This screencast will show you how to create an audio file that you can play in iTunes or Quicktime from any text file. That’s to www.ehow.com for showing me this trick.
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CORRECTION: In the show I say that the difference between the MacBook Air and the MacBook Pro baseline price was $39 dollars. This is an error, it was $149.00 US. Apologies.
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Show Notes:
Resetting an Apple portable’s System Management Controller (SMC)
After anticipating the new MacBook Pro and lusting after the MacBook Air. Today I pushed the “Order” button on a new MacBook Pro. The Air was calling my name like a technology siren. However after looking at the bottom line pricing, it was an easy decision.
The base line price difference for me between a MacBook Pro and a MacBook Air was $39.00 $149 U.S.(with my corporate discount). How could I not get the more powerful Penryn Chipset, new Gestures Mouse Pad , and a much more powerful computer for $39.00 $149 more? Well I couldn’t . Now I did update the 200 Gb 7200 RMP HD, and of course bought Apple Care. Here are the details.
Victor’s new MacBook Pro
15-inch, 2.4GHz
2GB 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM - 2×1GB
Backlit Keyboard/Mac OS - U.S. English
SuperDrive 8x (DVD±R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW)
MacBook Pro 15-inch Widescreen Display
200GB Serial ATA Drive @ 7200 rpm
2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
Well the rumor mill was right in that we have both new MacBooks and MacBook Pros out on this Apple Tuesday. This one is mostly a speed bump and “Multi Touch” for the MacBook Pro which had not been upgraded in about 267 days. The MacPro also got a refresh of sorts with the all-new Quad-Core Intel Xeon “Harpertown” processors, featuring speeds up to 3.2GHz and 12MB of L2 cache per processor.
The Macbook now comes in 2.1 GHz as well as a new “faster” 2.4Ghz processor.
Prices Below are U.S.
The MacBook Pro also got a refresh and the anticipated Penryn processors, “Multi-Touch” Pad, and the latest NVIDIA graphics processors, now with up to 512MB of video memory.
“The MacBook Pro trackpad adopts many of the innovative Multi-Touch gestures from the Apple iPhone, so you can pinch, swipe, or rotate by simply moving your fingers.”
Well the store is down and soon we (I ) will know if indeed rumors about a new Macbook or Mac Book Pro are true. What else? Who knows.
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Tonight Cali Lewis from Geek Brief TV joined me and we had an incredible conversation about technology, traveling and her Neals next project Big Trip , podcasting and the audience was wonderful. Have fun, and thanks to Cali Lewis one of the nicest persons on the net.
Also On tonights show , Cali said she would get pregnant and have a baby “if people support this trip and we have enough money not to go into debt”. This is an exclusive. So lets support Cali and make it happen. Cali Victor is a really good name.
Show Notes
Cali Links that she promised she would share
Recording and editing software
Other Fun Cali Macworld Pictures (taken by Cali fan Michael)
by David Sparks, contributing editor from macsparky.com.
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Tonight George Starcher sent me an email to this article in TUAW telling us an easy way to add a badge to your web site to see if the Apple store is down or not. Here is an excerpt
Pingdom, purveyors of website monitoring services, have produced a badge that puts the status of the Apple Store on your web page, blog, and maybe your dashboard with a web clipping. Pingdom does the work of pinging the Apple Store once per minute to determine its current state, and provides you with an image indicating up or down which is embedded in an iFrame. Simple, but effective.
Well, sure enough I put the badge on the TMUP web site. I then took two more steps to make this even cooler.
One: I turned the badge into a web-clipping using Safari. I just used the URL below on Safari, then used the web-clip feature. Viola I had a widget that I can look at anytime.
http://applestorestatus.pingdom.com/?id=2
Here is the result
Two: I went to my iPhone and put the same URL into the iPhone.
http://applestorestatus.pingdom.com/?id=2.
I then zoomed in , and added it to my home screen. Here is that result.
So there you go. Now you can know anytime if the Apple Store is down.
This is a three minute video of the partial replacement of my Mac Pro’s logic board. This was show with the Samsung NV11 point and shoot camera and edited with iMovie08.
Yes, I do have more Macworld Videos. This time Belkin shows us the new Podcast Studio.
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