Blackmagic Design, long known for their pro video gear, is making inroads into the consumer space with Video Recorder, their solution for transferring legacy video material to your Mac. On the show floor at Macworld Expo, Dan May talks about how it delivers user-selectable degrees of quality, its flexibility and why you might need to [...]
From the show floor at Macworld Expo, Etymotic president Mead Killion updates us on their line of high-quality earphones, the degrees of sound isolation that can be achieved by different earphone tips, and provides some information on faithful reproduction of sound. The video of this interview is available as MacVoicesTV #904.
As we arrive at the end of The Road to Macworld, we consider the crossing, and sometimes clashing, intersection of new media, old media, distribution options and the future of it all with Arthur Greenwald, TV producer, Contributing Editor for TVNewsday and industry consultant, and Daisy Whitney, writer for TV Week and host of New [...]
Jennifer Soule, the Sales Manager for Other World Computing, is back with us on The Road to Macworld to preview the new look of the OWC booth, and how they are changing the buying experience at Expo for the better. OWC will be extending their philosophy of educating their customers, with a focus on the [...]
One of the brand new exhibitors at Macworld Conference and Expo this year will be Cultured Code, the maker of the task management software, Things. Michael Simmons, the Marketing Director for Cultured Code discusses both the desktop and iPhone versions of Things. Even though in public preview, with version 1.0 to be introduced at Expo, [...]
Michael Cohen helps make sense of the many sync options in the Mac OS in his new book, Take Control of Syncing Data in Leopard. Michael explains why he opted to cover data, and not files, what the difference is, and why data syncing is much more challenging. The truth database, Leopard sync utilities vs. [...]
Glenn Fleishman has written the book (again) on making the most of your wireless network in Take Control of Your 802.11n Airport Network. Glenn talks about the benefits you’ll get by upgrading to 802.11n that you might not know about, especially if you’ve added a Time Capsule, Apple TV or other connected device to your [...]
Author and Mac expert Joe Kissell is back to discuss his latest effort, Take Control of MobileMe. The transition from .Mac to MobileMe hasn’t been a smooth one, but Joe helps make sense of how things have gotten better since the launch, and some things you can do to help fix some of the challenges [...]
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 [...]
In the first-ever MacVoices father and son interview, Ben Gotow, the developer of NetSketch, and his dad, Jon Gotow of St. Clair Software, introduce the only vector-based drawing program for the iPhone and iPod touch. Ben discusses the rich set of capabilities of NetSketch, including the ability to zoom in and out with no loss [...]
