November 28, 2008

Black Friday: 50% Discount at ScreenCastsOnline

Filed under: TMUP-Blog — Victor Cajiao @ 9:02 am

This is fantastic news for any Typical Mac User. Use this link (and you will help out TMUP too) Just use the coupon code BLACK08 to receive 50% discount when registering.

Liverpool, UK – For the first time, ScreenCastsOnline is participating in the Black Friday frenzy by offering a 50% discount to all new ScreenCastsOnline Extra! members joining today. Acknowledged as one of the premier sources for mac based tutorials on the Internet since launching in 2005, ScreenCastsOnline has established itself as a favourite with many thousands of delighted mac users throughout the world.

Each weekly tutorial is created as a screencast – a high resolution video captures of the mac desktop, narrated by the UKs Don McAllister, with his own unique laid back delivery and easy to follow approach to teaching mac software. Delivered via iTunes or downloaded from the members site, each tutorial is yours to keep and watch as many times as you like.

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November 27, 2008

Special Interview with Jad Abumrad of WNYC’s Radio Lab

Filed under: Podcasts — Victor Cajiao @ 5:22 pm
 
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I had the great honor of interviewing Jad Abumrad of WNYC’s Radio Lab program. We spoke about producing his show, how he uses his Mac computers to do this and how he takes the spoken word and scores it into their wonderful show.

Please subscribe to Radio Lab at www.wnyc.org

Subscribe to Radio Lab via iTunes

November 26, 2008

Mophie for iPhone Un-Box

Filed under: TMUP-Blog — Victor Cajiao @ 5:39 am

The folks at Mophie.com delivered a Mophoe Juice Pack for my iPhone 3g today. I’m going to be reviewing this in an upcoming episode, but firsts impressions are that the form factor is fantastic and it started charging right out of the box.

Take a look at the Flickr set here for more pictures.

November 25, 2008

TMUP 156: Boxee, Richard Solo 1800 and Terminal Part 13

Filed under: Podcasts — Victor Cajiao @ 8:35 pm
 
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Tonight’s show is brought to you by:

Ambrosia Software

This show is a member of Friends In Tech

Show Notes:

Richard Solo 1800 Battery Pack for iPhone

My Flickr set of the Richard Solo 1800

Bart Buschotts

Network Addresss Translation (NAT) @ Wikipedia

Port forwarding @ Wikipedia

PortForward.com – Free Help Setting Up Your Router or Firewall

Universal Plug ‘n’ Play (UPnP)

Boxee

XBMC

Hulu

November 23, 2008

Asus eeepc 1000H Un-boxing “Better Late than never”

Filed under: TMUP-Videos — Victor Cajiao @ 1:41 am

I thought I had put this up on the blog, but I guess I just put it in Twitter. Here is the un-boxing of the Asus eeepc 1000H.

November 18, 2008

TMUP 155: Retro Macs and Pseudo Macs

Filed under: Podcasts — Victor Cajiao @ 2:59 pm
 
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Tonight’s show is brought to you by:

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This show is a member of Friends In Tech

Show Notes:

Apple Newton @ Wikipedia

Macintosh Plus @ Wikipedia

Twentieth Anniversary Mac (TAM) @ Wikipedia

Mackintosh TV @ Wikipedia

PowerBook G3 (Firewire) a.k.a. Pismo @ Wikipedia

PowerBook G3 a.k.a. Wallstreet @ Wikipedia

RetroMacCast

Asus eee PC 1000H

Eclipse Empire

Mozilla Firefox

Namely

1Password

Dropbox

TweetDeck

Adobe AIR

Jing

VideoLAN Client (VLC)

Evernote

Carbon Copy Cloner

Victor on Twitter – @typicalmacuser

November 11, 2008

TMUP 154: Remote Access your Mac Today

Filed under: Podcasts — Victor Cajiao @ 4:25 pm
 
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Tonight’s show is brought to you by:

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Show Notes:

Telnet @ Wikipedia

Secure Shell (SSH) @ Wikipedia

Cyberduck

File Transfer Protocol (FTP) @ Wikipedia

Secure FTP over SSH @ Wikipedia

MacFuse

Timbuktu

Bonjour

Radmin

Apple Remote Desktop

Wake on LAN @ WIkipedia

Virtual Network Computing (VNC)

Chicken of the VNC

Vine Server

November 6, 2008

Review – iPhone Developer’s Cookbook

Filed under: Book Reviews — George Starcher @ 9:45 pm

by: George Starcher, Associate Editor

A few weeks back I hit the Big Nerd Ranch for Cocoa Objective C bootcamp.  It has been fun and interesting dusting off some programming skills.  I mainly want to work on some projects for the Mac.  However, the idea of playing around with the iPhone/iPod touch for some development.  I was sent a review copy of Erica Sadun’s The iPhone Developer’s Cookbook.

The book provides a very well rounded tour of code samples, suggestions and guidance on building your applications.  You do need some foundation in Objective C and xcode to get the most from the book.  Like most cookbooks it has plenty of code recipes for all sorts of different parts you need to make good applications.  However if you are really just getting started completely from scratch I recommend going through Aaron Hillegass’ Cocoa Programming for Mac OSX first.  Get yourself familiar with xcode and cocoa. Then you can build from there using Erica’s book.

Overall I think the book will be a great reference.  Just keep in mind it was written as best it could be to be current yet timeless.  There is one reference to the push services that Apple has yet to release.  Erica mentions she did not religiously address memory management retain and releases in the code.  This was done to ensure the code would work for learning purposes well into future versions of xcode.  So be sure to pay attention to what you need to do if you follow the examples to tighten up your memory management.

She takes you through getting setup with your certificate into xcode so you can test your code on an actual device.  Then there are tons of code sample on different interface styles.  Even a dash of references on neat but technically unsupported tricks.  Erica makes clear when she shows those so you can use them at your own risk.  You still will need to reference Apple’s user interface guidelines if you want your application to measure up.  Still you can get a lot of great mechanics for your applications from the book.

All in all I rate this a great companion reference with my book on Cocoa programming.  Just give yourself time to absorb it all and practice with all the examples you are given.  Erica even keeps pretty up to date code samples from the book on her web site.  At the time I write this the most recent file updates show as October 13 which is pretty recent.

Good reading and coding!

November 4, 2008

TMUP 153: Hey Mac, I Wanna talk to you

Filed under: Hardware Reviews,Podcasts — Victor Cajiao @ 7:57 pm
 
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Tonight’s show is brought to you by:

Ambrosia Software

This show is a member of Friends In Tech

Show Notes:

MacSpeech Dictate

Dragon NaturallySpeaking

Speech Recognition @ Wikipedia

Download iMovie HD 6

Asus eee PC 1000H

 

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