MGG 225: Mail Fixes, Open With, Batteries, Renaming and Mac Tips

November 2nd, 2009 at 10:11 PM - Podcasts by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

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The mailbags were full this week, folks, and John and Dave do their best to tackle everything that came in. Voicemail, email, and Twitter messages lead your favorite geeks through fixing Mail.app sounds, opening files with different apps, sleep and battery advice, what locum is, and more Mac and iPhone Tips than you can shake a stick at! Subscribe today, it's free!

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Show Notes and Items Mentioned:

Note: Shownotes are complete!

Stuff mentioned:

• Find Any File
• FoxTrot
• iTunes Features (Managing | Set Media Kind)
• juice pack - iPhone 3G & 3GS
• Richard Solo 1800 for iPhone (and iPod Touch)
• macvim
• Metadata madness
• Apple Portables: How to use your computer in closed clamshell (display closed) mode with an external display
• Battery Health Monitor
• Topic : MacBook Pro Battery 'Service Battery' after Snow Upgrade
• Default Folder
• Topic : one row of letters on keyboard not responding
• Apple Service Provider Locator
• TechRestore
• - You're downloading today's show from CacheFly's network
• BackBeat Media Podcast Network
• MacGeekGab AAC Enhanced Feed - Thanks to Michael Johnston  of iPhone Alley.

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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.

Theme Music: “The Answer”, written by Jeff Steblea and Brian Ayles, as performed by Go Figure.  “Made On A Mac” bumper by Mark Fleser