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.
MacVoices #8113: MacVoices at New Media Expo: David Chmura of humbledaisy Describes Converting Your Presentations into Podcasts with ProfCast
MacVoices #8112: Maria Langer Talks WordPress.com Training and Why It Is Better on Video
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.
MacVoices #8111 – Rich Mogull on Mac Security, DNS Vulnerabilities, Why You Should Care, and More
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.
MacVoices #8110: Michael Dupuis of Advenio Gets Cooking with MacGourmet
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.
MacVoices #8109: Fraser Speirs of Connected Flow on Exposure for the iPhone, Uploading, and the Future of the App Store
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.