Jim Dalrymple catches up on his activities at the National Association of Music Merchants (NAMM) show, and comments on the importance and place Apple holds in the professional music industry from both the creation and production perspectives. Jim discusses some of the developments in digital music tools and how they actually support and help drive the physical and [...]
Neil Ticktin of MacTech provides a briefing on the results of their most recent virtualization study and how the popular choices Parallels Desktop 8 and VMware Fusion 5 stack up against each other, as well as other options like CrossOver. Neil also talks about the upcoming MacTech BootCamp II event, and the new Microsoft Office for Mac accreditation that can benefit serious users as well as consultants. [...]
On the show floor at Macworld/iWorld 2013 in San Francisco, Ian Schenkel, the CEO of EuroSmartz put their IOS PDF utility WritePDF through its paces, including the ability to merge app documents of various types directly into a PDF document with no conversation necessary. Ian makes it look easy because it is. MacVoices is sponsored by Rogue Amoeba,, makers of Audio [...]
In the DriveSavers booth at Macworld/iWorld 2013 in San Francisco, Chris Bross talks about their capabilities to recover data from malfunctioning, damaged or dead hard drives. As the tech world moves away from spinning hard drives to solid state options, the game has changed in many ways. Chris talks about how DriveSavers is addressing that change, their methods [...]
In a very active BusyMac booth at Macworld/iWorld 2013 in San Francisco, John Chaffee gives us a tour of the newest features of BusyCal 2. The calendar program has seen some very useful upgrades since our last discussion with John, making it the obvious choice to help manage your busy schedule. John explains the new custom view capabilities, more automatic [...]
In the CrashPlan booth at Macworld/iWorld 2013 in San Francisco,, Mike Evangelist gives us an update on one of our favorite backup solutions. Last year, the parent company, Code 42 Software, received some major funding. Mike talks about how that funding was used to expand from both a service and geographic perspective. MacVoices is sponsored by Rogue Amoeba, the makers of [...]
On the show floor at Macworld/iWorld 2013, we corralled the management of Smile for a conversation about two different ten-year anniversaries. The first was their history of creating great software like TextExpander, PDFpen, and PDFpen Pro. The second was their string of years exhibiting at the various iterations of Macworld. Philip Goward, Jean MacDonald and Greg Scown talk about their [...]
In the Podcast booth on show floor at Macworld/iWorld 2013, we talk to Connected Data CEO Geoff Barrall about one of the hot products introduced at the show, the Transporter. A connected storage device that gives you your own personal cloud, the Transporter keeps your data in places you control, not someone else’s servers, at [...]
With the many changes in medicine, insurance and government, how is a physician to keep up? At Macworld/iWorld 2013 in San Francisco, we get at least part of the answer in a conversation with Mark Hollis of MacPractice. Mark takes us through some of the most recent updates and upgrades to their medical practice software that are important [...]
In the Fujitsu booth at Macworld/iWorld 2013 in San Francisco, Michael Sidejas shows of the newest version of their flagship consumer document scanner, the Fujitsu ScanSnap iX500 Scanner. The new model features faster scanning, wireless scanning straight to your iPad or iPhone and much more. This edition of MacVoicesTV is sponsored by Squarespace. Go to Squarespace.com/macvoices and click “enter an [...]
