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Yap Episode 30 - Mac Bastards

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News

• Leo Laporte wants Podcasts to be renamed to Netcasts
• Sony issues global li-ion battery recall - Sony has finally bitten the bullet and issued a worldwide recall of all Sony-manufactured lithium-ion batteries used in notebook computers.
  • Lenovo & IBM issue battery recall
  • So does Toshiba
  • Laptop fire at LAX involving a IBM laptop
• October 3rd Declared "Day Against DRM" Defeating DRM is all about awareness.
• MLB pulls podcasts from iTunes store
• Limewire sues RIAA for antitrust
• HP employees taking the 5th when testifying about HP spying on board members & journalists
• Fairplay DRM for sale - DVDJon? reverse engineers Apple's Fairplay DRM, puts it up for sale for other companies to use
• Guitar Hero 2 confirmed for XBox 360
• 20 reasons the world hates Norton Antivirus
• Verizon: "Unlimited bandwidth means 5GBs or less or we cancel your account" - You must be doing something bad to use more then 5GB of bandwidth a month
• Virgin Galactic unviels SpaceShip Two
• Bill going through Congress would require ESRB to play entirely through a game to rate it
• Gamestop Wii Kiosk Exclusive? Might require a credit card to play?

Cool Links

• 10 videos that will make you want a Wii - A great link for family and friends that don't know abbout Nintendo's new console
• Elevator floor illusion - Step in, but don't fall
• Cool Tree houses
• Top Ten Geek Wallets
• 22 Terrbytes worth of Hard Drive Dominos - Watch the Maxtro Drives fall
• Spyware Rubbernecking - A short video set to operatic music of a Windows XP box being infected with spyware.
• Halloween Costumes for Geeks!

Reviews

• Windows Vista RC1?

Mac Bastards

• 101 Ways to Save Apple, circa 1997 - A funny list to read from the future
• When Apple Hit Bottom
• Pathway - Great mac app for browsing Wikipedia
• Burn - An open source alternative to Toast
• OS X IUseThis
• VersionTracker
• MacUpdate
• Need to test iChatAV to see if it is setup right? - Well try this to do it without needing a friend to help you
• Apeture 1.5 released - Boy does it kick butt!!
• Symantec quietly admits it was wrong about MacOS becoming a massive target for spyware
• Bill Gates runs like a girl
• Apple Keynote Bloopers
• Apple WWDC 2002-The Death Of Mac OS 9

• What is a Mac Bastard
• What is a Mac Fanboy or girl