Episode #53 was hosted by:

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.

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Episode 51 was hosted by:

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!

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Episode 50 was hosted by:
Chuck Joiner: MacVoices
Tim Verpoorten: Mac Reviewcast
Katie Floyd: The Maccore
Jonathan Cost: Mac Tips Daily
Steve Stanger: The Mac Attack

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

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Episode 48 was hosted by:
Don McAllister: ScreenCastsOnline
Allison Sheridan: TheNosillaCast
Bart Busschots: International Mac Podcast
Adam Christianson The MacCast

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

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Episode 47 was hosted by:

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

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Episode 46 was hosted by:

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

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Episode 45 was hosted by:

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!

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Episode 44 was hosted by:

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

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Episode 43 was hosted by:
Katie Floyd: The MacCore
Don McAllister: Screencasts Online
Allison Sheridan: The NosillaCast Podcast
David Sparks: MacSparky.com

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

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Episode 42 of the Mac Roundtable is hosted by:
Victor Cajiao: The Typical Mac User
Katie Floyd: The MacCore
Dave Hamilton: The Mac Observer’s Mac Geek Gab
Allison Sheridan: TheNosillaCast
Tim Verpoorten: The Mac Reviewcast

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.

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