MacBreak Weekly
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Hosts: Leo Laporte and various panelists Topic: Apple and Mac Debut: August 12th, 2006 Released: Every Tuesday Duration: 60 minutes |
MacBreak Weekly is a show on the TWiT network that premiered on August 12th, 2006 as an audio spinoff of MacBreak, a PixelCorps production. It is recorded every Tuesday; usually at 11am PST. The show focuses on discussion of Apple news, products and rumors. After the main discussions, each panelist will recommend their "Pick of the Week", which usually encompasses various Apple-related products.
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Recent Shows
- MacBreak Weekly 185 – "The Day the Clown Cried" – Snow Leopard gets sidekicked, Mossberg disses Apple, and inside the iPhone update.
- MacBreak Weekly 184 – It's A Little Meaty – Valve:Steam now on Mac, Academy Award winners use Final Cut Pro, MacHeist nanoBundle, MacDevo price lowered, EFF analysis of iPhone Devo license.
- MacBreak Weekly 183 – I'm Twalkin Here – Leo and Alex cover this week's news and take your questions via Twalkin and chat.
- MacBreak Weekly 182 – There's An App For That – The MacBreak Weekly All-Picks special episode.
- MacBreak Weekly 181 – Dread Pirate Robert – MacWorld Expo lives, Apple sells more Macs, and Adobe doesn't hate HTML 5 after all.
Host
Regular Panelists
Former Regular Panelists
Trivia
- The show features self-described "rat holes" where the hosts go completely off-topic for a few minutes. A brief song was composed by Merlin Mann as a theme, later extended by Paul Minshall, for such segments although it has been conspicuously absent for the last few months. The rathole jingle has poped up in MBW # 152
- A Beatles-themed iPod in the works has been the prominent rumor of the show almost since its inception.
- Product recommendations are described in a currency called an Alex, one Alex being roughly equivalent to $700 U.S. dollars, the cost of Adobe Photoshop at the time of the currency's inception. It was so named because Alex Lindsay frequently mentions items that cost a large amount of money.
- The entire regular cast now has their own jingles, provided by Geoff Smith.
Show Notes
Show notes for MacBreak Weekly are taken by Macphotog.
Picks
A complete list of all weekly picks: MacBreak Weekly Picks.
External links
- Official site
- MBWPicks.com - Paul Mayson maintains a record of all recommendations by show panelists
- MBWideas.com - MacBreak Weekly on Del.icio.us. Listeners are encouraged to tag stories with "mbwideas."
Geeks call to action
- Ensure Woz wins Dancing with the Stars
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