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By: Typical Mac User Podcast » My Apple “real TV rumor may not be so crazy

Wed, 12 Dec 2007 23:29:46 +0000

[...] Sunday I made what Veronica Belmont said on her blog was “a crazy prediction that has to do with AppleTV predictions about a real [...]

By: Victor Cajiao

Victor Cajiao — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 23:18:52 +0000

Well Veronica Apple Matters now reports…

“Meanwhile, the Apple TV is expected to see changes in 2008 that “could include an LCD display”. Other notes include scarce information about the long rumored sub-notebook from Apple with the possibility it may be delayed due to design issues.”

Could I be crazy like a fox . We will see.

By: Victor Cajiao

Victor Cajiao — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 06:35:54 +0000

Hey Joe it’s like that most of the time. Come by this Sunday 8PM Easter. Mike Rose from TUAW is my co-host then. We have a lot of fun. Veronica did an incredible job and she rocks for posting about it.

By: Joe

Joe — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 03:42:44 +0000

The sound for all the callers was decent. Also, the callers were all polite and had halfway decent questions. It was shocking, and almost spooky!

By: Tim

Tim — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 22:53:27 +0000

Apple Cinema with TV sounds a little unrealistic. I hope Apple will come out with some type of media server, an adaptation of Apple Tv or a whole new product line. My wife and I have two Macbook Pros and way to much media to store locally. By not storing locally we are constantly dragging over watched television shows and movies to the network drive. It’s also an inconvenience when she purchases something or rips it that I then have to transfer it to my pc or vice versa. I want a product that stores all media on some-type of network device and then treats our notebook the same way our notebook treats my iPod when it gets plugged in. My MBC would then be able to sync with the network drive; I can create playlists and smart folders as well as stream the music, not currently on my MBC but on the network drive, over the local network when I am connected. With Apple’s push to have all our media digital it doesn’t make since that they don’t have some type of solution

By: Victor

Victor — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 22:46:28 +0000

I overcame the whole sound quality deal as I don’t use them for the sound at all. As you will hear when you listen to the show, I record locally and then upload to them. It takes care of the sound issues for me. Yes the callers still sound like “telephone” quality, because they are , however Veronica and I were on Skype and the sound is ok by my ears.

By: James Cridland

James Cridland — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 21:57:46 +0000

I’ll tell you why you don’t want to do a live Mahalo Daily. Because it’ll suck.

The beauty of Mahalo Daily is its high production values, the fact you don’t have a studio, and the fact you never know if it’ll be a bizarre Dopplr faux-ad, a guest, or a wander around a fair.

Making it live will lose all of that; and make it predictable and possibly dull. Cranky Geeks is a good example of a “you know what you’ll get” type podcast; yours isn’t. (Not that there’s anything wrong with Cranky Geeks, it’s just not Mahalo Daily). So. There. Stop thinking about it.

Could you do a Mahalo Daily on how the hell the trams work in San Francisco? I understand the clampy-on-the-wire thing, but that doesn’t explain how it slows down and speeds up: surely it would just jerk off at the speed of the wire.

(You could also do one on how the London Underground works. But that would involve coming over here. And apparently it’s expensive.)

By: ryanknapper

ryanknapper — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 21:04:06 +0000

The ‘Keith and The Girl’ podcast tried them out for a while and liked a lot of it, but eventually dropped them for a few reasons. One of them being that they just couldn’t get the sound quality of the calls to be acceptable.
This is probably something which wouldn’t bother most podcasts and will eventually be fixed if it hasn’t been alreadt.

By: Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins

Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 19:55:30 +0000

For a hobbiest system, TalkShoe does have the technology angle down. They have problems on a twitter-esque scale staying up and online sometimes, and their promise of sponsorship usually remains unfulfilled.

Other than that, they do have a decent community. I enjoyed most of the time I spent when I was an avid user of their system.