Typical Mac User Podcast

TMUP 190: Snow Leopard From Scratch Part 1

typicalmacuser@gmail.com (Victor Cajiao) — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:37:16 +0000

Today we start from scratch on our OS X Snow Leopard journey. In the coming months this series will continue. If you are new to the Mac you will learn a ton, if you are a long time Mac user you will also be reminded of many things you may have forgotten. Enjoy. Show Notes Time Capsule Airport [...]

Combining (aggregating) audio devices in OS X

typicalmacuser@gmail.com (Victor Cajiao) — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:48:14 +0000

How to get more inputs and outputs out of your Mac. I discovered a feature in Mac OS X Snow Leopard that I have a feeling has been there for a while but I just never new about. It’s called aggregate audio. Your Mac’s built-in audio hardware lets you record a single stereo track or two mono [...]

Mac Roundtable round up of Blogworld Expo 2009 video

typicalmacuser@gmail.com (Victor Cajiao) — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:19:23 +0000

Some of the Mac Rountable crew got together during Blogworld Expo and Chuck Joiner recorded a vide \ audio of us having fun, and giving thoughts about the conference. Check it out here

Interview in Bed with Cali Lewis

typicalmacuser@gmail.com (Victor Cajiao) — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 01:48:45 +0000

Cali and Neal from GeekBrief.tv are some of the nicest people in new media. I was lucky enough to be interviewed by Cali during Blogworld Expo. Check it out I’m proud.

TMUP 189: It’s Joseph Nilo Time

typicalmacuser@gmail.com (Victor Cajiao) — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 23:13:31 +0000

Today we talk to long time friend of the show, Joseph Nilo Tonight’s show is brought to you by: SmileOnMyMac This show is a member of Friends In Tech Show Notes: Hilo Media Color grading @ Wikipedia Flip Mino Rule of thirds @ Wikipedia Rule of thirds How to Three point lighting @ Wikipedia Bounce board @ Wikipedia Think Funbooth White balance @ Wikipedia Soundproofing @ Wikipedia Neumann TLM 103 Studio [...]

TMUP SMS Phishing Alert special podcast

typicalmacuser@gmail.com (Victor Cajiao) — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 23:55:34 +0000

George Starcher warns us of a current Phishing scam that could impact you. Internet Storm Center – AT&T Cell Phone Phish

TMUP 188 – BusyCal Interview and Many Reviews and Terminal part 21

typicalmacuser@gmail.com (Victor Cajiao) — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 00:12:08 +0000

We talk to the CEO of BusyCal, Bart covers Terminal part 21, George and I discuss encryption with a caller, and we review some hardware too. Tonight’s show is brought to you by: SmileOnMyMac This show is a member of Friends In Tech Show Notes: BusyCal use discount code TMUP to get 20% off (this is NOT an advertisement) HP [...]

TMUP 187: Three Amigos Return to talk Mac OS X Snow Leopard

typicalmacuser@gmail.com (Victor Cajiao) — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 00:29:44 +0000

Adam Christianson from the Maccast and Ken Ray from MacOS Ken and I got together a few weeks ago to talk about the Apple announcements. As always an interesting and fun conversation. Enjoy it and let them know you heard it here. Tonight’s show is brought to you by: SmileOnMyMac This show is a member of Friends In [...]

TMUP 186 – Security for Macs -where are we? Part 20 of Terminal Series

typicalmacuser@gmail.com (Victor Cajiao) — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 22:33:34 +0000

George Starcher and I talk about the state of Mac security. Bart does part 20 of the terminal series and George and I review TextExpander for the iPhone and iPod touch. NOTE: During this episode George and I talk about trojans in general. We mention Clampi and it was pointed out that this exploit is only [...]

TMUP 185: Snow Leopard Prep Part 2, Tee Morris is All A Twitter

typicalmacuser@gmail.com (Victor Cajiao) — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 11:32:40 +0000

Steve Stanger from The Mac Attack and I do part two of getting ready for Snow Leopard. Tee Morris and I discuss his new book All A Twitter. Tonight’s show is brought to you by: SmileOnMyMac This show is a member of Friends In Tech Show Notes: The Mac Attack All A Twitter BT-1 Ecam Bluetooth Camera Screencasts on Line (affiliate link) Flickery App Paul Shadwell [...]

TMUP 184: Getting Ready For Snow Leopard – With Steve Stanger

typicalmacuser@gmail.com (Victor Cajiao) — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 23:46:10 +0000

Tonight Steve Stanger from The Mac Attack and I discuss everything you should know to get ready for Snow Leopard. I’m sure you will enjoy this show and I thank Steve for joining me. Tonight’s show is brought by: SmileOnMyMac Great screencast by Don McAllister on DiskLabel This show is a member of Friends In Tech Show Notes Mac OS X [...]

An alternative to NetNewsWire – Vienna

typicalmacuser@gmail.com (Victor Cajiao) — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 21:03:29 +0000

This idea and conversation came out of talking on Tweeter. As most of you know Net NewsWire is not going to support News Gator feeds after August. They put out a new version of Net News Wire but it broke clippings and other things for many users who were not amused. This got me to [...]

TMUP183: Benchmarking – Terminal Part 19 – Ped3-Auto Form

typicalmacuser@gmail.com (Victor Cajiao) — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 23:35:56 +0000

David Sparks, George and I talk benchmarking. Then terminal part 19 and review of the Ped3-Auto Form. Tonight’s show is brought to you by: SmileOnMyMac This show is a member of Friends In Tech Show Notes: PGP Whole Disk Encryption for Mac Xbench Geekbench David Sparks Mac Power Users Podcast grep @ Wikipedia PED-3 Auto PED-3 Form

TMUP 182-HD Migration, iPhone 3GS and booting to MBP with SD card

typicalmacuser@gmail.com (Victor Cajiao) — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 22:21:14 +0000

George and I talk 3GS phone, migration of hard drives from one Mac to another, and I discuss how to use an SD card to boot your new MBP Tonight’s show is brought to you by: SmileOnMyMac This show is a member of Friends In Tech Show Notes: AppleCare Mophie Juice Pack Air VeriSign VIP Access Secrurity Token a.k.a. “Key Fob” @ [...]

The iPWR Battery Pack – The little Wafer that Could

typicalmacuser@gmail.com (Victor Cajiao) — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 17:55:39 +0000

I’ve been lucky enough to get to review three of the most poplular iPhone\iPod battery packs. The Mophie Juice Pack , the Richard Solo 1800 for iPhone and the Fast Mac IV Battery Pack for iPhone. All of these products are useful and have their place in the space. Of these I use the Fast Mac IV [...]

TMUP 181: Katie & Victor talk MBP 13″ – J.C. Hutchins Geek Interview

typicalmacuser@gmail.com (Victor Cajiao) — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:29:06 +0000

This show as suppose to come out June 30th. I made a mistake and pushed the publish button early. Enjoy it. Tonight I talk to Katie Floyd of the MacCore Podcast and the Mac Power Users podcast about our new 13″ MacBook Pros. Also Author J.C. Hutchins George Starcher and I talk about his new book [...]

TMUP 180: Craig Syverson Talks Keynote

typicalmacuser@gmail.com (Victor Cajiao) — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 23:15:52 +0000

Tonight’s show is all about Keynote where Craig Syverson gives us a great primer Show Notes: Craig Syverson Keynote ‘09 Essential Training Tonight’s show is brought by: SmileOnMyMac Get 20% of DiscLabel! $28.76 (reg. $35.95) This show is a member of Friends In Tech

TMUP 179.5: Musing OS 3.0 with George and Victor

typicalmacuser@gmail.com (Victor Cajiao) — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 02:45:37 +0000

Tonight’s show is brought to you by: Me! This show is a member of Friends In Tech Show Notes: George Starcher and I talk about the upcoming Apple OS 3.0 for iPod Touch and iPhone. We talk and muse about it’s potential.

TMUP 179: Taking care of our kids with Parental Controls

typicalmacuser@gmail.com (Victor Cajiao) — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 01:08:11 +0000

Tonight’s show is brought to by SmileOnMyMac Get 20% of DiscLabel! $28.76 (reg. $35.95) This show is a member of Friends In Tech Show Notes: Friends In Tech Child Safety Guide NetNanny for Mac software use the 25% promo code TYPICALMAC (entered once in shopping cart – not case sensitive) created just for our listeners. Transport Layer Security (SSL) @ Wikipedia Transmission [...]

I Join Adam Christianson and Ken Ray on the Maccast

typicalmacuser@gmail.com (Victor Cajiao) — Thu, 21 May 2009 11:16:58 +0000

Last night I was invited by Adam Christianson to join him and Ken Ray to discuss some of the year’s most important and fun Apple related stories on the Maccast. Any time the three of us get together , it’s a lot of fun and food for thought. Please take a listen for yourself and if [...]

TMUP 178: iPhoto and Photoshops Elements 6 Together – How to do Google Advance Searches

typicalmacuser@gmail.com (Victor Cajiao) — Wed, 20 May 2009 02:36:12 +0000

Tonight’s show is brought to you by: SmileOnMyMac How to use TextExpander with DropBox This show is a member of Friends In Tech Show Notes: RAW Image Format @ Wikipedia Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 for Mac Adobe Bridge CS4 Google Advanced Search Google: The Missing Manual

TMUP 177: Bluetooth for Macs and a Mac Security update

typicalmacuser@gmail.com (Victor Cajiao) — Wed, 06 May 2009 11:01:22 +0000

Tonight’s show is brought to you by: SmileOnMyMac This show is a member of Friends In Tech Show Notes: Bluetooth @ Wikipedia RSA Conference

TMUP 176: Talking Trash – Terminal Part 17 – Mac Forensic example

typicalmacuser@gmail.com (Victor Cajiao) — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 01:06:54 +0000

Tonight’s show is brought to you by: SmileOnMyMac Show Notes Trash It! (Download) Cocktail Compost Whitex (Download) Bart Busschots Domain Name System @ Wikipedia Top-level-domain (TLD) @ Wikipedia Root Domain Name Server @ Wikipedia George Starcher

TMUP175: Steve Stanger Talks Mac Media Centers

typicalmacuser@gmail.com (Victor Cajiao) — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 23:30:58 +0000

Tonight’s show is brought to you by: SmileOnMyMac This show is a member of Friends In Tech Show Notes: ERRATA: During the last part of this show I mentioned using QMaster as a way of combining the power of multiple Macs. I was incorrect about this as Qmaster is associated with Compressor. I was thinking of XRaid but [...]

Drobo Grows up Pro style

typicalmacuser@gmail.com (Victor Cajiao) — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 13:04:47 +0000

The following is a press release from Drobo. Although I did have a briefing on this unit last week, I have not personally used it. If and when I receive a review unit I will report out more. For now it sounds like big news. __________________________________________________________________ Data Robotic UNVEILS DROBOPRO, THE FIRST SMB DATA STORAGE SYSTEM THAT MANAGES [...]

TMUV: Review and Video of Blue Icicle Mic Preamp

typicalmacuser@gmail.com (Victor Cajiao) — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 23:27:13 +0000

I show you, and use the Blue Icicle Mic Preamp found at http://www.bluemic.com . This combination video (shot in HD with the Nikon D90) and screencast demonstrates the setup and usage of this very nice device. I would buy and recommend this device. If you want to see this video in a higher resolution please go [...]

TMUP 174: Backblaze Interview and a deep dive into an iMovie 09 Project

typicalmacuser@gmail.com (Victor Cajiao) — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 23:12:23 +0000

Tonight’s show is brought to you by: Me! This show is a member of Friends In Tech Show Notes: Backblaze Online Backup Amazon S3 Mozy JungleDisk Handbrake

TMUP 173: Spinning Beach Ball of Death and iPhone OS 3.0

typicalmacuser@gmail.com (Victor Cajiao) — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 22:51:25 +0000

Tonight’s show is brought to you by: SmileOnMyMac This show is a member of Friends In Tech Show Notes Getting Things Done @ Wikipedia EasyTask Manager Discount on EasyTask iPhone Alley iPhone 3.0 Preview

You’ve come a long way Apple

typicalmacuser@gmail.com (Victor Cajiao) — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 02:49:22 +0000

Listener Michael G sent me this picture and said “Now that Apple has emerged as a leader in electronics from an almost defunct entity some years ago, I am really proud of them. I have been using Apple computers since 1985 and I am a happy man today.” We are all proud and they certainly have [...]

TMUP 172: The New Airport Extreme, Timecapsule and Terminal part 16

typicalmacuser@gmail.com (Victor Cajiao) — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 23:50:22 +0000

Tonight’s show is brought to you by: Me! This show is a member of Friends In Tech Show Notes: Show were George and I talked about setting up dual Airports or Routers Apple Airport Extreme Universal Plug and Play @ Wikipedia NewerTech Voyager Q “Quad Interface” Drive Dock Bart Buschotts Domain Name System (DNS) @ Wikipedia Traceroute @ Wikipedia

My Digital Life Podcast & Blog coming to provide new “Aha” moments

typicalmacuser@gmail.com (Victor Cajiao) — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 13:14:30 +0000

Scott Bourne and Andy Ihnatko, are starting a brand new blog and podcast called My Digital Life Podcast & Blog (mydl.me) This blog and show are going to be focused on how we all “deal with all the electronic stuff you accumulate during your daily life.” I’m looking forward to hearing these two hosts that although [...]

TMUP 171: John Flowers talks iMovie09, and video taking tips

typicalmacuser@gmail.com (Victor Cajiao) — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 02:29:43 +0000

Tonight’s show is brought to you by: SmileOnMyMac This show is a member of Friends In Tech John Flowers website and Podcasts RadioShack lavalier clip on mic KnowTech.tv home of the new verison of MacBreak Tech Unlockingimovie.com Flip Vidoe Mino HD Canon HV30

TMUP 170: The one a Listener Built

typicalmacuser@gmail.com (Victor Cajiao) — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 00:48:20 +0000

Tonight’s show is brought to you by: Me! This show is a member of Friends In Tech Show Notes: File Vault PGP Wholedisk encription One Password PGP and Time Machine Mobile Me What Microsoft says about their MS Office passwords

TMUP 169: All About Activity Monitor

typicalmacuser@gmail.com (Victor Cajiao) — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:47:55 +0000

Tonight’s show is brought to you by: SmileOnMyMac This show is a member of Friends In Tech Show Notes: List of Mac OS X Common processes

TMUP 168: Meet Kerberos

typicalmacuser@gmail.com (Victor Cajiao) — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 20:56:52 +0000

Tonight’s show is brought to you by: Me! This show is a member of Friends In Tech Show Notes: Kerberos in Wikipedia Terminal command is kdestroy Equinux Tube Stick Hybrid How To Properly use Time Machine (by Knightwise)

TMUP 167: Disk Utility Tips and Mac Forensics Interview

typicalmacuser@gmail.com (Victor Cajiao) — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 23:47:36 +0000

Tonight’s show is brought to you by: SmileOnMyMac This show is a member of Friends In Tech Show Notes: MacOSXForensics PGP Mac Full Disc Encrytption SubRosaSoft BlackBag Technologies Helix (they went Commerical this week) Sans Institute SIFT VM Forensics Workstation Sans SEC508 Forensics Class crowbarDMG Dictionary Attack Tool v1.0 – George Starcher

TMUP 166: Preview tips and tricks – Terminal Part 15 – iPodTouch goodness

typicalmacuser@gmail.com (Victor Cajiao) — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 00:13:46 +0000

Tonight’s show is brought to you by: Drobo Visit drobo.com/typical/index to learn more about Drobo and instantly receive $50 off your own Drobo This show is a member of Friends In Tech Show Notes: Belkin Remix Acrylic DLO Jam Jacket SwitchEasy Rebel Touch Tweetie Units Fish Tycoon (App Store Link) Fish Tycoon Lite (App Store Link) AppSniper (App Store Link) Griffin iTalk Phillips iPhone Microphone Adapter Bart Busschots

TMUP 165: Security While you Travel, more Macworld Expo Interviews and Freeing up disk space

typicalmacuser@gmail.com (Victor Cajiao) — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 20:03:15 +0000

Tonight’s show is brought to you by: Ambrosia Software and by Drobo Visit drobo.com/typical/index to learn more about Drobo and instantly receive $50 off your own Drobo This show is a member of Friends In Tech Show Notes: Tom Behin Laptop Cases Visage LoJack for Laptops Blue Icicle Blue Mikey Blue Eyeball BoinxTV Boinx FotoMagico Boinx iStopMotion BusyMac BusyCal Monolingual WhatSize DriveGenius Apple KB Article – Moving iTunes Library Apple KB Article – Moving iPhoto [...]

TMUP 164: Address book tricks, More Macworld Reviews and Wacom Graphire

typicalmacuser@gmail.com (Victor Cajiao) — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 04:48:20 +0000

Tonight’s show is brought to you by: Ambrosia Software and by Drobo Visit drobo.com/typical/index to learn more about Drobo and instantly receive $50 off your own Drobo This show is a member of Friends In Tech Show Notes: 1Password UPEK Eikon Matias TuneBlocker Wacom Graphire Tablet Wacom Bamboo Tablet Wacom Bamboo Fun Tablet

Using Automator to Gather Troubleshooting Information

typicalmacuser@gmail.com (Victor Cajiao) — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 01:33:16 +0000

Associate Editor George Starcher shows us some fantastic ways to use Automator to troubleshoot. Please visit for the exact script http://tinyurl.com/93dnny for scripting information

Using SSH with your Mac to unlock your home.

typicalmacuser@gmail.com (Victor Cajiao) — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 23:19:12 +0000

It took a while for me to quit laughing today. My wife says this resembles me. In the spirit of our SSH series check out the below xkcd.com comic. Now all you have to do is SSH into your mac at home. At the terminal command line enter the following. sudo osascript -e “set Volume 10″ say “Hey! [...]

TMUP 163: Macwolrd Expo 2009 Reviews Galore

typicalmacuser@gmail.com (Victor Cajiao) — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 22:51:33 +0000

Tonight’s show is brought to you by: Ambrosia Software and by Drobo Visit drobo.com/typical/index to learn more about Drobo and instantly receive $50 off your own Drobo This show is a member of Friends In Tech Show Notes: Etymotic Research HF2 Headset+Earphones Etymotic Research HF5 Earphones Ecamm BT-1 Bluetooth Wireless WebCam FastMac U-Charge FastMac iV iPhone Battery Pack equinux SongGenie equinux Stationary Pack equinux Cover Scout equinux iSale equinux MediaCentral equinux [...]

SSH + RSync for Backups

typicalmacuser@gmail.com (Victor Cajiao) — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 04:07:15 +0000

George takes us to the next place in SSH by using RSync to back up. The text to copy and edit for your automator is below. It is all one line: rsync -avrz -e “ssh -p 5346 -i .ssh/id_rsa” Documents username@home.homedns.org:/Volumes/ExternalDrive/Backups/Laptop

Livescribe Pulse Smart Pen Demo at Macworld 2009

typicalmacuser@gmail.com (Victor Cajiao) — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 22:49:43 +0000

The Livescribe Pulse Smart Pen won a best of show award from me. Here is why. www.livescribe.com

Macworld Best of Show Winner 2009

typicalmacuser@gmail.com (Victor Cajiao) — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 00:36:46 +0000

There are many wonderful products at the Macworld Expo. These are my four top picks. iMOvie09 iMovie09 has made great improvements since the release of iMovie08 by Apple. On Tuesday they finally delivered on some of the things that were promised last year. (NOTE) I have not had a chance to really take iMovie09 for a test [...]

TMUP 162: Macworld Expo Post Keynote Wrap-up

typicalmacuser@gmail.com (Victor Cajiao) — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 03:36:04 +0000

TMUP 161: Happy New Year and My Crazy Macworld Expo Predictions

typicalmacuser@gmail.com (Victor Cajiao) — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 03:11:58 +0000

Tonight’s show is brought to you by: Ambrosia Software and by This show is a member of Friends In Tech Show Notes: Helvetica (Film) Helvetica @ NetFlix PDFpen Otterbox iPod Nano 4th Gen Defender Case EclipseEmpire Triton SEE2 USB to DVI Adapter Bart Buschotts

It’s not too late to get 20% off on Screencast On Line membership

typicalmacuser@gmail.com (Victor Cajiao) — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 01:34:36 +0000

So here is a win win deal for the end of the year. Help Don out and I’ll get some love too because I belong to Don’s affilicate program Click HERE to get the deal and help me out a bit too. Liverpool, UK – Following a hugely successful holiday promotion, ScreenCastsOnline has extended its current [...]

The macround table crew to record Live at Macworld Expo

typicalmacuser@gmail.com (Victor Cajiao) — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 15:38:18 +0000

Some of the members from the Members from the mac roundtable podcast will be recording live at the Macworld Expo. Please come join us in the fun as we talk all things Mac during the show. What: Recording of the Mac Roundtable Live at the Macworld Expo When: Wed, January 7th, 4:00-5:00pm Where: The podcast will take place [...]

Join me at the Mac Mingle Party 2009 during the Macworld Expo

typicalmacuser@gmail.com (Victor Cajiao) — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 15:23:40 +0000

I will be joining many in the Mac community at the Mac Mingle 2009 party during Macworld Expo 2009 The Mac Mingle is a party open to all Macworld Expo attendees wearing a Macworld badge, and is put on by >Deborah Shadovitz, a long time friend of the Typical Mac User Podcast. This is a great opportunity [...]