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Chris – the problem with arguing with you is that you think things through very carefully and you make really good points that are hard to dispute. 2 weeks ago you gave your analysis of the 3G iPhone and everything you said made sense. I was particularly intrigued by the example from your Total Quality Management days (i remember those days too!) where your instructor compared a plastic bag to a nicely designed leather bag and asked which was the higher quality bag – and only after told you the requirement was to carry dirty groceries. (I did kind of wonder how your groceries got dirty though – maybe messy was what you meant?) Anyway, your point in bringing up this example was that it’s important to take into account your own personal requirements before jumping to something like the iPhone. I agree with you 100%.
This week we look at ATVFlash, Allison’s Rebuttal to Chris and The Lounge plus much 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.
You can email me at surfbits at Gmail dot Com. I love to hear from you.
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Here is the freeware and shareware I look at during the podcast:
Amazon Discount for .Mac (MobileMe)
Rember: http://kelleycomputing.net/rember
Buddi: http://buddi.thecave.homeunix.org/en
VaultletSuite 2: https://www.vaultletsoft.com/index.html
Platypus: http://www.sveinbjorn.org/platypus
Simple CSS: http://www.hostm.com/css
Allison Sheridan from the NosillaCast Podcast joins us this week. She gives her rebuttal to Chris on iPhones:
David Sparks from MacSparky cannot join us this week.
Chris Marshall from ChrisMarshall.ws joins us and we talk about:
Apple’s problems since dropping Computer from their name.
Then Lola Wong is back with the MacReviewCast Lounge.
I talk to Lola about her favorite freeware, commercial app replacement and more. We’ll have links up here in the next day or so to all the apps we discussed.
Developer, Danny Greg cannot join us today.
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Jeff Powell cannot join us today.
Darren Rolfe from MacWingNut.com cannot join us today.
Robert Lachman, L.A.Times Staff Photographer cannot join us. His Web site is PhotographyandtheMac.com,
We have Don McAllister from ScreenCastsOnline joining us every other week to talk about his new free screencast: ATVFlash
A full membership of ScreenCastsOnline Extra! for 6 months which includes:
The next 26 weekly shows via iTunes or direct download,
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The usual cost for the full 6 month membership is only $49 but they can get a 15% discount by using the coupon code MRC2008 bringing it down to $41.65 for the full six months.
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On long trips, pre-iPod, pre-Sega Game Gear, etc., I used to bring along this handheld electronic Nintendo game – part of the Game and Watch series – called FIRE (youtube clip) . The objective was to rescue victims jumping out of a burning building by moving a stretcher back and forth to bounce the jumpers into an ambulance. Like other small potable games, this could easily fit in a pocket as well. It took two LR-43 or SR-43 batteries, was the size of a playing card, like the iPod Classic, but half the thickness. It had an “old skool” LCD screen and basically sported one game and a clock with an alarm. I played that game for hours during several long-haul road trips through the states, and a couple of times on flights overseas. I carried it right up until I got my first video iPod, and though I don’t take it with me everywhere now, I still have it because it’s completely addictive and wonderfully portable.
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This week I am looking at a web service called SugarSync. I am fortunate enough to have two Macs. I keep one at home and the other follows me around. To make matters even more confusing, there is a PC box on my desk at the office. My challenge was to figure a way to keep the files synced between these various computers without becoming a slave to a thumb drive. These are the kind of problems that make my little geek heart go pitter-patter, obsessing over making sure everything is in sync rather than doing any actual work.
I tried a variety of ways to solve this problem ranging from thumb drives to iDisk and I wasn’t particularly happy with any of them. My biggest problem with these solutions is the way they add steps to my workflow. I don’t want to have to think about copying and synchronizing files every time I move from one computer to the next. I just want it done. Like Picard in his dome-headed glory, I just want to look at my Mac and say “Make it So.”
This week we look at Live Interior 3D, SugarSync, PicLens and The Lounge plus much 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.
You can email me at surfbits at Gmail dot Com. I love to hear from you.
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Here is the freeware and shareware I look at during the podcast:
Amazon Discount for .Mac (MobileMe)
PicLens: http://www.piclens.com
Editra: http://editra.org
AirRadar: http://www.koingosw.com/products/airradar.php
SyncMate: http://www.sync-mac.com/syncmate.html
PlaneShift: http://www.planeshift.it/about.html
X-Tunes: http://www.pol-online.net/x-tunes
Allison Sheridan from the NosillaCast Podcast joins us this week. She reviews:
Live interior 3D: http://belightsoftware.com
David Sparks from MacSparky joins us this week and review:
SugarSync: http://www.sugarsync.com
Chris Marshall from ChrisMarshall.ws joins us and we talk about:
My BlackBerry only trip this week and what it takes to travel light.
Then Lola Wong is back with the MacReviewCast Lounge.
She hears from Chris Marshall about his traveling tech and Lola talks about the Apple World Travel Adapter kit, and WalkAbout Travel Gear. Also Lola loves her Tekkeon myPower GO.
Developer, Danny Greg cannot join us today.
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Jeff Powell cannot join us today.
Darren Rolfe from MacWingNut.com cannot join us today.
Robert Lachman, L.A.Times Staff Photographer cannot join us. His Web site is PhotographyandtheMac.com,
We have Don McAllister from ScreenCastsOnline joining us every other week to talk about his new free screencast: Fluid
A full membership of ScreenCastsOnline Extra! for 6 months which includes:
The next 26 weekly shows via iTunes or direct download,
Immediate access to a catalogue of over 140 DRM free tutorials,
The tutorials are in HD, Apple TV, iPod and iPhone format,
Access to a special members only site.
The usual cost for the full 6 month membership is only $49 but they can get a 15% discount by using the coupon code MRC2008 bringing it down to $41.65 for the full six months.
Try the new ENHANCED version of the MacReviewCast:
And now we have the Podcast in Bit-Torrent Feeds! …
You can either click on the podcast link on the left and listen to it via QT from the browser, or you can right click on the podcast link and choose to “download linked file”. That will download the mp3 and you can play it from you hard drive with iTunes.
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I’ve had the opportunity to experience a few shoulder-to-shoulder situations in rush-hour transportation, but not on a regular basis like Darren does, so I can only imagine that less is better. It’s a definitely a huge incentive to pack light be it to minimize the electronic poundage, or in anticipation of limited space, or even just to draw less attention to what you’re carrying in a crowded subway/train car.
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The last few years a term of art has been floating around the Mac community. You may have heard it. “The Delicious Generation” This phrase comes from a specific application called Delicious Library that released a few years ago and made a lot of people rethink Apple software design. Well recently the folks at Delicious Monster released Delicious Library 2 and it certainly lives up to the high standards set by its predecessor.
By Chris Marshall: Never say never so I would say that it is 95% unlikely that I will be ordering the new iPhone when it is released on the 11th July. I have been trying to figure out how best to describe the next generation iPhone and I think the best way to sum it [...]
This week we look at Delicious Library 2, Bean, iPod Games and The Lounge plus much 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.
You can email me at surfbits at Gmail dot Com. I love to hear from you.
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Here is the freeware and shareware I look at during the podcast:
Amazon Discount for .Mac (MobileMe)
MacRoundTable: http://www.macroundtable.com
Bean: http://www.bean-osx.com/Bean.html
Miro: http://www.getmiro.com
AquaMacs Emac: http://aquamacs.org
Scribblet: http://not-salad.net/scribblet
Hidden Cleaner: http://backomattick.blogspot.com
Grand Perspective: http://grandperspectiv.sourceforge.net
MindNode: http://www.mindnode.com
Allison Sheridan from the NosillaCast Podcast cannot join us this week.
David Sparks from MacSparky joins us this week and review:
Delicious Library 2: http://www.delicious-monster.com/
Chris Marshall from ChrisMarshall.ws joins us and we talk about:
TuneBar 4: http://tomhancocks.com
Then Lola Wong is back with the MacReviewCast Lounge.
iPod Games: http://www.apple.com/games/ipod/
Developer, Danny Greg cannot join us today.
Get 15% off BitClamp by using the Code “SURFBITS” at crimsonskysoftware.com.
Jeff Powell joins us today. He talks about:
Apple Design Awards 2008:
Celebrating the best in iPhone and Mac application development.
http://developer.apple.com/wwdc/ada/
Cory Doctorow’s Little Brother – http://craphound.com/littlebrother/
MacMer’s Top 5 Screen Savers for Mac OS X 10.5 – http://www.macmerc.com/news/macmerc/4514
Mac PGP/Encryption Callout – powellj(at)mac.com
Darren Rolfe from MacWingNut.com cannot join us today.
Robert Lachman, L.A.Times Staff Photographer cannot join us. His Web site is PhotographyandtheMac.com,
We have Don McAllister from ScreenCastsOnline joining us every other week to talk about his new free screencast: EverNote
A full membership of ScreenCastsOnline Extra! for 6 months which includes:
The next 26 weekly shows via iTunes or direct download,
Immediate access to a catalogue of over 140 DRM free tutorials,
The tutorials are in HD, Apple TV, iPod and iPhone format,
Access to a special members only site.
The usual cost for the full 6 month membership is only $49 but they can get a 15% discount by using the coupon code MRC2008 bringing it down to $41.65 for the full six months.
Try the new ENHANCED version of the MacReviewCast:
And now we have the Podcast in Bit-Torrent Feeds! …
You can either click on the podcast link on the left and listen to it via QT from the browser, or you can right click on the podcast link and choose to “download linked file”. That will download the mp3 and you can play it from you hard drive with iTunes.
The right link below is the URL for the podcast RSS feed. Just right click it and choose to copy the address and then paste it in your podcast reader, or ipodder, or newsreader that will download enclosures automatically.
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Continue reading about The MacReviewcast #164: Delicious Library 2, iPod Games, The Lounge
Appletell had a couple of interesting posts this week. I wanted to share them with you. I think the idea here is that the world is starting to recognize the amazing hardware and applications that us Mac users have known existed for years. * Business Week recently ranked Apple the #2 performing Tech company in [...]
In honor of Mac Enthusiast Dads, users can get both ShutterBug and ImageWell for one low price of $29.95 (CAD). From June 11 – June 15, users can purchase ShutterBug for $29.95 (regular price is $39.95). Anyone who purchases SB at the special Dad price will also receive a free copy of ImageWell (reg $19.95). [...]
The update to DEVONagent 2.3.1 brings a large number of smaller improvements as well as updated search engine plugins, scanner plugins, and default search sets. New functions include the ability to open RSS feeds in the default feed reader and a button for easily saving PDF files directly from the built-in web browser.
