by: Jason
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MP3 for Episode 36
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#36:
News:
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ForMacEyesOnly Segment:
Michael Potter of the ForMacEyesOnly podcast shows us some OS X keyboard shortcuts.
Macbook classroom:
Making Mail faster:
1) Clean up your inbox.
2) SpeedMail uses the terminal command sqlite3 ~/Library/Mail/Envelope\\ Index vacuum for compressing the SQL database.
3) Check your mail activity. In Mail, choose Window: Activity Viewer.
4) Consolidate Accounts.
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Macbook Podcast Episode #35
by: Jason
Whitener
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#35:
News:
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ForMacEyesOnly Segment:
Michael Potter of the ForMacEyesOnly podcast shows us how to make grid stacks in the dock.
Heres the terminal code from Michael's segment:
defaults write com.apple.dock mouse-over-hilte-stack -boolean YES
killall Dock
Macbook classroom:
Cleaning your macbook
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Macbook Podcast Episode #34
by: Jason
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34
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#34:
News:
Leopard sold over 5 million copies last year and about 20% of Mac OS X’s install base has upgraded to Leopard.
Introducing a new Airport Extreme base station with 802.11n wireless and four ethernet ports. Macbook and Macbook Pro owners with be able to use a new software called "Time Capsule" to wirelessly stream backups to the new hard drive base station. Time Capsule will be sold in a 500GB version and a 1TB version for $299 and $499. Available in Feb.
The iPhone firmware upgrade 1.1.3 will deliver new features like the ability to send SMS messages to multiple recipients at once, faux-GPS on Google Maps via triangulation, Google Maps showing the hybrid map view, drag and drop icons on the home screen and bookmarks on the home screen (i.e. Webclips). There are also some new features, such as videos with chapters, the ability to display lyrics on music.
The iPod touch is getting a much needed update to make it more like the iPhone. There will be a full-fledged Mail program, along with Maps that gets location from Wi-Fi triangulation. It will also do web clips, stocks, weather, even notes. $20 for this upgrade.
iTunes movie rentals are official. They've got their own special section of the iTMS. Every major studio is onboard: Fox, Warner, Disney, Paramont, Universal and Sony, plus a whole mess of smaller ones like Miramax and New Line. To start, 1000 films, with new ones dropping 30 days after DVD. You've got 30 days to watch, and 24 hours to finish once you start. New flicks are $3.99, older ones are $2.99. You can move your entire collection to your iPod or iPhone with a single click, available today.
Apple TV 2 requires no computer, you can rent from iTunes directly from the box and they dropped the price to $229. Movies are available in HD Dolby 5.1 and it does podcasts, audio and video, and photos from Flickr and .Mac direct to the box. HD movies are a buck more than standard. You can actually preview movies now. Startup even when streaming is fast, under 5 seconds. And it's all a free software upgrade. No new hardware required! Cheaper price starts today, software update available in 2 weeks.
Macbook Air: Ultra-thin, can have normal hard drive or a solid state one. .16 inches thick at the bottom and .76 inches on the top. The black keyboard is LED backlit, sightly recessed MacBook-style, with rounded edges all around. The latch is magnetic and has a 13.3-inch screen with ambient-light sensor and, multitouch trackpad. $1,799.
Technical specs:
• .16 to .75-inch thickness on top
• 3 pounds
• 5 hours of battery life with everything running
• Intel Core 2 Duo Processor at 1.6 or 1.8GHz, motherboard the
length of a pencil
• 13.3-inch screen, LED backlit.
• 2GB RAM standard
• 1.8-inch 80GB HD or 64GB HD.
• Multitouch trackpad with gestures. Pans, zooms, rotates,
etc.
• 802.11n and Bluetooth 2.1
• Optional external superdrive for $99, USB-bus powered.
• Full backlit
keyboard
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Macbook
Podcast Episode #33
by: Jason
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#33:
News:
Sorry about the episode 34 reference in this weeks show, I got off track and said that this was episode 34 instead of 33. Episode 34 will be next week.
Macworld 08 starts next week on the 14th and runs through the 18th.
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ForMacEyesOnly Segment:
Michael Potter of the ForMacEyesOnly podcast shows us photo booth keyboard tricks.
Macbook classroom:
Tips to speed up your slow mac:
1)
Reboot
2) Close open programs in your dock
3) Add more RAM
4) Check for hanging apps in Activity
Monitor
Free file of the week:
iAlarm will replace your old alarm clock at home or on the go.
iAlarm harnesses the power of your mac to wake you you up with your iTunes music, local weather, news podcasts, custom messages and even an old style beep.
The interface is simple to use, and advanced users can even create their own custom AppleScripts to be executed by iAlarm. Additionally, iAlarm can wake your mac from sleep to sound your alerts in the morning.
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Macbook Podcast Episode #32
by: Jason
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32
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#32:
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Happy New Year everyone from the Macbook Podcast.
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Macbook classroom:
Repairing permissions
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