Adam and Tonya joined Chuck Joiner for a special MacNotables video podcast - produced live via iChat for the regular meeting of the Huntsville Macintosh Users Group.
I had to hold my iPhone an extra foot away from my face while reading David Pogue's New York Times review of the BlackBerry Storm, Research in Motion's entry into the touchscreen, iPhone-wannabe category: the carnage in words was too bloody to take close up. Pogue argues that RIM got it wrong in almost every respect, especially by excluding Wi-Fi. Put on your oven mitts before reading his review.
In the second of a three-part MacJury series, Joe Kissell joins Jeff Gamet, Jean MacDonald, Fraser Speirs, and Chuck Joiner to discuss holiday gift ideas. Joe contributes some suggestions for gifts that are nicely compact - great for reducing clutter or sending to a loved one in another country.
If you were considering running your MacBook or MacBook Pro without a battery, think again. Aside from the obvious problem of causing a power interruption by bumping the easily dislodged MagSafe connector, Gearlog reports that running without a battery significantly hurts performance.
Apple has made its 2.2 update to the iPhone software available via the desktop iTunes update mechanism. The new version adds direct podcast download within the iPhone iTunes application, Google Street Views, and other improvements.
We imagine it's still a virus even though a user has to be naive enough to download the program and install it. The virus opens a backdoor, but it's lazy enough to ask the user to select the incoming port over which the backdoor is available. Virus writers these days! Trend Micro has more details.
Microsoft's latest update to its Zune player now allows users who subscribe to the $14.99-per-month Zune Pass to keep 10 songs per month from certain labels. The music labels continue to punish Apple by giving others - now including Microsoft - DRM-free music. Read all about it in Microsoft's press release.
In the course of publishing Take Control ebooks, Adam has learned way more about PDF compression than he ever wanted to know, and he shares the most important lessons in this Macworld article.
Sad news. The Associated Press reports that the writer behind the now-shuttered Fake Steve Jobs site, Dan Lyons, has pulled his own Real Dan Lyons blog as a result of perhaps too much honesty about Yahoo's press team and the Wall Street Journal's Kara Swisher; that didn't sit well with his current employer, Newsweek.