We will be in room 2008 today at Moscone West at 2:00 PM here at Macworld Expo. Come sit down, and enjoy an hour with Tim and Guy!
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Shorter than usual but taking probably twice as long as it needed to since nearly everything was created and edited on iOS. Tim and Guy run through the latest stuff found at the Macworld/iWorld Expo before Guy has four recorded bits with various show vendors.
Some links:
Office(2)HD by Bytesquared
Mackeeper 2012 by Zeobite
BusyCal by Busymac Software
RapidWeaver 5 by Realmac Software.
Vicki Stokes, Ron Wayne, Larry Grinnell at the TUAW Party, 26 January 2012
Thursday started with the traditional MyMac.com breakfast at Mel’s Diner. From there, we walked to Moscone West and set up camp in the media room. Again, copious quantities of lukewarm Starbucks coffee and a selection of soft drinks were available.
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Tim Robertson sits with a variety of guests for the first Macworld Expo iWorld show of 2012. Guests include Steve Sande of TUAW as well as Guy, Larry, Nemo, Sam, Vicky, and Tom of MyMac.com! This is day one, so look for two more shows this week, and be sure to catch Tim on the MyMac Podcast all week long
10AM at room 2020, Moscone West!
Appalooza: Productivity Apps
Sam Levin, Host, AppMinute
Tim Robertson, Founder, MyMac.com
Watch, listen and engage with Sam & Tim as they show the coolest ways to be productive on your iOS devices!
What kind of Apps and what do they do?
AudioNote:
- Draw/type notes while recording an audio note.. and that the audio is synced to your notes on the fly.
Penultimate:
Snap a photo or draw over it to design your new room. Share on the fly or watch it on a large screen.
EverNote:
Take notes on the fly, save favorite web pages, work/share with colleagues, share content seamlessly with friends/family.. it’s your iOS digital storage locker!
Baby Monitor:
- Watch live video from any iPad/iPhone/touch. Baby Monitor will even send a text if your child moves around!
…and possibly other really cool apps…
BONUS: we have several surprises! Attend this special presentation and see what Sam and Tim have up their sleeves!
I got in to San Francisco on Tuesday afternoon following a lovely flight. I had accumulated a sufficiently large number of miles thanks to traveling a great deal for my former employer, and decided to cut the final cord by cashing in these miles to make the flight from West Palm Beach (Florida) to San Francisco sitting in the relative comfort of the first class cabin. Frankly, the seats, wide and recliney as they were, were still somewhat uncomfortable on a long cross-country flight. Like a lot of American males, I suffer from a severe lack of fat cells in my posterior region (think Hank Hill from the cartoon King of the Hill), so I lack the necessary cushioning for extended seating. Instead, all the fat cells that should have been in the posterior are in my expansive belly, but that is clearly too much information.
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We are off to the races before the Macworld Expo – iWorld 2012 show even officially kicks off. A large contengent of MyMac.com writers and podcasts are on hand to kick off the event on a shorter than normal podcast!
iPad 2: The Missing Manual, Third Edition
Author: J.D. Biersdorfer
Publisher: O’Reilly Media
Print ISBN: 978-1-4493-1616-7 | ISBN 10: 1-4493-1616-6
Ebook ISBN: 978-1-4493-1676-1 | ISBN 10: 1-4493-1676-X
Price: eBook US$19.99. Print US$24.99
Besides death and taxes, the only other guarantee in life is Apple will never incorporate a printed manual with any release of the iPad.
Experienced users see the benefit of no longer having a manual, while new users to the platform can be left perplexed.
Luckily O’Reilly Media and author J. D. Biersdorfer have collaborated to release iPad 2: The Missing Manual for all those consumers who wish to know more about their iPad 2.
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So this year, the MyMac staff will be out in full force, and we are inviting anyone who plans to be at Macworld Expo / iWorld on Wednesday, January 25th at noon to meet up! We will be parked outside of Moscone West at noon, in front of the main doors. (See picture above.) We plan on hanging out for a little while before heading over to Mels for a lunch. Come on out, meet the writers and reviewers from MyMac, as well as Guy Serle of the MyMac.com Podcast, and Tim Robertson, host of TechFan Podcast.
Where: Moscone West Main Doors
When: Wednesday Jan. 25th @ 12:00 PM (Noon)
Who: You! Readers, Vendors, Media, Podcasters, Podcast Listeners!
Why: To say hi, hang out, get some food.
Send us a message on Twitter if you plan on coming so we can keep an eye out for you!
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As said previously, I’m going all iOS this year. That means all audio, blogging, and video editing must be done strictly with the hardware and software only available through Apple’s iOS ecosystem and nothing else.
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The future, what do you mean? How can we be in the future?
For decades many of us have been in awe of the possibility of the future. Not that long ago the thought of carrying a single panel computer capable of presenting music, film, books, and games was nothing more than science fiction.
I live by the belief that if man can envisage it, people can create it.
Of course, there is the possibility of going too far, as is famously shown in Planet Of The Apes, circa 1968.
For now we can sit back and relax with a small and hopefully harmless portion of technology that seemingly has the effect of enhancing our lives.
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Part 3 (Read Part 1 here, or Part 2 here)
Back in September, I decided to see if USB 3 was worth my time and money. I installed a USB 3 PCI card (CalDigit SuperSpeed USB 3.0 Card - $79.00 USD) in my Mac Pro and set out to take a look at drives that offered USB 3 as an interface option.
As you can see in this chart, USB 3 is advertised as being much faster than USB 2 or Firewire 800, but much slower than Thunderbolt.
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NuTouch Gloves
Company: Newer Technology
Price: $19.99
I live in the Northeast region of the United States, where every winter, cold is a way of life. Using your iPhone or other smartphone outside is not a pleasant experience: either you’re unable to manipulate the screen with a gloved hand, or you need to remove your gloves to use the phone. Neither option is a good choice.
Enter NuTouch Gloves by Newer Technology, the perfect marriage of convenience and warmth.
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WiPNET Cable Ethernet Adapter
Company: Wi3 Inc.
Price: about $175 each (at least two required), available now
This review is pretty long, but I wanted to share with you, dear reader, the thought process that went into my home network architecture, and how wrong I was about a lot of things. I also wanted you to see a few of the challenges you may or may not experience when performing network surgery. Maybe you can learn from my (expensive) mistakes.
I don’t know about your situation, but my home network is a wreck. It’s a mishmash of 2.4 and 5 GHz systems, some power line Ethernet, and some long stretches of CAT5 cable running under my carpet, etc. I have tried almost everything in an effort to get better throughput to and from my media server, a 7.5 terabyte Synology DS-509+ NAS that I use to back up the main NAS, to my 1.83 GHz Core 2 Duo Mac mini (and my HDTV) without dropped frames and jittery display. Likewise I wanted better performance maintaining a large iTunes media collection.
If only it were easy.
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