MGG 348: Mail, Time Machine, iTunes Match & More

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Show Notes and Items Mentioned:

Note: Shownotes are complete!

Stuff mentioned:

• Outgoing Server List Settings
• Mac OS X: About Show Info, Get Info, and the Inspector
• Modal window
• Mission Control
• iTunes Match to use Gracenote MusicID technology
• Gracenote MusicID
• Shazam
• Intel-based Macs: Resetting the System Management Controller (SMC)
• Resetting your Mac’s PRAM and NVRAM
• iStumbler 99
• KisMAC
• AirRadar 2
• Moving a Time Machine Backup to a Time Capsule
• The fastest way to back up with Time Machine
• Time Machine Design Decisions
• Fix Time Machine Sparsebundle Network Backup Errors
• Onyx
• ClickToPlugin & ClickToFlash Safari extensions
• Teleport
• - You’re downloading today’s show from CacheFly’s network
• BackBeat Media Podcast Network
• MacGeekGab AAC Enhanced Feed - Thanks to Michael Johnston of We Have Communicators (formerly the iPhoneAlley podcast).

Questions Answered in this Episode

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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