MGG 252: Word Processor Defaults, Drive Formatting Differences, Audio Streaming

Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

Dave Hamilton, Pilot Pete & Adam Christianson

Tech News, Technology, How To, News, Education

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2010

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

John and Dave end the month of March with this episode discussing the default settings of both Microsoft Word and Pages, and some issues with both, then they move on to some important nuances when choosing a format for your hard drives. Also discussed are streaming audio to multiple sets of speakers, even if they’re connected to the same Mac! All this and more enclosed within. Subscribe today, support your two favorite geeks, download, and enjoy!

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0:00.0	The Mac Geek Oh, Thanks folks and welcome to the Mac Observers Mac Geekap. I am Dave Hamilton from
0:30.9	Rainy Durham, New Hampshire this afternoon.
0:34.2	And on the other end is...
0:36.6	China Frawn, also in rainy fearful Connecticut.
0:40.2	And Dave, we're trying something new here.
0:42.1	I hope it works out.
0:44.0	What's that?
0:46.0	What are we trying new?
0:48.0	Well, I think we have a new audio set.
0:50.0	Oh, yeah, that's right.
0:51.0	Yeah, we're experimenting with the
0:53.1	Taskam US 1641 as our in and outbound audio interface. Shoeing Firewire in
1:01.0	exchange for USB as our audio transport method in hopes that we can get rid of all those problems that we've had over time.
1:10.0	Seems like Firewire audio in general surprisingly is not built at least not for what we're doing
1:19.2	And it appears to be the chip set that they they switch to a new chip set from uh...
1:25.8	i think it may have happened just before apple started building intel max
1:31.6	but uh... but basically with the, at or around the time they introduced the Intel Max,
1:38.0	they started moving to a new firewire chip set in the machines that, I don't know, it doesn't make any sense to me.
1:44.7	Firewire is an Apple standard.
1:47.0	Lots of people like to record audio on max.
1:50.2	And yet here we are.
1:54.0	Moving to USB2,, it's not just USB, it's USB 2.
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