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Rick Green, Director of Marketing & Creative Services and Robert Leitch, Production Manager, MediaSource TV join host Scott Sheppard to share an exciting "switcher" story. MediaSource is a full-service multimedia production and public/media relations creative studio. Rick and Robert explain how they were originally using an Avid, PC based video workflow but when they upgraded their studio they also changed their entire production workflow from Avid to Final Cut Pro running exclusively on brand new Apple Macs. Hear their experiences and joy first hand as their entire company quickly learned to love their new platform and how seamlessly they switched and were able to maintain their busy workloads. To learn more about MediaSource visit: http://www.mediasourcetv.com/

Todd Santoro, Principal & Sr. Designer, ToddSantoro.com Designs and Founder, Accelerator Labs joins Inside Mac to discuss his groovy cool retro style iPhone apps including; "Rock, Paper, Scissors", "Naked Lady Pen", "Spin the Bottle", and in honor of our President elect "O Bobble Head" which answers your pressing questions like a magic 8-Ball. Also just in time for the holidays, you can download "pocket Mistletoe" to see where people are getting lucky this season. Todd’s design background helps create the graphic interface. Todd explains how quickly they were able to pull together a winning development team, and with little prior experience are launching successful iPhone apps. Check out the latest at: http://acceleratorlabs.com/

Jon von Bronkhorst, Executive Director, Product Marketing for Seagate Consumer Solutions Division (CSD) explains details about their latest Mac OS products; Free Agent Go and Free Agent Desktop storage solutions. Jon explains that unlike previous desktop and portable storage solutions, the Free Agent 2.0 series whose Mac versions were developed entirely with the Mac user in mind. The drives ship formatted for Mac OS, have an elegant design and are so easy to use right out of the box unlike the PC version they do not require or ship with any additional software. The Free Agent Go includes a convenient docking station, delivering true portability. Jon reminds us that all Seagate drives include a 5 year warranty. Scott and Jon also discuss some background on Seagate and Macstore brand integration. To find out more, including where to purchase visit: http://freeagent.seagate.com/

Sally deVincentis, Chief Executive Officer, APTE Inc. joins Inside Mac this week to talk about their unique line of educational programs for kids that encourage them to play and learn. Sally discusses their latest product, a tween diary called "My Crazy Life". This program lets them record their private thoughts, personal pictures and favorite music in a format that lets them ‘keep it private’ without ever going online. It encourages personal expression, integrates text, pictures, music, and videos yet provides privacy via password protection and can support up to 10 accounts so multiple family members can use, but each can maintain their own journal. APTE offers a full line of licensed products including those developed for Nickelodeon, and other learning software, to see their full line visit: http://www.apte.com/

Video Post Production News of the Week with Philip Hodgetts from the Open TV Network. More information available at: http://www.opentelevisionnetwork.com/

Andy Shalat, Design Guru and Author of "Mac Design Out Of The Box" shares his Design Tip of the Week. For more about Andy and his latest works visit: http://www.shalat.com

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Ron Pepper, Panoramic Photographer & US Manager, HDR Soft joins host Scott Sheppard to explain how to increase the dynamic range of your photographs using their Photomatix Proprogram. Available as a plug-in for Photoshop or a standalone application for Mac OS, this great program allows you to combine several images with different exposures and blend them into a single image with an increased dynamic range. You can also easily control the highlight and shadow details using their tone mapping tools to fully edit your final HDR (High Dynamic Range) images. For more information, and download a trial version visit: http://www.hdrsoft.com/

Larry O’Connor, President, Other World Computing joins Inside Mac to discuss the world’s only tablet Mac® computer solution The Axiotron™ Modbook™. OWC has been shipping the Modbooks since the beggining of this year but recently added the Modservice allowing you to convert your existing MacBook to a tablet for about half the price of purchasing a new Modbook. Larry explains how upgrades such as NewerTech Voyager SATA Hard Drive Docking Station, and Hitachi Hard Drives with Rebates, Macbook RAM Memory trade-in and upgrade programs to help you get the most of your Mac. For more information visit: http://www.macsales.com

Lorenz Sell, Founder and CEO at Blue Lava Technologies discusses their latest platform, iLovePhotos.com which uses state of the art facial detection, to help you automatically organize and share your photos based on the people who are in them. Lorenz shares some background on how the application was developed, and where this new platform is heading including integration to popular social network sites such as MySpace and Facebook. The unique technology allows you to tag a photo to a person in your address book, upload and store the images on the iLovePhotos.com site, tag and synchronize them with iPhoto, and even send them an email when new images are added. To try it for yourself it’s currently in beta and free, visit: http://www.ilovephotos.com or drop Lorenz a note at lorenz at ilovephotos dot com.

Scott Huskinson, President and CEO, iFrogz joins Inside Mac to discusstheir unique line of customizable iPod cases and accessories and introduce their latest set of made-to-order custom headphone including Fallout, NervePipes, and Hype which join their already popular EarPollution line. Scott also describes details about their iPhone 3G Luxe case which has a velvet feel that offers protection. iFrogz also offers the only iPod case for kids - the Tadpole which easily converts any video iPod to a children’s education and portable entertainment device. Check out their holiday specials and discounts at http://www.ifrogz.com, use discount code InsideMac for extra savings.

Video Post Production News of the Week with Philip Hodgetts from the Open TV Network. More information available at: http://www.opentelevisionnetwork.com/

Andy Shalat, Design Guru and Author of "Mac Design Out Of The Box" shares his Design Tip of the Week. For more about Andy and his latest works visit: http://www.shalat.com