Missed last week by “accident” so we make up for this week with shenanigans and tomfoolery and dare you to tell the difference! Actually lots of tech talk about Gaz’s travels to various Apple Stores and Guy’s dentistry whoas, AirPods Pros, and holy guacamole, LOT’s of operating system updates.

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Guy’s Pick: Microphone pick. Audio Technica’s ATR2100-USB $63

Gaz’s Pick: Mozilla’s FireFox Web Browser

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So Guy called me 5 mins before the podcast to say that he wanted to be known by another name today so as per his request I’d like to say hi to Karl. We discuss Apple Arcade and also what we think Apple might bring to another event, that is if they have one.

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Karl’s Pick: https://store.steampowered.com/app/255710/Cities_Skylines/

Gaz’s Pick/Tip: https://play.acast.com/s/adambuxton/ep.102-phillippullman

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Mike:-
@formaceyesonly
@macstockexpo
http://macstock2019.com

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Links for Hurricane Dorian relief:

https://www.redcross.org
https://give.helpsalvationarmy.org/give/166081/#!/donation/checkout
https://www.americares.org
https://www.mercycorps.org/donate/send-emergency-aid-families-bahamas
http://www.nabmiami.org/donate/

Guy is back from his techmergency trip to help his brother. He spent more trying to leave however than he did actually IN Florida and his weird adventure is all laid out here. Gaz is happy Guy is back because that means he doesn’t have to do a solo show. Our listeners are happy because…because…well, they MUST be happy about something.

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Guy’s Pick: Acorn by Flying Meat Software () $29.99

Gaz’s Pick: Office 365 (Caveat)

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Getting excited for the new Apple Credit Card, but first the GMen need to get through some odd stories concerning the demise of pets. Why? If you have to ask…

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Guy’s Pick: DC’s Shazam movie

Gaz’s Pick: Fave soccer teams FOOTBALL

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So Macstock for 2019 is over but the drama continues! Guy talks about his experiences getting there and the great time he had, while Gaz’s Mac woes took up much of his time while Guy was gallivanting around. Also, check out the new chapter marks to help you get around the program!

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Audio from all the livecasts Guy did while at Macstock 2019. David Cohen and Tim Robertson from TechFan, Dave Hamilton from the Mac Geek Gab, David Ginsburg from In Touch with iOS, Allison Sheridan from the NosillaCast, the organizer of MacStock and host of For Mac Eyes Only Mike Potter, Lori from the Macstock sponsor Other World Computing, and Chuck Joiner from MacVoices!

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The fallout from Jony Ive’s departure from Apple continues….but not very well. The GMen look into some of the more ridiculous stories that have sprung up since the announcements. Also, a new contest for the first time in like forever.

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Guy’s Pick: Swift Publisher 5 by BeLight Software! $19.99 It’s where the WOOTies come from!

Gaz’s Pick: Data Wing Space flying game.

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One of the last links to old school Apple is leaving and we are doooooomed. No not really, but Jony is leaving sorta, and the Men are here to discuss that and if you listen to the after show, the latest in VERY casual evening and work wear.

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Guy’s Pick: iMovie by Apple. Free with your Mac. https://www.apple.com/imovie/

Gaz’s Pick: the iSlapper!

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All the WWDC and none of the frilly stuff you don’t want to know, unless that’s what you wanted then…sorry. Livecasting and other things too.

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Guy’s Pick: Need a chat client for a livestream? Minnitchat will give you most of what you need and it’s free and easy to set up in WordPress. This gives you 100 users which should be enough for most casual requirements. Paid tiers give you a lot more.

Gaz’s Pick: https://archive.org
All Sorts of STUFF

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While it might not be EXACTLY dead, it isn’t at all well and guest host Dave Ginsburg from the “In Touch with iOS” and the “Off the Charts Horse Racing” podcasts and Guy have a chat about it. Also tariffs, predators, the new DC Apple Store, and what iPhones might be dropped for iOS 13.

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Guy’s Pick: Piezo from Rogue Amoeba. $19. Handy little audio recorder with tons of options.

Gaz’s Pick: Still on walkies!

Dave’s Pick: Setapp, a subscription to all the Mac apps you need. It has all kinds of great apps like Clean My Mac and BusyCal for a monthly subscription,

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Dave Ginsburg Twitter: DaveG65
In Touch with iOS
Off the Charts Horse Racing

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OK, listen carefully. There is NO after show in this MyMac Podcast. Seriously…none…zip…nada. We’re actually trying to make a concerted effort to get the show length down, so we naturally easily went over an hour. Maybe later this week we’ll put out a supplemental after show, but it’s not in this one. What is in this one is Guy’s new teeth, Gaz’s news snippets earlier than usual, and lot’s of other stuff. STOP looking at the end for the after show!

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Guy’s Pick: Video Editor Olive by umm…Olive. Be warned that this is still an alpha release and can at times be quite buggy, but it has quite a few remarkable features and is easy to use. Free!

Gaz’s Pick: Buttons

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Guy is finally back from his east coast extravaganza where he and Tracey spent a significant amount of time not feeling well. Gaz finally has a music snippet for Gaz’s news snippets, and they discuss all the new Apple hardware. It’s enough to make you feel like a Funky Poodle.

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Guy’s Pick: While the car I had was no great shakes with it’s infotainment system, my iPhone 8 and the Waze app pointed us in the right direction.

Gaz’s Pick: Find a Grave

Acoustic Funky Poodle

Link to Steve Jochum’s Album

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Apples gives and then takes away…layers of confusion and it’s hard to say whether this was a good thing to take or a bad thing to give. Could be both. Meanwhile the GMen don’t dwell on it because of a short attention span and instead talk about ideology, Steve Jobs, the FBI, East Texas, and streaming game services. Oh and some kerfuffle about Facebook and privacy but hey, it’s Tuesday.

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Guy’s Pick: Behringer’s UMC204HD is a really good audio interface and is apparently popular and that has been noticed by retailers as the price has jumped by 25% or more since I bought mine last year at $80 but which is now $130. It has midas-ish pre-amps that are very clean and efficient and some of the best at this price point. It’s one to consider if you’re looking for an audio interface, but look for bargains as the price seems to be fluctuating.

Gaz’s Pick: Rogue Amoeba’s Piezo

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The GMen are not overly fond of analysts and all their blather, so when two directly contradict each other, it cause for a case of the giggles…or sniffles in Guy’s case. Guy also keeps hearing about ARM-based Macs and Gaz keeps poking him for reactions!

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Guy’s Pick: Going to use the next few shows to talk about my mobile podcasting set up as far as what I use. This time, it’s a tale of two mics, but the one I’ll recommend is the Sennheiser e835 dynamic mic. It’s about $100 from Amazon. It’s a dynamic mic (means unpowered) with a cardioid pickup (tightly focused for sound pickup) and a frequency response of 40-16KHz. Needs a lot of clean gain as most dynamic mics go but it’s great at background noise rejection.

Gaz’s Pick: Whats not to like VLC

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No podcast last week because Guy was at death’s door! That’s IF “Death’s door” was sniffling, a little coughing, and making everyone around him miserable by complaining. Come to think of it, many did want to kill him before he felt better. This week though, they catch up on all the MyMac stuff, a little news, if Apple should buy Netflix, and laughing that Samsung wants to open exclusive Samsung stores.

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Guy’s Pick: One of my favorite tools in podcasting especially when I have to convert video to audio is, no surprise, Audio Converter Pro from Fatima Malagouen (also known as geranium-soft software) $6.99 in the Mac App Store

Gaz’s Pick: Spectacle
I need specs more and more but this isn’t quite what you think
Windows Management and manipulation

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Guy manages to half destroy his mancave and Gaz wants to go museum hopping! Also, Apple sells a lot of stuff but not as much as they promised they would (proooooomised!), FaceTime flaws, and Google/FaceBook did a naughty thing!

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Guy’s Pick: Looking to try your hand at podcasting, but find a DAW like GarageBand intimidating? Well take a look at the free Spreaker app. Pretty much everything set up for you and it will record to your local drive. If you want to sign up and use the Spreaker service you also get chat support with your audience.

Gaz’s Pick: The Prague Apple Museum!

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Yes the GMen are without direction. Yes, they meander all over the place. No, that doesn’t have anything to do with the show’s title. It’s a not very clever way to bring up a Macintosh Emulator. They also have a non-second section technical talk about all kinds of things and maybe they’ll start doing that in the second section too…unless they forget.

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Guy’s Pick: Swift Publisher 5 from Belight software $19.00 or a $14.00 upgrade from previous versions. Terrific and easy to use graphic and page layout software.

Gaz’s Pick: I use this App ALL THE TIME Default Folder X I think it’s worth every penny. £33.95 or $34.95
They have a free trial so if you’re not sure try it first for 30 days.

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There’s a great reason why the show has this name, but Guy can’t remember what it is. What he does remember is that buying stuff at Wish is not typically a wish granted. Gaz is editing his time-lapse videos on an iPad instead of his Mac and hacks and viruses just aren’t what they used to be. Lastly, feeling nostalgic for older Apple products? Well like bad food they may be back up again!

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Guy’s Pick: IVI 4 Video converter from South Pole Software. $14.99 from the Mac App Store. Turn almost any video format into some other video format.

Gaz’s Pick: iMovie, on the iPad, and on the Mac 🙂

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It’s traction distraction, what’s your fractions? Guy LOVES microphones and he’s disappointed when a cheap one outperforms an expensive one…especially after he’s bought both! Gaz is distracted by time…and time-lapse. But isn’t time-lapse something that happens anyway? Oh and we suppose the Consumer Electronic Show in Vegas is worth a mention or two.

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Guy’s Pick: A very quiet USB microphone. Normally not a good thing but in this case the quiet is noise you didn’t want in the first place. Neewer’s NW-3U USB microphone at $28 is a great buy.

Gaz’s Pick: Anker Soundcore Fully waterproof 360 speaker bought a couple in the post Christmas sales and they are great. I got them for 29 gap each but at 60 maybe I’m not sure, however if you see them on offer GET ONE.
Soundcore Bluetooth Speaker Motion Q Portable 16W

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So it’s planes, lawsuits, the Queen of England (naturally), iPhone sales in China, time-lapse, and vodka. Especially vodka. And trying to find a cursor…without cursing.

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Guy’s Pick: Still very impressed by Mimolive from Boinx software for Livecasting. $200 per year for personal use.

Gaz’s Pick: Lapse It Gives a bit more control to do TimeLapse on your Phone, Free to use limited abilities enough to test it and Lapse It Pro the charged version costs £2.99

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