As one of the more public Mac users, I have a lot of experience evangelizing for Apple and the Macintosh among my school community. I have come to realize that when I get into a conversation with a Windows user, they almost always end in one of three ways.
- I convince them and they agree with me that Macs have value and are worthwhile, and sometimes they even look into drinking the koolaid.
- They sort of grumble and walk away, realizing that I have beaten them, but refusing to admit it. This is generally the most common.
What is unfortunate is that the following response is becoming more and more common:
- “Macs are overpriced and not worth what Apple charges because I can get any software for free.”
This, of course, means that he pirates software. I hate pirates. They ruin everything for everyone else.
They make small developers struggle because people aren’t paying them, they make large companies (cough Adobe cough) keep their prices high, and they perpetuate DRM and license enforcement (cough Microsoft cough RIAA cough MPAA cough). Their stealing (yes, that’s right, folks. Software and media piracy is STEALING) ruins the experience for everyone else. (more…)
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This week’s panel : Stu Helm, Keaton Brandt, Gazmaz, Paul Shadwell, Oliver Haslam and special guest George Starcher
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This week’s panel : Stu Helm, Keaton Brandt, Oli Williamson and Matt Hillyer
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A great many years ago I started creating a Christmas DVD with slideshows and videos of the past year for my family. Creating the content and making it look good isn’t that big of a problem, since that’s what I got iLife (and FinalCut Express) for. However creating the labels and covers for the DVD has been a very different challenge.
Back in 2005 when I started with those DVDs in earnest, I was using LightScribe to print those DVD labels. I got a bit of software with my DVD-Writer that made creating the DVD labels bearable, however those labels didn’t have that much contrast and thus despite looking good, they weren’t right for me. In 2008 I purchased a Canon printer that was able to print directly on DVD and again I got a bit of software that made creating the labels ok, but amazingly it didn’t work all that well with the printer.
Creating DVD covers ended up as a task for Pages and a ruler to measure an existing cover to get things just about right. Those cover were only limited by my lack of creativity. For Christmas 2009 I ended up getting a copy of DiscLabel from SmileOnMyMac and let me tell you, creating beautiful and stunning DVD labels and covers was a breeze.
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The “Get a Mac” ad campaign (sometimes known as the ‘Mac vs. PC ads’) shown in the U.S has, last month, been named AdWeek’s “campaign of the decade”. In light of this, I have now found an excuse to unveil my personal distaste for Apple’s latest Mac campaign and the people who love it.
Now before I begin, I cannot, and will not deny how successful these advertisements have been for Apple. The fundamental reason why I believe this to be the case has been worded perfectly by AdWeek themselves:
“That series of 60-plus ads brought some humanity into the equation by turning the machines into live-action cartoons. In so doing, the comic spots offer transparent understanding of the aspirations of its audience and how people identify—and connect emotionally—with technology.” (more…)
It’s 2010! Can you ruddy believe it!?
From everyone here at the International Mac Podcast, we want to wish all our amazing readers, listeners and now viewers (thanks to Keaton) the best year and let’s hope for you it is a fantastic year.
Thank you so much for making 2009 great for us and we have so much more to come in 2010 as we grow more and more.
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First of all we’d like to wish you all a very Happy New Year. Now we’re aware that there are mixed views concerning the end of the decade, well, let us just put it this way, we see 10 years of Apple history,so Stu Helm & Chris Wall decided to record an episode about it!
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