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The weekly round-up of news of the Mac world, speculation on whats next, reviews of hardware and software, and tips and tricks.

MacNN - ChatFX creator Julian Miller 16 Jul 2006

A very special podcast with Julian Miller, who is leading the work on modifying video iChat conversations with everything from compositing movies behind the speaker, to photo slideshows and effects based on the movements of the speaker.

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MacNN - $899 iMacs, and what's wrong with music services 10 Jul 2006

Music services forget that we like to own music. Napster, Rhapsody, Ruckus, Cdigix fail on a few counts. For colleges, students have to give up the music upon graduation, and they don't work with the iPod or storing locally, depending on service.

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Brenthaven Dropfest 30 Jun 2006

Victor, Sandy, and Walter drop a Powerbook in four Brenthaven bags. Metro, Fusion MB, Profile and Backpack. The Backpack and Profile provide the most protection. The Powerbook was damaged in a drop down the stairs in the Metro, and when dropped off the moving car in a Fusion MB. No damage was suffered in either of these tests with the Backpack or Profile bags.

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MacNN - Dan and Victor talk about leaky PowerMac G5s and Dan reveals his klutzy nature 17 Jun 2006

Dan drops powerbook, and whinges about Crumpler. Victor talks about the green alien blood and burning smell emanating from PowerMac G5 systems.

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MacNN - Mac Pro desktop name? MacBook integrated graphics 20 May 2006

Dan and Victor speculate on the Mac Pro name, and ruminate on shared memory for video ram on the MacBook. We also talk about the new NY glass cube store and the problems with Apple's Mac Genius bar.

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MacNN - MacBook Announcement 16 May 2006

MacBooks instead of iBooks, the iPod-ization of the iBook. And Dan and Victor both would like one. Also: reduced prices on MacBook Pro.

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MacNN - Tekkeon Bluetooth headset reviews! 28 Apr 2006

Dan and Victor use two different Tekkeon bluetooth headsets to podcast- instead of us telling you about how they sound, listen. Don't be like Dan, he turned his volume up too high and the headset echoed into its microphone.

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MacNN - Jim Gibson of the IP Institute and piracy 15 Apr 2006

Jim Gibson, director of the Richmond Law IP Institute talks to MacNN and Sandy, a high school student, about copyright, piracy, and the digital enabler.

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MacNN - Trustworthy Computing and Boot Camp 5 Apr 2006

Does your computer trust you? Putting Windows on a Mac, TCPM, and other scary things.

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MacNN - Harvey, CEO of Brenthaven 31 Mar 2006

Harvey talks to us about protecting laptops and why we need his bags. Dan gushes, Victor isn't convinced- yet.

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MacNN - exploding Magsafe connectors! 24 Mar 2006

Cats: save the home by unplugging the cable, or set the world on fire?

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MacNN - Intel Macs with XP - world shaking 14 Mar 2006

Victor, Walter and Sandy talk about the price difference, the value of support, and going off to college with a dual-boot machine.

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MacNN - LaCie orange carte drive, ZDNet.au's OS X hack questionable story 7 Mar 2006

A neat means to store files and a questionable article from ZDNet Australia on OS X vulnerabilities.

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MacNN - Mac Mini Intel, iPod ghetto blaster 2 Mar 2006

New product annoucements and cyborg Dan and Victor - we use Cepstral synthetic speech for this week only!

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MacNN - Special Event Spoof, Faster MacBook Pros, Mac Malware 18 Feb 2006

a href=http://www.ambrosiasw.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=102379Ambrosia Software Forums Thread/a

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MacNN - tablets! gesture input! Pong Clock widgetry! 5 Feb 2006

We discuss the possibilities for a tablet or gesture based input method thanks to some patent drawings from Ive and Jobs that surfaced. Pong clock, a fun way to tell time.

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MacNN - Intel iMac, adverts, 10.4.4 issues, Package Tracker 31 Jan 2006

The Intel iMac is great, but software has bugs according to a reviewer who gives it 5 stars. 10.4.4 and kernel panics? Oh yes. Indeed. Package Tracker widget.

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MacNN - Other World Computing/Newer Technology Interview 13 Jan 2006

We talk with Larry OConnor, OWC founder and CEO about his company philosophy and favorite products.

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MacNN - Live from Macworld! 12 Jan 2006

Live from the Podcasting Stage, giveaways, iTunes spyware, Intel, with love to our audience

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MacNN - OmniGroup Interview 12 Jan 2006

We sit down and talk with Ken Case, OmniGroup founder, and a few of his product managers about OmniGroup, OmniWeb, and OmniGraffle

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MacNN - Podzinger Interview 11 Jan 2006

Alex Laats of Podzinger introduces us to his great service. Podzinger creates transcripts of podcasts and makes them fully searchable and bookmarkable. Look for the MacNN.com Podcast on Podzinger Soon.

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MacNN - clarifications, Seagate, Newt museum, contest 21 Dec 2005

Just a quick one before the big interview with Leander Kahney, coming next podcast- enter to win the Dot-Tunes giveaway!

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MacNN - Appladobe, widgets, Media Center 18 Dec 2005

Apple buy Adobe? It doesnt add up. Widgets as entertainment. Using the Mac Mini and FrontRow as a media center, and passing the wife-test.

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MacNN - iPod marriage proposal, the end of firewire 15 Dec 2005

MacTel talk, the death of firewire, Will U marry me? on iPod Nano, and the weekly dose of widgets

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Front Row, Media Center, Widgets 5 Dec 2005

Front Row everywhere! More deals for video in the iTMS! What If: video on the .Mac iDisk? - widgets for Sudoku and calculating DV storage space on your hard drive!

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MacNN - Growl, AdiumX, chat with the man on the inside 28 Nov 2005

Victor interviews Christopher Forsythe, project lead for the Growl notification framework. http://growl.info

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MacNN - iPod Video, Sony, TiVO, DRM 23 Nov 2005

Video on the iPod, Sony Rootkit, DRM, Safe Sleep, and a useful widget.

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MacNN - Dashcode? video in iTunes deals, and patents 6 Nov 2005

Patents on MacTel booting method, Widget maker as a part of XCode, CBS and iTunes video, iTunes and the new motorola phone, Apple at 50 Billion

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MacNN - We were right! Aperture and PowerBook updates 30 Oct 2005

Aperture! PowerMacs! PowerBooks! Samsung and Apple, universal binaries.

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MacNN - two apple events so far, one more to go 27 Oct 2005

Video iPod, Vingle(TM), Front Row, and more speculation- this time about the upcoming photo exhibition in NY

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MacNN - iPod predictions: We were wrong the week before! 16 Oct 2005

Financial results, mkt share gain, iPod as lazarus phenom, pening the iPod, video iPod announcement, Dan and Victor admit they were wrong about it the week before.

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MacNN - Motorolas Zander cries sour grapes over Nano 9 Oct 2005

Apple breaking ground, speculation on more product announcements, Motorolas CEO Zander and his speculation on an Apple mobile phone

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MacNN - rumors, patents, and the first episode ever! 2 Oct 2005

iTunes 5.01, speculation on coming product announcements, Apple patents

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