The first LIVE edition of the Mac Roundtable Podcast was hosted by:

Allison Sheridan- Nosillacast
Adam Christianson – MacCast
John Chambers – One Minute Tip
Katie Floyd – The MacCore
Victor Cajiao – Typical Mac User
Chuck Joiner – Mac Voices
David Sparks – Mac Sparky
Don McAllister – Screen Casts Online
 
The Mac Roundtable crew records our first ever live show and were privileged to do so on the Macworld Learning Center at Macworld San Francisco in front of a live audience.  We talk about our thoughts and impressions on the Keynote, how important Apple is to Macworld, why we come to Macworld, our favorite picks from the show floor, discussion of Macworld 2010 and we take questions from the audience

Links Mentioned:
Where the Hell is Matt?
Allison Dancing Video
Apple Keynote
iLife ’09
iWork ’09
Apple User Groups
Lacie Flat Cables
Neat Receipts
Slingbox
Matias Tune Blocker
SongGenie
BusyCal
Pulse Smart Pen
GeoPhoto
Roxio Toast Titanium
Blue Eyeball
Podcast and New Media Expo

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This weeks crew comprises:

Allison Sheridan: NosillaCast  Twitter
Chuck Joiner: macvoices.com Twitter
Katie Floyd: themaccore.com Twitter
Don McAllister: screencastsonline.com Twitter
David Sparks: macsparky.com Twitter
Steve Stanger themacattack.tv Twitter

What we like about MacWorld, what are we looking forward to

– The people!
– Meeting the small developers doing the real

New Years Mac resolutions

– Dual boot OLPC into Ubuntu Linux
– Final Cut Express Tutorials
– Learning more CSS – learn CSSEdit
– Geeky building/soldering electronics – arduinos
– Learn more about Automator and AppleScript Automator on Wikipedia

Christmas Organization

– Bento database
– Address Book issues
– Receipt Wallet
– Stationery for Apple Mail for electronic Christmas cards

What we want for Christmas:

– MacBook Pro
– Guitar Hero guitarhero.com or Rock Band
– Drobo with Firewire 800
– Trip to MacWorld
– Animoto
– Apple 24″ Cinema Display
– Flip Mino

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Episode #54 was hosted by:

Katie Floyd: The Maccore
Bart Busschots: International Mac Podcast
Victor Cajiao: Typical Mac User
Steve Stanger: The Mac Attack

Topics for this episode:

Apple’s disappearing anti-virus tech document which leads to a discussion on viruses, malware, and phising.

Google Calendar adds CalDAV support and what calendar solutions we use.

Adobe is going to be a no-show at Macworld 2009 and we discuss graphic and photo editing alternatives.

Apple’s “Black Friday” deals (or lack thereof).

iPhone / iPod Touch application picks:

Delivery Status Touch
Amazon Mobile
Touch Physics
Vino for Dinner Mobile

Links:

BusySync
Anxiety
Photomatix Pro
RapidWeaver/
Pixelmator

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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 52 was hosted by:

Katie Floyd: The Maccore
Bart Busschots: International Mac Podcast
Chuck Joiner: MacVoices
Tim Verpoorten: Mac Reviewcast

The MacRoundtable crew engaged in a “hit and run” discussion on a variety of topics including who’s still printing and what they’re using, if and how they’re using Time Machine, and whether Apple TV is really just a hobby or is falling too far behind. The panel also delivers some thoughts on display options, keyboard commands, and whether WalMart’s online music sales changes represent a threat to the iTunes Store.

Links:

File Magnet by Magnetism Studios

Business Card Composer from Belight Software

Snapfish

InkDaddyal

dealink

TimeMachineEditor by Time Software

Time Capsule by Apple

Apple TV by Apple

TiVo

EyeTV by Elgato

TubeStick and The Tube by equinux

Neflix Streaming Coming to the Mac on The iPodObserver

TiVo Teams with Netflix for Instant Movies on The iPodObserver

LaunchBar by Objective Development

Quicksilver by Blacktree

MX Revolution Mouse by Logitech

Mac Reviewcast

Surfbits

International Mac Podcast

NosillaCast

Typical Mac User Podcast

Bart Busschots blog

The Maccore

MacVoices

MacNotables

MacJury

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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 48 was hosted by:
Tim Verpoorten: MacReviewCast
David Sparks: MacSparky
Bart Busschots: International Mac Podcast
Chuck Joiner: MacVoices
Steve Stanger: The MacAttack

The main topics for this weeks show include Google Chrome, Operating Systems on your Mac and the Sept. Special Apple Event.

Links:
Remote Desktop Connection: http://www.microsoft.com/mac
Cords: http://cord.sourceforge.net

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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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