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55 minutes and 4 seconds. Download this episode. Way too much discussion about retro soda, Pepsi Throwback specifically. All good colas are from the south, and so is Viget labs. Installing applications on a Mac is ridiculously complicated. We’re all on the iPad Kool-Aid (with the exception of the app approval issues) JTJ appreciates interfaces that avoid preferences. Minimizing administrative debris is a natural thing on the iPhone. Google’s design, and we mentioned Doug Bowman’s experience at Google. JTJ doesn’t like talking about programming for its own sake, he wants to talk about how to build things. The high point of An Event Apart 2009 in Chicago for Trey was Simon Willison’s talk on Cowboy Programming. The crowd at AEA was much more reclusive than at SXSW.

Episode One: Three is a Magic Number (Download this episode) In this episode: our recording setup and just how much trouble it is to use three microphones in Garage Band That customizing your software may not be a good thing (we’re looking at you, FireFox) What browsing the web was like in 1995 and how awesome Microsoft Plus! was Jason Johnson’s search for the ideal ear buds to use with his iPhone Kids music and what else you can find on our iPhones and we lay out the vision for the podcast Some links to a few of the items discussed during this episode: We used a Blue Snowball, an MXL 990 & PreSonus Inspire 1394, and an M-Audio Producer USB to record into Garage Band. Microsoft Plus! and the IBM PS/Note, which used Lynx or Telix (Not Planet Telex) or some other browser we couldn’t remember. Jason Johnson’s Klipsch in-ear headphones and Jason Coleman’s off brand headphones. Trey is happy with the Apple ear buds. Though we don’t bother cleaning them, Lifehacker encourages you to do so. You can learn more about Dan Benjamin (The Ruby Show) and Leo Laporte’s (TWiT) podcasts. They seem to know what they’re doing. “Three is a Magic Number” by Bob Dorough from Schoolhouse Rocks We spend a lot of time watching TED talks and Morning Becomes Eclectic