Mac Geek Gab #75: Syncing, Sleeping, Spindown and Skype

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Stuff mentioned:

• The Wizard of Oz
• Happy Birthday,
  iPod!
• Podcasts
  Resetting Your iPod?
• .mac
• How to
  Reset iPod
• Putting
  iPod into Disk Mode
• iPod
  Diagnostic Mode
• Butler
• Western
  Digital Support Article on Spindown “Feature”
• pmset
• Cocktail (Can Set
  Disk Spindown Time)
• Enable
  Safe Sleep on Older Macs
• Mr. X
• Connector
  Conspiracy
• Montgomery
  Burns
• Detour
• Use a cron job to thwart hard drive spindown
• Deep Sleep Widget
• SafeSleep
• Speck SeeThru Hard Shell for 15″ MBPro
• NationStates – Come join the “Geeks Unite” region. Learn more from Wikipedia.
• Podcast/Portable Media Expo
• Mac Networkers Retreat
• – You’re downloading today’s show from CacheFly’s network
• BackBeat Media Podcast Network
• MacGeekGab AAC Enhanced Feed – Thanks to Michael, aka Computernap!

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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-5c 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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