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This time around, Ted Landau gives us his thoughts on a wide variety of topics. The iPad Pro 9.7” and the smart keyboards, Apple’s financials and his primary uses for the iPad start things out. The development of the iMac, how to store and find files, Ted’s approach to new apps, the purchase of TiVo by Rovi and more are all part of this catch-up interview. This edition of MacVoices could have been sponsored by YOU! MacVoices is always looking for sponsors who appreciate our high-signal, low noise, approach to tech topics with an Apple focus. Our sponsorship packages feature inclusion in all of the audio and video versions of MacVoices at all their distribution points, a web presence, inclusion in The MacVoices Dispatch, our weekly newsletter, and more. Get the details by contacting me at here on MacVoices, or visit Backbeat Media.com. and by MacVoices Magazine, our free magazine on Flipboard that helps you do more with your Apple tech. http://MacVoices.com/Magazine Show Notes: Chuck Joiner is the producer and host of MacVoices. You can catch up with what he's doing on Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and LinkedIn. Subscribe to the show: iTunes: - Audio in iTunes - Video in iTunes - HD Video in iTunes Subscribe manually via iTunes or any podcatcher: - Audio: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesrss - Video: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesvideorss Guests: Ted Landau pens Ted Landau' User Friendly View column at The Mac Observer, is a Senior Contributor for Macworld, is the author of several Mac and iPhone help books, and is the founder of MacFixIt. He blogs on Ted Landau's Slanted Viewpoint, and you can follow him on Twitter. Links: Apple’s Failure to Scale by John Khelt on The Mac Observer

Ray East of MacPaw gives us a run-through of the brand new Gemini II, their utility for finding and managing duplicate files. Not only does it they find duplicates on your Mac, on external drives, or in any folders, but also locates “similar” files - photos taken from similar angles, music files that have slight differences, etc. Now, Gemini II recognizes the patterns you have when dealing with duplicates, makes suggestions and saves your preferences, and awards you achievements for managing your files. This edition of MacVoices is supported by Macstock Conference & Expo and the Midwest Mac BBQ, coming to Woodstock IL on July 16 and 17. http://Macstock2016.com and by MacVoices Magazine, our free magazine on Flipboard that helps you do more with your Apple tech. http://MacVoices.com/Magazine Show Notes: Chuck Joiner is the producer and host of MacVoices. You can catch up with what he's doing on Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and LinkedIn. Subscribe to the show: iTunes: - Audio in iTunes - Video in iTunes - HD Video in iTunes Subscribe manually via iTunes or any podcatcher: - Audio: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesrss - Video: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesvideorss Guests: Ray East is a Product Marketing Specialist for MacPaw, based in Kiev, Ukraine. You can follow him on Twitter.

The Road to Macstock ran through a hallway in the Wynn Hotel in Las Vegas, where Don McAllister of ScreenCastsOnline and Allison Sheridan of the Nosillacast talk about their presentations, the event, and why Allison is wearing a furry tiara. This edition of MacVoices is sponsored by Smile, the makers of PDFpen 7 and PDFpenPro 7, PDFpen for iPad, PDFpen for iPhone, PDFpen Scan+, as well as TextExpander for Mac and TextExpander for iPhone and iPad. Great software to help you get more done. http://SmileSoftware.com and by MacVoices Magazine, our free magazine on Flipboard that helps you do more with your Apple tech. http://MacVoices.com/Magazine Show Notes: Chuck Joiner is the producer and host of MacVoices. You can catch up with what he's doing on Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and LinkedIn. Subscribe to the show: iTunes: - Audio in iTunes - Video in iTunes - HD Video in iTunes Subscribe manually via iTunes or any podcatcher: - Audio: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesrss - Video: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesvideorss Guests: Don McAllister is the host and producer of ScreenCastsOnline, a weekly video tutorial service, designed to help people get the most out of their Macs, iPads and iPhones. He also publishes his training videos in the SCOtutor series of apps, blogs at The Mac Screencast Guy, and can be found on Twitter. Allison Sheridan is the host of the NosillaCast Mac Podcast - a technology geek podcast with an EVER so slight Macintosh bias - which has been running for 10 years with more than 500 episodes. The NosillaCast brings you Mac and iOS tips and tricks and tools, but also dives into photography and security and accessibility among many other technology subjects. Allison produces the NosillaCast weekly as an audio podcast and an extensive blog at http://podfeet.com, and she also broadcasts the creation of the show live on video every week to an audience who affectionately call themselves the NosillaCastaways. You may also have seen or heard Allison on Tech News Today and MacBreak Weekly on the TWiT Network, the Daily Tech News Show, Let’s Talk Photography and Let’s Talk Apple, The Mac Roundtable, Mac Geek Gab, Cordkillers, the Pocket Show and The Mac Show on the British Tech Network, the SMR Podcast, Tech’s Message, The Productive Woman Podcast, as a screencaster on ScreenCasts Online and as a columnist in SCO Magazine. Allison has a Masters in Mechanical Engineering and worked for a large aerospace company for 35 years. She ran a 170 person IT organization with budget responsibility for $50M/year. In her last few years she became an IT Fellow, the highest technical level possible in IT in the company. Links: Macstock Conference and Expo

Philip Goward and Maia Olson of Smile provide a briefing on the new features of PDFpen 8 and PDFpen Pro 8. In addition to making conversion to Word or Excel function without an Internet connection, the new version provides sophisticated digital signature capabilities. Not just putting a graphical representation of your signature on a document, but a certificate-backed signature suitable for business uses. Philip and Maia talk about the costs, methods and degrees of confidence associated with those signatures, the move on the the new attachments features that let you embed audio, video and other types of files in your PDFs, creating PDF portfolios and more. Find out how to upgrade no matter where or how you purchased the previous versions of PDFpen. This edition of MacVoices is sponsored by Casper. Because everyone deserves a great night’s sleep. Use the code MACVOICES to get $50 off any size mattress. http://Casper.com/macvoices and by MacVoices Magazine, our free magazine on Flipboard that helps you do more with your Apple tech. http://MacVoices.com/Magazine Show Notes: Chuck Joiner is the producer and host of MacVoices. You can catch up with what he's doing on Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and LinkedIn. Subscribe to the show: iTunes: - Audio in iTunes - Video in iTunes - HD Video in iTunes Subscribe manually via iTunes or any podcatcher: - Audio: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesrss - Video: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesvideorss Guests: Philip Goward is a co-founder of Smile, developers of PDFpen for Mac, TextExpander and more. He lives in San Francisco and has a passion for opera. You can find him on Twitter. Maia Olson has worked with the software company, Smile, spreading the joys of quality productivity software for the last 7 years. Over that time she has worn many hats, including those of customer support, technical writing, marketing and PR. She spends her summers volunteering at App Camp For Girls, a summer camp geared to inspire girls to join the tech industry by having female role models teach them to make iPhone apps. Maia can, occasionally, be found on Twitter.

Joe Kissell has a new Take Control book that is unlike any of his previous efforts. Are Your Bits Flipped? helps you understand some common tech misconceptions that can make you more efficient and appreciate the way the world works. From something as simple as the way you open apps on your Mac to what your email address says about you, to who you should really trust and why, Joe’s guidance will help you unflip your bits and be more tech savvy. This edition of MacVoices is sponsored by Smile, the makers of PDFpen 7 and PDFpenPro 7, PDFpen for iPad, PDFpen for iPhone, PDFpen Scan+, as well as TextExpander for Mac and TextExpander for iPhone and iPad. Great software to help you get more done. http://SmileSoftware.com and by Macstock Conference & Expo and the Midwest Mac BBQ, coming to Woodstock IL on July 16 and 17. http://Macstock2016.com Show Notes: Chuck Joiner is the producer and host of MacVoices. You can catch up with what he's doing on Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and LinkedIn. Subscribe to the show: iTunes: - Audio in iTunes - Video in iTunes - HD Video in iTunes Subscribe manually via iTunes or any podcatcher: - Audio: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesrss - Video: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesvideorss Guests: Joe Kissell is the author of over two dozen Take Control ebooks, as well as a host of print books. He is a senior editor for TidBITS, and a Senior Contributor to Macworld. Keep up with him if you can on his personal blog, JoeKissell.com, and on Twitter.

From the SuperMeet in Las Vegas, Roger Bolton of CoreMelt talks about their latest software as well as a new project to aggregate free Final Cut X resources, FCPXFree. This edition of MacVoices is sponsored by Smile, the makers of PDFpen 7 and PDFpenPro 7, PDFpen for iPad, PDFpen for iPhone, PDFpen Scan+, as well as TextExpander for Mac and TextExpander for iPhone and iPad. Great software to help you get more done. http://SmileSoftware.com Show Notes: Chuck Joiner is the producer and host of MacVoices. You can catch up with what he's doing on Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and LinkedIn. Subscribe to the show: iTunes: - Audio in iTunes - Video in iTunes - HD Video in iTunes Subscribe manually via iTunes or any podcatcher: - Audio: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesrss - Video: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesvideorss

At the SuperMeet in Las Vegas, Carllene Mowry, Product Evangelist for Atto Technology, explains how their new Thunderbolt 3-enabled devices put them at the front edge of video production workflows that move from HD to 4K, 5K and beyond. This edition of MacVoices is supported by Macstock Conference & Expo and the Midwest Mac BBQ, coming to Woodstock IL on July 16 and 17. http://Macstock2016.com Show Notes: Chuck Joiner is the producer and host of MacVoices. You can catch up with what he's doing on Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and LinkedIn. Subscribe to the show: iTunes: - Audio in iTunes - Video in iTunes - HD Video in iTunes Subscribe manually via iTunes or any podcatcher: - Audio: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesrss - Video: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesvideorss

MacVoices #16114: NAB - Drobo's Chief Technical Officer Discusses Their Focus on Simplicity As A Feature At NAB in Las Vegas, Drobo Chief Technical Officer Rod Harrison covers some of the latest enhancements to their line of expandable, redundant mass storage devices, and explains how they maintain a focus on simplicity in a world where complexity and feature bloat are very real occupational hazards. This edition of MacVoices is supported by Macstock Conference & Expo and the Midwest Mac BBQ, coming to Woodstock IL on July 16 and 17. http://Macstock2016.com Show Notes: Chuck Joiner is the producer and host of MacVoices. You can catch up with what he's doing on Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and LinkedIn. Subscribe to the show: iTunes: - Audio in iTunes - Video in iTunes - HD Video in iTunes Subscribe manually via iTunes or any podcatcher: - Audio: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesrss - Video: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesvideorss

At NAB in Las Vegas, one of the most intriguing demos we saw was by Showy. Even though in an alpha phase at the moment, Showy puts you on a virtual studio set using just a little chroma key, your webcam and your browser. Brett Gordeau and Chris Mapes explain their vision for Showy, then give us a demo that shows how they support drop zones and even 3D backgrounds, along with any type of set you can imagine. Even on an imperfect NAB show floor, the results are impressive. We can’t wait for the beta. This edition of MacVoices is supported by Macstock Conference & Expo and the Midwest Mac BBQ, coming to Woodstock IL on July 16 and 17. http://Macstock2016.com Show Notes: Chuck Joiner is the producer and host of MacVoices. You can catch up with what he's doing on Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and LinkedIn. Subscribe to the show: iTunes: - Audio in iTunes - Video in iTunes - HD Video in iTunes Subscribe manually via iTunes or any podcatcher: - Audio: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesrss - Video: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesvideorss

At NAB in Las Vegas, GoPro cameras get huge improvements with solutions from Back-Bone. JB Lauzon talks about how their Ribcage kits can adapt your GoPro for professional lenses of all types. The kits can be installed by the end user, or Back-Bone will sell you a GoPro with the modifications already installed and ready to use. This edition of MacVoices is supported by Macstock Conference & Expo and the Midwest Mac BBQ, coming to Woodstock IL on July 16 and 17. http://Macstock2016.com Show Notes: Chuck Joiner is the producer and host of MacVoices. You can catch up with what he's doing on Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and LinkedIn. Subscribe to the show: iTunes: - Audio in iTunes - Video in iTunes - HD Video in iTunes Subscribe manually via iTunes or any podcatcher: - Audio: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesrss - Video: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesvideorss