Mac Geek Gab: Traveling Tips, ATSServer, and phone/PDAs

John gets back from vacation and tells us all about his experiences figuring out the wireless base station and SMTP server at the vacation house — this chat includes lots of great tidbits for anyone ever traveling with a computer, including a few ways of finding your local mail server. Additionally, Dave and John respond to reader comments from last week’s show, and Dave has a few pleas for YOU geeks relating to both an overactive ATSServer process and e-mail on cell phone/PDAs!

Show notes for TMO To Go: Mac Geek Gab For August 8th, 2005

Podcast Link: TMO To Go: Mac Geek Gab, August 8th, 2005

John gets back from vacation and tells us all about his experiences figuring out the wireless base station and SMTP server at the vacation house — this chat includes lots of great tidbits for anyone ever traveling with a computer, including a few ways of finding your local mail server. Additionally, Dave and John respond to reader comments from last week’s show, and Dave has a few pleas for YOU geeks relating to both an overactive ATSServer process and e-mail on cell phone/PDAs!

Stuff mentioned:

• Nantucket – Even though John didn’t cut a deal with the chamber of commerce.


• MacFixIt


• Systat – Multi-use widget which can (among other things) show you your IP


• WhatIsMyIP.com


• Accident Hash – Great podcast featuring indie-music


• Daily Source Code – Adam Curry’s podcast about… podcasting!


• TiVo Desktop – Reports coming in that TiVo Desktop 1.9.1 now works in Tiger with the 10.4.2 update


• Carbon Copy Cloner – This, too, now works with Tiger with the 10.4.2 update


• Skype


• Mac OS X Hints


• Blackberry


• Siemens SX66


• Palm Treo 650


• Gmail


• iPodObserver

Courtesy of Neal Parikh, to change the file format of the screen capture images, type:

defaults write com.apple.screencapture type _image-format_

where image-format is jpg, tiff, png, pdf, and maybe more!

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• Subscribe to the Mac Geek Gab in iTunes 4.9! – Show Details


• PodcastAlley – Vote (please!)


• Podcast Pickle


• PodcastingNews

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Theme Music: “The Answer”, written by Jeff Steblea and Brian Ayles, as performed by Go Figure.

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