September 14, 2009

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Mac Roundtable 2009.09.13 Episode #70

Filed under: Podcast — take2 @ 11:15 pm

Mac Roundtable #70 is hosted by:
? Katie Floyd of Mac Power Users at macpowerusers.com twitter.com/maccorethemaccore.com
? John F Braun of Mac Observer’s Mac Geek Gab macgeekgab.com and Monday’s Mac Gadget macobserver.com
? Bart Busschots impodcast.tv & bartb.ie (twitter.com/bbusschots
? Allison Sheridan of the NosillaCast Podcast at podfeet.com, twitter.com/podfeet

In this episode we talk about how happy we were to see Steve Jobs back, our impressions of the sales numbers, and then we dig into the new features iTunes 9 and the new, or not so new features of the iPods.  Then we talk through the improvements of iPhone 3.1 and we close up with our picks:

Allison:  Fiwi for $0.99 from wordpower-software.com
John : XPAL Power XP2000 xpalpower.com
Katie: Cocktail 4.5 – now for Snow Leopard maintain.se/cocktail
Bart: iHandy Level Free – itunes.apple.com

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September 5, 2009

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Mac Roundtable 2009.09.05 Episode #69

Filed under: Podcast — take2 @ 5:35 pm

This show’s panel members include:

Allison Sheridan NosillaCast Podcast (Twitter)
Katie Floyd Mac Power Users & The MacCore (Twitter)
David Sparks MacSparky, Mac Power Users, (Twitter)
Victor Cajiao Typical Mac User, Typical Shutterbug (Twitter)

In this episode we worked through the processes we used to migrate to Snow Leopard, pitfalls to watch out for, things to do to make sure you DON’T hit pitfalls. Then we walked through our impressions and enjoyment of Snow Leopard, and the very few problems we’ve found. We did touch on what 64 bit means to normal users.

In our discussion of how cool Services is (are?) we referenced the following resources to learn how to automate processes with Services

Pixelcorps & Mac Automation

Picks of the week:
Allison Twitter search utility Incoming!
Katie: zBoost YX500 cell extender for your house
Victor: Bamboo Fun but more the benefits in software that come with it. Wacom Privileges web site found at wacom.com
David: AppleScript book Applescript 123, Sal Sohoigan

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