This installment of the Macworld Podcast starts in the Caribbean Sea and winds up in Iceland . And you thought your Thanksgiving travel plans were complicated .

We start off our global podcast on board theMS Volendam , where editorial theater director Jason Snell checks in from the latest MacMania sail . Then , it ’s off to Iceland , where senior intelligence editor and Game Room editorialist Peter Cohen serve the one-year Fanfest forEVE Online , a massively multiplayer online plot that made its Mac debut a calendar week ago . Peter talks with Hilmar Pétersson , CEO of EVE Online makerCCP Games , and Vikas Gupta , and Gavriel State ofTransGaming , which makes the cyder technology that allowed EVE to come to the Mac .

Alas , I did n’t travel anywhere for this podcast installment , but I do spend some fourth dimension mouth about Leopard and the iPhone .

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Show Notes

My Leopard and iPhone commentary advert Apple ’s iPhone SDK — you could read more about that here . Also of sake is thisYouTube clipof Steve Jobs and Phil Schiller demonstrating features that did n’t make it into the shipping translation of Leopard ’s iChat .

Jason Snell ’s interview is with Neil Bauman ofInsight Cruises , which is already planningMacMania 8 , which will cruise the Eastern Mediterranean in November 2008 . In the meantime , you’re able to read Jason ’s dispatches from MacMania 7 , with reports from Aruba and Curaçao .

Peter Cohen filed a mass of reports during his elongated weekend in Iceland , starting with his arrival in Reykjavik , an aborted misstep to the celebrated Blue Lagoon , and a wrapper - up of the Fanfest . ( you’re able to see some pictures from Peter ’s travelshere . )

Peter also has information about EVE Online , include a newbie ’s guide to the game as well as a first look at EVE . And here ’s some background on TransGaming ’s Cider engineering that ’s helping a growing act of biz make it to the Mac .

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