This week we look at Twitter, ScreenFlow, Snowflake Mic 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:
TeamViewer: http://www.teamviewer.com
Screenium: http://www.synium.de
Kenbushi Pro : http://www.lavasoftware.com
Allison Sheridan from the NosillaCast Podcast cannot join us this week.
David Sparks from MacSparky cannot join us this week.
Chris Marshall from ChrisMarshall.ws joins us and we talk about:
DEVONtechnologies DEVONthink Pro 2.0 Coming Soon!
ScreenFlow: http://www.flip4mac.com
Then Lola Wong is off this week this week.
Jeff Powell cannot join us today.
Darren Rolfe from MacWingNut.com joins us today. He looks at:
The SnowFlake USB Portable Mic: http://www.bluemic.com
Robert Lachman, L.A.Times Staff Photographer cannot join us this week. His Web site is PhotographyandtheMac.com
We have Don McAllister from ScreenCastsOnline joining us every other week to talk about his new free screencast: Twitter
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! 
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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 have a requirement to show a web site that I designed in an environment where there will be no Internet access, and the site was built running a server side script and so won’t play on a computer normally.
Solution was fairly simple, create a screencast style video of the site, a walk through tour, that could be shown (on both a Mac and a PC) i.e. Quicktime format.
Screen Flow is really easy to use. Before each recording you select which screen to capture from (if you have dual screens it gives you both to select from), how you want to capture your audio (iSight, external Mic etc), and if you want to capture audio from the computer and video through the iSight. That covers pretty much every option I could think of!
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By David Sparks: This week I’m looking at the latest release of the popular Mac Web design application, RapidWeaver 4. There really are two kinds of web designers: the ninja coders and the unwashed masses like myself who actually lose IQ points just from looking at CSS code. Strangely, I’m okay with that. While I [...]
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Hey Tim – it’s been a long time! I’ve been going crazy between vacation, the New Media Expo, taking my son on college tours – and now I’m in the airport waiting for a DELAYED flight to Virginia to visit a friend. Delayed is the good news for everyone, because that gave me time to make this entry.
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This week we look at RapidWeaver, NetNewsWire, Mactastic for the Mac 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:
TeamViewer: http://www.teamviewer.com
Drop.io: http://drop.io
Nokia Phone Sync: http://europe.nokia.com/A4299040
Nokia Multimedia Transfer: http://europe.nokia.com/A4423134
GazMaz Joins us for a review of: NetNewswire
Podcast Assistant: Google Doc
Keyword Master: http://iaos.narod.ru
LockDown: http://www.foozoodesign.com/lockdown.html
Syrinx: http://www.mrrsoftware.com/MRRSoftware/Syrinx.html
Allison Sheridan from the NosillaCast Podcast joins us this week. She talks about:
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com
MobileMe: http://www.me.com
David Sparks from MacSparky joins us this week. He looks at:
RapidWeaver 4: http://www.realmacsoftware.com
Chris Marshall from ChrisMarshall.ws joins us and we talk about:
DEVONtechnologies DEVONthink Pro 2.0 Coming Soon!
Then we continue our debate about trashing Apple.
Then Lola Wong is off this week this week.
Developer, Danny Greg cannot join us today.
Jeff Powell joins us today. He looks at:
Mactastic: http://www.mactastic.net
Darren Rolfe from MacWingNut.com cannot join us today.
Robert Lachman, L.A.Times Staff Photographer cannot join us this week. His Web site is PhotographyandtheMac.com
We have Don McAllister from ScreenCastsOnline joining us every other week to talk about his new free screencast: MobileME
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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Sparks:
I hate using my flash. Nothing destroys a picture more then the shiny foreheads, reflective eyeglasses, and the nuclear glow that show up in my pictures every time I pop open the built in flash. Now I know there’s a way to intelligently use the flash in your photographs. My friend, Robert Lachman, is a wizard at it. Unfortunately, I am not. I would like to say this is a result of the fact I’m too cheap to buy a separate flash for my camera but, most likely, it boils down to fundamental incompetence on my part.
So my way to get around this problem is to simply not use the flash. And my number one tool for this strategy is my very favorite lens, a 50 mm 1.4 aperture lens I affectionately call the “nifty fifty.” This lens opens so wide, that I can use it to take dark pictures indoors and usually get away with it. My secret, in addition to the nifty fifty, is my complete lack of respect for the ISO setting on my camera. I often crank up the ISO setting to 400, 800, and even 1600 in effort to avoid using the dreaded flash. The result of these high settings, however, is that the pictures come out noisy artifacts, grain, and otherwise don’t seem to cut the mustard.
I’ve been complaining of late that the Trouble with MobileMe should have deserved a 30 day free extension to MobileMe, but I never received that email from Apple. My bad. Apple just sent me this email,
This week I am going to review Alien Skin’s software, Exposure 2, the Photoshop and Photoshop Elements’ plug-in to give your photographs the look of film. It’s a one-click way to give photographs that edgy, arty, cross-processed film look. It also can be used to add a soft focus glamour look, change your color photographs to black-and-white.
This week we look at Exposure 2, Noise Ninja, Freeware for the Mac 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:
KeyWack: http://homepage.mac.com/holymackerel
Ventrilo: http://ventrilo.com
Katsura Software: http://www.katsurashareware.com
DriveGauge: http://www.infinitenexus.com
MacCam: http://webcam-osx.sourceforge.net
Time Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/time-tracker-mac
iMedia Browser: http://karelia.com/imedia
Allison Sheridan from the NosillaCast Podcast cannot join us this week.
David Sparks from MacSparky joins us this week. He looks at:
Noise Ninja: http://www.picturecode.com
Chris Marshall from ChrisMarshall.ws joins us and we talk about:
DEVONtechnologies DEVONthink Pro 2.0 Coming Soon!
FoneLink: http://www.novamedia
Then Lola Wong is off this week this week.
Developer, Danny Greg cannot join us today.
Jeff Powell cannot join us today.
Darren Rolfe from MacWingNut.com cannot join us today.
Robert Lachman, L.A.Times Staff Photographer joins us. His Web site is PhotographyandtheMac.com This week he reviews:
Exposure 2: http://www.alienskin.com/exposure
We have Don McAllister from ScreenCastsOnline joining us every other week to talk about his new free screencast: MobileME
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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One of the most requested topics that I receive for the MacReviewCast.com podcast is for family friendly freeware. One of the strengths of the Mac has always been in the field of education and home usability. Many young people were trained on a Mac in school, and as they grew up they kept a Mac in their home. This all led to a strong software base for educational freeware on the Mac, so let’s look at a few of these apps for a variety of different ages.
After spending a week in Montreal, I wanted to get back into uploading some of my photos onto flickr, I discovered I had a few sets on a rogue account and after doing a bit of research, I discovered a few things about flickr:
The latest rage with digital photography is high dynamic range imaging. The problem faced by anyone holding a camera is that the dynamic range of their camera sensor is a fraction of that available to the human eye. Put simply, that gorgeous sunset and dark foreground you’re looking at simply cannot be captured with a single exposure from your camera.
We kept getting the “new improved Vista” shoved down our throats over the last few months. Microsoft was sick of Apple commercials and podcasting pundits trashing Vista. Vista was suppose to be safer to run and it did look better then any other Windows version. Well according to hackinthebox.org, the “safer” part is out the [...]
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This week we look at Hydra, Flickr Downloaders, Freeware for the Mac 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:
DockDrop: http://dockdropx.com/index.php
ebaytoical: http://www.kortenkamps.net
RSSMenu: http://www.edot-studios.com
GarageBuy: http://www.iwascoding.com/GarageBuy
Pastor: http://www.mehlau.net/pastor
iCHM: http://www.robinlu.com/blog/ichm
TimeMachineEditor: http://timesoftware.free.fr/timemachineeditor
QuickApps: http://www.giantrobotsoftware.com/quickapps.php
HookUp: http://www.dottunes.net
Allison Sheridan from the NosillaCast Podcast cannot join us this week.
David Sparks from MacSparky joins us this week. He looks at:
Hydra: http://www.creaceed.com/hydra
Chris Marshall from ChrisMarshall.ws joins us and we talk about:
DEVONtechnologies DEVONthink Pro 2.0 Coming Soon! With the President of DEVONtechnologies Eric Böhnisch-Volkmann.
Then Lola Wong is back with a review this week. She looks at:
Flickr Downloading Alternatives:
Sniper: http://blakeseely.com
FlickrBackup: http://sunkencity.org
Developer, Danny Greg cannot join us today.
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: MobileME
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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Ok – so you know how last week I was all about in with the old and out with the new? Well, a big part of my recycling/reselling technique also involves protecting my newly purchased items.
Exhibit A: i just bought myself a new Apple Aluminum wireless keyboard (Man, are these are tiny!) and like my iPod and iPhone, my first thought is “Oooh Shiny!” My second thought usually is, “How am I gonna keep this shiny?”
