Editor-in-Chief Aayush Arya and Lead Author Milind Alvares discuss various issues about the App Store, and MobileMe, opine on the “Brick” rumours, and dish out some recommendations about iPhone apps. There are also a couple of surprises for listeners.

 

 SmokeCast India #SCI300908: The App Store, MobileMe, and the “brick” [49:06m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Show Notes

These are the links to the applications we mention on the show. Clicking on any of them will open iTunes and take you to the appropriate page on the iTunes Store.

• AirSharing
• AOL Radio
• Asphalt 4: Elite Racing
• DataCase
• Evernote
• Instapaper Free
• Koi Pond
• NetNewsWire
• Palringo Instant Messenger
• Shazam
• SpeakEasy Voice Recorder
• Tap Tap Revenge
• Things
• Twitterrific
• WordBook - A Dictionary & Thesaurus of the English Language
• WeDict
• WordPress

Subscription Options

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This first episode brings you Aayush Arya, Ashwin Ravindran, and Milind Alvares discussing the announcements of the ‘Let’s Rock’ special event help by Apple in September 2008.

 

 Enhanced Podcast [31:12m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Show Notes

The Apple Keynotes podcast can be found on the iTunes Store.

Subscription Options

You can either use any of the links given above to play the podcast or download it to your computer. Alternatively, you can subscribe to the RSS feed.

[Update: We’re proud to announce that we’ve been approved and the podcast can now be subscribed to on iTunes. Just click on the link above and hit the Subscribe button out there. You do not even need an iTunes account to do so. After that, the episodes will automatically be downloaded to your library (based on your preferences, of course) as soon as we release them. There are several advantages of such an arrangement:

1. You’ll never miss an episode;
2. You can start listening to it on your Mac, pause midway, and continue it later on your iPhone/iPod;
3. You get to see all the chapters and related graphics, which makes it much easier to navigate and listen to just one particular segment if you wish to; and
4. It’s just plain cooler!]