Global Update

Episode #59 was hosted by:

Jonathan Cost: Mac Tips Daily Twitter
Chuck Joiner: MacVoices Twitter
Allison Sheridan: NosillaCast at podfeet.com Twitter
Steve Stanger: The Mac Attack Twitter
Tim Verpoorten: Mac Reviewcast Twitter

The panel assembled to talk about the new Mac hardware offerings, what they have and what they lust after and ways to save money and get more value for your Mac purchase dollar in these trying economic times. Two panel members expressed their “displeasure” over recent Windows encounters, then squared off on a Mac product that one loves and the other…doesn’t. The group finished up by sharing their own particular brands of Mac therapy.

Links:

iMac

Mac Pro

Mac mini

Airport Express

Apple Special Deals and Refurbished Equipment

Menu Meters by Raging Menace Software

The Dirty Deed is Done…… by Don McAllister on My Own Reality

dealmac

The Deal Brothers

ExperCom

Apple Care

Amazon Prime

Other World Computing

MonoPrice.com

Turbo.264 by Elgato

Episode #58 was hosted by:
Katie Floyd - The MacCore Twitter
Bart Busschots: International Mac Podcast Twitter
Don McAllister: ScreenCastsOnline Twitter
Victor Cajiao - TypicalMacUser typicalshutterbug.com
Allison Sheridan NosillaCast at podfeet.com Twitter

iMac vs. Mac Pro
is the Mac Pro worth $1000US more than the iMac? and with the iMac you get a 24″ monitor too!

MobileMe replacements
iDisk - implemented large file sharing option just now apple.com/mobileme, can password protect and set expiration date
Dropbox for 2GB is free from getdropbox.com, back up REAL folders, not one blob like iDisk or 50GB for $99, must be careful in transferring packages in Dropbox
Google sync - can sync Google contacts and addresses to your iPhone - erases your data but it’s beta!
Foxmarks to sync bookmarks across Windows/Mac and Firefox/IE/Safari - foxmarks.com

Microsoft Stores - why?
Can they help build brand loyalty by working with customers?
Could they educate more? teach tools? one on one services?
Maybe they could show off hardware - like the Zune and XBox 360?
Macworld mocks the Microsoft Stores macworld.com
Sony mocked by the Onion theonion.com

IBM on Apple security
macnn.com
IBM did the story, and they have a horse in the race
the article talks about percentage of vulnerabilities fixed, not about the severity or how many.
Premise is true however, that Apple has a poor record of patching!

New toys
Katie - Dictate from Mac Speech
Victor - Cylon Detector battlestarextras.com
Bart - DOF master dofmaster.com
Don - NSConference in the UK (AKA Mac Dev Conference) nsconference.com
Don - TweetDeck new version tweetdeck.com
Allison - People who create scripts for me - Connor wrote script to turn off Time Servers to fix Skype dropouts, and Will wrote a script to set up Garageband automatically turning off stupid settings

Episode #57 was hosted by:

Katie Floyd - The MacCore
David Sparks - Mac Sparky
Steve Stanger - The Mac Attack
Tim Verpoorten - Mac Reviewcast

Topics for this episode:

Are iLife and iWork worthwhile upgrades? Our experiences so far with the new software.

Trojan found on bittorrent downloads of iWork ‘09.

Seagate drive issues.

iTunes Plus - Upgrading iTunes purchased songs to DRM-free, higher bitrate music. Are we going to do it?

The Mac turns 25 and we remember our first Macs.

Our favorite iPhone / iPod Touch time wasters:
(These links will take you to the iTunes App Store)

LED football
Topple
Vector Blaster
Tap Defense
Virtual Zippo
Lightsaber

Hello Photography.ca fans, members and lurkers.
Our forums here are a very constructive way to help move your photography forward in a positive manner and within the forums, blog entries and podcasts, you can find a variety of means to suit you and your current level of photography skill and interest.

A cool example of this, and my ‘moment’ for today is a thread in the forums which asks a question and the reason for why one answered as they did.

The question is ‘What Mode Do You Use?’

Many photographers ignore many of the options available to them and many of us are unaware of how some of these modes can benefit us in specific ways. Learning what modes people are using on their cameras and for what situations they employ these modes goes a long way to helping us understanding how we can benefit also.

To visit the thread of my ‘moment’ follow me HERE

Mad Aussie - Photography.ca blog contributor & forum member
www.astrovisual.com.au
www.astrovisualphotography.com.au
www.istockimages.com.au

For the past 2 months we have added a new feature on our photography bulletin board where the Admin on Photography.ca (Me, Marko),  chooses 1 photo that he thinks is great and talks about the photo. The Eagle photo below by kentw was my choice for this month. (check the previous link for the explanation).

We have lots of photographs being submitted each month on our forum for critiques, assignments or just to show the photo. Choosing Kent’s photo as the ‘winner’ took about 3.5 hours of careful sifting. Given that it took so long to choose, I came across many many many close contenders. Seems like a waste of time just to include 1 photo so I’d like to include 3 honourable mentions right here.

If you haven’t joined our forum I would encourage you to do so. We are an extremely friendly bunch that share and learn daily.

Here’s the winning photo:

Eagles on the Mississippi by kentw

Here are the 3 honourable mentions:

A leaf in water by Michaelaw

From 'Exploring b/w thread' by Mad Aussie

Shot of my dd…by ~Carla~