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MacBreak Weekly 173: Two Words: Dance Belt

by Jonathan Downin in Tech870 days ago

It is still unclear what exactly happened, but iPhones were temporarily unavailable for order for New York City residents via the AT&T website. The real discussion this week is centered around the forthcoming Android announcement, and rumored Apple announcement. It has been all-but confirmed that the January 5th Android announcement will be focused on the release of the Nexus One. The guys touch on this before discussing the rumored January 26th iSlate announcement. There is nothing to new here, but there is some discussion about Apple’s...

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MacBreak Weekly 172: There’s Always A Donna

by Jonathan Downin in Tech877 days ago

The Main man behind the Macworld Expo starts this one with some serious PR for the forthcoming show. The topics then turn to the iPhone gaming with news that Tapulous is making over $1 million a month in revenue, and the reveal that Unreal Engine 3 is running on iPod Touch/iPhone 3GS. If Unreal is running as smoothly as the 15 second video depicts, you should be very excited. Apple has released a firmware update that supposedly fixes the screen flickering issues with the recently released 27 inch iMacs. Steve Jobs did not get Time Magazines man...

MacBreak Weekly 169: This Is What Happens Larry

by Jonathan Downin in Tech898 days ago

It’s a rather news-filled episode this week with the recent Crunchpad weirdness taking over the first part of the show. Michael Arrington released information on the now halted project that places the blame squarely on their partner in the project. After some initial skepticism, Leo and crew come around to believing Arrington’s claims. Alex is well versed on the topic of tablets as he also began the process of producing one before finding it next to impossible to make at an affordable price. Psystar has lost the initial round of litigation...

MacBreak Weekly 167: Skittles And Beer

by Jonathan Downin in Tech912 days ago

Things have been quiet on the Apple front over the past few weeks, and that trend continues here. Leo starts this one with an interview with Paul Kent of Macworld Expo. Leo will be among 3 big guest speakers next February including David Pogue and filmmaker Kevin Smith. Microsoft recently opened their first retail store an a video has hit the web showing a display of “spontaneous dancing” by the store employees. It appears that this is a play to make the store experience fun, but it ends up being completely awkward. After some time with...

MacBreak Weekly 163: Stroke The Mouse

by Jonathan Downin in Tech940 days ago

Apple released a slew of new products yesterday including a unibody iterations on the iMac and white MacBook, an up-speced Mac Mini and a new multi-touch enabled mouse, dubbed the Magic Mouse. This many big products aren’t usually launched without a keynote event, so these releases caught many off-guard. The new iMac now come in 21.5″ and 27″ models. While 27″ sounds huge, Apple has moved to a 9×16 aspect ratio for their displays, so they are not really that much bigger, just wider. The line also received processor and...

MacBreak Weekly 158: They Don’t Have That in the US

by Jonathan Downin in Tech975 days ago

Andy and Alex have both gotten their hands on the new camera-equipped iPod nano and the impressions are fairly positive.  While the image quality takes a serious hit when moving quickly, walking and in low-light situations, the video looks great in optimal conditions.  Overall, it seems to be a great addition to the device. The camera-less iPod Touch receives a lot of attention with the group again reiterating that a camera equipped version will probably show up in the next few months.  The technical differences between the 8Gb and higher-end...

MacBreak Weekly 157: The New iPods Are Here

by Jonathan Downin in Tech982 days ago

Apple’s annual iPod music event happened today and in light of that fact, Leo and crew postponed the regular Tuesday recording of Macbreak Weekly to today and recorded it as the announcements were being made.  This is an interesting take on event coverage and is much more interesting than reading live blogs.  Of course, catching the recorded version isn’t nearly as exciting, so make sure to try and catch it live next time at live.twit.tv. The special guest sitting in with Leo and Alex for the event is the author of the amazingly in-depth...

MacBreak Weekly 156: Snow Job

by Jonathan Downin in Tech989 days ago

Okay Mac fanboys, buckle-up because Leo is crashing this thing.  He is not too happy about the recently released Snow Leopard and he is not shy about letting everyone know that it doesn’t feel like a significant upgrade and it should have been rolled out as service packs.  In fact, not only was it not a meaningful update to him, it broke many things in his daily work-flow.  Alex and Andy are in defense mode though, so not everyone is unhappy about Apple’s latest OS release. After getting the Snow Leopard discussion out of the way...

MacBreak Weekly 155: When You’re Ready to Compromise, Call Me

by Jonathan Downin in Tech996 days ago

With Mac OS 10.6 Snow Leopard a mere 3 days away, it is a big topic this week.  While Leo doesn’t want to spend too much time on it since next week’s episode will probably be nothing but impressions, Andy does speculate on the motivation for Apple to reduce the disk space imprint of the new OS.  He surmises that it may have something to with Apple wanting to accommodate for SSDs, possibly for the forthcoming tablet.  Also, don’t miss the Snow Leopard application compatibility Wiki. Apple has released 2 new “Get a Mac”...

MacBreak Weekly 154: Graceful Degradation

by Jonathan Downin in Tech1004 days ago

Merlin Mann is back after his 1 1/2 year absence as a regular on MacBreak Weekly, and it makes you realize how much of an asset he was to the show.  If you aren’t aware of some of his personal projects, you will be doing yourself a favor to check out his productivity blog 43folders.com and podcast You Look Nice Today. iPhone satisfaction is at an all-time high with a staggering 99% customer satisfaction rating.  This is in stark comparison to other smartphones and notably the Palm Pre which has an 87% rating.  These figures don’t...

MacBreak Weekly 153: The Case Against Apple

by Jonathan Downin in Tech1010 days ago

TWiT favorite and Mahalo head-hancho, Jason Calacanis, wrote a scathing essay titled The Case Against Apple–in Five Parts wherein he airs his grievances with Apple’s recent actions.  He has some fair points, but Alex and Andy aren’t quite on the same page.  What everyone can agree on is that Apple could be a little more open to the benefit of everyone. Rumors, which seem to be the lifeblood of the Apple community, are flying about new features that may be coming to iTunes 9.  While Blu-ray support is among those, the guys focus...

MacBreak Weekly 152: It’s In Airplane Mode

by Jonathan Downin in Tech1018 days ago

The Google Voice app story continues to be a big issue in the tech world.  The FCC is now involved and the latest development is the departure of long-time Apple board member, Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt.  The speculation is that this is related to the FCC investigation, but Apple insists that this is just due to the converging markets of the two companies. The Apple tablet seems almost certain at this point.  Everyone agrees, it is coming before March, and many expect a September announcement with an October release.  The rumored $699 –...

MacBreak Weekly 151: Unresponsive When Sweaty

by Jonathan Downin in Tech1025 days ago

The tablet rumors are going strong again and the latest is that it could release as soon as September.  The rumors are coming from a lot of sources, but the strongest is coming out of AppleInsider. There is a lot of speculation about many aspects of the tablet with Leo surmising that it may come out with Verizon wireless service as has been rumored.  The real meat of the discussion centers around the operating system of the machine.  All 3 of the guys come to mutual conclusion that it will probably be a built-up iPhone rather than a stripped-down...

MacBreak Weekly 150: Prove It

by Jonathan Downin in Tech1031 days ago

The tablet rumor is running rampant again and the guys are always happy to speculate on new products.  Leo wants something with a keyboard and that is a common request from many wanting a small computing device. After returning from China, Leo learned that AT&T had measured he usage to be 250Mb while overseas.  The curious thing is that his iPhone reported only 100Mb of usage over that time.  There is something strange going on with this type of discrepancy and with the usage amounting to over $800 worth of extra charges, this is not a small...

MacBreak Weekly 146: Sneaky Andy

by Jonathan Downin in Tech1060 days ago

There is a lot of really great stuff on this week’s episode.  Andy got an iPhone 3GS (no space between the G and S, it’s official now) an hour after the keynote.  Being the trustworthy guy he is he was able to keep it quiet, even when he was in studio with Leo last week no one had any idea.  This really puts him in an elite league and he talks about it here. There has been a serious amount of new concerning Steve Jobs over the past few days and the guys are talking about it.  Although it still hasn’t been confirmed, it sounds...

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