You all know that I am a huge fan of Paul Stamatious web site

Paul is having a great contest to celebrate his great achievement of surpassing One Million Hits. I’m helping Paul with his celebration by donating to a really neat contest. Go check it out and enter. I hope to have Paul on the show in early June.

Congratulations Paul!

The new EQO Skype to Cell Phone service was announced today. I’ve read the page and it all sound very doable and perhaps worth a try in beta. You will incur Skype out Charges as well as any air time (minute charges) on your cell phone. There is also a data charge (from your Carrier) for the bandwith used to download the application ( I have a question out to them to see how big their download to your phone is). Lastly it’s free in beta but no indication of how much, or when there will be a cost.

In the end when you add up Skype Out + Cell phone minutes + potential charge for service, it may off set the benefits unless you truly use Skype as a business communications alternative day in day out. I may play with it just out of curiosity after I ask them about the download, and when they plan to go to a pay model.

After emailing EQO regarding the dowload bandwith , I was told “You will be charged by your carrier, unless you have a flat rate data plan, for initial download and for usage. Usage involves sending messages less than a Kb when EQO signs in, initiates calls and whatnot. Since EQO does not use mobile data as the media path for voice, data usage is not extensive. “

So, as they advise in their FAQ it woudl be best to have a liberal or unlimited data plan in order to use this service so that you do not get any surprizes in your bill. The size seems very small, however you need to al least be aware. Thanks to EQO for being very responsive to my questions.

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NEW Go to the TMUP Show Notes Wiki

Folks I made a TMUP Show Notes PBwiki to be used for show notes and other show related material from now on, and would like to share it with you.

Go to the TMUP Show Notes Wiiki
The Contributors password is tmup

A wiki is an easy-to-use Web page that lets you collaborate with other people–no special knowledge required. It’s unbelievably easy to use. You just start typing! This is useful because it allows us all to create new pages, make links to pages or other items you hear during the show. We can all add to this wiki as a TMUP Family.

This link will take you to the wiki and allow you to create and edit pages, add to discussions.

This WIKI will be managed and monitored by all us. So be as respectful and accurate as possible, but do enjoy this new way of making Show Notes and the Typical Mac User Podcast more interactive.

Thanks

Victor

April 8, 2006

Apple Now Supports Windows (well sort of)

Filed under: TMUP-Blog — Steven Goetz @ 10:15 am

Apple released a public beta of their software called Boot Camp. This gives you tools to easily dual-boot Max OSX and Windows XP. Including drivers for all the important hardware on your system. (even the eject button on your Apple keyboard)

My thoughts on this are split, I think it’s great that it allows me to do more things with my Macintosh. But it could also be bad. It could be the start of John C. Dvorak’s prediction comming true. Only time will tell, but for now, I’m running Windows on my Mac, natively, and easily.

April 5, 2006

TMUP Widget Makes www.apple.com

Filed under: Podcasts — Administrator @ 7:12 pm

Well folks happy to announce that the Typical Mac User Podcast Widget is now a part of the Apple Web Site.

TMUP Widget

If you do a search for “Typical” now on the Apple web site, Typical Mac User Widget is the first hit. It’s cool to be
able to say that the Typical Mac User Podcast is a part of the apple.com site.

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