Welcome to episode 2 of the Mac Roundtable. This week I am joined by Steve Stanger from the MacAttack, Joseph Nilo from the MacPro Podcast and Adam Christianson from the Maccast. We discuss the Disney/Pixar deal.
Should You buy a new Intel Mac?

How do we create a podcast?
What’s our favorite software for the Mac?
And more.

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Here’s the 39th 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 Feb. issue of the macCompanion online magazine. Robert looks at chip errata in his article, “How Dare They”. Robert also talks about the Ying and Yang of “Ubinaries”.

Here’s the freeware and Shareware I look at during the podcast:
Mainmenu: http://www.santasw.com/products.html

MenuMeters: http://www.ragingmenace.com/software/menumeters

UTC: http://www.adpartnership.net/UTCDisplay/index.html

Milky Way: http://www.lny.mine.nu/Pages/MilkyWay/MilkyWay.html

Laserlight: http://mysite.verizon.net/oneleftfoot/laserlight

ifille: http://www.aliencrypt.com/page3/quick_convert.html

journler: http://journler.phildow.net/html/welcome.html

Apple Discounts: http://www.apple-discounts.com

AdiumX: http://www.adiumx.com

Jeff Powell joins us today to take a look at iLife ‘06, and a couple websites you need to visit.

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Here’s the first episode of The Mac RoundTable podcast. Join myself, Joseph Nilo from the MacPro Podcast, http://www.macpropodcast.com and Steve Stanger from the MacAttack Podcast http://www.themacattack.us.
We hope to hear from you if you enjoyed the podcast and what you would like us to change. We hope to add a few more members down the road and make this a regular weekly podcast.
UPDATE: I changed the format to mp3 from the Quicktime format that it was originally in. If you want an mp3 format, please download it now.

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Podcast 38 of the MacReviewCast gave us the three winners for our Holiday Prize Give-A-Way. Here are the winners as they were drawn.
Andrew B of Marilla, NY won the Bluetooth trackball
Jerry E. of Cheshire CT. won the USB Speakers
and David S. of Highpoint, NC won the CD of Avernum 4.

Thank you to all that entered and thank you very much to all that listen to the Mac ReviewCast.

Here’s the 38th episode of The MacReviewCast. Remember to send feedback and suggestions to surfbits 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.
Apple earnings.
We also have the drawing for the three great prizes that I gave away for the holidays. An Altec Lansing XT1 USB speaker set, a bluetooth wireless trackball and a copy of the great RPG game from Spiderweb software called Avernum 4.

Here’s the freeware and Shareware I look at during the podcast:
Avernum 4: http://www.spiderwebsoftware.com
ReelBean: http://www.js8media.com
Gimp: http://gimp-app.sourceforge.net
Open Office: http://www.openoffice.org
CocoaBooklet: http://www.iconus.ch/fabien/cocoabooklet
Service Scrubber : http://www.petermaurer.de
Textpander: http://www.petermaurer.de
Webphoto: http://www.ionize.org
Xfolders: http://www.kai-heitkamp.com

Jeff Powell joins us today to take a look his Macworld experience with the TWIT gang and their live taping of the TWIT podcast.

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Here is a very special MacWorld Expo 2006 podcast. 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.

Jeff Powell goes to MacWorld Expo in San Francisco and gives us his first hand view of what it’s like to be a Mac Fanatic at the single greatest Apple celebration of the year. He’ll walk you thru his experiences of standing in line overnite for a seat at the Steve Jobs Keynote all the way thru the floor of the expo and the parties at night. Jeff also has interviews of the following venders.
Elektek Fabrics: http://www.elektex.com
MyVu Personal Media Viewer: http://www.myvu.com
ThinkFree Online Office: http://online.thinkfree.com
Panic Software: http://www.panic.com
Jambo Networks: http://www.jambo.net
Expect more on future podcasts. If you want to contact Jeff Powell, please use the email address jeff@jlpowell.com.

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.
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Here’s the 37th 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.
Southern Miss. Mug: http://www.sm-mug.org
Information to Help: rescuemacs@mac.com

Here’s the freeware and Shareware I look at during the podcast:

DesInstaller: http://krugazor.free.fr/software/desinstaller/DesInstaller.php
Mr Tides: http://homepage.mac.com/augusth/MrTides/
Beware of Molecules: http://totlandweb.info/
tickr for flickr: http://www.stuffonfire.com/P/tickr/help/
iFile: http://www.aliencrypt.com/page3/quick_convert.html
FrontRow Enabler: http://www.andrewescobar.com/frontrow

Here’s the info on our big contest give-a-way: To win all you have to do is listen. I want you to send me an email with the word contest in the subject line. Then in the body send me your name and address and phone number, along with the answer to this question. Every great piece of Mac software has three things in common, what are the three things? I will give you an answer each week for three weeks. Last week I gave you one answer and this week I’ll give you the second answer. The first prize will be the Altec lansing XT-1 portable USB speakers, the second prize will be the Bluetooth Wireless Trackball I reviewed this week on Surfbits. Retail price is $69.95.

Jeff Powell does not joins us today, but will have a MacWorld report soon.

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I am back home from a family emergency in Wisconsin. I will have the third part of our contest and a new podcast on Saturday. Thank you for your understanding.