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    Engadget Podcast 022 - 12.29.2004

    Jaan Pehechaan Ho! This week's show is chock full of goodness. We talk about Orb Networks, Extending the Media Center PC with an Xbox, the Super-duper green laser, cool (and free) audio from around the web, Apple suing folks, Monster cable meanies, some iPod hacks, news from Suprnova and how we're all made of Quarks! Host: Phillip Torrone. Format: 30 minutes, 7 MB, MP3 Click here to listen to the show (MP3) or add the Engadget Podcast Feed to your Podcasting application and have the show delivered automatically. This show as created with LineIn, GarageBand and iTunes. We've added time codes in the following list and links to the stories or references. Minutia... 02:30- Orb Networks, I think it's the best of 2004. Gartenberg scoop. 07:50- Media Center Extending, stream your stuff anywhere in the house. 11:10- Super green laser, holy sweet photons! 14:30- NASA Podcast, I'm SO going to win this bet. 16:00- Free old Sci-Fi radio shows, x minus one. 18:30- Real hackers, er RealNetwork's crackers. 20:25- Apple taking enthusiast sites to court, bah! 22:25- Monster, monster jerks. 25:00- iPod hacks, non-iPod hardware, control from a phone. 26:10- Linux, text changes, free your music and more... 28:00- SuperNova.org, something coming soon! Post up in the Engadget awards! Look for our CES coverage in a week and new shows in January! Call and leave us a message! 206-339-6257 Vote for us on Podcast Alley! LISTEN

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    HOW-TO: Using a Media Center PC through your Xbox

    We finally got around to setting up a Media Center PC 2005 box and we've got to say, it's a great deal better than the previous version(s) of MCE. Especially with its ability to use Media Extenders. A Media Extender is basically just software or a device used to extend the Media Center PC's interface and content to another PC, or, in this case, an Xbox. So, if you have videos, pictures, recorded TV, podcasts, and downloaded media (like we showed you here and here) on your Media Center PC, you can use the Xbox to access them all just like you would on the Media Center. It was a little more complicated than we think it needs to be for average users, but it's certainly nothing you probably couldn't handle.

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    Engadget Podcast 021 - 12.15.2004

    iPod sock it to'em! In this show we talk about hacking the SideKick II, the Creative support system, class action suits for PVP makers, Microsoft and the DVD ripper, Time-Warner selling you out, Google Suggest's How-Tos and its lunchroom starts, the 100 oldest domain names, the history of "Internet", podcasts, getting content on the ScoblePhone, Wal-Mart dropping the f-bomb, and a letter about the world's largest photograph. Host: Phillip Torrone. Format: 45 minutes, 10MB, MP3. Click here to listen to the show (MP3) or add the Engadget Podcast Feed to your Podcasting application and have the show delivered automatically. This show as created with LineIn, GarageBand and iTunes. We've added time codes in the following list and links to the stories or references. Minutia... 02:45- Hacking the Sidekick II, more apps! 06:20- Creative Zen support, or lack of, DVD ripper, class action...? 13:00- Time-Warner to erase your recordings. 17:00- Google Suggest, how to... version. 19:20- Where Google suggest came from, a suggestion. 21:40- 100 oldest domains, 03-15-85. 23:40- History of the net, a network called "Internet" 1993. 31:40- History of the castin' October 2003. 35:35- How-To get content on the ScoblePhone. 38:00- Wal-Mart, getting sued over CDs. 41:30- Email, biggest photo, from the biggest kite. Call and leave us a message! 206-339-6257 Vote for us on Podcast Alley, thanks for all the 2004 Weblog Awards votes! LISTEN

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    HOW-TO: Get podcasts and videos on Windows Mobile Smartphones

    This week's HOW-TO is what we hope will be a trend, a venerable avalanche of other how-to'ers which will help people get content like web videos, Internet radio shows (podcasts), and other media automatically delivered to their phones. For our example, we're going to use free tools to get the Engadget show and popular web videos sent over to a Windows Mobile-powered Smartphone, specifically an Audiovox SMT 5600 Smartphone (Orange SPV C500). If you're wondering what type of video you'll be able to grab, click here to view a video (Windows Media) of what we synced up last night. Squirrel launcher, yikes. Oh, and one bit of housekeeping, we're a bit late with this week's HOW-TO, we've literally been on hold with Earthlink tech support for the last four days getting our home access back up, it's sad, trite, but true. Worst part: the outsourced tech support in India actually asked us to defrag our drive because "that might fix it." Sigh. Anyway, on with the HOW-TO.

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    Google Suggest: The Movie… (No mobile version yet)

    Google just rolled out Google Suggest, which basically helps you find what you're searching for by suggesting words based on popularity. Over on Davenetics.com there was a list of A-Z, so we thought it would fun to go through the alphabet and record it so you can see the words suggested as of December 10th, 2004. We tried to use Google Suggest on our Windows Mobile Smartphone (Orange's SPV C500) but it didn't work (image here). Not that we expected it to, but if it did, that would have been a great app for mobile searching. Click here to view (WindowsMedia).

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    Engadget Podcast 020 - 12.09.2004

    Hey there, bad bananas and Mr. Grinches. On this show we discuss the Time Magazine article on the coming extinction of the radio star, Palm + Linux, more Apple rumors (cells and phones), the new iPod firmware hack, IBM going to China, Xbox modders arrested, DVD police, City of Heroes and Marvel's suckage, the Do Not Call list, Broadsnatching, Feed Speaker, and Happy Chrismahanukwanzakah, of course. Host: Phillip Torrone. Format: 40 minutes, 14MB, MP3. Click here to listen to the show (MP3) or add the Engadget Podcast Feed to your Podcasting application and have the show delivered automatically. This show as created with iLineIn, GarageBand and iTunes. We've added time codes in the following list and links to the stories or references. Minutiae... 02:30- Time Magazine, killing the radio star, again. 3:40- Palm Linux, good or bad? Audio from the CEO. 14:30- More Apple Cell Phone rumors. 16:00- ...and more iPod flash rumors. 18:00- iPod hack, Hello Kitty mod. 21:00- IBM sells PC biz to Lenovo, China 0wns. 25:55- Xbox Modders arrested, for good reason actually. 27:30- DVD police, $30k gets you nothing but hassle. 30:35- City of Heroes, Marvel needs to read Greek mythology. 34:00- Do Not Call list, get on it soon for cells. 35:10- How-to: BroadSnatching, it's naughty, but nice. 37:10- FeedSpeaker, robots read the feeds. 38:30- Chrismahanukwanzakah, the only holiday for all of us. Call and leave us a message! 206-339-6257 Vote for us on Podcast Alley and the 2004 Weblog awards. LISTEN

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    HOW-TO: Hacking the iPod firmware (changing the graphics)

    So on Monday over at Hack A Day we posted a link to an iPod hack over at iPodHacks that let you extract all of the fonts and graphics from the player's firmware. Since then, a new application came out, and we wrote up how to change all the graphics on your iPod. Before we get started, here's a video (QuickTime) of our first hacked firmware to give you an idea of what we changed. In this How-To we're going to show you how to change the "Do not Disconnect" circle/slash icon that endlessly and annoyingly flashes all the time on our desk. We replaced ours with the Engadget logo, the Sony CEO, and Hello Kitty but any graphic will do. You can also change battery icons, power status, boot up logos and fonts, or so it seems. We sprinted to write this up, so we might update it as we try some new things. Now on with the How-To!

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    HOW-TO: BroadSnatching to a Portable Media Center

    Getting video on a Portable Media Center is a fairly complicated task, but not because it's all that hard, it's just because no one has ever shown folks how. It's a lot easier if you have a Media Center PC (MCE), but even if you don't have an MCE, we showed you how to put DVDs on your Portable Media Center when we reviewed the Creative Zen. Walt Mossberg's most recent Personal Technology column smacked hard on the complicated nature of this as well, but instead of just complaining, we're going to show you yet another way of getting some pretty amazing, scary, and completely random videos from around the web automatically uploaded onto your Portable Media Center. On a related note, we do think if people don't know how and where to easily get content on their devices, they'll likely turn to file sharing networks and become pseudo-pirates, and now with broadcasting flags stopping any type of recording, this will happen more and more, but that's another story-content _is_ the destination. This week's How-To will use a video feed (RSS) from BlogDigger, WindowsMedia 10, iPodder, and a Portable Media Center to "BroadSnatch" video from many sources. A couple weeks ago we used RSS and Bittorrent as a way to download large files, to do something similar, but this is entirely new and different. We're calling this BroadSnatching, we'll see if it gets picked up. Walt says you're only stuck with old baseball and bad movies, which isn't true, at least not for our readers. With our first How-To about getting DVDs onto your Portable Media Center and now with this one about BroadSnatching, you'll fill that 40GB monster up in no time.

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    Engadget Podcast 019 - 12.06.2004

    Good eggs! On this show we talk about last week's Microsoft Mobius conference (with audio from the event), requests to Microsoft, more Apple phone rumors, a new iPod hack from Hadley Stern, blog shills, word of mouth shills, Google and the rising problem click fraud, the Elegant Universe, sending IMs to Santa, voting for us, and our new phone number for leaving us messages (206-339-6257!). Host: Phillip Torrone. Format: 60 minutes, 14MB, MP3. Click here to listen to the show (MP3) or add the Engadget Podcast Feed to your Podcasting application and have the show delivered automatically. This show as created with iLineIn, GarageBand and iTunes. We've added time codes in the following list and links to the stories or references. Minutia.. 02:00- Microsoft's Mobius 2004 conference in Seattle, lots of mobile peeps. 29:20- More Apple Phone rumors. 30:40- iPod hack tip from Hadley Stern, album artwork. 32:40- Blog shills, Word of mouth shills? Is this the future? 42:55- Google CFO, clickfraud. 46:10- Brian Greene's Elegant Universe online. 53:30- Add Santa to AIM, Santa has a TOS. 56:00- Vote for us for best Tech blog here and best podcast here. 56:00- This puppy likes Dawn and Drew. 57:45- Call and leave us a message! 206-339-6257 Left out Grand Theft Audio carjacking mashups (modologues), but here it is. LISTEN

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    Mobius 2004 Seattle

    Part of the Engadget gang trekked out (on our own dime) to Seattle, WA last week for the annual Microsoft Mobius event focusing on the present and future of Windows Mobile. Not as many sneak peeks at all the new Pocket PCs and Smartphones as last time around, but Jason Gordon, Product Manager for Microsoft's Mobile and Embedded Devices Division, did put together a couple of really good days of presentations by people from Microsoft, Motorola, Orange and others about what they're working on and where all this stuff is headed (and they all had to put up with an earful of complaints and suggestions from the attendees about what they're doing wrong and should be doing right). We took some snapshots of a couple interesting items that were passed around, like some early  Pocket PC Phone and Smartphone prototypes, and in this week's podcast we have interviews and more with a bunch of Mobius participants. Click here to listen.

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    Interview with Caterina Fake from Flickr

    Flickr is quickly becoming one of the most popular "moblog" and photo sharing site, is it the interface? The APIs? Caterina talks about this and more! Name, rank, serial number...(who you are). Caterina Fake, co-founder and jill of all trades. As you know, this being a small startup I do a lot of everything: marketing, pixel pushing, strategy, product development, janitorial duties, money raising—you name it. :) In a nutshell, what's Flickr (including cost for user, etc..). Flickr's originality as an online photo sharing site comes from the marriage of content that users create the online community that they share their photos with...  

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    Engadget Search Plug-in for Firefox

    Firefox (our fave browser) has a handy feature that lets you add search engines to the search bar, so it was only a matter of time until Macromedia programmer superstar and Engadget pal Mike Chambers cooked up a custom Engadget search engine plug-in. All you need to do is visit this site, click the link, and you too can add Engadget to your Firefox search options. On a side note, if anyone is wondering why Firefox is grabbing a bigger chunk of the browser market, it's not just because of the security issues involved with IE, it's also because of a ravenous community of creators making cool plug-ins, add-ons, and hacks to personalize the browser and make it better and more useful for people.

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    How-To: Step by Step Guide to recording Podcasts on the Mac using Quicktime Broadcaster

    This week's How-To is from Lenn Pryor who shares his experiences in the podcasting world with QuickTime Broadcaster. Hugo Schotman has been a pioneer in sharing his early sound engineering setups for recording podcasts on the Mac.  His initial diagram showing how we was able to combine GarageBand, Soundtrack, iChat, and Soundflower to record a podcast with another person remote over iChat enabled Phil and I to record our first Engadget Podcast.  Phil and I modified his original set up slightly and cut Soundtrack out of the mix to save money and enable others to get in at a low barrier to entry and posted it on Engadget.  We combined Line-In from Rogue Amoeba to route the mic, iChat for remote audio, Quicktime for music and clips, and recorded the whole shebang in Garageband routed through the Soundflower driver.  

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    Engadget Podcast 018 - 11.30.2004

    Hosts: Lenn Pryor and Phillip Torrone. Format: 82 minutes, 19MB, MP3. This show was recorded at Whistler Canada this week with a little static and Tylenol with codeine- on the show; Votes on PodcastAlley, Firefox is blowin' up, hopping on the HughTrain, Hope 5 Audio online, Froogle adds wish lists, Xeni on gadgets on NPR, iPod hack from Hadley Stern, Newspapers and TV demographics, and French films not being French enough. Click here to listen to the show (MP3) or add the Engadget Podcast Feed to your Podcasting application and have the show delivered automatically. This show as created with iChat, LineIn, GarageBand and Audacity. There was a little static with some interference here in Canada and the show ran long, sorry about that. We've added time codes in the following list and links to the stories or references. Minutia.. 00:00- Live from British Columbia, Whilster Canada. 05:00- Thanks for the votes, the cookie cheat. 09:55- FireFox, browsers wars, yay! 24:00- Hop on the hughtrain, deck chairs ahoy! 34:30- Hope 5 Audio online, Social Engineering clip is amazing. 37:00- Froogle adds wish list. 41:00- Xeni on gadgets, NPR. 58:00- iPod hack tip from Hadley Stern, wireless iPod! 62:00- Newpapers, ut oh, TV next? 70:00- French film, not French enough, Phil still hates Wal-Mart. LISTEN

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    SPOT SDK coming soon?

    Looks like Microsoft is going to introduce an SDK (software development kit) for SPOT, or Smart Personal Object Technology, their platform which uses MSN Direct's FM subcarrier network to wirelessly deliver instant messages, stock quotes, news flashes, weather, etc. to wristwatches (and eventually other devices, too). And it's about time. Since SPOT watches are mostly being picked up by geeks (the general public seems oblivious to them), the first thing they'll want to do is add their own content like RSS feeds and custom channels. We'll try and cook up an Engadget channel (if it's possible), because you know you want Engadget on your wrist 24/7. [Thanks, jazadamz]

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    Engadget Podcast 017 - 11.26.2004

    Represent Interweb. On today's show we talk about the free 128MB card you can score if you have a Treo 650, a pen that cost $10 million, how Sony gives in and does CF, weird eBay stuff, more TV activism, a super mash with Popeye, NPR on BitTorrent, the CBC on the same, as well as BBC Arts on this weird thing. Host: Phillip Torrone. Format: 58 minutes, 13MB, MP3. Click here to listen to the show (MP3) or add the Engadget Podcast Feed to your Podcasting application and have the show delivered automatically. This show as created with LineIn, GarageBand and Audacity. We've added time codes in the following list and links to the stories or references. Minutia.. 00:00 - Intro 03:15 - Treo 650, remember the memory issue? Free 128mb cards! 05:30 - The 10 million dollar bic pen, yikes. 11:45 - Bizarro world, Sony is introducing the Sony Microdrive. 15:55 - eBay, $125 Wal-Mart gift card goes for $127.51? 17:50 - Digital Signage in Retail, TV-B-Gone is looking better and better. 23:00 - More mashing, anime meets Popeye. 27:30 - NPR, file-sharing tool grows in popularity, the quiet resistance grows. 40:00 - CBC BitTorrent woes, whoops. 46:00 - BBC Arts, the culture show, thanks Adam! Props to Dawn and Drew! Torrent here. 55:30 - Go to Podcast Alley and vote for us, and win. LISTEN

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    Apple Asteroid, was eMagic EMI?

    More evidence that Apple is indeed releasing a FireWire/USB breakout box. Earlier we speculated along with many others that Apple is developing a FireWire audio interface for GarageBand codenamed "Asteroid" or "Q97".  The breakout box will include multiple audio inputs, including two XLR microphone inputs. And now suddenly we're reminded that a little while ago Apple bought a company called eMagic which makes a sub-$200 breakout box for Macs and PCs. Exactly. [Via Scripting.com]

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    Load up your USB drive before you visit your parents

    We talked about this on our podcast this week, but we wanted to do this up here before a lot of people leave home to spend Thursday fixing their family's computers. Here's what we're putting on our USB drive before we leave for Tofurky Day (don't laugh, it's Seattle). First, turn on the Windows Firewall (Double click the Network connection in the task bar > Properties > Advanced > Settings > Turn on Firewall). Run Anti-Spyware, free from LavaSoft. Run Anti-Virus, we like this free one from GriSoft. Run Windows Update. Get a new Browser, FireFox. Get Skype. Got other suggestions and advice? Post up in the comments.

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    Engadget Podcast 016 - 11.23.2004

    Happy Chrismahanukwanzakah! In this show we talk about some mashing up again, our Nintendo DS review, how fast-forwarding is good, wait, bad, our TV-B-Gone review and video, the first Treo 650 hack, the Asteroid from Apple, and about being the tech support generation. Hosts: Lenn Pryor & Phillip Torrone. Format: 1 hour, 14MB, MP3. Click here to listen to the show (MP3) or add the Engadget Podcast Feed to your Podcasting application and have the show delivered automatically. This show as created with iChat, LineIn, GarageBand and Audacity. We've added time codes in the following list and links to the stories or references. Minutia.. 00:00- Intro 02:00- Mobile phone ads. 06:00- Engadget mention on CNN and Business 2.0, yay! 13:00- Mash-up response, and some more on that. 16:30- Nintendo DS review, they took it apart, and we found out this still works. 25:00- Fastforwarding is good, Fastforwarding is bad. 31:45- Our TV-B-Gone video, WMV and MOV. 39:20- First Treo 650 hack, use BlueTooth DUN. 43:20- Follow up, Juha is out of Macromedia. 49:00- The asteroid coming from Apple? 50:50- Engadget gets a DMCA letter. 52:40- Tech support generation; here are some free tools to tote. LISTEN Update: On today's podcast we gave away the "limited edition" Nintendo DS shirt handed out while we waited in line with 500 other people at midnight for the Nintendo DS launch. All you had to do to win was listen to the show and then be the first to post the first 10 digits of pi, congrats Brian! We promise to keep it sealed in plastic before we send it to you. For everyone else, we're going to try and do more giveaways soon on the show, so stay tuned.

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    VIDEO: First look at TV-B-Gone in action…

    Here's a video and first-ever "review" of the TV-B-Gone, the device that turns off pretty much every TV we've pointed it at. Inside the video are some photos and our narrative of some examples of turning off TVs in a few public places, as well as sneak peek at our iPod-TV-B-Gone project, which turns any iPod into a TV turner-off'er. Click here to view WindowsMedia video. Click here to view QuickTime video.

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    How-To: BroadCatching using RSS + BitTorrent to automatically download TV shows

    Over the last couple week's TiVo let slip that they're going to start adding banner ads when we try to fast-forward commercials (and to make things even more annoying, Congress is considering a bill that might make fast-forwarding through the commercials on DVDs illegal). So we've pretty much decided we're not going to use a TiVo anymore and that instead we'll go with other solutions (for now) like a Media Center PC, as well as rolling some of our own ways to download TV shows. For this week's How-To we're going to show you how you can use RSS and BitTorrent to find and download your favorite shows, automatically, using free software. There are a lot of ways to do this, we cover one example that worked well for us, and there are a couple great tutorials we spotted that are basically the same but offer other ways of downloading, other plugins and more information. You can check them out here and here. If you're already a pro, be sure to post up your set up and experiences in the comments area.

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    Nintendo DS midnight photo bonanza!

    Over in Redmond, WA at Game Crazy (yes, that's really the name, we actually tend to think they're more mad than crazy) had a midnight Nintendo DS launch event. We rolled in and scored spots 28 and 29 out of the 500 units they had for sale. Here's what we saw there, as well as some shots of the new toy after we brought it home (yeah, Peter got his last week):

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    Engadget Podcast 015 - 11.19.2004

    Shake it, shake it, one two-On this show we talk about "mash ups", hunting and shooting animals via the web, how TiVo sold us out, EPIC-the Googlezon future, movie theaters that will take your picture, Amazon's "used" sale, Oakley MP3 glasses, and if Wal-Mart is good for America. Hosts: Lenn Pryor & Phillip Torrone. Format: 1 hour, 14MB, MP3. Click here to listen to the show (MP3) or add the Engadget Podcast Feed to your Podcasting application and have the show delivered automatically. This show as created with iChat, LineIn, GarageBand and Audacity. We've added time codes in the following list and links to the stories or references. Minutia... 00:00- Intro. 02:15- Comments about Palm... Lenn still says Palm's CCO knows kung fu. 05:00- Mash the Planet, we need your help, mashing it. 13:30- Hunt via the web, um, yikes. 21:00- Tivo sells your fast-forward button, How-to get rid of your TiVo coming next week... 31:40- EPIC, the future with the google grid, wild. 44:30- Amazon sells used condoms, or sell your own. 46:40- Oakley MP3 sunglasses, iPodlounge reviews them. 50:00- Movies to take your pictures, how we're fighting back. 52:50- Walmart, not good for America-beat them. LISTEN

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    Interview with David E. Weekly, Founder of Coceve and www.IMsmarter.com

    We interviewed David E. Weekly, founder of Coceve and creator of the super-handy IMSmarter.com. What is IMSmarter? David describes it as a "secretary that helps you out by sitting between you and the rest of the world, letting you know about things that are interesting and taking notes of your meetings so you can recall what was said later." Works on all computers, no software to install, very neat idea. We predict this will be a standard part of IM soon. Name, rank, a little about yourself. Private David E. Weekly, Serial #55429...hey wait! I'm not in the military. ;) I've been a computer geek since I started programming at five - less impressive than it sounds when you realize I was just copying in BASIC programs from a kids' magazine into an Apple II/c to see what happened. I've been tooling around with computers since then - I actually got pretty involved in the whole MP3 movement while I was getting my CS degree at Stanford. I believe I was the first person to have a web page that actually explained what MP3 was in layman's terms.

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    Engadget Podcast 014 - 11.16.2004

    Stop, collaborate and listen-In this Podcast we talk about unshackling from your phone lines with Skype, a little about our PowerPoint to iPod & Portable Media Center How-To, ads on P2P networks, how IMSmarter makes IM good again, the Lexmark spyware and DMCA case, Xbox lock outs, and how Palm should dump the rest of their handheld line and go all Treo. Hosts: Lenn Pryor & Phillip Torrone. Format: 55 minutes, 19 MB, MP3. Click here to listen to the show (MP3) or add the Engadget Podcast Feed to your Podcasting application and have the show delivered automatically. In iTunes "get info" on the MP3 to see photos embedded in the MP3. This Podcast was recorded with Skype, LineIn, WireTap and Audacity. We've added time codes in the following list and links to the stories or references. Minutia... 00:00- Intro. 01:00-New Skype for Macs coming. No more phone lines for Lenn. 09:30-PowerPoint and Keynote for iPod photo How-To, Dec Popular Science. 13:30-Ads on p2p networks, a good thing, TiVo via RSS. 21:00-IMsmarter, great new free IM enhancer. 26:45-Lexmark spyware and DCMA case, don't buy Lexmark. 34:00-Xbox lock outs, we propose "open class". 43:40-Palm is losing it, go Treo all the way. LISTEN

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