Podcasts are recorded for playback at the listener's convenience. Instead of a live broadcast like radio or television, you can listen to a MacNN podcast on your iPod, iTunes, or other blog reader application (NetNewsWire, PulpFiction, Bloglines.com, etc.) whenever you please. The MacNN podcasting collective is Victor Marks, Dan Lurie, Steve Barnett, and Anthony Tutrone.
Sony's Mike Kahn talks about the MEX-BT3700U, BT5700U, and what Sony's doing to address iPods, iPhones in the car. Charging solutions, audio solutions, and call audio solutions, all in one product.
Mike Romo, Symantec Anti-Virus for Mac talks about Mac vulnerabilities, Windows vulnerabilities, and some of the performance resources used in anti-virus scanning.
Victor interviews Leander Kahney, author of Inside Steve's Brain.
Dan and Victor go over old news and talk about what it might mean.
Victor and Linda Marroquin, President and CEO of FrogPad managed to find some time to talk about FrogPad, special needs, and one-handed keyboards for veterans returning from war.
Jacob Appelbaum is one of the researchers who developed a technique for recovering data from RAM after power has been removed from the RAM.
MacBook, MacBook Pros have new processors, and the iPod Touch and iPhone are about to be a part of an educational revolution at Abilene Christian University
Apple COO Tim Cook and o2 Ireland's CEO both make interesting comments about the iPhone. o2's CEO calls customers "Apple freaks"
Lucernesys.com makes Horizon, a personal finance manager. Ian who writes it taught himself programming in order to write the application.
Aaron Vronko of RapidRepair.com tells us all about humble beginnings as an iPod modification boutique, and how that grew to a repair shop for iPods, Zunes, PSP, iPhones and more - including their very own customized replacement iPod enclosure.
Craig Eisler, head of the Mac Business Unit at Microsoft sits down and talks with Victor about Office 2008 at the Macworld Launch.
Today, after the debut of ringtones in iTunes 7.4, we took some time to make up a ringtone. It's still a little hard to find good ones in the iTunes store, and we think we ought to be able to make our own from garageband or ripped music.
Apple gives all iPhone customers $100 USD to use at Apple Retail Store or Online Store. Apple enables video out on the iPhone via component cables. no o yet if it's 480i/576i or 480p/576p - the iPod touch is interlaced, but no details on the phone output.
Derek in Japan and Victor in the US discuss examples of dead technologies and how you move the future forward kicking and screaming.
The MacNN podcast is a opinionated chat about all things Mac, tech, and frequently features cool guests representing their software and hardware products.
Wearable computing with style - Jim Haviland, Koyono's Chief Experience Officer, invites us into his home to show off the products and offer us the 'MacNN deal' - if you're buying, email him from Koyono's website and tell him you heard it here!
Sean Gould is a Macintosh user for more than 20 years who has decided he can work as effectively on a PC. We find out why.
iTV has a USB port - whatzitfer? Skype phones and an almost nearly useful tech waiting to happen. Why hasn't Apple update the Airport Extreme and Express? MacNN knows!
Pete Mengaziol and Victor talk about how Rosetta is really similar to old compatibility layers in theory, whether Transmeta's Crusoe, or Pete's old old incredibly old school days with the z80 and Apple ][ machines.
A very special podcast with Julian Miller, who is leading the work on modifying video iChat conversations with everything from compositing movies behind the speaker, to photo slideshows and effects based on the movements of the speaker.
Music services forget that we like to own music. Napster, Rhapsody, Ruckus, Cdigix fail on a few counts. For colleges, students have to give up the music upon graduation, and they don't work with the iPod or storing locally, depending on service.
Victor, Sandy, and Walter drop a Powerbook in four Brenthaven bags. Metro, Fusion MB, Profile and Backpack. The Backpack and Profile provide the most protection. The Powerbook was damaged in a drop down the stairs in the Metro, and when dropped off the moving car in a Fusion MB. No damage was suffered in either of these tests with the Backpack or Profile bags.
Dan drops powerbook, and whinges about Crumpler. Victor talks about the green alien blood and burning smell emanating from PowerMac G5 systems.
Dan and Victor speculate on the Mac Pro name, and ruminate on shared memory for video ram on the MacBook. We also talk about the new NY glass cube store and the problems with Apple's Mac Genius bar.
MacBooks instead of iBooks, the iPod-ization of the iBook. And Dan and Victor both would like one. Also: reduced prices on MacBook Pro.
Dan and Victor use two different Tekkeon bluetooth headsets to podcast- instead of us telling you about how they sound, listen. Don't be like Dan, he turned his volume up too high and the headset echoed into its microphone.
Jim Gibson, director of the Richmond Law IP Institute talks to MacNN and Sandy, a high school student, about copyright, piracy, and the digital enabler.
Does your computer trust you? Putting Windows on a Mac, TCPM, and other scary things.
Harvey talks to us about protecting laptops and why we need his bags. Dan gushes, Victor isn't convinced- yet.
Cats: save the home by unplugging the cable, or set the world on fire?
Victor, Walter and Sandy talk about the price difference, the value of support, and going off to college with a dual-boot machine.
A neat means to store files and a questionable article from ZDNet Australia on OS X vulnerabilities.
New product annoucements and cyborg Dan and Victor - we use Cepstral synthetic speech for this week only!
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We discuss the possibilities for a tablet or gesture based input method thanks to some patent drawings from Ive and Jobs that surfaced. Pong clock, a fun way to tell time.
The Intel iMac is great, but software has bugs according to a reviewer who gives it 5 stars. 10.4.4 and kernel panics? Oh yes. Indeed. Package Tracker widget.
We talk with Larry OConnor, OWC founder and CEO about his company philosophy and favorite products.
Live from the Podcasting Stage, giveaways, iTunes spyware, Intel, with love to our audience
We sit down and talk with Ken Case, OmniGroup founder, and a few of his product managers about OmniGroup, OmniWeb, and OmniGraffle
Alex Laats of Podzinger introduces us to his great service. Podzinger creates transcripts of podcasts and makes them fully searchable and bookmarkable. Look for the MacNN.com Podcast on Podzinger Soon.
Just a quick one before the big interview with Leander Kahney, coming next podcast- enter to win the Dot-Tunes giveaway!
Apple buy Adobe? It doesnt add up. Widgets as entertainment. Using the Mac Mini and FrontRow as a media center, and passing the wife-test.
MacTel talk, the death of firewire, Will U marry me? on iPod Nano, and the weekly dose of widgets
Front Row everywhere! More deals for video in the iTMS! What If: video on the .Mac iDisk? - widgets for Sudoku and calculating DV storage space on your hard drive!
Victor interviews Christopher Forsythe, project lead for the Growl notification framework. http://growl.info
Video on the iPod, Sony Rootkit, DRM, Safe Sleep, and a useful widget.
Patents on MacTel booting method, Widget maker as a part of XCode, CBS and iTunes video, iTunes and the new motorola phone, Apple at 50 Billion
Aperture! PowerMacs! PowerBooks! Samsung and Apple, universal binaries.
Video iPod, Vingle(TM), Front Row, and more speculation- this time about the upcoming photo exhibition in NY
Financial results, mkt share gain, iPod as lazarus phenom, pening the iPod, video iPod announcement, Dan and Victor admit they were wrong about it the week before.
Apple breaking ground, speculation on more product announcements, Motorolas CEO Zander and his speculation on an Apple mobile phone
iTunes 5.01, speculation on coming product announcements, Apple patents
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