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Episode 2: Pepsi Throwup

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