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Tim and Chad talk with Neil Bauman of GeekCruises.com. We also look at the latest in Mac and iPod news, and much more.
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Photoshop Elements 4: The Missing Manual
by Barbara Brundage
O’Reilly Press
ISBN: 0-596-10158-9 510 Pages
http://www.oreilly.com
Price: US $39.95 CAN $55.95
Remember the days when you’d rush to the special software store to buy the latest release of your favorite software application? And the long walk to wherever lugging that heavy User’s Manual? You ask, “What’s a User’s Manual?” It’s that thick volume that covers every aspect of an application, including explanations and examples of every feature offered. Typically, it also includes some information on the technology behind the scenes. It makes it possible to just jump right into a new program and learn how to make it work for you, without hiring a personal tutor or taking an expensive two-day training course. Well, worry not! Photoshop Elements 4: The Missing Manual, is here to fill that gap, and at a very modest price. The inside back cover announces that the missing CD-ROM means that you just saved $5.00 and that all the add-on software is instead available for download from the dedicated web site.
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David Cohen and John Nemo return this week with a new MyMac Mini Podcast. On Fenestration 4, David looks at some Mac in a Windows World news. John gives us a look at web-based email offerings.
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As an Apple baby and a hopeless demi-techie, when I need help setting up a new piece of equipment, I NEED HELP. Most of the time I can read through instructions a couple of hundred times, and with the luminance of a 25 watt bulb I finally get the idea and I can successfully have my stuff working. But every once in a while instructions are either written by illegal aliens from Planet X, or folks who don’t seem to understand that most of us out there who want to take advantage of the new technologies are cluelessly wired in analog. Yeah, yeah, I know. Learn the language and maybe you won’t have so much trouble, buddy. I’m trying, folks. I really am. But I’ve only got so much time and talent to devote to technology. With help from my friends, I’ll get better.
Since MyMac.com Podcast 93 we learned a new world – Ubuntu. I thought I quickly let you all in on how you can testdrive Ubuntu Linux without installing a single file on your computer.
First of all let’s talk about Ubuntu. According to the Ubuntu Website the name means “humanity to others”.
It is a free, open source operating system based on Debian Linux and a release coming out every six month. Every release will be supported for 18 months to come, so it adds a bit of reliability to your Linux experience.
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This week, we chat with David Every and John Martellaro about WWDC and the latest product announcements from Apple. We also play some feedback, talk about the latest Mac news, and more. Check it out!
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The TriBoot MacBook Pro.
Apple discussed a little bit about Leopard and software directions.
It is interesting to note that Leopard slipped a little bit; originally Apple was targeting end of 2006, now along with Vista, they’re targeting Spring ’07. I’ll be interested to hear the state of Leopard from the developers; is it Beta quality or only Alpha/development, and so on. If it isn’t mature, that signals that Apple is doing lots of foundation things that take a lot of time (and impact a lot of stuff). If it is mature, and I suspect it is, it signals something else. Apple probably wants to make sure they’re AFTER Microsoft in release in order steal thunder. MS says, “look at our best”, and immediately Apple starts a campaign, cutting the wind out of their sales, with their release which says, “and look at what we offer”. Or the old, “if you have to upgrade anyways, why not upgrade to the best”.
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Rolling on from the success of the first batch of PowerBooks, Apple released not only new models, such as the PowerBook 180c (the first to have an active matrix colour display), but also a whole new line of sub-notebooks, the Duos, in 1992. These were more than simply scaled-down PowerBooks. Plugged into any one of a range of devices called Docks the Duo instantly became the heart of a desktop computer system. The Dock connected the Duo to the monitor, keyboard, and mouse, as well as any network connections or printers. In effect, the Duo delivered what Apple called the best of both worlds: the mobility of a laptop coupled with the versatility of a desktop. In its most perfect form, the Duo would mechanically be pulled into the desktop computer-sized Duo Dock like a tape cassette into a video recorder, and be ejected in the same, very satisfying way. While a wonder to look at and fun to use, the Duos did not sell especially well, most probably because a complete system worked out to be rather expensive. Many Duo owners simply used them as lightweight alternatives to the regular PowerBooks, either instead of, or as well as, a desktop Mac.
Have you ever had the need for a program to run when your computer starts up? Maybe you want a utility running, or maybe you just want Mail to open and check your email. Some applications have a preference to set this up for you, but if not, you can do this within the Account System Preference.
To get to the Accounts Preference you want to go to the Apple Menu, choose System Preferences, and on the fifth row down you’ll see Accounts. Click this icon.
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Fenestration is back with David Cohen, Robert Hazelrigg reviews the WiebeTech SilverSATA II, Nemo tlks about the From The Top radio program, and Guy Serle’s DashBoard Minute looks at two of the best widgets of all time. Also, MyMac.com publisher Tim Robertson makes a special announcement about our 100th episode at the end of the show.
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Apple had their WWDC keynote yesterday, and announced lots of new stuff. Some people were disappointed that they didn’t release more products, but as I mentioned in my article right before the show, this probably isn’t the right venue for too many products, and Apple generally likes to keep releases more focused. The “don’t overwhelm customers with too much at once” strategy of marketing. So keeping it on-topic with “Pro-line” of Macs and Leopard makes a lot of sense. This article is about the hardware announcements, I’ll go into the Software / Leopard stuff in another article.
It makes sense that Apple went with the Xeon (Woodcrest) processor. Mac OS’s advantage is in MP. Apple designs good high end machines, and so it makes sense to come out with the high end boxes first. Plus the other processor isn’t even released yet.
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I currently subscribe to 99 podcasts, and now that I have a ton of content to listen to I need a better way to manage all of the data. I employ several Smart Lists to assist me with separating categories and iPod syncing, but I wish it were easier to manage them.
If I had my way I’d create a way in the main Podcast library to see which Podcast is in what Smart List. Color coding would be a nice, easy way to handle that. Also, why, oh, why can’t I just drag and drop a Podcast from the Podcast library onto a Smart Play List to be added automatically? And it makes me NUTS that if I want to search for new Podcasts and want to listen to more then one of them, I have to continuously go back and recreate my search to re-find what I just found. Hey Apple! Why can’t I have a BACK button after I hit subscribe?
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There’s a lot of products rumored for WWDC. I’m NOT a rumor guy, if Apple told me anything, I wouldn’t write about it. But I am a business and strategy guy, that thinks about what I’d do if I was Steve/Apple. And I’ve got a history with Apple and going to WWDC, so I can at least mention what might happen, based on what has happened before (and why).
Apple has released new products at WWDC before, but usually they are laptops or pro-type computers. The supposed purpose of the show is to talk to developers, and get them excited about new OS releases (or hardware changes that are coming), so the 3rd party software developers (and their programs) will take advantage of it. So the products TEND to be focused around things that would excite developers.
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FlickrExport 2
Company: Connected Flow
Price: £12 + VAT
http://connectedflow.com/flickrexport/
System Requirements:
FlickrExport requires Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther) or later on PowerPC Macs and 10.4 or later on Intel Macs – with iPhoto 4.x, 5.x or 6.x installed.
Owen recently observed in his blog here at mymac.com that it is time to unplug. He states “Lastly, I am also saddened by the proliferation of cheap digital cameras as more and more people can now NOT see where they actually are without the camera.”
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With only days left, the Podcast crew talk up what they hope Steve Jobs reveals during his big WWDC keynote. What is going on with MacHome Magazine? Are they done publishing? Will they answer the telephone or return emails? What about the subscribers? Tim Robertson investigates. Also, MyMac.com welcomes Sam’s Cool Mac Picks from none other than Sam Levin!
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The first Apple PowerBook, the PowerBook 100, was released fifteen years ago, and while there are clearly substantial differences between that machine and the last of the PowerBooks, the PowerBook G4, these two machines just as obviously part of the same family of computers. While it is certainly true that Apple didn’t invent the notebook computer, the influence of the design of the PowerBooks on the computer industry generally have been profound.
Early portable computers were large, weighty, awkward to use, and very expensive. A key problem was that no one really knew what a portable computer would be used for. Some of the more popular ones were similar to the PDA devices used today and came with their own, proprietary applications such as databases that allowed the user to perform useful tasks on the go, but the majority were essentially used as moveable workstations. It was assumed that the majority of users would be professionals such as salesmen, accountants, and engineers who would need to take their computer to an office away from their home base to give presentations or otherwise display information and ideas. There really wasn’t much sense that people would actually use their computers on trains and planes, or that there was a market for small, inexpensive portable computers that students and home office workers might use.
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Have you ever noticed how slow it is to transfer files to and from your iDisk by dragging and dropping? At times, the transfer speed can be painfully slow. Well, there is a solution out there in a free program called Goliath by Thomas Bednarz. It is not Intel native, but it will work fine on Intel machines. Just make sure you download the right version for your OS. It is available for OS9 and OSX.
*Note- This is not a review of Goliath. I am just presenting a “How To” on using Goliath to speed up iDisk. I am not going to go into all the features of Goliath, except what is needed for this process.*
To access your iDisk account through Goliath you want to click “Cancel” on the window that appears when you open the program.
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