Panelists:
John F Braun – Mac Geek Gab at macgeekgab.com @johnfbraun
Bart Busschots –  Let’s Talk Podcasts  @bbusschots
Katie Floyd – katiefloyd.com Mac Power Users  @katiefloyd
Steve Stanger – stevestanger.com @tmasteve
Chuck Joiner –  MacVoices @chuckjoiner

The Mac Roundtable found it’s way back together to discuss Apple’s March 2016 event that included the new 9.7″ iPad Pro, the iPhone SE and a price drop to the Apple Watch, among other items.

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At Macworld/iWorld 2014, members of The Mac Roundtable took the Second Stage to talk about the iPad apps they really use, the implications of the release of Microsoft Office for iPad, and more.

Participants included:

John F. Braun of Mac Geek Tab (@johnfbraun)

Adam Christianson of The MacCast (@maccast)

Katie Floyd of Mac Power Users (@KatieFloyd)

Jeff Gamet of The Apple Context Machine (@jgamet)

Dave Hamilton of Mac Geek Tab (@DaveHamilton)

Chuck Joiner of MacVoices (@chuckjoiner)

Don McAllister of ScreenCastsOnline (@donmcallister)

David Sparks of Mac Power Users (@macsparky)

Ken Ray of Mac OS Ken (@macosken)

Allison Sheridan of The Nosillacast (@podfeet)

Show Notes:

Mr. Reader – Oliver Fürniß

Pocket: Save Articles and Videos to View Later – Read It Later, Inc

Grandpa’s Workshop – Fairlady Media

OmniFocus for iPad – The Omni Group

Paper by FiftyThree – FiftyThree, Inc.

Netflix – Netflix, Inc. Instapaper – Instapaper Holdings, Inc. Downcast – Jamawkinaw Enterprises LLC Tweetbot for Twitter (iPad edition) – Tapbots

Instagram – Instagram, Inc.

Waze Social GPS, Maps & Traffic – Waze Inc.

forScore – forScore, LLC

Flipboard: Your Social News Magazine – Flipboard Inc.

iThoughtsHD (mindmapping) – CMS

iA Writer – Information Architects Inc.

Snapseed – Nik Software, Inc.

Adobe Photoshop Express – Adobe

Flickr – Yahoo

Expression Engine

Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast

EYE Chart Magazine – Putting Apple and Tech News in Focus – Kenneth Ray

DeskConnect – DeskConnect

Hand Held Hollywood

Microsoft Word for iPad – Microsoft Corporation

Microsoft Excel for iPad – Microsoft Corporation

Microsoft PowerPoint for iPad – Microsoft Corporation

Microsoft OneNote for iPad – Microsoft Corporation

LibreOffice

Microsoft OneNote – Microsoft Corporation

Byword – Metaclassy, Lda.

Pages – Apple

BackBlaze

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The panel for this edition includes:

John F. Braun – Mac Geek Gab, Twitter

Bart Busschots – Let’s Talk Podcasts, Twitter

Chuck Joiner – MacVoices, Twitter, App.net

Topics:

Thoughts on Mavericks

 – MemoryKeeper

 – Mail.app

 – Latest information on how to work around Mail problems

 – Airmail 

 – MailPlane

 – Eudora

 – Ditch Mavericks Mail: Other Email Apps You Can Try

– About Wake on Demand and Boujour Sleep Proxy– Any other things you like or don’t like?

 Microsoft’s New CEO

 – Bill Gates as “Technology Advisor”

iOS 7

– Reported system crash/reboot issue

Picks

John – Flame (came up during aforementioned Boujour Sleep Proxy oddness) 

Bart – MeteoEarth – see live weather data and forcasted weather for up to 5 days animlated on a rotateable and zoomable globe. When you see the moving animated wind patters you get an understanding of what’s going on in the atmosphere that no regular weather map can give you – €4.99 for basic version, €5.49 for a year’s pro membership – needed to see the 5 day forecast and to be able to stack animatinos – i.e. see wind, cloud, and rainfall all at once

Chuck – MOS – Magnetic cable organization system

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The panel for this edition includes:

Chuck Joiner – The MacVoices Group @chuckjoiner
Jeff Gamet – The Mac Observer
John F. Braun – Mac Geek Gab @johnfbraun @macgeekgab
Bart Busschots – www.bartb.ie @bbusschots

Topics Discussed:

• Apple Stock Price Swings – what’s behind them?

• Facebook buy Instagram for one biiiiiiiillion dollars:

• what are people worried about?
• was it worth a billion dollars?
• a discussion on the rights you give away and don’t when you upload content to social media services

• Tangent – social media: Facebook -v- Google+ -v- Twitter

• The new Security Reality

• time to re-assess your situation
• we discuss Apple’s schizophrenic attitude to security
• what can people do to protect themselves (ALWAYS patch, consider disabling Java & Flash, consider free AV, or even paid AV)
• free AV from ClamXav – (AVOID the crippled Mac App Store version)
• Little Snitch is another tool people may find useful for watching what their computer is at

Picks:

• John’s Pick – Cloak – Free VPN.
• Bart’s Pick – silly but addictive iPhone game – Worms Crazy Golf
• Jeff’s Pick – Paper for the iPad
• Chuck’s pick – Seagate GoFlex Slim Performance Drive

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