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Podcast - Mac Geek Gab #146: SXSW Recap, Menu Bar Management, AppleCare, and More

by , 10:45 PM EDT, March 24th, 2008

Show notes for Mac Geek Gab Podcast For March 24, 2008

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John's back from France, Dave's back from South by Southwest, and they've got plenty to talk about from that. Plus, they're back to answering your questions and sharing your tips, with topics including menu bar management, AppleCare, Time Capsule support, and more. Action packed and ready to rock, Dave and John are back at their best.

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This podcast is recorded on a Mac using Audio Hijack Pro. As for equipment, John is using a Heil PR-40 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 also 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 Westone ES2 custom-fit 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 Johnston from iPhone Alley 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:mgibeault Posts: 2 Joined: 27 Mar 2008
Thu Mar 27, 2008 8:16 pm Subject: Keyboards

John was surprised to see a different keyboard in France. He would be puzzled trying to to type on a Cyrillic keyboard in Russia!?
France has AZERTY keyboards, here in Canada we have a few standard types; Canadian, Canadian-CSA, and French-Canadian. Canadian is meant for English-speaking people who will have to write a few French words from time to time and French-Canadian is meant for French-speaking people with readily-accessible special characters.
And I'd like to address some kudos to Apple to have all their hardware and software available to us French-Canadian at about the same time as the rest of (English-speaking) America.
We use a lot of Apple keyboards even on our windows machines; great quality, great style and available in French-Canadian!
Great show by the way
-Marc


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Close Name:houltmac Posts: 264 Joined: 12 Apr 2007
Fri Mar 28, 2008 2:28 am Subject:

Apple ship Macs with many standard keyboard layouts including:

US, Arabic, British, Bulgarian, Canadian, Croatian, Czech, German, Danish, Spanish, French, Flemish, Greek, Norwegian, Israeli, Icelandic, Japanese, Korean, Hungarian, Dutch, International English, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Swedish, Swiss French, Slovak, Italian, Tawainese, Thai, Turkey-Q, and Turkish.

This is not a complete list, but still, pretty interesting. Some only have very subtle differences, but it can really screw you up.


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