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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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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Episode 36 of the MacRoundtable (Bag O’Meat Episode), was a lively discussion for a Thursday night, even with Don doing it at 1 in the morning from England. We talked about the Aiport Express now having support for 802.11n, how we use them and why you might (or might not) find it useful. We had real time updates during the show about whether or not the Airport Extreme firmware update 7.3.1 would actually allow you to backup using Time Machine to a USB-attached drive (it does!) and how people are getting along with Time Capsule.

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

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