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Mac Power Users 142: Special: WWDC 2013

David and Katie take a break from their regularly scheduled programing to talk iOS 7, OS X Mavericks, new Apple Hardware and their thought on Apple’s roadmap. We also have an update from Jean MacDonald about AppCamp4Girls.

This show is being released early so it will be timely for WWDC. This is in place of next week’s regularly scheduled show. The next show, all about RSS and the Google Reader transition, will post on Monday, June 24th.

Note: The audio the first 10 minutes is a little hot. We apologize. It levels out after.
Links for this episode:

App Camp For Girls

App Camp For Girls wants to address the gender imbalance among software developers by giving girls the chance to learn how to build apps, to be inspired by women instructors, and to get exposure to software development as a career.

App Camp For Girls | Indiegogo

Help us launch a non-profit organization! At camp, girls learn how to brainstorm, design, and build iPhone apps, working with women developers and designers.

App Stories | Tales to Inspire A New Generation of Developers

Tales to inspire a new generation of developers

Jean MacDonald (macgenie) on Twitter

App Camp For Girls (AppCamp4Girls) on Twitter

5by5 | Mac Power Users #107: Marketing and Learning to Develop Apps with Jean MacDonald

Katie and David are joined by Jean MacDonald, who explains how she goes about marketing and running a small software company with Apple technology, Jean’s budding education as an App developer, and her new project, App Camp for Girls.

Apple – Apple Events – WWDC 2013 Keynote

Apple – iOS 7

Apple – OS X Mavericks

Do even more with new apps and new features.

Apple – AirPort Extreme

With three-stream 802.11ac technology, the AirPort Extreme Base Station takes Wi?Fi speeds over the top. Now you can reach data rates of up to 1.3 Gbps1 — triple the previous 802.11n standard

Apple – Mac Pro

Here’s a sneak peek at what’s next for the pro computer.

Apple – MacBook Air

The 11-inch MacBook Air now lasts up to 9 hours between charges and the 13-inch model lasts up to an incredible 12 hours.

Apple – Designed by Apple

This is our signature.

Apple – iTunes Radio – Hear where your music takes you.

Mac, PC, or Apple TV. You’ll have access to Featured Stations, stations inspired by the music you already listen to, and more than 200 genre-focused stations

AirPort Extreme Gains 802.11ac, New Design – The Mac Observer

Siri and iOS in the Car updates announced at WWDC | TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Daring Fireball: ‘This Is Our Signature’: iOS 7

Next-generation Apple Mac Pro eyes-on at WWDC 2013

Intention – WWDC Video

WWDC intro video

Mavericks (location) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

27 new iOS 7 features Apple didn’t talk about | Macworld

New MacBook Airs offer all-day battery life, better graphics performance | Macworld

The wait is nearly over: Apple unveils new Mac Pro | Macworld

AnandTech | 2013 MacBook Air: PCIe SSD and Haswell ULT Inside

AnandTech | Up Close with the New Mac Pro

1PasswordHave you ever forgotten a password? Now you don’t have to worry about that anymore.

Squarespace Everything you need to create an amazing website.

Transporter
A new way to share, access and protect files.

Gazelle
Get cash for your used iPhone, iPad, MacBook and other Apple products. What’s your gadget worth?

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Mac Power Users 141: Traveling with Alex Lindsay

David and Katie talk with Alex Lindsay about his travel adventures and tech.

Links for this episode:

Alex Lindsay – Google+

alexlindsay (alexlindsay) on Twitter

Pixel Corps – Pixel Corps Website

Pixel Corps (@pixelcorps) on Twitter

StarWars.com | Star Wars – Episode VII, The Clone Wars & Games

J. J. Abrams – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Jeffrey Jacob “J. J.” Abrams (born June 27, 1966) is an American film and television producer, screenwriter, director, actor and composer. He is well known for his work in the genres of action, drama and science fiction.

JJ Abrams: The mystery box | Video on TED.com

J.J. Abrams traces his love for the unseen mystery –- a passion that’s evident in his films and TV shows, including Cloverfield, Lost and Alias — back to its magical beginnings.

5by5 | The Incomparable #143: The Best “Star Wars” Movie In Years

Press down on the warp lever and hide away your out-of-date continuity reference materials. It’s time for us to discuss J.J. Abrams’ reimagined Star Trek, with an emphasis on the new film “Star Trek Into Darkness.” Among our topics: The great casting in both movies, the merits of a Spock-to-Spock Skype call, McCoy’s Tribble-based scientific method, and the themes of self-sacrifice in the new movie. Plus we reference every single classic Star Trek movie along the way! And yes, there are spoilers. Lots and lots of spoilers.

Darmok – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

“Darmok” is the 102nd episode of the science fiction television series Star Trek: The Next Generation, the second episode of the fifth season. The episode features Paul Winfield, who previously played Captain Terrell in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, and Ashley Judd in her debut acting performance.

The Inner Light (Star Trek: The Next Generation) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

“The Inner Light” is the 125th episode overall and the 25th episode of the fifth season of the American science fiction television series Star Trek: The Next Generation. The episode was written by freelance writer Morgan Gendel based on his original pitch. Gendel is credited as writer of the story and co-writer of the teleplay with Peter Allan Fields. It is the penultimate episode of the season and was first broadcast on June 1, 1992. The episode is widely considered by critics and fans as one of the best episodes of the entire Star Trek franchise. In 1993, “The Inner Light” won the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation.

MacBreak Weekly | TWiT.TV

Get the latest Apple news and views from the top names in Mac, iPhone, iPod, and iPad journalism.

4K resolution – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Several 4K resolutions exist in digital television and digital cinematography. The term 4K refers to the horizontal resolution (instead of the vertical) of these formats, which are all on the order of 4,000 pixels.

TextExpander touch 2.0 on Vimeo

Samsonite luggage, suitcases, travel bags, laptop bags, backpacks

Pelican Products 1510LOC Laptop Overnight Case

Vibram FiveFingers: Toe Shoes & Minimalist Shoes

Travel Packing Cubes – Pack-It Traveler Systems and Cube Sets | Eagle Creek

Lifehacker: Rolling Clothes Prevents Wrinkles and Saves Packing Space

The Digital Rucksack 467-DL | Kata Bags

Liana Lehua (LianaLehua) on Twitter

Tactical Bags | 5.11 Tactical

Smart Alec – Backpack TOM BIHN

The Smart Alec is a modular backpack system: customize it to carry your gear with a variety of interior and exterior organizational pockets.

Vertical Brain Cell – Hard-sided laptop case. – TOM BIHN

The Vertical Brain Cell provides superior hard-sided protection for your laptop. The construction offers the toughest protection you can get for your laptop in a case that is still light and minimalist.

TripIt – Travel Itinerary – Trip Planner

hotels.com

Cheap Hotels, Discounts, Hotel Deals and Offers

iOS: Using Passbook

With Passbook, your boarding passes, movie tickets, retail coupons, loyalty cards, and more are now all in one place.

Scottevest

Travel Clothing for Men and Women: Multi-pocket Vests, Jackets, Shirts, Pants

iCloud: Find My iPhone

Keanu Is Sad / Sad Keanu

Sad Keanu is a photoshop meme based on a paparazzi photograph of the Canadian American actor Keanu Reeves sitting on a park bench and enjoying a sandwich by himself.

Apple 60W MagSafe Power Adaptor

The 60 Watt MagSafe Power Adapter features a magnetic DC connector that ensures your power cable will disconnect if it experiences undue strain and helps prevent fraying or weakening of the cables over time. In addition, the magnetic DC helps guide the plug into the system for a quick and secure connection.

Etymotic Research, Inc.

High-fidelity Earphones, Headsets and Hearing Instrumentation

Ultimate Ears

Shure Earphones & Headphones

theBoom

The Worlds Best Noise Canceling Headsets.

MiFi Intelligent Mobile Hotspots

Rwanda – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Africa Digital Media Academy

his new vocational training program is the first of its kind in Africa, providing students with the skills necessary to work in all areas of the digital media industry. The ADMA is dedicated to preparing people to work with the same degree of talent and resources as anywhere else in the world. It educates and prepares Rwandan students at many age levels for production work in the video, visual effects and 3D areas, not just for film and TV, but for all industries from education to tourism, that need and use digital media.

The Screen Savers – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Jaksta

Video Downloader, Video Converter, Music Downloader, MP3 Converter for Mac and PC

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Mac Power Users 140: Listener Question and Answer

David and Katie catch up on listener feedback and talk about Dropbox hacks, syncing, audio and video tricks, archiving files, writing workflows and more.

Thanks to MPU listener Jigar Talati for assistance with the shownotes this week!

Links for this episode:

70Decibels -We’re Moving To 5by5!

Powering Down Google Reader

Dropbox

Send to Dropbox | Email + Dropbox

Ever wish you could email files to your Dropbox? Well now you can! It’s free, fast, secure and super simple too. All you have to do is connect with Dropbox, get your unique email address, and start sending files!

Keyboard Shortcut for “Save as PDF…” in OS X — MacSparky

MacSparky’s ? + PP PDF Trick

Noodlesoft | Hazel

Printopia

Run Printopia on your Mac to share its printers to your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch. Add unlimited virtual printers to save print-outs to your Mac as PDF files.

Evernote

OmniFocus for Mac

OmniFocus Mail Drop

Mail Drop is a new feature of the Omni Sync Server that lets you send emails directly into your OmniFocus Inbox. You can create multiple private send-to addresses in order to give access to third parties, and delete those addresses at any time.

The OmniFocus Mail Drop — MacSparky

MacSparky on the OmniFocus MailDrop

OmniPresence

OmniPresence is the best way to sync all of your documents across all of your devices. And it works on most web hosts, including OS X Server, which means you can store all of your data yourself.

OmniOutliner for Mac

Synology Network Attached Storage

Synology NAS has many additional features, such as media streaming, remote access, personal cloud hosting, and much more

Apple – OS X Server

Chrome for Mobile

Xmarks

Bookmark backup and syncing

Pinboard: social bookmarking for introverts

Pinboard is a fast, no-nonsense bookmarking site

Pocket (Formerly Read It Later)

Instapaper

A simple tool to save web pages for reading later.

IFTTT

Put the internet to work for you.

The next generation of Instapaper – Marco.org

I’m happy to announce that I’ve sold a majority stake in Instapaper to Betaworks. We’ve structured the deal with Instapaper’s health and longevity as the top priority, with incentives to keep it going well into the future. I will continue advising the project indefinitely, while Betaworks will take over its operations, expand its staff, and develop it further.

Captio for iPhone – Boonbits

It’s simple. Open Captio and start typing. When you’re done, hit Send. The note is immediately delivered to your email inbox.

Launch Center Pro

Launch Center Pro creates lightning quick shortcuts to specific features buried deep within apps.

5by5 | Mac Power Users #136: iOS Automation

David and Katie talk about their favorite apps and tools for automating tasks on iOS

Drafts

Launch Drafts and start typing. It’s that simple. No upfront decisions about titles, filenames or folders. Return to drafts later, and a new draft is ready.

Put Your Mac to Sleep with iOS Drafts — MacSparky

QR code – Wikipedia

RedLaser

Reflector.app

AirPlay mirror your iPhone 4S, iPad 2 or the new iPad to any Mac or PC, wirelessly.

Instacast 3

Downcast

AirServer

An AirPlay receiver for Mac/PC. It allows you to receive AirPlay feeds, similar to an Apple TV, so you can stream content or Mirror your display from your iOS devices or Mountain Lion.

Airfoil

Send any audio, all around your house

TextExpander

Type more with less effort! TextExpander saves your fingers and your keyboard, expanding custom keyboard shortcuts into frequently-used text and pictures…

iTunes: Understanding iTunes Media Organization

5by5 | Mac Power Users #120: Taking Notes with Mike Rohde

David and Katie are joined by Mike Rohde, author of the Sketchnote Handbook, to talk about analog and digital forms of note taking.

Notebooks

The only notebook you need on your iPhone, iPad, Mac and PC.

Byword (Mac App Store)

Byword for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad on the iTunes App Store

Circus Ponies NoteBook for iPad on the iTunes App Store

Take notes with ease no matter your note-taking style: NoteBook combines free-form note taking, outlining, sketching, diagramming, PDF mark-up, and more to create the ultimate note taking environment. Plus, NoteBook’s voice annotation system records the person speaking as you type your notes, so you’ll never miss an important comment, assignment, or action item.

Penultimate | Evernote

Penultimate is the original and easiest-to-use handwriting app for iPad that combines the natural experience of pen and paper with the flexibility and syncing of Evernote. Lose the paper, keep the handwriting, and remember everything.

Macs In Law Offices (MILO) – Google Groups

Day One | A simple Journal for iPhone, iPad and Mac App Store

vJournal For Evernote

Journal turns Evernote into diary storage

The Sketchnote Typeface

The Sketchnote Handbook Video Edition: the illustrated guide to visual note taking (includes The Sketchnote Handbook book and access to The Sketchnote Handbook Video): Mike Rohde: 9780321885111: Amazon.com: Books

Drobo: Small Box | Big Storage

Backing up and Drobo — KatieFloyd.me

Online Data Backup – Offsite, Onsite, & Cloud – CrashPlan Backup Software

ChronoSync

With ChronoSync on your Mac, you can synchronize, backup, and create bootable backups. ChronoSync can synchronize or backup to almost anything you can connect to your Mac.

Jump Desktop

Jump Desktop is a remote desktop app that lets you securely connect to any computer in the world.

5by5 | Mac Power Users #75: Remote Access

David and Katie cover solutions for controlling Macs and PCs remotely with Macs, iPads, and iPhones.

5by5 | Mac Power Users #130: Computing with Kids

David and Katie are joined by Natali Morris to talk about kids and technology. Topics include why it’s important to introduce kids to tech, keeping children safe online, monitoring and limiting access and Natali’s favorite apps and accessories.

Treadmill Desks And The Benefits Of ‘Walking Alive’ : NPR

Evernote Essentials

Evernote Essentials is the definitive guide for people getting started with Evernote.

Learning To Love Evernote

Have you always wanted to love Evernote, but never really got it? I completely understand! I was in your same place for 4 years, but just recently saw the light. I want to share with you how I learned to love Evernote!

Secrets

Secrets lets you customize many Mac OS settings that are hidden or incomplete.

TimeMachineEditor

TimeMachineEditor is a software for Mac OS X 10.7 Lion and Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion that lets you change the default one-hour backup interval of Time Machine.

BetterTouchTool

Moom · Many Tricks

Do you spend a lot of time moving and zooming windows, so you can better see and work with all the content on your Mac? Instead of doing that work yourself, let Moom handle the task for you.

1PasswordHave you ever forgotten a password? Now you don’t have to worry about that anymore.

Clarify
A better way to work with screenshots.

Fujitsu ScanSnap
ScanSnap: Your productive, mobile, efficient, paperless life starts here!

Lynda.com
Learn software, business and creative skills.

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Mac Power Users 139: Workflows with Ethan Schoonover

Ethan Schoonover joins David and Katie to talk about his Solarized project, and his graphic design, photography and home automation workflows.

Thanks to MPU listener Jigar Talati for assistance with the shownotes this week!

Links for this episode:

Ethan Schoonover

Ethan Schoonover (ethanschoonover) on Twitter

Solarized

Adobe Creative Cloud

Macworld Podcast: Creative Cloud and iPhoto improvements

PDFpen: Mac PDF Editor

Intuos Professional Pen Tablets

Cintiq Pen Displays

Noteboard – Folding whiteboard

How to Develop 35MM Film in a Darkroom- YouTube

Apple Cards App

ShutterSnitch

Eye-Fi Memory Cards

Hazel

Dropbox Camera Upload

FUJIFILM X-Pro1

Nikon F – Wikipedia

E-PL5 | Olympus

C-Pen – Digital Highlighter

Canon SELPHY CP900 Wireless Color Photo Printer

Evernote

Amazon.com: Ectaco C-Pen 3.5 BT Bluetooth Handheld Scanner: Electronics

Evernote Peek

DEVONthink

doo | Every Document of Your Life

Pocket

Reeder

IFTTT

Ulysses III

Sublime Text

Tree, outliner for Mac OS X

Scrivener

OmniOutliner

OmniPresence

iRed 2 – Control your Mac from your iPhone

IRTrans Infrared Control System

Put Your Mac to Sleep with iOS Drafts

ControlPlane | Context Sensitive Computing

Dropcam

SecuritySpy

48 Inch Traditional Batleth

The Klingon Dictionary

WeMo

Linux.org

Moom

Little Snitch

Airfoil

Bartender

KeyRemap4MacBook

Caffeine

Mac App Store – Palua

BetterTouchTool

Pinboard: social bookmarking for introverts

Listener Squarespace site – Curve Writing

Win a Transporter

Squarespace Everything you need to create an amazing website.

Transporter
A new way to share, access and protect files.

Pixelmator
Beautifully designed, easy-to-use, fast, and powerful image editing app for the Mac.

Gazelle
Get cash for your used iPhone, iPad, MacBook and other Apple products. What’s your gadget worth?

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Mac Power Users 138: Syncing and Sharing

David and Katie revisit the topic of syncing and discuss how to sync information between your various devices and share with others.

Links for this episode:

Synology Network Attached Storage

Synology Network Attached Storage – Cloud Services

Simperium

Simperium is a service for developers to move dataeverywhere it’s needed, instantly and automatically.

Apple – iCloud

iCloud does more than store your content — it lets you access your music, photos, calendars, contacts, documents, and more, from whatever device you’re on. And it’s built into every new iOS device and every new Mac.

Dropbox

SugarSync

Box.com (formerly box.net)

Google Drive

Downcast

Instacast 3

Instacast for Mac – Public Beta Available

30 Minutes To Sync

1Password 4.2 for iOS gets huge update

Black Pixel – The Return of NetNewsWire

Together for Mac

iCloud – Photo Sharing

MPU 047: Dropbox Awesomeness

MPU 004: Staying in Sync

Dropbox

Photostream

DropDAV

iTunes – Match

Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast

MacSparky Screencast – Email Sorcery on Vimeo

Klingon Weapon Guide

The lands stretching from the western slopes of Kri’staK to the waters of Lursor have been the home of the House of Toragh since the formation of the Empire. At the foot of Kri’stak lies the Heart of Kri’stak – the Forge of the House of Toragh. The sons of Toragh have supplied Klingon warriors with the finest blades in the Empire – ‘etlhmey vaQqu’ – for over 1500 years. These are but a few examples.

Finding the best app for lists | Macworld

Many great apps for the Mac, iPad, and iPhone will keep track of your to-do list. But what about other lists—ones that aren’t composed of things you have to do but instead are just lists of things?

Bat’leth

OmniPresence

iCloud: Share a calendar with others

How to create shared Reminders with iCloud in Mac OS X 10.8.2 | Macworld

by John Chandler

Google Drive App

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Learn software, business and creative skills.

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