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A podcast about all things Macintosh. For Mac geeks, by Mac geeks. Episode 317. Safari 5.0.2 Software Update. iOS 4.1 release. New iPods are out. Details emerge. AirPlay streams outside Apple. Apple allows 3rd party iOS development tools. Apple gives Developers Guidelines. Maccast One Minute Tip: Secure Delete. Thoughts on Ping. iTunes 10 tricks. HTML 5 local database files. Field test your iPhone signal. Location can improve wi-fi. I’ll be at Mac Computer Expo 2010

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EOL: Son of Newton (via MacMerc)

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A podcast about all things Macintosh. For Mac geeks, by Mac geeks. Episode 040. How to hack your dock to operate in single-application mode. Plus, some additional commands and modifier keys you can use with OS X’s Dock.

Command to enable single app mode using the Terminal:
1) Type defaults write com.apple.dock single-app -bool true
2) Press Enter
3) Type killall Dock
4) Press Enter

Command to disable single app mode using the Terminal:
1) Type defaults write com.apple.dock single-app -bool false
2) Press Enter
3) Type killall Dock
4) Press Enter.

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A podcast about all things Macintosh. For Mac geeks, by Mac geeks. Episode 039. iTunes is approaching it’s 10th birthday and this week Apple gave us the 10th version of the venerable music management app. Trouble is that iTunes isn’t just about the tunes anymore and our almost 10 year old may be suffering from it’s own bout of childhood obesity.

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Wade Roush’s piece on Xconomy.com

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A podcast about all things Macintosh. For Mac geeks, by Mac geeks. Episode 316. Apple Music Event. iOS Updates. iOS 4.1 preview. iOS 4.2 sneak peak. All New iPods. iPod Shuffle. iPod Nano. iPod touch. iTunes 10. Apple TV, one more hobby… Odds and ends from todays announcements. PDF images not viewable on iOS 4. Multiple displays with your Mac. HD video import options in iMovie.

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Join us for a live Maccast Skype chat starting at around 7:30 AM PT. We’ll have the conversation going until the end of Apple’s live September 2010 Music Event which starts today (09/01) at 10:00 AM PT. We are using Skype, so if you have Skype already installed, use the link below to join If you don’t have Skype you can download it and use it for free at Skype.com. The Skype room limit is 150, so it will still be first come first served. See you there.

Apple is live streaming this one!
For the first time in years Apple will be live video streaming an event. Watch apple.com for details.

Live blog links we’ll be following:
Apple
GDGT
Engadget
MacNN
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MacLife

Windows Users: Looks like Skype removed the group chat feature as of version 4.0, so you’ll have to be on a Mac for this to work. Sorry.

A podcast about all things Macintosh. For Mac geeks, by Mac geeks. Episode 038. We take a deeper look at archival storage. How can we protect our data for the long term? What are our options and what kinds of things should we think about when developing a strategy for our archived data.

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SuperDuper
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USB 2.0 Universal Drive Adapter
Voyager Hard Drive Dock
StoraDrive Cases
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Hudzee Hard Drive Cases (Think Geek)

A podcast about all things Macintosh. For Mac geeks, by Mac geeks. Episode 037. A few people have asked if I would re-cover my procedure for doing a full erase and re-install of Mac OS X, so in this episode I do just that.

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Super Duper
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Wallet

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A podcast about all things Macintosh. For Mac geeks, by Mac geeks. Show 315. They’re back. My friends Victor Cajiao (Typical Mac User) and Ken Ray (Mac OS Ken) agreed to meet me yet again inside the digital depths of Skype to converse on anything Apple that crossed our minds. This is unrehearsed, unplanned, and unscripted Mac geekery at it’s best. Just hit record and let the bits fly.

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Typical Mac User
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Know Tech

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A podcast about all things Macintosh. For Mac geeks, by Mac geeks. Episode 036. In this show we take a look at creating aliases in Mac OS X and how exactly it works. We also explore their advantages and disadvantages over the more basic UNIX (and sometimes more powerful) symbolic link.

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A podcast about all things Macintosh. For Mac geeks, by Mac geeks. Episode 035. Setting up, remembering, and using secure passwords doesn’t have to be hard and is something that we all know we need to do. This episode offers some tips, advice, and tools to help you secure your accounts and your Mac.

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