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Podcast - Mac Geek Gab #152: Have I Been Hacked?

by , 10:25 PM EDT, May 12th, 2008

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Show notes for Mac Geek Gab Podcast For May 12, 2008

Listeners wonder if their Macs have been hacked, and Dave and John talk through the symptoms. After that, it's off to the mailbag which is chock full of tips and questions this week you won't want to miss! Subscribe (it's free!) today.

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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:Guest
Tue May 13, 2008 10:32 am Subject: can't download the podcast

I must be stupid but I want to directly download the your great podcast but I can't see a mp3 direct download button

Take care

Jonathan


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Close Name:Dave -   TMO Staff Posts: 227 Joined: 11 Jun 2001
Tue May 13, 2008 10:54 am Subject:

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I must be stupid but I want to directly download the your great podcast but I can't see a mp3 direct download button


Thanks for the note, Jonathan. We added the embedded player recently, but in the process removed the direct download links. Those are back now, complete with fancy new buttons.

Thanks for the reminder!


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Wed May 14, 2008 1:08 pm Subject: Yojimbo

All right guys. You made Yojimbo sound like a "can't live without." So I followed the link to the BareBones site and looked through the Yojimbo info there.

It looks like a strange replacement for everything I already do. Now I've been computing since the days of 90k 1 sided disks and long ago learned to be very careful how I "file" data.

Hierarchical directories do a great job of organizing important stuff and have the advantage of being easy to migrate and backup. It is no big deal to use Disk Utility to encrypt a dmg copy of a directory (no big deal, unless you forget your password).

There's lots of "stuff" going on in Yojimbo, and you give it glowing reviews, so I must be missing something. But in the absence of more input from you, to me it looks like just something else overlaid on my Mac. For example, when I have a project, I just create a folder for it, then add the related files to that folder. Sometimes I'll need sub-folders, usually not. Then the whole project can be copied right onto a USB flash drive and carried around if I don't want to carry my laptop. Or encrypted into a DMG. Why, then, Yojimbo????

Tell us more!


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