Jul 16
While the cat’s away, the mice will play. Brian and Ian show their true colors in the first BeerMediaTech location recording.
Check out the show notes at http://delicious.com/beermediatech/010
May 14
Our almost-not-quite Cinco de Mayo show!
Check out the show notes at http://delicious.com/beermediatech/008
Apr 16
The Beer: Smuttynose Hanami Ale
The Special Guest: Ian Brier, producer & gadabout, makes talkies for the TV box
The Links:
- Pucca and her theme song
- Sakura Matsuri (DC Cherry Blossom Festival)
- Panasonic P2 Varicams
- Red Scarlet 3K HD Pocket Pro Camera Under $3000
- RED Launches 5K RED EPIC Flagship Camera
- Panasonic launches 64GB P2 card, AJ-PCD35 ExpressCard adapter
- Panasonic unveils SDHC-lovin’ AG-HMC150 HD camcorder
- Quantel Adds AAF Final Cut Pro Project Support, Enables 1080p
- Autodesk Introduces 2009 Versions of Inferno, Flame and Flint
- CBS to Present ‘SURVIVOR’ in High Definition for the First Time Using Sony’s XDCAM HD Technology
- The Last Analog NAB (Cops in HD)
- Kent Nichols on NAB
- Could a Nokia N95 & Qik Save Your Life?
- Apple Releases Final Cut Server
- Genentech is, in fact, not in Bethesda.
- Japan’s 2007 Robot of the Year
- Make magazine
- Instructables - The World’s Biggest DIY & How To Show & Tell
- Easy Bar Tricks
- Bar Trick #1: Bottlecap Trick
BeerMediaTech 007 - Bar Trick #1 from Mark Boszko on Vimeo. - Bar Trick #2: Bill Trick
BeerMediaTech 007 - Bar Trick #2 from Mark Boszko on Vimeo. - Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, and there’s more great info at The Raider.net
- 21
- Top grossing movies for 1989 in the USA
- Wildly Popular ‘Iron Man’ Trailer To Be Adapted Into Full-Length Film
- AOL Summer Movie Best Bets
- Grey Hulk vs. Green Hulk
- Deep Rising, one of the greatest monster movies of all time.
- Below
- Short Circuit 3
- Alien 5
- Wanted
- Star Trek Delayed to 2009
- Sylar vs. Rogue
- Bond 22: Quantum of Solace
Picks of the Fortnight:
- Brian: Super Genintari
- Jess: Top Gear, the BBC gearhead (cars) show
- Ian: The Breeders: Mountain Battles
- Mark: The Duke Spirit: Neptune
Special thanks to vimeo for hosting our videos.
Apr 02
Our post-April Fools episode. Show notes will be up shortly.
Feb 13
Alright!™ Our pre-Valentines Day edition has arrived.
The Beer: Old Brown Dog Ale
Larger capacity 16GB iPhone & 32GB iPod touch released
Family Guy: Blue Harvest, first DVD to come with an iTunes Digital Copy
Penn & Teller’s Bullshit episode on Wal*Mart
WAL-MART: The Hight Cost of Low Price (not recommended)
American Gladiators, “Zap” was actually my favorite.
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, with Summer Glau (River Tam from Firefly)
What and how many of your shows are left after the writer’s strike? Check the Ultimate Guide.
Mad Men, beautifully art directed and well written drama about Madison Avenue ad execs in 1960
Head Case, on USA
Apple TV 2.0 Firmware finally out
- HD Rentals
- Streamlined interface
The Other Beer: Smuttynose Robust Porter
- Amp’d: Jumpstart
- GoDaddy: Beaver
- Careerbuilder: Follow Your Heart
- Doritos: Mouse Trap
- Diet Pepsi Max: What is Love?
- Bud Light: Jackie Moon
- Audi R8: Godfather
- Tide: Interview
- Jumper trailer
Nickelodeon
Sean Connery Quotes
- “There can be only one” (Actually, I don’t think he ever said it.)
- “I am the last one!” (Not from Highlander)
Harrison Ford movies
Apple Announces they won’t be going to NAB
Google pitches Android to European mobile developers rumor, flash coming to iPhone
iPhone SDK coming by end of February
Method to determine whether a year is a leap year
Aperture 2.0, over 100 new features
- choose between stacks and old folders in dock
- toolbar icon for Time Machine
- turn off menu bar translucency
- iDisk and other bug fixes
- Apple Paper (MacBook ad parody)
Microsoft/Yahoo merger offer rejected?
People type “yahoo.com” into Google all the time
Picks of the Fortnight
- Brian: BarackObama.com and AppleTV 2.0
- Jess: Bioshock on XBOX360
- Bonus pick: Portal, in The Orange Box (end song by Jonathan Coulton)
- Mark: xScope 2.0 from the Iconfactory
Write us at beermediatech@gmail.com!
Jan 15
The “beer”:
- Woodchuck Amber Draft Cider in honor of Apple’s announcements.
Today, during Steve Jobs’ keynote at Macworld Expo there were four big announcements:
- 1. Time Capsule
- 500 GB or 1 TB models
- Essentially an AirPort Extreme with a hard drive inside
- 2. iPhone & iPod Touch
- SDK will still be released in late February
- 1.1.3 today:
- Maps with location, using Google’s Celltower system + Skyhooks wifi system
- Webclips
- SMS multiple people
- Customize your home screen
- Chapters in videos; subtitles, display of lyrics
- All apps now available on iPod Touch
- free for new iPod Touches
- $20 Upgrade for current owners
- 3a. Movie Rentals in iTunes
- Touchstone, Miramax, MGM, Lionsgate, NewLine Cinema, Fox, WB, Walt Disney, Paramount, Universal, Sony (just about everyone!)
- In store 30 days after DVD release, plus a bunch of library titles
- Launching with 1000 films by the end of February
- Ready to play in less than 30 seconds, you have 30 days to start watching it. After you start, you have 24 hours to keep watching as much as you like.
- Library titles, $2.99
- New releases, $3.99
- 3b. Apple TV 2.0
- You can buy shows, movies, music online from the Apple TV
- Rent movies from the Apple TV
- Rent them in HD or DVD qualities with 5.1 surround sound
- Grabs photos from Flickr and .Mac (also videos from .Mac)
- Expanded YouTube selection
- Sync purchases & rentals back to your computer
- HD rentals are $1 more than other formats.
- 100 titles in HD today
- Entirely new UI
- All Apple TVs get this upgrade in 2 weeks
- New Apple TV is $229 (shipping in 2 weeks)
- 4. MacBook Air
- It’s real.
- World’s thinnest notebook
- Wedge shape, 0.76″ to 0.16″ profile
- Full size keyboard, black on silver with backlight, like MBP
- Full size display, 13.3″, LED backlit with iSight
- Multi-touch gestures on trackpad,for instance in iPhoto:
- 2-finger dragging around photo
- 3-finger pan across left and right to different photos (like on iPhone)
- zooming is pinch in/out, just like iPhone
- 80GB 1.8″ HD standard
- 64GB SSD (Solid State Disk) is optional (and $1400 more)
- Core 2 Duo 1.6 GHz standard, 1.8 GHz optional
- C2D is same die, but in a 60% smaller package made special for Apple
- Magsafe power
- flip down door for USB, DVI, headphone jack
- built-in 802.11n, Bluetooth 2.1+EDR
- No ethernet port, no optical drive
- Optional USB SuperDrive
- Software installs done remotely using free “Remote Disk” software
- Share the optical drive of any other Mac or PC via WiFi
- Steve thinks discs suck, don’t need ‘em
- 5 hours of battery life
- 3 lbs
- 2 GB standard RAM
- $1799, Shipping in 2 weeks
- Environmental progress:
- Full aluminum case, recyclable
- mercury and arsenic free display
- bromide and PVC free circuit boards
- 50% less volume on retail packaging
- One more thing: Randy Newman
- He rants about America
- Then sings a political song
- Weird, incoherent rambling
- Toy Story Song to wrap up
Other announcements:
Jan 08
The Beers:
Links:
- WB has dropped HD-DVD for Blu-ray, Paramount about to do same.
- Comcast at CES: 100Mbps connections coming this year
- Working Optimus Maximus keyboard actually at CES
- Alienware Curved Monitor
- Matsushita unveils world’s biggest TV
- Intel launches sixteen new 45nm processors
- Mac Pro goes 8-core
- Xserve went 8-core too
- iTunes movie rental, DVD deal rumor has a lot of traction behind it
Macworld predictions:
- Jess: Larger-capacity iPhone OR iPhone case with built-in beer bottle opener
- Brian: blu-ray compatibility
- Neil: Lightweight beer-opener laptop with palm tree design
- Mark: Mac OS X iTablet with stylus and Multi-Touch screen
More links:
- FireWire 3200
- BitMicro preps 832GB solid state drive for launch
- Adium 1.2 out of beta with a few new tricks
- Back from the dead: CompUSA assets snapped up by TigerDirect
Picks of the Fortnight:
- Jess’s This Fortnight in Robots:
- Brian: WhatSize
- Neil: Love and Sex with Robots: The Evolution of Human-Robot Relationships
- Mark: Macworld Keynote Bingo 2008 and version for iPhone
Bonus link:
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Dec 11
If it wasn’t clear from the podcast, we’re all media professionals working in the DC Metro Area. Also, maybe mixing beer and tech isn’t such a hot idea, as I never once said “Adobe” clearly the entire evening, even once substituting “Apple”. Sorry, Adobe.
The Beer:
- Delerium Noël
- Affligem Noël Christmas Ale
- MeEwan’s Scotch Ale (Mentioned, but not drunk)
- St. Bernardus Christmas Ale
- Jolly Pumpkin Noel De Calabaza
- Santa’s Butt
Recording studio provided by JWM Productions Links:
- A guy named John (Foster) and his podcast, Beer School
- Patent lawsuit over Visual Voicemail
- Leopard is the new Vista
- Time Machine doesn’t work with AirPort Disks yet
- Leopard’s amazing Spaces
- Avid not going to NAB 2008
- Adobe Flash release now supports H.264 video codec
- High Bit Rate H.264
- ProRes
- 4:2:2, 4:1:1, and 4:2:0
- NBC/Universal Leaves iTunes
- Hulu
- HD-DVD vs. Blu-Ray
Picks:
- Neil: Songbird
- bonus: Pandora
- Brian: The Skeptic’s Guide to the Universe
- Jess’ Segment: The Fortnight in Robots
- Moth Brain Robot
- Cockroach Controlled Mobile Robot
- DARPA Robotank
- Fighting Robots in Japan
- Japanese Violin-playing Robot
- Tom: The Superficial
- Mark: CandyBar 3
Aftershow Links:
