Katie Floyd: The Maccore
Bart Busschots: International Mac Podcast
Allison Sheridan: Nosillacast
Don McAllister: Screencasts Online

In this episode the Mac Roundtable crew grilled Don about his adventures on the MacMania cruise where he was actually a guest speaker on the cruise.

MacWorld Coverage of MacMania8
Insight Cruises
Flickr Photos

Next up we discussed how disappointed we are in Apple for implementing the HDCP DRM through the Display Port - which will keep honest people from using some of their content. For more on HDCP check out webopedia.com.

Finally we had a chat about what we think will be happening on Black Friday for Apple. theblackfriday.com.

Katie Floyd: The Maccore
Bart Busschots: International Mac Podcast
Chuck Joiner: MacVoices
Tim Verpoorten: Mac Reviewcast

The MacRoundtable crew engaged in a “hit and run” discussion on a variety of topics including who’s still printing and what they’re using, if and how they’re using Time Machine, and whether Apple TV is really just a hobby or is falling too far behind. The panel also delivers some thoughts on display options, keyboard commands, and whether WalMart’s online music sales changes represent a threat to the iTunes Store.

Links:

File Magnet by Magnetism Studios

Business Card Composer from Belight Software

Snapfish

InkDaddyal

dealink

TimeMachineEditor by Time Software

Time Capsule by Apple

Apple TV by Apple

TiVo

EyeTV by Elgato

TubeStick and The Tube by equinux

Neflix Streaming Coming to the Mac on The iPodObserver

TiVo Teams with Netflix for Instant Movies on The iPodObserver

LaunchBar by Objective Development

Quicksilver by Blacktree

MX Revolution Mouse by Logitech

Mac Reviewcast

Surfbits

International Mac Podcast

NosillaCast

Typical Mac User Podcast

Bart Busschots blog

The Maccore

MacVoices

MacNotables

MacJury

Don McAllister: ScreenCastsOnline
Allison Sheridan: TheNosillaCast
David Sparks: MacSparky
Victor Cajiao: Typical Mac User

As you might expect, the main topic for discussion this week was the launch of the updated MacBook and MacBook Pros, with one of the crew becoming an early adopter (twice over!). Here are links to several of the items we discussed:

Firewire 400/800 options:
Belkin 9-Pin to 6-Pin FireWire 800/400 Cable, 6 feet (this link says $40US but it was $30US at the Apple Store)
Sonnet FireWire 400 to 800 Adapter [FAD-824] ($14.95 direct from Sonnet or pay $12 through Office Depot)

We talked about no firewire on the MacBooks but here’s an option:
OWC FireWire/USB Combo ExpressCard/34 Adapter ($45US through Other World Computing - two FireWire and One USB!)

Mac Software Pics
PGP Whole Disk Encryption 9.9 for Mac OS X - with Basic Maintenance - Perpetual

iPhone Software Pics:
11C Scientific RPN Calculator ($9.99US)
Pano ($2.99US)
WritingPad (free!)
Loan Shark ($4.99US)

PS The backing to Allisons sorry tale was added after we recorded the show - sorry Allison, couldn’t resist!

The topics for this weeks show include blogging software, managing & archiving email and home theater set-ups.

Links:

MailSteward
ATVFlash
WordPress
MarsEdit
PowerMail
TubeStick
Drupal
Gmail
RapidWeaver
Hulu
MediaCentral
Plex
Boxee
Remote Buddy

The main topics for this weeks show include a rant from Allison, Mac graphics cards, new MacBooks or MacBook Pros, what is in our menubars!

Links (more to follow):

Sound Source:
iStat Menus:
Caffeine:
Teleport:
Anxiety:
ByteController:
DropBox:
Skitch
Evernote
Textexpander
Houdahspot
Jumpcut
RapidoWrite
Default Folder X
Podcamp Barcelona

The main topics for this weeks show include Google Chrome, Operating Systems on your Mac and the Sept. Special Apple Event.

Links:
Remote Desktop Connection: http://www.microsoft.com/mac
Cords: http://cord.sourceforge.net

David Sparks: MacSparky
Don McAllister: ScreenCastsOnline
Bart Busschots: International Mac Podcast
Victor Cajiao: Typical Mac User
Katie Floyd: The Maccore

The main topic for this weeks show is the holy grail of going paperless!

The crew share their ideas and experiences in digitizing all their documents (well almost all) for easy storage and retrieval as well as discussions around the Mac OSX Dock and how we all use it.

As usual, we feature our mac picks and these week, David asks us about our iPhone guilty pleasures!

and much, much more!

Links:
Evernote
Epson CX8400
Brother MFC-8860DN
Crypt.xhead from Xhead software
PGP Desktop for Mac
Unite SATA HDD Multi-Function Dock
Together from Reinvented Software
Yep
Receipt Wallet
ScanSnap
PasswordVault
arRsync
Scriviner
Dock Hack

Don McAllister: ScreenCastsOnline
Dave Hamilton: Mac Observer
Bart Busschots: International Mac Podcast
Chuck Joiner: MacNotables
Joseph Nilo: MacMediaCast

A new voice on todays show plus the return of one of the original MacRoundtable crew!

This weeks show features discussions on:

The MobileMe debacle
Mac Podcasters at the new Media Expo
Developers and Mac gaming

Along with some terrific Mac picks

and much, much more!

Links:
New Media Expo
Password Vault
Favorater
FileMagnet
Kinemac
StageHand

Adam Christianson: The MacCast
Katie Floyd: The MacCore
Don McAllister: ScreenCastsOnline
Victor Cajiao: The Typical Mac User Podcast
John Chambers: One Minute Tip
Steve Stanger: The Mac Attack

A pretty packed show today with a larger than normal crew!

Discussions around MacWorld now and then.
Apple Retail Stores including the newly opened Apple store in Liverpool UK
AppleCare Woes
Mac User Groups
How we train friends and relatives
AT&T Woes

and much, much more!

Links for some of the picks to follow shortly!

Jonathan Cost: Mac Tips Daily
Adam Christianson The MacCast
Katie Floyd: The MacCore
Chuck Joiner: The MacJury

As you can imagine, this week’s show was all about the iPhone 3G, 2.0 FIrmware, and the rollout of MobileMe. We talk about the good, the bad, and the ugly in this episode. Katie picked up a 3G iPhone on launch day and talks about her mixed experiences with the device. Chuck also shares his AT&T horror story which actually prevented him from buying a new iPhone and Adam and Jonathan share their reasons for not wanting to upgrade just yet.

The gang also talks the less than stellar MobileMe rollout. As of the recording of this podcast there were still problems reported with people trying to log in and not all services are operational as advertised. Adam shares his experiences with the MobileMe push services and a problem he discovered if he tried to sync Exchange data at the same time. Some MobileMe services are still missing in action, including the iDisk email file sharing feature. 

Everyone seems to love the new iPhone 2.0 Firmware update and some of the new offerings available from the AppStore.Instead or our regular “Mac Picks” we decided to each share our favorite new “iPhone Pick.”

Adam- Midomi and Shazam - Tagging and identification of songs.
Jonathan - Jott - Turns voice memo into notes
Katie - OmniFocus - GTD task management that syncs with the Mac App
Chuck - Pandora - Personalized streaming radio service

This weeks topics include:

Email habits
We all manage our emails in different ways so the crew discuss their own particular problems and solutions when managing emails.

Links mentioned:
Mail Act-On
MailTags
MailSteward
OmniFocus

Software Picks

Put a group of mac geeks together and one thing they love to discuss is their favourite mac apps. This weeks show gave us all the opportunity to make a software pick!

Links mentioned:

ScreenSteps - Use discount code NOSILLA for 25% off
Evernote
Jiggler
Caffeine
Skitch

New Toys

OK, as well as software, we love talking about new gadgets or toys, so this week a new section all about any recent purchases and why we bought them!

Links mentioned:
Time Capsule
Bamboo fun graphics tablet
HueyPRO Monitor Calibrator
Amazon Kindle

Don’t forget, send in your rapid fire questions to macroundtable@gmail.com

We welcome Dave Hamilton to the Roundtable and discuss all the latest announcments from the World Wide Developer Conference. Dave gives us an on location report from WWDC.

We talk through how excited we are about the new shift to MobileMe from .mac, what it means to current and future iPhone users, as well as Windows users. Mostly we’re excited, hear what we’re not so excited about.

We’re all frustrated that the App Store for the iPhone and iPod Touch is STILL not open (we though June was the longest month ever, now it looks like July will beat it). And can you say Cut and Paste?

The new iPhone might just push Dave over the edge, and while the iPhone is now available in every country on earth and several other planets, it’s still not available where Tim lives.

And finally, Snow Leopard (OS 10.6) is on its way - not much from the user perspective (yet) but this IS the developer’s conference so it’s opening up some great opportunities for them.

Note: This podcast was posted to the feed ahead of our regular release date due to WWDC. Our plan is to return to our every two week release schedule with our next show releasing around June 30th.

Allison got to attend D6: All Things Digital hosted by the Wallstreet Journal with hosts Walter Mossberg & Kara Swisher. She gave us some high points of the show:

• Bill Gates in line behind her in the buffet line for Mac & Cheese
• Windows 7 demo - just like the iPhone
• Allison gave Jerry Yang, CEO of Yahoo a hard time - watch the video at d6.allthingsd.com (jump to about 5 minutes in to see her question)
• Then, Gary Shapiro (CEO of the Consumer Electronics Association (the guys who run CES)) to be a judge for the hottest tech gadgets of CES this fall!
• She had Lunch with a corporate VP at Microsoft where he described the amazing bandwidth in China that allows them to do video teleconferencing on their cell phones
• She also saw a prototype of a new SlingBox that would allow you to share from your computer to your home TV, and hopes that it will one day show up on the iPhone
• You can find Allison’s flickr photos of D6: flickr.com

Rumors are flying that .Mac will get a major update and be rebranded “Mobile Me” and the group talks about how we use .Mac and how we use .Mac alternatives that we would like to see integrated into .Mac

• Katie uses BusySync to share her iCal with others and upload to Google Calendar
• David wishes you could use your .Mac account similar to how he uses SugarSync to keep documents on multiple Macs in sync.
• Katie wants to replace Apple’s Backup program with something more similar to Mozy
• And everyone wants to see .Mac get a speed boost.

We also talk about the new 10.5.3 update and the fixes and new featurs it offers. 

Lastly, we introduce a new segment called Rapid Fire, where we take questions from the listeners and each member of the roundtable “fires” out a quick answer. We’ll try to do a couple per show, so we need your participation. If you have a “quick question” you want to submit to the group, send it to MacRoundtable@gmail.com and we’ll answer as many as possible. Todays questions:

Tim Verpoorten - Mac ReviewCast
Katie Floyd - The MacCore
David Sparks - MacSparky
and welcoming a new member the the roundtable…
Chuck Joiner - MacVoices

This week’s topics include:

• iPhones are sold out across the globe - what does this mean for the new iPhone and will we see it before WWDC?
• Speculation as to what we’ll see at WWDC - for the first time ever the event has sold out. Will it be all about the iPhone or will we get a glimpse of the newest version of OS X?
• Spam Control - We discuss how the roundtable members deal with email SPAM including one of our favorite applications, SpamSieve.
• And if you’re as obsessive compulsive as Katie and don’t want icons of certain applications (such as SpamSieve) to be shown in the dock, check out the free utility, Dockless.

Katie Floyd: The MacCore
Don McAllister: Screencasts Online
Allison Sheridan: The NosillaCast Podcast

Topics covered include:

• A discussion of the dramatic tripling of Safari’s market share on Windows according to appleinsider.com
• Rumor from Fortune that AT&T will begin selling a $200 iPhone and whether we believe it or not
• Can we sell our iPhones when the new ones come out? Discussion of legalities of selling on eBay, and Don’s jailbroken iPhone using ziphone

Shifting gears over to gadgets:

• Don and his new AVCHD Sony camcorder sony.co.uk
• Allison’s new ergo keyboard from Goldtouch keyovation.com
• Katie’s new Brenthaven Backpack from brenthaven.com

Plus, Katie’s giving away a set of AudioEngine W1 Wireless Audio Adapters through a contest over at themaccore.com - even MacRoundtable members can enter to win!

Some links mentioned in the show:
Pystar: 
http://www.psystar.com/

Questions about Pystar’s validity:
http://gizmodo.com/380488/psystar-exposed-looks-like-a-hoax
http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/04/16/gartner/

 Top 10 Apple Flops:
http://www.maclife.com/article/top_10_pple_flops

Tips for New Mac Users
Apple User Groups:
http://www.apple.com/usergroups/
Apple Online Training:
http://www.apple.com/support/mac101/?
http://www.apple.com/support/switch101/
Apple Retail Store Workshops:
http://www.apple.com/retail/workshops/
One to One Personal Training:
http://www.apple.com/retail/onetoone/
Importing Outlook Information:
http://www.littlemachines.com
Mac/Windows Integration Tips:
http://www.macwindows.com
 
This week’s hosts include:
Adam Christianson: The MacCast
Victor Cajiao: The Typical Mac User Podcast
Jonathan Cost: Mac Tips Daily
Katie Floyd: The MacCore

Some of the links mentioned in the show:

Syncing multiple macs
Chronosync
Sugarsync 

Time capsule with time machine
macosxhints.com
macosx.com

This week’s hosts include:

Katie Floyd: The MacCore
Victor Cajiao: The Typical Mac User Podcast
David Sparkes: MacSparky.com
Allison Sheridan: The NosillaCast Podcast

One of the most interesting topics was whether we each though AppleCare was worth the money and even some tips on how to get it less expensively than just through Apple (hint: look for deals on Amazon). During that discussion Victor explained the kid glove treatment he got on his MacPro hardware problem. We also talked about where to find deals on Macs and whether refurbished Macs are a good way to go. Victor explains the important difference too between “refurbed” and “refreshed”. Allison went on a rant about how Apple pushed a “software update” on Windows, which was for Safari, which she DIDN’T even have installed! See the screenshot here. If you enjoy outtakes, you’ll learn all about “bag o’ meat night” too!

This week’s hosts include:

Don McAllister: ScreenCasts Online
Katie Floyd: The MacCore
Victor Cajiao: The Typical Mac User Podcast
Tim Verpoorten: The Mac Reviewcast
Allison Sheridan: The NosillaCast Podcast

And of course, the release of the iPhone SDK has got us all very excited about future developments.

This week’s hosts include:

Don McAllister: ScreenCasts Online
David Sparks: MacSparky
Katie Floyd: The MacCore
Steve Stanger: The Mac Attack
Victor Cajiao: The Typical Mac User Podcast

We’re on a roll now - the second in the “Take 2″ series of the Mac Roundtable. Just as promised, the crew will be mixing up on every show, you never know who you’ll get but we promise to be interesting! This week’s hosts included:

Don McAllister: ScreenCasts Online
Allison Sheridan: Nosillacast Podcast
David Sparks: MacSparky
Katie: The MacCore
Tim Verpoorten: The Mac ReviewCast

Topics we discuss in this episode:

Positive reactions to all the new features in AppleTV 2, Tim’s Wordpress site got hacked and he described how he attacked the problem and advice for others - run those updates when they come out! We also pontificated on what it means that Apple has been shutting down their site every Tuesdsay since MacWorld to make new, but maybe not so amazing announcements. David gave us a good explanation of how Aperture 2 fits into his photo needs. Finally we talked about how Time Machine and SuperDuper! both have their place in a backup strategy. David closed it up with a plug for a contest on his show where he’s giving away Audio Engine AW1 wireless adapters.

Links to things we discussed:

Aperture tutorials: apple.com/aperture/tutorials
SuperDuper! at shirt-pocket.com
AirFoil at rogueamoeba.com
Macsparky AW1 giveaway: macsparky.com

This is the first episode of a newly re-launched Mac Roundtable with your old favourites but with some new but familiar friends. Following on from this years Macworld, the Mac Roundtable has been expanded to include a whole host of new participants to make the Mac Roundtable more varied and yet more regular.

Kicking off the re-launch, Steve Stanger [The Mac Attack]introduces some of the new members of the panel. For this week they include:

Don McAllister: ScreenCasts Online
Allison Sheridan: Nosillacast Podcast
Victor Cajiao: Typical Mac User Podcast
David Sparks: MacSparky.com

But this isn’t the full crew, you’ll find out who else is on board in the next show!

In this episode we look at the reasons for the re-launch of the Mac Roundtable, the MacBook Air, the new iPhone and iPod Touch configurations, Uninterruptible Power Supplies, the iPhone SDK and and much, much more!

You can find some of the links we discussed during the podcast here:

Belkin UPS
MacBook Air Spoof YouTube Video
Happy Slip Video 1
Happy Slip Video 2

In this episode we look at the upcoming Leopard release, Apple’s Stock concerns, Make a Wish for a new Mac laptop, and more!
Following are some of the links we discuss during the podcast.
Fon: http://www.fon.com
Jing: http://www.jingproject.com
Skitch: http://plasq.com/skitch
Coda: http://www.transmit.com

This week join Tim Verpoorten - MacReviewCast, Joseph Nilo - MacMediaCast.com, Steve Stanger - The Mac Attack, Adam Christianson - MacCast, and Ringmaster, Victor Cajiao from the Typical Mac User podcast as we discuss iPhone hacking, new iPod rumors, and our opinions on the state of “social networking” and web 2.0.

Thanks to the live audience for participating.

In this episode we look at the hardware and software that helps us do the things we do on our Macs.
Following are some of the links we discuss during the podcast.
Mail Act-on http://www.indev.ca/MailActOn.html
Akismet is available at http://akismet.com/
Adium from http://adiumx.com
Skype from http://skype.com
Inquisitor from http://www.inquisitorx.com/safari
Flashblock from http://flashblock.mozdev.org/
KIT from http://reinventedsoftware.com
Caffeine from http://www.lightheadsw.com/
MilkyWay:http://www.lny.mine.nu/Pages/MilkyWay/MilkyWay.html
InstantShot:http://projects.digitalwaters.net/index.php?q=instantshot
Skitch from plasq.com
Quicksilver from http://blacktree.com/
Flock Browser: www.flock.com
Pathfinder: www.cocoatech.com
Todoist: www.todoist.com
Spanning Sync: www.spanningsync.com
MailSteward: http://www.mailsteward.com
OWC: http://www.macsales.com
Firefox: http://www.mozilla.org

The good, the OK, and the kinda bad behind the iPhone from some of the biggest iPhone and Apple fanboys in the business. Join Adam Christianson (Maccast), Joseph Nilo (Mac Mediacast), Rob Walch (Today In iPhone), and Scott Bourne (Apple Phone Show) as they try to look beyond the hype to reveal how the iPhone holds up as an everyday mobile device. They tackle it’s success and shortcomings while offering up some good tips and advice for new and potential iPhone owners alike. If you have even a mild interest in the iPhone this is an episode you won’t want to miss.

Links:
Apple Phone Show
Today In iPhone
GMail
iPhone Application List
Hack the iPhone
Will it Blend: iPhone
Belkin iPhone Accessories
TiVO To-Go in Invisible Shield

Join hosts Steve Stanger from the The Mac Attack, Tim Verpoorten from MacReviewcast, Adam Christianson from the MacCast and Joseph Nilo from Mac Mediacast

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