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A podcast about all things Macintosh. For Mac geeks, by Mac geeks. Show 135. Welcome new iTunes listeners. Apple running new “Get a Mac” campaign with six new TV ads. Is Apple already hiring a new Aperture team? iTunes tracks still a buck. French DRM legislation doesn’t pass. Bigger iPod Nano with video Portal Player is not out of the iPod game yet. Next OS X file system may come from Sun. Apple Store openings in Colorado and Toronto this weekend. iPods sent in to entertain trapped miners in Tasmania. Battery defect makes MacBook Pro issues a trifecta. Feedback on my Parallels comments. Can Parallels use a Boot Camp partition? New Mac virus story on AP is a re-run. Listener review of MacBook Pro 15″. Washing your iPod (Don’t try this at home). MacNurse can help cure your Macs ailments. Tip on merging images with Photoshop PhotoMerge. MacCast in interview on Typical Mac User Podcast. I will be at the Mac Gathering on May 19th and 20th in L.A.
New music, Contact High by Lindy Dobbins & The Red Velvet Manx
Ok, I’ll meet you at the place near the thing where we went that time.
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The guy who plays the PC in the new Apple ads is one of the contributors for “The Daily Show”, John Hodgman (href=”http://www.comedycentral.com/shows/the_daily_show/news_team/contributors/john_hodgman.jhtml”).
Great show Adam!
I can’t download it. says the file doesn’t exist.
Same here..can’t download
Funny..Gavin
There was a typo with an extra “dot” in the filename extension. Sorry. It’s fixed now.
Something screwy about the ITunes version as well, Adam.
John
Ada,
So where is the link on French DRM law… Until it’s official, it’s too soon for Apple to celebrate, or am I wrong?
I meat ADAM:) Sorry about that!
My son, after arriving from camp a couple years back, had his clothes washed and his gameboy with a cartridge in it went in the wash too…when we discovered the gameboy had gone along for the swim we assumed it was dead. Well we left it on a shelf and a few months later we found it again, turned it on and it worked!
Wish we could wash Mac motherboards.
i think ur podcast is cool and i am only 14
Maybe the Virus story rerun was just the second phase of McAfee’s viral marketing campaign to create demand through fear. This weeks was phase three with the announcement of a new Mac security product, saying that Apple Computer’s OS X is ‘just as vulnerable’ as other operating systems are to targeted attacks…