The GMen have decided to start making a concentred effort to reduce the length of the shows. Naturally this means that THIS one turned out extra long. Guy buys an iPad Pro and a fun interview with Zack Turner, artist and co-creator of the Unlife webcomic rounds out this weeks shenanigans.

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Unlife web comic.
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Gaz is more than happy to let Guy be the guinea pig for the new AppleTV but as it turns out Guy really likes it. Not as much as SOME people (ahem Karl ahem), but it does a lot of what was expected and then some. Is it perfect? Nope, lot’s of room for improvement, but after some updates this could be the device that most people would want. Guy also gets a new cat and is still waiting impatiently for the iPad Pro. Gaz will check that off his list in Notes.

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Petition Link
Photo Problems
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Guy’s App Pick: Duplicate Detective by FIPLAB $2.99
Gaz’s App Pick: Shutta for extracting images from the video on your IOS device, was actually shown on a recent Screencasts Online IOS episode, it’s FREE
People’s Pick: Allister Jenks A hackable text editor for the 21st Century. At GitHub, we’re building the text editor we’ve always wanted: hackable to the core, but approachable on the first day without ever touching a config file. We can’t wait to see what you build with it.

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It’s ALL about the AppleTV and where content viewership is heading. The GMen don’t really agree and it probably stems from having two very different viewpoints on just what TV really means being Gaz is from the UK and Guy is from the US. This makes for a lively conversation with bits and pieces or other opinions thrown in just for good measure. Plus singing pumpkins. Yes that’s right.

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Singing pumpkins

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Guy’s App Pick: Another content pick instead of an app. The Godzilla soundtrack. No, not the 2014 Godzilla, but the really awful 1998 one with Matthew Broderick. The movie was terrible, but the soundtrack has some great stuff on it from the Foo Fighters, Ben Folds, Green Day, Rage against the Machine, and my favorite with is Come with Me by Puff Daddy which is a remake of Kashmir by Led Zeppelin with Jimmy Page on guitar.
Gaz’s App Pick: Intensify from Macphun

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Guy hosed his iTunes Library trying to move over to his new (old) iPhone 6 Plus and he’s still paying for that blunder with lengthy downloads from Apple. Gaz was busy too with lots of family stuff but they managed to squeeze in the time for a podcast. The iPod turns 14, but good luck finding where to buy it on Apple’s Store site. They finally get down to business and talk about the US Department of Justice wanting Apple to decrypt data on their iPhones and Apple says NO!

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Guy’s App Pick: Flat Out 2 by Virtual Programming. $3.99 at the Mac App Store
Gaz’s App Pick: Waze but with a caveat

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So Apple has this new stuff just released and the GMen have a rock solid, no holds bared, pedal to the metal, kind of nearly great (but not so much) opinion on all of it. They also talk about Bing Russell and Mary Poppins songs so there’s THAT to consider. Guy is a little off the rails for this one and Gaz tries his best to steady the ship, but the iceberg of Lunacy is never too far away. If you think the title makes no sense, wait till you hear the rest of the show.

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Battered Bastards of Baseball
Bing Russell’s Portland Baseball team that Gaz and Guy yammered about
Step in Time Lyrics
Guy’s App Pick: Pages for the Mac and iCloud $19.99 at the Mac App Store
Gaz’s App Pick: Hocus £0.79

Guy’s setup is back to hardware and everything seems great! Which naturally means that Gaz’s setup is about to go all to hell…which it did. They kept going though and had a quick snap at Elon Musk, why they love and hate El Cap, would Apple ever combine OS X and iOS ala Windows 8, and just the general hijinks and tomfoolery for which they are known for.

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Guy’s App Pick: Stephen Tobolowsky’s movie “The Primary Instinct” is fantastic! $9.99 in iTunes.
Gaz’s App Pick: Now I’m happy to recommend Photo’s from Apple. I was looking forward to it when it came out and was slightly disappointed but now with the El Captain Kirk updates I’m loving it as much if not more than iPhoto.

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Everything that could go wrong with audio and computers today…went wrong with audio and computers today. But Gaz and Guy still managed to get out a podcast no matter how hard updating an OS made it. They also talk about what privacy currently means to Apple and how they seem to be really good at monetizing it.

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Gaz’s Photo
http://www.stoplightnetwork.com

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Guy’s App Pick: Audio Converter Pro from Geraniumsoft $6.99
Gaz’s App Pick: 0.79£ 0.99$ Crystal

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So many wonderful things we COULD have talked about…but didn’t. Instead we get a potpourri of odd things that struck the GMen as worth talking about, so there’s that. Gaz gets paid for a photo, Guy finishes up his latest tech projects, and for some reason they talk about a Windows Phone. What the heck?

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Guy’s App Pick: Half-Life 2 from Steam. $9.99
Gaz’s App Pick: ActionSwing Jump from a swing timely and land on a SAFE platform! Tap the screen anywhere to jump.

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iOS 9 is here! Woo! Let the whining and complaining begin! Yes, it caused some problems for some people as pretty much any release of any major operating system will, but over all it seemed to go much smoother than iOS 8 did. We have feedback that tells us we laugh too much so of course we laughed a lot.

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http://www.lynapp.com/
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Guy’s App Pick: Handbrake by Handbrake! FREE!
Gaz’s App Pick: Mactracker provides detailed information on every Apple Macintosh computer ever made, including items such as processor speed, memory, optical drives, graphic cards, supported OS versions, and expansion options. Also included is information on early Apple systems, Apple mice, keyboards, displays, printers, scanners, speakers, cameras, iPod, Apple TV, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Wi-Fi products, Newton, iOS, Mac OS, and OS X versions.
People’s Pick: From Seranak Assassin indulge Your Creativity with an Abundance of Royalty-Free Typefaces
deals.macnn.com

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So that big thing happened that everyone is talking about except the GMen…except when they’re talking about it. Guy’s birthday happens and as a gift to himself he’s going to get an iPad Pro which would REALLY put the lead in his pencil but he’s not getting one, a pencil that is. Overflowing toilets and a love for the Queen of England tops out the episode. Which means it’s going to be odd.

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Guy’s App Pick: Apple’s Screen Sharing app. Easy to set up and keep track of any Mac on your local network.
Gaz’s App Pick: Trials Frontier, riding a trials bike in cowboy country 🙂 It’s morning in America say Ronald Reagan

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The week before the big Apple event and the GMen ask Karl Madden from the Mac & Forth podcast (http://www.macandforth.com) to talk about…well the new iPhone as they’ve already heard the keynote. Even though it hasn’t happened yet. A Skype call and an iTunes review. It’s like they died and went to heaven. Lots of laughs as they fill space with nothing at all! WOO!

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Guy’s App Pick: NoteBurner M4V Converter Plus. Easy way to convert DRMed iTunes video content to a DRM-free version with little to no loss of quality. Currently $45 down from the regular price of $70.
Gaz’s App Pick: Real Racing 2 Yes I said TWO! £3-99
Karl’s Pick: Score! Hero  – BE A HERO! Pass, Shoot & Score your way to legendary status, as you explore the dramatic career of your HERO player over 240 challenging levels!
People’s Pick: Erick Diaz (Macnaticopr)
Angry Birds 2, the relentless pursuit of in-app purchases and annoying advertising. Cool graphics, music, sound effects, gameplay, all smeared in Candy Crush social network harassment and artificial time limits to extort money. Other than that, great game.

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So the title makes absolutely no sense but it’s what we have to do to keep your iPhones from freaking out about 30 different times during this show. The GMen talk with Siri about the upcoming September 9th Apple Event and mostly just make her mad. Guy rants, Gaz takes pictures, and they have not one but THREE different listener audio bits for this week.

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Guy’s App Pick: Movie Edit Pro by Zhang Feng. Nice multitrack movie editor for those wanting simplicity over features they won’t use. $19.99
Gaz’s App Pick: Breakneck. Fly at BREAKNECK speed as you pursue your mission and get as far as you can. The world is now occupied by invaders—and they are hunting you. YouTube clip showing game play
People’s Pick: Serenak Assassin
Oh and “cool things” – someone put me on to Ghostery (might have been Mark @Oceanspeed from the Rampant Mumblings). Anyway – how cool is Ghostery for allowing you to block all the trackers and crud on websites? ICE COLD! That’s how cool it is 😀
www.ghostery.com and it is free… or a donation if you wish.

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Gaz and Guy are back together and end up with a really long show filled with rumor nonsense. Which turns out to be a regular show with them talking about rumors. Also, Pennsylvania hijinks, pressure washers, typical mostly already known UK sayings, and links to videos of stupid people being arrested for being stupid in cars! Thankfully Guy and Gaz are rarely in a car together so they’ll probably be back next week.

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No significant ones this week
Other stuff:
Guy’s App Pick: Not an app pick but a funny video of people feeling entitled and getting arrested for it.
Gaz’s App Pick: Pocket. Put articles, videos or pretty much anything into Pocket. Save directly from your browser or from apps like Twitter, Flipboard, Pulse and Zite. If it’s in Pocket, it’s on your phone, tablet or computer. You don’t even need an Internet connection.
People’s Pick: Joshua Martinez
Skinomi TechSkin for  Watch

Hay MyMac Podcast peeps! I wanted to share with a product that I am enjoying after getting my  Watch face repaired, Skinomi TechSkin. So far I have had one on my 42mm Sport for about a month now and it keeps scratches off the face of the watch. Amazon has a some pretty good deals on them for a six pack.

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Gaz is here and Guy is not. They really need to get their schedules straight. Fortunately Gaz connived…I mean convinced Bart Busschots from the Let’s Talk Apple and Let’s talk Photography podcasts also part of the Stoplight Network (see what I did there?) to come on and talk about something near and dear to Bart’s heart even if it sometimes makes him cranky. Which is Security…c’mon it’s in the show title for gosh sake!

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Guy’s App Pick: WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR ABSOLUTELY NOTHING
Gaz’s App Pick: SNAPHEAL currently (but be quick) on offer photo image correction software from MacPhun. There is a summer deal to get a load of Macphun software but not sure it will still be live when your hear this so sad face f it isn’t.
Bart’s Thingy:
People’s Pick: Status Board Peoples Pick from Michael Cassell
Panic’s Status Board has gone “free” with the new version. The basic config is probably all that most users need but you can upgrade to full functionality via in-app purchase if desired.
Allister Jenks said
I had version 1 so got all the panel types for free. It’s a nice upgrade.

Gaz is back and while this COULD mean all is right with the world, it’s the GMen who are rarely right…with the world. They talk about Gaz’s walks with the missus, Guy’s weird Gettysburg weekend and so much more! Plus they talk to a lot of different people most of which don’t actually exist. This is another long show but so worth it.

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Guy’s App Pick: Audio Converter Pro $6.99 on the Mac App Store. AWESOME audio converter from one format to another. Many options and the program will put them where you tell it to including your iTunes Music Library.
Gaz’s App Pick: Giving a RAW image manipulator
People’s Pick: Allister Jenks People’s tip. Continue reading →

Still no Gaz and Guy is getting weird. OK, he was already weird so no points for that, but Dave Hamilton from the Mac Geek Gab agrees to be on the podcast maybe without realizing just what that means. They have a long discussion about lots of things with tangents flying everywhere but eventually get back on track to talk about what to do with those Macs you might have lying around the house.

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Guy’s App Pick: Acorn a cool image editor
Gaz’s App Pick: Gaz is walking so stop asking for a app pick!
Dave’s App Pick: MOS Organizer $20 for white or black plastic/$40 for the aluminum model

Gaz is off walk-about so Karl Madden from the Mac and Forth podcast joins Guy to keep the UK perspective going. Guy is supposed to keep Karl from Ranting, but nobody seems to be able to stop Guy from doing the same as they discuss the typical coverage for Apple news in the world today.

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Examples of Bad Press
bloomberg.com
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Guy’s App Pick: Original Call of Duty from the Mac App Store. $20 is a little expensive for a game this old but it’s still pretty solid.
Gaz’s App Pick: Gaz is walking so stop asking for a app pick!
Karl’s App Pick: Opinion Podcasts – Record, Edit & Share –

The GMen answer every single question you might have about Apple Music. Or at least every question you might think they could answer, so your confusion may still remain after listening. No matter, a fun packed show that you’ll be sorry it’s over, or maybe begun, but only you as a listener can answer THAT question.

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http://www.malpastowers.com/blog/
Finder Tag links:
https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT202754
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Gaz and Guy are back in studio (on two different continents but in studio) and have a lot to talk about. Like car races, past tech conferences, using binoculars to take pictures with phones, and some Apple tech stuff which works out well since that’s what they’re supposed to talk about anyway. With phones now so ingrained in our lives and performing multifunctional roles, does it matter much when Apple releases new music players? That’s the main topic for the GMen this week.

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Gaz’s Pics (mostly clean)
Phone mount for binoculars
Fixing that pesky duplicate name problem in the Finder
Guy’s App Pick: Quip. Free from the Mac App Store and online
Gaz’s App Pick:Downcast $2.99