http://maccraic.com Infotainment that's not PC! Tue, 31 Jan 2012 22:26:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 2008 justinbyrne@mac.com (Justin Byrne) justinbyrne@mac.com (Justin Byrne) Mac, Apple, Technology 1440 http://maccraic.com/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/MacCraic_Logo.jpg http://maccraic.com 144 144 A look at the lives of two Irish Mac users A look at the lives of two Irish Mac users Podcast, Mac, Apple, Technology Justin Byrne Justin Byrne justinbyrne@mac.com no yes http://maccraic.com/2011/09/30/maccraic-100-return-of-the-craic/ http://maccraic.com/2011/09/30/maccraic-100-return-of-the-craic/#comments Thu, 29 Sep 2011 23:10:51 +0000 Justin http://maccraic.com/?p=1229 Continue reading →]]> http://maccraic.com/2011/09/30/maccraic-100-return-of-the-craic/feed/ 0 0:00:01 Intro It took us a while to get here but here we are. If you’ve missed us half as much as we’ve missed you then we’ve missed you twice as much as you’ve missed us. It is good to be back so let’s get on with the Craic. S[...] Intro It took us a while to get here but here we are. If you’ve missed us half as much as we’ve missed you then we’ve missed you twice as much as you’ve missed us. It is good to be back so let’s get on with the Craic. Steve’s change of role Copy of Letter of Resignation Effect on Apple Effect on Fans iOS event iPhone 5 List of Potential New Features TUAW Link 1GB Ram A5 Chip 8 mega pixel camera World Phone (GSM & CDMA) Voice Assistant AirPlay Mirroring iOS 5 Expected to be available immediately iPod Shuffle & iPod Classic End of Life TUAW Link We’ve been saying this for the last few years Low end nano replace shuffle Capacity bump in iPod Touch to replace 160GB Classic Liverpool Tweet Up Video Link to YouTube Agenda Liverpool One Starbucks Apple Store Lunch – GBK Albert Dock Beatles Museum Liverpool Museum Diner +IMP Live Total Geek Out MiFi HyperJuice GoPro Cameras iPads MacBook Airs MacBook Pros iPhones DSLRs Video Cameras Photos Link to Photos A big thank you to Mark Dalton for posting such great pictures of the occasion. Professional Credits in iMovie Link to macmostnow Final Cut X Update 10.0.1 A lot of features that professional users were looking for were put back in. Link to Apple Future features to come in 2012 Strange iPhone Uses iPhone Used to Control a Drone TUAW Link Collaboration between Boeing and MIT Make it possible for regular people to fly drone aircraft Good intentions but could be used for malicious intent Frightened the bejaysus out of me +Dave’s Flying Man Tips Activate the Linear Timeline in iMovie – Go to project pane and on the right hand side of the pane is a film strip icon. Click this and you will get the traditional time line. At this point you may want to swap the project window and event library window. Activate the secondary click on you trackpad – Go to system preferences and select trackpad. Select the point and click tab and the down arrow under the Secondary Click option and tick the bottom right hand corner. Universal Power Adapter Apple Exploring Universal Power Adapter SeaSucker Mount for iPad This looks like a cool mount for your iPad. Link 100 and Counting Took us a while to get here Moving forward into 2012 More blog posts More guests Screencasts and tips section Just as naughty as ever App Recommendations Snapseed Link Power photo editing app for iPad from Nik Software. These guys really get photo editing on the iPad. You can do a lot of things that you could do in iPhoto directly in here. It is by far the best photo editing application I have used on the iPad. In fact for a lot of quick edits on the go I have used this rather than bring the photos into Aperture and do my editing there. Outro Contact details maccraic.com twitter.com/justingbyrne twitter.com/davidshortle hecra@mailc Mevio iTunes comments Thanks to everyone for listening and subscribing to the podcast. If you enjoy it go out and tell your friends to subscribe. You can also show your support by heading on over to iTunes and leaving a comment. This helps us get noticed and increase our listenership which can help to attract new and cool sponsors to the show. That’s all the craic from this weeks Mac. Subscribe in iTunes Link Bookmark It Hide Sites Justin Byrne yes no http://maccraic.com/2010/09/14/maccraic-89-unseen-undressed-totally-uncalled-for/ http://maccraic.com/2010/09/14/maccraic-89-unseen-undressed-totally-uncalled-for/#comments Mon, 13 Sep 2010 23:00:08 +0000 Dave http://maccraic.com/?p=1051 Continue reading →]]> http://maccraic.com/2010/09/14/maccraic-89-unseen-undressed-totally-uncalled-for/feed/ 0 0:00:01 Hi MacCraic’ers , this week the boys give their take on the Apple event that took place on Wed 02/09/10 & proceed to have a little disagreement about a certain magical entertainment box. So sit back & listen to the fireworks going off:[...] Hi MacCraic’ers , this week the boys give their take on the Apple event that took place on Wed 02/09/10 & proceed to have a little disagreement about a certain magical entertainment box. So sit back & listen to the fireworks going off: News Apple Music Event iPod Shuffle: The buttons made a return, it’s 18% bigger with shuffle function. Voiceover function (with a button) is carried over from 3rd gen model, it comes in 5 beautiful colours 2GB of storage for the princely sum of $/€49 iPod Nano: Clickwheel has now gone, being replaced by a 1.9inch square touchscreen with accelerometer but it’s not running iOS (though it looks like it does). As a result, it is 30% smaller and it looks like it could fit on your wrist as a watch as it come also with a clip-on like the shuffle (nano case makers at the ready ). It comes in same colours as shuffle in 2 models- 8 & 16GB for €/$149 & €/$179 with a shake to shuffle feature,Nike+ & radio (pause up to 15mins)- but the camera is gone unlike previous gen model. iPod Touch: The 4th gen comes in 3 models- 8, 32 & 64GB for €/$229 €/$299 & €/$399 respectively. Like the iPhone4 this model contains the Retina Display, A4 processor, a front (for Facetime) & rear facing camera that takes both photos + 720P vids (don’t expect the camera to be as good the the iPhone’s though), microphone & gyroscope. It also has only 256mb RAM unlike the 512mb on the iPhone4. AppleTV: Otherwise known as “one more hobby”, this entertainment box can now fit in the palm of your hand, has come down to $99/€119. It runs on the A4 processor which also suggests that iOS is powering (and we don’t mean that performance suffers) it & it now streams content from iTunes as no local storage is available to sync unlike previous model or your can rent content from AppleTV itself to stream. Airtunes has been enhanced to be called Airplay which will now stream video/audio from your iPad (figure iPhone/iTouch also) to Apple TV & will be introduced in iOS 4.2. David has an issue with lack of broader format support in iTunes & AppleTV which Justin does not agree with. Updates iTunes10: This was an update which seems to have caused some consternation amongst the faithful due to the icon change (doesn’t bug us personally) & “colourless” UI change also ( let’s face it iTunes is the UI experimental ground for Apple ), though David had an issue with the Mothership breaching it’s own Human Interface Guidelines & resorted to the terminal with a OSX Hints tip to put some manners on the “traffic light” look. Ping the social networking section was introduced though it can’t connect with Facebook currently as StevieJ stated “onerous terms” were the issue at moment. iTunes10 broke at moment the use of automator actions but AppleScript remains unaffected. Remember to backup before you download. As a side note, David’s predictions of death to the clickwheel have proved premature as the iPod Classic still lives though has not been updated- guess next year will be the year for this. The Laptop is alive, well & coming from Cupertino: Reports are showing that Apple are the only manufacturer who’s sales of notebooks are not declining. The lesson to be learned for businesses is- Don’t engage in the race to the bottom. Sponsor – GoDaddy Unseen, Undressed & Uncalled For This is a new section of the show where a random “mac” story will be picked from a search on Google news & reacted to MacCraic style. This will either be amazing or an epic fail. Tip of the Week Adding colour back to iTunes 10 Getting rid of the “Traffic Lights” on iTunes10 Dave’s App of the Week: Mirror’s Edge from EA €4.99 in App Store- Would describe this as a parkour game set in a dystopian future, excellent graphics, controls & gameplay. However, [...] Justin Byrne yes no http://maccraic.com/2010/06/08/maccraic-81-phones-cars-and-fingering-in-italy/ http://maccraic.com/2010/06/08/maccraic-81-phones-cars-and-fingering-in-italy/#comments Tue, 08 Jun 2010 06:17:18 +0000 Dave http://maccraic.com/?p=898 Continue reading →]]> http://maccraic.com/2010/06/08/maccraic-81-phones-cars-and-fingering-in-italy/feed/ 0 0:47:43 This week the boys freestyle again ( hey, is there any other way :-p) and put forth their thoughts on firstly from one Mr Shortle on his Italian experience of fingering an iPad. Also, our thoughts and anal-ysis on Monday’s Stevie J keynote fro[...] This week the boys freestyle again ( hey, is there any other way :-p) and put forth their thoughts on firstly from one Mr Shortle on his Italian experience of fingering an iPad. Also, our thoughts and anal-ysis on Monday’s Stevie J keynote from WWDC with the introduction of the iPhone 4 ( unlike the (i) movies, these sequels keep getting better & better). Hope you enjoy the show. David: iPad-  The Italian Experience Go Daddy Ad WWDC News Links & Anal-ysis : Everything You Need To Know About The iPhone 4 (one thing to correct here folks- 3GS comes in 8GB not 16GB form only for $99/€99. Apologies ;-0) Apple.com (for the official info including “Bumpers” (now we know why the cases were put out of the retail stores) Facetime (Sam Mendes directed video explaining the video chat feature) Contact details twitter.com/justingbyrne twitter.com/davidshortle themaccraic@gmail.com Mevio Outro Tag- That’s all the craic from this week’s Mac Bookmark It Hide Sites Justin Byrne yes no http://maccraic.com/2010/02/02/maccraic-episode-65-%e2%80%93-menstation/ http://maccraic.com/2010/02/02/maccraic-episode-65-%e2%80%93-menstation/#comments Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:13:00 +0000 Dave http://maccraic.com/?p=692 Continue reading →]]> http://maccraic.com/2010/02/02/maccraic-episode-65-%e2%80%93-menstation/feed/ 0 0:47:20 This week, our heroes discuss all things max-iPad ( you know that little event held last Wednesday in the village of San Francisco ). Discussion: The Mac Shop on Merrion Square Apple introduces the iPad tablet device (the dirty quick details of the[...] This week, our heroes discuss all things max-iPad ( you know that little event held last Wednesday in the village of San Francisco ). Discussion: The Mac Shop on Merrion Square Apple introduces the iPad tablet device (the dirty quick details of the new iPad) Apple’s A4 is an ARM-based system-on-a-chip a la Tegra 2? (pretty major news and a mega fast chip) Steve Jobs’s “People With Passion Can Change The World For The  Better” Desktop Pic (You can change the world without pants-WOW!) Apple iPad’s ‘Micro SIM’ explained GoDaddy Steve Jobs: Adobe is Lazy, Google’s ‘Don’t be Evil’ Motto is BS (alleged words used ) Contact details maccraic.com twitter.com/justingbyrne twitter.com/davidshortle themaccraic@gmail.com Mevio Subscribe in iTunes (link) Bookmark It Hide Sites Justin Byrne no no http://maccraic.com/2008/10/14/maccraic-special-edition-apple-event-oct-14/ http://maccraic.com/2008/10/14/maccraic-special-edition-apple-event-oct-14/#comments Tue, 14 Oct 2008 22:27:28 +0000 Justin http://maccraic.com/?p=137 http://maccraic.com/2008/10/14/maccraic-special-edition-apple-event-oct-14/feed/ 0 0:00:01 Here are our initial thoughts on the new notebook line announced by Steve Jobs at the Apple Special Event in California earlier today. Bookmark It Hide Sites Here are our initial thoughts on the new notebook line announced by Steve Jobs at the Apple Special Event in California earlier today. Bookmark It Hide Sites Justin Byrne no no