Get a Life redux - Martin's blog and Megan Duffy's Not Nurse Ratched blog and Rose comes out of the geek closet too. Trials and tribulations making intro and outtro to Bart's HDR video and how Quicktime Pro and Wiretap Studio were the heroes. OSX update wrecks our G4 Powerbook. David claims Asia, leaving only Africa at large. Allison on Views From the Coop and the Mac Roundtable. Smack your iPhone, and in Chit Chat Across the Pond Bart and I talk about our opinions of Vista, Bart's unimpressed with NeoOffice on Leopard, and Bart finds an open source alternative to Microsoft's Remote Desktop Protocol in CoRD from cord.sourceforge.net. Bart's blog on CoRD: http://www.bartbusschots.ie/blog/?p=736 and NeoOffice: http://www.bartbusschots.ie/blog/?p=730 .

Today is Saturday April 5th, 2008, and this is show number 143. As you can see, this is a special edition video episode, thanks to the work of Bart Busschots of bartbusschots.ie. In this video screencast, he's going to actually demonstrate this HDR photography technique he talked about in the last 2 shows. He'll start by showing you several photos of the same scene, but taken at different exposures, then he'll combine (or enfuse) them using Bracketeer, and finally he'll bring them into iPhoto and show you how he uses the tools in that product combined with his own eye in order to create the final image he was looking for with high dynamic range, or HDR. We hope you enjoyed this video tutorial on HDR techniques. If you're interested in buying Bracketeer after watching this - and you happen to be watching this before midnight PST on Sunday April 6th, Bracketeer is on sale at MacZot.com for only $15US. As always, be sure to send feedback to allison@podfeet.com and let me know what you thought of the show. thanks for listening AND watching this time, and stay subscribed.

Why do they tell me to "get a life"? Open .exe files on the Mac with the free Stuffit Expander 12 from Smith Micro or The Unarchiver from wakaba.c3.cx. ICY Dock review from icydock.com plus a study of USB speeds on the Mac vs. Windows (why is USB on the Mac 80% faster?). Drew switches to the Mac and how to do delete on the Mac. Why you should use a wiki like pbwiki.com and understanding wikis through Common Craft. Bart decides to make a screencast of his workflow in creating HDR photography - testing out Jing from jingproject.org and Screenflow from varasoftware.com and giving us his opinions. Bart's screencast will be in the feed this week, but he says to be gentle in criticism!

Al's busy week on the Mac Roundtable, the Views from the Coop Podcast, the first MacDay LA event, and finally co-hosting the Typical Mac User Podcast with Victor Cajiao over on TalkShoe! Margaret points out I do go out with friends as long as they're not James. Pixelmator from pixelmator.com gets constrained cropping, another good keyboard shortcut site at allhotkeys.com and Rose explains why she bought an iPod Touch instead of waiting for the iPhone in Ireland. in Chit Chat Across the Pond Bart explains High Dynamic Range (or HDR) photography editing (his site link on the subject: http://www.bartbusschots.ie/blog/?p=701) and a rant against Apple for pushing its software where it doesn't belong!

Still Alive from jonathancoulton.com, LXVII HP67 calculator emulator from tamburri.net (or versiontracker.com), Lost Marauders at lostmarauders.com/itunes. Phishing scam avoidance, and Honda Bob tries to take QA Director Steve's job! In Chit Chat Across the Pond Bart and I discuss his photo management process using iPhoto, how he uses ImageMagic and Perl scripts to resize and watermark, and the GIMP to do fancy editing. Example of his colorizing an image so it's part black & white and part colour at bartbusschots.ie/gallery and his LAB colour boost work to give a "post card" look at bartbusschots.ie/gallery, and Bart's blog post linking to the tutorial for both the black & white fun and the colour boost. DiskInventoryX from derlien.com to find out where your disk space has run off to, and VisualHub from techspansion.com to convert your huge AVI files to mp4s.

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