Hosts: Leo Laporte, John C. Dvorak, Patrick Beja, John Graham-Cumming, and David Pogue

Turing apology, Google books, Medicare Macs, WIPO, Twitter verification, editorial ethics, and more.

Show Notes

MacBreak Weekly 159: House Party

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Alex Lindsay, and Andy Ihnatko

Ads in apps, Windows 7 house party, OSX file functionality, iPhone battery life issues, luggage, and more.

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Security Now 215: Security Maxims

Hosts: Steve Gibson with Leo Laporte

Steve and Leo talk about various security maxims, what they mean, why you should follow them, and more.

Show Notes

Windows Weekly 124: Never Too Much Cilantro

Hosts: Paul Thurrott and Leo Laporte

Windows 7 ready for enterprise, Office Web Apps, HP MediaSmart Servers, and more.

Show Notes

This Week In Google 9: Gina As In Subpoena

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Gina Trapani

Google Sidewiki, Chrome Frame, Google Wave, Gmail down again, Cyanogen C&D, and more.

Show Notes

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Hosts: Leo Laporte, John C. Dvorak, Tom Merritt, and Roger Chang

Snow Leopard, Do Not Call list, adult tweeting, cybersecurity, driving while texting, and more.

Show Notes

MacBreak Weekly 156: Snow Job

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

Snow Leopard, iPhone app tops Microsoft contest, ZFS support, 9/09/09 Beatles rumors, and more.

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Security Now 212: Your Questions, Steve’s Answers 74

Hosts: Steve Gibson with Leo Laporte

Steve answers questions on iPIG VPN, Flash cookies, firewalls, parents’ passwords, and more.

Show Notes

Windows Weekly 121: Wong Was Wrong

Hosts: Paul Thurrott and Leo Laporte

Windows 7 Secrets, Intel’s efforts, Enterprise trial, VMware, Zune HD, and more.

Show Notes

This Week In Google 6: All Your Os Are Belong To Us

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Gina Trapani, Jeff Jarvis, and Matt Cutts

Gmail goes down, Snow Leopard, Dropbox, Google News, Book Search, Tivo, and more.

Show Notes

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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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Google Chrome, set-top box wars, Xbox 360 price cuts, PicasaWeb, and more.

• Chrome: Google’s full frontal assault on Microsoft
• Xbox 360 price cuts
• Office Live Workspace users reach one million mark; software and services vs. cloud computing
• Battle of the set-top boxes: Apple TV, Media Center Extenders, Roku (Netflix), Popcorn Hour, and New Xbox 360 (60 GB)
• Amazon Video On Demand

Tips of the week:

• Using Chrome for Web applications
• Standalone gMail and Google Calendar (also, PicasaWeb, etc.)

Software of the week:

• Google Picasa 3 Beta (and Picasa Web Albums update)
• Roboform
• Microsoft AutoCollage 2008

Audible pick of the week: All the President’s Men, Unabridged, By Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, Narrated by Richard Poe. 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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Hosts: Paul Thurrott and Leo Laporte

The iPhone 3G, 2.0 and App Store, Media Center update, Microsoft cloud, and more.

Topics:

• Everything Must Go has landed
• It’s iWeek: Upcoming iPhone 3G launch
• Paul has the iPhone 2.0 software and iTunes 7.7 Mac/7.6.3 PC
• App Store has launched: This is the big deal, discuss
• .Mac is being transitioning to MobileMe
• iPhone 2.0 software is a bigger deal than 3G
• Fiji gets less exciting
• Windows Vista Media Center update leaked
• Microsoft Online Services coming: Microsoft gets cloud computing
• Exchange as a Microsoft hosted service

News:

• Windows XP SP3 heads to automatic updates
• Beta Vista compatibility site not up
• Related: MobileMe is not up either

Vista tips of the week:

• Use Gmail or Yahoo Mail as the default mail application
• Using keyboard shortcuts in Windows

Software of the Week: iTunes 7.7 is out

Audibile.com of the week: The First Billion, by Christopher Reich narrated by James Daniels

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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Hosts: Paul Thurrott and Leo Laporte

Topics:

• Red Ring of Xbox
• Vista SP1
• Vista sales aren’t as bad as they sound
• XP sales end June 30
• Microsoft and Yahoo

Audible Pick: Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay

Tip: Securing Vista, use the free AVG antivirus or the inexpensive but lightweight, NOD32, use gMail for spam filtering, don’t disable UAC!

Paul’s Software of the Week: Amazon MP3 Downloads

Leo’s Software of the Week: the free Lotus Symphony

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