Larking about on Mac 20 Questions

In this one we had newcomers to the meeting in Matt Bleasby, Alice Saunders, Simon along with the stalwarts of MarkDalton, Pat Mahon, GazMaz, Legion11, Michael King, Robyn Saunders, Mark Sheppard, Jane73 and ElaineGiles. I should have kept a list of who was in there because I know I have forgotten someone at the moment.

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There were others who told me afterwards that they meant to be in there but missed it. Oh Well next time. The room was full this time anyway.

I mention the Out Of Office Web drama which is available for you to watch now. Please support @SplatEric in his writing endeavours by checking that out. I watched it and enjoyed the first episode.

I should say that this was a nightmare to edit with some extraneous noises in the background with some of the guests running what sounded like a washing machine and others tapping things while listening to the others. I will have to look at organising it better from the audio end of things. Still not so bad after the editing and worth listening to.

Blimey it is taking forever to convert a long movie file to AIFF so that I can edit it in Amadeus Pro.

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Podcast 35 of Mac 20 Questions ready for your listening pleasure. I chatted to @mattbleasbyhttp://ping.fm/5zdbM or http://mac20q.com

Mac 20 Questions Podcast Matt Bleasby

Matt Bleasby is a web site development and designer. He is starting to head in the direction of using php in his web development work. He will design a site in Photoshop and then chop it up to put in the web application.
and you can find him on Twitter too. As you can see from the picture he likes a half pint.

Matt is currently looking at creating a FindMattBleasby website that links to his company as well.

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He is a fairly recent switcher and has XP on the MacBook as an option but has not used it since putting it on. I think he will possibly be dumping that off when he wants to get the space back taken up by Boot Camp at the moment.

We talk about Apple TV because Matt told me he would like one. I personally think that the Apple TV should have a TV tuner included in it to properly have a right to be called Apple TV.

I talk a bit about my previous life as a designer and sign writer in Ireland, how I used to get annoyed by the comments of other designers taking the mickey because I used CorelDraw on a PC to do my desgn work.

Matt like the idea of having video recording with the iPhone camera. You can record video now but you have to jailbreak the iPhone. Don't fancy jail breaking mine. Talking about the iPhone I found out the other day that Movistar / telefonica are not the sole provider of the iPhone here in Spain now.

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Matt doesn't listen to many but I mention Are we Alone by the SETI institute and The Maccast and I think Mac Break Weekly.

Amongst sites recommended Deviantart. You can buy art work from there. matt tells us how he avoids getting spam on his email address.

finishing off the editing of the @mattbleasby interview then I will get it podcasted. Next trick will be to look at the roundtable recording

Roundtable meeting of the Mac 20 Questions group this evening. Details here - 1st 15 people in the room only http://mac20q.com/

Completed interview of Adam Christianson of the Mac Cast for the Mac20Questions Podcast. Excellent really enjoyed talking with him about Mac

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Just set up the Mac 20 Questions meeting ready for 2moro. Details on the Blog http://mac20q.com Looking forward to talking with you all

Just finished a Mac20Q interview with @StevenCarty the excellent photographer from Canada http://ping.fm/0J3ZV Brilliant interview !

Just got back from my writers group meeting in the Migdia parc in Girona. Read second slice of my short story.

Here is the direct link to the latest Mac 20 Questions Podcast. Interview with Ross Craig. http://ping.fm/z7jDN Pls RT

@Miniology interview on Mac 20 Questions Podcast http://ping.fm/4ea3N I will have the show notes ready soon. But enjoy the podcast now

Sending the @miniology interview to Levelator to smooth him all out ready to plonk in the podcast in garageband

Editing the interview with @Miniology for the Mac 20 Questions Podcast Episode 33. I expect to publish later today

Just sent the Mac20Q meeting recording to the levelator after all the editing has been done. I almost forgotwhat fun we had It all came back

Got the info on how to do the MacBook Memory upgrade from here http://ping.fm/9aHY7

MacBook Battery removed screwdriver at the ready to open up so I can change the Ram

Blimey that was quick - The UPS man was just here with my 4GB memory for the MacBook. It was only sent yesterday from England. yippeeayeaaa!

Got part way through editing the interview for the next Mac 20 Questions Podcast. Talking to @BJWanlund getting his view on using a Mac

Just ordered 4GB of memory for the MacBook cost of €68 including getting it sent by UPS from Crucial. Good place to buy memory

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Paul also known as iSherbet which is a hark back to childish memories of the sherbet fountain sweet you could get in days of old.

Maybe it is still possible to buy a sherbet fountain and I can treat myself when I am in Dublin next week. Paul is a karaoke type of DJ and encourages people to sing while drunk. At least he can put on the headphones and not be inflicted with the auditory pain of the pub singer. Honestly though, he says he enjoys doing it. Paul has a huge collection of songs which he manages on the Mac and uses an application called Kjams. Which is nothing to do with Jim Jams, or so I am told. Paul is even able to allow the karaoke singers use the iPhone to log in and chose the song they want to sing and get in a proper queue for belting out their tune, amazing I say.

Paul spent the whole of the interview talking on his iPhone, which was all right seeing as he was using the new Skype iPhone application to be interviewed and I have to say I was surprised that the audio was as good as it turned out to be. better than I have had with from some people with the Mac and a microphone.

He listens to loads of Geeky podcasts to be able to do some time travel on his way to work. Makes a commute shorter when you can be distracted by a podcast and some games like Touch Physics on the iPhone.

Last Friday there was a meeting of the Mac 20 Questions in the GoToMeeting and a great time was had by all. For me I was testing the system and was able to show a few things with the sharing of my screen. Quite impressive really. We will have the next meeting in the Mac20Q town hall on Friday the 17th of April. be there or be square. First 15 people in the room.

I recorded the audio from last week using WireTap Studio and it worked for me so this week I will try to have some question set up and record it with a view to making it a podcast.

Next Monday I will be in Dublin and have arranged to meet with the Mac Craic lads if they can get a evening pass from the boss. Looks like we will meet up in the Aussie Bar in Parnell street. If there are people there I will perjhaps do some impromtu recording. Why not?

best game of football I have seen in years Liverpool had us on the edge of our seats for the full 90 minutes, 8 goals amazing match

Great to see that the Jools Holland music show is back on TV later this evening. super live music always

Hold on to your hats the Mac 20 Questions Podcast 31 is on its way to Libsyn ready to publish. Interview with @iSherbet of London Town

Starting the day with kissing my wife goodbye - back to work - and I will edit the @iSherbet interview for mac20q.com

I will be interviewing the creator of AmadeusPro soon for the Mac20Questions Podcast. A real treat for us. Excellent audio editing app

Just finished interview with Ross Craig from Canada for Mac 20 Questions. It will be podcast 34 when I have it edited. A good Mac geek chat

This morning I listened to the Buzz out Loud podcast and found it to be quite entertaining

Relaxing Sunday afternoon watched film- Frida - with Salma Hayek and what a stupendous brilliant film. Just loved it to death. Art is Good !

Working on the show notes for the latest Mac 20 Questions Podcast interview with Michael King Will be publishing later today

Wicked - I am back online again once more in the world of distractions after a day off - Just needed a BIG hammer that's all

Trying out the app teleport so that I can work on the MackBook from the iMac - not working yet but nearly

Busy editing the next Mac20 Questions Podcast. An interview with Michael King It will be episode 30 at http://mac20q,com when its finished

Used Onyx to add some spacers to my Dock to separate apps into groups. Handy tool can do loads more too

http://ping.fm/gRPbn Latest Podcast from Mac20 Questions My chat with @marksheppard. have a listen and enjoy. Pls RT.

I Just had a delightful chat with a happy person call @isherbet about Macs for Mac 20 Questions. You will really love podcast 31 when ready.

Sending from the Nambu app on the iPhone but the clever bit is that it is going through Ping.fm

http://ping.fm/HmRVa World WIde Mac social network blog post of Mark Dalton Interview Mac 20 Questions podcast number one

Pls RT - New Podcast Mac 20 Questions- Interview with MarkOvery http://ping.fm/ZzL89 More Mac Chat

Editing the interview I did the other day with @markovery for Mac 20 Questions Podcast should be ready later today or tomorrow

Just finished an interview with @marksheppard for Mac 20 Questions http://mac20q.com have it up as a Podcast in a few days after editing

Here is where to get ffmpegx http://ping.fm/oHbKn more options than VideoMonkey. Good if VisualHub not working for you now

Just trying out the ffmpegx video encoder and it works very well. lots of settings to choose from. makes small files with decent quality

Links for open source Mac apps- A few interesting useful apps -comic readers to finance to games to Outer Space http://ping.fm/bwGja

So Tiger OSX was released 29th April 05 - So thats is how long I have been a Mac user. When I got my G4 Mac Mini - Happy days - 4yrs almost

Just listened to The Maccast from Adam Christianson he has a good piece about back up strategies. http://ping.fm/vXOv9 worth a listen

Pls RT Here is the New Podcast from Mac 20 Questions http://ping.fm/Ekesq Interview of Dirk from Germany (In English)

Cro-Mag Rally Pangea Software The wildest racing game NOW part of the MacHeist Bundle and the bundle was already good value.

No internet for nearly 2 days-I'm back-Did you miss me. I missed you guys