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The iPad, unveiled
Apple’s new tablet is the talk of the tech world Wednesday, so naturally it’s the focus of the Macworld Podcast. Macworld editorial director Jason Snell, senior editor Jonathan Seff, and senior associate editor Dan Moren attended Wednesday’s Apple event that saw the unveiling of the iPad, and they join me in the Macworld PodRoom to share their impressions of Apple’s latest device.
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Show Notes
You’ll find a boatload of coverage on our iPad page, including a video featuring our own Jason Snell’s reaction to the iPad. Be sure to look at our slideshow of our hands-on time with the iPad and photos from Wednesday’s unveiling.
Senior editor Dan Frakes reveals five pleasant surprises from the iPad unveiling, while his counterpart Rob Griffiths tackles the flipside with five disappointments.
Our iPad talk touches on the new version of iWork built for the tablet as well as the iBooks e-reader app. And if you’d care to form your own impressions, Apple has posted video from Wednesday’s event.
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CES wrap-up & Expo preview
January marks the beginning of Show Season—CES and Macworld Expo. As CES trails off into the distance and Macworld Expo looms, we take time to examine each. I do so by starting with some final thoughts on last week’s CES and then spend the bulk of the podcast speaking with IDG World Expo’s Vice President and General Manager, Paul Kent.
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Show Notes
We covered the heck out of CES last week. To browse that coverage, visit our CES 2010 topic page. Specifically, you might read through my take on the iPod at CES: MP3 Players? What MP3 Players?
As Paul mentioned, you can find out a great deal about Macworld Expo by visiting Macworldexpo.com. Also during our chat, Paul remarked that he was a member of the Macworld All-Star Band (as am I). Chuck Joiner from MacVoices recorded an interview with the band last year. He also recorded some video of the band from last year’s Cirque du Mac party. Paul’s real band is the smokin’ hot Silicon Valley Houserockers.
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Live from CES
A portion of the Macworld crew—Jason Snell, Jon Seff, Dan Frakes, and I—find ourselves in Las Vegas this week, attending the massive International Consumer Electronics Show. To commemorate the event, we gather in room 2016 of the luxurious Trump Tower hotel, pass around a digital recorder, and recount our experiences in this special edition podcast.
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Show Notes
We mention several events, vendors, trends, and products, but frankly we’re too pooped to recall them all at this point. Thankfully, you can read all our coverage of CES by moving to our CES 2010 topic page. That said, our tour of the iLounge Pavilion and our look at interesting Mac, iPod, and iPhone gear may merit some attention.
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Mac Pundit Showdown V: Tournament of Champions
What better way to tie a bow around 2009 and kick it to the curb then with another edition of Mac Pundit Showdown—our blend of Mac industry commentary, game show-style competition, and occasionally bothersome sound effects? Well, there are probably many better ways, but that's the podcast we ended up recording this time around.
And what a panel we've assembled to give 2009 a proper send-off, with each of our three contestants a past winner on Pundit Showdown. Who will emerge victorious when editorial director Jason Snell, senior editor Dan Frakes, and senior editor Roman Loyola face off in a triangular battle of wits? There's only one way to find out...
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Eddy and App Gem Awards
As 2009 winds down to its inevitable Champale-soaked conclusion, we stop to take a look back at the year that was. Specifically, Macworld’s Editorial Brain Trust—Jason Snell, Philip Michaels, and Dan Miller—gather in the Podcave to discuss Macworld’s Editors’ Choice and App Gems awards.
After a word from Macworld Superguides, I take a few moments to compare the musicality of some popular microphones by dangling them over my piano and plunking out a few holiday carols. Feel free to sing along.
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Show Notes
For more on the Eddy Awards—and the award-winning products—see 25th Annual Editors’ Choice Awards: The Complete List, Macworld Editors’ Choice Awards: Hardware (slideshow), Macworld Editors’ Choice Awards: Software (slideshow) and the Macworld’s Editors Present the 25th Annual Eddy Awards video. And just this week, we announced the winners of our App Gem awards for top iPhone software.
During the holiday carol segment I recorded my noodling with a vintage AKG C 414 EB using CEntrance’s $150 MicPort Pro XLR-to-USB interface, Marshall Electronics’ $400 XML USB.009, Blue Microphones’ $100 Snowball, the internal microphone found on Apogee’s $249 USB audio interface, One, and Samson’s $299 Zoom H4n Handy Recorder. I played a Steinway & Sons Model O piano.
(Note: Any audio artifacts you hear are due to the audio encoding we use for the podcast and are not the fault of the microphones.)
I happened to have these microphones on hand in order to make recommendations in Macworld’s Favorite Podcast Tools.
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Software gems and digital cameras
The Season of Stuff is underway and because it is, we devote this episode of the Macworld Podcast to items that are nice to get and give. Specifically, we focus on Mac Gems—inexpensive applications you and others will enjoy—and digital cameras.
In our first interview I speak with Macworld senior editor Dan Frakes, who recaps some suggestions from his recent Gems I’m Thankful For column. I attempt to corner him with the Desert Island question, but he adroitly answers it.
After a word from Macworld Superguides, senior contributor Ben Long and I take on digital cameras—examining what you should look for in gifts for your favorite photographer (who could easily be you).
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Mac hardware, tested and reviewed
Things slow down in the Mac universe just before the holidays, but the Macworld office is still hopping in the wake of last month’s hardware updates. We’ve completed our reviews and testing of the latest Macs—putting our revamped Speedmark benchmarking tool to work—and we spend much of this pre-Thanksgiving Week edition of the Macworld Podcast discussing Mac minis, iMacs, and other machines.
I’m joined by senior editors Dan Frakes and Roman Loyola, who reviewed the new Mac hardware, and lab director James Galbraith, who put them through their Speedmark 6 paces. We get the final word on what Apple delivered with its October hardware updates.
It’s not a Macworld Podcast, of course, until we spend some time talking about the App Store. Editorial director Jason Snell stops by with a first-hand account of the vagaries of Apple’s iPhone app approval process.
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Show Notes
Be sure to read Roman Loyola’s review of the three 3.06GHz iMacs and Dan Frakes’ Mac mini review. (We don’t spend much time addressing it, but Apple also updated the white MacBook in October; we’ve got a review of that laptop.) You’ll also want to check out our introduction of Speedmark 6, as well as the work that went into preparing the new benchmark tests.
In our App Store segment, Jason Snell gives his account of the effort it took to bring Macworld’s iPhone Superguide to the App Store. And lest you think we’re the only ones to run into App Store approval problems, this past week has seen Rogue Amoeba drop iPhone app development while Apple reversed course on a political caricature app it had previously rejected.
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Virtualization and iPhone jailbreaks
In all the hubbub surrounding the release of new Macs you may have missed the Windows 7 release. Yeah, yeah, we’re Mac users and so who cares? Well, if you’re one of those people who needs Windows for work but prefers to use a Mac, maybe you do.
In order to use Windows on your Mac you require either Apple’s Boot Camp or some variety of virtualization application. And it’s just those applications that are the focus of my interview with senior editor Rob Griffiths. The major players in this market—VMWare and Parallels—have released new versions of their applications and Rob’s spent time with both. Tune it to hear his opinions.
After a word from Macworld Superguides, senior contributor, Ben Long, and I discuss the state of iPhone jailbreaking. Apple has closed a security hole in a recent iPhone update and that’s forced jailbreakers to seek other means of entry. Ben and I talk about whether jailbreaking is safe and still worth the bother.
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Show Notes
I begin the episode with a reading of my Eight Steps to Internet Unpopularity. If you’re a troll, nitpicker, endless promoter, grudge holder, or simply clueless, you’ll want to give it a listen.
Rob’s taken a look at both Parallels Desktop 5 and VMWare Fusion 3. He also reviewed Sun’s VirtualBox 2.1.4 last spring. We touched on Boot Camp, but failed to mention that, according to Apple, Snow Leopard isn’t yet ready to tackle Windows 7.
During my talk with Ben I mentioned that the App Store has 100,000 apps. I wasn’t making that up. I also plugged Ben’s book, Complete Digital Photography for good reason. It’s outstanding. You’ll absolutely be a better shooter after reading it.
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New iMacs and more
In this week’s special-edition episode we look at the “two” in the week’s one-two punch—Monday’s spectacular quarterly earnings and today’s raft of new Apple hardware.
Editorial director Jason Snell (who I briefly demoted at the start of the discussion) visited Apple at the crack of dawn to take a peek at that new hardware. Senior editor Dan Frakes and I join Jason in our under-construction South Bay Bureau to talk about what he saw.
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Show Notes
We’ve already published a boatload of stories about today’s announcements—many of them penned by Jason. Check out:
- Apple Overhauls iMac Line
- White MacBook Gets Unibody Design
- Apple Unveils Multi-Touch Magic Mouse
- Apple Updates Mac mini, Adding Server Configuration
- New Aluminum-Clad Apple Remote Arrives
- Apple Quietly Updates AiPort Extreme, Time Machine
Jonathan Seff has more on the latest MacBook with a first look at the redesigned laptop.
Keep both eyes peeled for reviews of this gear in the coming days.
Tweetie 2, iMovie, and Snow Leopard
Now that the excitement surrounding the release of Snow Leopard and the unveiling of new iPods has dissipated, it’s time to shift our gaze from Apple proper and focus instead on broader issues.
We do exactly that in our interviews with Atebits’ Loren Brichter—creator of the surprisingly-controversial-in-some-quarters Tweetie 2—and Macworld’s own Rob Griffiths.
Associate editor Dan Moren mans the mic for the Brichter interview while Rob and I chat amiably about iMovie ’09 quirks, Snow Leopard tips, the iPhone as a sporting companion, and the possibility of new Mac models in the near future.
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Show Notes
Mr. Moren has followed the tempest-in-a-teapot that is Tweetie 2 and its pricing in his Tweetie Pricing Fuss Highlights App Store Flaw. That article has raised a ruckus in our forums. If you care to add to that ruckus, read the article and throw in your own 299 cents.
Rob and I make a very brief reference to his recent video efforts—Six Snow Leopard Tips and Six More Snow Leopard Tips. Each is worth your time. You’ll also want to keep up with the latest Snow Leopard tips that pass before Rob’s eyes at Mac OS X Hints.
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