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Podcast - Mac Geek Gab #156: Tips for Parallels, Time Machine, WiFi, Reinstalls and More
by , 10:30 PM EDT, June 17th, 2008
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Back from WWDC, Dave and John are in the thick of the action this week, with listener tips, questions, hints, and tricks about all things Mac. Come on in, subscribe (it's free!) and enjoy!
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Stuff mentioned:
- Mitch Albom Show - Dave was on last week
- iPhone Alley Podcast #8 - Dave joined the fun from WWDC
- Mac Roundtable Podcast #42 - Dave was on the panel reporting from WWDC. Great info from Victor on iPhone Assisted GPS
- Weber Genesis Silver A
- .Mac
- 10.5: How to delete objects from Time Machine backups
- Dropbox
- Disk Image vs. Sparse Disk Image vs. Sparse Bundle Disk Image
- iDisk Utility (Mac and Windows)
- WebDAV
- Snowball Mic
- Parallels
- Rode Podcaster
- BusySync
- The Apple Hardware Test
- mad skills
- Protocol analyzer (aka packet sniffer)
- Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
- Tobi Oetiker's MRTG - The Multi Router Traffic Grapher
- InterMapper
- New Media Expo
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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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Observer Comments
Wed Jun 25, 2008 12:29 pm Subject: Two finger tap to right click.
I just wanted to drop a line and let you know the multitouch-tap is supported back just one revision prior to the Intel Macs via software and is purportedly available when you install leopard on these machines. You had indicated the the first dual core macs, by which I assume you meant the Intel Macbooks, did not support the multi-tap feature. This is not the case, the feature is simply not enabled by default. They support two finger taps for control/click and two finger drags for scrolling. It does not seem to support the zoom or three finger drags for paging. An interesting note is the company Apple bought to acquire this technology had all of these gestures, including several we have not seen in Apple's implementations, in their own products before Apple purchased them leading me to believe you are probably correct in the assumption it is either strictly firmware or driver software to enable the extra functionality.
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