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Two interviews this week feature author Andy Ihnakto and Macworld Expo head-honcho Paul Kent. Fenistration looks at desktop management, while Robert Hazelrigg reviews PictureItPerfect and Wingnuts. Plus, Not Mac News with Guy Serle.
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Samson CO3U Multi-Pattern USB Condenser Microphone
Samson Technologies
Price: $130 US (plus accessories — see below)
http://www.samsontech.com
CO3U Multi-Pattern USB Studio Condenser Microphone ($130)
MD5 Desktop Microphone Stand ($10-20 online)
SP01 Spider Mount ($30-40 online)
If you are a podcaster, musician, or active audio online chatterbox, run-don’t-walk to your local audio dealer or Internet merchant and buy a Samson USB condenser microphone. In less time than it takes to read this sentence, you’ll be recording or conversing in iChat, Skype, Garage Band, or Audio Hijack Pro.
For solo voice, the single-pattern model CO1U ($80 US) will suffice. It’s the best selling USB mic currently available. Samson provided a three-pattern microphone for our evaluation, and it’s worth the extra $50. Put CO3U on your holiday wish list, or start saving.
Setup is instantaneous, requiring more effort to extract the microphone from its plastic cocoon than to connect via USB and begin using it. I timed myself, and in under five minutes I opened the three packages: one each for microphone, stand, and spider mount. Two minutes later I was doing a test recording, and shortly after that I was Skyping and iChatting with buddies worldwide.
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With the emergence of podcasts and videocasts, along with the unlimited amount of blogs and other types of websites, the plethora of free information and resources is sheerly overwhelming. You simply can’t keep up with all the information you access or that comes to you on a daily basis.
But if you have a collection of music videos, podcasts, or videocasts that you want to keep and review later, putting them on a DVD using iDVD is a great solution.
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Macally BTMouse
Company: Macally
Price: $49.99
http://www.macally.com/spec/bluetooth/btmouse.html
The two most important things with a mouse are how it feels in your hand, and how well you can fine tune the tracking and scrolling to your liking. The Macally BTMouse is a new full size mouse that resembles the Macally iLaser, reviewed here in August. The differences are that the iLaser is a 5 button USB laser mouse, where the BTMouse is a 3 button Bluetooth optical mouse with rechargeable batteries & a charging cradle.
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I’ve been an avid fan of iPhoto since it was first introduced about five years ago. Of course the revolution in digital photography inspired me to take videography and photography to a professional level, but having an effective way to organize and edit my photos was equally inspiring.
Now that I’m working as a wedding and event photographer, I’m shooting hundreds of pictures on each job and am having to meet the challenge of uploading, managing, and outputting photos for my clients. The process hasn’t been easy. I’ve been looking at management systems like Adobe’s Bridge and Lightroom programs, and even iView Media Pro, but with the latest update of Apple’s Aperture, I think I may have found solutions to my larger and more complex digital photo management and processing problems. And believe me, when you’re processing hundreds of photos for a waiting client, digital management is a problem that is not easily solved with iPhoto or even Adobe Bridge.
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Product: TrashMagic
Company: TRI-EDRE
http://www.tri-edre.fr/english/products/productstrashmag.html
Have you ever emptied the trash on your computer only to realize you need a file you just deleted? If so, TrashMagic is the program for you. With TrashMagic you can recover those accidentally deleted files in no time at all.
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With the holiday shopping season in full gear I thought I’d make a list of internet shopping tips for this installment of Macspiration. If you are like me, you’ll be doing a lot of gift shopping on the internet and avoiding those lines at the stores.
1. Use a price comparison site. The internet is huge and there are tons of internet stores. I use www.pricegrabber.com and www.resellerratings.com to compare prices on items I am looking for. The nice thing about these sites is that they have customer ratings/reviews for the stores themselves. This is especially useful if you find a great price at a store and you have never heard of it before. Personally, if I’ve never heard of it before, and it has poor ratings or no rating at one of these sites, I won’t make a purchase. It is worth a few dollars more to buy an item from a site I trust.
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This week, features include a look at three Mac games, an interview with author Joe Kissell, Robert reports on the Photo Plus Expo, Not Mac News, and an all-new Fenestration with David Cohen.
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