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Tom Behin Laptop Cases

Visage

LoJack for Laptops

Blue Icicle

Blue Mikey

Blue Eyeball

BoinxTV

Boinx FotoMagico

Boinx iStopMotion

BusyMac BusyCal

Monolingual

WhatSize

DriveGenius

Apple KB Article – Moving iTunes Library

Apple KB Article – Moving iPhoto Library

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1Password

UPEK Eikon

Matias TuneBlocker

Wacom Graphire Tablet

Wacom Bamboo Tablet

Wacom Bamboo Fun Tablet

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Associate Editor George Starcher shows us some fantastic ways to use Automator to troubleshoot.

Please visit for the exact script

http://tinyurl.com/93dnny

for scripting information

It took a while for me to quit laughing today.  My wife says this resembles me.  In the spirit of our SSH series check out the below xkcd.com comic.

Now all you have to do is SSH into your mac at home. At the terminal command line enter the following.

sudo osascript -e “set Volume 10″

say “Hey! I’m locked out downstairs.”

If you get an error you might try this instead.

sudo say “Hey! I’m locked out downstairs”

If nothing else works maybe just try open sesame. *chuckle*

*Update*

I actually tested this with Victor’s mac pro.  Since I had gotten an error I thought it didn’t work.  Until I saw Victor’s tweet about freaking out when his macpro spoke to him.  See below.  As emergency backup and to exchange files I have my own ssh keys to Victor’s macpro.  Egg on my face for not thinking it worked and went on to test with my laptop then write the post THEN notice he was wigging out.  *but it was darn funny*  I just hope he doesn’t hold onto the Apple baseball cap he got me for being bad.

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Etymotic Research HF2 Headset+Earphones

Etymotic Research HF5 Earphones

Ecamm BT-1 Bluetooth Wireless WebCam

FastMac U-Charge

FastMac iV iPhone Battery Pack

equinux SongGenie

equinux Stationary Pack

equinux Cover Scout

equinux iSale

equinux MediaCentral

equinux TubeStick

equinux APC Tracker

equinux VPN Tracker

equinux Live TV iPhone App

equinux TubeToGo iPhone App

Incipio Lloyd For iPod Nano 4th Gen

Beejive IM for iPhone

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George takes us to the next place in SSH by using RSync to back up.

The text to copy and edit for your automator is below.  It is all one line:

rsync -avrz -e “ssh -p 5346 -i .ssh/id_rsa” Documents username@home.homedns.org:/Volumes/ExternalDrive/Backups/Laptop

The Livescribe Pulse Smart Pen won a best of show award from me. Here is why.

www.livescribe.com

There are many wonderful products at the Macworld Expo. These are my four top picks.

iMOvie09

iMovie09 has made great improvements since the release of iMovie08 by Apple. On Tuesday they finally delivered on some of the things that were promised last year. (NOTE) I have not had a chance to really take iMovie09 for a test drive, however here are a few of the features that I find worthy of this award.

• Precision Editor is a new feature that makes it easy to fine-tune every edit. It displays a magnified filmstrip that shows exactly where one clip ends and the next begins so you can precisely edit your video. Skim each clip up close and identify how much to keep and where to cut.

• Dynamic Themes let you enhance movie in minutes. Just pick a theme such as Bulletin Board, Filmstrip, or Comic Book and apply it to your project instantly.

• Animated Travel Maps allow you to make delicious video travelogues with eye-catching, animated travel maps . Choose from four different 3D globe or flat map styles and select your location (or locations) — from country to city to points of interest.  iMovie09 builds an animated map that flies from point A to point B (Ala Indiana Jones). All of these features an more will make iMoive09 more useful than ever before.

Livescribe Pulse Smartpen

This little marvel allows users to record sound and sync audio with written notes. The pen work together  with Livescribe’s dot paper with the tiny dots on the paper being used by the pen as reference points for the audio. The dot paper notepad features pre-printed controls at the bottom of each page which allow users to fast-forward, rewind, jump, pause, speed up, or slow down the audio. Livescribe sells various notebooks and journals with the dot paper, but you can also print your own pages for free on a color printer. I was blown away by the demo they gave me which I recorded on the Mino and will publish here.

The 1GB LiveScribe retails for US$149 while the 2GB models retails for US$249 with the final version of the Livescribe Desktop Mac software becoming available on February 17th.

Matias Tune Blocker

Simplicity is always in good taste.  Have you ever  wanted to charge your iPod or iPhone from your computer or some else’s, without the hassle of synchronizing to iTunes, or deleting all your music. Matias has a new product called the Tune Blocker™. that with the flip of a switch allows you to choose whether you want to just charge your your iPod or iPhone, or sync it to your iTunes library as well. This is such a simple concept, but if you are like me it will save you in a pinch. This product will ship late March according to the vendor.

Ecamm Network BT-1 Bluetooth Web Cam

Last year we saw the Ecamm iMage USB web cam and it was a winner.  This year Ecamm knocks it out of the park with the first wireless webcam which communicates with your Mac from distances of up to 30 feet away via BlueTooth. The BT-1 Bluetooth Web camera is capable of shooting a  H.264 at a 640 x 480 pixel resolution and records AAC audio at up to 48 KHz. This webcam will be available in late Q1 for US$150, and is sure to be another winner for Ecamm

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