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MGG 207: Automounting, Default App Launching, Repartitioning, and Cable Modem Signal Strength
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John and Dave are back in the TMO Towers East this week answering listener questions, sharing tips, and more. Topics include automounting disks, setting default apps for documents, starting to program on the Mac, repartitioning and more. One item of note is a discussion about cable modems, their signal strengths, and how you can check and improve yours. Subscribe now (for free!) and don't miss another episode.
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Show Notes and Items Mentioned:
Note: Shownotes are complete!
Stuff mentioned:
- Web bug
- RCDefaultApp
- OnyX
- Masters of the Void
- Mac Developer Program Memberships
- Carbon Copy Cloner
- iPartition
- Drive Genius 2
- Convoy (song)
- chmod
- rm
- lsof
- kill
- DOCSIS
- DocsDiag - DOCSIS cable modem diagnostics
- 192.168.100.1 (common cable modem IP)
- dBmV
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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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