John Chaffee, the President and co-founder of BusyMac, explains why you need to leave iCal far behind and use their new product, BusyCal, to manage your busy life. BusyCal solves all those little (and big) iCal issues you’ve been suffering through, syncs with your Google Calendar, and more. John discusses who the target audience is for BusyCal, why it is so simple to try out and then switch to BusyCal, and how you can go back and forth between the two seamlessly if you have the need. BusyCal improves on iCal’s to-do list capabilities, including recurring to-dos, enables user-selectable snooze periods, supports the iPhone, adds in live weather forecasts, graphics and sticky note support and much more to earn its tagline, “Think of it as iCal Pro.” John also gives us a developers-eye view of application pricing and support, how they are inter-related, how BusyMac rewards early adopters, and offers MacVoices’ listeners a 20% discount on BusyCal.
MacVoices #9105: John Chaffee of BusyMac Outlines the Pro-Level Features of BusyCal
MacVoices #9104: Arnie Ramirez of MCE Technologies Expands Your Mac Laptop with Their OptiBay
Running out of hard drive space on your Mac laptop? Arnie Ramirez, the President of MCE Technologies, introduces us to their OptiBay, an affordable expansion bay for hard drives that opens all sorts of possibilities. It not only offers storage, but performance and convenience options as well. Arnie explains some of the options for RAID formatting, solid state drive(s), backups, alternative OS versions, and more. You can do the install yourself or have MCE do it for you; Arnie explains how they make it easier than you might think, and what you do with your SuperDrive after it has been replaced.
MacVoices #9103: Deke McClelland and Colleen Wheeler Serve Up ‘Martini Hour’ at Photoshop World
Deke McClelland and Colleen Wheeler are taking their show on the road! The co-hosts of Martini Hour will be recording several special sessions of their show at Photoshop World in Las Vegas, and take a break from the preparations by revealing its origins. Deke has a habit of putting his own unique twist on his projects, and Martini hour is no exception. From the show’s musical aspects to the way they talk listeners through graphic techniques, Deke and Colleen explain how Martini Hour has evolved, mention their guest list for Las Vegas, Deke’s latest project, Photoshop Top 40, and more.
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MacVoices #9102: Kelly Thompson of iStockPhoto Discusses Their New Legal Guarantee on Their Media Collection
Looking for stock photography, video or audio clips, but are concerned about licensing? Kelly Thompson, Chief Operating Officer of iStockPhoto talks about the latest upgrade to their media offerings, a new “Legal Guarantee” on their entire collection. With an automatic guarantee up to $10,000, and an Extended Legal Guarantee up to $250,000 available, iStockPhoto has raised the bar on safely using stock media for your projects, especially in the microstock space. Kelly explains how the new guarantee affects both users and those who submit their media to iStockPhoto, and why they can’t implement the guarantee retroactively. Kelly also provides an introduction to Vetta, their new premium collection of “the best of the best” that is, literally, suitable for framing.
MacNotables #941: Ted Landau on iPod nano Video, Ringtones, the iPhone Closed Platform and More
Ted Landau and host Chuck Joiner start out by debating the burning question, “Is a video camera a compelling addition to the iPod nano,” covering uses both serious and frivilous. Then the new ringtone options take center stage for a discussion of the inconsistencies and challenges over the way this all works in iTunes 9. If you’re a ringtone fan, you need to hear about Ted’s adventures with what works and what doesn’t. Ted tells a story about “old” iPod options, covers the video camera you already have (but might not think about), compares the iPhone vs. the Mac as open platforms, and clarifies that his last column at MacFixIt was not his obituary.
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