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Mac Geek Gab #183: Expo Attendance Tips, Wireless Safety, Disk Buffers, and a Full Desktop
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In this final show of the year before heading off to San Francisco for Macworld Expo, John and Dave start by sharing the tips that they -- and you! -- have acquired over the years attending trade shows. Listen for advice from the pros on how to survive the big week! Then it's on to questions, including topics such as wireless safety, disk buffers, large desktop folders, and more!
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Show Notes and Items Mentioned:
Note: Shownotes are complete!
- Macworld Expo 2009
- MacSparky
- iMacworld Application (for iPod Touch and iPhone)
- AirPort Express
- Macworld 2009 Exhibitor List
- USPS Hold Mail Service
- Transportation Security Administration
- The Hess Events List (best resource for knowing what's happening at Macworld!)
- Wireshark
- Matrox MXO2 and Matrox TripleHead2Go
- DisplayLink
- Extended Validation Certificate
- SMARTReporter
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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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4 Observer Comments
Hmmm…this one causes my Ipod 5g to hard reset everytime, about 4 seconds in. I’ve tried deleting and re-downloading the file. It plays fine in both Itunes and on my Iphone. What’s up with that?
Same problem as blocktek. My ipod crashes into both this podcast, #184, and #185. No other podcasts appear to have problems.
I did a full restore on the ipod and experience the same problem.
I actually saw Dave and John at MacWorld yesterday doing the podcast. In the course of the show they mentioned that there had been a problem with encoding these shows…something about mono encoding, particular to the 5g Ipod, and that it had been fixed. Haven’t tried it yet.
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In your last podcast you discussed your problem with dropouts and I thought I’d mention one of the most useful Terminal commands for troubleshooting that I know: fs_usage. By typing “sudo fs_usage” at the command line, you can see all disk activity listed by process, as it happens. You can also pair it up with grep to to see only activity of a certain task. For example, “sudo fs_usage | grep Safari” will show you only the disk activity that Safari is generating, showing both reads and writes. You might be able to use it to find out specifically what is happening when your dropouts occur.
Thanks for the show, and have fun at MacWorld!