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July 11th, 2007
MacBreak Weekly 48: The Next Big Thing
Hosts: Leo Laporte ,
Merlin Mann ,
Andy Ihnatko ,
The Macalope
The Macalope is back, with a new but still Vocoded voice.
Leo bought a GiSTEQ Photo Trackr for his camera, but it is windows only.
Merlin got a windows only scanner, and returned it, and did not replace it with an OS X one
Companies make Leo mad when they force him into using their software and are windows only
Apple announces Variable Pricing (Warning! iTunes link.) on iTunes with some full albums priced at $5.99 and $6.99
Rumor: JPMorgan says retracted their statement that there will be a Nano iPhone with a "circular control piece". But all they want is a cheaper, smaller iPhone.
Steve Jobs spotted at the Regent Street Apple Store
Engadget's Top Ten useful Apple Dashboard widgets
Google's New Project by Al Gore allows you to open a port on your mac to interact with your iPhone
Leo found the iLove Lamp widget for his dashboard. Merlin likes them because they do the iStat Series Too !
Rumor: New iMac with macbook style keyboards and brushed aluminum
Leo is done with the iPhone, and wants to get back to the macintosh
ImageWell Updated with Flickr export
Skitch is a new product that makes it easy to do screenshots, annotate it, and upload it to Flickr
Merlin, the tear offs are an OS X service... not a feature of skitch
According to John Gruber the Mail.app in Leopard 10.5 has a notes feature too... Coincidence? We think not.
MacBreak Weekly is brought to you by Audible.com . For your free audio book visit Audible.com/macbreak . This week's recommendation: The Code of the Woosters (Dramatised) by P.G. Wodehouse.
The Picks of the Week are...
Leo: Nisus Writer Pro came back to the Mac
Macalope: Aurora is an alarm clock for your mac that you can setup to wake you up with your iTunes songs
Merlin: FlyGesture is a mouse gesture program for your mac. It's a lot like automator
Andy: Photomatix is a tone mapping and exposure blending tool to help you get an extremely realistic picture
This macbreak is now done broke! (stolen from.... some other ep.)
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