This podcast has the sultry tones of Lil' Petey (fulltimecasual), Big Al (Al Aero), Anthony Agius (Decryption) and Christopher Kahler (arkenstone).

Show notes:

• People on the podcast finally get a user title on the forums
• iPhone 3G - 3 out of 4 podcasts agree it's not that big of an improvement
• Telstra and Apple at war over iPhone pre-installed software (ZDNet)
• EFiX automagic hackintosh USB drive - magic or bull? (TUAW)
• Apple Design Award winners for 2008 (link)
• iPhone AppStore - will there be many free apps?
• Apple's push notification service to avoid apps running background (Engadget)
• SproutCore - what is it, none of us know really (forum thread)
• Snow Leopard is a pretty average name guys
• iSight HD speculation & Skitch praise (forum thread)
• Sydney Apple Store gushing (forum thread)
• Possibility of the Apple store selling iPhones?
• MacTalk Meet in Sydney Friday night!!!! Everyone come! (forum thread)
• A thread about yours truly and an obsession with buying tech gear (forum thread)
• InGenius dudes on MacTalk (forum thread)
• PS3 bashing/Metal Gear Solid 4
• Chris discovered Clutch - web interface for Transmission/what happened to uTorrent for the Mac? (link to Clutch)
• We like the iTunes Music Store and miss Oink (Wikipedia for Oink)
• Our supermarket exploits
• Bentleigh Coles

I'm listening to podcasts regularly now.

I like it, but not enough to go back and listen to old podcasts (I like relevant topics/news).

A big LOL for "Aslan".

I like the buttons, very nice

Thanks

New prestigious DS games cost about $79 and it's normal to see them around the $60-$70 range (or $50 for those 'brain training' type games).

Offcourse one could purchase them from Play-asia.com for cheaper US prices as there is no region protection for DS games.

All in all, another good podcast, but I still miss the earlier ones.

I too like the buttons...

By the shaded sunglassed thanks I'm guessing that cmyk.designs you did them, well done, they look very slick.

Yes he did, and he did an awesome job

Expect some more work from him appearing soon around MacTalk!

I don't know what you guys have done but I can now download the podcasts in iTunes without it cutting out. Just did it twice to make sure the first wasn't a fluke. Much easier this time.

Oh yes I like the buttons too. Very smart.

Nothing's changed as far as I know
Glad it worked for you though!

Hey Podcasters, compliments to you on what you've done to the podcasts recently. I listen to a lot of podcasts and for me you've now moved from "listen if I can be bothered" to "I want to listen".

Why?


IMO:

• You've obviously paid a lot of attention to audio quality ... it sounds like you're using some quality kit ... but you're also following some basic broadcasting rules like not talking over each other, keeping your voices at a constant volume … this wasn’t the case with the earlier podcasts (nor with heaps of other wannabes)
• Maybe this is related to the kit, but your voices come across as broadcast friendly … dulcet tones … seriously … you have good voices for broadcast
• It sounds like you’re doing a bit of preparation … IMO the biggest podcast turnoff is “hmm, what shall we talk about today” … if I’m going to give you my ears, then I want you to have done more than just turn up and shoot the bull
• You seem to be working pretty well as a team … the repartee is good … the gentle jibes are funny … but generally you broadcast the MTAU ethos of respect
• You talk less about the podcast and more about the wider tech news … you come across as having expertise in the topics on which you talk … and when you don’t have the knowledge you don’t pretend, you just acknowledge it and move along. The content is interesting and informative.

I was a sceptic, but now a believer. Keep up the good work.

Wow thanks for the comments - I appreciate it and I'm sure the other guys do too!

In regards to kit (here's a thread about the gear we use), we do have a good setup which helps a lot I assume (it helps being a gear junkie ). We're stabilising the group now and it seems the 4 of us seem to get along well and know each other's tells and things like that.

So you guys play poker?

MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) is not a 3D version of a CT (Computed Tomography) scan.
Both can do 3D, one uses magnetism and the other X-Rays.
PET (Positron Emission Tomography) scans involve decay to form positrons.

Anyway, great podcast so far, I'm 20 mins in

Well you can tell when someone is bored with a topic, or wants to move on or when they have more to say without having to talk over them. So it kinda is like poker, but it's more just having hanged around someone, you get to know them and either work with or work around them instead of being with a stranger and you have to shoot for the lowest common denominator.

I knew someone would clear that up for me *returns to textbooks*

That's right. CT uses XRays to generate it's images, and the tomogram bit (the T) means that the detector moves around the patient while scanned (they can do this with plain x-rays as well not often now because of CT though). With more powerful computers and scanners that can take thinner slices now (not sure what it's down to but it's a couple of mm cuts I think), more info can be gathered and they now make 3D reconstruction of CT images (and they look awesome - I'll post one of a vertebral spine if anyone is interested)...