TechNight

After months of downtime on the site and the feed, I am proud to announce that The Different District Podcast has returned…in a new form. Our new name is “TechNight: The Different District Podcast” or just “TechNight” for short. We think the new name reflects our intent for the show better than the old name and it also describes our show for anyone who sees it.
We’re broadening our show content a bit as well. While our main focus is still the Mac (of course), we’re going to begin including more stories and segments about other technology topics, including the internet, gadgets, and more. Fear not Mac-heads, we’re still true to you.
Among other changes to the show, we also have a new co-host. Brad Mattison confounded DD and he has returned from his absence at the site to be our right-hand man on TechNight. You may have heard him before as a guest on older shows, but we welcome him as a full fledged member of the podcast.
There are many more exciting things in store for the new show, but I’ll let you wonder about those for one more week. TechNight premiers next week (the first week of October) and we’ll be unveiling the new show and celebrating the DDP’s one year anniversary! Woot! Anyway, we can’t wait for our first show, so stay cool, and most importantly, stay subscribed.

P.S. Over the next week, please don’t be alarmed if our feed goes a bit weird. We’re just going to change the name and description around a bit. Everything should be in working order by next weekend.

Hosts: Jamie Diamond and Alex Dimitriyadi

Topics:

- It’s our last show before WWDC 2006
- MacBook Pro batteries go bad
- Check your software updates kids
- We go over the WWDC BINGO card to see what’s in-store for the keynote

Download the BINGO card for next week’s keynote show at:

http://www.differentdistrict.com/podcast/wwdc-bingo.jpg

Running time: 1:06:51

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Hosts: Jamie Diamond, Alex Dimitriyadi, Chris Lee, Graham Brunk, and Erik M.

Topics:

- We’re kicking off our coverage of WWDC 2006
- iTunes ponders movie rentals
- Mighty Mouse goes wireless (and grows a Bluetooth)
- AMD and ATI tie the knot
- Microsoft reveals Zune (sort-of)
- What’s in-store for the 6th generation iPod
- What’s in-store for our coverage of WWDC (along with MrMacGeek.com)

Running time: 52:11

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Hosts: Jamie Diamond and Chris Lee

Topics:

- Movies on the iTunes Music Store? Now’s not the time
- The end of Shake…until 2008 at least
- Higher quality music on the iTMS soon?
- Best Buy may be looking for a piece of the Apple pie
- Updates: iPhoto 6.0.4
- Fake Mac OS 10.5 screenshots fool us again! Darn!
- Still, the race for the next great OS is about to begin!

Running time: 39:44

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Hosts: Jamie Diamond and Chris Lee

Topics:

- Claims of labor abuse at iPod factories
- Apple’s Boston store needs some design tweaks
- Apple cuts prices…in the UK (darn)
- Will the next iPod be no-touch?
- Parallels releases Mac Desktop
- Update for Bluetooth
- iPod Video Converter is free until July (get iSquint instead)
- How to get iPods for less

Running time: 48:22

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Hosts: Jamie Diamond, Chris Lee, Graham Brunk, and Alex Dimitriyadi

Topics:

- The U2 iPod goes 5G
- CBS shows come to iTunes at last
- Norway has a problem with the iTunes EULA
- Apple and Nintendo…together?
- Google Browser Sync for Firefox
- Apple goes back to school (promotion wise)
- Civilization IV evolves into BETA (we don’t care)

Running time: 49:28

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Hosts: Jamie Diamond, Chris Lee, Graham Brunk, and Dominic Serio

Topics:

- The MacBook gets released
- Apple’s cube store opens in NYC
- Who’s suing who in Apple vs. Creative?
- Is Apple closing the Darwin x86 source code?
- Updates to FC Express, Intel Firmware, and iLife
- iPod shuffle may be discontinued

Running time: 1:00:34

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Episode 13 of the Different District Podcast is up! John and Brad were not able to make it but Chris Lee, Graham Brunk, and I met up to talk about:

- The forthcoming MacBooks
- Skype’s universal binary
- iWoz
- G6 clones
- and much more.

Listen online in our flash player on the podcast page or subscribe. Enjoy!

Episode 11 of The Different District Podcast is up! We’re back! Brad and I cover 1 Billion songs bought on iTunes, MPAA suing again, and Apple special announcement, while John takes a break. Don’t miss it.

Our coverage of Macworld SF 2006 on The Different District Podcast is now online and on the feed. John, Brad M., and I spend 40 minutes talking about all of the major announcements at Macworld 2006. We go iLife, iWork, the new iMac, and the new MacBook Pro. Don’t miss it.