17: DNS and Macworld 2010

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🗓️ 17 January 2010

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

It's a jam packed show this week. We discuss alternative DNS services including OpenDNS and Google's DNS service with special guest George Starcher. We talk about the advantages and disadvantages of using an alternative DNS service and compare the new Google DNS service with OpenDNS. We also conduct a follow-up interview with Paul Kent of Macworld Expo and talk about the exciting new changes coming to Macworld

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0:00.0	MacPower users episode 17, DNS and Macworld 2010. Hello everybody this is David Sparks along with me today is Katie Floyd.
0:17.0	Hi Katie and we have a guest today. George Starcher, how are you today, George?
0:24.5	I'm not doing too bad, waiting for to find out how cold it's going to get here.
0:28.2	George, you are our first guest.
0:30.6	Well, I appreciate that. I do listen to the show so. Get some kind of a word and name it after you or something.
0:37.0	Yes, the annual George Starcher slot is occupied by George Starcher today.
0:43.0	Yeah, there we go.
0:45.0	Well, if it, you know, I don't want to make you feel bad, but I'm in Irvine, California
0:49.0	wearing shorts and a t-shirt right now.
0:51.0	So there you have it.
0:52.0	Yeah, I was thinking I was thinking of
0:57.4	setting up my iPhone and putting it on time-lapse camera you know get one of
1:00.4	those time-lapse apps and just let it set it up in the window and
1:03.6	record all the stow that's supposed to be coming. Well we're not that bad but I
1:07.3	I must admit I am creating a major fashion faux paw and I'm wearing socks with
1:12.0	my sandals today. That is pretty bad.
1:14.7	My toes are cold. Okay well you can get that Gorilla Pot app I think it has it's
1:19.0	free and has a built-in time lapse but that's not why we're here today we're
1:22.4	here to talk about DNS. And you know,
1:25.3	DNS is an interesting thing. Let's it, domain name system. And it's kind of one of those, you know,
1:32.4	funny things if you're not really into internet networking.
1:35.0	Even if you're a power user on the Mac, you may have really no clue what all that means.
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