Saturday, February 17, 2007
MacTake Rhymes With...★
What is this? This, realization! ( Yes, I know I just posted. You can have two today.)I have just realized why the name MacTake fits so nicely in my head. It rhymes with MacBreak or MacBreak Weekly, which are podcasts ( Sorry Leo, I mean, MacBreak is a Video Show), that I dearly dearly enjoy. Mind you, they both rhyme with each other too.
So half this post being an apology for my squandered blog name, the rest of it shall be devoted to:
PODCASTS, and (TV SHOWS), I LOVE.. In no particular order.
The MacCast. ( http://www.maccast.com/ )
Okay, we'd have to start with Adam Christianson over at the MacCast, which I have to say is outstanding. Everything from the work put into making both enhanced and normal feeds, to his informative and balanced views on all things Mac, puts his podcast somewhere on the Life-Is-Too-Short-To-Miss-Even-One-Episode column.
This Week In Tech (tWiT) ( http://www.twit.tv/ )
The tWiT podcast, featuring Leo Laporte, Patrick Norton, Kevin Rose etc.
( Ahem, I just realised. Yes John C. Dvorak, I referred to you as 'etc')
I'm kidding really. Featuring:
Join Leo Laporte, Patrick Norton, Kevin Rose, John C. Dvorak, Merlin Mann (Lately a lot more than.. before lately)
All of these people which I have a very, manly and non-anythingelse, love for. Thats right.
This podcast is brilliantly produced, and the balance of views expressed... yada yada yada ( It's really, really, good)
MacBreak ( http://www.twit.tv/MB )
Oh I do feel an insatiable desire to see more and more of this video show. Oh I do indeed. What ho! Its brilliant, and, well words will not do it justice. Featuring Leo Laporte, Merlin Mann, and oh-so-many other interesting people, do not, I repeat, do NOT miss out on this. Ever!MacBreak Weekly ( http://www.twit.tv/mbw )
Featuring John Foster, Merlin Mann, Scot Bourne, and Alex Lindsay. Another do-not-miss. In fact, if i've listed a blog or podcast or tv show on this post, its because I really do honestly think that one should subscribe to it. This is an audio only complement to the video macbreak, and is (thankfully) updated a little more regularly.
Typical Mac User Podcast ( http://www.typicalmacuser.com/ )
Hosted by Victor Cajiao, ( a name I always have difficulty both pronouncing and spelling ), this Podcast is simply, excellent. Victor doesn't always get as much mention as the good people at tWiT or the MacCast, but that makes him none the lesser 'caster. In fact, I always get a little excited whenever he realeases a new episode. Victor also does a podcast called Immigration Tales, which is really, (and i mean really) interesting.
Finally, the MacRoundTable Podcast ( http://www.macroundtable.com )
Hosted by Adam Christianson, Steve Stanger, Tim Verpooten, Joseph Nilo. This another no-miss podcast, especially, when its updated!Final note, if i haven't mentioned a podcast thats mac, thats good, its probably because I haven't had time to look at it, so update me if you know something out there that i'm missing!
Labels: adam-christianson, merlin-mann, podcast-pick, victor-cajiao
★ 6 Comments. | By Skippy, Saturday, February 17, 2007 12:04 PM
MacTake Introduction (Thought I'd Better)★
I realized that I've done poorly at introductions. MacTake is designed to be my 'take' on all things Macintosh, ( Apple ).I never really was a 'dear diary' sort of person, so aside from a few glances of personal happenings this blog will focus mostly on current Apple News, Podcasts and Blogs I love, Tips & Tricks for Mac OSX Tiger and a responsible amount of rumoring and musing.
I'm essentially doing whats been done already on podcasts and blogs already out there but its important to remember that, so are they. In my humble 'take' on matters, the more bloggers and podcasters sharing tips & tricks for Mac OSX, the easier help is to find when you're stuck looking for how to record skype calls etc.
So a bit of back story:
Born in Australia, now living for a while in the UK ( You wondered, didn't you).
Don't worry fellow countrymen, the only passport I have is an Australian one.
I am a 'switcher' to Macs, since.. a long time ago.
I used to get A4 pads of paper and write in big letters on them things like "Get A Mac", and hold them up during physics. Luckily now, I've got tired of that style of evangelism.
I work daily with dreamweaver, php, photoshop and good old Mail.app. Employed by Dunhenry Solutions and right now involved in deploying technology we've named streamK on a few client websites.
Yes streamK is my pride and joy, my little php descendant, although I did work closely with colleague Gary Scutter on, well, most of it.
And thats probably as much personal information as I can force my insensitive self to regurgitate.
Happy Mac'ing.
★ 0 Comments. | By Skippy, 11:40 AM
Friday, February 16, 2007
OSX's almost hidden grab and dictionary and front row keystrokes.★
We all know about Tiger's ever-so-buried Services menu right? Its incredibly useful if, perchance, you have the presence of mind to actually navigate to it which, I admit, is sometimes an effort for the best of us.
There are however some really useful functions in there, from summarize ( if you don't know what that is, you need to subscribe to Twit's MacBreak ), to the dictionary, google search and new sticky note maker.
Well believe it or not, Tiger has actually had built-in keystrokes for a lot of these actions from day one-and-a-half. Yup, I didn't believe it myself, at least not until I managed to co-ordinate my fingers and connect them with the keys to finally see for myself the truth.
There's a nifty, reliable keystroke to take a screen capture and save it to the desktop / copy to clipboard, you can also capture a selection as well. ( Command+Shift+3 for screenshot, or Command+Shift+4 for selection shot)
A handy nicely designed dictionary widget style popup can appear as you hold down the right keystroke and hover over words on the screen, which looks way better and even, dare I say, Cool:
All these keystrokes are listed in system preferences, keyboard & mouse, Keyboard Shortcuts. I mean, come on, who would have ever thought to look there? Now, if you want a list of all those handy keystrokes you just have to navigate to system preferences, click on the keyboardy button.... click on keyboard shortcuts.......
But I had a better way of remembering them, namely saving them as a sticky note on the dashboard and to save you the trouble of typing all the functions out, well:
Screen Shot
Cmd+Shift+3 (to file)
Cmd+Ctrl+Shift+3 (to clipboard)
Screen Selection Shot
Cmd+Shift+4 (to file)
Cmd+Ctrl+Shift+4 (to clipboard)
Dictionary Lookup
Cmd+Ctrl+D
Front Row
Cmd+Esc
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Easy copy and paste job now!
Labels: keystrokes, tips
★ 0 Comments. | By Skippy, Friday, February 16, 2007 11:46 AM
