In the U.S. , the food - gorging vacation has pass and the gift - give holidays loom . And because they do , we devote a major portion of this installment to Macworld ’s Gear Guide , the annual , product - bundle characteristic that also serves as a handy reference of desirable holiday gifts for the Mac , iPod , or iPhone - loving loved one in your life .
Not content to address one major winter event , we then move on to a discussion of the season ’s other high spot , Macworld Conference & Expo , held each January at San Francisco ’s Moscone Center . Expo ’s General Manager , Paul Kent , clues us into what ’s in store .
I also use this sequence to inaugurate a new feature of the Macworld Podcast — Mac 911 Takes To The Air ! If you ’re aMacworldreader you ’re familiar with my Mac 911 crest and troubleshooting column and blog . Mac 911 use up To The Air is the audio extension of that study . You inquire , I suffice , we all learn a picayune something .
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Show Notes
You ’re fascinate by Mac 911 Takes To The Air , right ? Good . Here ’s how it works . You call 415/520 - 9761 and detail your problem ( applied science problem only , please ) as soundly yet succinctly as possible . At the terminal of the message , provide your e - chain armour address so I can get through you if necessary ( and that would be only to give you stuff ) . instead , record a substance on your Mac and e - chain armor that recorded message to me ( I tell you how in the podcast ) . If your emergence is juicy enough , I ’ll play it on the air , provide an solution , and get off you a little something as a thank you .
Dan Frakes and I talk a mean mess of products . Many of them can be found in our Gear Guide . We ’ve published that Gear Guide in four parts . They include gear for your iPhone , gear for your iPod , train for the nomadic Mac substance abuser , and gear for the desktop .
We have also recently print a series of buy guides . They admit the Mac Buying Guide , iPod Buying Guide , Inkjet Buying Guide , Digital SLR Cameras Buying Guide , and Point - and - Shoot Camera Buying Guide .
Those product that Dan I sing about that do n’t appear in the Gear Guide include the Belkin Mini Surge Protector with USB Charger , Western Digital 320 GB My Passport Elite , Brenthaven MetroLite BP , Boston Acoustics Duo - i , Kensington Portable Power Pack for Mobile Devices , Mophie JuicePack , Incase Power Slider , SoundMatters foxL , Altec Lansing inMotion MAX , Koss KSC75 , andSennheiser HD201 .
Dan and I also full rapturous about theSonos Multi - Room Music System . If you ’re interested in learning more , take a gander at my late reappraisal .
To find out more about Macworld Conference & Expo , theWeb site of the same nameis the best place to go . And although the subject did n’t come up in our word , Paul result a rockin ’ band in Silicon Valley key out , aptly enough , The Silicon Valley Houserockers . I ’ve played with them a time or two and they live up to their name .
