mac geekery

Topics this time:

• Playing (or not) a shutdown sound
• One UPS but mutiple notifications
• Status LCDs on Mac… or not
• Playing the security hokey-pokey with applications
• Twiddling with sound volume
• Dual-booting and a single swap partition
• Ancient video games on modern Macs

• A lesson on USB speeds

The first podcast was made with Garageband’s iChat conference feature, even though we were in the same room. It was the only way I knew to make different tracks for people with two USB headsets since they’re completely different audio sources and GB only let me pick one. I tried Soundflower and some other program, but it only mixed one device into the Soundflower channel and I couldn’t pick which one of the 16 it would go into.

I didn’t read around enough, it would appear.

Now we’re using Audio Hijack and Soundflower’s 16-channel widget and have both mics hooked up to the MacBook Pro and it sounds a lot better now.

You’re welcome.

Discuss the podcast below.