Hosts: Leo Laporte, John C. Dvorak, Pete Cashmore, and Jason Hiner.

Apple charges a premium, Palm and Apple argue, Microsoft and Yahoo rumors, MySpace is fading, and more.

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MacBreak Weekly 151: Unresponsive When Sweaty

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Alex Lindsay, and Andy Ihnatko

Apple tablet, Verizon, hackintoshing, Googe Voice app, iPhone OS, Project Cocktail, and more.

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Security Now 207: Listener Feedback 71

Hosts: Steve Gibson with Leo Laporte

Steve answers questions on AES-256, iPhone security, TrueCrypt, Firefox privacy, and more.

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Windows Weekly 117: OMG!

Hosts: Paul Thurrott and Leo Laporte

Microsoft and Yahoo get cozy, Microsoft relents to EU/Opera pressure, Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 and more.

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Hosts: Leo Laporte, Kevin Rose, and Dwight Silverman

Chrome OS, Firefox 3.5 flaw, Amazon + NetFlix, Google Design, Twitter hacked, and more.

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MacBreak Weekly 150: Prove It

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Alex Lindsay, and Scott Bourne

Quarterly earnings, tablet rumors, AT&T, Big Kindle is watching, Microsoft retail stores, and more.

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Security Now 206: Security News Updates

Hosts: Steve Gibson with Leo Laporte

Security updates in Windows Office, IAS, Virtual PC, Virtual Server, msvid control, and more.

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Windows Weekly 116: Bring On The Bugs

Hosts: Paul Thurrott and Leo Laporte

Windows 7 RTM, Windows 7 E, Home Server Power Pack 3, Chrome OS, and more.

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Hosts: Leo Laporte, John C. Dvorak, Wil Harris, and Neha Tiwari

Skype buyback, San Jose fiber cut, Twitter hacked, Steve Jobs, Yahoo/Microsoft, IBM/Sun, and more.

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MacBreak Weekly 136: EULA Schmeula

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Alex Lindsay, Scott Bourne, and Andy Ihnatko

New iMacs, monitors, upgrading schemes, Palm Pre, iPhone 3, Android, and more.

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Security Now 192: Listener Feedback 64

Hosts: Steve Gibson with Leo Laporte

This mailbag episode discusses new Firefox plugins, Conficker, buffer overflow, and more.

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Windows Weekly 103: A New Kind of Death

Hosts: Paul Thurrott and Leo Laporte

Office 2010, Windows 7 Build 7106, PC Marketshare, Internet Explorer 8, and the Xbox 360 E-74 errors.

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Hosts: Paul Thurrott and Leo Laporte

Windows 7, Netbooks, UAC issue overkill, Microsoft Fix It, new Kindle, Google Ocean, and more.

Windows 7 product editions (or “SKUs”) announced

• There will be multiple product editions again (duh) but only two will be mainstream offers for individuals
• Regardless, a lot of false indignation from people
• Microsoft: We have over one billion users with many different needs and wants; One SKU does not make sense for all of them, sorry
• Paul actually agrees with Microsoft for the most part but the lineup could be a little simpler

Windows 7 on a netbook: Guess what? It works. Paul’s IdeaPad S10 arrived today. Good news so far.

The UAC issue that wasn’t: Bloggers uncovered Windows 7 flaw; Microsoft says, not so fast

Microsoft’s new Fix It service. Finally: Instead of telling you how to fix problems via its Knowledge Base (KB) articles, Microsoft is starting to automatically fix these problems for you with a new FixIt button.

New Kindle rumored to be coming next week

Tip of the week:

• Virtual Earth update: Check out the stunning Bird’s Eye imagery of Europe at Paul’s Winsupersite
• New version of Google Earth, lets you explore the ocean and mars

Software pick of the week:

• Foxmarks Syncs browser bookmarks/favorites between PCs/Macs, Works with IE/Firefox (Windows) and Firefox/Safari (Mac), Bonus: Includes Web site password sync (Firefox only)
• Skype 4 for windows now available

Audible picks of the week: What Would Google Do? Unabridged, By Jeff Jarvis, Narrated by Jeff Jarvis. For a free credit toward the audiobook of your choice, visit Audible.com/windows.

Check out Paul’s blog at the SuperSite for Windows for more information.

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Hosts: Paul Thurrott and Leo Laporte

New economics, Gmail goes offline, IE8 RC1, Windows 7 UAC, iTunes Plus, and more.

Do More with Less: How to Survive in Today’s Economic Reality

• A Microsoft marketing mantra becomes a life mantra for all of us
• Stretching PC/technology lifetimes
• Saying no to new gadgets … Every time we peddle something people don’t need, we lose a slice of our soul
• Reassessing what it is you really need to get work done
• Paul’s “28 Days Later” concept: Revisiting things Paul’s reviewed or recommended: Do they stand the test of time?
• Next “Everything Must Go” event: Late February
• Not just about spending less – decrease tech life’s overhead as well
• v. small ex: Paul doesn’t install/configure any Firefox add-ons – 7 less things to do on reinstall

Related: Gmail goes offline: Long expected, but this is a game-changer

Internet Explorer 8 RC1 release

• Near-final, “platform-complete” version of Microsoft’s next browser
• For XP, Vista, 2003/2008 not Windows 7
• A few new functional changes but mostly about performance and fit and finish

Is Windows 7 UAC dangerous … or just useless?

Rafael Rivera and Long Zheng have discovered that the dumbed-down UAC in Windows 7 is easy to bypass and could be used to compromise PC

Also in Windows 7 news…

• Windows 7 public beta set to end February 10
• Rumors of a Netbook SKU

iTunes Plus goes a la carte

• Previously, you had to upgrade your entire collection in order to get DRM-free 256 Kbps AAC tracks. Now you can pick and choose
• iTunes now a first-class choice for online music w/ Amazon MP3 and Zune Marketplace

News: Dell will sell a smartphone based on either Google Android or Windows Mobile. Paul’s advice: Don’t

Tip of the week: More Windows 7 theme packs … many are based on Mac wallpapers

Software of the week: Gladinet

Many readers have recommended this: It lets you access SkyDrive from Windows Explorer (and other things).

Audible picks of the week: The Ultimate Cheapskate’s Road Map to True Riches: Enjoying Life More by Spending Less and Elsewhere, U.S.A.: How We Got From the Affluent Society to the Home Office.

Check out Paul’s blog at the SuperSite for Windows for more information.

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Hosts: Dick DeBartolo with Leo Laporte

Apple Tax, Windows 7, PDC 2008, Hyper-V, Aero, Norton UAC, and more.

• Microsoft talks “Apple Tax”
• Windows 7: What’s In a Name?
• All-Star Bloggers at PDC 2008
• Hyper-V Follow-Up

Tip of the week: Leave Aero on

Software of the week:

If you are trying to get to the website to download the software, I hope you have time. It is a waiting game; when I started the download it told me 11 hours. I hope to be installing it in the morning. I checked the BitTorrent Sites to no avail.

I expected them to be better prepared for the release of version 3; more like FireFox was prepared for the release of their last version. Although, they still got slammed with heavy traffic loads. I am excited to get the new version and remove Neo Office for the good old OOo.

Mostly, I am missing the Icons and the Gulls. I am grateful that the Neo Office team ported the OOo to OS X, since it is my primary office software package. I have been using Neo Office for about a year now because that is when we moved to the Mac Platform.

Well, I have 4 hours and 18 minutes to go <sigh>.

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p.s. 2 hours and 40 minutes to go [2008.10.14 @ 05:38].

Hosts: Paul Thurrott and Leo Laporte

Zune abroad, Windows Mobile vs. iPhone, Vista stupidity, Windows 7, Olympics, and more.

Topics:

• Wireless access in Northern Ireland
• IE vs. Firefox
• Zune vs. iPod/iTunes/Apple TV
• Windows Mobile vs. iPhone
• Live Search vs. Google
• Hotmail, not Gmail. And what about Exchange?
• The wonderful world of data sync.
• Microsoft is blogging about Windows 7
• Attack of the Vista stupidity, Part 27.
• Microsoft at the Olympics
• NBCOlympics.com – Silverlight
• NBC Olympics On The Go
• Xbox 360 and Zune downloadable Olympics content
• Live Search Olympics integration

Also: Donavon West’s Sidebar gadget

Vista tip of the week:

• Use Windows Live on the iPhone
• Already deep integration on Windows Mobile of course (Hotmail, Contacts only)
• Windows Contacts – via Windows Live Messenger
• Hotmail – Using IzyMail (at $17.95/year)
• Windows Live Calendar – still in a state of flux

Software of the Week: Edison

Software of the Week #2: CDBurner XP

Audible pick of the week: Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln (Abridged) By Doris Kearns Goodwin, Narrated by Richard Thomas. For a free audiobook, visit Audible.com/windows.

Check out Paul’s blog at http://www.internet-nexus.com and the SuperSite for Windows http://winsupersite.com for more information.

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I love Filezilla on a WinBox, but for the Mac I have to agree with Spencer, it needs work. CyberDuck was not very impressive, it worked; but I always had trouble getting it to work. Transmit, is very nice – but I didn’t want to spend the 30$. The price is reasonable; but I wanted something for free. I don’t know anything about Fetch.

FireFTP, a FireFox plug-in that is cross platform compatible. It has a simple and easy to use interface. It opens a tab right in FireFox and it has become my favorite FTP client.

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Hosts: Leo Laporte, John C. Dvorak, Wil Harris, and Harry McCracken

Whither Yang and Yahoo, little Billy Gates, XP/Vista, tweeting ice on Mars, Firefox 3, and more.

Links to all our stories are at http://del.icio.us/twit/148.

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