The Mac Experience in Business & Home: Help, Tips, Discussion & Radio Show Notes

iPhone arrives on June 29. iPhone features an amazing mobile phone, is the best iPod ever created, and puts the Internet in your pocket with desktop–class email, web browsing, searching, and maps. And iPhone makes it all easy to use with its revolutionary multi-touch user interface. iPhone syncs with your PC or Mac just like an iPod, so organizing your content now will help you start calling, texting, emailing, surfing, listening, and watching even faster when you get your iPhone. Here are a few suggestions to help you get ready:

If you’ve been hearing this term “Web 2.0″, but don’t know what it means to separate form and content, this is a fantastic video that explains it all. If you are a future web designer, or are one already, but need a way to explain what it is you do to your out-of-touch relatives, here’s how. It’s Web 2.0 in under 5 minutes.

I tried to embed the video but was foiled at every attempt, so here’s the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gmP4nk0EOE

There are so many different ways to set something like this up. This final installation of this blog series if going to mainly focus on what I’ve experienced so far, and what I plan on doing with my network.

So, my network at this time includes:
Airport Extreme
Airport Express
Cable Modem
Epson R200
LaCie 250GB External
Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro
Core Duo Macbook
tv or Mac Mini eventual purchase

As you may have noticed by now, I’m pretty serious about this project. I have been ripping DVDs every day since the tv was initially announced back in September under the code name “iTV”.

I had no idea where I would end up when I started, but now that I am finished with Parts One and Two, I know what I need from here. I will share with you know some things to consider.

Everyone’s talking about the iPhone (although no one is talking with it yet), and while this article is about communication, this is the last sentence that will mention the iPhone. For the moment, pass on, you hordes of latest gadget-lovers! We have other fish to fry. Last Website Wednesday Night we had a caller bring up the question of video conferencing between Macintosh OS X and Windows XP. In the past we’ve promised we’d share at least one way to make this work, and today is that day.

My friend Joe came to our office today, he’s been trying to use Yahoo Messenger on his 12″ PowerBook to communicate with his friend in Italy, on her Windows system.

Here’s a tutorial he’s going to try, let us know how it goes:

http://www.mvldesign.com/video_conference_tutorial.html

Was sent a question from Chris at CBS:

Where does the Video I-Pod stand with being able to import video from TiVo unit directly? Like, when I have my Mythbusters show on my Directv play list and I want to download it to a video I-Pod for the train ride. Do I first have to go through a computer? Is the technology for that direct connect there yet? Thanks Brother!

Great question. Here’s a link to the TiVo site about their intentions to bring TV programming to the iPod the first quarter of this year (press release from 11/05):