What to do on the first day of the Macworld Expo in a hotel room? Grab a video camera and pay a surprise visit to your fellow writers
Month: January 2008
MyMac Podcast 165
Macworld Expo 2008 Day Two
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Booth recordings at EA Games, Music Wizard, Notion Music, and some Apple Trivia from the Prosoft Engineering Booth. A ton of fun, plus Larry, Guy, and Tim from the hotel room talking about some of the days activities. And what’s this about a NEW AOL Macintosh client? Really?
Links from the show
Filemaker Pro / Bento
EA
Music Wizard
Notion Music
AOL
Office 08
Prosoft Engineering
MyMac Podcast 164
Day One Macworld Expo 08
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Today’s episode include two roundtable discussions with the MyMac staff, one done right after the keynote, and one at the end of the day. Also included is an interview Nemo did with Bill Palmer from iProng.com. The booth at the Prosoft Engineering booth was rocking when the MyMac.com crew came and hosted the first of four Apple Quiz contests, and while we were there we snagged an interview with Prosoft president Greg Brewer. Also included are segments from SecureMac.com, DriverSavers.com, and RhinoSkin.com booths.
Links from the show
Prosoft Engineering
iProng.com
SecureMac.com
DriverSavers.com
RhinoSkin
MyMac Podcast 163
Listener Meetup
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The Macworld Expo proper has not even started, but the crew of MyMac.com are already well underway. This episode features our MyMac Podcast Meetup, and it was a lot of fun! The first half of the show features Publisher Tim Robertson talking about the days events, some reader feedback, and being blocked from the keynote! Then we meet some MyMac Podcast listeners at the show, as well as some returning MyMac staff and Bill Palmer from iProng.
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Links from the show
Prosoft Engineering
MyMac Podcast 162
Expo Week Kicks Off
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29 Minutes Running Time.
Tim Robertson talks about arriving in San Francisco, meeting with some of the MyMac.com staff and fans of the podcast, and the upcoming Macworld Expo in general. A solo podcast gets the week started.
Links from the show
Prosoft Engineering
MyMac Podcast Meet Up – Mac User Only
Want to hang with the crew from the MyMac.com Podcast? We are inviting any and all Macworld Expo attendees to join the MyMac crew for an get together on Monday, January 14 at 3:00 PM. Just show up outside the Moscone South building! We plan on doing a Podcast, and would love to have YOU there!
Mac users only, please!
Read MorePodcast 161
Last Show Before Macworld Expo ’08
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New Mac Pro and Xserve the week before Macworld Expo? Something big must be in the works. Staci DeGagne joins us for a quick word about the Macworld and the Girls Gone Geek Academy event on Monday the 14th from 1pm to 5pm. Plus, what does Guy, Chad, and Tim think and hope to see at the Macworld Expo.
Links from the show
Girls Gone Geek
Macworld and the Girls Gone Geek Academy
StockLayouts Graphic Design Templates
Review
I’ve been a designer/art director for over 20 years. Having worked in more then a few advertising agencies and publishing companies, I think I know my way around the design world a bit. That said I was rather surprised at the quality of the graphic design templates offered at StockLayouts.com.
Bookendz Docking Station for 13†MacBook
Review
Today’s portable Macs are as fully featured and functional as any desktop machine – in fact, parts of the Mac desktop line-up have embraced the design and implementation of the portable systems – the Mac Mini is a MacBook in a desktop case! Accordingly, many people have a MacBook or a MacBook Pro as their only Mac. Enter the Bookendz Docking Station for 13†MacBook!
Switcheasy Biscuit Case for 3G Nano
Review
Apple’s latest iPod Nano is a true thing of beauty – more so than we expected when we first saw pictures of the fat little chap. To hold one in the hand is in my mind to experience a near-perfect form factor, coupled with stylish Apple design. However, their very desirability means that we often immediately compromise the form factor by encasing it in rubber and plastic!
Hog Bay Software
Review
One of the things I rapidly grew to love about the Mac platform when I came to it from Windows was the vibrant software coding scene. Windows has a lot of shareware, but much of it is poorly written, poorly maintained and written in such a way that it all looks the same.
Image Doctor 2
Review
Adobe Photoshop is a standard for image editing. It has a lot of great tools for making a good picture great, or even a lousy picture a lot better. However, there are times when the tools in Photoshop are not enough, or are not fast enough. Image Doctor 2 by Allen Skin Software aims to help with those times when you need more than Photoshop can offer.
iMage USB Webcam
Review
I use a G4 PPC MDD 867 dual with 1.5 gigs of ram…and no iSight camera. I wanted one but figured that the price would come down fairly quick but the next thing I knew, gone! So there I’ve been, looking at the assortment of cameras that Window’s folks have but never seeing Mac compatible on the box. I know, I know, I could buy one and then purchase IOXperts Webcam Driver for Mac OS X but I thought that was just a bit much paying for a Windows webcam and then having to purchase a driver to let me use it.
Read MoreDreamweaver CS 3: The Missing Manual
Review
This book is billed as. “The book that should have been in the box.†Adobe would have needed a pretty large box to include this 995-page book that is jam packed with tips and tricks as well as over 140 pages of step-by-step tutorials.
Read MorePodcast 160
Looking back at 2007
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For the first show of 2008, David Cohen, Guy Serle, Tim Robertson, and Chad Perry look back to 2007 and the biggest Macintosh – Apple stories of the year. Do you agree? Did we miss something? Email or call our caller feedback line and let us know your opinion.
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Living through the First in the Nation primary.
I love living in NH. It’s a great state to raise a family with it’s small town atmosphere and very friendly residents. Then, every
Read MoreNeed for Speed Carbon
Game Review
A great racing game on the Macintosh? Am I dreaming? No, and thanks to EA, those with a Need, a Need For Speed, can now get it on an Intel Macintosh.
Aego-M Speaker System
Review
The Aego-M’s are marketed as an iPod speaker system, but to think of it as just that is to sell its capabilities short, in my opinion. They will well serve any audio source, be it an MP3 player, computer or a more conventional music source such as a CD player.
Flip Boom
Review
Are you looking for an inexpensive, traditional style, animation program for you? Are your kids interested in creating animated cartoons? Are you a teacher looking for a great animation program for your class? If so, Flip Boom, by Toon Boom Animation, Inc is worth looking into.
LaCie’s “little disk†pocket drive
Review
Typically, external hard disk drives are not something you simply carry with you. And Flash drives, while small in size, never have enough capacity or are fast enough for more complex jobs. LaCie has a very cool alternative to this problem….
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