Hosts: Leo Laporte, Patrick Norton, Kevin Rose, and John C. Dvorak

Google turns 11, Facebook browser, Twitter funding, Google Sidewiki, Photoshop disclosure, and more.

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MacBreak Weekly 160: House Party

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, Merlin Mann, and Gina Trapani

Apple tablet, UK iPhone non-exclusive, Garage Band celebs, Newton guy is back, and more.

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Security Now 216: Listener Feedback #76

Hosts: Steve Gibson with Leo Laporte

Leo and Steve talk about Microsoft Security Essentials, your questions, and more.

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Windows Weekly 125: Utility If Any Will Emerge

Hosts: Paul Thurrott and Leo Laporte

Zune HD, Zune market, Windows 7 Student Pricing, and more.

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This Week In Google 10: Everything Shiny, Cap’n

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Gina Trapani, Kevin Marks, and Marshall Kirkpatrick

An in-depth look into Google Wave, and more.

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Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jason Calacanis, Ryan Block, and Loren Feldman

TechCrunch50, Dr. Horrible’s Emmy, gadget theft, iPod Nano, Facebook, Skype, and more.

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MacBreak Weekly 158: They Don’t Have That in the US

Hosts: Leo Laporte,Alex Lindsay, Andy Ihnatko, and Wil Harris

Zune HD, iPod Nano camera, cameraless Touch, Apple TV price drop, dream acquisitions, and more.

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Security Now 214: Listener Feedback 75

Hosts: Steve Gibson with Leo Laporte

Steve addresses feedback on GSM security, cookies, router admin passwords, proxy servers, and more.

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Windows Weekly 123: There Might Be Shrimp

Hosts: Paul Thurrott and Leo Laporte

Zune HD, student pricing for Windows 7, Microsoft Office web application, Bing visual search, and more.

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This Week In Google 8: Freckly States

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Gina Trapani, Jeff Jarvis, and Clint Boulton

Google book settlement, Brightcove rumor, Android Click/Hero, Mint, Skype, and more.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Hosts: Leo Laporte, Scott Johnson, Veronica Belmont, and Molly Wood

DDoS of Twitter, Google Voice, Facebook goes ginormous, pay-per-post, cyber czar, and more.

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MacBreak Weekly 153: The Case Against Apple

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Alex Lindsay, and Andy Ihnatko

Calacanis’ criticisms, social iTunes, antiglare MacBook Pro, Facebook/Friendfeed, and more.

• Jason Calacanis: The Case Against Apple in Five Parts
• Rumor: Social networking component to be added to iTunes 9?
• Apple adds antiglare display option to 15″ MacBook Pro
• Facebook buys FriendFeed

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Security Now 209: The Vitamin D Story

Hosts: Steve Gibson with Leo Laporte

A rare off-topic discussion about Steve’s research into vitamin D.

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Windows Weekly 118: Microsoft Gets Its Mojo Back

Hosts: Paul Thurrott and Leo Laporte

Microsoft’s death exaggerated, Nokia, Zune HD, upgrading/migrating, Windows Phones, and more.

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This Week In Google 3: There’s A Command Line For That

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Gina Trapani, Jeff Jarvis, and Anil Dash

Facebook/FriendFeed, Caffeine search, Google Reader goes social, “Send To” features, and more.

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Hosts: Leo Laporte, Don Tapscott, Gina Trapani, Jeff Jarvis, and Jake Jarvis.

Newspaper collusion, real-time Web, Bing, Google Wave, transforming education, and more.

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MacBreak Weekly 143: Green Thumbs

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

Apple Java vulnerability, Palm Pre with iTunes, Microsoft Bing, Zune HD vs. iPod, and more.

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Security Now 199: The Geek Atlas

Hosts: Steve Gibson with Leo Laporte

A good book, the IPv6 protocol, and Steve’s secure TCP idea that doesn’t use a VPN tunnel.

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Windows Weekly 110: Paul’s Shattered Hopes

Hosts: Paul Thurrott and Leo Laporte

Windows 7 RTM/GA, Starter gets more apps, Bing goes live, E3 Zune and Xbox 360, Winfox, and more.

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Hosts: Leo Laporte, John C. Dvorak, and Dan Bricklin

Armstrong tweet controversy, Vista memory, TV still king, OQO end, and more.

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MacBreak Weekly 142: Oops, I Bought It

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

A Verizon iPhone, Apple’s NC server farm, Psystar bankrupt, CES, and more.

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Security Now 198: Listener Feedback 67

Hosts: Steve Gibson with Leo Laporte

This mailbag episode includes FASM, scripts, sockets, SSL/TLS, HTTPS, Windows 7′s XP mode, and more.

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Windows Weekly 109: Ah I See You Have A Machine That Goes Bing

Hosts: Paul Thurrott and Leo Laporte

Microsoft’s next-gen search, Zune HD, Windows Touch, and more Windows 7 leaks.

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Hosts: Leo Laporte, Alex Lindsay, Brian Daniel Eisenberg, Louis Gray, and Carlos Xavier

This episode takes your calls live on TalkShoe, covering Kindle DX, Star Trek, 3D Realms, FriendFeed, Nintendo, and more.

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MacBreak Weekly 140: The $30,000 Question

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Don McAllister, Andy Ihnatko, and Alex Lindsay

iPhone turn-by-turn and camera rumors, Zune Pass, Google-Apple boards, Snow Leopard APIs, and more.

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Security Now 196: Listener Feedback 66

Hosts: Steve Gibson with Leo Laporte

This mailbag episode includes SSL/TLS, worms-resistant NATs, PDF JavaScript, nuclear power stations running Windows, and more.

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Windows Weekly 107: The Perception Hump

Hosts: Paul Thurrott and Leo Laporte

Windows 7 shipping in 09, Office 2010, Apple counters Microsoft’s advertising, and the EU fines Intel.

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Hosts: Leo Laporte, Patrick Norton, Jason Calacanis, Brian Brushwood, Dr. Kiki, and Catherine Hall

Swine flu, Microsoft revenue drops, Apple poo-poos netbooks, The Pirate Bay, and more.

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MacBreak Weekly 138: All Things Conditioned

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, and Alex Lindsay

NAB, iPhone hardware add-ons, hackintoshes, Amazon/Stanza, a billion apps, and more.

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Security Now 194: Listener Feedback 65

Hosts: Steve Gibson with Leo Laporte

This mailbag episode covers Conficker, Windows process control, NeXT, Ironkey, and more.

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Windows Weekly 105: Paul’s Itties

Hosts: Paul Thurrott and Leo Laporte

Windows 7 Release Candidate, Windows XP Mode and Windows Virtual PC, Windows Vista and Server 2008 Service Packs, Zune Rumors, and more.

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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: Paul Thurrott and Leo Laporte

Windows 7, Office 14, Zune rumors, MSDN, Software Wars, Roku, and more.

• Windows 7 Beta Fallout
  There is almost universal praise for the Windows 7 public beta which was released on January 9, 2009. After impressive demand for the new beta Microsoft has suspended its previous policy which would place a limit on the downloads to 2.5 million and will allow people to download the beta until January 24, 2009. Paul recommends re-arming rather then activiting to save your license keys. Windows 7 also runs great on netbooks, lower end notebooks designed for portability and low power usage. Paul describes a good experience on a 1.6GHz Atom system with 1 GB of RAM and 16GB of harddrive space. The only big question is: will the positive reviews of Windows 7 be enough to get XP users to upgrade?
• What about Office 14?
  With Windows 7 coming out in mid-2009 many are wondering if Office will quickly follow. Microsoft just started a limited beta test of their server offerings, but there is no news about the client. Sources say that we will have to wait until late 2009 or early 2010 for the new Office.
• Zune rumors
  Rumors abound that Microsoft may be exiting the portable media player business by discontinuing the Zune. However, Microsoft recently stated that rather then discontinue the Zune they are going to be expanding the product line. With Apple offering DRM free downloads from it’s iTunes music store, Microsoft may have their work cut out for them.Paul is going to try to get Rob Greenlee of the Zune Insider podcast on a future episode of Windows Weekly to discuss the Zune in more depth.
• Keith Curtis
  Keith Curtis is a long-time Microsoft employee and the author of “The Software Wars,” a book which states that open source software, not Apple, is the real future competition to the Windows operating system. GNU/Linux has been all but dismissed as a possibility on the desktop, but Keith disagrees and he may have a point. He will appear on a future episode of Windows Weekly where he will discuss his book and his ideas in detail.
• Roku Digital Video Player
  • This just in: Roku Digital Video Player adds hundreds of HD movies and TV shows via Netflix, plus 40,000 movies and TV shows from Amazon On Demand. The latter is coming in a few weeks
  • Netflix HD content
  • Office, 30 Rock, Heroes, Star Trek, plus movies like Elf, Ace Ventura, etc.
  • An amazing list of Windows 7 tips published by a Microsoft engineer.
  • Free Battlestar Galactica webisodes on Zune Marketplace In Season 0: A 10-part episode, Face of the Enemy, that bridges the gap between the last season and the next, plus two specials, “Recap” and “Catch the Frak Up”

A Message From Paul Thurrott”This week I’m going to be in Reston, Virginia on Friday for the ‘D.C.’ edition of the MSDN Developer Conference held at the Hyatt Regency Reston. It’s sort of a mini-PDC that’s going around the country. In DC to visit with Rafael. But drop me a line if you’ll be at the show.”

Tips of the week

• Software of the weekWindirstat: Excellent disk usage viewer for Windows – surprised I haven’t had this one in here before. Thanks to Greg Martin for the tip. See the discussion page for other similar free programs.

• Audible pick of the week: Cross Country, Unabridged, by James Patterson, narrated by Peter J. Fernandez and Dion Graham.

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

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