness. On a laptop, you press the function key labeled with that function (F1 through F5), and on a desktop (or keyboard attached to a laptop), you press option + the dedicated sound keys for sound preferences. For display preferences, press option + F14 or option + F15 (same as brightness keys on a laptop - not sure why these aren't labeled with the brightness icons).
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