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Podcast - Mac Geek Gab #134: Mail Speed-up, New Mac Tips, Delete from Smart Playlist, and More

by , 11:35 AM EST, December 31st, 2007

Show notes for Mac Geek Gab Podcast For Monday, December 31st, 2007

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Today's discussion finds John and Dave talking and sharing tips about best practices surrounding getting a new Mac, how to speed up Mail.app, a little more on sleep, plus the answer to deleting songs from within iTunes playlists! All this and more in this last episode of 2007. Subscribe, relax, and enjoy!

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Cast Away
A faster way to speed up Mail.app
Bento
Borg
DriveSavers
TechRestore
iResQ
Auto Quit Leopard Print Spools
Win Tickets to Cirque du Mac 5.0 and Party with the All-Stars
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Export iCal To Do items to OmniOutliner
Printing To Do lists in iCal
High Priority (Manage your iCal To Do items any where, any time, Tiger)
Anxiety (Lightweight To-Do Management, Leopard)
Mac OS X 10.4: About Disk Utility's secure erase options

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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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Close Name:pds6 Posts: 2 Joined: 25 Sep 2007
Mon Dec 31, 2007 6:09 pm Subject: Erasing Hard Drives

I have erased the wrong hard drive in the past.

Before erasing a hard drive, I rename the hard drive: "ERASE".

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Close Name:Dave - TMO Staff Posts: 210 Joined: 11 Jun 2001
Wed Jan 02, 2008 9:31 am Subject: Re: Erasing Hard Drives

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pds6 wrote:
I have erased the wrong hard drive in the past.

Before erasing a hard drive, I rename the hard drive: "ERASE".

That's an excellent idea!

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Close Name:doogald Posts: 7 Joined: 02 Jan 2008
Wed Jan 02, 2008 11:20 am Subject: to see today's ToDos

This is something that you can do in Mail in Leopard. Just create a smart mailbox, choose "contains todos" rather than "messages", and set it for "date due" "is today".

You cannot print from this view, however. Though I suppose that you could do a screen grab and then print that view, if you did not have all that many To Dos due today.

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Close Name:Dave - TMO Staff Posts: 210 Joined: 11 Jun 2001
Wed Jan 02, 2008 11:38 am Subject: Re: to see today's ToDos

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doogald wrote:
This is something that you can do in Mail in Leopard. Just create a smart mailbox, choose "contains todos" rather than "messages", and set it for "date due" "is today".

Whoa... total mindshift! You're right, though... and this might just be the answer!

Thanks!

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Mon Jan 07, 2008 7:13 pm Subject: iCal and Time Machine

Close Name:Peavey Posts: 2 Joined: 07 Jan 2008
Mon Jan 07, 2008 7:15 pm Subject: Time Machine and iCal

Only a few applications are actually made to be used with Time Machine. I believe only the Finder, iPhoto and Mail are made to be used with Time Machine. To use other applications, you have to navigate to the folder where that application's information is stored, i.e. the ~/Music/iTunes or ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music directories in the Finder is where you would want to go in Time Machine if there is something missing in iTunes. I'm guessing that if there is a problem in iCal that you would need to go to ~/Library/Application Support/iCal in the Finder in Time Machine and find the missing file there. But I don't really know how iCal stores one's calendar data, so anyone who knows more about iCal please feel free to correct me.

Sorry about the double post, I didn't look carefully and did not realize that I had to log in and then post.

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