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Maccast 2011.12.30

Written by: Adam Christianson

Categories: Podcast


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A podcast about all things Macintosh. For Mac geeks, by Mac geeks. Show 378. Apple iTV rumors tune in. New Intel chip to sprout in Spring. iPhone 5 Fall 2012. iPad 3 rumors continue to spill. iPhone 4S helps Apple gain US marketshare. Anyone with zero paid apps? Didn’t know my apps were dirty. Managing iOS iTunes Match content. Global iTunes 3rd party keyboard controls. Current apps and a retina iPad. Exporting iTunes metadata. Fix for Mail/Exchange eating RAM.

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HDTV PodcastA podcast about all things Macintosh. For Mac geeks, by Mac geeks. A special episode of the Maccast. Ara Dererian of the HDTV Podcast is back and helps us follow up on how you can take your Blu-ray disks and get them into your Mac Home Theater set-up.

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Handbrake
MetaZ
Other World Computing (External Blu-ray Drive)

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Tutorial: Backing up your Blu-ray Discs
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Maccast Members 108 – QuickTime X Editing

Written by: Adam Christianson

Categories: Maccast Members, Podcast

Maccast Members

A podcast about all things Macintosh. For Mac geeks, by Mac geeks. Episode 108. There are a number of new features in Quicktime X for Lion and a cool one is basic video editing along with some new sharing options. We dive into these new features to see what kinds of video production tasks we can accomplish with QuickTime X.

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Maccast 2011.12.18

Written by: Adam Christianson

Categories: Podcast


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A podcast about all things Macintosh. For Mac geeks, by Mac geeks. Show 377. iTunes 10.5.2 is out. iPhones and iPads may get dasBoot in Germany. Apple hires iOS mockup designer. Guess what? iPad 3 retina screen. iPhone, iPad demand better than predicted. Apple move in Israel. iTunes Match gone global. Apple TV and iPhone 4S updates. Apple’s A5 Made in the USA. iMessages gone bad. Running an external iTunes Music folder. iTunes Match and NAS. Changing Airport DNS settings. Controlling iTunes sort order. Keyboard navigate iTunes sidebar.

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Awkward

Written by: Adam Christianson

Categories: Random Thoughts

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A little Dilbert Siri humor for your Friday enjoyment.

Maccast Members 107 – Assistive Apple

Written by: Adam Christianson

Categories: Maccast Members, Podcast

Maccast Members

A podcast about all things Macintosh. For Mac geeks, by Mac geeks. Episode 107. In this episode I explore the assistive technologies built into OS X and iOS and provide some examples where anyone, regardless of needs, might be able to leverage the power of these great features.

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Maccast 2011.12.10

Written by: Adam Christianson

Categories: Podcast


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A podcast about all things Macintosh. For Mac geeks, by Mac geeks. Show 376. In this episode I am joined by TUAW blogger and all around great Mac gal Kelly Guimont. She helps me cover some of the latest Mac stories of the week including: Carrier IQ, Web OS going open source maybe some new hardware at some point, Apple potentially selling 30M iPhones in Q4 and 2M iPhone 3GS’s, AT&T data throttling unlimited customers, iPad 3 rumors, 15″ Macbook Air rumors, and the “real” Apple TV rumors.If that’s not enough, we also discuss Apple’s 2011 iOS Rewind app picks along with some of out favorites for the year.

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Kelly Guimont, TUAW
@verso
Angry Mac Bastards
International Mac Podcast
Charlie Brown Christmas App (iTunes)
Disney AppMATES, Cars 2 (Apple Store)
tap tap Muppets (iTunes)
Snapseed
Instagram

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Maccast Members 106 – Using Automator

Written by: Adam Christianson

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Maccast Members

A podcast about all things Macintosh. For Mac geeks, by Mac geeks. Episode 106. I’ve covered Automator on other shows, but realized I’ve never covered why you might want to use Automator. This time around I discuss exactly that and give some real world examples and concepts to help illustrate this powerful tool that’s built into every Mac.

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Mac Snac 008 – Restore PDF to iPhoto

Written by: Adam Christianson

Categories: Mac Snac

A tip on how to use Apple’s built in Automator application get print to PDF functionality back in iPhoto ’11

Maccast 2011.12.06 – Mac Home Theater

Written by: Adam Christianson

Categories: Mac Media Center, Podcast


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HDTV PodcastA podcast about all things Macintosh. For Mac geeks, by Mac geeks. A special episode of the Maccast where we catch up with Ara Dererian of the HDTV Podcast. It’s been a while since we chatted with Ara and his Mac Mini based Mac Home Theater set up has evolved. Now the system is Apple TV 2 based on the client side, so we’ll get an update on that and discuss how he makes all this stuff work.

Links:
HDTV Podcast
Apple TV 2
Mac Mini
Handbrake

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