Monday morning we headed to the Moscone centre to get our badges and then headed out to Cupertino to see the Apple campus. We took CalTrain out to Sunnyvale and grabbed the bus to Cupertino. As I approached Infinite Loop, I took a few snapshots and a nice woman working for Apple made a comment…
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TMO To Go Podcast - Mac Geek Gab #33: Macworld Expo SF Pre-Show Sound-Check
Show notes for TMO To Go: Mac Geek Gab For January 9th, 2006 Direct Links: MP3 Version or AAC Version, courtesy of Michael, aka Computernap!. Safely tucked away in a hotel room in San Francisco, John and Dave talk about their thoughts for the Expo, traveling, and more. Check out this pre-show soundcheck for tastes…
MacUpdate Offers Free Membership for 2006
MacUpdate announced on Monday that it is offering free memberships for 2006 through the month of January. The MacUpdate Web site tracks new and updated Mac-related applications. Although anyone can visit the site free of charge, subscribers get added benefits including customizable site layouts, software watch lists, email notifications of updates, download histories, and more.…
TMO To Go Podcast - Mac Geek Gab #31: What To Do When Your Mac Won't Boot
Show notes for TMO To Go: Mac Geek Gab For December 26th, 2005 Direct Links: MP3 Version or AAC Version, courtesy of Michael, aka Computernap. When your Mac won’t boot, Dave and John have some of the answers! This week’s show finds our hosts talking through all they steps they would take to revive a…
Info-Mac Network Fades Away
Adam Engst, TidBits Publisher, announced on Tuesday that the venerable Info-Mac Network is closing down. Info-Mac has the distinction of being the oldest mac related service on the Internet. Mr. Engst, who is also Info-Mac’s volunteer president, said the network has outlived its utility, and is no longer worth the time and money it takes…
TMO To Go Podcast - Mac Geek Gab #30: Apple iMac Reviewed
Show notes for TMO To Go: Mac Geek Gab For December 19th, 2005 Direct Links: MP3 Version or AAC Version, (thanks to Michael, aka Computernap!). The new iMac is the focus of tonight’s show. Both Dave and John had a chance to review ths iMac separately, and this episode is their first chance to talk…
Yale Using Macs to Manage Art
The system uses Image Portal X to manage a MySQL database, and runs on a 1.8GHz Power Mac G5. Although Yale isnit saying how much the package cost them, they did state that it is far cheaper than other comparable systems. Lee Faulkner, Yaleis Digital Media Center media director, commented “Our budget is tight. Itis…
TMO To Go Podcast - Mac Geek Gab: Copying Videos to Your Mac and iPod
Show notes for TMO To Go: Mac Geek Gab For November 12th, 2005 Direct Links: MP3 Version. Doing the show from Dave’s hotel room at the Podcast and Portable Media Expo in Ontario, California, Dave and John talk through their experiences at the show, then segue into discussing different ways to get DVD video onto…
Mac Gaming News - Feral to Bring Black & White 2 to the Mac
Feral Interactive on Monday announced that it will bring Black & White 2 to the Mac in early 2006. The company published the first iteration of the Lionhead Studios game, which challenged players to decide whether they wanted to be a malevolent god or a benevolent one to their followers in a world known as…
TMO Reports - Apple Shipping New 15 and 17-inch PowerBooks [UPDATE]
Apple announced across the board upgrades to the PowerBook line at a special press event Wednesday. The 15 and 17-inch models received brighter, higher resolution screens and 22 percent better battery life, and an 8x SuperDrive DVD/CD burner is now standard across the PowerBook line. The 15-inch PowerBook sports a 1440×960 resolution display, and the…
myTV.PVR Enables Watching, Recording TV on Macs
Support for Titan TV, the Internet electronic program guide, ensures that programs are recorded at the correct time. The hardware also features composite/S-Video and stereo audio inputs for connecting to cable or satellite TV boxes, VCRs, camcorders or DVD players. Pricing is US$149. The kit includes a remote control, power supply, USB cable, FM radio…
TMO Reports - Autodesk to Acquire Alias; Maya for Mac to Continue [Updated]
Autodesk announced an agreement to acquire Alias on October 4, 2005. If approved, the cash deal will cost Autodesk US$182 million. Alias is the 3D special effects software company best know for its Maya and MotionBuilder tools that are used in major motion pictures. Alias representatives have told The Mac Observer that the Mac version…
TMO Reports - Google Trademark Policies Causing Headaches for Mac & iPod Advertisers
Google recently began notifying various companies advertising Apple related products and services that specific ads are being blocked because of trademark violations. The notices have left many bewildered, considering that some of the ads have been online for months. TidBITS editor, Adam Engst, reported on his problems, which are only partially resolved. Last week, Mr.…
TMO To Go Podcast - Mac Geek Gab: Favorite Travel-Related Gadgets, dotMac, and more
Show notes for TMO To Go: Mac Geek Gab For September 26th, 2005 Direct Links: Enhanced/AAC Podcast or MP3 Version Travel-related Gadgets are the topic of this weeks’ Gab between John and Dave. These two self-professed geeks talk through their favorite toys to use when traveling. They also talk through some news items from the…
Fujitsu Unveils Its First Mac-Compatible Scanner
Fujitsu on Monday took the wraps off its first Mac-compatible scanner. ScanSnap is a double-sided color PDF scanner with a 50-page automatic document feeder and Adobe Acrobat 7.0 software included. It was designed to quickly convert paper documents into PDF files at the touch of a button, scanning at speeds up to 15 pages per…
Iomega Introduces Mac mini External Hard Drive for Euro Market
Iomega announced Thursday the Iomega MiniMax, a hard drive aimed at Mac mini owners, but available only for the European market. The device sports up to a 250 gigabyte hard drive, along with three USB 2.0 and three FireWire ports that act as a hub for the mini. As of this writing, the device is…
Safe Eyes Web Filter Comes to Mac
Safe Eyes Mac Edition allows for complete control over online material with 35 different categories from which to choose, according to Shane Kenny, president of SafeBrowse.com, the company behind Safe Eyes. Separate filtering profiles can be created for each person using the computer, the company statement said. The Mac and Windows editions can be used…
Internet Filter Safe Eyes Comes to the Mac
Safe Eyes 2005 Mac Edition can ban content according to 35 different categories, a blacklist or a series of keywords. The application logs attempts to view banned Web pages and can issue usage alerts. The developer estimates that it adds approximately one-third of a second to the downloading time for each Web page. Safe Eyes…
TMO To Go Podcast - Mac Geek Gab: Stuff You Stick In Your Mac
Show notes for TMO To Go: Mac Geek Gab For August 15th, 2005 Podcast Link: TMO To Go: Mac Geek Gab, August 15th, 2005 Due to a broadband outage, John and Dave go low(er) tech this week, at least in terms of the recording methods. That said, the show is still a geek gab, and…
Mac Gaming News - Feral Announces Epic Strategy Game Imperial Glory for the Mac
Feral Interactive on Friday announced that it will bring the epic strategy game Imperial Glory to the Mac during the fourth quarter. Set during the Napoleonic Wars of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, Imperial Glory lets players control one of five nations — France, Great Britain, Prussia, Russia or Austria — and decide…