MacVoices #887: Joe Kissell on Taking Control of Apple’s .Mac Service
Take Control author Joe Kissell is back, this time to talk about an update to his Take Control of .Mac ebook. Apple’s online service has received several enhancements as it relates to the synergy with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard and the iLife ’08 suite, and Joe covers them in this latest book. Among the [...]
MacVoices #886: Jeff Tolbert Takes Control of Making Music in GarageBand ’08
Jeff Tolbert, the author of the new Take Control of Making Music with GarageBand ’08, talks about one of the two aspects of the program (as contrasted with his other new book, Take Control of Recording with GarageBand ’08), how it has evolved over the life of the program, and who it is targeted for. [...]
MacVoices #885: Christian Rueb of equinux Profiles Their TubeStick hybrid and The Tube Software Combination
Christian Rueb of equinux provides an overview of their new video hardware/software combination, the TubeStick hybrid and The Tube. equinux has taken a different approach to capturing and using broadcast video on your Mac, building in unique capabilities to enhance the experience. Sure, you can record and take your programs with you on your iPod [...]
MacVoices #883: Ian Schray of SoftPress Discusses the Latest Enhancements to Freeway
Ian Schray of SoftPress is back to talk about some of the latest enhancements to their web publishing tool, Freeway. Both v5.0 and v5.1 brought some significant enhancements to Freeway, and Ian takes us through those, starting at the beginning. Ian explains why Freeway, in both the Pro and Express versions, is a web authoring [...]
MacVoices #882: Joe Kissell Takes Control of Both Apple Mail in Leopard and Spam
Joe Kissell, the author of the brand new Take Control of Apple Mail in Leopard and the updated Take Control of Spam in Apple Mail discusses both in a bonus-length interview. First, Joe discusses the latest version of Apple Mail, what has been added and updated, what has been taken away, and what works and [...]
MacVoices #881: Gus Mueller Discusses the Flying Meat Family of Software
Flying Meat offers some of the most interesting and unique software in the Mac space. Gus Mueller joins us to deliver a tour of the Flying Meat offerings. Gus talks about how VoodooPad, his first product, launched his indie software career, how getting information in and out of the program is a breeze, and why [...]
MacVoices #880: Gordon Bell of Joesoft Covers Hear, Their New Digital Audio Processing Software
Gordon Bell, the General Manager for JoeSoft talks about the release of Hear, their digital signal processing utility that makes all the sound coming out of your Mac better. Music, movies, television, video games…they all sound better with Hear. Gordon talks about how Hear benefits from the experience of an Emmy-nominated sound professional and gives [...]
MacVoices #879: Galen Gruman of InfoWorld Discusses Macs in the Enterprise Market
The attitudes about Macs in the enterprise market are changing, and Galen Gruman, the Executive Editor of of InfoWorld, talks about some of the contributing factors. Galen discusses how the success of Firefox, cloud computing virtualization, parity of maintenance costs and more have made Macs more welcome in corporate IT. Galen explains how Microsoft has [...]
MacVoices #878: James Abeler on Expanding Your Apple TV’s Capabilities with ATV Flash
James Abeler of Apple Core LLC introduces the ATV Flash. With the ATV Flash installed, your Apple TV supports a whole host of new video file formats, including AVI, DivX and Xvid. If that was all, the ATV Flash would be a great product, but it also adds native web browsing so you can watch [...]
MacVoices #877: Jeff Gamet Reports From NAB 2008 in Las Vegas
Jeff Gamet is spending the week in Las Vegas, covering the NAB Show for The Mac Observer (at least that’s what he’s telling them), and joins us to talk about his impressions of the show from a Mac perspective. Jeff discusses how Apple’s lack of a formal appearance at the show is being offset by [...]
