Show notes for TMO To Go: Mac Geek Gab For August 8th, 2005
Podcast Link: TMO To Go: Mac Geek Gab, August 8th, 2005
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John gets back from vacation and tells us all about his experiences figuring out the wireless base station and SMTP server at the vacation house — this chat includes lots of great tidbits for anyone ever traveling with a computer, including a few ways of finding your local mail server. Additionally, Dave and John respond to reader comments from last week’s show, and Dave has a few pleas for YOU geeks relating to both an overactive ATSServer process and e-mail on cell phone/PDAs!
Stuff mentioned:
- Nantucket – Even though John didn’t cut a deal with the chamber of commerce.
- MacFixIt
- Systat – Multi-use widget which can (among other things) show you your IP
- WhatIsMyIP.com
- Accident Hash – Great podcast featuring indie-music
- Daily Source Code – Adam Curry’s podcast about… podcasting!
- TiVo Desktop – Reports coming in that TiVo Desktop 1.9.1 now works in Tiger with the 10.4.2 update
- Carbon Copy Cloner – This, too, now works with Tiger with the 10.4.2 update
- Skype
- Mac OS X Hints
- Blackberry
- Siemens SX66
- Palm Treo 650
- Gmail
- iPodObserver
Courtesy of Neal Parikh, to change the file format of the screen capture images, type:
defaults write com.apple.screencapture type _image-format_
where _image-format_ is jpg, tiff, png, pdf, and maybe more!
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