We found out after the podcast went out from Mac rumors that there could be a new Macbook as soon as tomorrow (Tuesday 30th October) and we thought we’d let you know that its coming out.
- Chris and Ben
OMGZ! Rumors!
The fifth episode of Tech Wired Australia! We’re all together again!
iPod Touch ad made by teen will be used by apple, Toshiba’s fake 360, Sub 200 dollar HD-DVD player, why not in australia, Apple finally release Leopard, pixelmator what is it, cow power for notebooks, all this and more on Tech Wired Australia.
iPod Touch AD going to be used by Apple…Made by a teen!
Mac OSX Leopard finally released!
Sub $200 HD-DVD players, why do we not have them here in Australia?
Color sync utility for Mac, which comes with Mac OSX 10.4, Chris loves it!
Digital photo frames, are they worth it? What’s the point?
OLPC is experimenting with a cow-powered device to generate electricity for its low-cost XO laptop
The list of stuff we hate from the show that we do (and out of it). This’ll be a weekly updated thing, and if we find anything in between the shows that we just hate, we’ll add them here too.
1. Windows, Mac and Linux Fanboys. It’s a derogatory term, but seriously, people who post anonymously on forums that say for example “Linux iz the s#%^ d00dz, WinDOZE is a pile of c#$%”. No one likes you.
2. People who post on engadget posts that simply say “FIRST POST!!!”. Big deal, at least you get *lowest ranked*.
3. Dumb people who don’t know what they’re talking about. Seriously. Example: “I hate ‘macks’ cos they only got one mouse button”. It’s the 21st century. Apple isn’t dumb anymore.
4. Microsoft’s inability to make their OS experience enjoyable. Why do I cringe when I use I PC? Why is Vista the reason I cry at night?
5. Digg users. People say s*** they wouldn’t usually say, but they literally hyperventilate when their smarmy comment gets a +1. So much meaningless stuff gets thrown around on that comments page. Endless.
6. Bloggers. 95% of bloggers don’t have an audience. Why do you bother to write anything? I know that probably around four people will read this, and 3 of them are related to the podcast. The other one is my sister.
7. People who in comments pages say something completely derogatory or incorrect (mostly on Digg) and then say “Ooooh, fanboys Digg me down”, because they know in their tiny minds that the last thing people want to do is prove someone’s point, so the comment is left unharmed. Then, the people who agree Digg up. Clever.
8. Myspace pages. The amount of time I could have saved if Myspace didn’t exist. Everyone knows the story, you go to a page, the guy has an emo theme where all the writing is black. It starts blaring out Metallica, but you don’t like Metallica, now you look for the player, but the theme makes the page go 25,000 pixels wide. You find the player and stop the music, but 17 youtube videos start playing. You hit CommandQ (ALT F4). You cry.
9. Me too websites. Hmm? See this blog post? We don’t need another fraking list about the problems with the internet, huh! Doing it anyway, cos I feel like it. Do we need another tech podcast? No, but we wanted to do one, know what? I hate me.
10. American accents. I need to stop listening to podcasts, because everyone has an American accent. Bet you Americans don’t mind, but it affects the way I talk. I don’t want to say “a” like “aaah”, but “ahhh”. Minor point, yes, probably my own fault, but can you tone the accent down a touch.
11. lol. rofl. lmao. I know for a fact you are not laughing out loud, rolling on the floor laughing, or laughing your arse off.
12. Anything spelt wrong. In fact, I’m going insane. Firefox says spelt isn’t a word, then halfway through that sentence, it corrects itself, but by that time, it looks wrong to me. You know the feeling.
13. Imageshack. I have never actually seen an imageshack image that has not used more than its allowed bandwidth. They also need a new frog.
The fourth episode of Tech Wired Australia! Ben is away for this episode, so Chris and Adam step in to tell this week’s tech news.
Sype to partner with MySpace, Facebook agress to more security, the new nokia N810, PSP MOD to get an internal camera, iPhone official SDK, Apple cuts DRM free tracks to $1.69 ($.99 US) all this and more on tech wired Australia.
MySpace, Skype to partner for voice function on IM client
Facebook Agrees to more Safeguards
Apple cuts DRM free music to US$0.99 (Australia $1.69)
iPhone official SDK by Feburary 2008
Chris’ Nokia N80
Adam speaks on his iPod hack, which could be against the law so please don’t try it at home.
First Generation iPod, firewire only and can only work with a Mac.
Super mad PSP mod gives internal camera! (and speakers)
Western Digital cramming 520gb per square inch doubling storage densities
Apple store US and Aussie went down around 9-9:30pm on the 16th October, Leopard release counter came online for the 26th October 2007 release.
The third episode of Tech Wired Australia! We’re rolling along.
Brief:
Apple kicks off Leopard month with Boot Camp warning, Rumors of a new Macbook, Boys pants catch on fire caused by iPod Nano, Magsafe for your headphones, Microsoft turns to pirates to boost IE7 Market share all this and more on Tech Wired Australia.
Topics Discussed:
Boy’s pants catch on fire caused by iPod Nano
Apple kicks off Leopard month with Boot Camp warning
Still no date for Leopards release, more rumors float around that it will be released Friday 26 October 2007
Rumors of a new MacBook on or after Leopards release
Colorware adds fat nano, iPhone, iMac to the lineup of painting
Zune 2
Microsoft turns to pirated Windows users to boost IE7 Market Share
Nieman Marcus to sell Jeff Han’s multitouch 8×3 wall
Sony BMG’s head lawyer says ripping CDs is “stealing” – Engadget
Aptera’s 300 MPG (miles per gallon) car available to preorder
The second episode of Tech Wired Australia! We’re on a roll.
