Engadget Podcast 159 - 08.14.2009
By Trent Wolbe 
posted Aug 14th 2009 3:58PM
posted Aug 14th 2009 3:58PM
Get ready for a wild one, folks -- we recorded this week's Engadget Podcast with a live (chatroom) studio audience, and things got a little rowdy. Join Josh, Paul and Nilay as they run down the new Zune HD, Windows 7, two new Dell machines and three new Samsung cameras before finally -- at the urging of the crowd -- tackling the Apple tablet rumors. Definitely a fun show -- we'll have to do more like this in the future. Until then, what are you waiting for? Get downloading!
Hosts: Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel, Paul Miller
Producer: Trent Wolbe
Song: Powerglove - Tetris
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00:03:23 - Zune HD lands September 15th, up for pre-order today
00:19:55 - Windows 7 review
00:23:45 - How-To: Install Windows 7 and live to tell about it
00:28:05 - Dell's Zino HD crams desktop parts into miniature enclosure
00:38:46 - Dell's slim new Inspiron Z family is totally carb free
00:47:02 - Dell Mini 3i smartphone captured in pair of spy shots
00:54:20 - Video: Samsung's TL220 and TL225 cameras add a LCD in front to help with your self-portraits
00:55:20 - Samsung's new compacts in person: front LCDs, GPS and WiFi don't go to waste
00:59:50 - Samsung crams WiFi, GPS and Bluetooth 2.0 into well-specced CL65 point-and-shoot
01:08:15 - Apple might be planning keynote for week of September 7th, might have new products on offer
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Can someone please tell me what the difference is in the 3 versions?
The sizes are slightly different obviously, but is there much of a difference in quality?
OGG - 38MB
MP3 - 45MB
M4A/AAC - 47MB
I'm from South Africa... the land of the oppressed bandwidth ;)
Otherwise - love the podcasts guys! I'm sure my random grins have confused people in cars around me at times if I listen to it on the way from/to work.
MP3: Plays in pretty much every media player/MP3 player.
OGG: Open standards, has better compression while still keeping high quality.
M4A/AAC: Shows relevant pictures as the podcast is going, if your media player supports it.
I recommend MP3 if you want it working on any computer or MP3 player, or M4A if you use iPod/iTunes.
How do I download the podcast? (in MP3 file) When I click on the link I get quicktime in a browser window.
Right click, save as. Or, if you're in the land of OS X, right click, download linked file (or option click).
From right click, I only see "save link as" (I'm in Google Chrome). I ended up getting the podcast from Zune
Still waiting for my answer on that proposal Josh
-Lightingpenguin
Josh- you can do the Expose show desktop thing with a four finger swipe, right? Isn't that easier?
Not if you're using a mouse -- plus, that's a one step move. The Slapshot™ involves a series of moves.
@Joshua Topolsky Are you gonna do an Engadget article on how to do the slapshot? I need your expertise.
Where are all the anti-Nilay posts? Josh must be censoring them >.>
I Have a question about the Slapshot. I tend to do that two, but i do it a diferent way that works with my mighty mouse. You can use right click to kill everything, left click and hold on the desktop file that you want to move, and then i have it set up so that the fn key is also show the desktop, because you can set two things for that. Josh, i think that you are just not using the mighty ouse to its fullest extent.
In regards to the Slapshot™ and the "mighty" mouse, couldn't you just set the side/squeeze button on the mouse to expose? Then you just need to squeeze the mouse, start dragging the file, then squeeze the mouse again while dragging. Personally, I just don't use a mighty mouse, I use a more convenient and cheaper regular old mouse.
Meh, grammer issues I don't care to mention, and by expose, I mean show desktop...
the song this week is pretty awesome, never heard that remix of the tetris theme before.
Awesome choice of tune this week \m/ lol.
On the subject of Apple Tablet rumours I agree with y'all, 'just' releasing a tablet netbook type computer doesn't cut it for me
…however if it had functionality closer to Josh's LSD vision with itunes, tv, 360 connectivity as some kind of all controlling, all seeing, all consuming, all beaming media extending device that can also play content & connect to them interwebs and ipod telephones as well; now that sounds closer to the mark.
There IS a part of me that thinks the tablet sounds like an over-glorified remote control.
Still it'll be interesting to see what these rumours materialise into. ;)
@ Joshua Topolsky
For the record the mighty mouse by default settings only has one button.
But if you delve into OSX system preferences you can activate:
The second button for right clicking
The clickable mouse wheel for a third click
also those squeezable sides for a forth button
So four buttons in all …just saying, I'm sure it was just a verbal typo.
Still doesn't excuse the mighty mouse of being dreadful to work with and use.
How can you guys talk about the apple tablet rumor without talking about the Archos 9 tablet which is almost out for sale and seems to be the best achieved tablet-PC out there ?