Macworld Expo 2010
MacVoices is already working on our biggest, best Macworld coverage yet, with our Road to Macworld 2010 series. The Road to Macworld 2010 is a special MacVoices series produced in partnership with Macworld to preview some of the exhibitors, presentations and events at Macworld 2010. Find out who’s going, what’s happening, and why you should join us in San Francisco for the show.
Roxio announced the latest update to the venerable CD/DVD authoring program, Toast, at Macworld Expo, and Patrick Nugent, Product Manager for Toast 10, describes key new features, including web video capabilities and upgraded TiVo support. Patrick also profiles the new software bundle for the Pro version that includes some best-in-class software to help you put [...]
In the IRIS booth at Macworld Conference & Expo, Jean-Marc Fontaine talks about the various scanning solutions they offer to help you manage all that paper. Mark describes the IRISPen, a handheld pen scanner, IRISScan 2, a portable document scanner, and their IRISCard business card scanner. Marc talks about how each can be used, sometimes [...]
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.
From the show floor at Macworld Expo, John Wallace, the president of Now Software discusses the successor to Now Contact and Now Up-To-Date programs, Nighthawk. The path for Nighthawk has been a challenging one; John talks about some of the lessons learned, announces the February release of a public beta, and the feature set users [...]
MacVoices‘ host and producer Chuck Joiner has several activities and events scheduled for Macworld Conference & Expo, and invites you to stop by and say hello. Wednesday will start early, with MacVoices once again taping the presentations at the Adobe User Group & Professional Association Breakfast. Then, Chuck will be in the Other World Computing [...]
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 [...]
Macworld Conference & Expo 2009 will include many new and interesting panel sessions, often reaching beyond the traditional boundaries to include the Mac perspective in the larger world. One of those sessions, Digital Art Pioneers and Trendsetters, will be led by Rob MacDonald, the Product Manager for Corel Painter. On The Road to Macworld, Rob [...]
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 our traditional stops on The Road to Macworld is to talk to Brian Rothschild, the Executive Director and Founder of The John Lennon Educational Tour Bus, The bus will once again have a commanding presence at Macworld Conference & Expo, and Brian talks about their newest partner and this year’s featured artist, afro-fusion [...]
Paul Kent, the General Manager of Macworld Conference & Expo, makes a special appearance on The Road to Macworld to update you on some of the social networking options before, during and after the show, including their new iMacworld iPhone app, the Macworld Expo community on ning, and Twitter. Paul also talks about how you [...]
The final stretch on The Road to Macworld is here, and this time we talk to the contributors to the Mac Switcher Bundle, a package of programs and training that is designed specifically for new Mac owners (but would be useful to veterans as well. Jean MacDonald of SmileOnMyMac, Don McAllister of ScreenCastsOnline, Peter Maurer [...]
As we pick up speed on The Road to Macworld Expo, the co-directors of Welcome to Macintosh, Rob Baca and Josh Rizzo, discuss their film and their approach to documenting Apple, the company and Apple, the community. The duo talk about their inspiration for the film, some of their favorite interviews with key people in [...]
Omaha Sternberg, the Executive Producer of MacRadio, a Mac podcast aggregation site, talks about what her site offers that iTunes doesn’t, on The Road to Macworld Expo. Omaha previews some of the social networking features that MacRadio will soon be offering, invites everyone at Macworld Expo the MacRadio Meetup on Thursday night, and announces a [...]
On The Road to Macworld, Newer Technology‘s Grant Dahlke talks about the products that they’ll be showing at in San Francisco. At the top of their list is the Voyager, a drive dock that supports USB 2.0, FireWire 400 and 800 and eSATA connections. Grant explains Voyager’s support of both 2.5 and 3.5 bare drives [...]
On The Road to Macworld, Newer Technology‘s Grant Dahlke talks about the products that they’ll be showing at in San Francisco. At the top of their list is the Voyager, a drive dock that supports USB 2.0, FireWire 400 and 800 and eSATA connections. Grant explains Voyager’s support of both 2.5 and 3.5 bare drives [...]
Ian Schray, the U.S. Marketing Manager for Softpress talks about the latest updates to their web publishing software, Freeway, on The Road to Macworld Expo. Freeway recently won an Eddy Award, and with good reason. Ian discusses the latest major feature additions to Freeway, easily adding Flash videos to your site, and support for dedicated [...]
Continuing down The Road to Macworld Expo, Dax Dasilva, the founder, CEO and vice president of development of Xsilva, talks about LightSpeed, the point-of-sale (POS) software that has more in common with iTunes than with any business software you’ve ever seen. Dax explains how Xsilva is creating software for everyone from the boutique store owner [...]
Small Tree Communications Chief Technology Officer Steve Modica talks about why “The Mac Network Experts” find Macworld Conference & Expo so important to their business. Steve discusses how Macs are infiltrating the enterprise market and why that creates opportunities for hardware and networking specialists like Small Tree. Steve talks about why “speeds and feeds” are [...]
One of the highlights of the party circuit at Macworld Conference & Expo for several years has been the annual appearance of the Macworld All-Star Band. For the first time ever, the group made up of some of the best-known people in the Mac industry appear together to discuss their project in a freewheeling, out-of-control [...]
On The Road to Macworld Expo, Julio Ojeda-Zapata talks about his new book, Twitter Means Business: How Microblogging Can Help or Hurt Your Company, and offers some advice for vendors who will be trying to effectively utilize the popular real-time microblogging system, both for Expo show-goers as well as those who will be watching from [...]
The host of This Week in Tech, MacBreak Weekly and so many more we lose count, Leo Laporte, will be the featured speaker on Thursday morning at Macworld Conference & Expo. Leo joins us on The Road to Macworld Expo to talk about why Macworld Expo week is so special from a community perspective, and [...]
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 Horton, organizer of the Final Cut Pro User Group SuperMeet at Macworld Conference & Expo, profiles this year’s event in San Francisco. Mike talks about why the SuperMeet supplements but doesn’t compete with Macworld Expo, why Apple will be there, and why their rapid-fire presentation format works so well. While 2009 will mark the [...]
On The Road to Macworld Conference & Expo, Jeff Gamet and Jay Nelson give us a preview of their MacLab session, iTunes for Audiophiles. Think that just ripping your music at the highest bit rate is the answer? Then you need to put Jay and Jeff’s session on your calendar. Tips on moving music from [...]
Joe Kissell, well known for his Take Control of Running Windows on a Mac, narrows his focus on the topic in his latest book, Take Control of VMWare Fusion. Joe compares VMWare Fusion with other solutions, describes what the newest version offers, covers how much hardware horsepower you need for a satisfying experience, and how [...]
Mac graphics master Deke McClelland is back to discuss his newest book, Adobe Photoshop CS4 One-on-One, as well as two more titles coming very soon, his extensive video series for lynda.com, and more. Deke explains why his book is approachable for the Photoshop novice, but also has plenty of meat for the expert, and how [...]
Paul Kent, the General Manager of Macworld Conference & Expo, discusses the biggest and best event of the Mac year, Macworld Conference & Expo 2009. Paul profiles the established and diverse set of conference programs, then highlights some of this year’s additions and innovations, including the forward-thinking Macworld Pulse Market Symposium, some of the new [...]
MacVoices has concluded our coverage of Macworld Conference & Expo 2008, delivering a total of 63 different interviews, including our Road to Macworld Expo series, 5 shows from The Adobe Professional Association and User Group Breakfast, several shows from the Macworld Podcast Studio, a session in the Peachipt Booth and a whole lot of interviews [...]
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.
As the show floor closes (literally), Chuck Joiner takes a few moments to say thanks to the people who made this year’s unprecedented MacVoices’ coverage of Macworld Conference & Expo the best around.
Christian Pickman of Micromat explains why he’s wearing a Macworld badge that proclaims him the “Love Ninja” of Micromat, then puts on his Product Manager hat to talk about the current version of TechTool Pro, their flagship hard drive utility and the new version of Protoge. Christian talks about why TechTool Pro is just as [...]
ifrogz scored two “Best of Show” awards at Expo for their audiowrapz cases for iPod. In a world full of iPod case options, the audiowrapz is unique in that it offers a speaker built in to the case for casual listening without headphones. Jeff Morgan, Vice President of Sales for iFrogz talks about this unique [...]
Chris Celeste of Dr. Bott discusses their offerings of USB hubs and repeaters, explaining why not all hubs are created equal and why you get what you pay for. Chris profiles the powered and ultra-portable hubs offered by Dr. Bott and their uses. Chris also talks about their Super-Extender that lets you place your monitor [...]
Comfort is the word for iMuffs, Wi-Gear‘s bluetooth headphone solution. Mark Pundsack, the President and CEO of Wi-Gear talks about the feature set of their product, including, comfort, battery life, sound quality, convenience of charging and why you need a bluetooth adapter, even witt the iPhone.
We finally caught up with John Grzeskowiak of RadTech as a busy Expo was winding down and he talked about why the Radtech booth had to have more product shipped in because of the popularity of the iPhone and iPod touch. John also talks about RadTech’s newest products include the Otterbox and Defender waterproof and [...]
Director of Marketing Jean McDonald of SmileOnMyMac talks about what was hot in their booth at Expo. Jean reviews the capabilities of PDFPen, a Best of Show award winner, and why PDFs are becoming more and more important. The other product in demand was DiscLabel 5 and Jean talks about why their customers love the [...]
John Chaffee of BusyMac talks about BusySync, an add-on to iCal that lets you sync your calendar over your local network, and now can sync your iCal with Google Calendar. With automatic user recognition, complete control of read and write priveleges, BusySync includes access privileges, SSL encryption, BusySync fills in many of the missing pieces [...]
Bob Leeds of Insider Software talks about his surprise at the interest from the enterprise market, especially for Smasher, their “IT manager in a box.”. Bob also explains why you need their Font Agent Pro Server, and how the new version of Font Agent Pro 4 offers a variety of new capabilities, including helping you [...]
Tony Lim of Taylor Technologies introduces their wireless charging station for your electronics device, including iPods. The secret is conductive charging – just snap on the adapter for your device on and place it on the charging pad. Taylor also offers a variety of portable devices with USB connectivity built in so power or charging [...]
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 [...]
Chris Jones of Techshell talks about their hardshell solutions to protect your MacBook and MacBook Pro. Techshell not only keeps your laptop safe, but look good too. Chris reviews the care they take provide cosmetic and structural protection while keeping the eye-candy color options bright. Techshell offers customization options for their products that provide branding [...]
Chano Gomez, Vice President of Technology and Strategic Partnerships for DS2, discusses their chip solutions that power the new generation of PowerLline networking solutions. Need a superior solution to push high quality video signals around your home or office but find running HTMI cables unworkable and wireless insufficient? Chano explains why you should look at [...]
Paul Carnine, the founder of Vara Software, discusses Wirecast, an affordable live production tool that acts as a video switcher, title engine and a streaming video front end. With support for up to 7 camera inputs, chroma key and more, Wirecast is a television studio for your Mac. Paul talks about some of their customers, [...]
Brady Bargenquast of Audioengine covers how their company started with some Apple DNA, and profiles their new AW1, their wireless solution that works with any speaker system. Brady talks about how the AW1 uses a closed 802.11 network to deliver a superior solution for your home theater with no interference from other devices, including your [...]
Jim Heid, the author of The Macintosh iLife 08, joins Chuck Joiner for a live taping of MacVoices in the Peachpit Booth on the Expo show floor. Jim shares his impressions of Expo, evaluates the MacBook Air, tells you why the new version of Microsoft Office isn’t the big deal it once would have been, [...]
In the DisplayLink booth on the Expo show floor, Jason Slaughter, the Director of Marketing, talks about their video technology that is moving to the Mac after being proven on the PC side. DisplayLink lets you connect multiple monitors to your Mac using USB 2.0, with no extra video cards required. Jason covers the performance [...]
Chuck Vath, the Director of Sales for Chestnut Hill Sound, talks about GEORGE, their iPod speaker system that is distinguished by a sophisticated remote control that lets you control your iPod from across the room without losing the iPod experience. Chuck covers George’s ability to provide a high quality, stand-alone solution, its ability to integrate [...]
Ken Freeman, the Director of Product Management for Mark/Space, reviews their stable of sync products that let you share and swap data between all sorts of mobile devices, including Macs and iPhones. Explaining why, “syncing is complex,” Ken outlines how they endeavor to make it simple, resolve conflicts and keep everything consistent between client devices. [...]
Irina Stepanovska, the Vice President of Sales for BeLight Software discusses LiveInterior 3D software that helps plan your home or office remodeling without the strain and expense of moving furniture and redecorating. Irina also covers ArtText, their text manipulation software that gives you the ability to modify text and vector images in virtually unlimited ways. [...]
Adam Engst, Tonya Engst, Glenn Fleishman and Rich Mogull, all from TidBITS, visit the Macworld Podcast Studio to discuss the place TidBITS holds in the Mac universe, how their team rose to the challenge of covering the year’s biggest Mac event, Macworld Expo, and most notably, Steve Jobs’ keynote. The crew describes their real-time collaborative [...]
Sean Murray of BatteryGeek profiles their external power solutions for virtually all of Apple’s portable devices, including the iPod and iPhone, as well as many other mobile devices. An extensive set of tips makes sure that you can plug in virtually any portable device. Sean also talks about their planned support of the MacBook Air, [...]
Andrew Green of DLO talks about the products they introduced at Macworld Expo, including the new HomeDock HD that features upconverting of iPod video to 720p or 1080i and an updated remote that does not require line-of-sight, and the iBoom Jukebox that includes a 2-way display remote and album art display. Andrew also comments on [...]
In the Prosoft Engineering / JoeSoft booth on the show floor, Gordon Bell talks about the newest products from both brands, the growth of their company and their plans (already) for next year’s Macworld Expo. Gordon introduces Drive Genius II, the superior solution for optimizing drive performance and the one used at Apple Genius Bars [...]
With some convincing, we dragged Cyrus Farivar, the engineer for all the shows taped in this year’s Macworld.com Podcast Studio, up to the mic to find out what he’s been up to since leaving his post at Macworld magazine. Cyrus talks about his love of technology journalism, his mentors at Macworld, how he uses his [...]
In the Macworld.com podcast studio, Paul Levine of RAGE Software talks about the utilities they offer for webmasters and site owners who are interested in making their online efforts more effective. RAGE announced several upgrades and enhancements to their products; Paul talks about those updates and provides thoughts on their pricing, how they work to [...]
Ian Schray, the U.S. Marketing Manager for Softpress is back to talk about the new Freeway 5 and why they decided to release it as a public beta at Macworld Expo. Ian covers the new and updated features such as CSS menus, Blogger templates, direct import from iPhoto, and the high quality of the HTML [...]
Christopher Lowe, VP of Sales and Marketing for KeyOvation, talks about their Goldtouch for Mac ergonomic keyboard. Keyboards aren’t the sexiest thing out there but are critical if you spend a great deal of time at the computer. Christopher explains why some ergonomic keyboards really aren’t, why wrist rests are both misnamed and potentially damaging [...]
Etymotic president Mead Killion discusses their product line of high-quality earphones and their newest options for users with hard-to-fit ears. Bluetooth has an important spot in Etymotic’s product line and Mead talks about why their options don’t represent a compromise in performance and why their focus on accurate frequency response distinguishes their products. Performance demands [...]
Gary Regester of Lowel describes their EGO Digital Imaging Light Unit that is perfect for eBay items, video blogging, podcasting…even make-up and home photography. Gary talks about how the changes in the digital photography market led them to create a lighting solution that fits the new market, the care taken in developing Ego to make [...]
The Adobe Professional Association and User Group Breakfast wraps up with demo-meister Terry White showing off the latest Mac offering from Adobe, Photoshop Elements 6. Terry demonstrates some of the new features, including capabilities that are Mac-specific, and not available in the Windows version.
Adobe’s Terry White shows the crowd at the Adobe Professional Association and User Group Breakfast some Adobe InDesign CS3 tricks, yields the stage briefly to author Lynette Kent to show off the newest Cintiq tablet display from Wacom and then comes back with some tips on Adobe Illustrator CS3 and Adobe Flash.
At the Adobe Professional Association and User Group Breakfast, Adobe’s Dave Hemly demonstrates some of the latest capabilities of Adobe Premier, performs some audio magic with Adobe Soundbooth and finishes with some DVD authoring tricks using Adobe Flash.
At the Adobe Professional Association and User Group Breakfast, Group Product Manager Mike Downey introduces the crowd to Air, Adobe’s new desktop runtime development environment. Mike explains how Air adds real-time interaction by showing example applications for working with eBay, FineTune, Twitter and Pownce.
Terry White opens the annual Adobe Professional Association and User Group Breakfast, at Macworld Conference & Expo 2008 with some comments about the longevity of the event and updates on the Adobe User Group Program.
Brian Rothschild, Executive Director and Founder, talks about the brand new edition of the John Lennon Educational Tour Bus and the high-profile source of funding that made it possible. All new equipment from Sony, Mackie, and others, with enhancements that include two complete 5.1 surround sound studios, HD robotic cameras, an xRaid server and much [...]
Mark Hollis, the president of MacPractice, talks about how their software addresses the unique challenges of running a medical office. MacPractice offers customization for over 100 medical disciplines from both the management and clinical perspectives. Reviewing the features of data migration in and out of MacPractice, scheduling, graphic resource support, iPhone access to information, scalability, [...]
Till Schadde, the CEO of equinox, discusses the upcoming TubeStick, a USB analog/HD TV tuner that offers recording capabilities as well as a unique social networking option to watch and discuss live program with other viewers. TubeStick supports both over-the-air and cable-delivered HD signals, scheduling of recordings and iPhone management of your TubeStick via another [...]
Yuval Koren, co-founder of Eye-Fi discusses their wireless memory card for your digital camera. Yuval covers the intelligence built into the card and how it allows you to send your photos straight from your camera to your Mac or even directly to one of the web’s photo-sharing sites via wifi. No need to upgrade your [...]
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