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December 19th, 2005
TWiT 35: Woz
Leo Laporte , John C. Dvorak , Kevin Rose , Steve Gibson , and special guest TWiT, Steve Wozniak
TWiT 35 is on the air. Audio only this week - we're on Skype.
Main feed courtesy those cool cats (and TWiTheads) at AOL Radio
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Topics:
Woz loves his Prius but don't be fooled by the green lights coming from it
Join Leo and Woz on the MacMania IV cruise to Mexico, February 4-11, 2006
Then Woz is off to the first annual Segway Polo Championships in New Zealand
Google buys a 5% stake in AOL
Shouldn't Microsoft spend more money on getting better search?
There's some interesting stuff from Microsoft at sandbox.msn.com and start.com
Protopage is the ultimate AJAX page - we'll interview the founder, Andre Parrie, Tuesday on Inside the Net
Does anybody remember desktop.com?
Bill and Melinda Gates join Bono as Time Magazine's Persons of the Year
In 1982 it was supposed to be Steve Jobs, but the computer was nicer to people
Andy Hertzfeld's Folklore.org says that the Apple Board almost killed the 1984 commercial
Watch the 1984 ad and other classics on the macTV podcast
Look up folklore on dictionary.com , Andy
Woz has written his autobiography with Gina Smith - but it shall remain nameless
Warner-Chappelle has apologized to Walter Ritter , the author of the late, great, pearLyrics
But... the music publishers are still going after the lyrics sites
Sony finally settles with the inventor of the portable music player
John likes Writely , the online word processor
The new Yahoo Mail beta is pretty spectacular, too
Leo uses Blinksale to do his invoice, stores his stuff on Backpack
Kevin says wait until you see Google calendar
Woz asks why does Google use weird ports for their POP mail?
Gibson and Woz both use Eudora still, but Kevin loves Thunderbird and uses the Sage extension in Firefox for reading newsfeeds
Wikipedia is being vandalized , and yet, according to Nature it's very nearly as accurate as the Encyclopedia Britannica
The Apple Switch campaign generated a lot of parodies including the Canadian Switcher . Oops. I think Dvorak meant this one !
Woz loves his Oakley Razrwire bluetooth sunglasses
No TWiT next week - we're taking Christmas off. We'll be back with audio and video on New Year's Day. And join us at the Zeum on January 10 for our special live MacWorld edition .
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