MyMac Podcast 473: Brightening Everyone’s Day

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The GMen are back and just before an Apple event that will no doubt delight and astound us all! Or maybe it’ll just be a phone or two. Anyway Gaz and Guy have a good time catching up on Guy’s Florida trip and his attempts as pitiful as they were at surfing. They look at some issues of the day and continuously get sidetracked away from what they started talking about. In other words, just as it ever was!

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Guy’s Pick: The Google+ app for keeping up with all you do on G+. Free
Gaz’s App Pick: Delectable Wine Free. 17 year old + rating
People’s Pick: From Gary Apter If it hasn’t been mentioned previously, I recommend Bubble Fever for iOS. The warning is that I’m finding it totally addictive – so user beware! I think it is free and I haven’t been tempted for in-app purchases…

MyMac Podcast #472: iPhoto Vs Aperture or A N Other

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Guy is in Florida and Gaz is joined by Bart Busschots, the normal items remain with lots of G+ chat and a few MyMac articles discussed. There’s a middle section where we have a chat about moving from iPhoto to Aperture or maybe another programme. Now will Guy be back next week who’s knows maybe he’ll come back with a tan and pictures of him standing on a board.

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Guy’s Pick: No pick as he’s away.
Gaz’s Pick: iTunes Festival especially the App on the Apple TV
Bart’s Pick: Omni Graffle – need to create diagrams?
People’s Pick: From Clive Hammett (TruckTrekker) DeskConnect

MyMac Podcast #471: Surf’s UP! But Guy Probably Won’t Be

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OK Gaz is BACK and the tow GMen will NEVER ever take a week off again! Until next week when Guy won’t be here. Never mind great, very eclectic kind of show this week. Guy and Gaz talk about Fiji, Florida, Surfing, new kids on the block at G+, the ways our great listeners think we can improve the show, amongst many topics. Guy finished out his conversation with Erick Diaz (thanks again Erick!) from last week talking about what they think is coming up at Apple’s next event, and so much more!

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Guy’s App Pick: CoPilot Live Premium HD by ALK Technologies. $14.99 at the iTunes App Store. I use this over both Apple Maps and Google Maps.
Gaz’s App Pick: Popclip from Pilotmoon. $4.99 or £2.99 with a  Free Trial.
People’s Pick: From Paul Bartlett,  iThoughts by toketaware software

MyMac Podcast #470 – Don’t PANIC

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Gaz takes off a week so Guy ropes in Erick Diaz, a long time listener and contributor to all things great and wonderful about the MyMac Podcast. They have a great conversation about Apple buying Matcha, what the AppleTV could be like if content providers had brains, and much more!

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Guy’s App Pick: PipeRoll HD by Navigation-Info Kit $1.99
Erick’s App Pick: Archy for the Mac. This app lets you organize, delete, and create documents in Google Drive. FREE!

MyMac Podcast #469: This podcast sponsored by…

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Hoo HAH! A longer than usual podcast which is great for some of you and not great for others. Sorry or congratulations are in order for either one reason or the other. However it is just smack dab filled with Gaz and Guy shenanigans and tomfoolery. We talk about Google adding ads to their Map application in iOS because apparently that’s what they think people want and what Guy and Gaz are looking forward to in OS X Mavericks when Apple releases it.

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Guy’s App Pick: Apple’s very own Messages program. Sure it has it’s quirks, but it’s relatively easy to use and serves across a variety of other chat services. If you have an AIM account you can do screen sharing easily. It’s what I typically use to help out a few friends online like my Brother Bill where we’ve collaborated on his website using SandVox
Gaz’s App Pick: Bento is going Long live creating your own Database 😉
Ouistee AE Database Editor
People’s Pick: Peter Bird suggests Dialogue by Emiel Jansen $6.99 at the Mac App Store. This app connects your iPhone to your Mac over BlueTooth and then you can make calls from your Mac.

MyMac Podcast #468: General Mishmash

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Gaz is off this week, so Guy roped in…I mean got Paul Shadwell to volunteer to step up to the microphone. Lot’s of diverse topics including different ways to use your AppleTV, a bigger iPad, the iWork/iCloud beta, and the distinct possibility that Gaz’s Wombles song almost killed John Nemo! Also using a network attached storage device to create your own personal cloud and Hogs are motorcycles.

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Guy’s App Pick: WD 2go by Western Digital Free at the iOS App Store
Paul’s App Pick: GolfSense App
GolfSense Products
Pauls’ Podcast and website

MyMac Podcast 468..I mean 467: Uncle GMen’s Holiday Camp!

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OK, we said 468 a bunch of times but it’s really 467. Blame it on the heat, us being tired, really ANYWHERE other than us personally. Lot’s of good stuff in this show. We go over the tech we bring on holiday, switching to a new ISP, when NOT to use PhotoStream, and much, much more!

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Guy’s App Pick: Tiny Troopers by Chillango. $2.99
Gaz’s App Pick: VideoStar FREE!
People’s Pick: Levelator picked by Dorothy Yamamoto. It’s from The Conversations Network

MyMac Podcast 466: Just how FABulous is Apple?

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Apple needs to step it up because the GMen have actually starting talking about serious tech issues and we’ll have none of THAT thank you very much. It looks like Apple may be weaning themselves off of Samsung for parts, but just how serious are they? Step one MAY be getting someone other than you know who to make their special processors.

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Guy’s App Pick: DeTune from Headlightsoft. FREE!
Gaz’s App Pick: 5 years of the App Store Apps FREE!

People’s Pick: No People’s pick this week (sad face)

MyMac Podcast 465: Playing Devil’s Advocate

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Gaz and Guy are back on the job and this show proves it. So much craziness it almost can’t be contained. Guy doesn’t want to hear about the iWatch, but is interested in a possible less expensive iPhone. Gaz thinks he’s nuts but no real big change there. Out great G+ Community people gives us lots to work with too and of course all the usual of what you might expect from a G&G MyMac Postcast.

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Guy’s App Pick: MPEG Steamclip from Squared 5 software.
Gaz’s App Pick: iStopmotion3 for the Mac
People’s Pick: From Karl Madden we get Photoful from Photosocial LLC, an albums & instant camera roll organization

Guy is Tanned, Rested, and Ready! – MyMac Podcast 4#64

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Guy is back from Florida a little early so was able to get the wherewithal to do a podcast. Gaz however is still exhausted from last week’s show with Will Green so wasn’t able to be here. Bart Busschotts from too many podcasts to list (OK we COULD list them but few people read these notes) agreed to fill in and the result was not only a very fun podcast, but the LONGEST after-show recordings we’ve ever done. We talked about how Mavvericks won’t mean the end for some well known and vital software, lots of off-topic tangents (surprise), and how to get out of a speeding ticket in Tel Aviv.

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Guy’s App Pick: Store News by Christian Kienle Free at the Mac App Store
Gaz’s App Pick: None, but Guy didn’t leave a pick for last week so Gaz is entitled…so there!
Bart’s Pick: Sequel Pro – a donationware OS X MySQL client
People’s Pick: None this week

The one without the big Guy – MyMac Podcast #463

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Guy is away and Gaz chats to Will Green from the British Mac about all sorts of Mac and of course non Mac related items. Do you know why its best not to eat reheated rice, no, no neither do we. We chat about why Apple should create products that are simplistic in their use, the Mac Pro (well briefly) and all the usual mad capped stuff.

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What we didn’t see at WWDC
Are we back in love with Apple now?

Gaz’s App Pick: Less an app more a Mac App company
Will’s Picks: Mac – IOS
People’s Pick: Prismadrop.

You’ve been Sherlocked by Mavericks – Episode #262

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OK despite the best of intentions this is another long show. However we don’t think you’ll be bored because Gaz and Guy spend a lot of time discussing really cool stuff and, well make jokes at each other’s expense. So yeah same stuff, just longer. They talk a bit about WWDC (TF) and how well they did (amazingly so) on their predictions. Also, what some of their favorite apps and utilities are going to do now that a good deal of their functionality is being built into OS X.

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Guy’s App Pick: Motion Composer by AquaFadas $149. Not cheap but amazing software for creating html5 and flash content for the web
Gaz’s App Pick: Icon Pop Quiz it does exactly what it says on the tin
People’s Pick: Maxam Dual drive docking station.

WWDCTF? – Episode #461

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Well WWDC is almost upon us and the internets is exploding with thoughts and ideas why someone OTHER than Apple’s executives should be creating new stuff. Naturally about the same number as Ivory Soap’s purity (99.9%) will be wrong. Guy and Gaz would like to add to that number by talking about what they think will happen and the BEST part is you’ll know immediately just how wrong they were since this comes out after the WWDC Keynote. YAY! Also, hope you got some extra time, this is a loooong show.

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Guy’s App Pick: Video Editor Pro from DFAV Team. $29.99 at the Mac App Store.
Gaz’s App Pick: Time-Lapse will turn a sequence of images into a QuickTime movie.
People’s Pick: Paloma. For DVD Ripping, I always use AppGeeker. It is easy to use.

Podcasting Patent Trolls – Episode #460

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Guy kinda likes Clams and Gaz is on the Go this week as they get down and dirty with the scourge of innovation everywhere (at least in the USA), the patent troll. Like heffalumps and woozals they shouldn’t exist but they do. If you would like to help those that CAN do something about it, please make a donation to the Electronic Frontier Foundation http://www.eff.org

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Guy’s App Pick: Goldfish by Fishbeam Software $59.99 and $109.99 at the Mac App Store
Gaz’s App Pick: Timelapse Helper
People’s Pick: John Nemo iPhoto iOS app on the iPad, gen 2 and later. Terrific built-in effects, plus localized enhancements using custom brush edits. Best $5 you’ll spend all year.

What we want from iOS 7 – Episode #459

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Guy is back this week after a nightmare drive to North Carolina which he whines WAY too much about. Gaz has gone PRO! Well, Go Pro anyway and will sone be up to his ears with video footage of him…walking. The MyMac G+ Plus community gets a lot of attention and the GMen talk about the upcoming release of iOS 7 and what they think it will have. Oh and some funny bits scattered throughout.

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Guy’s App Pick: Screenflow by Telestream $99.99 at the Mac App Store
Gaz’s App Pick: A six pack game set at a real low price from Feral interactive 19.99 $’s (£13.64) wow did I say these are Mac games, no well they’re Mac games and some cracking titles, I hope you hear this in time as the offer ends Sunday 2nd June. when I checked if you pre ordered you could also get a 10 $ voucher off another Feral game. The downside you have to create an account for the Mac Game store, but to be honest thats a small price.
: Tim Robertson picks Modern Conflict 2. Great turn-based game that takes everything that was great with the first one, and… well, doesn’t mess it up!

The J-Men Show – Episode #458

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Before We start I’d like to say RIP Tim Verpoorten he was a massive influence on me when I started podcasting and it is with great sadness that I learnt of his death this weekend. I’d like to dedicate this show to him. No Guy this week, but two very special guests. James Turner from Woodpad.co.uk and Jeff Gamet from the MacObserver, hence the title of the show. Although I could have still called it the G-Men as at least two of us are Gingers

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Guy’s App Pick: Guy forgot to include one and Gaz told him off for it.
Gaz’s App Pick: Rawhide for iPhoto
Jeff’s pick: Lego Batman DC Superheros
Jame’s Pick: Security Spy
People’s Pick: Tom Schmidt suggests the iOS app Priorities

Renting software – Episode #457

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If software doesn’t come in a box, is it still your software? Trick question because it was NEVER your software to begin with. Microsoft and Adobe are keen to remind you of that with a monthly fee for their most sought after programs like Office and Creative Suite. On the lighter side, the GMen get an iTunes review in Morse Code, neither can mange to say Esoterism Tesseract,and apparently it’s too much for Google to do a search.

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Guy’s App Pick: Cute Cut Pro by YU BO $5.99
Gaz’s App Pick: HDR Artist Pro £6.99
People’s Pick: Troy Muller recommends Spectacle by Spectacle FREE!

 

A Little bit of this…and that – Episode #456

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All still quiet of the Mac front as we await WWDC or well, almost anything. Guy strolls down memory lane to a podcast he and Gaz did some 150 shows ago with Actor Stephen Tobolowsky. there’s GoPros, an appearance on the Nosillacast Podcast, and other kinds of techy stuff before we get into the second part of the show which is all about…stuff. Even with all this, they even keep it under an hour! And who said the age of miracles had passed?

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Guy’s App Pick: Acorn 4 is out from Flying Meat Software $29.99 from the Mac App Store.
Gaz’s App Pick: Lego Star Wars Yoda Chronicles. Whats’ not like 🙂 Currently Free!

 

30% profit just ain’t what it used to be – Episode #455

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Apparently is doomed (DOOMED I TELLS YA!) because while they had nearly 44 billion in sales, a profit of 9.5 billion, and margins of over 37%, it was less billions made in the same quarter last year. So other companies make little to no profit (but have enormous growth potential) Apple is expected to shatter sales, profit, and margins each and every quarter or the stock gets hammered. Yep, that makes sense.

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Eric Diaz’s iPhone dominos
A “different” view on Mars
Guy’s App Pick: 88 Logos by Macware inc $1.99
Gaz’s App Pick: Wolfram Alfa App

Baby you can drive my iCar – Episode #454

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Gaz couldn’t be on this week so Guy looked for another Brit to take his place. Will Green worked out so well 2 weeks ago so why not again? And it was just as great this time around with so many off-topic topics that you might forget this is a Mac show! Neither knew when to stop so it’s extra long as well (which should make Gary Apter happy!). Yeah they talked a bit about Apple going into your next car, but you should listen because it’s Will Green!

Also I misspelled Clive Hammett’s name last week in the show notes and I”m REALLY sorry Cliff

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Guy’s App Pick: Animationist by Synium Software $29.99 at the Mac App Store
Gaz’s App Pick: No Gaz so no pick
Will’s App Pick: iOS: Yahoo Weather OSX: GrandPerspective