We catch up with Bob “Dr. Mac” LeVitus in the middle of his annual Mid-Atlantic MUG Tour to talk in person about what he’s showing off this year, how Apple has managed the development of the iPhone market and more. Bob comments on the app approval process, the need for guidelines for developers, and what constitutes “appropriate” pricing for iPhone apps.
MacNotables #915: From His Mid-Atlantic MUG Tour, Bob LeVitus Discusses “The State of the iPhone”
MacNotables #914: Christopher Breen on the Mac mini as Media Center, Mozy Online Backup and Stupid Forum Posters
Macworld Senior Editor Christopher Breen discusses his adventures with the online backup service Mozy, an unanticipated benefit of using the password manager, 1Passworld and dealing with difficult people in the Macworld forums. Chris’ latest big project is building a home media center around a Mac mini, and he reviews the results, concluding that while everything is getting geekier as we go along, online content deliver has made the effort involved more worthwhile.
MacVoices #971: Maria Langer’s Newest Video Course Helps You Learn To Twitter Effectively
Maria Langer has been busy, developing the new Twitter Essential Training video training from lynda.com. Even though Twitter has become the pop culture darling of the moment recently, Maria has been working on this course for months, and tweeting for years. She brings that experience to those new to the service as well as anyone who wants to use it more effectively. From the very basics of how to set up your account and send your first message to client software recommendations and the ethics of tweeting, Maria explains that her course covers it all, and provides some tips for making your Twitter experience better.
MacVoices #970: Matthew Dornquast On How CrashPlan Backs Up Data Remotely…For Free
An essential, and overlooked, component of an effective backup strategy is an off-site or remote option. CrashPlan co-founder Matthew Dornquast explains how their products fill that gap at no cost for individuals, and very affordably for businesses. CrashPlan’s “social backup” model lets you manage both ends of the process, adding in bandwidth, compression, encryption and scheduling options so that it is all but invisible…until you need it. Free doesn’t mean feature-poor, however. Matthew discusses how they help you avoid the often days-long initial backup, making backups bootable, the special features that regularly check the integrity of your backup, and how you can even use an old PC to do your Mac backup bidding.
MacNotables #913: Dennis Sellers On Broken-Handed Computing, A Different Take on Apple Market, Share 1 Billion Downloads and More
After yet another sports-related injury, Dennis Sellers celebrates his birthday by talking about how he was forced to rely on MacSpeech Dictate to keep Macsimum News up and running, and how it worked out for him. Dennis and Chuck also discuss Dennis’ new way to look at Apple market share, the implications of 1 billion app downloads and how the iTunes Store has evolved as a software distribution platform, the Apple quarterly results, and more.