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Podcast - Mac Geek Gab #135: Manual Migration, Mail To-Do Management, Time Machine Explained
by , 10:15 PM EST, January 7th, 2008
Show notes for Mac Geek Gab Podcast For January 7, 2008
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John and Dave take a tour through the Mac OS, discussing how to migrate manually, managing your To-Dos using Mail's Smart Mailboxes, changing Skype volume, and some fantastic listener feedback about how Time Machine works and what it's doing in the background. Plus, John and Dave might even share their Macworld Expo predictions! Don't miss it.
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Stuff mentioned:
- Cha-Ching
- Disable the startup chime via Unix scripts
- Mute/disable or turn down the Mac startup sound/bong/chime
- Startupsound.prefpane
- Skype beta for Mac OS X
- Audio Hijack Pro
- Bento
- Mail 2.0 Help - Creating a Smart Mailbox
- Adding Calendar Content to Your Application
- High Priority
- Anxiety
- Time Machine (via Ars Technica)
- US911: Running Your Mac Lean, Clean and Mean
- 2008 Mac Podcaster Meetup at Macworld
- Mac Mingle at Macworld 2008
- Hess Events List
- Axiotron Modbook
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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
QuoteAnonymous wrote:
Hi Dave and John,
After listening you Dave's opinion concerning ads on web pages, I was wondering how Dave handles ads from his TiVo content he's recorded?!? I'm not trying to stir anything up, however, ads and their importance vary from one's perspective.....
Excellent question. We've actually discussed this on the show before, but it bears repeating. You're not "skipping" ads with the TiVo, just fast forwarding through them. With that, the ads are actually *more* noticeable, simply because you (or at least *I*) have to focus on them intently to know when the show is back and I can hit the "Play" button again. If I see a commercial that catches my interest I'll actually rewind and watch it. As such, TV ads have been designed to ensure that their branding gets through even at this higher speed.
Web ads are actually less intrusive than the TV ads, because they don't interrupt the content. The perfect example is you reading this right now while simultaneously "paying" for the site by allowing the ads to appear on your screen.
As such, Web ads have been designed to imprint their branding even when viewed in the periphery.
We're not asking that you read and click on the ads, only that you allow them to be shown on the page as we designed. The rest is up to the effectiveness of the ad.
-Dave
QuoteDave wrote:
Web ads are actually less intrusive than the TV ads, because they don't interrupt the content.
Well, this is true when they are done properly, by a company that understands the fine balance between making money online and just plain annoying your customers. I have to say that the new look TMO website does an excellent job, and overall the Backbeat team seems to do well wherever I notice (or don't notice) their ads.
Some sites on the other hand obviously don't need BBM to help them get ads, they have loads and what's more they are poor. It's very rare I get pop-ups or pop-unders or anything now (just using the built in blocker in most modern browsers), but it's even more annoying to have huge, ugly, bright, flashing, sound emitting ads right in the middle of the content. Other annoyances include irrelevant ads and having multiple pages for a single story (unless it's more like a book as ArsTechnica like to publish).
There are ways and means of making a lot of money online through advertising, and it is certainly possible for everyone to be happy.
Thanks for the further help w/managing todos. btw, I found Bento really good. It's really the only way I've found to print the todos.
The smart mailbox in Mail solution is good, but you still can't print your todos. Chapman's advice was great, but he didn't address the fact that in Time Machine, the Mail todos are unavailable. I'm very concerned about having a back up of all my todos.
Also, Dave, now that you are using todos in Mail, I suggest you go to iCal, select print, select list and print them. You will see these impossibly long URL's that make the list unreadable. I hope Apple will fix this.
Quotehoultmac wrote:
Some sites on the other hand obviously don't need BBM to help them get ads, they have loads and what's more they are poor. It's very rare I get pop-ups or pop-unders or anything now (just using the built in blocker in most modern browsers), but it's even more annoying to have huge, ugly, bright, flashing, sound emitting ads right in the middle of the content. Other annoyances include irrelevant ads and having multiple pages for a single story (unless it's more like a book as ArsTechnica like to publish).
I couldn't agree more. The animated Flash ads are often quite annoying. It's reasonable to have a modest moving billboard or changing images, but those obnoxious dancing Flash characters telling you it's time to refinance give web ads a bad name. BTW - changes in the Fed rate have very little to do with mortgage rates.
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