TWiT.TV — with Leo Laporte & Friends

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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.

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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 macTVpodcast
• 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.