Posts with tag "Apple"

Braindead TechCast EP 119: The the show

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Posted 1023 days ago

Uhm.

Wow.

Hello left field here we come.

I’m not really sure where tonight’s show went wrong but boy oh boy did we ever end up in the left field.

Posts that attempted to make it into the show.

Google denies deal with Verizon to end net neutrality – Guardian
FCC stops closed-door Internet policy meetings as Google, Verizon strike side deal – Post Tech
Investigation reveals massive conservative censoring of Digg – The Inquisitr
Apple opens “Try Before You Buy” section in App Store, Step to fight app piracy – 9 to 5 Mac

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Braindead TechCast EP 112: Those nasty evil file-sharers

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Posted 1032 days ago

Sean and I realized that while everyone seems to be totally enraptured with the every so magical Magic Trackpad released today by Apple there were other things going on as well. From file-sharers destroying the movie business to Twitter, Foursquare and Gowalla aren’t all that they are cracked up to be we dig into the bullshit of it all.

Posts referred to in tonight’s show.

Forrester: Why Most Marketers Should Forgo Foursquare – AdAge
Are Location-Based Services All Hype? – ReadWriteWeb
Apple’s Magic Trackpad Signals The End Of The Mouse Era – TechCrunch
Abc – Hulu Loses 45 Percent Of Its Viewers – Contact Music
The Twitter Effect Isn’t What Hollywood Thought – The Wrap
For An Industry Being Destroyed By ‘File Sharing,’ Film Industry Keeps Reporting Record Numbers – Techdirt

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Braindead TechCast EP 109: Bored with Flipboard but is it legal?

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Posted 1037 days ago

I’m not sure what happened to Sean at one point during the show but he managed to fight his way out of the fog and return just in time for a fun conversation about movies. Don’t worry they are tech related.

Posts referred to in the show.

Is Flipboard Legal? – Gizmodo
Sorry, No, I’m Not Going to Write a Piece Arguing That Dan Lyons Is a Jackass – Daring Fireball
Apple the new world leader in software insecurity – Ars Technica
Apple Safari is a hacker’s info harvesting dream – The Inquisitr
I know who your name, where you work, and live (Safari v4 & v5) – Jeremiah Grossman
Nokia’s Q2: 111+ Million Devices Shipped, Sales Tops €10 Billion, Profit Drops 40% – TechCrunch
T-Mobile wants Apple and Google to start showing them the money – The Inquisitr
OMG I actually getting stoked for a movie – The Tron Legacy trailer – The Inquisitr

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Braindead TechCast EP 108: Wow we have a listener and we answer his question

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Posted 1038 days ago

It was kind of a mish-mash night for Sean and I but it turns out that we actually have listener and he took the time to reach out to Sean on Twitter with a question.

Yup, that’s right, a real life question from a real life listener.

Needless to say we did our very best to answer the question.

Posts referred to in the show.

Fred Wilson: Apple is “Evil” and Facebook is “a Photo-sharing Site” – GigaOM
First look at “revolutionary” social news iPad app: Flipboard – Scobleizer

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Braindead TechCast EP 103 Where no movie analogies where butchered to make the show

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Posted 1045 days ago

What a weird week when it comes to tech news especially with everyone still obsessing about Apple and its little problem with the iPhone 4. Sure there might have been other news somewhere in the tech world but if it didn’t involve a movie analogy or apple then it just didn’t matter.

But never fear, your ever faithful host haven’t let you down yet and tonight will be no different.

Posts referred to in the show.

Foursquare executives pocket $4.6M for themselves from funding – VentureBeat
The Rewards of Inflating a Bubble – Valleywag
How the Old Spice Videos Are Being Made – ReadWriteWeb
I suddenly have an insatiable thirst for some Perrier water – The Inquisitr
Best Tampon Commercial Ever – The Inquisitr
The Closest Thing to a Rebuttal I’m Going to Get from TechCrunch – Mark ‘Rizzn’ Hopkins
Apple to hold special iPhone 4 press conference on Friday – The Loop

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Braindead TechCast EP 99: Damn smudges

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Posted 1051 days ago

What started out looking like it was going to be a day of hell for both Sean and I turned out to be pretty good given that we were both pretty tied up with other things for the majority of the day. Of course the tech blogosphere came to rescue with some fun things for us to talk about – which is a good thing.

From 10 year old press releases to some of the best shows on television, and how they could end up costing you more money than you think, we covered a wide range of subjects.

Posts referred to in tonight’s show.

Damn Telus that was fast – WinExtra
Image of the Day: An Apple monolith in Shanghai – DVICE
Telescopic Eye Implant gets approved by the FDA – SlipperyBrick
Is Twitter’s estimate of 800 million search queries per day over-inflated? – BGR
The Pirate Bay Hacked, Attackers Gain Access To Entire User Database – The Next Web
New Apple TV Will Push 99 Cent Streaming TV Rentals – NewTeeVee

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Braindead TechCast EP 89: And Lo Did The Wozniack Did Say

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Posted 1065 days ago

Finally we have proof that our fascination and obsession with social media is because we are addicted to the cuddle drug. Yes folks the warm and fuzzy does exist and Dr. Love proves it.

Hotels may have actually discovered a way to use social media and its tools in a ways that both they and t heir customers come out winners.

But none of them will cross the finish line before horse-boy.

Then we have the matter of Sean channeling some evangelical minister – very worrisome folks – even borderline scary.

Posts referred to in the show.

Social Networking Affects Brains Like Falling in Love - FastCompany
‘I Hate My Room,’ The Traveler Tweeted. Ka-Boom! An Upgrade! – WSJ
Mystery surrounds ‘horse-boy’ on Google Street View – BBC News

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Braindead TechCast EP 82: A blue dress and a cigar – the good old days

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Posted 1074 days ago

For some reason during tonight’s show Sean and I ended up reminiscing about he fun years of BJ’s in the White House, the definition of ‘is’ and how it compares to the horror of today with a coastline drowning in oil from a company that prefers dragging its feet. I’m not sure how we exactly ended up there but we did start, and end, talking about tech stuff.

Stuff like how Perez isn’t anybodies idiots especially those who think he would endanger his millions over some questionable photograph that was only there via a link.

Stuff like Apple dropping new Mac type stuff with the utmost quietness.

The end of the show was a look at how Marvel, and the comic industry in general, seems to be walking the same road as the music industry – the one to oblivion.

Posts referred to in the show.

Apple’s stepchildren, Mac Mini and OS X, see some quiet updates – The Inquisitr
John Gruber practices his pot calling kettle black routine – WinExtra
Has Apple Abandoned The Mac? – TechnoBuffalo
Perez Hilton Miley Cyrus Child Pornography Scandal Could Spell Legal Disaster For Blogger – Pop Crunch
Marvel Pricing Digital Comics Three Times Higher Than Paper Copies [Updated] – Techdirt

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