Gaz arrives back and Guy is now away, will they ever do a show together. Gaz calls a special guest when Gaz realise’s that there’s no Guy on the other end of the Skype call.
This week the special guest talk about where Apple might go (well briefly) and also a little more detail on Macstock 2019.
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While it might not be EXACTLY dead, it isn’t at all well and guest host Dave Ginsburg from the “In Touch with iOS” and the “Off the Charts Horse Racing” podcasts and Guy have a chat about it. Also tariffs, predators, the new DC Apple Store, and what iPhones might be dropped for iOS 13.
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Guy’s Pick: Piezo from Rogue Amoeba. $19. Handy little audio recorder with tons of options.
Gaz’s Pick: Still on walkies!
Dave’s Pick: Setapp, a subscription to all the Mac apps you need. It has all kinds of great apps like Clean My Mac and BusyCal for a monthly subscription,
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Gaz is off walking (VERY GREEN) while Guy ropes in Karl Madden from the Mac and Forth Podcast to burn off electricity to make a podcast (not at all green). Besides the usual stuff, they talk about what carbon neutral means and doesn’t mean and how power from all green sources isn’t always what you might think it is.
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Guy’s Pick: Growly Software’s Backgammon free
Karl Pick: Luma Fusion $19.99 (Will soon rise to $29.99 with upcoming release of Ver2).
Gaz’s Pick: HEY! I’m WALKING HERE!
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OK, listen carefully. There is NO after show in this MyMac Podcast. Seriously…none…zip…nada. We’re actually trying to make a concerted effort to get the show length down, so we naturally easily went over an hour. Maybe later this week we’ll put out a supplemental after show, but it’s not in this one. What is in this one is Guy’s new teeth, Gaz’s news snippets earlier than usual, and lot’s of other stuff. STOP looking at the end for the after show!
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Guy’s Pick: Video Editor Olive by umm…Olive. Be warned that this is still an alpha release and can at times be quite buggy, but it has quite a few remarkable features and is easy to use. Free!
Gaz’s Pick: Buttons
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750 podcasts that have been produced since 2004 is SO impressive! Until it’s understood that neither Guy nor Gaz other than a secondary presence wasn’t part of the first 285. So as a pairing it’s really show 465 which isn’t nearly as grand.
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Guy’s Pick: Yamaha’s 10-input mixer, the MG10 is a nice little unit with built-in compression settings for the first two inputs. Would be nice if it was multi-track, but then I couldn’t complain about it. $155 on Amazon.
Gaz’s Pick: Apple’s Wallet application, if I’m not using for credit card transactions, which I must say I tend to use my watch, however for travel documents it’s great, the biggest problem is finding the trick to get the ticket in, but if that’s easy then I do it and keep them there.
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A longer show if you include the after show but shorter than the short show from last week if you don’t. Got it? Good. Guy is upset about the AAF shutting down and Gaz is upset that Numbers isn’t Excel. They’re BOTH upset that Apple watches are making the news but not in a good way and that AirPower is impossible. Apple’s Airpower that is since regular air power is easy as pie but not for Apple…So Apple Pie…oh never mind.
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Guy’s Pick: NDI from Newtek. It’s more a protocol than an application, but it’s really cool to see what it can do. Free-ish.
Gaz’s Pick: Believe or or not Safari. I use it more than other browsers and I use it more and more. Hey it’s not a bad browser, probably I like it because it helps keep you hidden from those bastards trying to get your every move.
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What if Apple had an event and a lot of people didn’t like it? That’s the question Gaz and Guy attempt to answer in this early and supposed to be shorter podcast. However it ended up nearly as long as every other podcast. Well of COURSE it did.
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Guy’s Pick: Early show, no picks this week
Gaz’s Pick: What Guy just said
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Guy is finally back from his east coast extravaganza where he and Tracey spent a significant amount of time not feeling well. Gaz finally has a music snippet for Gaz’s news snippets, and they discuss all the new Apple hardware. It’s enough to make you feel like a Funky Poodle.
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Guy’s Pick: While the car I had was no great shakes with it’s infotainment system, my iPhone 8 and the Waze app pointed us in the right direction.
Gaz’s Pick: Find a Grave
Link to Steve Jochum’s Album
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And the lull ends, so there is an Apple event at the end of March and I think they’ve announced the timings for the WWDC ticket lottery. So the End of March event could have a Who’s who of celebrities turning up, I wonder why?
Talking about celebrities as Guy is still frightening the locals somewhere in the depth south Karl Madden has joined me.
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Guy’s Pick: No Pick he’s away
Gaz’s Pick/Tip: Gaz’s too lazy to do one!
Karl’s Pick: YouTube videos of Fred Dibnah / Jump Desktop
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We seem to be in a lull at the moment, and even Guy has decided it’s so quiet he’s going to disappear for 2 weeks, so this week I roped in, I mean I asked and he kindly accepted the invite Nick Spligosh Riley
Guy’s Pick: No Pick he’s away
Gaz’s Pick/Tip: Apples Notes
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Apples gives and then takes away…layers of confusion and it’s hard to say whether this was a good thing to take or a bad thing to give. Could be both. Meanwhile the GMen don’t dwell on it because of a short attention span and instead talk about ideology, Steve Jobs, the FBI, East Texas, and streaming game services. Oh and some kerfuffle about Facebook and privacy but hey, it’s Tuesday.
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Guy’s Pick: Behringer’s UMC204HD is a really good audio interface and is apparently popular and that has been noticed by retailers as the price has jumped by 25% or more since I bought mine last year at $80 but which is now $130. It has midas-ish pre-amps that are very clean and efficient and some of the best at this price point. It’s one to consider if you’re looking for an audio interface, but look for bargains as the price seems to be fluctuating.
Gaz’s Pick: Rogue Amoeba’s Piezo
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The GMen are not overly fond of analysts and all their blather, so when two directly contradict each other, it cause for a case of the giggles…or sniffles in Guy’s case. Guy also keeps hearing about ARM-based Macs and Gaz keeps poking him for reactions!
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Guy’s Pick: Going to use the next few shows to talk about my mobile podcasting set up as far as what I use. This time, it’s a tale of two mics, but the one I’ll recommend is the Sennheiser e835 dynamic mic. It’s about $100 from Amazon. It’s a dynamic mic (means unpowered) with a cardioid pickup (tightly focused for sound pickup) and a frequency response of 40-16KHz. Needs a lot of clean gain as most dynamic mics go but it’s great at background noise rejection.
Gaz’s Pick: Whats not to like VLC
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No podcast last week because Guy was at death’s door! That’s IF “Death’s door” was sniffling, a little coughing, and making everyone around him miserable by complaining. Come to think of it, many did want to kill him before he felt better. This week though, they catch up on all the MyMac stuff, a little news, if Apple should buy Netflix, and laughing that Samsung wants to open exclusive Samsung stores.
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Guy’s Pick: One of my favorite tools in podcasting especially when I have to convert video to audio is, no surprise, Audio Converter Pro from Fatima Malagouen (also known as geranium-soft software) $6.99 in the Mac App Store
Gaz’s Pick: Spectacle
I need specs more and more but this isn’t quite what you think
Windows Management and manipulation
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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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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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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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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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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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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!
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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