by: Jason
Whitener
Get the
MP3 for Macbook Podcast Plus Episode #8
Macbook Podcast Plus Show notes for Episode
#8:
Transferring files to an external drive, syncing podcasts with your iphone.
Sponsors:
Try GotoMyPC free for 30 days! For this special offer, visit www.gotomypc.com/podcast
Macbook Podcast Plus Episode #7
by: Jason
Whitener
Get the MP3 for Macbook Podcast Plus Episode
#7
Macbook Podcast Plus Show notes for Episode
#7:
Customizing your dock and Slipstreaming your OS X updates.
Sponsors:
Try GotoMyPC free for 30 days! For this special offer, visit www.gotomypc.com/podcast
Macbook Podcast Episode #62
by: Jason
Whitener
Get the MP3 for Episode
62
Show notes for Episode
#62:
News:
10.5.5 for Leopard Released:
Highlights of the improvements include:
- Addresses stability issues with video playback, processor core
idling, and remote disc sharing for MacBook Air.
- Improves Spotlight indexing performance.
- Improves iPhone sync reliability with iCal and Address
Book.
- In MobileMe: improves overall sync and Back to My Mac
reliability.
- Improves Time Machine reliability with Time Capsule.
The 10.5.5 update is available for free to all Mac OS X 10.5
(Leopard)
customers.
Apple has issued a recall on the USB power
adapter included with the iPhone 3G. Apple has received reports of
the metal prongs breaking off of the adapter and remaining lodged
in power outlets, creating the risk of electric shock.
According to Apple's support article on the recall, the adapter was
included with every iPhone 3G sold in the US, Japan, Canada,
Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and
Peru. The adapter was also available as a standalone accessory in
those countries, as well as Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, and
Panama.
Users with ultracompact power adapters should immediately stop
using them until they exchange them for a new, redesigned
ultracompact adapter.
In the meantime, they should charge their iPhone 3G by connecting
it to their computer with the USB cable that came with their iPhone
or by using a standard-sized Apple USB Power Adapter (with fold up
prongs) or with a third party adapter designed to work with the
iPhone, such as a car charger.
Apple notes that replacement adapters, which will not be available
until October 10th, will contain a green dot on them in order to
make identification simple.
Affected users may order a replacement adapter via Apple's
web-based form or in person at an Apple retail store beginning
October
10th.
Don't forget to check out the Macbook Podcast widget Download here
Sponsors:
Try GotoMyPC free for 30 days! For this special offer, visit www.gotomypc.com/podcast
ForMacEyesOnly Segment:
Michael Potter of the ForMacEyesOnly podcast show us how to restore time machine backups to another mac.
Macbook classroom:
5 iphone functions you may not know about:
1. Enable Call Forwarding - You can quickly and easily enable call forwarding on your iPhone. Simply touch Settings>Phone>Call Forwarding, Turn Call Forwarding on, then enter the number you’d like your calls to forward to.
2. Adjust the speed of your Audiobooks - If you feel like the narrator of your Audiobook selections is talking too slow, or too fast, you can easily go in and change the speed at which they speak. Touch Settings>iPod>Audiobook Speed, Here you can make the Audiobooks slower, faster, or set them back to their normal speed.
3. Adjust TV Out and Closed Captions Options - in the same iPod Section you can select to turn Closed Captioning On or Off and you can adjust how your video will play on an external display like a television. Widescreen On/Off and NSTC/PAL Settings are right at your finger tips.
4. Adjust Capitalization and Caps Lock Settings - If you’re annoyed by the Auto-Capitalization feature of the iPhone keyboard, or want to shout at people by using all Caps you can easily adjust these settings in: Settings>General>Keyboard
5. Force an iPhone into restore mode - This final function is not located in the settings, but can be helpful if your iPhone has locked up and can’t seem to get back into working order. All you have to do is Turn Off your iPhone (press the Sleep Button+Home button until the phone shuts off), then connect your iPhone to your PC or Mac, and open iTunes. Once you have iTunes open hold down the Home button and iTunes will prompt you to perform a software restore.
Free file of the week:
Mine Swept:
Mine Swept is your basic game of Minesweeper where you have this field of squares and when you click on one, it will tell you one of two things: that you just revealed a mine (at which point, it’s game over) or how many mines surround this particular square. Get it HERE
Macbook
Podcast Plus Episode #6
by: Jason
Whitener
Get the MP3 for Macbook Podcast Plus Episode
#6
Macbook Podcast Plus Show notes for Episode
#6:
Archiving/backing up and removing the Previous System Folder.
Sponsors:
Try GotoMyPC free for 30 days! For this special offer, visit www.gotomypc.com/podcast
Macbook Podcast Episode #61
by: Jason
Whitener
Get the MP3 for Episode
61
Show notes for Episode
#61:
News:
September 9th Apple special event. New ipods, itunes 8, iphone 2.1 firmware.
Don't forget to check out the Macbook Podcast widget Download here
Sponsors:
Try GotoMyPC free for 30 days! For this special offer, visit www.gotomypc.com/podcast
ForMacEyesOnly Segment:
Michael Potter of the ForMacEyesOnly podcast show us how to Reset the Admin Password.
Macbook classroom:
Creating a Smart Mailbox for unread messages:
Mailbox>New Smart Mailbox
Click on the drop down box under the “contains text” and select “Message is unreplied” then name the Smart Mailbox whatever you want.
Free file of the week:
Monolingual:
Monolingual is a program for removing unnecessary language resources from Mac OS X, in order to reclaim several hundred megabytes of disk space. It requires at least Mac OS X 10.3.9 (Panther) and also works on Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger). Get it HERE
Macbook
Podcast Episode #60
by: Jason
Whitener
Get the MP3 for Episode 60
Show notes for Episode
#60:
News:
September 9th Apple special event. New ipods, itunes 8, iphone 2.1 fireware???
Don't forget to check out the Macbook Podcast widget Download here
Sponsors:
Try GotoMyPC free for 30 days! For this special offer, visit www.gotomypc.com/podcast
ForMacEyesOnly Segment:
Michael Potter of the ForMacEyesOnly podcast show us how to restore browser tabs.
Macbook classroom:
White Screen bootup:
Booting up to a circle with a line thru it can be caused by Corrupt Firmware, damaged boot disk, damaged hardware, faulty RAM.
Free file of the week:
Stellarium:
A free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope.
- over 120,000
stars from the Hipparcos catalogue with info
- asterisms and illustrations of the constellations
- images of nebulae
- realistic Milky Way
- very realistic atmosphere, sunrise and sunset
- the planets and their satellites
- a powerful zoom
- time control
- multilingual interface
- scripting to record and play your own shows
- fisheye projection for planetarium domes
- spheric mirror projection for your own dome
- many more
features
Get it HERE