A Chat podcast - episode 22

Google App Engine and more.

• Google App Engine experiences


• YUI


• Home brew electronics


• Amazon Web services action


• Amazon MP3


• SafariAdBlock


• Trying Twitter


• iPhone Australia gossip


• Open Source Corporations

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A Chat - Episode 21

The MacBook Air is lethal!

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A Chat with Ben and Pete - Episode 20

In this episode we chat about:

• Ben's Time Capsule experience
• OmniFocus 1.0.1 review
• Safari 3.1
• Bicycle news from Ben (he didn't get the African Hair Sheep gloves)
• Ham Radio News from Pete

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A Chat with Ben and Pete - Episode 18

WiFi Balloons!
This week we talk about:

• Microsoft opening up?
  • They’ve published the file formats for Office documents
  • Now they’ve published thousands of API definitions and are encouraging open source interoperability
  • RedHat is skeptical
  • The EU expresses doubt
• Google news for video?
  • Check out NewsClipper
  • TechCrunch story here
• GSM encryption broken
  • Researchers at a Black Hat conference in Washington claim to be able to listen in to GSM phone conversations with $1000 worth of equipment
• Balloon WiFi
  • Google may team up with Space Data Corp., which provides wifi and cellular services via weather balloons
  • Original story in the Wall Street Journal
• Document collaboration with SubEthaEdit
  • Check out SubEthaEdit
  • Very cool document collaboration:
  

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Full shownotes at http://tinyurl.com/23qk6e

A Chat with Ben and Pete, episode 9

The Google Talk Babel Fish and more.

This week we chat about Google Talk's automatic translation service, developer frustration with the Android SDK, Firefox 3 and the large number of bug fixes, the Mac security update breaking Ben’s proxy functionality, Apple legal getting testy with Fake Steve Jobs and Think Secret, SSH configuration coolness, and comparing Windows and Mac vulnerabilities.

If you’re still listening, there’s a treat at the end of the show. We chat about the production and publishing of this podcast.

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Thanks Ben for production.

I'll be appearing on ABC Radio National Breakfast with Steve Cannane on Thursday this week to talk about electronic book readers.

A Chat with Ben and Pete - Episode 8

Amazon SimpleDB, Google Knol and more.

This week we chat about hulu.com and viewing long-form videos using flash, VoIP on the iPod Touch, Web services interfaces into databases, the Amazon SimpleDB announcement, KDE4, USB vs. Firewire, “upgrading” to Windows XP, and Google’s unit of knowledge.

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A chat with Ben and Pete - Episode 6

Facebook Beacon, Google Maps and more. We chat about routers, Peter’s domain woes, Facebook backs down on Beacon, Google and the FCC 700Mhz auction, Google maps and cell triangulation, offline web apps, an interesting SPAM solution, broadband over powerlines and the Eee PC launch. Golly!

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Thanks again to Ben for production.

A chat with ben and pete - podcast episode 5

Latest episode of our podcast, we discuss:

• Amazon Kindle
• Australian Election
• Google developer podcast

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On traditional media I reviewed the Asus EEE PC in the morning on Radio National Breakfast with Fran Kelly you can hear it here.

A Chat with ben and pete - podcast episode 3

GPhone, AWS and Linux.

The big news of the week is the launch of the Open Handset Alliance and the Android OS backed by Google. We chat about its possible effects on the market and the developer scene. Other topics discussed include GMail IMAP, Amazon Web Services and Redhat, the Asus Eee PC, Radiohead and Fedora 8.

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A chat with ben and pete - podcast episode 1

Together with the always interesting Ben, we've decided to join the weekly podcast gang, starting off with some discussion of our Leopard experiences. 

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I'll also be appearing on ABC Radio National Breakfast at around 8:05am tomorrow, (Thursday), discussing the Leopard vs. Vista vs. Linux operating system competition.

You can hear this chat here.