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Could you post the exact instructions for completely doing an iPhone mind wipe and firmware install that you have talked about several times on the show. I'm having some of the same lag time issues, esp. in contacts that I think you all have talked about.

Thank you.

I am a MobileMe user. I have been using it for my email, website, and blog. I use it on a professional level. I am a photographer who is on the go. I started out as a .Mac user. I went with MobileMe (.Mac) because I was able to make daily changes form my laptop, I could set up up galleries that newspapers could download photos or use idisk to transfer graphic files.
For me MobileMe with my laptop and iPhone became my virtual office.
The .Mac change into MobileMe was not just a disaster in push email it was a complete melt down in the web services. I could not upload photos and podcast for a week. I could not make changes to my web galleries. For me this was a real pain because I use the photo galleries for clients to view images and download images. To add to the pain they change all my web addresses for my .Mac account to galleryme.com so I had to then notify my clients of the changes. Apple failed to notify people of these changes, then for about 2 weeks apple stop responding emails about their web services.
For the past week I have been fixing bugs in my website and blog.

Have Camera, Will Travel
Website: http://www.ralphberrettphotography.com/
Blog: http://www.fullmetalphotographer.com

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The 911 hang-up call Leo spoke about, that he was sure no one made, might be a prelude to something worse. Remember justin.tv was the victim of a spoofed call to 911 where the jokester reporting a stabbing. Police arrived with "guns drawn" according to news reports. Hope twitlive.tv doesn't fall victim.

The Audible "Debt of Honor" recommendation with addition of "Executive Orders," both by Tom Clancy, revealed the spoiler to the reader. (I'm in the middle of Debt of Honor and got burned.)

To ensure I was ready at the edge of my seat I jumped online to B&N and then Amazon to check for a well priced version of Executive Orders. I wanted to to have it on hand at a moments notice for the stunning ending and transition to the next as described.

Alas, both vendors' descriptions and annotated reader comments presented next to Executive Orders clearly outlined Debt of Honor's cliffhager in describing Executive Orders as the follow-up novel.

Had such a big deal not have been made about the two book's relationships, I'd have finished the first in normal fashion and then ordered (or would have driven to the store to get) Executive Orders. This period of anticipation was by the author's design.

So Andy in your effusive bubbling to endear us to the author, your relationship with him, and the books, you managed to screw a reader out of the very thrill you wanted the reader to experience. Irony thy name is Ihnatko.

Does anyone else have a problem with MBW/TWIP where iTunes says "The network connection could not be made" and shows "err=-3150"?

I subscribe to 30+ podcasts, and it is only these that give this error, and it happens repeatedly and is consistent.

I wonder if it is related to the podtrac redirect that is part of every podcast RSS feed entry?

Stuart

Guys -- here's a great password system that is:

a. Easy to remember
b. Secure
c. Unique for each place

Here's what you do:

1. Start with a secure password you can remember. Include numbers, letters and symbols. For simplicity, you may want to use "hacker speak". For example, Student would become 5ud3nt.

2. For each new web site, use some characters in the domain name to attach to your secure password. For example, you might add the first letter of the domain to the end of the password, and the last letter of the domain to the front of the password.

Here's an example:

My default password is R@nd0m

When I log in to PixelCorps.tv, the password becomes sR@nd0mp

When I log in to digg.com, it becomes gR@nd0md

And so on...

Good show guys. I enjoyed hearing the details of hardware and software usage. Alex, I agree, the info regarding hard drives and usage was very useful, timely and much appreciated. It is nice to hear how you fellas are selecting and using gear in the real world. Mac news is nice but your Weekly #83 had more useful info. Your weekly software recommendations are SUPERB as well. MacBreak in all the various formats are some of the most worthwhile podcasts around.

Thanks guys.

mjw

Hey guys, this one came close to jumping the shark- not in terms of quality and content, still very good-- I mean the Gizmodo/CES shark. Is this a snot nose hacker show about sticking it to the man or a collection of seasoned Mac-centric veterans talking about a new creative economy?

Alex of all people! Ok, so maybe you didn't pull a full Fonzarelli, but it sure looked like you tried on the leather jacket and maybe straddled the bike, revving the engine for a bit.

There are lots of ways to hack the business models of the media producers we patronize-- is that really what you want to focus on? Even for a pick of the week?

Come on now- step away from the bike, think of your family, think of your audience- you don't need to do this man.

AI- nice Rat Hole solo mate- who'd of thought you had it in you. I dub thee the Crushed Velvet Fog.

Shamey Reed

Thank you, Alex, for finally using the REAL tagline at the end of the show! Every time Leo says "another MacBreak has... broke", I cringe a little. I think he missed the episode where "break time is over" was chosen.

Airlien technology.

I can't believe that I know people who complain about the difficulty, not even touching the legality, of backing up THEIR DVDs, and yet support a music subscription model. Some may say it's not the same, yet I can't see losing control over content I pay for being a good thing.

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Wirecast 3
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Funny because I didn't get it then, but the movie I was going to see was "There Will Be Blood"

L8r

I was driving my V8 pickup truck in my newest athletic shoes (Apple gave them to me in 2004), but I had to stop to get coffee at Caribou because I don't like Starbucks. I have a MacBook Pro but I'm not arrogant, it's not arrogant to say Mac's are better because it's the truth! BTW, I will be voting Republican :-)

One of Scott's comments caught my attention during this past podcast - that Microsoft's cash holdings far outstripped Apples. He said something about the interest payments alone are greater than apple's gross profit.

I believe Apple's are on the order of 18 billion (last financials) - recent article (from daringfireball) concerning the attempted purchase of Yahoo by Microsoft indicates MS has about 20 billion on hand, and may have to possibly borrow to finance this purchase (half will be cash, half will be stock offering).

Anyway, clearly then MS cash holdings do not dwarf Apple's. I do agree with Scott that the street often looks to this as one measure of a companies worth - and once again seems to defy the recent tumble in their stock compared with the likes of MS and other tech companies.

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Didn't Apple release a 160gb hard drive model yesterday as well? [see below]

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I made an account just so I could ask the question. Didn't Alex talk about a new Pixel Corps show that would talk about and introduce us to programming? I think it was going to be called MacBreak Dev or something like that.

I've been listening to all the MacBreak podcasts waiting for more info... Anyone?

Are we gonna get an new Macbreak Weekly
covering the Sept. 5th Apple Event? I
only ask as Leo talked as though that
seemed to be the plan after last weeks
MBW netcast/podcast.

Hey all. Been listening since numero uno. My favorite show ever.

So last week, Alex said that if I'd like to down convert my 1080i in iMovie, it'll just ask if I'd like to bust it down to 540p? Has anyone else done this? Is this only a iMovie 08 thing- or can I do this in FCP by creating a capture preset?

By the way- I asked the google before posting and most references assume I already know how to do it or offer tips on how to avoid it...

Alex has been very vocal on so-called "NetApps" such as iTunes. I agree with him. I dont know if you guys use GMail but I found this really col little "NetApp" called MailPane for Mac OS X. It is still in beta but looks very promising. I have been using it now for a few days and while still a bit imature, it show the potential for NetApps.

http://mailplaneapp.com/index.html

RevMark

The software is from Digital Heaven and is called AutoMotion. It was one of the giveaways at the famous Final Cut Pro User Group SuperMeet at NAB this year.

Hi!

I'm really not sure if this is the right "bin" but it's as close as I can come. And without a forum, I guess I'll just fire this question off blindly...apologies to everyone who's reading this and expecting something interesting. "Move along...nothing to see here."

BUT! Sometime, somewhere, I believe Kenji mentioned a bit of software that made importing and creating lower thirds a breeze. Can anyone tell me what that product or process is? I'm faced with a page of text to use as source for graphics and I'd love to find a way to automate or simplify the process.

TIA to all.

Just wondering when we can expect to see MacBreak Dev. I am really excited about it.

Sage
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MacBreak Weekly will stay on the TWiT site in addition to being here. The feed is the same for both sites.

I'm just curious but will MBW be moving over here completely?

Shifting TWIM makes sense (it doesn't really seem to fit in with Network Leo - TWIM's my favourite podcast by the way, and I'm not even slightly in the 'biz' as the kids would say) but I would have thought MBW dovetailed nicely with the other TWIT productions.

But hey, as long as the feeds still work, I don't care where it's home is. Incidentally, is it odd that I love MBW and I don't own a Mac?

- shane
--
Pixelated Dreams

Just trying out the new site. Looks great!

So as not to make this a totally superfluous post, I'll add that I got to go into the Ryman after hours before they cut the stage. I'm not a big country fan, but I was definitely in awe just being there where so much musical history's been made. And the acoustics were spooky (I was doing front of house sound work back then which is related to why I got to go in). I mean you could stand on stage and just talk in a conversational voice and be heard amazingly well at the back of the theater. And the place had the most soothing, smooth low-mids. I can't imagine how good a stand-up bass must have sounded there.

Er... OK that wasn't as short as I'd intended... ;)