NO CARRIER

• Specs on Motorola’s “Droid” released
• Windows 7 launch
• Microsoft Stores open, more colorful clone of Apple stores
• New Macs of all flavors, Mac Mini server version
• Whitey’s Scribblenauts review
• ZFS is a goner from Apple’s products

Whitey’s site of the unspecified time period: http://www.brettspielwelt.de/
Alex’s site of the unspecified time period: http://maclemon.at

 

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We don’t want to strut it, but the fact that we produced another show within one week is pretty good (if we do say so ourselves).  That’s why you should sit down RIGHT AWAY and listen to this AWESOME gem of a podcast!  It’s NO CARRIER number 10 and you know we’re playing with the big boys because we’re no longer in the single digits.  That means this show is HERE TO STAY.  On the show: Amazon screws up, so does Apple.  We try not to bash on Microsoft (and fail).  Some boardroom drama was saved for your mama thanks to an app rejection and Alex’s theory on why… which of course, isn’t mentioned anywhere in the “media.”

Links covered in this show:

Eric Schmidt resigns from Apple’s board:
http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2009/08/03bod.html

Some company (er, guy) has patented podcasting:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2009/jul/31/intellectual-property-podcasting
(Go get ‘em, Adam!)

Scribblenauts:
http://www.gametrailers.com/video/e3-09-scribblenauts/50734

Windows Phone demo:
http://www.pocketpcblast.com/articles/2009/8/200984-Windows-Phone-video-demo.html

Whitey’s Site of the Unspecified Time Period:
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation

Alex’s Pick of the Unspecified Time Period:
“Ragdoll Blaster” – ipod/iPhone game in the app store.

As always, VERY SPECIAL THANKS to Chris Clement of http://podsmack.com for our outrageously awesome theme music!  Go there and hire him for your show TODAY!

 

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Everybody loves a comeback.  Really they do, right?  It’s almost a year later, but we have a good excuse.  Lots of them.  We collected them up over the past 10 months and built an iPhone app to cover them all.  Just kidding, there’s no app. There is definitely plenty of news and discussion about Apple, Microsoft and everything else digital that we could come up with.  We’re glad to be back!  Hope you enjoy it.  Once again, VERY SPECIAL THANKS to Chris Clement of podsmack.com.  Go there and employ him to create some awesome theme music today!

 

 NO CARRIER Episode 9: A Grand Return [74:27m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

SURPRISE!  We actually got a new show in the can this evening.

We’re as excited as you are!

Post production on NC9 has begun!  We expect to release in the next 48 hours or so.

It’s amazing what is working against us to get these things recorded. Sorry folks!

It’s been *gasp* TWO MONTHS since our last episode. I know, we suck.

We have good reasons.

Nevertheless, we have scheduled episode 9 for this Sunday at 8:30am Central. Alex may even broadcast live on Stickam!

Call the press.

What do you mean they don’t care?  Call ‘em anyway!

I’m not sure what planets had to line up for this to happen, but NO CARRIER #8 is finally here.  We had slated NC8 for uhm… what… over a month and a half ago or something?  But REAL LIFE kept interrupting both Whitey and Alex.  Sometimes real life meant oversleeping… but… you get the picture.

On the show:

• Google Chrome!  Is it a good idea?
• Microsoft’s $300 million ad campaign… responsible for sinking our economy?
• Spore DRM and more!

 

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Believe it or not, we actually got NC #8 recorded this morning! That’s right… we overcame all of the forces against us… sleep… SKype… schedules… and got it in the can!

Alex is editing right now and we hope to be on target for release Tuesday morning.

We woke up and tried to record #8 this morning, but our Skype calls kept getting dropped every few minutes. For a show that operates completely over Skype, this is a deal-killer.

We then tried to do normal voice chat over AIM and look for other alternatives, but nothing came up that was quick and easy to get going. Router troubles, software problems… all of them conspired against us this morning. We’ll try again in a few days after we have a little chat with Skype.

Which one do you want first? The bad news or the good news?

The bad news?

Uh, okie. Yeah, I suppose that’s good to get it out of the way.

The planets aren’t lining up well for NO CARRIER #8 to be recorded this weekend, folks. It’s just not. Things happen. We both have day jobs. Alex’s day job is carrying him off to Denver for a conference. Whitey? Well, Whitey is traveling north for the weekend, but that’s not helping matters much.

The good news is that Alex felt so bad about this that he decided to make you an iPhone ringtone.

Yeah, that’s right. If you’re a huge fan of our theme music (and let’s face it, who isn’t!?) then you can enjoy it anytime someone calls you. Just download it right from here, unzip it and drop ‘er in your iTunes or something.

Remember… our music was done by Chris Clement of podsmack.com. Visit him and hire him! Give him some love.

Alex feels bad.

Really.

NO_CARRIER_Ringtone.m4r.zip