Mar 4th 2008
MacBreak Weekly 79
Louder Than Bombs
iPhone SDK is late, this Thursday's announcement, MacBook Air, MacBook upgrades, and more...
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- MacBook and MacBook Pro Upgrades! (The Leo effect strikes again) Penryn is here, multi-touch on the MacBook Pro.
- The iPhone SDK was late.
- Wheres the Computer!?! We continue to talk about air as The MacBook Air discussion continues
- New Album Artwork for MBW, featuring Andy, Alex Merlin, Scott and Leo
- Jonathon Coulton (you may take two drinks) crops up.
- Amazon MP3 VS iTunes
- Alex continues (you may take another two drinks) to "hate the web", and wants an Adobe AIR version of Amazon MP3
- Music Services need to help you discover music, as well as find stuff you are looking for
- A discussion of the secret Apple vertical market in Music (Garageband/Logic-Itunes Store=Music without labels)
- Leo thinks the vertical market could bring up anti-trust issues
- The Fairport convention
- Merlin brings up the idea of "ubiquitous capture"
- CD's are dead.
The Picks:
- Audible Pick: Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin
- Secrets (From Alc0r's Blacktree)-for getting the secret system preferences-for FREE, from Merlin Mann
- PodWorks-The Ultimate iPod reverse sync and rip utility-for $8, from Leo Laporte
- Bracketeer for $19.95 and Photomatix for $99-For producing cool HDR photos, from Alex Lindsay
- Neuros OSD- a VCR for the 21st Century (prices vary, see Amazon-$165, eligible for Amazon Prime), from Andy Ihnatko
- Viveza- a great image manipulation tool for those who don't like layer masks (features U-point technology), for $250 from Scott Bourne
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