http://maccraic.com Infotainment that's not PC! Wed, 22 Feb 2012 08:59:14 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 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 Justin Byrne yes no http://maccraic.com/2010/09/15/maccraic-90-the-craic-is-90/ http://maccraic.com/2010/09/15/maccraic-90-the-craic-is-90/#comments Wed, 15 Sep 2010 07:00:43 +0000 Dave http://maccraic.com/?p=1058 Continue reading →]]> http://maccraic.com/2010/09/15/maccraic-90-the-craic-is-90/feed/ 0 0:00:01 Hi MacCraic’ers , this week the boys get through the news in the usual MacCraic style dealing everything from Auto Erotic Mac through to the new Cupertino Commandments. Sit back with your cup of tea/coffee, your Kit-Kat & enjoy. Intro News[...] Hi MacCraic’ers , this week the boys get through the news in the usual MacCraic style dealing everything from Auto Erotic Mac through to the new Cupertino Commandments. Sit back with your cup of tea/coffee, your Kit-Kat & enjoy. Intro News: Apple TV update plus Dave’s rethink on it due to VLC running on the iPad (App review guys, make it so) Autodesk’s AutoCAD for Mac, iOS breaks loose- Brilliant news to further help Macs push into industrial design field especially after I believe an 18 year absence from the Mac platform. Also appearing on iOS soon. Apple relaxing restrictions on iOS third-party development tools- Suspected this after seeing Unreal Engine 3 demo of “Project Sword” at iTunes event & downloading n’ trying out Epic Citadel (Wow is all I can say on that demo (can’t use that word anymore now can we) Lite app) And related to above, Cupertino sets down it’s Commandments to be followed for apps to be allowed on the App Store- after me harping on about it a few times & which you would swear was written by StevieJ himself. Also link to PDF doc via Appleinsider article Mobee’s inductive Magic Charger for Apple’s Magic Mouse really is magical- and for a fairly wallet-friendly €/$49 too. Sponsor – GoDaddy Unseen, Undressed & Uncalled For We decided to try this again using “macintosh” as search term this time, how will it turn out? Wonder if we’ll end up with another sports related story. Dave’s App of the Week Appshopper Free in App Store- Decided to go meta this week & make my pick an app that keeps an eye on the App Store for any apps that get reduced in price or become free (spin your head wouldn’t it). Really like the layout of this app & latest update allows you to do a (originally) Tweetie like pull down to refresh list action. Contact details twitter.com/justingbyrne twitter.com/davidshortle themaccraic@gmail.com Mevio 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/2010/08/21/maccraic-87-dodging-grenades-on-the-jersey-shore/ http://maccraic.com/2010/08/21/maccraic-87-dodging-grenades-on-the-jersey-shore/#comments Sat, 21 Aug 2010 14:09:18 +0000 Dave http://maccraic.com/?p=1009 Continue reading →]]> http://maccraic.com/2010/08/21/maccraic-87-dodging-grenades-on-the-jersey-shore/feed/ 0 0:00:01 This week Justin “The Head Craicer” Byrne takes exception to Andy Ihnatko’s Jersey Shore/Apple remark as the main Cupertino crew seem share some common traits (though I don’t believe that they are sleeping with one another (D[...] This week Justin “The Head Craicer” Byrne takes exception to Andy Ihnatko’s Jersey Shore/Apple remark as the main Cupertino crew seem share some common traits (though I don’t believe that they are sleeping with one another (Dave “Snookie” Shortle) ). News Apple iPod Operations Manager Paul Shin Devine held in supplier kickback scheme – Christ where do you start with this, suffice to say though we might not be getting as many scoops from Asian supplier leaks going forward. Camera+ nabs $500K in 2 months with easter egg, gets pulled from App Store –  ’Tis dangerous to mess with “the situation” Jobs or the App Store approval team when planting easter eggs. Sponsor – GoDaddy iPod Touch, iOS4 & the magical disappearing battery life – The boys discuss the curious case of the magical disappearing battery life on Justin’s 3G iPod Touch which we could summarise as blame fast app switching or the Mail.app Apple TV becoming iTV, getting application support, yet losing full HD? I give my thoughts on whether this “iTV” can handle 1080P, but with an A4 chip it should be more than capable just like this. App Review: Shark or Die from HandyGames (Free) For those of us out there who always wanted to be Jaws Contact details twitter.com/justingbyrne twitter.com/davidshortle themaccraic@gmail.com Mevio Justin Byrne yes no http://maccraic.com/2010/02/08/maccraic-episode-66-9-out-of-10-cats-prefer-whiskas/ http://maccraic.com/2010/02/08/maccraic-episode-66-9-out-of-10-cats-prefer-whiskas/#comments Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:40:43 +0000 Dave http://maccraic.com/?p=713 Continue reading →]]> http://maccraic.com/2010/02/08/maccraic-episode-66-9-out-of-10-cats-prefer-whiskas/feed/ 0 0:46:00 This week, our heroes decide to freestyle it again; bringing you our usual mix of news & humour (which couldn’t get any lower than the “Bodyform” musical interludes from last week) Freestylin’ list : iTunes 9.0.3 is out,[...] A look at the lives of two Irish Mac users Podcast, Mac, Apple, Technology Justin Byrne yes no