Pat Fauquet joins David, Tim, and Guy for a segment on Dr. Mac Consulting, the Washington Apple PI user group, and MacMouseCalls.com. Sam Levin hits us up with three new Cool Mac Picks. Lee Givens joins in for the low-down on iPhone development, Mac OS 10.5.4 coming soon, the rumors about 10.6, and much more.
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What does Macintosh security mean to you? There are a lot of things it means to all of us, but there is one idea that seldom ever gets talked about, and on the Mac, was never available, and that is biometrics for authorization. Now finally for the Mac, a biometric device that lets you put your finger right on the problem of Mac security…
Comic Life Magiq is the latest piece of software by the folks at Plasq and they have hit another home run. It is a spin-off of they’re great Comic Life software. The best way to describe Comic Life Magiq is by saying it is part Comic Life, part Kai’s Power Goo (for those that remember this software), part iWeb (as far as templates), and part iPhoto.
Well, Photoshop guru Matt Kloskowski has written a concise introductory guide about using layers, the heart of Photoshop Elements and Photoshop CS series. His book is appropriately titled, Layers: the Complete Guide to Photoshop’s Most Powerful Feature. For this book, Matt incorporates Scott Kelby’s trade mark style of explaining Photoshop layer features and techniques in a well illustrated, step by step process. Each lesson is explained in less than five pages with no more than two paragraphs per page.
At the core of Zefyr’s design is a high-thermal conduction interface compound, which enhances heat dissipation by providing a direct heat conduction path between MacBook’s bottom casing and Zefyr’s cast aluminum heat sink assembly.
What is traditionally called point-and-shoot cameras are extremely popular, and affordable and for the most part they produce really good photos. But if you’re serious about photography, at some point you’ll have to get beyond the automatic exposure settings of your camera and learn about the marriage between light and exposure and how to use the features of your camera to make that marriage work.
Tim Robertson, David Cohen, and Guy Serle look at Mac OS X 10.5.3, pontificate on the upcoming WWDC and iPhone revisions, and much more. Sam Levin then joins the show with an all-new Cool Mac Picks.
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Three miniature speaker systems plus a zillion connectors, adapters, and cables
I know what you’re thinking. Why would I need a wireless USB stick adapter when I have an airport extreme card built into my Mac? Read on to discover the power of MAXPower from Newer Technology.
There are a lot of folks who really won’t need to use Raw ever, though, although I do suggest that at some point everyone should try correcting an image, even a JPEG or a TIFF, in the Raw Converter, just to see what it does.
The C.E.O: Premiere for iPhone is a solid, sturdy and very classy folio-style case, one of the few I’ve seen that actually complements a business suit. So if you can’t be the CEO, at least you can look like one.
Pastor is all I need for passwords. No more delving deep into my hard drive to find ’em. They’re all there in Pastor 1.8, well organized and easily accessible.
The TripleHead2Go by Matrox is a small box, that splits one video signal out into 2 or 3. So if you are looking to add more monitors to your current set up is it the right tool for the task? I must say I wasn’t to impressed with the results I got.
AppMenuBoy 1.0 is a handy little application that takes away some clicks (and valuable time) to get an application opened. It also put your apps in a quick invaluable hierarchical list, so one can get to all apps in no time flat.
Gedeon Maheux from The Icon Factory joins Tim and David for a lively interview at the start of the show. Taking care of some business, we announce the winner of the Essential Jacket from SCOTTEVEST, and call the winner on the phone! Later, Lee Givens joins in to answer a listener question on which Mac to buy on his budget, while David talks about getting later versions of Mac OS X on unsupported Apple hardware using Other World Computing’s XPostFacto. All that and MUCH more.
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There are many ways to watch movies at home today. There is Netflix, rental stores, and even devices like Apple TV and Tivo bringing movies into your home via the internet. But a new device from VUDU is going to change the way you will rent movies forever, and for the better too.
As a long time Mac user, the decision to install Windows on my new Intel based iMac was one of the scariest I’ve ever had to make. I used Dwight Silverman’s book Running Windows on your Mac to make the installation and set up, while not quite a breeze, (it is Windows after all), at least bearable.
Do you miss the customizable Apple Menu from the good old days of Mac OS 9? Did you get stuck when you upgraded to 10.5 because your favorite enhancements didn’t work (and they still don’t)? Here we look at Classic Menu, MaxMenus, RapidoStart, SunnyMenu, and XMenu.
A large cast this tackles the question: is the iPod generation killing Hi-Fi? Does high fidelity have a place in todays world of small MP3 players and online music stores? Also, All Over the Mac chats with Anne Bowden, and Sam Levin hits us with a new Cool Mac Picks. If all that was not enough, we have a new contest! Listen for your chance to win a $120 Essential Jacket from SCOTTEVEST.
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The blight of the digital age is the accumulation of massive amounts of data – as computers get faster and storage gets cheaper, we end up keeping everything, whether we need it or not. David Cohen looks at MailSteward, an application designed to store your archived email outside your email application.
