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MGG 223: New Apple Stuff, Snow Leopard Oddities, Travel Gadgets
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Recovered (or at least recovering!) from their travels to BlogWorld Expo, John and Dave serve up a healthy dose of gab, geek-style, all the while translating into terms for everyone to understand. Topics discussed include multi-platform IM clients, Snow Leopard sleeping issues, USB hard drives, Flash malfunctioning, and two products that are sure to help the laptop-wielding traveler. This, and more, all in the episode. Subscribe today for free!
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Show Notes and Items Mentioned:
Note: Shownotes are complete!
Stuff mentioned:
- Adium
- TLS
- Fire (retired)
- Mac OS X: Why your Mac might not sleep or stay in sleep mode
- Mac OS X: Starting up in Safe Mode
- Apple Portables: Resetting the System Management Controller (SMC)
- Peripheral Vision
- Hardware Growler
- Spotlight’s Secret Search Syntax
- Knee Defender
- AVIATOR
- ARCHOS 704 WiFi
- Apple Reports Record iPhone, Mac Sale, Non-GAAP Revenue of $12.25 Billion
- iMac
- MacBook
- Sonnet's FireWire 400-to-800 adapter
- Mac mini
- Mac mini with Snow Leopard Server
- Xgrid
- Magic Mouse
- AirPort Extreme
- KÁ
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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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2 Observer Comments
I agree about loosing the “dirt-magnet janky ball”!! It was the reason I dumped the MM (gave it to a friend with cleaner hands). My Magic Mouse is in the mail. I love trackpads and always wanted one for my iMac. I hope this will be just as good.
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Hey guys, you ragged on the Magic Mouse in this episode without using it. I got the opportunity to play with one yesterday, and I gotta say, losing the scroll ball is the BEST thing that has happened to the mouse! The multi-touch? Eh, I might get used to it, I might disable it.
But losing the dirt-magnet janky ball? Genius!