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The Gadget Show - News Podcast for May 9.

This is the Tiger Special Podcast, formally known as The Gadget Show News Podcast for the week starting May 2nd.

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The Gadget Show - News 9th May 2005 (01hr 14min 10sec)
MP3 - 25.5MB

TIME
00:00 Network Intro and Sponsor, LearnDog.

00:30 Welcome and intro to Chris Clark.

02:15 US Court of Appeal rejects the Broadcast Flag

04:30 Buying Apple’s OS X 10.4, Tiger.

06:30 Painless install, of the varying kinds, and what to look for.

09:30 Spotlight, what happens just after install, and using it search a variety of file.

16:50 Spotlight Plugins.

26:20 MacWorld Article on Searching in Spotlight.

27:30 Command Line Spotlight Man page, with little to no information.

29:45 Control, Command and D will give the Dictionary meaning for a word that the cursor is above.

33:10 Dashboard and Widgets. (History notes on Desk Ornaments and Dashboard vs Konfabulator.

37:00 Airport Traffic Control.

40:15 Separate Signature files for different Mail Boxes.

44:45 Safari RSS.

48:35 Safari RSS doesn’t seem to use the system proxy settings, and the new annoying Application download pop-up.

51:45 Enable monitor rotation on Powerbooks.

54:30 No iLife applications with OS X 10.4. It’s a separate purchase.

58:00 Automator, and why I wanted to use it on the iTunes directories because of PodWorks.

60:10 Automator Actions, including Doug’s Actions for iTunes, Volume 1.

64:50 H.264, the HD Gallery and the minimum requirement is a G5.

68:15 Growl now for Skype.

69:05 Extra accessibility options like Tabbed focus for Mail.

72:20 Thanks.

I mentioned Kirk’s book that will be due later this year. So check out Amazon for How to Do Everything with Mac OS X Tiger (How to Do Everything).

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