Katie Floyd
Mac Power Users http://www.macpowerusers.com
Twitter: @katiefloyd
Allison Sheridan
NosillaCast Mac Podcast http://podfeet.com
Twitter: @podfeet
Don McAllister
ScreenCastsOnline http://www.screencastsonline.com
All About the iPad Blog http://allabouttheipad.tumblr.com
Personal Blog http://themacscreencastguy.com
Twitter: @donmcallister
Bart Busschots
Blog http://www.bartb.ie
International Mac Podcast http://www.impodcast.tv
Twitter: @bbusschots
WWDC isn’t having the annual design awards for OSX developers (only doing it for iPhone and iPad Apps) so ArsTechnica is doing the Ars Design Awards. To see the top nominees for the categories of Best New App, Best User Experience, Most Innovative App, Best K-12 Education App, and Best Student-created App, and to vote on the Reader’s Choice Award go to:
http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2010/05/readers-choice-poll-for-2010-ars-design-awardsmac-os-x.ars
Recording Apps
Audio
- Wiretap Studio $69 http://www.ambrosiasw.com/utilities/wiretap/
- Audio Hijack Pro http://www.rogueamoeba.com/audiohijackpro/
- Garage Band
- Call Recorder (specific to Skype) $20 http://www.ecamm.com/mac/callrecorder/
- Quicktime 7 and X
Video
- iRecord quick and easy way to get video from your isight – developer site vanished though, so grab it quick! http://dl.macupdate.com/final/multimedia/23939/irecord1_1b.zip
- ScreenFlow – overpriced ($99) and annoying to use, but the least-crap I’ve found for screen Casting http://www.telestream.net/screen-flow/overview.htm
- QuickTime X – now Built in to OS X
- iShowU $29.95 http://www.shinywhitebox.com/home/home.html
- Snapz Pro X 2 $69 http://www.ambrosiasw.com/utilities/snapzprox/
- Camtasia for Mac $99 http://www.techsmith.com/camtasiamac/
- Jing free & cross-platform from http://www.jingproject.com/
International iPad launch
- Don and Bart give us the scoop from the source.
- Point 2 View $69 and cross-platform Windows/Universal Mac: http://www.ipevo.com/IPEVO-Point-2-View-USB-Camera_ep_58-1.html
Home Theaters
With the AppleTV rumors buzzing about, we talk about our home theater setup, our experiences with AppleTVs, Mac Minis, Boxee, ATV Flash, and others.
Picks:
- Katie – iTiVo and PyTiVo http://code.google.com/p/itivo/ http://pytivo.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/PyTivo#Download
- Allison – PaperDesk for iPad from http://mypaperdesk.com Lite version is free, paid is $2. create notebooks with text and drawing, change colors and line thickness, record audio, sync with text and drawing, change colors and line thickness, sync with mypaperdesk.com, can download pdfs, multiple pages
- Bart – MarsEdit 3 ($39.95 or $14.95 to upgrade from MarsEdit 2) http://www.red-sweater.com/marsedit/
- Don – ReelDirector for iPhone/iPad ($8) – http://www.nexvio.com/product/ReelDirector.aspx
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Sorry guy’s but this program is a bit difficult to listen to due to poor audio quality. Any reason why the MP3 is encoded using a 22.050 kHz Sample Rate?
-paul.
Comment by Paul — May 31, 2010 @ 10:31 am
Paul –
Sorry about that, there was some kind of hiccup in my Automator workflow. I’ve re-encoding and uploaded it so it should be good now if you want to download the file again.
Comment by Katie — May 31, 2010 @ 12:10 pm
Hi, I couldn’t find the email address where I could contact you.
I was wondering if you were interested in featuring our product called MacKeeper in one of your shows.
It’s a really cool collection of system tools (for HDD cleanup, theft protection, data recovery etc) and I’m pretty sure your subscribers will love it if you review the app.
Comment by Mark Nykoliuk — June 4, 2010 @ 10:22 am
I have one problem with Marsedit 2.42 and 3.0. They do not, when posting from a website article, embed the articles original link as the online Blogger tool does. This is actually quite annoying because I blog website articles directly from Netnewswire using the Marsedit tab. Then I have to edit the post using Blogger to link the main title back to the original article. Otherwise I really like Marsedit.
Comment by John H. Armwood — June 6, 2010 @ 10:22 pm
I’m not sure where else I can get this message to the members of this great group. Can you please invite Ken Ray (Mac OS Ken) to join the Roundtable?
Comment by Kevin — June 8, 2010 @ 9:10 pm