This video introduces you to Data Robotics’ newest product, the Drobo Share.

A few of you got a Belkin Tune FM video file downloaded instead of the DROBO file. I reposted it so it should be fine now. If you got the Belkin file you can download the DROBO one here. Apologies.

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The recording servers (that host my audio files) have been down for 24 hours and are scheduled to come up tomorrow. That’s why many of you have not been able to download the Sunday show. I am not going to put out the Wed show until the servers are back up. Attached is an audio explanation.

This short video highlights K9 Web protection, a free internet filtering system that I found very interesting. Please check it out and use it with your own children and teenagers if you like it.

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by: George Starcher, Associate Editor

During my experiments and working out the emailing my schedule to my wife I noticed previous ical automator plugins showed.  They showed as options even though I had long since deleted the apps. It bugged me so I poked around how to clean out old names.

1. Just go into your home folder/Library/Preferences/
2. Open the com.apple.iCal.plist file.
3. Browse down to the key: PersistentMenu-lastUsedOpenFileAlarm
4. You will find the old previous used apps listed under the numerical subkeys. Just be very careful and delete only the keys you mean to.

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Tonight, Katie from The MacCore Podcast and I debrief our first trip to the Macworld Conference and Expo . We also give our picks and much more in this hour and twenty minute extravaganza.

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Show Notes:

Nothing but good food love for Witchcraft and Ozumo (Thanks to Andrew Welch for an incredible evening)

Macworld Conference and Expo

Best of Show winners

The Eye-Fi is Victor’s top price winner

Victor loves Plasq’s Doozla and Comic Life Magic

Omni Focus was a winner in our book

MacSpeech also made an impression on Victor

Time Capsule

Macbook Air

Apple TV Take 2

Movie Rentals

Our Fellow Podcasters that joined us and made this Macworld a blast

Katie from The MacCore Podcast

Jonathan from Mac Tips Daily

Allison Sheridan from the NosillaCast

David Sparks from MacSparky

Ken Ray from Mac OS Ken and Day Six

Adam Christianson from the Maccast

Don McAllister from Screencast on Line

by: George Starcher, Associate Editor

So I gave my wife my old G5 iMac a while back. I also installed BusySync. But does she look at the calendar? Nope. And you can imagine the look I get when I say “Well, it was on my Calendar.” And the response is “I won’t look in that.” So how to bring the information to her with the least amount of recurring effort on my part? Well, emailing it works since I know she reads that. Here is how you build an automator action to send a summary for the week for selected Calendars from iCal and have it run every Sunday night.

I was going to record this as audio for the show but then Victor told me how much Macworld  content video etc he has.  So I figure this is for those who read the blog.  A bonus if you will. (more…)

In this the first of many post about Macworld 2008 that I will release, Ken Ray of the (Mac OS Ken Podcast and I talk about the keynote and his overall feelings. I felt this was a great way to start this series of videos. Apolgies for the background , a total missed step on my part, but the content was too good not to put out.

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Written by Stu Helm – Contributing Editor from British Users of Mac Podcast

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First of all, I wanted to say it was great to hear Victor got into the Keynote – I’m really ‘chuffed’ for you buddy! I know we’re going to get some great content from this, so Victor go for it!I thought you’d like to read my thoughts on how the announcements made by Steve Jobs at MacWorld 2008 have an impact on the Mac community here in the UK, because as you may well be aware we have a few differences in the services we have available, particularly with the iTunes Store. So I’m going to kick off with just that… (more…)

by: George Starcher, Associate Editor

 I have been having fun with the updated iPod touch firmware. Tonight I decided I wanted to customize the webclip icon for Remote Buddy coming from my iMac. If you have Remote Buddy you probably bookmarked the Ajax interface so you can use it on your home network with relative ease. With v1.3 you can make a button on the touch screen desktop. But what if you want a nice icon instead of the ajax screenshot the iPod makes on its own?If you try this, make a backup copy of your remote buddy application first just in case.

1. First I went to IOSpirit’s Web site for Remote Buddy.
2. Next I grabbed that nice little graphic from the title banner top left of the remotes in the hat. Press command-shift-4 to get the screenshot crosshairs. I highlighted just icon itself and saved it to the desktop.
3. Next I opened the image with Pixelmator that I got in the great current Macheist deal.
4. Click on Image on the menu and select Image Size. Resize the image to 57×57. You may have to uncheck the box “Constrain Proportions” box so you can make it a full 57×57.
5. Save the file as PNG format with the filename apple-touch-icon.png

Now the tricky part. How to get it so Remote Buddy can serve up the icon.

1. I browsed to the Remote Buddy file in my Applications folder.
2. Control-Click (aka right click)
3. Choose “Show Package Contents”
4. Click into the following directory: Contents->Resources->WebRemote
5. Drag your apple-touch-icon.png file into that folder and close the window.
6. Restart Remote Buddy, Pull up the Ajax page in your iPod Touch/iPhone web browser and add it to the desktop.

You should see your nice new Remote Buddy webclip icon. 

*** UPDATE***Well they released a small update for Remote Buddy.  It includes their own webclip icon for the Ajax web interface.  I just wish they included HTTPS encryption.     

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