MyMac Podcast 741: TechQuake

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Guy manages to half destroy his mancave and Gaz wants to go museum hopping! Also, Apple sells a lot of stuff but not as much as they promised they would (proooooomised!), FaceTime flaws, and Google/FaceBook did a naughty thing!

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Guy’s Pick: Looking to try your hand at podcasting, but find a DAW like GarageBand intimidating? Well take a look at the free Spreaker app. Pretty much everything set up for you and it will record to your local drive. If you want to sign up and use the Spreaker service you also get chat support with your audience.

Gaz’s Pick: The Prague Apple Museum!

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MyMac Podcast 740: AiMleSs

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Yes the GMen are without direction. Yes, they meander all over the place. No, that doesn’t have anything to do with the show’s title. It’s a not very clever way to bring up a Macintosh Emulator. They also have a non-second section technical talk about all kinds of things and maybe they’ll start doing that in the second section too…unless they forget.

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Guy’s Pick: Swift Publisher 5 from Belight software $19.00 or a $14.00 upgrade from previous versions. Terrific and easy to use graphic and page layout software.

Gaz’s Pick: I use this App ALL THE TIME Default Folder X I think it’s worth every penny. £33.95 or $34.95
They have a free trial so if you’re not sure try it first for 30 days.

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MyMac Podcast 739: You got a FRAND in me

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There’s a great reason why the show has this name, but Guy can’t remember what it is. What he does remember is that buying stuff at Wish is not typically a wish granted. Gaz is editing his time-lapse videos on an iPad instead of his Mac and hacks and viruses just aren’t what they used to be. Lastly, feeling nostalgic for older Apple products? Well like bad food they may be back up again!

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Guy’s Pick: IVI 4 Video converter from South Pole Software. $14.99 from the Mac App Store. Turn almost any video format into some other video format.

Gaz’s Pick: iMovie, on the iPad, and on the Mac 🙂

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MyMac Podcast 738: Shiny Things

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It’s traction distraction, what’s your fractions? Guy LOVES microphones and he’s disappointed when a cheap one outperforms an expensive one…especially after he’s bought both! Gaz is distracted by time…and time-lapse. But isn’t time-lapse something that happens anyway? Oh and we suppose the Consumer Electronic Show in Vegas is worth a mention or two.

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Guy’s Pick: A very quiet USB microphone. Normally not a good thing but in this case the quiet is noise you didn’t want in the first place. Neewer’s NW-3U USB microphone at $28 is a great buy.

Gaz’s Pick: Anker Soundcore Fully waterproof 360 speaker bought a couple in the post Christmas sales and they are great. I got them for 29 gap each but at 60 maybe I’m not sure, however if you see them on offer GET ONE.
Soundcore Bluetooth Speaker Motion Q Portable 16W

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MyMac Podcast 737: Insert Airplane Joke Here

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So it’s planes, lawsuits, the Queen of England (naturally), iPhone sales in China, time-lapse, and vodka. Especially vodka. And trying to find a cursor…without cursing.

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Guy’s Pick: Still very impressed by Mimolive from Boinx software for Livecasting. $200 per year for personal use.

Gaz’s Pick: Lapse It Gives a bit more control to do TimeLapse on your Phone, Free to use limited abilities enough to test it and Lapse It Pro the charged version costs £2.99

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MyMac Podcast 736: Yeah, twas the night before Christmas

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Happy significant milestone that neither Gaz nor Guy remembered until this week everyone! Oh, and apparently a major religion is getting ready to celebrate the birth of the Messiah some 2000+ years later. Man, at least the GMen were only a week off! Mr. Yankello redos some graphics for Guy and Gaz can’t get enough of HomeKit. Also, Ming-Chi Kuo gets mentioned a lot, bent iPads are A-OK with Apple, and when is 5G that isn’t 5G, 5G? When AT & T says it is.

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Guy’s Pick: Growly Backgammon. COMPLETELY FREE!

Gaz’s Pick:Boinx’x  iStopMotion not for using the way it was intention with models but I’ll be using it for Time Lapse with my looooong clips of the views we have
AND It’s ONLY $19.99 Bargain

Combine it with iStop Motion Remote Camera (Free) and you have a winner!

MyMac Podcast 735: Before we were so rudely interrupted

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Gaz and Guy are back after a deserved by someone anyway week off. Almost completely without notes and any kind of structure which leads to hilarious shenanigans. Gaz’s got some stories and Guy just loses it several times.

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Guy’s Pick: Camtasia by Techsmith $250.

Gaz’s Pick: The Photo app on your iPhone especially the newer phones out there, I love it, use it and use the photos app afterwards, go on.

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MyMac Podcast 734: Mac mini for Pro Problems

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Gaz is away so David Ginsburg from the Off the Charts and In Touch with iOS podcasts joins Guy for what ended up being the third time this week so he’s already tired of Guy’s nonsense probably. All the usual stuff and a discussion over whether or not the new Mac mini could be used as a pro machine.

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Guy’s Pick: Loopback 2 from Rogue Amoeba for $99. If you already use Loopback, this is a must have update ($49) and if you don’t and do audio stuff, why haven’t you already gotten it? https://rogueamoeba.com/loopback/

There’s two bundles available as well. You can get the Audio Hijack and Loopback bundle for $130, which is almost $30 off or for $175 get those two along with the Fission Audio editor.

Gaz’s Pick: Not here so NO PICK!

Dave’s Pick:  Netgear Orbi

MyMac Podcast 733: A couple of Turkeys

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While this might seem like a redundant statement (the GMen being turkeys), it fits in nicely with that American holiday of over-eating, full contact shopping, and apparently being grateful for something or another. Lots of MyMac stuff as appetizers, CarPlay, analysts, and Black Friday deal fails as the main course, and all the usual after stuff for…afters. YUM!

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Guy’s Pick: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 on Steam. Currently selling for under $20 on Steam.

Gaz’s Pick: iPhones cases from Snakehive

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MyMac Podcast 732: What’s wrong with Wolfie?

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A question that can only be answered by listening to the show because their minds work (kinda) in mysterious ways. The GMen run through the news like they were taking a machine gun nest with a take no prisoners attitude…except without the actual fighting, explosions, and so forth so not nearly as exciting or life threatening.

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Guy’s Pick: Not exactly a holiday pick, but check out the film noir classic “The Big Sleep”. One of Humphrey Bogart’s classic roles. $9.99 in iTunes

Gaz’s Pick: Hitman Sniper 0.49p

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MyMac Podcast 731: Apple didn’t respond to a request for comment

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Well they certainly wouldn’t respond to THIS show! Gaz is away and Karl Madden joins Guy which is a good thing because he had all KINDS of issues…tech related. Thought I better throw that in there.

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Guy’s Pick: mimoLive by Boinx ($199 for 1 year/$399 for 3 years)

Gaz’s Pick: None, he’s away silly

Karl’s Pick: Ferrite

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MyMac Podcast 729: Touch who needs it

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Gaz’s iPhone XR shows up and he likes it but thinks his wife and Lil Gaz will believe it’s too big because size matters. Guy leaves stuff behind, not like anything bad like you should, but valuable stuff because he’s dumb sometimes. Lot’s of Apple stories and they enjoyed it SO much, they recorded it three times! OK, that part they didn’t enjoy.

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Guy’s Pick: Audio Hijack by Rogue Amoeba. I use it all the time

Gaz’s Pick: Can’t believe I’m saying this Outlook for IOS

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MyMac Podcast 728: More baking, less making

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Guy is still sick, but it’s adding a certain level of…Guy still being sick. Gaz fixes his mouse and Mac App Store, and the two of them talk about all kinds of Apple and Mac stuff…because that’s what they do.

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Thanks to MacJim and a link to fix my right-click!
Also a link to fix my weird trackpad
And now MyMac’s Magic Mouse works again 🙂

Guy’s Pick: Want an audio recording app with some great built-in features? Spreaker Studio which is free has not only up to four available audio in sources, it also has built-in sound effects and a way to create auto-playing playlists and intro music/outro music. If you sign up for their hosting service you can also get support for chat rooms and other features, but I like the stand-alone recording app.

Gaz’s Pick: PAKO Car chase games from tree men games they have some which are ad supported and some that are £1.99, good short good fun, you have to evade being chased in other cars there are power ups and different cars once you get past certain levels, good fun.
http://treemengames.com/pakoforever/

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MyMac Podcast 727: Plausible Deniability

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Guy is not feeling well and he’s a miserable person when that happens, but it leads to hilarious hijinks! Gaz finally gets an answer from 1Password, but it’s almost indecipherable. And naturally all the usual nonsense you’ve come to expect from the GMen.

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Guy’s Pick: The way cool transcription of audio phone messages in iOS.

Gaz’s Pick: Rings IOS Game, be warned this is a real time suck, you have been warned!
Free to try £1.99 to clear the ads.

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MyMac Podcast 726: Watchtastic

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And he’s back yep Karl again steps in to help out as Guy is away sunning himself on his private island retreat that he’s purchased after winning the lottery.

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Guy’s Pick: He’s away of course there’s no pick 🙂

Gaz’s Pick/Tip: Skype……. Yep it had to be it’s the Apple Watch 

Karl’s Pick: HeartWatch £/$ 2.99 

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MyMac Podcast 725: Watch this Space

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Gaz makes a big purchase and you’ll NEVER guess what it is based on the title for this podcast! And sure they talk about other stuff too because they have to fill an hour SOMEHOW, but that BIG purchase…it’s a mystery!

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Guy’s Pick: Filmic Pro by FiLMiC Inc. $14.99

Gaz’s Pick: Planet Arts Freeprints Photobooks  Free Stuff Ha

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MyMac Podcast 723: So no new Macs…OK

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New Apple iPhones and a watch and nary a Mac in sight. Karl Madden from the Mac and Forth podcast joins Gaz and Guy to talk about and listen to Guy whine…I mean speak intelligently about this sad state of affairs.

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Guy’s Pick: Ferraro by Rogue Amoeba

Gaz’s Pick: Photos great app whether on your IOS or Mac devices.

Karl’s Pick: TouchRetouch – Adva-Soft £/$ 1.99 – 

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MyMac Podcast 721: Watch my Rounders

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After a week off for REALLY good reasons (really they were!), the GMen are fresh and ready to go as usual! So, Guy is particularly manic and Gaz is doing his level best to keep him in check which nearly always sometimes never works! They talk a bit about the upcoming event, walking holidays, amusement parks, weddings and a few other things including waffles.

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Guy’s Pick: Don’t be an ass, get Donut Country and be the hole you always wanted to be!  $4.99 Also Dave Grohl’s Play in iTunes

Gaz’s Pick/Tip: Airport Express Go Man
Colin Furze Spinning Belt of Knives

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MyMac Podcast 720: Casty Cast Cast

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Guy can’t talk like Arnold without going all French on everyone, Gaz is out of his bedroom, and of somewhat lesser importance some kid hacked Apple and grabbed lots of stuff.

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Guy’s Pick: Textlicious by Delicious Monster Software $1.99 Tired of the same old boring text? Textlicious will take text from practically anywhere and make it fun with circles and strikes, italics and bold, and so much more.

Gaz’s Pick/Tip: Mini Metro   £4.99

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MyMac Podcast 719: Mally Malware is a bad clown!

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Hang overs, feeling weirdly normal, and pantomiming River Dances is all part and parcel of this week’s show where apparently they also talk about something serious like malware. Can you sing one song to the tune of another? Harder than it sounds, but is hilarious.

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Guy’s Pick: Looking for a good audio interface? Behringer’s UMC line is a mix of both good and cheap. Make sure you get the UMC series which has Midas-ish pre-amps and not the UM series with the Xenex pre-amps. Depending on your needs, they have units with up to 8 combo XLR inputs. All do multiple mono outputs over USB

Gaz’s Pick/Tip: Flow $4.99

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