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A podcast about all things Macintosh. For Mac geeks, by Mac geeks. Show 118. Apple cuts prices on 20″ G5 iMac. Adobe releases details on Universal products, Intel iBooks rumored. Lawsuit alleges iPod causes hearing loss. Comments on VidBits and MacRoundtable. iWork review. Mac alternatives for MS Project. Getting past 33 min GarageBand recording limit. Feedback on Darwine. The iMac international pricing debate continues. You can password protect iWeb sites. Tip for running Powerbooks and MacBooks with lid shut. Loud Intel Mac? May be your hard drive brand. British Royal Navy’s new fleet of destroyers with iPod docks. Buy your Senator an iPod. My thoughts on a Mac home media center concept.

New music, Oxygen for Two by Redefining the Moment

Broaden your minds — have another beer. Have two!

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This web site was featured on Command-N and when I took a look I thought it was definitely worth sharing. Mike Davidson, the CEO of Newsvine, recently ran a contest on his blog asking people to submit movie posters featuring our favorite CEO Steve Jobs. The results are pretty funny. There are a lot of creative and talented people out there, some with pretty twisted senses of humor.

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A podcast about all things Macintosh. For Mac geeks, by Mac geeks. VidBit 003. Our friend Mike Caputo from Animation Bureau is back. This time he has a product to help reduce some of the gadget clutter we all suffer from. Skullcandys new line of Link headphone products allow you to connect any iPod and almost any cell phone to one set of headphones or earbuds. I say any product designed to help me reduce the number of wires in my laptop bag is a good one. Enjoy.

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Thanks to the dedicated efforts of MacCast listeners and fans Joe “The Dead Herring” Sayer and Matt Hoult, I am pleased to announce the immediate availability of the MacCast Dashboard Widget. Now you can stay up to date with the MacCast website without ever leaving the comfort of OS X. You can even search the blog right from the widget. Enjoy.

UPDATE: Listener Jason Saunders made some visual updates and added a Dashboard icon.

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A podcast about all things Macintosh. For Mac geeks, by Mac geeks. Mac Roundtable Podcast #002. Hey Mac Geeks. This is a special edition of the MacCast. A quick note to fill you in on some things that have been hapening including… an interview with the new podcasting magazine ID3. Listen for my special appearance on the My Trivia Podcast real soon. And finally, I proudly present to you a new podcast. The Mac Roundtable Podcast. This is going to be a weekly podcast in the roundtable format about all things Macintosh. We have four top Mac podcasters, Joseph Nilo (Mac Pro Podcast and Podcaster Confessions), Tim Verpoorten (Mac Reviewcast), Steve Stanger (Mac Attack) and myself (MacCast) and we take a few select Mac topics each week and have an in-depth lively discussion. This week we discuss the push to get the new Intel Macs to run Windows, should it even be done and why. Disneys purchase of Pixar and what it means for Disney and Apple. Should you buy a new Intel Mac or stick with a trusty G5? How do we create a podcast? What software and gear do we use? What are the newest favorite applications on our Macs? And much much more. Eventually the show will have it’s own feed, but for now I’d like your feedback. maccast@gmail.com
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A podcast about all things Macintosh. For Mac geeks, by Mac geeks. Show 117. Disney purchases Pixar. Intel announces 45nm chip success. Early Intel release slowing G5 sales. Old holes may make OS X vulnerable to hackers. Apple to open second London retail store. No “crossgrade” charge for Aperture. MacSpeedZone questions MacWorlds Core Duo Mac speed tests. Next Mac OS X update in the works. Next generation Finder may be in development. You’re not paranoid, your Mac is watching you. Is .Mac Homepage going extinct? More details on MacBook battery life. iWork and Microsoft Word compatibility. How to access the AIFF file in a Gragband 3 podcast project. More PowerBook issues, audio echos and stuttering. CPU Errata is common, not just an Intel Core Duo issue. New .Mac feature, access iDisk from your browser. Lots of feedback and support for Adobe Lightroom. Correction, The Loved Ones was the band on the last show, Jade Tree was their label.

New music, Perfecting Loneliness by Jets To Brazil

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I love it when a plan comes together.

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The iTunes music store has been updated with a bunch of new video content from MTV, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, NBC and others like Channel N (???). Now you can get Dora the Explorer, Sponge Bob, Bevis and Butthead, South Park and more great 80s content like the A-Team. “I love it when a plan comes together”. There is a lot more there too. If you haven’t checked out the TV section in a while go over and see for yourself. It keeps getting better and better.

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A podcast about all things Macintosh. For Mac geeks, by Mac geeks. Show 116. iWork is the No. 2 Office suite in the US. Intel Macs, XP no, RedHat Linux maybe? Jobs reveals how to compete with the iPod. In the “real world” Intel Macs prove not quite as speedy. Intels new Core processors shipping with 34 errata. Apple launches PowerBook lower memory slot repair program. Amazon.com offering big rebates on new Mac products. Follow-up on OpenOSX WinTel 2.0 performance. Review of Apple photo management applications. Follow-up on issues with Nikon white balance in Aperture and Lightroom. Mixed reviews of Flip4Mac. Listener feedback on MacBook PCMCIA and Garmin GPS. iMac International pricing mystery solved? Apple “Solutions” expert reveals MacBook battery life? Most of the time if your Mac is broken it’s your fault. The “Mac Geek is listening to…” software. Mac switcher song now available for free download. Free Mac Mini car install PDF from MacFormat.

New music, 100K by The Loved Ones

That’s how it ends, Doc. Not with a bang, or a whimper, but with a “thwack.”

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Correction: I made an error with the name of the band featured on this episode. The band is called The Loved Ones, Jade Tree is the label.

So how many of you are like me and have imported music into their iTunes library (while not connected to the Internet) and ended up with names like “Track 1”, “Track 2”, etc.? Personally, I am just too lazy to go track down the original CD and look on the back or in the liner notes to get the info. Now, I have a couple of those music loving friends who can name a track in an instant after hearing it, but they never seem to be around when I want to update the ID3 tags on my tunes, strange. Anyway, it turns out now I don’t need them thanks to an app called Tunatic. This app works just like your music loving, know-it-all friend. It listens to the track played from any source into your Macs mic, captures its musical “signature” and then goes out to an on-line database and returns the artist and song title information. It is pretty amazing. I wish it also had an option to just listen to the audio going to my Macs speaker, but because it uses the mic you have the advantage of letting listen to external audio sources like the radio or your TV. Think, playback the audio from that commercial on your TiVo that has the song you can’t seem to pinpoint. I tried it with several tracks played in iTunes into my iBooks built in mic and it returned the correct information every time. I am sure it will not always be 100% accurate, but for the convenience this app is staying in my iTunes utility belt.

Update: Here is another app that does a similar function iEatBrainz. This one listens to the song playing directly from iTunes, no mic required.

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A podcast about all things Macintosh. For Mac geeks, by Mac geeks. Show 115. The great Mac boot debate, will Intel Macs boot Windows? Microsoft halts Media Player development for OS X. Hidden message tells hackers, “Don’t steal OS X”. Jobs email offers rebuttal to a 1997 Michael Dell statement. Mac Sales subdued in 4th Quarter, but profits still up. Apple yields to Mini Store pressure and adds warning. Apple/Sony BMG real a deal for iTunes Australia. Apple to only sell Pro apps as bundles. Apple opening second Canadian retail store. A bunch of post MacWorld tidbits. Issues subscribing to Photocasts from Windows and some tips to make it possible. How to move Podcast subscriptions between computers in iTunes. Review of Logitech Stereo USB Headset 250. Another OS X uninstaller, Yank. Video playback issues on 5G iPod after iPod 1.1 update. Question about the auto word completion “feature” in OS X solved.

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New music, Treadmill by Carmichael.

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Pooh, for a bear of very little brain, you sure are a smart one.

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