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On the show floor at Macworld 2010, Mark Hollis of MacPractice provides an update on their medical office software. Government documentation fulfillment is burdensome at best; MacPractice can help physicians manage the paperwork to allow more time for the practice of medicine, and Mark talks about how they are involved in trying to streamline the [...]

On the show floor at Macworld 2010, Mark Gollin, Vice President of Mac Product Development of The Neat Company shows off the new version of the Neat Receipts software that lets you can, organize and search documents, receipts, business cards and more. Mark also provides a summary of their mobile and desktop scanners that can [...]

As Macworld 2010 begins, Oliver Breidenbach of Boinx Software talks about why the needed to get a TV studio in a suitcase to demonstrate their flagship product, BoinxTV, at the show. BoinxTV gives the Mac live video production capabilities, and is a key component of the many video productions done on the show floor. Oliver [...]

Bill Atkinson earned his place in Macintosh history as part of the original Macintosh development team, and as the author of MacPaint. These days, Bill is is a nature photographer, looking for a way to create affordable “art for the rest of us”. As part of that objective, Bill has created Bill Atkinson PhotoCard, an [...]

Macworld 2010 week opens with a conversation with Greg Scown of SmileOnMyMac, who provides a pre-release review of the upcoming TextExpander 3, the newest version of their hit productivity tool. Changes are coming to TextExpander 3, and they are for the better. Greg discusses those changes and how they will enhance the product, new features, [...]

Ever wonder what a Final Cut Pro SuperMeet is really like? Take a walk through The San Francisco Final Cut Pro SuperMeet 2010, from the exhibit hall floor to the presentation stage, to the amazing raffle that wraps up every event. You’ll learn why these are not-to-be-missed events for anyone interested in digital storytelling.

As The Road to Macworld winds down and the big event approaches, Jean MacDonald of SmileOnMyMac talks about why being at Macworld 2010 is so essential from a business perspective, whether you are an exhibitor, speaker, or an attendee. Even though her company is not exhibiting, Jean explains why she and her partners will be [...]

This MacVoices Group update includes: A list of Chuck’s Macworld 2010 appearances The MacVoices contest at Macworld 2010 The Drobo “Spirit of Macworld 2010″ contest The MacVoicesTV website redesign An apology from Chuck and a new San Francisco Restaurant recommendation Links: Chuck Joiner on Twitter The MacVoices Group Subscribe to MacVoices in iTunes MacLevelTen – [...]

On The Road to Macworld 2010, Adam Christianson of The MacCast previews his session on integrating your Mac into your home theater set-up. Adam talks about some of the challenges in getting things just right, and names a surprise option that you have have abandoned long ago. Four the fourth year running, Adam will also [...]

As part of The Road to Macworld 2010, Macworld Senior Editor Christopher Breen provides a preview of the two official sessions he’s part of at this year’s show. The iPhone SuperSession will help everyone, novices and veterans alike, get more out of their iPhone. Everything from the coolest apps to jailbreaking is fair game in [...]

Jeff Gamet of The Mac Observer was the virtual guest at the Hershey Apple Core‘s January meeting, and reported on his experiences at the Consumer Electronics Show. From Steve Balmer’s keynote to the show floor, Jeff delivers his assessment of the show, the Mac/iPhone presence and names his biggest disappointment. 3D television was big at [...]

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The MacVoices Group (MacVoicesTV, MacVoices, MacNotables and The MacJury) produced seventy-seven shows as part of our Macworld Conference & Expo 2009 coverage. You can link to them all here and find out what you missed (or what you didn’t get to) at the year’s biggest and best Mac event. We’re already looking forward to 2010, [...]

 We wrap up our Macworld Expo 2009 coverage by thanking everyone we could think of and riding the Moscone escalators. We also used the services of our friends at Animoto to include Expo week through the eyes of MacVoices. Sit back and enjoy the show.

One of the smallest devices generating buzz at Macworld Expo was the Lloyd iPod microphone. Andy Fathollahi, the president of Incipio, shows us the Lloyd and highlights some of its design features and affordability. Andy also talks about their TONIC universal car charger for your USB devices, and their wide range of iPod and iPhone [...]

The Macworld All-Star Band (Christopher Breen, Bryan Chaffin, Dave Hamilton, Paul Kent, Chuck La Tournous, Bob LeVitus and Duane Straub) gave their first-ever interview as a band on the MacVoices’ “Road to Macworld” series, so it seems only fair that we let you see them in action. Shot live at the Cirque Du Mac party [...]

For most of Macworld Expo week, Joe Kissell was deeply immersed in demonstrating and sharing information from his Take Control book, Take Control of VMWare Fusion. Joe shares his observations about Mac users interested in having the Windows option available to him, delivers some product picks from his time at the show, and talks about [...]

On Friday morning at Macworld Expo, John Grzeskowiak of RadTech takes some time to provide updates on a few of the many products RadTech offers. John gives us a sneak peak at their new OmniStand, talks about Otterbox updates, the latest bags from Spire and Lexie Barnes, the MacTruck, their precision mice and more. Buying [...]

In the BeLight Software booth at Macworld Expo, Irina Stepanovska, Vice President of Marketing, talks about their latest release, Labels and Addresses, the easy way to print all types of labels and envelopes. Irina also gives us a sneak preview of BeLight’s next product and their plans for Macworld Expo 2010. The audio-only version of [...]

Terry White wraps up the Adobe User Group and Professional Association Breakfast at Macworld Expo with more Photoshop CS4 features including GPU and camera RAW support, new zooming and iPhone-like navigation in images and more. Terry also talks about Acrobat.com and how it beat iWork.com to the punch, as well as Acrobat Connect Now, and [...]

From the Adobe User Group and Professional Association Breakfast at Macworld Expo, Terry White shows off some of the new features in Adobe InDesign CS4, including proportional placing, smart guides, conditional text (and what it’s good for), improvements in dealing with rotated text, active preflight and more. The audio-only portion of this show is available [...]

At the Adobe User Group and Professional Association Breakfast at Macworld Expo, Terry White demonstrates some of the new power of Illustrator CS 4. With a focus on giving users easier access to frequently-used features, Terry shows off new gradient capabilities, multiple document support, Illustrator CS4′s unified window, and some new intuitive drawing methods. The [...]

The Adobe User Group and Professional Association Breakfast at Macworld Expo opens with a welcome from Terry White, and then Dave Hemly shows off some of the almost magical video results that can be achieved with the newest versions of Adobe Premier Pro and After Effects. Dave demonstrates importing features, editing video directly from memory [...]

In the Boinx Software booth at Macworld Expo, Oliver Breidenbach gives us a tour of BoinxTV, the live video production software “for the rest of us.” BoinxTV delivers high production value results through an innovative interface that is both easy and fun to work with. Oliver shows off a few of the features and their [...]

At Macworld Expo, Mark Fuccio, Senior Director for Data Robotics, gives us the lowdown on the Drobo, the data storage robot that will help keep all your information safe. Mark talks about how it accomplishes that vital task, the Drobo’s expandability and why it won’t go out of date any time soon, what you need [...]

Tom O’Connor, the Director of iStudio Publisher, talks about their new entry in the desktop publishing market. Postured somewhere between Adobe InDesign and Apple’s Pages, iStudio Publisher offers an interface that gives the user easy access to sophisticated features and effects without the huge learning curve. Tom talks about how they are asking customers for [...]

The CEO of mDialog, Greg Philpott, provides a tour of the many services they offer to new media creators. mDialog provies a wide range of options and features, including in-browser video encoding and uploading, encoding in up to three different resolutions, social networking tools, contest and survey engines, distribution options, iPhone support and even monetization [...]

In the Recosoft booth at Macworld Expo, Paul Chadha shows off the functionality and features of PDF2ID version 2.0, a utility that converts the contents of PDF files into fully editable Adobe InDesign documents, graphics and all. Paul gives us a demo of how easily this is done, and how complete the results are. The [...]

Mark James, Vice President of Marketing for SoftRAID, talks about their utility that delivers affordable RAID options to any user. With the goal of cutting down on points of failure and improving performance, SoftRAID lets you mix and match drives of different sizes and even interfaces. Mark explains how SoftRAID supplements Time Machine, and their [...]

Barbara Dehart, the Vice President of Marketing for Telestream, took some time off from a busy Macworld Expo booth to discuss some of the products they acquired and how enhance Telestream’s spectrum of video solutions. Barb explains how they support everyone creating and using video content, from the consumer in his living room to the [...]

Want to see three uncompressed 1080i video streams playing on a single monitor with no problems? Then you need to check out our visit with Steve Katz of JMR. With a Best-of-Show award in hand, Steve talks about their BlueStor External PCIe RAID storage options, how it delivers amazing performance at an affordable price, and [...]

From the show floor at Macworld Expo, Justin Whittaker, Marketing Manager for i.TV talks about how their free iPhone app can become your one stop for all sorts of media management and interaction. From your local theater and television broadcasts to your NetFlix que and remote TiVo programming, i.TV puts it all in the palm [...]

You may look a little unusual wearing them, but the cinemizer personal video glasses from Zeiss deliver some amazing video, just for you. Andreas Klavehn talks about what makes cinemizer different, including optical technology from Carl Zeiss AG, native 3D support that makes you feel like you’re there, and the ability to use either the [...]

The Microvision booth at Macworld Expo was buzzing with interest in their Show WX pocket-sized projector. Matthew Carmean gives us a look at the impressive image created by their PICO technology, the even more impressive portability and image focus function, and talks about why you may eventually find it built into your mobile devices. The [...]

Kensington received a “Best of Show” award for their new Bluetooth Hands-Free Visor Car Kit at Macworld Expo, and Matt Hoag tells us all about it. The device gives you three programmable buttons for your frequently called numbers, eliminating the multiple swipes and touches necessary on an iPhone. Matt explains why they provide you with [...]

Glen Aspeslagh, co-founder of Ecamm network shows off the company’s latest product, the BT-1 Wireless Webcam, from their booth at Macworld Expo. Billed as the world’s first bluetooth webcam, the BT-1 won a “Best of Show” award, and will offer new opportunities for convenient video monitoring, capture and interaction. Glen talks about the specifics, and [...]

We caught up with Photoshop master Deke McClelland in the lynda.com booth at Macworld Expo to talk about his newest book, Photoshop CS4 Channels & Masks One-on-One, his thoughts on third-party Photoshop utilities, the rate of adoption of Adobe Creative Suite 4, and what we can expect to see from him in the coming year. [...]

Griffin Technology racked up a number of “Best of Show” awards at Macworld Expo. Marketing Manager Jennifer Fisher shows us a couple of highlights from their product line, including the Power Block Reserve and Power Jolt Reserve. These two external power solutions for the iPhone will keep you going affordably. The AirCurve is an amazing [...]

Getting ready to switch to the Mac, or help a friend through the process? You need to see the new training option offered by It’s About Time Products. In their booth at Macworld Expo, Saied Ghaffari introduces us to their interactive learning solutions for both Mac OS X and the iPhone. Designed to help you [...]

Sling Media‘s David Eyler takes a break from booth presentations at Macworld Expo to talk about the Sling Box, how it sends media from your home video sources to a variety of players and devices. David explains their plans to support the iPhone very soon, and provide service on Wi-Fi, 3G and even Edge networks [...]

Product Manager Shawn Lawlor for iFrogz, talks about their latest offerings from their booth at Macworld Expo, including the Luxe case for iPhone and iPod, and several new earphone and earbud options. At iFrogz, Shawn explains that it is all about the customization options, and that includes the ability to select your own color combinations [...]

From the show floor at Macworld Expo, Carlos Gouveia of Matias shows off their Bluetooth Folding Keyboard, suitable for people on the go who want a full-size keyboard option, the Tune Blocker, a simple iPod/iPhone docking cable that lets you select whether you sync or only charge your device, and the iRizer, a different kind [...]

Mac laptop owners are very familiar with connecting and disconnecting cables of all kinds every time they arrive at home, the office, or wherever they call home. Sara Rosenberg of BookEndz shows you how easy it can be to do it all at once with the new generation of BookEndz laptop docks. A simple lever [...]

In the Blue Microphones booth at Macworld Expo, Blake Jarsky shows off the line of Blue Microphone products. Starting with the venerable Snowball and the smaller, portable Snowflake, Blake then introduces the new Eyeball, which combines the Snowflake form factor and mic with a high-definition USB webcam for online catting and internet telephony. The Mikey [...]

From the Macworld Expo show floor, Jeff Sobel, the Chief Engineer, takes us on a tour of The John Lennon Educational Tour Bus. Jeff shows off the amazing amount of audio and video equipment they make available to students, how it all fits into the bus with room to spare, and shares what excites him [...]

The logistics behind the The John Lennon Educational Tour Bus are the story behind the story. Tour Coordinator Jaime Walden tells us what it takes to arrange the 200 stops the bus makes annually, how she got involved, the sponsors’ roll in making it all happen, and how you can request a bus stop. The [...]

From the show floor at Macworld Expo, Phil Gibson, the founder of Digital Media Academy, talks about the training solutions his company offers for those who want to get up and running in short order in pro-level topics like audio and video production, web design and more. Phil also explains why their partnership with the [...]

Taped live in the PodLoft at Macworld Expo, the panel of Bryan Chaffin, Tonya Engst, Andy Ihnatko and Bob “Dr. Mac” LeVitus join Chuck Joiner to discuss this year’s show, what might happen at next year’s show and what it has to do with the Great London Fire, deliver some show picks, and comment on [...]

John Chaffee of BusyMac talks about their new iCal replacement, BusyCal, from their booth at Macworld Expo. Frustrated with iCal? John shows off some of the features of BusyCal that should have been in iCal long ago, including graphics support that is both useful and attractive, enhanced syncing and sharing capabilities inherited from their BusySync [...]

In their first live appearance as a group, members of The Mac Roundtable took the Macworld Learning Center Stage at Macworld Expo to discuss Phil Shiller’s keynote, the future of Macworld Expo, some of their product picks from the show, and more. Participating members included (in order of appearance) Allison Sheridan, Adam Christianson, John Chambers, [...]

With storage prices dropping, RAID solutions are becoming more affordable…but not always easy to administer. CalDigit‘s Jonathan Schilling explains how their new CalDigit VR not only offers an effective RAID solution, but boasts a graphical user interface that anyone can understand. Configurable from the front panel, the unit includes hot swappable drives and quadruple connectivity [...]

With some of the new features in iPhoto ’09, geotagging photos is suddenly a hot topic. Pierre Bernhard of Houdah Software talks about how their HoudahGeo product takes the pain out of the process by working with your iPhoto library and many GPS track loggers to easily match up images with longitude and latitude information. [...]

Not exhibiting at Macworld Expo this year didn’t stop Paul Kafasis and the team from Rogue Amoeba from releasing new products. We caught up with Paul wandering the show floor to talk about Pulsar, the app that brings satellite radio to your Mac, and Radioshift Touch, their first iPhone/iPod Touch App that lets you leverage [...]

From the PodLoft of the Macworld booth at Macworld Expo, Joe Klein of NewMediaCreative provides his perspective on the rise of New Media and social networking. Joe talks about coming off the sidelines and getting back in the game, lured by the many new opportunities for interaction with audiences of all types, makes the case [...]

From the equinux booth on the show floor at Macworld Expo, Christian Rueb talks about their new iPhone apps that support iSale, The Tube and the TubeStick, as well as SongGenie, their brand new utility to help you clean up your music library tags and make the Genius feature of iTunes more effective. The audio-only [...]