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A podcast about Macs done by a Mac geek for Mac geeks. Show 98. Corrections from last show, iTunes Music store Australia launched. Apple says iTunes biggest competition is P2P. MacWorld benchmarks new Dual Core G5s. The new G5s low power tricks, pirated copies FrontRow and PhotoBooth showing up online, next (huge) Tiger update should be out soon, new Apple retail store in Thousand Oaks, CA opens Oct 29th and Apple will replace broken 5th Gen iPods no questions asked. I GMail, you GMail, everybody GMails? Not quite. I have no more GMail invites. Other services and software for getting your gadgets back. How to convert your DVDs and put them on your iPod. How to offer remote Mac tech support to family and friends. Ways to get TV remotely through the Internet. Apple Backup 3.0.1 released. A special discount for MacCast listeners on “Ped” products from Thoughtout.biz.
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“Thanks to Colin and James who purchased me items off my Amazon wishlist.”
What did they buy you Adam? (Haven’t listened to show yet :))
I haven’t listened yet but so you may have mentioned it but if you have a cell phone you can get a free Gmail account. You eneter your cell number and it will txt message you a code.
Nice show. I sent you 5 Gmail invites. ;) And check your inbox for another email from me.
microsoft shot donw….
The federal judge overseeing Microsoft Corp.’s business practices scolded the company Wednesday over a proposal to force manufacturers to tether iPod-like devices to Microsoft’s own music player software.
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=1254833&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312
check it out
WOOO Loved it as allways
I ordered protective stickers for my new iPod video (and for my fiancee’s iPod video). I got them from decalgirl.com for about $7 each including shipping. Shipping took 2 days.
The decals cover the front and back of the iPod – an exact fit. They look pretty cool, and they protect very well. Unfortunately, the decals do not cover the screen itself (duh), so to keep the screen protected, I left the original clear plastic film on the front. Technically, I have two layers of protection on the face of the iPod, and it looks pretty slick.
My fiancee got pink, and I got a cool 60’s pattern.
Anyone need Gmail email me at macgeek8076@gmail.com
And i’ll send you an invite
Re the Microsoft Desktop Client: I’ve never had much joy myself as I believe the PC needs to be running at least “XP Professional”. i.e the home version won’t work. Could be wrong though…
You don’t need any invites to sign up to gmail. There is a link to sign up on the gmail homepage. It is open to all users now. It has been this way for a while.
http://digg.com/links/Gmail_Open_to_Public
I Dont see any link to Sign Up at all :P
Meh Gmail is OLD news Go 30gigs :0
Another FREE VNC solution that is rock solid is OSXvnc – I use it and it’s brilliant. You can then download Chicken of the VNC as your viewer.
I use this on my xServe 10.3 instead of buying Apple’s solution as I couldn’t justify spending $ when there is a free solution out there.
OSXvnc:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/osxvnc/
Chicken of the VNC
http://sourceforge.net/projects/cotvnc/
Also, let me know of any desires for gmail invites as I have a bunch. email to clemonator@gmail.com and request one-I have 50 available.
Adam, unfortunately, I don’t think your solutions will be terribly optimal for the listener wishing to watch his EyeTV programs remotely. EyeTV doesn’t save its data in a terribly friendly manner to someone trying to access that data outside the EyeTV application itself (or EyeHome, but I’ll explain why that’s not an option). The data is written out with generic strings for filenames.
The problem with the EyeHome (which turns your TV into a virtual TiVo using a Mac using an EyeTV as a backend) is that it will try to stream the data at the normal encoding which is far too big to be transported over consumer broadband connections (the problem being that the upload speed is lower because consumer connections are generally asymmetric).
The solution is CyTV. Most importantly, he should look into the transcoding section. It should be a terrific solution to do exactly what he wants.
Ooops, URL would help.
http://www.lucid-cake.net/cytv/index_en.html
Check out http://sourceforge.net/projects/cotvnc/ for “Chicken of the
VNC” which will connect to the Apple Remote Desktop client that is on
all modern macs. Chicken of the VNC is free. One turns on Apple Remote
Desktop client via the Sharing System Preference on the target Mac.
Where can I download handbreak?
http://macupdate.com/info.php/id/12987
The link is also in the shownotes. Use the “Shownotes in HTML” link above or click here, http://www.maccast.com/podcast/shownotes_20051027
http://www.logmein.com
IMO the BEST way to controll a windows machine from a mac cos its all over browser :)
Hey Adam;
you said “MAC THE RIPPER” page was taken down. that is true, but you can still download the program from this link http://www.whiskeychimpband.com/MTR/
and for those who are looking for handbrake. just follow this link. http://handbrake.m0k.org/
what you said about handbrake being able to do all the job by itself is partially true. it works like half the time, it is not able to break the code on all types of DVDs, so if it works from the begging that is great, but if not you gotta use mac the ripper as a first step, but be prepared sometimes handbrake acts like it is working only to find by the end of the encoding that it did not, so to avoid the pain if repeating the process all over again just start with mac the ripper and then use handbrake.
happy encoding everybody,
i use this process to rip DVDs to watch them on my Tapwave Zodiac 2, the best palm device ever.
Hey i know this is late..but you forgot about the MacExpo! It was greta fun! I spent 2 days there just mainly in the gaming section…^^ place was crouded and full of people looking at the products of Macintosh and programes! Love your show keep up the good work!
While you mentioned using Apple Remote Desktop, you didn’t mention that you can use the installed client that is included in OS X.4 with 3rd party VNC apps.
In System Preferences > Sharing Just check the “VNC Viewers may control the screen with password:” option and assign a password. Apply it (you need an admin password) and you are good to go.
Then with Chicken of the VNC, just use the IP address of the machine that you want to connect to. It might be easier since it is already installed and you won’t have to have Mothers across the world downloading and installing other software packages.
That’s it.
Hi Adam,
Regarding getting your lost device back… I’m surprised nobody has mentioned this. If you haven’t already ordered your iPod, the best thing to do is take advantage of their free engraving option and engrave your name and phone number right onto the back of the iPod. Don’t try this after market though, it will fry the iPod’s hard drive (I’ve heard).
Regarding Lee’s request for a way to remote admin his mothers machine I have a great solution. Other’s have mentioned Chicken of the VNC which is a great solution, and free, but so far no one has mentioned the LISTEN feature of this software that addresses the challenges of connecting to a machine remotely through a router / firewall, not to mention the security risks of leaving a machine open for remote connections.
In another tech podcast for System Administrators, In The Trenches, they did a segment pointing out a way to have a person ‘SEND’ you their VNC screen thus bypassing any firewall issues on their end. The site they reference in this podcast that gives great instructions and links for this is TinyApps VNC.
This works from both Macs & Windows machines on either end and is free. All you have to do is open up port 5500 on your end and you’re all set. Check out the podcast and the link, it’s a great solution and using it I have used it to connect to my mother’s machine in NY from Maine, and since she has to ‘send’ control to me there are no security risks of others getting control of her machine.
-Matt in Maine
President of DEMUG (Downeast Mac Users Group)
Please I use an excrement of account of the hotmail of 2 megas, it sends me an invitation for the gmail.
Remote Admin Idea-
This is a little pricey, but if you are considering replacing a computer to improve your admin ability, this is probably a better solution. http://www.shopusd.adder.com/default.aspx?act=Uprod_P2696# and http://www.digitalv6.com/kaveman_specs.html are both dedicated KVM over VNC units. The advantage to something like this is that it takes all of the VNC demand (which can be very high) off of the host system. This also allows VNC to be running at the BIOS level, so you can configure setting like boot order and the like before the OS ever boots.