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Mac Roundtable Podcast
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I was on the Mac Roundtable Podcast this week with Adam Christianson (of The MacCast) and Ken Ray (Mac OS Ken). We chatted about User Groups, iPhone, WWDC, and various other Apple-related topics.
It was a lot of fun, although my Skype kept giving out and dropping me. Maybe I need to make some kind of sacrifice to the Comcast gods in order to get a stable connection these days.
Music and Medicine toolbar
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This is kind of weird, I know, but I was inspired by a certain Webware article to create my very own Music and Medicine toolbar for Firefox. Unfortunately, it only works for Windows (gasp!) but it is pretty funny. Some amazing features include:
Links and feeds of my favorite sites!
A radio station that only streams podcasts I’m involved with!
A chat area for other M&M (Hah! Get it?) users to communicate with one another!
A special message center with messages from… ME!
Thrilling! 
I have no idea why you would want this.
MBP FTW
28Well, as you may have seen from my Flickr page, I welcomed a new bundle of joy into my home this past week: a shiny new MacBook Pro (15″ 2.16GHz, 2GB RAM, 120GB [5400RPM] HD.) So then I had to pull some things over from the G5 and start setting it up. I put the G5 in Firewire mode, and started importing music first. Wow, was that ever cathartic! It was almost like cleaning out your closet from the house you grew up in… I started dumping music that I hadn’t listened to in years, and laughing at some of the junk I used to think was awesome. A lot of it went back to the Napster heyday.
Instead of dragging all my software over, I just downloaded (or reinstalled) the stuff that I needed. I didn’t want to bog the laptop down with apps that I would never use. It went in this order:
World of Warcraft
Quicksilver
Firefox
Adium 1.0
Growl
AppZapper
Twitterific
smcFanControl (Ryan told me about this… good for keeping the laptop cool when playing WoW)
What apps would you go and download immediately? What can’t you live without? I need some more suggestions!
The Vidget
16I feel kind of goofy posting this, but I think the effort needs to be recognized! Jon and Kevin C. have created an OS X widget for my blog. They have tons of other great blog readers as well, so go check them out at their site, J|K Design Associates. I have lovingly named it “The Vidget.”
Download it here.
Also, it’s very meta that my posting about the Vidget will show up on the Vidget shortly.