MacBreak Weekly 79

• MacBook and MacBook Pro Upgrades! (The Leo effect strikes again) Penryn is here, multi-touch on the MacBook Pro.
• The iPhone SDK was late.
• Wheres the Computer!?! We continue to talk about air as The MacBook Air discussion continues
• New Album Artwork for MBW, featuring Andy, Alex Merlin, Scott and Leo
• Jonathon Coulton (you may take two drinks) crops up.
• Amazon MP3 VS iTunes
• Alex continues (you may take another two drinks) to "hate the web", and wants an Adobe AIR version of Amazon MP3
• Music Services need to help you discover music, as well as find stuff you are looking for
• A discussion of the secret Apple vertical market in Music (Garageband/Logic-Itunes Store=Music without labels)
• Leo thinks the vertical market could bring up anti-trust issues
• The Fairport convention
• Merlin brings up the idea of "ubiquitous capture"
• CD's are dead.

The Picks:

• Audible Pick: Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin
• Secrets (From Alc0r's Blacktree)-for getting the secret system preferences-for FREE, from Merlin Mann
• PodWorks-The Ultimate iPod reverse sync and rip utility-for $8, from Leo Laporte
• Bracketeer for $19.95 and Photomatix for $99-For producing cool HDR photos, from Alex Lindsay
• Neuros OSD- a VCR for the 21st Century (prices vary, see Amazon-$165, eligible for Amazon Prime), from Andy Ihnatko
• Viveza- a great image manipulation tool for those who don't like layer masks (features U-point technology), for $250 from Scott Bourne

Show notes By Shash

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