If you’re like me, you listen to many Mac based podcasts over the course of a week. Hopefully one of them is the MacReviewCast, but I have a feeling you have several other favorites too. A podcasting friend from the MacVeritas podcast put together a list of Mac podcasts he listens to and the faces [...]
Essentially what TimeLog accomplishes is in the name. Its a timer that helps you keep track of projects you are currently doing, and then can aid you in billing your clients.
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I have been ‘playing’ with TrackTime ($19.95) for a while now. Unfortunately it isn’t really an application that I can show you a screen shot of as it is extremely revealing of how much time you spend on certain activities on your Mac. Therein lies its strength and its weakness. It does it very well, [...]
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Remember when the iPhone first released and there were just 3 cases on the market? Well that was eight months ago and now there are more like 3,000 cases on the market. To be honest I had little interest in any of them. I have an invisible shield on my phone (although I’m often tempted to remove that as well) and that is it. It works fine. Fits in my pocket and gives me no troubles.
I must admit however that I was very intrigued by the products offered by OtterBox. They specialize in cases that are more functional than pretty. Put simply, Otterbox is in the protection business.
This week we look at The Otterbox for the iPhone, Timelog, Tracktime, Handbrake, MetaX and more. I want to thank you for downloading and listening to the podcast. We have the best in Mac hardware, software and websites reviews. We have a lot of great folks on today’s episode with their reviews and comments on software, hardware and websites that make using the Mac special. Plus I’ll have the top freeware Mac apps of the week and much more.
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Basically, Pulp Motion takes your digital media and creates these weird and wonderful animated photo albums. The first thing I considered when I started reviewing Pulp Motion was how could I achieve a similar results without using a product a like this.
While I was jogging down on the beach on Saturday (did I mention it hit 72 degrees in California last weekend? anyway, here I am jogging on the beach listening to one of my favorite podcasts, the Mac ReviewCast, and my mind starts wandering thinking about what software I should review for your show in the following week. I had just attended the SCALE conference, which stands for Southern California Linux Expo, and I watched a session all about this amazing free software for the Mac, Linux and Windows. I was very excited about it and I decided that it would be perfect for your show, plus I KNEW you hadn’t ever done a review of it. The software is called FreeMind. I took 2 more steps in my jogging when I heard you say on the podcast “there’s this great freeware called FreeMind…” Sheesh! You’re really going to great lengths to foil me in our “stump the podcaster” contest, aren’t you?
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By David Sparks: For those of you not familiar with Audioengine, it is a speaker company that specializes in outstanding consumer speakers. Audioengine’s self powered A2 and A5 speakers sound terrific . Audioengine just released a new product, the W1 which is two small devices. One is marked “sender” and the other “receiver.” These units, [...]
This week we look at TinkerTool, Proxi, VoodooPad 3.5, AudioEngine W1, FossWiki, PulpMotion and more. I want to thank you for downloading and listening to the podcast. We have the best in Mac hardware, software and websites reviews. We have a lot of great folks on today’s episode with their reviews and comments on software, hardware and websites that make using the Mac special. Plus I’ll have the top freeware Mac apps of the week and much more.
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By David Sparks: I have a confession. I’ve had iPods for years and own more music than I care to admit. While I did get it all ripped into iTunes a long time ago, I’ve never really been an iTunes power user. That has been changing the last few months though. Recently I’ve started making [...]
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From Don McAllister’s “My Own Reality” Blog: Some breaking news!! One of my favorite Mac podcasts has been off line since October last year, and that’s the Mac Roundtable. Joseph, Adam, Steve and Tim did a great job in bring mac news and opinions to the community, but due to logistical reasons, it was always [...]
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This week we look at Tax software for the Mac with Erick Vincent from Software.com, a review of SuperDuper 2.5 and Tune Ranger along with a new contributor, Robert Lachman, a staff photographer from the L.A. Times with his look at FotoMagic. I want to thank you for downloading and listening to the podcast. We have the best in Mac hardware, software and websites reviews. We have a lot of great folks on today’s episode with their reviews and comments on software, hardware and websites that make using the Mac special. Plus I’ll have the top freeware Mac apps of the week and much more.
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I am currently more than happy with my media set up, which is based heavily around the Miglia TVMax+, an AppleTV, a Mac mini and close to 4TB of storage, distributed over a network that currently includes five Macs. The one thing that I haven’t really looked at yet is High Definition.
The main reason for this is that the Sky subscription that we have isn’t HD and wont be for a (very) long time as we don’t really watch that much TV, and only have one TV in Sands room that is HD Ready, and to be perfectly honest the cost of replacing the B&O system is just way too high to even consider HD!
That said with the availability of HD movies to rent off iTunes then I may start to look into that side of things a bit more – maybe for US TV shows and the latest movies.
As such I was interested to see what Elgato had done with EyeTV 3, especially as they have included a bunch of new features.
Ok, so I know I said YouTube is dead to me, but there is still an awful lot of great content up there. People love YouTube, and really want a good way to snake the videos down to their computers, and to move them to their iPods. There all these weird hacks I’ve shown you over the last few years – like watching the Activity window in Safari and looking for the largest file as the video stream and then right clicking, etc., what a hack! then a bunch of websites that cropped up that let you copy the link to the video into them and then it would convert the video for you and you can then drag it into iTunes. that was pretty swell, but now there’s something better, at least for the Mac folks. enter Tooble.
