MyMac Podcast 865: Holy Crap! News?
No matter what some may say, there is no such thing as good or bad news, there’s just news. However the LACK of news lately has been Maddening (pun intended), so the announcement of an event on Tuesday, September 14th fills our hearts with glee, sunshine and rainbows, THAT IS good news!
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https://www.strasburgrailroad.com
Guy:- Two picks. The Inn at Leona is a fabulous place to stay with a wonderful staff and so much ambiance you could choke on it. Reasonably priced rooms too. Also the Strasburg Railroad is a 45 minute to the past that if you don’t enjoy, well then you just suck. COVID rules shut down their reservation system the day before, so we had the entire dining car to ourselves. Just luck of the draw, but it still would have been fun even full up.
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MyMac Podcast 864: AR VR Oh Ere
Guy is away and so I very nearly decided to take the week off from recording as well, then I met up up a listener and he said ‘what’s all this about no recording next week’ so I said well come on and we’ll do a show, so with no further ado……. Karl the Mad Madden
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Ordnance Survey
https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/about/history
For Pick’s Sake
Guy:- None this week
Gaz:- None this week
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MyMac Podcast 863: It used to be easy
Remember when simplicity was actually almost built-in to Apple products? When presenters would stand on stage and say “All you need to do is push this button and we’ll do all the heavy lifting.” Those days? LONG gone.
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Contactless card payment limit in UK to rise to £100 in October
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MyMac Podcast 862: Golden Age of Apps
Recent experiments by Guy has made him start to think. A dangerous precedent that you would believe the world would want to avoid, but they did it anyway. Is the current crop of emulation of not just X86 coded apps, but iOS and iPadOS apps a look into the future? Are we getting closer to that time when what OS you’re running is irrelevant? That’s the subject for the next section anyway.
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Crypto Currency no safer than any other funds
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Guy:-
Gaz:-
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MyMac Podcast 861: NOW we’re getting somewhere
That pesky Apple Car just won’t go away! Just when you thought it was safe to start looking at what analysts say again, this crops up once again proving the old saying…”Analysts are idiots who will say anything to get you to part ways with your money in the direction they’re being paid to tell you to spend it at.”. OK, the saying might not be old, in fact we may have made it up here on the spot, but it it doesn’t make it any less true.
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The old hotness! Heil PR-40 broadcast dynamic microphone
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Guy:- Tex Avery’s Symphony in Slang
Gaz:-
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MyMac Podcast 860: Your stuff is our stuff
BIG thanks to Karl Madden from the Mac and Forth podcast for stepping in and keeping Guy sane…company while Gaz was away. Apple is the company that gives and then takes away. Announcements have been made that they are going to start scanning users Photos library to help stop underage exploitation and while that is a lofty goal, what does it mean in regards to user’s privacy that Apple has touted in their press clippings?
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The old hotness! Heil PR-40 broadcast dynamic microphone
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Guy:- Other World Computing’s Thunderbolt 3 dock $269
Gaz:-
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MyMac Podcast 859: What’s Karl got going on?
Gaz is off doing all things Gaz this week so Karl Madden of the Mac and Forth Podcast graciously allowed himself to be blackmailed into being on. For fulfilling his end of the deal, those pictures will never be released to the general public. They go into their recording setup and gear because there’s not really all that much else going on and Guy LOVES talking about that stuff.
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Karl:- Mac and Forth Website
The good old Shure SM7B which is a dynamic microphone that requires OODLES of gain. It sounds great but also costs $400
For Pick’s Sake
Guy:- Newp
Gaz:- Newp
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MyMac Podcast 858: So, what’s left
With fall about to drop in about a month, a lot people begin to focus of new iPhones. However with the transition away from Intel for the Macs, it has been a very chaotic kind of year not even including a global pandemic. The M1 Macs have been pretty good, but there’s lots of room for improvement with the Macs that haven’t gotten out of the labs yet.
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The good old Shure SM7B which is a dynamic microphone that requires OODLES of gain. It sounds great but also costs $400
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Guy:- Newp
Gaz:- Newp
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MyMac Podcast 857 Monterey Musings (part 2)
We talked about some of the new features coming up for macOS Monterey last week and said we’d talk some more about it this week…which is what we’re going to do. So that shouldn’t be all that surprising.
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The good old Shure SM7B which is a dynamic microphone that requires OODLES of gain. It sounds great but also costs $400
For Pick’s Sake (none this week)
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Gaz:-
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MyMac Podcast 856: Monterey Musings (part1)
The first public beta for macOS Monterey is now out and SO many people are talking about, so we thought we might too! Because we’re all about getting out the information our listeners demand! Oooor…we just like jumping on any bandwagon that we can. There’ll be more on this next week for the bits we didn’t get to this time.
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Oh Ho
Apple lists products that pose risk to pacemakers
The good old Shure SM7B which is a dynamic microphone that requires OODLES of gain. It sounds great but also costs $400 ()
For Pick’s Sake (none this week)
Guy:- Apple’s News App. Never thought I’d use it much, but I like it as a content aggregator.
Gaz:- Apple 1 subscription service
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MyMac Podcast 855: Monopoly
Lots of talk from Capital Hill in regards to those naughty big tech companies. Congress wants them to play by the same rules as the average person. As if the average person could create a big tech company…or that they could either. Oddly enough, Apple is probably in less of a fix as the other four by these bills definition.
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London Underground mobile coverage reaching all stations and tunnels by 2024
Anyone still using cash? British £50 banknote honouring Alan Turing arrives
The good old Shure SM7B which is a dynamic microphone that requires OODLES of gain. It sounds great but also costs $400
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Gaz:-
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MyMac Podcast 854: No Place like Home(Kit)
There are several standards in regards to home automation. Reaching back into the Jurassic age there was X-10 which made it possible to connect several devices to a home security monitored (by someone else) system. However it wasn’t very interactive once set up. Coming into the modern age besides Apple’s Homekit there’s Belkin’s Wemo (now discontinued), SmartThings, Ankuoo, D-Link, and TP-Link amongst others.
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The good old Shure SM7B which is a dynamic microphone that requires OODLES of gain. It sounds great but also costs $400
For Pick’s Sake (none this week)
Guy:- Meross Outdoor Smart Plug which works with HomeKit. Two outlets that can be individually controlled. $26
Gaz:-
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MyMac Podcast 852: The Randoms
Guy has returned from Walton country ablaze with success after bagging multiple Mooses…meece, mice? LOT’S of plural Moose. So no matter what he says after this, he’s obviously lying. WWDC 21 starts on Monday which is probably when most people will hear this podcast. So there’s no real point in speculating much about what it’ll all be about. So a few randoms things will be thrown in instead.
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The Microphone Guy is using this week is the AKG D5. This is a hand held dynamic microphone that costs around $180.
For Pick’s Sake (none this week)
Guy:-
Gaz:-
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MyMac Podcast 851: the Waltons
Today Guy is in Walton country apparently he’s decided that he and his his family are going to spend time together and have no electrical equipment so they all have to call out goodnight to each other. Though before they reach their destination we did try to connect with Guy but couldn’t.
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MyMac Podcast 850: WWDC Ready
We are about 2 weeks away from WWDC 2021 and expectations are high! As in, anyone making predictions and claiming to have any accuracy is probably on illegal medication. That won’t stop the GMen from making predictions though because they’re naturally high…on LIFE!
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The Microphone Guy is using this week is the Rode M2. This is a hand held condenser microphone that costs around $180.
Gaz’s Mic: The AKG D5
For Pick’s Sake
Guy:- If you have Disney Plus, check out Star Wars Rebels. Takes place after the events of the Clone Wars and before a New Hope.
Gaz:-
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MyMac Podcast 849: Missed it by THAT much
According to some, Apple and Google’s market dominance in Smartphone operating systems is stifling competition. While some of their points are valid, they also are ignoring the consequences of opening the ecosystems to everyone.
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Guy’s microphone this week is the Audio Technica ATM510. This is a dynamic microphone that costs around $100.
43 years and 14 billion miles later, Voyager 1 still crunching data to reveal secrets of the interstellar medium
For Pick’s Sake
Guy:- Man, haven’t picked one of these in awhile. Zombie Tsunami for iOS (also playable on the Mac if running Big Sur). Easy side scroller with just two things for zombies to do. Eat and Jump. Free with in-app purchases.
Gaz:- Bitwarden
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MyMac Podcast 848: BIG Differences!
WWDC is coming up in less than a month so we’re bound to hear about all the great changes in Apple’s various operating systems for developers. Except there’s one that rules above all the others. Be advised there’s no after show this week due to some technical issues with the recording software. The whole second part of the show would have been lost except we had the video recording that we were able to pull from. Sorry about that.
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Guy’s Mic this week: Sennheiser E835. This is a handheld Dynamic microphone. ()
For Pick’s Sake
Guy:- For streamers, get Rencubate app for your iPhone or iPod touch and for the Mac. The free version will likely be good enough, but the paid version gives you many options for adjusting the quality of the picture. ()
Gaz:- SciMan Dan’s debunking video
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MyMac Podcast 847: Pulling at the Threads
The first products from Apple’s last event are starting to show up, but we figured everyone is tired of talking about that OLD stuff. So let’s talk about what might (by might we mean eventually) be showing up at a slickly produced and kept at about an hour or so Apple event near you soon.
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Dam it: Beaver ate our internet, says tiny Canadian town of Tumbler Ridge
Guy’s Mic this week: Behringer BA85A. $25
For Pick’s Sake
ZRAMO Black Spider Universal Microphone Shock Mount for large Condensor/Dynamic microphones. For like the Rode Podcaster/Procaster/Podmic, EV20 or EV320, various Audio Technica 20 series condenser mics, Zoom ZDM-1. $11
Gaz:- None this week
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MyMac Podcast 846: Spring has Sprung
Apple has their Spring Loaded event and all kinds of goodies have been pushed out, though will the GMen bite at some of them? Maybe or maybe not.
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The best video to the Bee Gees staying alive ever
For Pick’s Sake
Guy:- Klark Teknik CM2 Mic Booster. Another Cloudlifter wannabe but this one will boost two mics for around $130
Gaz:- None this week
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MyMac Podcast 845: Guy Guy where for art thou Guy
So they’ve only gone and done it, Siri let the cat out of the bag and announced before the official announcement that there is going to be an Apple event next week, now granted someone had to ask the question, but hey if you get enough monkeys typing then they’ll produce Shakespeare, and no I’ve never believed that is true, but there are a lot of monkeys asking Siri questions!
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