MacVoices #686 [11:02m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

At the O’Reilly Photoshp Cook-Off reception at PhotoPlus Expo in New York, a group of students from the Academy of Art in San Francisco discuss their ambitions as photographers and how their institution works to adjust the curriculum in a rapidly changing world. The group also talks about why still photography is not only relevant in a multimedia world, but also about the blending of the two, and why the required skills of one apply to the other.

The guests include (left to right): Birgitte Dodgson, Alexcia DeVasquez, Kenny Fraggas, Braden Summers, Jessica Reynolds and Caren Alpert (not shown).

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 MacVoices #685: PhotoPlus Expo - Digital Photography Pioneer Stephen Johnson Talks About His Career and the Evolution of Photography [17:44m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Digital photography pioneer Stephen Johnson discusses why he switched to digital photography long before many professionals and how he was using Adobe Photoshop, “…before Photoshop was Photoshop.” Stephen’s new book, Stephen Johnson on Digital Photography from O’Reilly, is about the history of digital photography, and how he believes photographers should be looking at the balance of creating their images in the camera and in Photoshop. He talks about his philosophies of taking and manipulating images, the future of digital photography, why his approach to photography is to capture light and not objects and more.

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 MacVoices #658 [43:47m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Steve Sande, the author of Take Control of iWeb, one of the newest Take Control eBooks, goes in-depth on Apple’s web publishing tool, part of the iLife ‘06 suite. Steve talks about why iWeb shouldn’t be thought of as just an entry-level tool to put photos or simple blogs on the web. With the inclusion of shapes, layers and masks, iWeb can be used to accomplish serious tasks with ease. Steve discusses how to access this power, third-party add-ons, why iWeb is so strongly wedded to .Mac and how it integrates with the other components of iLife ‘06 to make multimedia publishing a breeze.
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 MacVoices #657 [41:54m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Joe Kissell’s new eBook will help you Take Control of Running Windows on a Mac, and our interview with Joe gets you started. Joe reviews the three primary options for putting Windows on your Mac: Boot Camp, Parallels Desktop and Q, and discusses the characteristics, strengths and weaknesses of each. He also discuses hardware issues, security and virus concerns and more.
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 MacVoices #520 [15:21m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Internet security expert and notable Mac switcher Winn Schwartau discusses the Sony rootkit issue and why he didn’t bother with it. Winn also covers the challenges of enterprise-level migrations to the Mac and why it wouldn’t be quite as easy as you might imagine.
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 MacVoices #513 [27:53m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Looking for training on the Macintosh or related topics? There are plenty of choices available, including professional-level, Apple-certified options, but what do all those acronnyms and titles mean? Jason Trenary, who works with the Art Institute of Atlanta to provide Apple-certified courses, explains the certifications, what they mean to you as a potential consumer of training and what the Art Institute of Atlanta delivers to their local Mac community.
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