MBW Picks

Last night around 10:15pm EST, Andy Ihnatko and Alex Lindsay went live on the TWiT network for a special unveiling of the iPad!  Turns out Andy has had an iPad in his possession for over a week.  Here are some related videos & links:

And here’s Andy’s killer review for the Chicago Sun Times. A [...]

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No picks this week, just some live coverage of Apple’s “It’s Only Rock and Roll” iPod/iTunes event.  You can check out the new goods here:

iPod Nano (with video camera)
iPod Touch
iPod Shuffle
iPod Classic
iTunes

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Andy Ihnatko put up a fantastic demo video of his hacked for OS X Dell Mini 9.  Since he mentioned it on this week’s show, I thought it would be appropriate to share it here. Enjoy!

Dell Mini 9 Hackintosh Test Drive from Andy Ihnatko on Vimeo.

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Hardware & software:

Lightroom 2.2 for $263.99 (on Amazon) from Leo Laporte.
Tiki Towers for iPhone for $.99 from Alex Lindsay.
Tiffen Dfx Aperture Plugin for Aperture at http://www.tiffen.com for $299.95 from Scott Bourne.

Picks of the Year:

Silver Efex Pro at http://www.niksoftware.com for $199.95 from Scott Bourne. 
Transmit at http://www.panic.com for $29.95 from Leo Laporte.
MarsEdit 2  at http://www.red-sweater.com for $29.95 from Leo Laporte.
Feeder at http://www.reinventedsoftware.com for $29.95 from Leo Laporte.
iShowU at http://shinywhitebox.com for $20 from Alex Lindsay.
Handbrake [...]

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Doesn’t look like a show is coming over the wire this week, but I have some consolation for you…

Andy Ihnatko was on the “Tech Night Owl Live” show last week.  He comes on around the 1:30:00 mark.  Here’s the episode and here’s the show site.
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No picks on this show, but mixed reactions to the product announcements all around. I did find a new online ad on the New York Times this morning. Kinda funny…

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No picks on this show but maybe we’ll get some later in the week.
The crew will be hard at work at the Macworld Expo, so look for a few more shows this week. You can see their schedule here: http://www.pixelcorps.com/podcaststudio

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Quick update – in the last episode, Leo asked that you email him for the pdf of Merlin Mannerisms.  Change of plan – just download it here:
http://twit.tv/merlin.pdf

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For the ridiculously dedicated, you too can sometimes catch MacBreak Weekly LIVE and before it’s on the feed from here: http://twit.tv/live

Tune in to Leo’s Twitter feed for a heads up.

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With the release of Leopard, it’s not the traditional show, and there were no traditional picks. Instead, the guys did highlight certain aspects of Leopard and what they thought about them. So, in this post, I’ll just highlight and summarize the discussion as they went around the horn.
Is it a major upgrade/revision?

Leo [...]

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