Show notes for TMO To Go: Mac Geek Gab, week of June 27th, 2005 Podcast Link: TMO To Go: Mac Geek Gab, June 27th, 2005 This week, John F. Braun and Dave Hamilton have each had a crazy week, but come together anyway to talk about wireless/airport connections, focusing on base stations, options available, and…
Dave Hamilton
Dave Hamilton co-founded both The Mac Observer and <a href="https://www.backbeatmedia.com" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank">BackBeat Media</a>, and he is producer and co-host of the <a href="https://www.macgeekgab.com" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank">Mac Geek Gab Podcast</a>. He has worked in the computer industry since the early 1990s, doing time as a consultant, trainer, network engineer, webmaster, and programmer. He has worked on the Mac, all the various Windows flavors, BeOS, a few brands of Unix, and it is rumored he once saw an OS/2 machine in action. Before that he ran some of the earliest Bulletin Board Systems, but most of the charges have since been dropped, and not even the FBI requests that he check in more than twice a year. Dave's reachable for paid consulting at <a href="https://www.davethenerd.com" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">DaveTheNerd.com</a> and you can find links to him on Twitter, Facebook, and Google+ here, too.
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TMO To Go Podcast - Mac Geek Gab: All About Podcatching
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Mailsmith 2, A Light, Fast E-Mail Client
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The Low Down On Ethernet And Data Recovery February 11th, 2000 Good day, my friends! Today we explore and explain the mysteries behind Ethernet, cross-over cables and hubs. Then we talk about options for disk recovery software and finish up with a little correction from last time! There’s lots of good stuff here today, folks,…
Ask Dave - Dave Shares Some Of His Techiques For Finding Answers!
Dave Shares Some Of His Techiques For Finding Answers! February 4th, 2000 Greetings, folks. Today we’re going to focus on finding software on the Web. I get many questions like the following each week, and figured it was time to address a few of them together, showing you where I get *my* answers from! As…
Ask Dave - SCSI-USB Conversion, Upgrade Advice, & AGP Voodoo3 Cards
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Ask Dave - Remote Control Another Mac for FREE & Help with Disk Images
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Ask Dave - Remote Control Another Mac for FREE & Help with Disk Images
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Ask Dave - MIMEs, USB Cameras, & Controlling Someone Else's Mac
MIMEs, USB Cameras, & Controlling Someone Else’s Mac December 31st, 1999 Greetings everyone, and happy Y2K. Perhaps, by the time you read this, the witching hour will have passed and all non-MacOS machines out there will die miserable deaths. Or, of course, everything will go smoothly and even those Windows machines that fail every Y2K…
