Here’s the 31st episode of The MacReviewCast. Remember to send feedback and suggestions to surbits at gmail dot com, and also remember to vote for us at podcastalley.com. SurfBits.com is looking for a Mac blogger to help out. Send an email to surfbits at gmail dot com.

Robert Pritchett from the maccompanion.com joins us. Here is what we discuss.
EvoCam: http://www.evological.com
Brickhouse Security: http://www.brickhousesecurity.com

Here’s the freeware and Shareware I look at during the podcast:
Flysketch: http://www.flyingmeat.com
SuperDuper!: http://www.shirt-pocket.com
Rapidweaver: http://www.realmacsoftware.com
Check Off: http://www.carpeaqua.com/software/checkoff
iPodDisk: http://ipoddisk.ourbiti.com
safeThis! http://www.jaanpatterson.com/safeThis.html
MorphX: http://www.norrkross.com
NeoOffice: http://www.planamesa.com
Azureus Bit Torrent: http://azureus.sourceforge.net

Jeff Powell discusses Kismac wi-fi finder, Marware iPod nano cases and some news in the Mac community.

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Join myself and Todd Cochrane and Andy McCaskey from the Tech Podcast Network as we talk to Doug Kaye and others from the Podcast Expo. This is a bonus download, not part of the MacReviewCast podcasts. Thank you!

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Here is the 30th episode of The MacReviewCast. Remember to send feedback and suggestions to surbits at gmail dot com, and also remember to vote for us at podcastalley.com. SurfBits.com is looking for a Mac blogger to help out. Send an email to surfbits at gmail dot com.

Robert Pritchett from the maccompanion.com joins us. Here is what we discuss.
Sony’s Malware problems.
Titles: http://cp.sonybmg.com/xcp/english/titles.html
Take Control of Switching to the Mac: http://www.takecontrolbooks.com/switching.html
DeltaGraph 5: http://www.redrocksw.com
ThinkMap: http://www.thinkmap.com

Here’s the freeware I look at during the podcast:
Cocoa Cookies: http://ditchnet.org/wp
DreamCatcher: http://homepage.mac.com/jameshoward/dreamcatcher
Namely: http://homepage.mac.com/asagoo/namely/index.html
Moodle: www.moodle.org
VirtuFrame: http://www.trilateralsystems.com/virtuframe
iTuneMyWalkman: http://ilari.scheinin.fidisk.fi/itunemywalkman
I also look at Mac Start-up keyboard commands.

Jeff Powell discusses two new software programs and tells us about a conference for the superstars of Mac Software Developement

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Here’s the 29th episode of The MacReviewCast. Remember to send feedback and suggestions to surbits at gmail dot com, and also remember to vote for us at podcastalley.com. SurfBits.com is looking for a Mac blogger to help out. Send an email to surfbits at gmail dot com.

Robert Pritchett from the maccompanion.com joins us. Here is what we discuss.
The Tiger Switcher contest is over and the prizes should go out by the end of this coming week to the winners. We really appreciate all those who sent in their stories. We announce the winners.
Robert then reviews the books, PC Pest Control, Spy Chips, and Unite The Tribes. Christopher Duncan Joins him on macCompanion as a contributor. His websites are www.PracticalStrategyConsulting.com and http://www.showprogramming.com.

Here’s the freeware I look at during the podcast:
Do Something When: http://www.azarhi.com
CyberDuck: http://cyberduck.ch
Temperature Monitor: http://www.bresink.de/osx/TemperatureMonitor.html
1001: A Desktop Flickr Client: http://1001.kung-foo.tv/
Bitwise: http://www.bitwiseim.com/
I look back at the Portable Media and Podcast Expo and the conferences that stood lout in my mind and the most importantly, the people I finally was able to meet.
We make so many online friends these days, but we’re seldom able to meet them in person and shake their hands. This expo was a success in my eyes to bring us all together.

Jeff Powell discusses Apples new software, Front Row and Photo Booth. He also discusses the new Sony “Root Worm” that can affect your Mac.

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I just got back today from the Podcaster’s Expo in Ontario CA. I’ll record the next MacReviewCast on Monday and have it up by Tuesday. I met a lot of other podcasters and took some pictures if you’d like to see them. You can find them at my Smugmug account, http://surfbits.smugmug.com/gallery/963544 . Let me know what you think of them and I’ll get the new podcast out shortly. Thank you. Tim

Here’s the 28th episode of The MacReviewCast. Remember to send feedback and suggestions to surbits at gmail dot com, and also remember to vote for us at podcastalley.com. SurfBits.com is looking for a Mac blogger to help out. Send an email to surfbits at gmail dot com.

Robert Pritchett from the maccompanion.com joins us. Here is what we discuss.
The Tiger Switcher contest is over and the prizes should go out by the end of this coming week to the winners. We really appreciate all those who sent in their stories. One or more will end up being interviewed by Gene Steinberg on his 2-hour The Tech Night Owl LIVE on-line radio program.
macCompanion November Issue
We published works on the Redmond Syndrome and XP Pro snafus we discussed last week,
Jon Hoyle presents another cross-platform package in his According to Hoyle… column, this time on wxWidgets at http://www.wxwidgets.org.
Gene Steinberg looks at Apple Reliability and Chaos Theory from The Mac Night Owl. Click on his website and throw some heavy coins his direction by donating to his cause at http://www.techbroadcasting.com.
Read Dennis Seller’s Macsimum News request for Photo Booth and Front Row to not just be tied to the newer Macs.
Listen to Daphne Kalfon’s Music Creations technique in her column on Music and the Mac and who is getting her ILoveMyMac song translated into Japanese and other languages at http://www.ilovemymacthesong.com.
Leland Scott’s Musings from Mars on the two October announcement sessions by Apple,
Steve Stanger’s The Mac Attack Mac on Mac maintenance.
Dan Pourhadi’s Pourhadi’s Perspective discussion of more browsers for the Mac as a guest columnist. He was just interviewed by Chuck Joiner on the MacVoices podcast http://www.macvoices.com.
There are also Ted Bade’s Views from the Ivory Tower commenting on Apple news and
Harry (doc) Babad’s Macintosh Tips research on Tips and Tricks,

Here’s the freeware I look at during the podcast:
CLIX: http://rixstep.com/4/0/clix
iSquint: http://homepage.mac.com/tylerl82
Handbrake: http://handbrake.m0k.org/index.php
iCooked: http://www.alxsoft.com/mac/icooked.html
Wcalc: http://w-calc.sourceforge.net/index.php
GeoParty: http://homepage.mac.com/jonn8/as/html/GeoParty.html
AcidSearch: http://www.pozytron.com/acidsearch
JAlbum: http://jalbum.net/history.jsp
Jeff Powell reviews imagewell.

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Here’s the 3rd episode of 10 Minutes with a Mac Developer. Remember to send feedback and suggestions to surbits at gmail dot com, and also remember to check out the photo gallery of the items we review at my surfbits.smugmug.com account. SurfBits.com is looking for a Mac blogger to help out. Send an email to surfbits at gmail dot com.

Lynda Weinman was the reason I started coding HTML back in the mid 90’s. Her books on designing websites and online graphics were the bibles of web design to thousands of people like myself. Her books were so good because Lynda was a teacher first and a designer second. She started a training facility in California and has been on the road teaching in conferences and seminars since she wrote her first books. Lynda has written and lectured on every aspect of creating Web content and on every application available with which to do it, from Photoshop to Dreamweaver to Flash. Now she heads the online training center at lynda.com. Lynda.com has over 150 online training tutorials along with CD’s and books. If you need to learn a program, lynda.com is the place to go. I could not be more excited then to have Lynda visit with us on the MacReviewCast.

Peter Lewis founded Stairways Software in 1995 to further develop and sell the world-class Mac software that made him famous. Stairways software is based in Perth, Australia, where Peter is now CEO and president of the company. Peter’s goal was to bring high quality Internet and Unix tools to the Mac, combining the traditional Mac ease-of-use with the power of the Internet and Unix. This placed Stairways Software in exactly the right position to capitalize on the massive growth of the Internet from less than one million computers to hundreds of millions. The familiarity with Unix also proved invaluable as Apple transitioned Mac OS to the Unix-based Mac OS X. In 2001, Matthew Drayton joined the company, bringing with him his knowledge of Mac OS X and a strong commitment to quality. Matthew leads the development effort. Peter continues to stay close to his customer base by handling the tech support issues. I’m very happy to have Peter Lewis on the Macreviewcast.

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