Wanted to write this post for those of you who were asking about my Macworld Expo plans.

• Adam Christianson from the Maccast and I are arriving in San Francisco on Wed the 10th. This is the third year we have roomed together
• Look for a podcast during the week from me and some of my friends.
• I’ll be doing vendor interviews so I can bring a piece of the show back to all of you.
• I’ll be taking pictures of interesting products and posting them on my Flickr page
• You can see what I am up to by following me on Twitter. I am [at]victorcajiao
• If you see me on the floor walking or doing an interview with  vendors, please walk up to me and introduce your self. Don’t be shy, I love meeting people
• I will likely have a few tickets to the Mac Observers Cirque du Mac Party Details: Wednesday, January 7th, 2009 8pm – 12am. It’s the best party during Macworld. So hit me up early to see if I have any tickets left (no promises)
• I will be part of the MacRoundtable Podcast Saturday, February 13, 2010. 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM, MNS14: MacRoundtable Podcast
• I have not set up an “official” photowalk but will likely get up early (like 5AM) on Friday to shoot the city from across they bay. Tweet me and maybe join me
• Adam and I will be going home on Sunday.

I’m looking forward to being at Macworld Expo this year and sharing time with all of you. It’s what the Mac community is all about.

Haven’t signed up to be at Macworld Expo this year?Just go to the Macworld Expo web site and use priority code TWEETMW and you will get a $15 Expo pass or 15% off of any conference package. Thats a $30 savings of the regular $45 price. A great deal!

 

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We continue our Snow Leopard from scratch series today with Expose.

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Show Notes:

Otterbox iPhone 3g/3gs Defender Case

What is Expose

The web comic PC Weenies has been a long time friend of the show and Krishna is a talented and prolific cartoonist and commentator. I usually do a guest apperance on the PC Weenies web page at least once a year. Also Krishna is in the process right now of updating all of the art work and design colors of this web page.

Todays cartoon is an event I remember oh so well and captures some of the hype that is building up around the alleged Apple Table

Here is a sneak peak at todays PC Wennies. Please click here to see whole cartoon

 

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We continue our Snow Leopard from scratch series. Today we talk menu bar.

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Show Notes:

VTech DECT Cordless Bluetooth phone

Bart Busschots website

Barts archive of old terminal series shows

 

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I was wrong in what I’ve said on this post. I tested this with a FW400 iSight external camera and my results for that are right. However today I restested this using two external hard drives (one FW400 and one FW800). I did no have any data rate loss at all. I will put out and updated screencast showing this. My apologies for the bad information. However if you are using a FW400 camera of some type I would check that because my test with the FW400 iSight did degrade the bus.

Typical Mac User Affiliate Store

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UDATE: I was wrong in what I’ve said on this post. I tested this with a FW400 iSight external camera and my results for that are right. However today I restested this using two external hard drives (one FW400 and one FW800). I did no have any data rate loss at all. I will put out and updated screencast showing this. My apologies for the bad information. However if you are using a FW400 camera of some type I would check that because my test with the FW400 iSight did degrade the bus.

Thanks you

Victor

In this video I show you how your Fire Wire devices (like hard drives or old iSight cameras, even video cameras that use fire wire) could be degrading the throughput of your Fire Wire 800 devices.

The main point of this post is that there is only one (1) Fire Wire bus on our Macs and therefore if you use a FW400 device and a FW800 device it will always default to the lower speed , making the efficiency you get from FW800 mute.

Also I used an old Fire Wire 400 external iSight Camera for this test. The built in iSights on Macs today are USB NOT Fire Wire so nothing to worry about.

Here is some more discussion about this topic at ArsTechnica. I did not try every permutation of that is possible I based my findings on my limited testing.

Apple Developer notes on Fire Wire concepts

Apple Developer notes on MacPro Fire Wire bus architecture

I have posted a number of videos on some of my tricks to podcast production using soundtrack pro.  If this sort of thing interests you then check them out.  You also  should be able to apply some of the concepts to your own editing package of choice.  Right now its up to five videos.  You can find them at the embedded youtube playlist below.  HD is available too.

-George

 

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We continue our Snow Leopard from scratch series. Today we talk Dock and customizing tools menu in finder.

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iPartition

SuperDuper!

1Password

iDefrag

 

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In this special episode Mark Fuccio Sr. Director Products & Markets and I go over the Drobo including my review of the Drobo Pro. This is NOT a paid show and Drobo is NOT a current advertiser with me.

Show Notes

Drobo Website

In-depth review and torture test of DroboPro at pcper.com that we talked about during the show.

Benchmarks: Please click on lower right hand corner of this link to see the slideshow full size.

As you all know I’m a part of the Friends In Tech network and we have done holiday audio dramas in the past. This year we have A Geek Christmas Story a fun a very geeky take off on the movie A Christmas Story (affectionately known at my house as “You’ll poke your eye out).

I hope you enjoy the audio. Why are you still reading this, go listen now.