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PowerPage Podcast Episode 151 – Same dog food, reheated

The week we discuss the new 2011 MacBook Pro, Apple’s March 2/iPad 2 event, the Mac OS 10.7 “Lion” developer preview and we play “What’s on your Mac?”

PowerPage Podcast 2011Episode 151 of the PowerPage Podcast is now available. You can either download it from the iTunes Store or directly (44.1 MB, MP3).

Panel: Jason O’Grady, Rob Parker and Tom Hesser

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This week we discuss the new 2011 MacBook Pro with Thunderbolt, quad-core Sandy Bridge processor (but in the same recycled “unibody” design), Apple’s iPad 2 event on March 2, the Mac OS 10.7 “Lion” developer preview and we play “What’s on your Mac?”

Here’s what’s on our Macs this week:

Jason

Rob

  • Al Jazeera English Live for iPhone/iPad (Free, App Store) – Watch live news from the Middle East and the world.
  • TotalFinder for Mac ($15) – Finder enhancement that includes tabbed finder windows (which Tom and I second).

Tom

  • FaceTime for Mac OS X ($0.99, Mac App Store) – Now out of beta and works great with the new FaceTime HD camera in the new MacBook Pro.

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By Jason O'Grady

Founded the PowerPage in 1995.