MacVoices #880 [32:55m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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 presets that will automatically make your speakers or headphones sound better, regardless of how good they are to start with. If would do the adjustments yourself, Hear provides an extensive set of controls and settings. Gordon also talks about competitive upgrade options, why some programs like Hear are better as stand-alone applications rather than plug-ins to iTunes, and how the support philosophy of Joesoft (and Prosoft Engineering) are different from many others in the industry.

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 MacVoices #878 [26:46m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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 virtually any video web site on your big screen, including Hulu, ABC.com and more. James discusses the ease of installation, provides some background on how the ATV Flash works its magic, and covers other ATV Flash features, including tracking live weather, RSS feeds and more.
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 MacVoices #877 [33:34m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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 their informal presence, some of the hot products for both professionals and consumers, and what he would have taken home if it had been shipping. Jeff also covers the Adobe presence at NAB, why hulu was one of the hot topics, and offers his perspective on the ubiquitous presence of Macs at the show.
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 MacVoices #876 [39:25m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Patrick Nugent, Product Manager for Toast 9 Titanium from Roxio provides a tour of the latest enhancements to the industry-standard disc burning utility. Patrick explains the differences in the flavors of Toast, and covers in detail the new Blu-Ray support for both data and video, including the capability to share Blu-Ray content on DVD media. Toast now also includes support for both TiVo Series 2 and Series 3 units, giving users the ability to share recorded content via DVD and more. Video streaming has also been added to Toast, and Patrick talks about how you can now view your video from across the room or across the Internet from your Tivo or your Mac.
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 MacJury #801 [58:40m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

MacVoices‘ host Chuck Joiner is launching a new show: The MacJury, and the first show is being included on the MacVoices’ site and in the newsfeeds to help introduce listeners to the latest program for Mac news and entertainment. Each show will feature a different panel of personalities from the Mac universe in a freewheeling discussion that will interest Mac users of all levels.

The very first MacJury empaneled consists of some of the members of MacLevelTen, discussing the rise (or not) of Blu-Ray and how it affects Mac users. Will it solve all your storage problems, prove to be just a stop-gap technology, or be leapfrogged by faster bandwidth as a video delivery medium? The jury members then take on the Apple TV, what it brings to the table beyond movie rentals, and what needs to be added to make it a true killer product. Why there is a trend toward in-person tech conferences, why podcasts and social media may be helping drive that trend, and the dynamics of Twitter are all entered into evidence in the first show.

The jurors for this show include:

Pat Fauquet	Don McAllister	Jay Nelson	Dan Pourhadi	Chuck Joiner

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 MacVoices #872 [39:50m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Michael Horton of the Los Angeles Final Cut Pro Users Group is back to talk about the next iteration of the the Final Cut Pro User Group SuperMeet, this one at the upcoming NAB show in Las Vegas. Mike discusses why neither Aople nor Avid will exhibit, and why he and his fellow-organizers decided to go ahead with the SuperMeet anyway. There is no agenda set for the event; Mike explains why representative of how they are approaching this year’s event, how Apple is integral to this event in spite of their lack of show floor presence and why the prices of SuperMeet sponsorship went down (and no, it wasn’t due to desperation).
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 MacVoices #866 [41:06m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Don McAllister of ScreenCastsOnline discusses the latest addition to Apple’s laptop line, the MacBook Air and why he’s a happy Air owner, new Apple Stores in the UK, BBC TV shows on iTunes, the iPlayer debacle for non-Windows users, why “Apple freaks” in Ireland will be paying heavily for their iPhones and more in our latest “European Perspective” report.

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 MacVoices #865 [21:28m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Paul Kafasis	Mike Ash

Rogue Amoeba CEO Paul Kafasis and Senior Programmer Mike Ash talk about the newest capabilities of Airfoil, their product that sends audio from your Mac to other Macs and the AirPort Express. Only a month after a major revision was announced at Macworld Expo, Airfoil has a full point upgrade to support the Apple TV. With the “Take Two” update to Apple’s set-top box, any audio from your Mac can now be sent to the Apple TV. Paul and Mike talk about how these capabilities play into the evolution of Airfoil and how it has grown beyond its original purpose.

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 MacVoices #860 [6:31m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

In response to on-site questions at Macworld Conference & Expo and emails since returning home, Chuck Joiner reviews the gear that was used during the week on the ground in San Francisco to produce MacVoices’ coverage of the show.

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 MacVoices #849 [8:58m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Glen Aspeslagh of ecamm network starts off a review of his company’s products by talking about CallRecorder, the solution to automatically record Skype audio and video calls, iGlasses, their utility to improve the picture from your iSight camera, the affordable iMage web camera that can be used by Mac users who don’t have an iSight-equipped Mac, and iPhone Drive, that lets you mount your iPhone as a hard drive so it can be used as a storage device. Then, Glen talks about some new products being shown at the show, including the uber-geeky iLidz Personal Media viewer, a low-tech solution that hangs your iPhone or iPod touch in front of your eyes,
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