NZMac.com Podcast

Featuring a roundtable discussion between NZMac.com site users DavidNZ, LowededWookie, GimliNZ and Philip Roy. They discuss the iWork '09 and iLife '09 software packages. There's also a special deal for NZMac.com site users.

Featuring a roundtable discussion between NZMac.com site users Philip Roy, DavidNZ, LowededWookie, GimliNZ and apdv1. Phil, David, Darryn, Alan and Andrew (as they’re known in real life) discuss the announcements at Macworld - DRM free iTunes, the new MacBook Pro, iWork '09 and iLife '09. They also offer some application picks for Mac users.

Featuring a roundtable discussion between NZMac.com site users David, LowededWookie and GimliNZ. David, Darryn and Alan (as they’re known in real life) discuss recent news in the Mac community, including recent updates and Mac announcements.

The discussion takes a very technical path based on the in-depth expertise of all the participants, including discussions on Snow Leopard and external hard drives (based upon recent forum discussions).

NZMac.com Podcast, Episode 20 – Featuring a roundtable discussion between Philip Roy (owner/operator of NZMac.com) and site users DavidNZ and Nikkazboi. Phil, David and Nick provide you with some background to their Mac use, discuss the highlights and lowlights of 2008, as well as making predictions for what we might see in the New Year. This is the first of what is intended to be an occasional series of discussions featuring NZMac.com users.

NZMac.com invited users send their Christmas wishes to other Mac users, their friends and family during this holiday season

Glenn Wolsey, iPod writer for NZ Macguide magazine talks about his experience coming to the Apple Mac and his experiences in using the Mac to support his digital photography interest. Glenn compares the advanced Aperture application with the standard iPhoto that comes with most Macs. He dispels some of the beliefs related to Apertures performance and highlights some of its great features.

Darryn Lowe, a system engineer at Datacom talks about his work repairing PCs and the impact that having Intel chips in a Mac is going to have in the corporate world and beyond. He talks about how Windows users will be impressed with how the Macs look, their price and their functionality, both on the Windows and Mac OS side of things. Apple has managed to cram more into a cool computer than any PC users have achieved.

This is a bonus podcast for NZMac.com users by Philip Roy. It’s an enhanced podcast that he recorded for New Zealand Macguide Magazine which is published by Parkside Media. The podcast relates to an article that is in the September/October 2006 issue and was intended to show people what you can do with the podcasting features within GarageBand 3 to make your own podcast. It’s a little cheesy...but we hope you enjoy it. Thanks to Macguide for allowing it to published for NZMac.com users.

NZMac.com guest Scott Bulloch, Audio Product Specialist at Renaissance NZ Limited talks to Nathan Haines, world renown flute and saxophone musician. Nathan talks about some of his recent work, including a recording with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra which his brother mixed in Logic at home. He talks about his recent trip to Europe gigging and recent collaborations. Using iChat, Nathan is able to share files and discuss this with musicians he is collaborating with, adding his tracks to Logic and then given these file back.

NZMac.com invited guest Nick McCabe, of the Nick and Jayne Show (http://www.nickandjayneshow.com), talks about the Play Music seminar series that took place in the four main cities in New Zealand during May of 2006.