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Our (Lack of) Macworld Coverage

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Hello everyone,

With Macworld coming up this week, I thought I would take an opportunity to share what we have planned for our super awesome exclusive special stand-on-your-head-while-eating-deep-fried-pickle-hearts-and-singing-a-Mozart-sonata-at-the-same-time practically-drop-dead PreviewCast coverage of Macworld 2008: Absolutely nothing!

That’s right, PreviewCast is doing absolutely nothing in terms of live coverage. We will have absolutely no audio, no video, no photos, no tweets, no holograms, no SuperPokes, absolutely nothing to give you an experience of what it’s like to be at Macworld San Francisco 2008. Why? Because the entire internet is already doing the SAME THING!!!

Just hop on Google or Upcoming and take a look! Numerous websites and podcasts are doing lots of stuff at Macworld, whether it be tours and interviews on the show floor, interviews after the keynote from celebrities whom have had a significant overdose of exposure to the patented reality distortion field, and so many podcasted special events that you could get lost just in the few blocks surrounding Moscone Center and enough to force me to give my entire life’s savings over to BART if I was to try to take care of all of them and try to produce something for PreviewCast.

So guess what? We are not doing anything special for Macworld 2008 until after the show is already over and the initial hype over whatever Steve plans to spit out of his mouth on Tuesday has calmed down. PreviewCast #049, to be recorded next weekend, will be when we give our take on the announcements.

I will indeed be spending at least a day sometime at the Macworld Exhibit Hall, but guess what I’m going to do there? You’ll never believe it, but I’m actually going to enjoy myself! I’m not taking a camera (one disappeared there last year, and I’m still taking the heat for that), I’m not taking a microphone (unless I get the urge to record myself singing folk tunes in front of the Apple booth), although I am taking my laptop just to enjoy some free wifi, which is hard to find nowadays. But yeah, by eliminating myself of the burden of responsibility of recording and capturing the Macworld experience, I will actually be able to enjoy the Macworld experience! And isn’t that just what the point of it all is?

If you are interested in some Macworld coverage for you to get the illusion of being there, might I recommend practically every other site on the internet.

Enjoy the keynote and the festivities. And don’t worry, I will still be doing a bit of Macworld coverage, albeit from a distance, on Webmacster87.info. Stay tuned next week for PreviewCast #049.
–Douglas Bell
Co-Host and Editor, PreviewCast
http://www.previewcast.com

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PreviewCast #048: Special Media Edition

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It’s a week before Macworld (unfortunately it was a busy week as it took Douglas almost a full week to get all the editing done), and we’re gathering for our pre-Macworld episode to make our predictions. Unfortunately, our pre-Macworld show isn’t as crazy as last year, mostly because most of our gang didn’t show up today. However, on this episode, we welcome brand new PreviewCaster Sam Jackson (of GadgetCore.com) to the show.

Now that the iPhone is out and the iPods have been updated, the rumors this year are few and far between, and the ones we have seem mostly unlikely to our PreviewCasters. From the strange and difficult-to-make-sense-of “subnotebook” to a multi-touch Mac to an OLED keyboard, this Macworld will either be a duller one, or else Apple will pull something unexpected out their sleeves.. More likely, though, would be details about the upcoming iPhone SDK, iTunes movie rentals, etc. In the meantime, GearLive got a hold of a copy of the iPhone 1.1.3 leak and revealed some exciting new upcoming functionality. After thirteen years, AOL will be officially discontinuing development of Netscape. Office for Mac 2008 comes out January 15th, and it looks pretty good–strikingly similar to another certain productivity suite called iWork ‘08. We also wonder what about the “Special Media Edition” of Office 2008 makes it worth the extra $100. And Chicago is sued for arresting drivers for talking on the cell phone while driving; there seems to be something phony about that lawsuit. Finally, Sam reviews the Flock web browser, and helps explain some of its mysteries to Douglas, while Douglas reviews his very poor Time Machine experience and gives it the lowest non-negative rating ever in PreviewCast history. This episode also marks the premiere of our Promo Exchange segment and the official end of the long-disputed Music Break.

All this and who knows how much more in this Special Media Episode of PreviewCast!

Length: 01:15:56
Hosts: Douglas Bell, Caitlyn Imburgo, and Sam Jackson
Promo Exchange: CaffiNation Podcast

Review: Flock
Sam’s Rating: Larry HeadLarry HeadLarry HeadLarry Head

Review: Time Machine
Douglas’ Rating: Larry HeadHalf of a Larry Head

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PreviewCast’s Promo Exchange

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We have occasionally mentioned that we would be starting up a Promo Exchange on PreviewCast. This has been done before by other podcasts, and the main idea is for different shows to cross-promote themselves and expose our audiences to new shows.

Okay, enough of all the abstract stuff, how about I explain how it works. We have produced a PreviewCast Promo (which we played at the beginning of PreviewCast #046, by the way). It’s about 50 seconds long. If you are a podcaster, simply download our promo and play it on your show. Then, e-mail us, letting us know that you have played our promo on your show, along with a link, and then send us a 30-60 second promo for your show, which we will play on a future episode of PreviewCast. In addition, if you play our promo, we’ll link to you forever on our Promo Exchange Wall of Fame to thank you for helping to promote our show.

This is not advertising, this is simply done out of the interest of podcasters helping each other to grow our respective audiences. So if you have a podcast, why not have us exchange promos? :)

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PreviewCast #047: A PreviewCasted Review of 2007

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Well, another year comes to a close. Who would have thought that after 18 months of us restarting PreviewCast in July 2006, we would still be going at it today? Although the latter portion of 2007 saw us going on long hiatuses, 2007 did grant us with 26 great episodes of PreviewCast. For the second year in a row, we celebrate New Year’s Eve by bringing you a sample of some of our best moments from the year.

This PreviewCasted Review of 2007 features the funniest PreviewCast moments (guess how many arguments are on here?), mixed in with some of the best interviews and special episodes that we’ve had, along with two of the best music breaks from the year, all mixed into a 100 minute feature presentation.

The following clips are featured in this Best Of episode (the parentheses indicated the timestamp when the clip starts during this episode):

If you want to hear some other Best Of PreviewCast clips, you may be interested in our 2006 Year in Review episode as well. :)

Obligatory Warning: This episode does contain some clips from our past episodes which contain a few occurrences of Explicit content, therefore the Explicit tag has been added to this episode.

We wish you a very Happy New Year and are looking forward to many more great episodes in 2008!

Length: 01:41:38
Participants (by order of first appearance on this episode): Laurence Anderson, Douglas Bell, Caitlyn Imburgo, Robert Preston, Lorelle VanFossen, Candy Bandong, Daniel Brusilovsky, Ara Kourchains, Mitchell Joyce, Andy Skelton, and Ethyn Lucca

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PreviewCast #046: Catching Up on Lost Time

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PreviewCast is officially back, with our first full-length episode in almost 3 months! Even better, co-host Laurence Anderson returns with his first PreviewCast appearance since July!

On this slightly-shorter Boxing Day episode, Larry and Douglas chit chat for awhile about the holidays, Mac OS X Leopard, and some of our early Macworld 2008 predictions. During the conversation, we talk a bit about One Laptop Per Child and the Amazon Kindle. Douglas also talks a bit about the Tech Podcast Network’s recent 24 Hour Podcast Marathon, and Larry tells him a bit about the importance of AppleCare. Also, Skoker joins us for a few minutes from his work at Buffalo/Niagra International Airport via his cell phone. Hey, it’s the end of December, so there’s not much news. Nevertheless, we are making a comeback!

All this and more on this triumphant return episode of PreviewCast!

Length: 51:52
Hosts: Laurence Anderson, Douglas Bell, Matthew Skok
Music: Carol of the Bells - John Tesh

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PreviewCast is also a proud member of the Teen Podcasters Network.

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