MacVoices #8116 [14:54m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

From the show floor at New Media Expo, Daniel Rudd, the Founder and Creative Director of Stock20, discusses why their stock music doesn’t sound like stock music. With an extremely flexible license structure and affordable price points, Stock20’s extensive library makes it easy to add music to any audio or video project. When you purchase, you don’t just get a single track, but variations on the track in both length and composition. Daniel explains how the variations work, how they are delivered, and why you get a complete-satisfaction guarantee from Stock20. Daniel’s sense of humor comes through as he decides to offer MacVoices’ listeners a discount to help them get started with using Stock20’s many offerings.
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 MacVoices #8115 [10:48m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

On the show floor at New Media Expo, Andrew Welch, el Presidente of Ambrosia Software, talks about their new sound utility, Wiretap Anywhere. Not just a podcast took, Wiretap Anywhere allows the user to gather and manage virtually any audio source, internal or external, with ease, mixing them together, controlling how they interact, and more. Andrew describes WireTap Anywhere as a software patch board, letting the user export their work in as many channels as needed to GarageBand, or mixed down to mono or stereo. Andrew also gives us a sneak-peak at another beta project, Soundboard, and how it emulates a radio sound cart for users who need to easily trigger sound effects and pre-recorded segments a specific points in a live project.

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 MacVoices #8114 [9:07m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

On the show floor at New Media Expo, Rishi Mallik, Business Development and Product Marketing Manager for Qik talks about their service that lets you stream video from your phone straight to the web. Qik has just released the iPhone 3G of their software, and Richi talks about why they decided to be one of the first to release software that requires a jailbroken iPhone, since Apple isn’t allowing this kind of streaming video software in the App Store. What can you do by taping the power of Qik? Rishi talks about some of the options, from personal shopping all the way up to participation in the democratic process.
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 MacVoices #8113 [7:32m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

From the show floor at New Media Expo, David Chmura, the Chief Instigator of humbledaisy, discusses ProfCast, their software that takes your Keynote or even PowerPoint presentations and converts them into a video podcast suitable for online distribution. David talks about how this option delivers a file that can scale back to full resolution, how you can edit the results in GarageBand and why ProfCast was conceived as a live-capture tool, but has evolved beyond that. Read the rest of this entry »

 

 MacVoices #8112 [37:53m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Maria Langer, the hostess of WordPress.com 2.5 Essential Training discusses the advantages of video training and what she covers in her latest contribution to the lynda.com video training library. Maria talks about the advantages and disadvantages of hosting a blog on WordPress.com as opposed to a server install of your own, and why you should consider it as one of your first, best options for getting a web presence set up quickly. Maria also covers the process of creating the video, the superior characteristics of lynda.com offerings, why you can jump in at any point in the training, some of her upcoming projects and more.
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 MacVoices #8111 [39:50m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Rich Mogull discusses some of the security issues that came to light at the recent Black Hat and DEFCON conferences in Las Vegas. Rich walks us through why even Mac users need to be concerned with security in the browser, in Google Widgets and Google Gears, and even when using your favorite social network. Rich explains that even he got hacked by a social engineering trick at the conference, covers how malicious code can be hidden almost anywhere, even in an image file and more. Most important, Rich helps us understand the DNS vulnerabilities that were the talk of the conferences, and reveals a simple precaution that any Mac user can take to protect themselves. Read the rest of this entry »

 

 MacVoices #8110 [34:38m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Michael Dupuis of Advenio gives us a taste of his culinary utility, MacGourmet. Far more than a recipe organizer, MacGourmet focuses not just on collecting and organizing information, but on what you can do with that information. (How many recipe programs have an Application Programming Interface (API) and a software development kit (SDK) available?) Michael explains how MacGourmet’s plug-in architecture lets you add feature sets that apply to your kitchen skills, including shopping list generation, importing recipes from your favorite food web sites, nutritional tracking and much more. Michael also covers differentiates the standard and Deluxe versions of MacGourmet, and provides a preview of the features of MacGourmet: To Go, his forthcoming iPhone app.

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 MacVoices #8109 [47:07m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Connected Flow founder Fraser Speirs talks about the first version of his first iPhone app, Exposure, how it delivers “2 billion photos, in your pocket,” and the many ways it lets you interact with the online photo-sharing site, Flickr. Fraser discusses why upload wasn’t included in the first version of Exposure, why it will probably be in the second, and how he sees the iPhone as a communication device, not just a phone. Suggestions for the iPhone App Store, the effects comments have had on his thinking, and a balanced evaluation of a possible Mac App Store are all included in our conversation with Fraser.

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 MacVoices #8108 [30:07m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Bruce Gee of GeeThree talks about their latest product, SlickFX for Final Cut Pro. iMovie enthusiasts could no longer take advantage of the Slick iMovie plug-ins if they migrated to iMovie ‘08; Bruce discusses his reaction to the change, and why they made the leap to Final Cut Pro. Who these plug-ins are for, how they work, and how the best of the Slick iMOvie plug-ins were selected for this first collection are all reviewed, along with Bruce’s tips for learning to use both Final Cut Pro and the GeeThree SlickFX products. Not ready for Final Cut Pro? Don’t worry. GeeThree continue to support and even update the Slick plug-ins for iMovie HD, and Bruce talks about that decision as well.

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 MacVoices #8107 [46:41m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Iconfactory co-founder and Icon Artist Gedeon Maheux reveals the history of arguably the most popular Mac Twitter client, Twitterific. Twitter is fast becoming one of the most important social network options, and Twitterific enhances that experience, making it more useful and adoption more widespread. Ged talks about the two flavors of Twitterific and why they have free versions, the release of Twitterific for the iPhone, the implications of the App Store as a distribution model and more. Twitterific wasn’t just ported to the iPhone, and Ged explains how they took advantage of the location-based services, some of their future plans, and more.

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