Join us for a live Maccast Skype chat starting at around 9:30 AM PDT. We’ll have the conversation going until the end of Apple’s live “Latest Creation” event which starts today (01/27) at 10:00 AM PDT. We are using Skype, so if you have Skype already installed, use the link below to join If you don’t have Skype you can download it and use it for free at Skype.com. The Skype room limit is 150, so it will still be first come first served. See you there.

Live blog links we’ll be following:
Ars Technica
GDGT
TWiT Live
Gizmodo
Engadget

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A podcast about all things Macintosh. For Mac geeks, by Mac geeks. A special episode of the Maccast. We invite the folks from iProng Magazine over to help us run down their top iPhone and iPod picks from the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas.

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A podcast about all things Macintosh. For Mac geeks, by Mac geeks. Show 289. Apple acquires mobile ad company for $275 million. iPhone a touch more accurate than others. Latest Mac tablet rumors. Latest iPhone 4G rumors. New concept Apple Store in Palo Alto. Has Apple finally won over Greenpeace? Small Bonjour update. iTunes 30 second previews get webified. Mac OS X 10.6.3 update goes into wider testing. Time Machine backup isn’t all that? Magic Mouse Update. Can’t buy OS X for Non-Intel Macs. More info in Get Info… Explaining the different “types” of memory in OS X. Your $0.99 addiction may be costing you big. Quick Quickview Tip

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Original Sketch for Maccast Logo

Tonight I stumbled across this scan of the original sketch of the concept for the Maccast logo. Fun to run across a piece of history when browsing through the Finder. The created date on the file says 4/19/2005, so i guess the logo came about 4 months after the first show was posted. I can’t remember what I did for album art for those first 4 months. Guess that’s archeological research I’ll have to do another time. For now enjoy this little piece of Maccast past.

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A podcast about all things Macintosh. For Mac geeks, by Mac geeks. Show 288. iPhone moves up as a top phone in 2009. International iPhone competition heating up. Rumors of next iPhone spinning up. Apple Store set to open in Philly. Apple updates 27″ iMac firmware. 2010 Apple Rumors all about the Tablet. Correcting an error on the Maccast anniversary. More Flash stopping software. More on Apple growth outside the US. Time Machine tips. iPhoto image location, corruption, permissions, oh my. iMovie HD no longer an option, moving on. Lock your Mac from the menubar.

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EOL: 25 Years of Apple Mice (via Cult of Mac)

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A podcast about all things Macintosh. For Mac geeks, by Mac geeks. Show 287. A show for Mac geeks, by Mac geeks. A special episode of the Maccast where I am joined by my friends Victor Cajiao (Typical Mac User), Ken Ray (Mac OS Ken). Enjoy.

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See full images on Flickr

As promised. Here are the images of myself and Jeff Gamet before and after shaving for Movember. In case you missed it, during the month of November (aka. Movember) I grew a mustache to help in an international effort to raise money and awareness for the fight against prostate cancer. This year globally the effort raise more than 30 million dollars. In the US we raised almost 3 million and the US money will be split between The Prostate Cancer Foundation and the Lance Armstrong LIVESTRONG foundation.

For our part, the Maccast community raised almost $600 ($589.97). And Jeff really helped push things forward by agreeing, on this episode of the iPhone Alley Podcast, to shave off his signature mustache and goatee if we raised at least $250.00. As you can see from the above images, we obliterated that goal. So thank you Jeff and thank you Mac Geeks.

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A podcast about all things Macintosh. For Mac geeks, by Mac geeks. Show 286. Maccast turns 5. Thanks for a great Movember. Podcast Award voting ended. Apple Black Friday Cyber Monday numbers. Apple opens up iTunes LP spec. Mac Pro revamp in early 2010? Rumor of new iPhone in the wild. Apple accused of ordering too much NAND. Reports of some 27″ iMac issues. Pystar settles with Apple, a little. iPod Payment System might pay out. MacTablet name and rumors. Ellipses shortcut. Upgrading cable modems. Flash draining batteries. Review: TVClean. Running an iTunes DJ kiosk. One size fits all Itunes video encoding.

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EOL: OS Xbox Pro (via Cult of Mac)

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I knew that you Mac Geeks across the pond were used to paying a bit extra for your Apple kit, but I hadn’t realized it had gotten this bad. As I write this, picking up this Mighty Mouse would set you back approx. USD $16,000 and change. Don’t know about you, but for that price I would expect it would have a whole different kind of multi-touch. What might be more amazing than the price tag on this item though, is they seem to be going like hotcakes. “Only 1 left in stock–order soon”.

Obviously someone in the Amazon.com stockroom wasn’t minding their comma and got over excited with the zeros. Thanks to Roz for the tip-off.

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A podcast about all things Macintosh. For Mac geeks, by Mac geeks. Show 285. New Core i7 iMac posts good numbers. Apple working on “Concierge” app. Frustrated Devs flee App Store. Is Apple getting more serious about gaming?. Updates, fixes, and hacks. Oh my! Macs rank 4th in build quality. Don’t let you Mac inhale. Free OS X virtualization. Free Office alternative from Lotus Hardware change bypasses firmware password? Piracy can also give your Mac scurvy. The ins and outs of Mini Display Port. Adding keyboard shortcuts to everything. Maccast One Minute Tip: iPhoto Places. iTunes random is random. Securing your PDFs.

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