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Tonight Tony Edwards who is the creator of The Church of Mac joined me to talk about his career as a writer, actor, Mac Genius, and of course as the Reverend Dr. Bobby Newton who joined us for a special TMUP sermon you won’t want to miss!

Thank you to listener EclipseEmpire for taking this picture of Tony and me. Here is his Flickr

Show Notes

Well this is an interesting use of “Back to my Mac”.

FOXNews.com - Camera on Stolen Laptop Helps Owner Catch Thieves - Technology News

A Westchester woman who had her laptop stolen was able to connect to the computer, photograph two suspects and file the photos to police.

Ducan Riley’s former writer for TechCruch now has the new and wonderful website The Inquisitr and I would say one of their first big scoops if it turns out accurate. They claims to have someone whispering in their ears  some very specific details on the upcoming 3G iPhone. Interesting to note that their source claims that “The iPhone to be launched in June will support an enhanced camera that supports video.”

I wanted to introduce you to The Inquisitr and what better way to do it then with an Apple relelated story. No matte what, Ducan is one of the most prolific and talented writer on the internet and you should subscribe to the rss in my opinion.

I made a decision yesterday to let go of Parallels Desktop for Mac and choose VMware Fusion as my gateway to all Microsoft thing on my Mac.

Vmware just the Beta of Fusion 2.0 and made it  available to download and try for free. I have owned Fusion on my Macbook Pro for about eight months, and love it’s flexibility, and that it’s not a CPU hog. This new version of Fusion  includes support for multiple displays (since I have to of them, I’ve been waiting for this), improved printer integration, as well as easier to manage networking, and USB support. Lastly VMware has made some improvements to Unity (which runs Windows applications integrated within OS X).

Although switching from Parallels to VMWare should have been easy. Thanks to our “friends” in Redmond it was not.OIn next weeks show you will hear a piece that I recorded after fighting with Vista for 3.5 hours! It was not pretty, and the piece I recorded is bound to amuse some of you as I have not been this frustrated since back in the days I used the “other” OS. Make sure you listen next Wednesday as you should not have to go through this experience yourself.

 

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Show Notes:

OS X Keyboard Guide Factsheet from listener Fred

Fred’s page miniguidez.com

Mac OS X Search Guide

Apple’s Mac OS X Keyboard Shortcuts

System Preferences Help

These links will open your OS X Help files

Universal Access Preferences

Software updates

Screen sharing in Leopard

Trick for making your Screen sharing application go on Steroids

Secure Erase OS X option

Bart Busschots Web Site. Thanks to Bart for the great Terminal Series

PS Command information

TOP command information

PID (or P ID)

A few weeks ago I wrote a post showing you my new Vaja iPhone Case. I had this case made and it was a bit over $100.00 U.S. They take about 30 days to make and are very nice indeed.

This has been a great case, with fabulous design and until just a few days ago craftsmanship. I noticed that the stitching on one of the sides was coming off (see picture). I wrote to Vaja and was given approval to return the case. They are going to make me a new case but it looks like I will have to wait again. I am surprised that a case of this price would have this issues. Vaja assured me that this is very rare and that I should be satisfied with the new case.

I am writing this to let you know the whole story. This was not a review unit I paid full retail. So I’ll follow up once I get the new case.

 

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Show Notes:

iMovie 08

Video Library

Skimming and Playing

Making a fast movie on iMovie 08

Adding polish to your movie

Sharing your masterpiece

Flip Video Camera

AVCHD

Digital Video

HDV (High Definition)

Dale one of the principles over at Brave New Code introduced me today to their latest product WPtouch.

Dale also customizes the templates for Typical Mac User Podcast web site. So what is WPtouch?

Simply put, WPtouch is a complimentary theme installed as a plugin on your WordPress blog or website that will format your content with this Apple-inspired, full-featured theme when your visitors are using an iPhone or iPod touch.

So if you have an iPhone or iPodTouch you can now see the Typical Mac User site in a new interface that is perfect for the iPhone. It literally took me six minutes to add this plugin to my Word Press and it just worked. No BETA here. Of course if you are using those devices and prefer to see the site in the normal way you can do that too. Great job Dale

Here is what my site looks like using WPtouch.

Well one day ahead of the rumor sites Apple refreshed its iMac Desktops with the latest Intel Core 2 Duo Penryn mobile processors, as well as a new powerful graphics card that beats anything previously used in the Apple desktops.

Starting at just $1,199, the new iMacs also include 6MB L2 cache, a faster 1066 MHz front-side bus, and 2GB of memory standard in most models (expandable to 4GB).

If you want to go for the gusto, then get the new 24-inch Extreme configuration offers a 3.06 GHz Intel processor with a NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS graphics card with 512MB of video memory.

iMacs are absolutely gorgeous machines and these new models with available upgrades make this one great solution for many people whether new to the Mac family or long time users.

After taking a long time to decide what shirt company to use for the TMUP shirts, I picked Spreadshirt. I’ve washed my shirt that I got from them 10 times and it’s still looks great.

So yes it’s time to open the Typical Mac User TeeShirt shop. Please pick what works for you and buy at your own risk. I cannot be responsible for anything having to do with the sale of these shirts. So pick from the products I’ve selected or make your own using the logo.

Thanks for everyone who showed interest in buying one of these. Now you can go for it.