Episode 51 / August 2, 2007
Scott Bourne starts us off with ibloglines.com, an RSS feed aggregator for the iPhone. Scott likes it better than Google Reader or the mac.com reader. He likes that it integrates nicely with the regular Bloglines. He can mark an item for later reading and when he gets back to the Mac, it’s marked on Bloglines.
Next up Alex Lindsay tells us about Wirecast, a typical Alex way-over-my-head video production pick. But hey, he sounds like he knows what he’s talking about. I couldn’t tell what the app did from his description, but according to the Vara Software site, “Wirecast is the most advanced live webcasting product available for your Mac or PC. You can stream multiple live video cameras, while dynamically mixing in other media (movies, images etc).” Apparently it’ll let him do a live broadcast of MacBreak.
Leo Laporte didn’t have a pick. Instead he updated the gang on his MacHeist experience. Things turned out great and he got all the software he was promised.
Merlin Mann [Holy crap, they just mentioned, I think, this site. They said they wanted to get a page with all the picks on it and Alex said there’s someone already doing it. Est moi!] talks about RooSwitch, which I’m glad he’s explaining, because I don’t get. What it lets you do is safely test new versions and beta versions of a program you already have without risking your existing data or preferences. It backs up everything related to the app and if the new version screws everything up, you just restore.
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