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Tag Archives: Leo Laporte

TWiT 213: The Dog In The Bookcase

by Jonathan Downin in Tech971 days ago

This is a world-wide show this week with British programmer and blogger John Graham-Cumming and French blogger Patrick Beja are guests this week with the usual John C Dvorak. John Graham-Cumming has been in the news recently with his altruistic effort to get an apology from the British government over the persecution of early computer visionary Alan Turing for being gay.  It’s a great story and shows how one person really can bring light to important issues. Google’s efforts to digitize books is again the target of attack from the Department...

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...

TWiT 211: The Dummy Contract

by Jonathan Downin in Tech985 days ago

Google has been known to add some flair to their search page graphic from time to time, but the most recent one was weirdly geeky and pointed straight at game fans.  The graphic depicted one of the Os in their name being taken by a UFO with an accompanying twitter code that translated to “All your O are belong to us.”  This is a reference to the classic, poorly translated Japanese game Zero Wing, which is famous for the line “All your base are belong to us,” and Google did this on the 20th anniversary of the release of...

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...

TWiT 210: Banned In Sweden

by Jonathan Downin in Tech991 days ago

Snow Leopard is the first topic this week and no one seems to be too happy about Apple’s latest release.  Even Leo feels like the update may not be all it should have been.  He speculates that it was probably more of a marketing idea to roll a lot of smaller updates into a bigger package to have an OS release to combat Windows 7. There are a lot of government related issues this week including new texting while drivings laws and border control laptop search laws.  There is a discussion about “false bottom” encrypted OS installs...

Windows Weekly 120: Bing Is My Back-End

by Jonathan Downin in Tech994 days ago

Paul and Leo starts out this week’s episode by talking Windows 7 in the context of today’s OS X Snow Leopard release.  Paul points out that at the launch of a new Mac OS, people don’t worry about things working how they expect them to, but this is a very real problem for Windows.  This introducing a lot of unneeded trepidation at every Windows launch. After quickly going over the Xbox price drop and reliability issues, the guys move onto the issue with Microsoft Word and the current litigation going on in Texas over the matter. ...

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”...

TWiT 209: Dvorak Shrugged

by Jonathan Downin in Tech999 days ago

It has been a somewhat light week in technology news, but that doesn’t stop Leo and crew from having some great discussions.  Om Malik, of GigaOM fame, is on this week and it’s hard not to feel inadequate when listening to someone this intelligent.  He’s a great guest and manages to be a great ying to Dvorak’s yang. There is not too much hard news, but this allowed the guys to discuss more issue-based topics than usual.  The conversation ranges from Google’s recent foray in digitizing “orphan” books to...

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...

TWiT 208: Hide The Boots

by Jonathan Downin in Tech1006 days ago

It’s a boy’s club TWiT this week and Dvorak is back in fine, grumpy style.  This is the kind of TWiT that long-time fans love, and understandably so.  Get ready for a rowdy group covering lots of topics. Symantec has released a list of the top 100 searched terms by kids and out of the top 10, only 4 are actual search terms.  The remaining 6 were comprised of searches for actual url titles such as youtube, myspace and even google.  Of course, sex and porn were among the actual searches. Brian Brushwood proves that he is a great guest...

TWiT 207: Grandpa’s Woody

by Jonathan Downin in Tech1012 days ago

Twitter, Facebook and a few other big social networking sites were hit by a flood of traffic which culminated in a direct denial of service attack.  The greatest impact was felt by Twitter, which just reiterated the fragile state of Twitter’s infrastructure.  Why is it that other huge platforms can handle this kind of situation, but Twitter was down for over a day? Facebook is now the 4th biggest site on the internet.  At 340 million unique visitors a month, it has beaten MySpace at its peak by almost 250 million.  The only companies in...

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 –...

TWiT 206: Mold Happens

by Jonathan Downin in Tech1019 days ago

Yahoo has relented and has given up on the search market.  All searches from Yahoo will now be served by Microsoft’s Bing.  This solidifies Bing as the #2 search engine in the world, with no real 2nd place player in the market.  Jason equates this to Yahoo committing seppuku. Apple is starting to garner a lot of ill-will from the tech press with their recent draconian business methods.  Jason, in particular, is pretty upset and thinks Apple is one of the least consumer-oriented companies out there.  This ties in nicely with the discussion...

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...

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