During Mac Power Users episode 6, I talked about my Magic install disk. I’ve had lots of inquiries about exactly how I did it so here it is. This episode demonstrates how to create an external drive with all of your application installations using the built in OS X Disk Utility application and Noodlesoft.com’s Hazel. Enjoy.
By the way, an amazing thing is happening over on iTunes. I’m starting to get comments and ratings. Thanks everyone for taking the time. If you haven’t yet, please do so. These screencasts are quite a bit of work and I’d like to see them get a bit wider distribution. Ratings and comments help that. Thanks.

Recently, I’ve been getting a lot of email questions about some of my productivity hacks. It has inspired me to try and step things up with the screencasts. I’m now tooling up to release a series of productivity themed screencasts. The first two installments will be:
1. Email
All things email – IMAP vs. POP, dealing with Spam, archiving, best practices, plug-ins, and my filing system.
2. OmniFocus
My particular OmniFocus tips, tricks, and tweaks.
I’ve got a few other ideas but the above two are going to keep me busy for some time. Let me know if there is anything in particular you would like covered in the above two shows or if you have any other ideas for screencasts. I’m looking forward to putting these together.

Big changes are afoot with my screencast. I was running into a few problems with bandwidth hosting it on this site and the iTunes feed was the dinky little iPod format. I’ve signed up with a new host, Libsyn, which is now distributing the podcast in Apple TV format. Furthermore, I’ve set up a new feed in iTunes with the Apple TV format. Please go and subscribe to the new feed. There are currently two feeds but the older feed (with the smaller format) will be going away in the next few weeks. The new feed is the one that includes episode 10.
You can Download Individual Episodes Directly Here
The net result of all these changes is that you can now get the screencasts in Apple TV resolution instead of iPod format. The fiscal impact on Macsparky headquarters is that I have to pay some additional monthly fees but do not have to worry about getting hit with large bandwidth fees. I may look into a donation button or some advertising to offset that in the future but for now I’m just glad to get the increased resolution in a feed.
I hope that all made sense and thanks for subscribing. I love hearing back from happy viewers and generally ignore the unhappy ones.