Weekly audio reports on what's happening in the Apple world
Now that much of the smoke has cleared from the release of Mountain Lion, we can spend some time looking at one of the high points of our summer—Macworld’s GemFest 2012 (also known as the Summer of Mac Gems). In this episode I speak with Leah Yamshon and Dan Frakes about this every-weekday-throughout-the-summer event.
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Mountain Lion leapt onto the Mac App Store Wednesday, as Apple released the latest version of its Mac operating system. But before you download and install OS X 10.8, find out what you can expect from the Macworld editor who’s spent time putting Mountain Lion through its paces. Editorial director Jason Snell joins us on the Macworld Podcast to tell us all about Mountain Lion—what to expect from its new features and whether or not this new OS impresses.
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It’s not unusual to find story comments littered with “Slow news week, huh?” from the snarkier members of our tribe. But, in truth, there are weeks when there isn’t much happening. Unless you’re fascinated by the next iteration of Microsoft Office for Windows or the various names appearing and disappearing from the door of Yahoo’s CEO suite, this is just such a week.
But that doesn’t prevent me from forging ahead and hogging an entire podcast to discuss rumors of an iPad mini, offer my thoughts on my new Google Nexus 7 tablet, provide a tip about mirroring your Mac to an Apple TV, and proffer vacation packing advice. Hodge podgy though it may be, this episode of the podcast has a little something for everyone.
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Mountain Lion may have gone golden master this week, but this episode of the Macworld Podcast focuses on Apple’s other operating system. Senior editor Dan Moren and staff writer Lex Friedman join me to discuss the ins and outs of iOS 6.
Dan, Lex, and I talk about the features we’re looking forward to, the enhancements we hope Apple will add before iOS 6 ships this fall, and new additions to the mobile OS we just don’t understand at this point. And we’d love to hear about your iOS 6 expectations in the comments section of these shownotes.
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A pair of iOS apps from two Silicon Valley giants made headlines in the past week, so we give them some time in the spotlight in the latest Macworld Podcast. Joining me are senior editor Christopher Breen and staff writer Lex Friedman to talk about Podcasts, Apple’s latest iOS app, and Chrome, a version of Google’s browser for Apple’s mobile devices.
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One of the best things about Apple’s annual developers conference is the chance to meet up with software makers doing interesting things on the Mac and iOS platforms. We talk with one of those developers, Jochem Wijnands, in this episode of the Macworld Podcast.
Wijnands is the co-founding publisher of TRVL, an iPad-only travel magazine that’s grown impressively since its debut on the App Store in 2010. In this interview recorded during the Worldwide Developers Conference earlier this month, Wijnands talks about the approach that he and co-publisher Michel Elings took in developing their magazine and what the iPad means for the future of digital publishing.
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Last week, Apple refreshed its lineup of laptop computers. Since then, we’ve had the opportunity to lay hands on many of these MacBooks and run them through their paces. In this episode of the Macworld Podcast I speak with two of the people responsible for putting these powerful portables to the test—senior editor Roman Loyola and lab director Jim Galbraith.
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