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A podcast about all things Macintosh. For Mac geeks, by Mac geeks. Mac Podcaster Meetup 2007 Part 1. A live recording of the Mac Podcaster Meetup recorded at the Apple Store in San Francisco on Thursday January 11th 2007. A special thanks goes out to the podcasters, Apple, Inc. and the Apple Store, and all the people who attended the event.

Podcasters:
Adam Christianson, Maccast, Mac Roundtable (https://www.maccast.com)
Leo Laporte, Mac Break, TWiT (http://www.twit.tv)
Ken Ray, Mac OS Ken (http://www.macosken.com/)
Alex Lindsay, Mac Break, TWiM (http://www.macbreak.com/)
Scott Bourne, Mac Break, iLife Zone (http://www.ilifezone.com/)
Merlin Mann, TWiT, 43 Folders (http://www.43folders.com/)
Andy Ihnatko, Chicago Sun Times, MacNotables (http://www.suntimes.com/)
Derrick Story, O’Reilly, The Digital Story (http://www.thedigitalstory.com/)
Dave Hamilton, Mac Observer, Mac Geek Gab (http://www.macobserver.com/)
Chris Christensen, Amateur Traveler (http://www.amateurtraveler.com/)
Bill Palmer, iProng Radio (http://www.iprong.com/)
Shelly Brisbin, Blogger & Podcaster Magazine (http://brisbin.net)
Stuff, Pomcast (http://www.pomcast.com/)
Don McAllister, Screencasts Online (http://www.screencastonline.com/)
Tim Street, French Maid TV (http://www.frenchmaidtv.com/)

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A podcast about all things Macintosh. For Mac geeks, by Mac geeks. Macworld 2007 Part 3. A collection of interviews from on and around the show floor at Macworld. I have chats with Plasq, equniux, MacBak, Humble Daisy, mStation Audio, Austin and Peter from AppZapper and iClip.

Links:
Plasq
Missing Sync for Palm
equinux
Delicious Library
MacBak
SuperDuper
ProfCast
CircusPonies
mStation Audio
Backdrop
AppZapper
Disco
iClip

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A podcast about all things Macintosh. For Mac geeks, by Mac geeks. Macworld 2007 Day 2. A collection of interviews from on and around the show floor at Macworld. I have chats with Centurion Technologies, Nova Media, Microsoft’s Mac Buisness Unit (Mac BU), Mariner Software, and MyMac.com.

Links:
Centurion Technologies
Nova Media
BeLight Software
Microsoft Mactopia
Microsoft Mac Mojo
Mariner Software
MyMac.com

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A podcast about all things Macintosh. For Mac geeks, by Mac geeks. Macworld 2007 Day 1. A summary of all the announcements from this years keynote along with my reactions following the event. we take a look at Apple’s transition to Intel, the successes of the iPod an iTunes, the lack of any Mac related announcements, Paramount pictures content added to iTunes, AppleTV and the revolutionary new iPhone.

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Well, they say the best laid plans… I ran into a bit of trouble today with getting my Apple keynote summary out on the podcast feed. Most of this comes down to some mistakes on my part with setting recording levels. Another factor is the extreme slowness of my G4 iBook in encoding the audio. I just finished editing now at 5:30 PM PST and I need to bet at some events, meetings and parties starting at 6:00. The good news is, the show IS still coming. Hang in there and I will try to get it in your feeds before the morning. Until then here are my thoughts:

1) WOW
2) I can’t believe there is nothing for me to buy at the Apple Store.
3) Wish I could have seen SOME of Leopard.
4) Where is the Octo Mac?
5) Pre-ordering my AppleTV tonight. Yes!!!!
6) iPhone is amazing. The UI is truly revolutionary and it seems to be everything you would expect from Apple in a phone. I think it costs a bit too much, especially when you add on the 2-year service contract.

More to come, stay tuned.

Better than anyone could have imagined—all in one device. Let’s look at some of the details we know so far:

Here’s what we know regarding the phone capabilities:

• Cingular is US Parter
• GSM / EDGE
• WiFi and Bluetooth
• SMS conversations in iChat-like format
• Visual voicemail—answering machine like technology where all the messages and their contact info are listed on the phone, and can be selected to playback out of order—not sequentially like traditional voicemail. Those who use VOIP will be familiar with this. Not sure yet, but there is probably some “special sauce” that allows the phone to communicate with the voicemail service.
• Email: POP/IMAP/Push (Blackberry-like mail)—Free Yahoo! Accounts with every Apple iPhone
• Full HTML Safari web browser
• Runs a portable version of Mac OS X.

Other amazing iPhone notables:

• Multi-touch screen with onscreen keyboard
• iPhoto, iTunes, Contacts, Calendar, To-do lists, Widgets
• Bluetooth Headset
• 4GB and 8GB memory capacity
• 5 hour battery life, 16h just playing music.

$499 for 4GB, 8GB for $599. Available in June 2007.

I’m sure Adam et al will have much more to say when they get back to posting. Stay Tuned!

Twas the night before MacWorld
And all through the hall
Not a vendor was stirring
No, not at all

The attendees lay snuggled
asleep in their beds
While visions of iPhones
danced in their heads

The iPhone is here!
It’s coming right quick
We’d been told this before
(A marketing trick)
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Wired, on the Cult of Mac blog, posted a thoughtful article about the key part of the Apple Phone’s success—good mobile-phone-to-computer synchronization. It was a point made in a recent post by Engadget’s Ryan Block, and I’d say most people would agree with it.

But from that general and broad notion, I think Wired misses a lot of the progress Apple has already made with their existing applications. They also miss a large potential opportunity and downside of the introduction of an Apple Phone for Apple users.
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A podcast about all things Macintosh. For Mac geeks, by Mac geeks. Show 172. A very merry Christmas for Apple. Month of patches for ‘Month of Apple Bugs’. Steve Jobs did (or didn’t) know about backdating. Apple and others sued over digital distribution technology. Correction, say Bond-eye, not Bond-ee. Macworld predictions and thoughts: iPhone (iPod Mobile), iTV, Updated Mac Pro, OS X Leopard, iLife ’07, iWork ’07, Updated displays, Core 2 Duo Mac mini, New AirPort – 802.11n, Xserve Quad core? Other new hardware? True Video iPod. Ultra-portable Mac notebook. Meet and Mingle at Macworld. Podcaster Meetup at Apple Store and Mac Mingle Party, co-hosted with Deb Shadovitz of Mac Efficiency.com and sponsored by: by RadTech, Teach Mac, iProng, Now Software, DealMac, MacSpeech, Thoughtout.biz, TypeIt4Me, Circus Ponies, and Macworld. Two feeds, one Maccast. Audio feedback and comments. See you at Macworld!

Maybe fun is just fragments of existence with better packaging. — Pirates of Silicon Valley (1999)

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In addition to being glossy white, the Nintendo Wii is quite Macintosh friendly from a network perspective. Wii will play nicely with your Mac even at this early juncture in the it’s lifespan, with more (wired and wireless) innovations coming shortly.

Today, there are a few notable applications to get you started playing your iTunes music , watching videos, and showing photos using your Wii and all can be ready in a matter of minutes using your home network.
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