Macworld Podcast

We wrap up 2009, with a trio of Macworld editors battling to come up with snappy answers to stupid questions in the latest edition of Mac Pundit Showdown. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Macworld’s Editorial Brain Trust gather in the Podcave to discuss the Editors’ Choice and App Gems awards. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Season of Stuff is underway and because it is, we devote this episode of the Macworld Podcast to items that are nice to get and give. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We take a final, definitive look at Apple's fall hardware update and revisit the vagaries of Apple's App Store approval process. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The major players in this market—VMware and Parallels—have released new versions of their applications. Then, is jailbreaking the iPhone safe and still worth the bother? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We look at the "two" in the week one-two punch: Monday's spectacular quarterly earnings and today's raft of new Apple hardware. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Philip Michaels welcomes Roman Loyola, PC World's Nick Mediati, and Wired's Mat Honan to our showcase of punditry. Our least informative episode yet! Guest appearance by Jason "Kanye" Snell. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode of the Macworld Podcast, Chris Breen talks about Mac OS X 10.6 with a star-studded panel of Macworld editors. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We discuss Apple raising its skirts over an iPhone dictionary application, Apple’s defense of same, the rejection of Google Voice, Eric Schmidt’s departure from Apple’s board, the ephemeral nature of clouds. and the state of e-book readers and their content. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Macworld's erratic game-show podcast format returns, with host Philip Michaels and contestants Dan Frakes, Roman Loyola, and Chris Holt getting points for Mac punditry. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Apple’s mobile applications emporium is one-year old and to celebrate the happy event we devote this episode to all-things-App Store. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We talk laptops—Apple-branded MacBooks as well as anything-but-Apple HackBooks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What the iPhone 3GS brings to the sight-impaired and blind. We also talk about the accessibility improvements that will appear in Snow Leopard and why some in the sight-impaired community may be too eager to dismiss Apple’s accessibility efforts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Roman Loyola and Dan Frakes join Christopher Breen in this week's podcast to talk about GemFest, our annual look at the best in low-cost (and no-cost) Mac software. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In a Big Picture episode of the Macworld Podcast, we look at three broad issues: a flush Apple and rumors of it flushing some of its cash to purchase Twitter or Electronic Arts; a flush and profitable Apple in a down economy and what its financial numbers mean for the company now and into the future; and what you might do with an old Mac that you’d like to flush from your life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

After devoting our last podcast episode to just about everything except the Macintosh, Chris Breen makes amends by discussing nothing but the Macs--specifically the Mac mini. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Professional photographer and multimedia maven Ben Long looks at today’s most inexpensive point-and-shoot cameras and camcorders. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jason Snell and Dan Moren traveled to Cupertino to witness the grand unveiling of the iPhone 3 and they came back with a boatload of knowledge and opinions. They share both with Philip Michaels in this episode’s sole, extended interview. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

An examination of Apple's smallest Mac, and some thoughts on the iPhone and iPod. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We devote this episode of the Macworld Podcast to small things. Specifically, our two interviews look at netbooks and iPhone and iPod touch applications. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Scan recent top stories at Macworld.com and you see that we're all over iLife '09--from first looks, to videos, to reviews. With that in mind, we devote this episode of the Macworld Podcast to all-things-iLife. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jason Snell talks to Craig Hockenberry about iPhone development, interfacing with the human body, and Twitter. In his interview, Will Shipley talks about the App Store, where developers get their ideas, and why ideas are easy but implementation is hard. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Christopher Breen, Rob Griffiths, and former Apple OS evangelist Tim Holmes discuss Apple and the Mac community's past, present, and future. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We leave the Macworld Lab behind and hit the Expo show floor to see the best new hardware products at the Mac trade show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With a new iPhoto on the way, plus all the graphic art hardware and software products on display at Macworld Expo, a trio of creative pros discuss this week's developments. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Before Macworld Expo, we gather together to discuss the importance of a Steve-less keynote presentation and Apple’s departure from this time-honored event. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We thought the BBC's Fighting Talk format would be a great way to look back at the year in Macs. So join Philip Michaels and panelists Jason Snell, Christopher Breen, and Roman Loyola as we pay homage to a great radio program with our own edition of Macworld Fighting Talk. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Gift ideas for the holidays and a look ahead to the Macworld Expo. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Philip Michaels leads a discussion about Apple's plans--or lack there--for the holiday season. That's followed by a discussion around the state of Mac gaming with Peter Cohen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Now that the excitement of the elections is over, we can get back to what's really important: technology. And the specific technology we address today is brought to you by the letter T, as in Twitter and Television. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Macworld.com executive editor Philip Michaels joins lab director Jim Galbraith to discuss just how these new Apple laptops measure up. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If you love laptops, Tuesday's event at the Apple campus was custom-made for you. Apple overhauled its entire laptop line, ushering in new designs for both the MacBook and MacBook Pro models. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode of the Macworld Podcast is all about control--both taking and letting go. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Macworld's Philip Michaels and Jackie Dove witnessed Adobe's announcement of Creative Suite 4, interviewed some of Adobe's CS4 key players, and brought back the audio evidence of their work to share with you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Macworld's Chris Breen, Dan Frakes, Dan Moren, and Jason Snell talk iPods. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A couple of largish events with ancillary Apple connections occurred during the past two weeks: Beijing's summer Olympic games and the Intel Developer Forum. Chris Breen is joined by attendees from both events in this edition of the Macworld Podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This edition of the Macworld Podcast closes out the dog days of summer with a look at iTunes, a free-form discussion of the iPhone, and some reminisces about the original iMac as the 10th anniversary of its ship date approaches. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The events of July 11--the release of the iPhone and iPod touch 2.0 software, the sale of the iPhone 3G, the opening of the App Store, the release of iTunes 7.7, and the launch of MobileMe--have had a profound impact on Apple and the effects are still being felt. In this episode of the Macworld Podcast, we look at some of these events nearly three weeks on. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Join Philip Michaels, Jason Snell, Jonathan Seff, and Dan Moren for a panel discussion of the iPhone 3G, iPhone 2.0, and the App Store after a long, busy weekend of reviewing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our latest podcast is a triple-threat, examining recently released details on iPhone 3G activation and pricing, Macs in the enterprise market, and the ins and outs of syncing data and files between Macs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jason Snell sits down with three key Mac developers—NewsGator’s Brent Simmons, The OmniGroup’s Greg Titus, and The Icon Factory’s Craig Hockenberry—to talk about their experiences developing for the iPhone. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference kicks off next week, and Dan Frakes talks about his recent Essential Mac Maintenance article. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode of the Macworld Podcast looks squarely at Apple but just a bit to the left and right of the Mac. To the left are Apple's past and present digital rights management efforts. To the right, running Windows on the Mac. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hardware takes center stage in this edition of the Macworld Podcast, as we discuss buying advice for the Mac and get an up-close look at Psystar's OS X-compatible Open Computer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We explore long-standing issues that current events sometimes elbow aside: the benefits that OS X brings to visually impaired and blind Mac users, and Mac clones. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A trio of products shares the spotlight in this edition of the Macworld Podcast: Microsoft Office 2008, iWork '08, and Adobe Photoshop Express. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We chat about the iPhone Software Roadmap and talk to a developer about what it all means. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Apple updated the MacBooks, and announced an event next week for the future of the iPhone. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

No less than three major updates came out of Cupertino this past week, and we tackle each one in this software-packed edition of the Macworld Podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We devote a fair amount of attention in this post-Expo Macworld Podcast to one of the bigger announcements to come out of this month’s trade show—Apple’s MacBook Air. Macworld contributor Ben Long has a PMA preview. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices