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Podcast - Mac Geek Gab #129: Fixing Open With Menu, Sharing Calendars, Wirelessly Updating iPod touch, and More
by , 9:55 PM EST, November 26th, 2007
Show notes for Mac Geek Gab Podcast For Monday, November 26th, 2007
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Dave and John hit the ground running with a reminder to check your Mac's battery -- and why. Then it's off to listener questions and tips about fixing duplicates in the Open With menu, sharing calendars, wirelessly updating the iPod touch, and more!
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Stuff mentioned:
- Macintosh Family: Batteries and Part Numbers, Part 1
- Macintosh Family: Batteries and Part Numbers, Part 2
- Spanning Sync
- Now Up to Date and Contact 5
- CalDAV
- iCal Server
- EMC Retrospect for Macintosh
- Prosoft Data Backup 3
- dyndns.org
- dynip.com
- easydns.com
- Honeypot
- portforward.com
- jailbreakme.com
- MobileCast
- WaterRoof
- Mac OS X Leopard
- This is Spinal Tap
- Up to Eleven
- Stay at Hotel Milano for Macworld Expo with TMO's Discount!
- Win a Platinum or Super Pass to Macworld Expo
- Dave's "Running Your Mac Lean, Clean, and Mean" session at MWSF08
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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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