Mac Geek Gab #132: I Command You To Sleep!

Dave and John help you put your Mac to sleep … in their most entertaining fashion, of course! Additional topics covered include resolving iPhoto importing problems, understanding your router’s place in the network, and sharing some of your travel tips.&cat;

Show notes for Mac Geek Gab Podcast For Monday, December 17th, 2007.

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Dave and John help you put your Mac to sleep … in their most entertaining fashion, of course! Additional topics covered include resolving iPhoto importing problems, understanding your router’s place in the network, and sharing some of your travel tips.

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Stuff mentioned:

• Best of 2007 on iTunes
• Mac OS X Downloads (includes recent security update)
• Scheduling your computer to turn on or off automatically
• Why your Mac may not sleep
• Peripheral Vision
• SafariNoTimeout
• “Five is right out”
• Baggage claim area shut down to investigate substance at jetport
• BART
• Win Tickets to Cirque du Mac 5.0 and Party with the All-Stars
• Dave’s “Running Your Mac Lean, Clean, and Mean” session at MWSF08
• Mac OS X Leopard
• – You’re downloading today’s show from CacheFly’s network
• BackBeat Media Podcast Network
• MacGeekGab AAC Enhanced Feed – Thanks to [removed]eval(unescape(‘[removed](‘Michael Johnston‘)’))[removed]Michael Johnston.

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This podcast is recorded on a Mac using Audio Hijack Pro. As for equipment, John is using a Behringer C-1 microphone going through a Behringer Eurorack UB1222FX-PRO mixer, monitored with Etymotic ER-6i Isolator earphones, then straight in to his Mac. On Dave’s end, a Heil PR-40 microphone is used, and the whole show is mixed “live” through a Mackie Onyx 1220 FireWire-enabled mixer before being pumped back into the Mac (via FireWire, of course), and is monitored with Ultimate Ears UE-7 Ambient earphones. Each microphone is run through a channel on a Behringer Autocom Pro-XL MDX1600 compressor, a touch of reverb is added with an ART FX-1 processor, and the whole thing is then compressed in software on the Mac. The show is recorded to AIFF, and then converted and uploaded with an Automator script. Michael, aka Computernap, then goes through and enhances the show to provide you with the AAC version. You can hear more details of the setup and how it’s mixed on Episode #32.

Theme Music: “The Answer”, written by Jeff Steblea and Brian Ayles, as performed by Go Figure. “Made On A Mac” bumper by Mark Fleser

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