ICY DOCK
Shuttle Disk model MB124e FireWire enclosure
Company: ICY DOCK International
Price: $44.99
http://icydock.com
ICY DOCK has entered the portable FireWire enclosure market with its new MB124E ICY DOCK Shuttle Disk enclosure.
Yes gentle readers, the name is ICY DOCK, all in capital letters.
According to ICY’s PR person, the enclosure is named the Shuttle Dock as it resembles the Space Shuttle, and it shuttles data back and forth.
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The MyMac Mini Podcast returns this week with a Fenestration 11 from David Cohen, Thee Mac Guys in a hotel part 2, and a great use for a dead Firewire iPod from Robert Hazelrigg. Also up this week, Not Mac News with Guy Serle, and John Nemerovski starts a new segment, All Over the Mac.
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Work is progressing rapidly at our new flagship store up in South Burlington. I was there late last night and Matt Kiedaisch was working on installing the floor which is almost finished thanks to his (and many others!) hard work. We are putting the finishing touches on the painting and carpentry and next week the display fixtures arrive and inventory will start to be received at our new location. We are all very “pumped” about our new store and have a lot of great events planned for our grand opening. More information on that will be in this and next week’s issue of Kibbles & Bytes. There will be a lot of special values, vendor give-aways and vendor presentations. We have several of our friends from Apple coming for “Apple Day” that will include among other things, free Apple pie from the Mystic Pie company.
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Guy, Chad, and Tim wrap up the week with the latest in Macintosh news. Plus, Tim talks Vista on his MacBook Pro.
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Let me begin by saying that I have been extremely pleased with my iBook. I got it as a refurbished product right after the 1 GHz models came out for about $250 off its retail price. It is one of the 14-inch models with a built-in Airport (802.11g) card, a 32 MB graphics card, a 933Mhz G4 processor, built-in 56k modem, and a 40 GB hard drive. It has been a real workhorse over the last 2-3 years and has never given me a spot of trouble. It certainly can’t compare to one of the new MacBooks (pro or otherwise), but it has always served me faithfully no matter how much abuse I’ve put it through. Yep, what a great machine, except…..
Daylite 3
Company: Marketcircle
Price: $189 (Productivity Suite, 1-User)
http://www.marketcircle.com/
30-day free trial
(Current version: 3.1.3)
For those who were appalled to hear Steve Jobs announce, in the WWDC Keynote, that he sends e-mails to himself as ToDo reminders, you’re not alone. I was certainly amazed at this revelation.
But it’s understandable. Even the best e-mail programs today aren’t up to the task of managing a complex environment of communication, contacts, minor tasks, major projects, appointments, and personal notes.
Back in July, I was launching a project that I knew would require an e-mail program that could support the concept of a productivity suite. (I’m a Eudora user.) My first temptation was Microsoft Entourage. I knew from colleagues that Entourage supports not only e-mail but contacts, calendars, and project management. But I’m allergic to Microsoft e-mail programs because several colleagues of mine have lost e-mail using Entourage. So I looked around and discovered that Daylite 3 plus Apple’s Mail application achieve even better functionality.
I also noted that while Entourage is Carbon-based, both Daylite 3 and Apple’s Mail application are Cocoa-based. I liked that.
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MicroSound
Company: Miglia
www.miglia.com
Price: $29.99
My first reaction after seeing Miglia’s MicroSound speaker for the iPod Nano and iPod Shuffle went something like, “Wow, that is really small.” Based on the size of the speaker, the fact that it runs on 1 AAA battery, and my past experience with small battery operated speakers my expectations were not high.
To my surprise, the MicroSound performed much better than expected. I could not believe how loud such a little speaker can get.
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Stephen Johnson On Digital Photography
by Stephen Johnson
O’Reilly Media
ISBN 0-596-52370-X, 305 pages
US $39.99, CAN $55.99
If there was ever required reading for students of digital photography, Stephen Johnson’s On Digital Photography would be it. I have read other wonderful books on the subject, but none has the breadth and scope of Johnson’s work. He was there, at the beginning of the age of digital photography. By the late 1970s Johnson had already decided on photography as his career. He was guided, in part, by Ansel Adams, among others. Johnson is a true pioneer of digital photography, winning numerous awards including a Congressional Special Recognition Award for his work on behalf of Mono Lake. He teaches at the college level in his own workshop programs, and in various forums from Stanford University to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
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Believe it or not, there are still many people who barely get by using a computer. If you say “Copy and Paste” to them, they will probably look at you like a deer caught in headlights. So, I’ve decided to make a new extension of Macspiration called “Back to Basics.” For this first edition, I’ll talk about COPY and PASTE.
COPY and PASTE allows you to take part of a document and move it to another part of a document. You can even move it to a totally different document or program. You can COPY and PASTE from webpages into a word processor, or you can COPY and PASTE from graphics programs into an email. The possibilities are endless. I’m going to start with the basics, how to COPY and PASTE in a word processing document.
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The Digital Photography Book
by Scott Kelby
Peachpit Books
http://www.peachpit.com
ISBN 0-321-47404-X
219 pages
$19.99 US, $13.99 CN £13.99 UK
Author, Photoshop guru, and photographer, Scott Kelby is widely known for his popular tips books about such creative software as Adobe Photoshop CS2 and Elements, Apple’s OS X, and even tip books for the iPod.
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The Mini is back, and this time around Tim, Chad, and Guy join the show for the first of four segments. Also, Fenestration, Not Mac News, and Nemo has a partner to help him review a book on Garage Band.
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Merlin
OmniPlan
FastTrack Schedule 9
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I think I won the $1 bet with the Director of the Sugarbush Chamber of Commerce, Susan Roy, in predicting the date of “peak foliage” here in Vermont. She picked October 10th and I selected October 4th. I think peak occurred on October 3rd when I took the customer that had purchased our fall foliage ride in our last garage sale for a ride. Elliot joined Grace on the back of her bike and we went off with one of the local innkeepers for a great ride through what can only be called an autumn wonderland. It was a great excuse to take a day off from work but I was able to stop at lunch and do an interview with a reporter from the Burlington Free Press. Here’s a link to the story about our new store:
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Tim and Chad welcome Guy Serle to the show for a look at the weeks latest happening in the Mac world. PLUS, Tim looks at the Griffin Technologies Disko iPod case.
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Product: Adium 0.89.1
Company: Adiumx
Price: Freeware
http://www.adiumx.com/
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Mac OS X 10.2.7 (“Jaguar”) or later; Mac OS X 10.4 (“Tiger”) or Mac OS X 10.3.9 (“Panther”) is recommended
Instant Messaging (IM) Systems were starting to get big, when I started to use the internet – back in 1996. A few folks invented ICQ and they were soon joined by many other IM Systems. Today the market is fragmented, so much so, that many of us have more than one IM client installed at the same time. Each of these clients of course comes with their own set of cool features, but the feature I personally use most, is the basic text based chat. Having many IM clients open, means a drain on system resources.
Shure I Series Integrated Sound Isolating Earphones + Mobile Headset
Company: Shure
Price: $319
www.shure.com
You are happily listening to your tunes on your iPod when your cell phone rings. Of course, that means removing your earphones, and either putting in a new one for the phone call, or holding your phone up to your ear, which you can’t do if you leave the ear phones in your ear. When the call is over, it is time to switch back, meaning scrambling for the right wire, replacing the earphones, only to have the phone ring again a few minutes later, to do this dance once again. If your hands free headset has a wire, it is not long before it and your iPod earphones’ wires are a tangled mess.
I do not own an iPod (see my entry for more on that) but there are times when I do want to listen to music, especially on the train ride home or long plane rides, and for that, I use my Treo 650. This device incorporates many devices into one, including a cell phone, video player, MP-3 player, Palm handheld functions, a navigator, plus many more things. But here too there has always been a problem of listening to music and then getting a phone call, because the Treo, for some reason, handles phone calls separately from device audio (such as music), and the same earphones you use for music do not work for the phone call, acting almost like you had two separate devices.
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Fontifier
Human-Computer Interface Ltd
Price: $9 per font
www.fontifier.com
Imagine being able to type a letter on your computer and the font is in your own handwriting. Fontifier is a web-based application that allows you to do just that. For only $9 you can have your handwriting turned into a font that works on both Macs and PCs.
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The debut of Not Mac News, Fenistrations, and reviews from Robert and Nemo are features this week on the Mini Podcast.
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Apple Pro Training Series: Aperture
Aperture Exposed: The Mac Photographer’s Guide to Taming the Workflow
Real World Aperture
Here’s another list of tech terms for beginners or the non-tech person in your family.
1. Link- A link is a part of a website that when clicked on will go to another site, or download a file, or do something more than what is on the screen.
2. Flash- No, this is not the superhero. A flash file is an animation or movie file saved in a format that downloads faster than a regular quicktime movie might load.
3. Streaming- A streaming movie will play while it downloads. The opposite of this is a movie that loads completely before playing.
4. MP3 Player- An Mp3 is a music file. An Mp3 player is a device, like an iPod, that can play MP3 files.
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Digital Photography: the Missing Manual,
By Barbara Brundage
396 pages
O’Reilly Media
http://www.oreilly.com/
Create Your Own Photo Blog,
By Catherine Jamieson
309 pages
Wiley Press
http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/
In the past couple of years, I’ve been reading widely on the subject of digital photography. I’m not alone. The plethora of books published on the subject seems like a monthly occurrence, and the demand for them seems equally great. Serious amateur and professional photographers want to get as much out of the technology as they possibly can. And why shouldn’t we? So much can be done with digital photography that’s it difficult to overlook a good book that shows you some new or different approaches to the art of digital imaging making.
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