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MGG 210: iTunes, iPhoto, Printing Tips and Fixes, SSD Follow-up, and More!
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John and Dave answer your questions and share tips about iTunes libraries, iLife and iPhoto support, Resetting Mac OS X's Printing System, System Maintenance Scripts, and then a follow-up discussion of SSD drives for your Mac. John also talks about some Cool Stuff Found at a recent PepCom show. Subscribe today for free!
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Show Notes and Items Mentioned:
Note: Shownotes are complete!
Stuff mentioned:
- iLife Support 9.0.3
- Rich Text Format Directory (RTFD)
- RCDefaultApp
- Mac OS X: About the Reset Printing System feature
- CUPS
- SuperDuper!
- Want to Automatically Maintain Your Mac? Check Out Macaroni!
- Mac OS X 10.4 or later: How to change the MTU for troubleshooting purposes
- How to manually detect MTU
- Path MTU discovery
- Intel X25-M SSD: Intel Delivers One of the World's Fastest Drives (part 1)
- The SSD Anthology: Understanding SSDs and New Drives from OCZ (part 2)
- PC Perspective SSD Decoder Ring
- MCE OptiBay Hard Drive
- Toshiba Launches First 512 GB SSD
- Transcend 32GB ExpressCard SSD, MLC
- 10.5: Move swap files to another partition under 10.5
- Menu Meters
- iStat Menu
- Pepcom
- Gigabit Powerline HD Starter Kit
- XP2000 Power Pack
- Kingston SSD Drives
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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 guys,
thanks for the link. i listened to the podcast section about download speeds and you’re absolutely in the same situation i was in. that’s what lead me to start diagnosing MTU sizes. i recommend anyone experiencing network speed issues follow the steps in the article you linked to: “How to manually detect MTU”