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Mac Geek Gab #194: Troubleshooting AirPort, Full Drives, Upgrades, NTFS
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John and Dave discuss solutions for listeners' AirPort problems, full hard drives, what to do when sending a laptop in for repair and more. Then they share listener tips for connecting to NTFS file systems and decompressing RAR archives. Send in your question and the geeks will likely get you an answer, perhaps even on a future show! Subscribe now and never miss another episode again. It's free!
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Show Notes and Items Mentioned:
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- Square Root Day
- Pi Day
- South by Southwest 2009
- Radius Atomic Bass
- Radius Atomic Bass for iPhone
- Apple Product Specs
- A gamer’s take on the new Mac mini
- Macintosh 128K: Technical Specifications
- Resetting AirPort Express
- AirPort Express status light (LED) behavior and meanings
- Speedtest.net Speed Test
- Discover
- Wi-Fi Protected Access
- Wireshark
- iStumbler
- The Sword of Shannara: The Shannara Series, Book 1
- Spring Cleaning 10
- Monday's Mac Gadget - Need to Free Some Disk Space? Check out Xslimmer!
- Monolingual
- OmniDiskSweeper
- Setting up firmware password protection in Mac OS X
- I'll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today
- MacBook Pro: For maximum performance, upgrade memory in matched pairs
- Matched RAM on Intel Macs
- Tom's Hardware
- My hovercraft is full of eels (in many languages)
- macfuse
- NTFS-3G
- NTFS for Mac OS X 7.0
- Zipeg
- BetterZip
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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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Hey John and Dave.
I have a question which I guess is almost the same as Deborah’s.
My iMac has a 300GB HDD and running Tiger, with only 110 GB left. A lot of space is being used up because I have a lot of high definition videos on there. My computer has been getting slower and I added another 1GB of RAM to the 2GB that was already in there, thinking it would make the computer a little bit faster. However, I am still not happy. I tried monolingual too free up some space and that worked well. Now, I have a 500GB Time Capsule which I want to back up all my data to. However, I have two issues over this. One is: Will it free up space on my iMac’s HDD. (I dont really know this because Im only 13) and my second question is: what good program to back up all my stuff to the Time Capsule.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks