Episode 41 of the Mac Roundtable is hosted by:
Victor Cajiao of the Typical Mac User
Katie Floyd of The MacCore
Allison Sheridan of the NosillaCast
David Sparks of MacSparky

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:

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Episode 40 of the Mac Roundtable is hosted by:

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.

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Episode 39 of the MacRoundtable is hosted by:

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!

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Episode 38 of the MacRoundtable discusses the new “hackintosh” Mac Clones,  discussion of whether Apple should consider opening the operating system now that the Mac is gaining in popularity, the fate of the Mac Mini, rumors of Microsoft retail stores, and tips for new mac users.

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

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Episode 37 of the MacRoundtable covered what the best ways to sync multiple Macs, Apple beating Walmart at music sales, how we feel about the various tax proposals in the US on downloaded content, and then we had an interesting discussion about security of our data if we have it on a Time Machine backup.

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

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Lots of new releases from Apple since the last show and some of the crew have taken delivery of some new toys! In this show we examine the MacBook Air and the new MacBook Pro with perhaps some different views from different angles. We also chat about the new Time Capsule, our early experiences with the device and where it fits in to your networking/backup strategy.

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

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Welcome to Episode 11 of the Mac Roundtable

This week we discuss the iTunes experience and what it’s done to your CD collection. Are we spending less on CD’s and more on iTunes, or are we just grabbing our music from other online sources? Then we look at the iPod and where it’s going from here and when it will finally get there. Next topic is, what print magazines we’re still receiving and why? Has the online Mac news and magazines killed off the print? Finally, the next part of our podcasting confessions. This episode we talk about our podcasting hardware and how it’s progressed since we first started podcasting.

Steve Stanger from the The Mac Attack was missing in action when a storm knocked him offline. But join hosts Joseph Nilo from the MacPro Podcast, Tim Verpoorten from MacReviewcast, Adam Christianson from the MacCast

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Welcome to a little Teaser Podcast we put together for you until the next full-length podcast arrives next week.

Did you ever want to know what we talked about before we started recording the MacRoundtable? Well it’s as geek-laden as the podcast itself! Take a listen for yourself.

Join hosts Joseph Nilo from the MacPro Podcast, Tim Verpoorten from MacReviewcast, Adam Christianson from the MacCast and Steve Stanger from The Mac Attack on this teaser podcast.

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We also want to thank Von Glitschka from Glitschka Studios for the new Mac Roundtable logo.

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