This episode is all about making small business easier. Steve shows you the Epson Workforce 600, a multi-function printer that is great for a small business. The Workforce 600 has convenient wi-fi networking capabilities and it prints in laser quality in smudge and water resistant ink at an incredibly quick speed. 

Steve also shows you some very handy tips and tricks to use with your Blackberry and he takes a look at the online invoicing tool, Invoice2Go.

On Urban Upgrade, we look at options to integrate your iPod into you digital living room.

Original Airdate: December 15, 2007

Original Airdate: October 6, 2007

Everyone knows that when it comes to Music and Graphics you can’t beat a Mac, and one of the most popular computers with students everywhere is Apple’s MacBook. The MacBook handles everything that students have come to expect from Apple – style, grace and a very small footprint. Steve looks at the main features and benefits of this popular notebook. When it comes to working on essays or assignments the MacBook can run a wide range of today’s popular applications such as Microsoft Office, or Apples own Pages and Numbers. It even does Windows!

But when the school work is over, the MacBook really shines.  It comes bundled with Apple’s amazing iLife suite of digital lifestyle applications enriching student life with photos, music, and video, or lets them  cruise the internet using Apple’s popular Safari browser.

Caroline Drury drops in and hooks her X-box 360 up to her Mac using Nullrivers Connect 360 software. The connect 360 lets you use the X-box as a wireless hub to view photos, music and videos on your television that are stored on your Mac

What’s the must-have tech toy of the generation? For design and integration, Apple’s iPod wins hands down, so we’ve devoted an entire episode to the basics and latest innovations of the ubiquitous personal media player. Steve’s got the iPod, vPod, Nano, & Shuffle on the hardware side, plus a tour of the iTunes application.

Apple

Add your voice to the internet with this exciting new form of audio and video broadcasting. Steve shows how podcasts can be recorded into Apple’s free GarageBand software with MacMice’s Micflex microphone or through a regular phone and hardware from PhoneValet. For listening to and even watching podcasts, Steve goes over the 60-gig iPod, and how to manage and subscribe to content with Apple’s iTunes.

iPod Cases

Caroline shows you how to protect your gear and look good doing it with cases for the iPod, iPod Shuffle, and Palm Treo.

Preparing Your Data

Today is the day for the big switch! If you have decided try walking the Apple side of the street, then tune in to find out how to transfer all your Windows data onto the Mac. Transferring all of our Outlook information is our first task at hand. I did a little research on the web and found a couple of tools to help me complete this task:

Apple iLife

Microsoft Office may supply all the tools you need from 9 to 5, but when it’s time for fun and you’re ready to create something spectacular, you won’t find a set of creative resources that’s better or easier to use than iLife. This week we are going to walk on the mac side of creative computing. We are going to start with the amazing new music creation application, GarageBand (which we covered in depth last season) and then move through iPhoto, iMovie and finally iDVD, giving you a really good sense of a project from beginning to end in iLife, it is going to be a blast, don't miss it!

Apple iSight/iChat

This week we are going to have a little apple show and tell just before christmas, and we are going to start with the iSight/iChat combo. As soon as you connect the camera to the computer and turn it on, iChat AV begins working with the camera. There are no additional drivers to install, no software to configure and no tedious set-up “wizards” standing between you and your first video chat. That means you’ll have your first video chat in seconds, rather than minutes or hours. iChat AV automatically detects iSight and connects with it. Simply open the iSight lens cap and iChat AV automatically launches and lets your buddies know that you are available for video and audio chatting.

iTunes

We have talked about iTunes before on this show, given you the basics of who it is and what it does. Today we are going to take it a step further, get under the hood so to say and really see what makes iTunes and its partner the iPod the most popular music solution for PC and Mac users alike.

Everyone Needs a Mac!

We have done quite a few shows on the Mac, most of you out there know I play on both sides of the fence. This week we are going to look at the Mac from a new perspective ... the Windows perspective. No we aren't going to have an old western shootout to see who is standing at the end, we are going to show you the harmony that can exist, yes one household, one network, one office, with both Windows and Mac co-existing happily.