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Don McAllister

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It's here! One of the most eagerly anticipated applications for both the iPhone and iPod Touch is here - 1Password.

Regular viewers will know that 1Password is one of my favourite apps for the Mac and I use it each and every day to manage my passwords, my internet identities and also to protect me against phishing scams. Although, previous versions of 1Password offered support for the iPhone via Safari bookmarklets, I've been longing for the day when a native 1Password application would be available for my iPhone.

Much to my delight, a few days ago, Agile Web Solutions released a native iPhone/iPod Touch 1Password application via the iTunes App store. What's really amazing is that the App is a free download!

In its standalone form, it allows you to keep a secured database of your usernames and passwords (and notes) for your commonly accessed websites. However, its real power comes when you combine it with the 1Password desktop application (available from Agile Web Solutions). 1Password for the iPhone allows you to sync over WiFi with your desktop 1Password data, giving you access to all your stored URLs, usernames, passwords and secure notes in your pocket! Just configure the iPhone application to securely connect to your Mac over WiFi and transfer all your invaluable web data to the iPhone or iPod touch.

This show covers:

• Installing the iPhone Application
• Setting up the 1Password Desktop Application for Sync
• Configuring the iPhone Application
• Syncing your 1Password data
• Accessing your Logins
• Using your Logins
• Using the 1Password Mini Browser
• iPhone 1Password Settings
• Accessing Secure Notes on the iPhone

In addition, the first part of the show covers a few of the major changes to the Desktop application since we last looked at it back in December. These include:

• Additional AntiPhishing Support
• New Autosave prompt in Safari
• Go&Fill HUD in the Web Browser

Along with some invaluable preparation tips you need to undertake before syncing your iPhone or iPod touch with 1Password for the first time.

Correction: One slight error in the screencast - The keyhole icon in the mini browser is in fact the list of "Logins available for the current website" not the current open browser sessions. Mind you, the developers like that idea, so you never know!

Link to buy 1Password Desktop edition - ScreenCastsOnline Affiliate Link
Link to the free iPhone App - App Store

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Backup! Yes, we all know we should be doing it, but are we doing all that we could or indeed should?

Implementing an effective backup strategy can be quite an overwhelming task - knowing where to start and ensuring that you've gone far enough! There really is no all encompassing answer but it's sometimes good to see what others have done and pick up a few ideas here and there. It's also good to know that some people have bigger problems to address than you have!

So this weeks show is the first in an occasional series of "How I..." tutorials, starting with "How I... Backup"

I've had many requests from people to open up my setup and give you a peak into how I tackle some common problems and topics, so here is a peek at how I tackle my backups.

It's not the ultimate solution (or even possibly the best way) but should give you some ideas on how to address your own requirements. In this weeks show I look at:

• Using and Configuring a UPS
• Local Backups using Time Machine and Time Capsule
• Using SuperDuper to create a bootable backup
• Remote Backups using Amazon S3 and JungleDisk Desktop Client

I've also included a section on my own particular challenges as a video editor and how I manage the gigabytes of video and project files I generate every week. This includes:

• Using Mirrored Drives on the Mac Pro
• Using a Striped RAID 0 Array
• Backing up External Drives using Chronosync

Links:

Belkin UPS
SuperDuper
SoftRaid
Disk Speed Bench X - 0.1
Chronosync

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Have we really not covered iChat before? iChat AV is the latest version of Apples instant messaging client included as part of OSX Leopard. It allows you to send and receive text, audio and video directly to your OSX desktop.

Updated in Leopard, iChat AV also has some new advanced features enabling you to share your screen or even deliver remote video presentations via iChat Theatre.

In this weeks show I cover:

• iChat Basics
• iChat Accounts
• Using iChat on a Bonjour Network
• Text messaging with iChat
• Audio messaging with iChat
• Setting up and Using an iChat Room
• Sharing a Keynote with iChat Theatre
• Screen Sharing with iChat

Something different this week is that I'm joined by a couple of other well know podcasters to help me out on the chat side of things, so you hear an appearance by Chris Marshall as we audio chat between the UK and Spain, along with Allison Sheridan from the NosillaCast podcast as we video conference all the way from the US. As well as a quick text chat with Klaus Lovgreen all the way over in the United Arab Emirates - truly a global show this week!

As promised, here are the links to some of the topics and people:

Chris Marshall - Blog
Klaus Lovgreen/Geoff Smith - RingtoneFeeder and Digital Album
Allison Sheriden - NosillaCast and Podcast on Podcasting

Thanks also to Justin and Danny for popping along to the Chat room!

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What a week for Apple! First iTunes 7.7, then the App Store, then MobileMe and finally the iPhone 3G. All in three days!

In the spirit of such an ambitious program, I thought I’d cover the rollout of MobileMe and what you needed to do to setup your Mac and iPhone using the MobileMe installer.

Leaving the show for the very last minute, I waited until Apple started the 6 hour migration task and then proceeded to cover the installer based on a pre-release of the utility. Little did I know that the 6 hour migration window scheduled by Apple would turn out to be so much longer. In fact over 24 hours later it still hadn’t finished or stabilised.

So this weeks show is really the first part of using MobileMe, and I’ve had to leave the web applications until they are generally available. I also took some time to look at the new iTunes release and the brand new App store in iTunes.

So a relatively short show this week but enough to help you out with your MobileMe migration.

Links:

Apples MobileMe Site


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Peter Maurer is a name familiar to many Mac users, as the original creator of Textpander (re-launched as TextExpander by Smile on my Mac) as well as many other excellent Mac utilities we've touched on in previous episodes of ScreenCastsOnline (ServiceScrubber and Displaperture to name but a few!)

Peter has now turned his considerable talents to develop a brand new lightweight download manager - Leech

Leech was designed to be small yet powerful, with all the features you need to efficiently and quickly download files using full integration with the top OS X browsers - Safari, Camino, OmniWeb and FireFox (using the Flashgot plugin for FireFox).

With a simple yet elegant user interface, Leech was built from the ground up to be a great example of an OS X application.

In this weeks show, I take you through:

• Leech Features
• Installation and Configuration
• Using Leech to download files
• Creating and Using Leech Rules
• Using Leech History
• Camino and FireFox Integration

In addition, I also include details of a special ScreenCastsOnline discount code to get a 20% discount off the usual price of Leech, kindly supplied by Many Tricks, the sponsors of this weeks episode.

There is an additional discount available for users of other download managers who might want to purchase Leech. Just send proof of purchase of the other download manager to info@manytricks.com for futher information on obtaining the additional discount.

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Following on from several requests, this weeks show is all about preparing for MobileMe, the new .Mac replacement service due to be launched in early July 2008.

The show covers the basics of MobileMe and gives you some useful tips on how you can prepare for MobileMe if you're an existing .Mac user, or even if you're considering signing up for .Mac in advance of MobileMe. Topics cover:

• Not a .Mac User?
• .Mac Services Being Withdrawn
• Preparing for MobileMe
• Preparing for MobileMe Mail
• Preparing for MobileMe Calendar
• Preparing for MobileMe Contacts
• Preparing for MobileMe Web Gallery
• Preparing for MobileMe iDisk
• Other MobileMe Considerations
• Signing up for .Mac

Also included in this weeks show is an update to the Evernote service, recently feature on ScreenCastsOnline (SCO0151 and 152). Fresh out of closed beta, Evernote has now launched its premium services and some new changes to the services it provides.

Links:

Apples MobileMe Site
Evernote Site

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As we start to spend more and more time using Web based applications (or WebApps), the standard web browser is becoming more and more critical. The problem is that with the advent of tabbed browsing, individual WebApps become harder to manage and locate on your desktop. Add in the fact that a single bad website can sometimes crash your browser or make it unstable, you can end up losing all of your browser sessions in one fell swoop!

Fluid comes to the rescue!

Fluid is a Leopard only application that allows you to simply and easily create "Site Specific Browsers" or SSBs.

A "Site Specific Browser" is a completely separate desktop application just for one single WebApp. In effect, it turns the WebApp into a manageble service with a dedicated desktop application that's configured just for that WebApp. Each SSB you create will have its own Menu Bar, Dock Icon and runs completely independently from other SSBs or browser sessions. So now you can launch SSBs at login, switch to them using CMD TAB, basically treat it as a desktop application.

In addition to these features, Fluid also gives you the ability to convert your SSBs into MenuExtra SSBs which reside in your menubar and are accessible at the click of a mouse. If you'd like your SSB permanently displayed as your OS X Desktop, it even supports Embedded SSBs to allow you to do just that!

Along with window customisation, an extendible plugin architecture, support for GreaseKit based Userscripting and most importantly, supported by 1Password, Fluid is a simply must have application.

In this weeks show I cover:

• Installation
• Creating Simple SSBs (Examples: Gmail and Google Docs)
• Window Customisation
• Creating MenuExtra SSBs (Example: Using Hahlo for Twitter access)
• Installing Userscripts
• Creating Embedded SSBs (Example: Using Google Calendars as your OSX Desktop)
• Fluid Plugins
• Finding Fluid Icons via flickr
• Updating Fluid Icons to High Res versions

Fluid is completely free and available to download from www.fluidapp.com

LInks:
Flickr Fluid Icon Group
Fluid Icons From Chris Ivarson
Hahlo Userscript by YungSang

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Time for a show with a hardware bent!

Lots of buzz around the internet about a product that enables you to "hack" your Apple TV simply and easily. All without opening the case and potentially voiding your warranty.

The product is aTV Flash v3.0 from Applecore LLC.

In order to play virtually any video format on your Apple TV, the steps to update are these:

• Buy the aTV Flash software and download to your Mac.
• Download a free disk image file from Apple.
• Insert a Flash USB drive on your Mac and run a script
• Restore your Apple TV to factory settings
• Insert the Flash USB drive into the Apple TVs USB port and reboot

And that's it!

This weeks show takes you through all these stages in detail and even shows you how to setup and transfer media to your Apple TV via FTP plus how to use some of the Applications installed as part of the aTV flash upgrade.

As well as being able to play virtually any video format, some added benefits of upgrading your Apple TV which I cover in the show are:

• Decouple your Apple TV from iTunes and just drag and drop media files to your Apple TV via FTP
• Access and update metadata from the Internet Movie Database and other Internet sources for Movie and TV Show information
• Browse the Internet from your couch with a Webkit based browser

But there is still more I wasn’t able to cover in this weeks show including:

• Viewing Video_TS folders and accessing DVD menus
• Accessing Independant Movies via Jaman
• Even Ordering Pizza online!

Please note that this show has not been sponsored or endorsed by Applecore LLC.

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Following on from last weeks Extra! members only show, this week is a free show and completes the tutorial on using Evernote - the cross platform and web based information management tool.

This week I finish off by looking at some additional features of Evernote including:

• Drag and Drop Support
• Using iSight Notes to catalogue and search your business cards
• Evernote Client Views
• Creating And Organising Tags
• Using Attributes
• Creating Saved Searches
• Accessing the Evernote Web Client
• Using Emails to Send Data to Evernote

I also include a really handy tip on using your iPhone to capture images and have them appear in Evernote as searchable items - very, very handy!

Evernote Invites? Share yours here or see if there are some spares!

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As from this weeks show, there are some changes to the free versions of the show.

• The free version of the show will be released a few days after the members versions of the show - I'll not be releasing the free version of the show (still every other week) until the following Monday. This will mean that Extra! members will still get each show on the Friday, but non-members will have to wait a couple of days to receive the show.

• Changes to the format of the free version of the show - As from this week, I'm going to change the available resolutions from 1280x720 overscan to 960x540 overscan plus iPod resolution for all future free versions of the show

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I think I may have found the answer to my perpetual quest for an efficient and effective way to keep all the bits of information I accumulate everyday. You know the problem - lots of bits of texts, web pages, ideas, thoughts, images, reminders, notes, etc,. So much "stuff" but nowhere sensible to store them so that I have access from any computer or any device.

And then as for thinking up ways to organise and label things so that you can find it again - nightmare!

This weeks show is all about Evernote - a personal information manager which seems to address all the requirements I have for my information store.

There's so much to cover, I've had to split this show into two parts, the second part will be released next week.

Evernote is many things!

• Firstly, at its core is a web based service that allows you to access your information via any industry standard web browser.
• Secondly, Evernote has local client applications for both the Mac and Windows that allow you to capture and store information locally and syncronise with the Evernote Web service.
• Thirdly, Evernote has mobile clients, plus an iPhone optimised web interface, so you can access all your information on the move.

Not only that, but Evernote includes some amazing character recognition technology so that any photos or digital images with text (even handwritten text) that you capture in Evernote, become searchable!! You really have to see it to appreciate it and of course this weeks show will show you!

Next weeks show will look at some additional features of Evernote including some pretty handy tips on using Evernote with your iPhone.

Evernote Invites? Share yours here or see if there are some spares!

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An invaluable utility this week, one that I seriously could not function without!

It's TextExpander from Smile On My Mac.

On first glance, it looks like a very simple utility to help you save time. It allows you to create small textual abbreviations that, when typed, will expand into words, sentences, paragraphs or even images. It can even trigger AppleScripts, just by typing a few characters or even a single character!

What's really special is that it's a system wide utility so you're not restricted to just your email or word processor, TextExpander works with all the applications on your Mac.

Speed up your typing, use it to auto-correct commonly misspelt words, respond to emails in a flash, generate tons of CSS or HTML code, TextExpander really does give your productivity a boost.

In this weeks show I cover:

• Some common uses of TextExpander
• Creating your own Snippets
• Using Date and Time Variables
• Positioning the cursor in Snippets
• Using text selections to create Snippets
• TextExpander Groups including
• Adding from a File and URL
• Predefined Snippet Groups
• AppleScript Support

The free version of this weeks show is sponsored by Smile On My Mac and they have kindly offered a 20% discount to ScreenCastsOnline viewers up to July 31st 2008. To purchase TextExpander using this discount, just visit the special ScreenCastsOnline landing page at

http://www.smileonmymac.com/sco

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