Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

Should you keep iTunes on your boot drive? If not, then where? How best to migrate from a PowerPC to an Intel Mac? How do I monitor bandwidth that each application on my Mac is using? Why won't images appear in my email?  All these questions are answered — and even more tips are shared — in this week's episode of The Mac Geek Gab with John F. Braun and Dave Hamilton. Note: Shownotes are complete! Stuff mentioned: How to open an alternate iTunes Library file or create a new one iTunes for Mac: Moving your iTunes Music folder SuperDuper! SoundSoap 2 Hearing Test (iPhone/iPod Touch app) Dog Whistle (iPhone/iPod Touch app) Noise reduction The new MacBook Pro family Rosetta Mac OS X 10.3, 10.4: Transferring data with Setup Assistant / Migration Assistant FAQ AppZapper AppCleaner Eudora Mailsmith Mail, iCal, Address Book Mailsmith Hierarchical Export Script Throttled Pro Meter Little Snitch 2 (bonus rant from Dave!) File Transfer Protocol iPhone OS 3.0 Upgrade Guide First Few Days with the iPhone 3GS Hospital Confirms Steve Jobs Liver Transplant iPhone Memory Management From a User’s Perspective – You're downloading today's show from CacheFly's network BackBeat Media Podcast Network MacGeekGab AAC Enhanced Feed – Thanks to Michael Johnston.

John and Dave are back in the TMO Towers East this week answering listener questions, sharing tips, and more. Topics include automounting disks, setting default apps for documents, starting to program on the Mac, repartitioning and more. One item of note is a discussion about cable modems, their signal strengths, and how you can check and improve yours.  Subscribe now (for free!) and don’t miss another episode. Sponsor: Circus Ponies Notebook: The Easy Way to Get Organized on the Mac. Try it FREE for 30 Days. Note: Shownotes are complete! Stuff mentioned: Web bug RCDefaultApp OnyX Masters of the Void Mac Developer Program Memberships Carbon Copy Cloner iPartition Drive Genius 2 Convoy (song) chmod rm lsof kill DOCSIS DocsDiag – DOCSIS cable modem diagnostics 192.168.100.1 (common cable modem IP) dBmV – You’re downloading today’s show from CacheFly’s network BackBeat Media Podcast Network MacGeekGab AAC Enhanced Feed – Thanks to

Dave and John chat for you about the WWDC keynote, Dave’s travels, and the hardware released from Apple today.  Subscribe for free and never miss another episode from your favorite geeks! Sponsor: BBEdit: BBEdit is the leading professional-strength HTML and text editor for the Macintosh. A text power tool for everyone! Note: Shownotes are complete! Stuff mentioned: Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2009 Virgin America GoGo Inflight Internet Indent style Live Coverage of the WWDC Keynote Address MiFi 2200 Intelligent Mobile Hotspot AirRadar MacBook Pro Battery Health Monitor Apple Recycling Program Apple Tech Specs Mac OS X Snow Leopard Mac OS X Snow Leopard Technology Grand Central Dispatch OpenCL iPhone OS 3.0 Software Update (available 6/17) What’s New in MobileMe (including Find my iPhone) AT&T: iPhone Tethering in the Works zipcar – You’re downloading today’s show from CacheFly’s network BackBeat Media Podcast Network MacGeekGab AAC Enhanced Feed – Thanks to

John and Dave took the show back to Talkshoe, this time incorporating some pre-prepped material along with the live questions and comments.  The live aspect brings some additional spontaneity and yet still the same geeks you know and love. Definitely not an episode you’ll want to miss! Sponsor: Disc Label 6: Custom CDs and DVDs of music and photos, with great-looking labels and cases, make wonderful gifts. Special 20% off discount available for a limited time! Sponsor: Circus Ponies Notebook: The Easy Way to Get Organized on the Mac. Try it FREE for 30 Days. Note: Shownotes are complete! Time Machine Editor 10.5: Set the Time Machine backup interval (via Mac OS X Hints) hdiutil Resolve startup issues and perform disk maintenance with Disk Utility and fsck Alsoft DiskWarrior Matias iRizer iStat Pro MacBook Pro SMC Firmware Update 1.3 Road Tools CoolPad Battery Health Monitor AirRadar ChronoSync arRsync Automatically eject/mount disks on sleep/wake SleepWatcher Synchronize! Pro X IMAP 120 Minute IPA 10.5: Repair Time Machine after logic board changes (via Mac OS X Hints) SafeNet Solid state drive (SSD) Cha-Ching 2 Squirrel 0.7.5 (via Apple) Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2009 (WWDC) Iowa Code Camp iPhone / Mac OS X Session DOCSIS – You’re downloading today’s show from CacheFly’s network BackBeat Media Podcast Network MacGeekGab AAC Enhanced Feed – Thanks to Michael Johnston of iPhone Alley.

Dave and John start with some cool stuff found that they just couldn’t get to last week, then move on to continue the wireles network setup discussion with some great tidbits of info. After that, they start answering questions, discussing battery maintenance and more. Subscribe today for free! Sponsor: Audio Engine: Audioengine A5 and A2—Real speakers designed for portable audio players that deliver astonishing sound (and don’t cost a fortune). You can’t get better sound for your iPod or iTunes! Towel Day TrickleStar EcoFocus Monster GreenPower™ Digital PowerCenter™ MDP 900 Soundfly Dropbox GarageBand ’09 VirtualBox Time Machine Buddy TimeMachineEditor EtherPad AirRadar Free AirRadar? What is Interference Robustness? Multicast GUID Apple Partition Map Master Boot Record Apple Portables: Calibrating your computer’s battery for best performance XBattery – You’re downloading today’s show from CacheFly’s network BackBeat Media Podcast Network MacGeekGab AAC Enhanced Feed – Thanks to <a href=”/contact.shtml” mce_href=”/contact.shtml”>Michael Johnston</a> of iPhone Alley. Podcast Marketplace Sponsors: Audio Engine, Bare Bones, SmileOnMyMac, Circus Ponies, and Audible.

Dave and John talk about the latest Mac OS X 10.5.7 update (and the path it took John to get there!), then move into a valuable and entertaining discussion about planning and setting up your wireless/AirPort network. Subscribe today for free and don’t miss another episode again! Sponsor: Circus Ponies Notebook: The Easy Way to Get Organized on the Mac. Try it FREE for 30 Days.   Mac OS X 10.5.7 Update Mac OS X 10.5.7 Combo Update Mac OS X 10.5.7 Changelog About the Mac OS X 10.5.7 Update Apple’s SMC (System Management Controller) Reset SMC (Apple Portables: Resetting the System Management Controller (SMC)) PRAM Reset PRAM (Resetting your Mac’s PRAM and NVRAM) Apple Developer Connection SmartSleep pmset Topic : 10.5.7 Macbook sleeps once, freezes second time IEEE 802.11 (several flavors) iStumbler AP Grapher WALL-PLUGGED ETHERNET BRIDGE XE102 Slingbox The Mythical Man-Month – You’re downloading today’s show from CacheFly’s network BackBeat Media Podcast Network MacGeekGab AAC Enhanced Feed – Thanks to <a href=”/contact.shtml” mce_href=”/contact.shtml”>Michael Johnston</a> of iPhone Alley. Podcast Marketplace Sponsors: Audio Engine, Bare Bones, SmileOnMyMac, Circus Ponies, and Audible.

Great advice from your favorite Mac Geeks starts out with a discussion on best practices for dealing with Technical Support reps, then dives into a virtual pile of Cool Stuff Found by all of you. Subscribe today for free and don’t miss another episode! Sponsor: BBEdit: BBEdit is the leading professional-strength HTML and text editor for the Macintosh. A text power tool for everyone! Sponsor: Audible: Get a 14-Day FREE Trial of AudibleListener® Gold And 1 Free Download only with this, special MGG link Show notes are complete! Novation modems and Bell 202 Acoustic coupler MRTG – The Multi Router Traffic Grapher iStumbler AppTrap Eye-Fi Relayed Uploads: upload when you want, where you want EyeFo Caffeine GMABooster SuperDocker Dropbox (for extra 250MB for both you and John, click here) The Dropbox Blog Yammer Software as a Service (SaaS) Hyperspaces Chatty Cathy – You’re downloading today’s show from CacheFly’s network BackBeat Media Podcast Network MacGeekGab AAC Enhanced Feed – Thanks to <a href=”/contact.shtml” mce_href=”/contact.shtml”>Michael Johnston</a> of iPhone Alley. Podcast Marketplace Sponsors: Audio Engine, Bare Bones, SmileOnMyMac, Circus Ponies, and Audible.

John and Dave do their best tonight to keep up with the overflowing mailbag by answering your questions and sharing your tips about wireless access, booting from external drives, RAM upgrades, USB devices, and fixing Time Machine bundles. Also some cool stuff found, including Pogoplug, Runcore SSD drives, Fission, Hazel and arsync! Sponsor: PageSender: The fax software for Mac OS X that really works! Fax anything you can print. Fully scriptable. All from SmileOnMyMac.com Sponsor: Circus Ponies Notebook: The Easy Way to Get Organized on the Mac. Try it FREE for 30 Days. Show notes are complete! Pogoplug Review: PogoPlug USB hard drive network sharing (via CrunchGear) RunCore Releases Pro IV 2.5” SATA II SSD 32GB – 256GB Compare: Imation M-Class and S-Class Solid State Drives Audacity Fission GarageBand ’09 Hazel Inbox Zero arRsync How to use FireWire target disk mode Starting from an external USB storage device (Intel-based Macs) VoiceOver TweetDeck tom’s hardware Bare Feats – You’re downloading today’s show from CacheFly’s network BackBeat Media Podcast Network MacGeekGab AAC Enhanced Feed – Thanks to <a href=”/contact.shtml” mce_href=”/contact.shtml”>Michael Johnston</a> of iPhone Alley. Podcast Marketplace Sponsors: Audio Engine, Bare Bones, SmileOnMyMac, Circus Ponies, and Audible.

Your favorite Mac geeks celebrated their 200th episode by “airing” the taping of the show live on TalkShoe, complete with listener interaction. Great stuff here, as always, and the show has an interesting real-time vibe to it, as well!  Topics include WiFi, Time Machine, Time Capsule, cron/launchd, Mouse acceleration, and more. Sponsor:Audio Engine: Audioengine A5 and A2—Real speakers designed for portable audio players that deliver astonishing sound (and don’t cost a fortune). You can’t get better sound for your iPod or iTunes! Note: Shownotes are complete! TalkShoe iStumbler Release 98 Time Capsule Time Capsule – can you partition the drive? SuperDuper! Carbon Copy Cloner Lingon Getting Started with launchd Using the ‘cron’ scheduler NosillaCast Intel Mac Temperature Database Temperature Monitor ThermographX smcFanControl USB Overdrive Audacity AudioSlicer Fission – You’re downloading today’s show from CacheFly’s network BackBeat Media Podcast Network MacGeekGab AAC Enhanced Feed – Thanks to <a href=”/contact.shtml” mce_href=”/contact.shtml”>Michael Johnston</a> of iPhone Alley. Podcast Marketplace Sponsors: Audio Engine, Bare Bones, SmileOnMyMac, Circus Ponies, and Audible.

John and Dave, live (to tape, er, hard disk!) discussing your tips, questions, queries, concerns, and favorite Mac apps! Sponsor:Circus Ponies Notebook: The Easy Way to Get Organized on the Mac. Try it FREE for 30 Days. Note: Shownotes are complete! Greenspring Townhomes DD-WRT Linksys WRT150N Wireless-N Home Router BSSID Mac OS X 10.5: Time Machine stops backing up to external disk Linus and Lucy Portable Computers: Models Which Do Not Have a Backup Battery Resetting PowerBook and iBook Power Management Unit (PMU) Intel Desktop Board D945GCLF with Integrated Intel Atom Processor Faking Out the Leopard Installer with Open Firmware LeopardAssist Action Jackson Dock Spaces Deeper Docker – You're downloading today's show from CacheFly's network BackBeat Media Podcast Network MacGeekGab AAC Enhanced Feed – Thanks to Podcast Marketplace Sponsors: Audio Engine, Bare Bones, SmileOnMyMac, Circus Ponies, and Audible.