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Leopard finally has an official release date and I talk about the things you need to do before the big cat pounces, listener emails and more on this episode of The Mac Attack.

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Reducing cable strain on your MagSafe power adapter

How to disconnect the MagSafe power adapter

Mac 10.5: iChat system requirements

SuperDuper

cdbaby.com

tunecore.com

Things to do before the big cat pounces check list:
- Backup and test your backups
- No need to do a clean install
- Do system maintenance (correct permission, run maintenance scripts, etc.)
- Disable any Finder, System, & Safari Add ons
- Take a look at your "Login items" and temporarily disable the apps you added from starting up at boot
- Disconnect any external HDs and other peripherals
- Check developers web sites for shareware/freeware Leopard updates or compatibility
- Does your Mac make you money? Then DO NOT load Leopard onto your production machine until you know you won't run into problems.

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Category:podcasts -- posted at: 6:55 PM

Listener emails on this episode of The Mac Attack. More options for moving your Outlook info to your Mac, dimming Mac screen, boot speed differences between two almost identical Macs, Getting your music on iTunes and more...

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Outlook2Mac

Airset

Thunderbird, export mail to Apple Mail

Caffeine

Getting your music on iTunes

Rember

tutorial - "Yellow Star Wars Opening Crawl"

Apple's Web Apps list

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Category:podcasts -- posted at: 5:02 PM

On this episode of The Mac Attack - A look at Apple's latest software and firmware updates. What happens when you hit the power button on your Mac? Listener emails, Mac tips and more...

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outlook2ical

Joost

move Outlook 2003 contacts to Address Book

SmartDisk FireLite

G-Tech G-Drive mini

LaCie Rugged All-Terrain Hard Drive

Western Digital Passport drives

SmartDisk ByteSize USB drives

Quicksilver

Quicksilver Google video

SimplytheBest Fonts (free)

Chank fonts (free/pay)

Mac Font Vault (free)

Fonthead (free/pay)

Alien Fonts (sci-fi fonts - free)

Fixing a "stuck" 'Automatically reduce brightness' setting:
1) Manually edit the plist file for PowerManagement.  It’s located at /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.PowerManagement.plist.  Under Custom Profile -> AC Power (and you have to do it under the Battery Power one, too if you have that set up), create a Child (if it doesn’t exist already) named “Display Sleep Uses Dim? and set it to Number and the value to 0.  That seemed to do the trick on my iMac.
2) If you still have issues, the system may be ignoring the plist setting.  You can create a little one-line Applescript and dump it on the desktop to run whenever you need it.  Just put this line in it (but, be aware that even if you save it as run-only, your admin password can still be seen if someone opens up the file as text): do shell script “sudo pmset halfdim 0? password “? with administrator privileges

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Category:podcasts -- posted at: 8:10 PM

I'm back...On this episode of The Mac Attack - What has Apple been up to and other Mac tech news, What are the best Energy Saver settings for your Mac. Robert Hazelrigg is back with a software review and the return of the tips segment.

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iFixit tear-down of the iPod Touch

Demo of Mac Office 2008

Carbon Copy Cloner

OnyX

Main Menu

Pzizz

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Category:podcasts -- posted at: 1:27 AM

Other then being sick (I am feeling 100% better) I also moved. I have finally set up my computer/home studio and everything seems to be working OK. I will be working on a new TMA episode this weekend.

-Steve

P.S. Thank you for all of the "get well soon" wishes and good vibes sent in my direction while I was sick. I believe it really did have a positive affect on both my physical and mental well being. :)

Category:Announcement -- posted at: 2:01 PM

Where's the show? What's going on? Give a listen...

-Steve

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Category:podcasts -- posted at: 9:43 PM

Looking under the hood of the new iMacs and I discuss both iLife and iWork on this weeks The Mac Attack. (I put off recording this episode until I had a chance to play with all the new apps. So far, I like 'em a lot!)

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NEW iMacs

Mac Mini

NEW Apple keyboards

Updated Airport Extreme

iWork '08

iLife '08

iLife '08 up-to-date program

Pacifist

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Direct download: TMA_073.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 8:59 PM

The Mac Attack is two years old!... On this weeks show - Next generation game systems and your Mac, adding the date to your menu bar, system and software updates from Apple, frequently asked questions and more...

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My Pownce

Typical Mac User LIVE - Sunday, Aug 5th at 8pm eastern

Today in iPhone podcast

ifuntastic

Art of the iPhone list of iPhone applications

Remote Desktop Connection Client for Mac 2.0

Sofa Control

Adding date to the menu bar (pdf)

Connect360

USB driver for 360 controller

Wii Transfer

PSPWare

PDF 2 PSP

PS3 Media Center X

Apple Certifications and Training

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Category:podcasts -- posted at: 4:05 AM

This episode of The Mac Attack is electrifying...I re-revisit surge protection and uninterruptible power supplies, network ports for Apple apps, RAM testing, and I review the SoundMate MP3 player speaker case.

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APC

Mac MediaCast kernel panic article

Rember

"Well Known" TCP and UDP ports used by Apple software products

SoundMate from SandBar International

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Category:podcasts -- posted at: 4:05 AM

One or two quick iPhone comments (I promise), Apple updates, audio popping on intel macs after 10.4.10 update, listener emails, encrypting data, repartitioning a hard drive and more on this weeks The Mac Attack

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iPhone activation process through iTunes.

iPhone related tech support articles

Typical Mac User podcast LIVE

Apple software bugs feedback

Hide Folders

Secret Folders

Crypt2

Tresor

Dryptaway

Outlook2mac

Joost

VolumeWorks

Intel Mac Audio popping "fix":
Download the Mac OS X 10.4.9 (intel)combo updater from Apple's download page.
Download and install the shareware application Pacifist Drag the Mac OS X combo installer package (e.g. MacOSXUpd10.4.9Intel.pkg) onto the Pacifist application icon.
>Click the disclosure triangles next to System, then Library then Extensions and find the files AppleHDA.kext and IOAudioFamily.kext
Then select the file AppleHDA.kext and IOAudioFamily.kext and click the Install button in Pacifist. You will be required to enter your administrator password.
The in the Finder, navigate to /System/Library. Drag the file Extensions.kextcache to the Trash. You'll have to enter your admin password.
Restart your Mac

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Direct download: TMA-070.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 3:57 PM