International Mac Podcast

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The panel : Stu Helm, Bart Busschots, Paul Shadwell, Elaine Giles and special guest Adam Christianson from the MacCast

Thanks for your continued support of IMP, we hope you enjoy the show! We’d love to hear from you so send your email / audio clips to haveyoursay [at] impodcast [dot] tv and we’ll get them into the mix.

Don’t forget you can support us by using the code impodcast when you sign up for a new SquareSpace account, you’ll get 10% off the life of your account too! Also, make sure you check out  ScreenCasts Online, become an Extra member for a fresh Mac tutorial every week.

This week’s show notes can be found here

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The panel : Bart Busschots, Stu Helm, Jason C. Martin, Claus Wolf and Gazmaz

Thanks for your continued support of IMP, we hope you enjoy the show! We’d love to hear from you, so send your email / audio clips to haveyoursay [at] impodcast [dot] tv and we’ll get get them onto the show.

Don’t forget you can support us by using the code impodcast when you sign up for a new SquareSpace account, you’ll get 10% off the life of your account too! Also, make sure you check out  ScreenCasts Online, become an Extra member for a fresh Mac tutorial every week.

This week’s show notes can be found here

Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:16:57 — 35.3MB)

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No, you’re not listening to the wrong show, this is a special edition of IMP Live with special guests Chuck Tomasi & Kreg Steppe from Technorama along with your regular IMPers Stu Helm & Jason C Martin. We talk about geeky things you can do with your Mac, your iPhone / iPod Touch and of course your shiny new iPad. Enjoy!

We’d love to hear from you, so send your email / audio clips to haveyoursay [at] impodcast [dot] tv and we’ll get them into the next show!

Don’t forget you can support us by using the code impodcast when you sign up for a new SquareSpace account, you’ll get 10% off the life of your account too! Also, make sure you check out ScreenCasts Online, become an Extra member for a fresh Mac tutorial every week.

Podcast: Download (Duration: 53:46 — 24.6MB)

I’ve been a Mac user for nearly four years now, and it’s been a good four years, but at some point we should all just accept the fact that Windows is superior in every way and go back. Let’s be honest, we were all just using Macs because everybody else was using Windows and we wanted to be different, but now a whole bunch of people are using Macs, and it’s become clear that this display of difference is futile. I declare our stupid rebellion from the social norm of Windows officially over, let’s all go to Dell and buy some beige power tower.

We’re always going on about the superior UI, and the UI is superior, but it’s spoiling us for the awful UI of reality. You know how kids who grew up in dirty environments get sick less later in life than the kids who grew up in spotlessly germ-free environments? It’s the same for UI; the easier it is to use your computer, the less prepared you will be for some challenging obstacle to pop up in real life. You can’t zoom out of real life to see all of the windows you’ve got open, and if you want to find something in a pile you can’t just ‘spotlight’ for it. Windows purposefully makes it as difficult as humanly possible to do anything at all with your computer, which strengthens your reflexes for real life. It’s like the UI is exercise equipment for your interaction reflexes. (more…)

Computers themselves have evolved drastically since the turn of the millennia, back in 2000 a single gigahertz was a lot, and a gigabyte of RAM was considered overkill. The Playstation 2 and XBox were still vaporware, Cellphones just made calls and PDA’s just remembered data, and neither WiFi nor Cellular Data Networks had really caught on.

This decade brought HUGE advances in the hardware side of computing, and yet the way we interact with our computers is nearly identical to how it was back then. In fact, the way we use computers hasn’t significantly changed since 1984, back when color screens were a novelty and the internet was only for the geekiest of geeks. Modern UI’s are often still based around the limitations and capabilities of 26 year old computers, and though we don’t really think about it, are now just a huge inconvenience in almost every situation. We’ve already seen some very successful attempts at getting rid of these vestigial interfaces (chances are you’ve got one in your pocket right now), and I think that by the end of this decade the software that we use now will be just as obsolete as the hardware of 10 years ago is today. (more…)

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The panel : Stu Helm, Bart Busschots, Jason C Martin, Paul Shadwell and special guest Ken Ray

This is it, episode 100 of IMP Live, thanks for your continued support of IMP, we hope you enjoy this very special and very long show!

Of course we couldn’t let the occasion pass without arranging some great deals for you, our loyal listeners. We also have some give aways going on, but you need to listen to the show for those!

• Smile on My Mac : 20 % off all products until April 12th with code ‘IMP 100‘
• Real Mac Software : 10% off all products until April 9th with code ‘IMP100′
• Topaz Labs : 15% off all products until April 9th with code ‘IMP100‘

Of course, we’d like to hear from you so send your email / audio clips to haveyoursay [at] impodcast [dot] tv and we’ll get them into the mix.

Don’t forget you can support us by using the code impodcast when you sign up for a new SquareSpace account, you’ll get 10% off the life of your account too! Also, make sure you check out  ScreenCasts Online, become an Extra member for a fresh Mac tutorial every week.

This week’s show notes can be found here

Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:33:10 — 70.2MB)