Podcast - Mac Geek Gab #174: Wireless Router Options, Backups, Listener Tips, and New Mac Setup
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You ask, John and Dave answer! This episode includes a discussion about setting up a new Mac, answers about which wireless router is best, options for backing up and migrating iApp data, and listener tips about DNS, selling your Mac, Remote pairing, and more. Subscribe for free today!
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- PhotoPlus Expo
- Wi-Fire
- Eye-Fi
- Skyhook Wireless
- Leica
- Calibrating your computer's battery for best performance
- Data Robotics, Inc.
- Sparse image
- SuperDuper!
- Can't Touch This
- Crucial
- OWC
- Tom's Hardware
- AppleJack
- Onyx
- Cocktail
- Resolve startup issues and perform disk maintenance with Disk Utility and fsck
- AirPort Extreme
- Want A Decent 802.11g Access Point? Try The WRT54G!
- dd-wrt
- 1Password
- ad:tech
- OpenDNS
- Bob "Dr. Mac" LeVitus
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This podcast is recorded on an iMac (Core 2 Duo Mid 2007) using Audio Hijack Pro and routing courtesy of WireTap Anywhere. 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. When PilotPete is in the house, he's usually talking through a Heil PR-30. 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.
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Observer Comments
Wed Oct 29, 2008 12:39 am Subject: Want a better 802.11 router?
I had the WRT54GS for a couple years. I kept having dropout issues with it -- not a big problem for web browsing or downloading email, but terminal (if you'll pardon the pun) for SSH sessions.
I traded it out for a D-Link DIR-655 N-router, and the performance improved on my G-devices, and I quit having dropouts! Plus, the facilities on it are much more professional and robust than the simplistic LinkSys setup.
And it works great with my Mac! Setup is all browser-based, and is a real snap.
BTW, thanks for another great episode! Keep 'em coming!
One small comment regarding 1Password you have been raving about several times now: isn't it true that it doesn't make sense to use 1Password unless you actually using only Macs? I imagine generating a strong password for some web account and then trying to log into that account using my Linux machine (just to avoid any Windows bashing of course 
). I would not have 1Password on that machine as it is not available cross-platform and there is no way to comfortably look up and/or enter that password. I would be basically locked out, isn't that true?
Thanks for the good show! I enjoy it very much!
Good summary on battery calibration. I would only add that a handy utility for helping with this is Coconut Battery @ http://www.coconut-flavour.com/coconutbattery/
Displays current battery specs and keeps a log of your calibration routines.
Great show guys!
- Alan
North Carolina
Quotebnz wrote:
One small comment regarding 1Password you have been raving about several times now: isn't it true that it doesn't make sense to use 1Password unless you actually using only Macs?
The 1password guys did have a web-based service that you could sync with called my1password, but they are phasing it out. However, they promise to replace it with some sort of method, cross-platform, that would allow you to access your passwords from something like a USB key or a service like DropBox.
See http://support.agilewebsolutions.com/showthread.php?t=12325
However, if you are looking to generate passwords in Linux as well, then I'd agree - 1password is probably not going to cut it.
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