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This week we look at PageHand, Popcorn, ScreenFlow 2, Gourmania, Freeware plus much more. I want to thank you for downloading and listening to the podcast. We have the best in Mac hardware, software and websites reviews. We have a lot of great folks on today s episode with their reviews and comments on software, hardware and websites that make using the Mac special. Plus I ll have the top freeware Mac apps of the week and much more. You can email me at surfbits at Gmail dot Com. I love to hear from you. Here is the freeware and shareware I look at during the podcast: ScreencastsOnline Special November Half-Price! Whimsically Plucky Software: http://www.whimsplucky.com BackityMac: http://www.whimsplucky.com VideoVangelist: http://www.whimsplucky.com RadioRocker: http://www.whimsplucky.com DockChanger: http://www.whimsplucky.com NewOCR: http://www.newocr.com Bleep Blop: http://bleepblop.isnot.tv Quiet Read: http://bambooapps.com/free-stuff Fairmount: http://www.metakine.com/products/fairmount Skreenics: http://code.google.com/p/skreenics Sequential: http://sequentialx.com Joomla: http://www.joomla.org David Sparks from MacSparky joins us this week and reviews: PageHand: http://pagehand.com Allison Sheridan from the NosillaCast Podcast looks at: Popcorn: http://www.roxio.com David Allen from Mac20Q.com podcast reviews: ScreenFlow 2: http://www.telestream.net Michelle Lopez joins us today from the The Portable Gamer and iCasual Report to review the iPhone/iPod Touch game: Gourmania - $.99 Gourmania Lite - FREE Try the new ENHANCED version of the MacReviewCast: And now we have the Podcast in Bit-Torrent Feeds! You can either click on the podcast link on the left and listen to it via QT from the browser, or you can right click on the podcast link and choose to download linked file . That will download the mp3 and you can play it from you hard drive with iTunes. The right link below is the URL for the podcast RSS feed. Just right click it and choose to copy the address and then paste it in your podcast reader, or ipodder, or newsreader that will download enclosures automatically. Please Click Here to vote for us on the PodcastAlley Website. Thank you! techpodcasts.com Technorati Tags: software, review, mac, apple, iTunes, Mac mini, podcast, Macreviewcast, podcasting, maccompanion, OSX, iPhoto, Exposure 2

In this exclusive interview (don't they always call it "exclusive" to make it sound cool?) I talk to Mitchell Baker the Chairperson and Chief Lizard Wrangler of Mozilla about how you go from a failure to 24% market share using primarily volunteer labor across the world. Links from our discussion include Mitchell and John Lilly's op-ed piece on Net Neutrality at the Wall Street Journal: http://online.wsj.com and labs.mozilla.org and browser Market Share by Net Applications at marketshare.hitslink.com. Also Mitchell's blog at blog.lizardwrangler.com.

Cynthia Snyder is the founder of Yonder Star Christmas Shop, a Pennsylvania-based online seller of Christmas Nativity scenes. Snyder launched the business in 2000 using a Yahoo! shopping cart. She joins Practical eCommerce's Kerry Murdock to discuss the business's history and its current operations.

Går du rundt og tænker på, hvorfor ASP.NET MVC mon får så megen opmærksomhed i øjeblikket? Der er trods alt ikke tale om noget revolutionerende nyt mønster, ja faktisk er mønstret et af de ældste, vi kender til i branchen. Og hvad betyder det for gode gamle WebForms at MVC pludselig er på banen? Forventer Microsoft helt at droppe supporten for WebForms i fremtiden? Lyt med i denne episode af ANUGCast, hvor vi sammen med Christian Holm Nielsen svarer på disse spørgsmål og samtidig giver dig en introduktion til ASP.NET MVC. Vi vender til sidst blikket mod fremtiden og kigger på, hvad version 2.0 af frameworket bringer til bordet. Emner Oplevelser fra Dev Days Hvad er MVC WebForms vs. MVC Routing Extension points Hvilke typer projekter passer MVC til jQuery og MVC MVC Futures og Contrib projekterne Links ASP.NET MVC Web Platform Installer MVC Contrib ASP.NET MVC 2 preview ANUGCast #55 ASP.NET MVC 1.0 med Christian Holm Nielsen del 1 af 2 [mediaplayer:http://www.publicvoid.dk/content/binary/podcasts/ANUGCast-55-ASPNET-MVC-1-0-med-Christian-Holm-Nielsen-del-1-af-2.mp3] Download ANUGCast #55 ASP.NET MVC 1.0 med Christian Holm Nielsen del 1 af 2

Phil Leigh Will consumers pay to watch TV shows and movies at the hulu.com website? Hulu.com’s website hosts popular TV shows and movies after they have been released normally. Owners include Disney, NBC-Universal, and News Corporation (Fox). Viewers can watch shows for free but in exchange must also watch commercials since the videos are streamed and not downloaded. Last month, Chase Carey who is the President of News Corporation said that Hulu should start charging fees sometime next year. Presumably he envisions a premium subscription service providing more content or viewing time in exchange for a monthly fee. There are two reasons to be doubtful about the success of such a plan. First, as author Matt Ragas put it, “We all love the information highway, but we don’t want to pay a toll every five miles.” Second, incumbent media companies may be overvaluing their own content. Matt’s remark led me to examine my own subscriptions which are summarized in the accompanying table. Already I pay over $220 monthly for telephone, Internet, and video entertainment. Other services under consideration would advance the total to about $265 monthly.  Such an analysis makes me look for ways to cut, instead of add, services. Phil s Monthly Subscription Fees Naturally, I’ll focus on the bigger numbers first which come from the cable and wireless providers. However, if The Wall Street Journal (owned by News Corp)   editorial viewpoint prevails, the carriers will likely increase ISP fees even higher. That leaves consumers with thinner wallets to buy additional services from Hulu or anyone else. Even if cable and wireless charges don’t go up, consumers may calculate that they’re already paying enough in service fees. Readers of the Baltimore Sun seem to be strongly opposed to paying for hulu.com access. A polling button on the newspaper s website reveals that they voted 20-to-1 against it. You can see the results and review reader comments here. As for content value, the recent success of Paranormal Activity might serve as a reminder to media producers that we characteristically undervalue the works of people who are not like us. It’s reported that the movie was set in a single San Diego home and produced for $10,000. By the day after Halloween it had grossed over $80 million in box office receipts. Much like Internet publishing demolished the value of the printing press, low cost video cameras combined with computer-based film editing and an abundance of people seeking stardom and film-crew careers, necessitates an introspective reassessment of Hollywood’s self worth. Paranormal Activity is more than an isolated echo of The Blair Witch Project. Years from now we’ll look back to see it as data point in a connect-the-dots trend line pointing toward a future of content abundance. To learn more about how your business can exploit or adapt to thye future of media, feel welcome to contact us. You may also want to consider buying our research reports Third Generation Television and Future Developments in Video Advertising.

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In this episode we ll cover a topic sent in by a listener who is having a problem at the workplace. What is the role of a junior designer as opposed to a senior designer? Who is supposed to know what, and is the senior supposed to be a sort of mentor for the junior? We ll discuss these questions and more. Links from the show: Rookie Designer forum In the Bullpen: Core 77 Try GoToMeeting for 45 days! Visit www.GoToMeeting.com/techpodcasts to start your free trial today.

Learn how to spot whether an Apple rumor is valid. Many Apple rumors have no source and don't fit with the company's past. Find out what to look for so you can decide for yourself which rumors make the most sense.

A viewer from Portugal sends in a question about finding which row contains the match. Episode 1139 shows you a few ways to go! This blog is the video podcast companion to the book, Learn Excel 97-2007 from MrExcel. Download a new two minute video every workday to learn one of the 377 tips from the book!

CLICK HERE to download the file and listen directly. MoTR 189 is 36:05 minutes long and is a 33.1 MB file in MP3 format. HOSTS: James Kendrick (Houston), Matthew Miller (Seattle) and Kevin C. Tofel (Philadelphia) TOPICS: Motorola Droid in the house! Droid or Droid Eris? Tethering for Droid is $30, but gives you another 5 GB HTC HD2 coming soon. Windows Mobile on Snapdragon with a capacitive display Microsoft names a Windows Mobile distribution partner Kevin s triple-booting netbook is going to explode: XP, 7 and Moblin RIM gains marketshare are integrated phones doing better than licensed ones? CONTACT US: E-mail us or leave us a voicemail on our SkypeLine! SUBSCRIBE: Use this RSS feed with your favorite podcatcher or click this link to add us to iTunes

Windows 7 has arrived; Google releases several new products and services; Firefox 3.6b1 is also new; Microsoft is giving away Security Essentials; Google Earth has been updated to version 5.1; and we feature a tech book on the iPod. Our Blackboard feature focuses on iPhone and Facebook Sync. Haydn will discuss the role of instructors in facilitating online discussions. I will give an overview of the best new features in Windows 7.

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Scott's in Sweden this week and he sat down with master debugger and ASP.NET Escalation Engineer Tess Ferrandez. She explains .NET Debugging 101. What's a dump file? Do you need PDBs? How do you use WinDBG and what are the best ways to debug memory issues, perf problems and hangs.

Rod from Cincinati asks how to solve the problem of trailing spaces in the lookup table. I had never tried it before, but you can apply a TRIM to the entire lookup table. Episode 1138 shows you how. This blog is the video podcast companion to the book, Learn Excel 97-2007 from MrExcel. Download a new two minute video every workday to learn one of the 377 tips from the book!

Use this trick to make your paragraph boxes fit an exact predetermined area inside of your Photoshop documents. Download here

Tom and Rafe discuss the apps they put on first thing when they get a new computer. Listen now: Download today's podcast Subscribe with iTunes (audio) Subscribe with iTunes (video) Subscribe with RSS (audio) Subscribe with RSS (video) Episode 186 Download.com starter kits: Windows: http://download.cnet.com/8001/2701-19409_4-2-1.html windows security: http://download.cnet.com/2701-2023_4-6-1.html mac: http://download.cnet.com/2701-19406_4-4.html And of course, NiNite http://ninite.com/ Tom s picks (Won t read all of them, just a few favorites and then refer to the show notes for complete list): VLC Open Office Sea Monkey or Firefox/Thunderbird/FileZilla/XChat (Colloquy) AVG Antivirus Hijack This Pidgin/Adium Paint.NET iTunes Audacity CCleaner Skype Rafe s picks PC Microsoft Security Essentials Process Explorer Foxit PDF reader CCleaner Paint.net Picasa Pidgin SugarSync Roboform VLC WinDirStat (plus the usual: Apps like Office/OpenOffice, Evernote, etc) Techtracker Mac Witch Win-like task switcher SugarSync Skitch Adium DiskInventoryX Precipitate puts google doc results in spotlight Multiclutch more trackpad gestures LISTENER PICKS Google Earth (for Linux) -dpeach uTorrent (Vista) -Hardus Backup Chunker (Vista) -Hardus SyncBack Glary Utilities (Vista) -Hardus Fences (Windows ) Sang Tweetdeck Andrew Path Finder http://cocoatech.com/ (Mac) Obada Rightzoom http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/30591 (Mac) Obada Default Folder X http://www.stclairsoft.com/DefaultFolderX/ (Mac) Obada Quicksilver (Mac) Sang EMAIL QUESTIONS Tom and Rafe, I know you are doing an episode on useful software for a new computer. I m wondering if you know of a good Hard Drive Visualizer for the MAC? Those programs are super useful for tracking down and deleting files that are just clutter and hard to find. I ve used a couple, but they are unstable and crash frequently. Robinson A Answer: Disk Inventory X! http://www.derlien.com/ for PC: WinDirStat ******************* Tom s not the fastest thing in the world, but it does appear save the harddrive to RAM allowing a complete power disconnect. I don t know how long it can suspend the harddrive on the RAM, but score one for windows. Love your show, JoshuaCaleb P.S. for all the listeners out there, you have to put the computer in hibernate not sleep . When in sleep , the computer will eventually go into hibernate and I think you can alter the hibernate settings as well. Anyway, that s my nickel and two cents. *********** Tom - On Real Deal Ep 184 you read an email from a guy with a fried XP drive that wanted to upgrade to 7, but didn t have his key. this actually happened to me, but I did have the original XP drive. Someone suggested I call Microsoft (yeah, right ) and on a whim i did. The guy on the phone (lovely gentleman from India who was concise, pleasant and knowledgeable) told me to read the characters printed around the rim of the hole in the CD. I d never noticed those numbers before but I read them off and in about 20 seconds he told me my product key! Now the thing that really blew me away was that he asked if he could stay online with me while I ran the XP install so he could be sure I was taken care of! Or maybe I dreamt that, it sounds too good to be true, doesn t it? Allison Sheridan NosillaCast Podcast Now live Thursdays at 4 PM Eastern / 1 PM Pacific on http://live.cnet.com/ Call live! 888-900-2638 (CNET) Next time: Warranties realdeal@cnet.com forums.cnet.com

Steve and Johnnie chat with Top Rock Girly Jock Connie Szerszen about her new book and date with Neil Diamond.

Find out how you can use the Web to translate pieces of text or whole Web pages. Learn how to use the two main translation services: Babel Fish and Google Translate.

Learn how to bring your images back into view on the screen so you can see the entire image. Download here