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Episode 18

While Jon was off nerding it up in Texas, Karen Freeman acted as guest co-host in his stead. Karen is a manager, editor, and writer at AppAdvice, a freelance writer for Macworld, a mom, and a teacher. They begin talking about the new iPad and ask the question, "What's in a name?" They discuss all of the confusion brought on by this "name change," but in the end decide it doesn't really matter. In between giggling, your hosts complain about iCloud and Photo Stream, while parsing Dropbox in all of its glory. As per typical guest discussion: Karen touches on what's on her homescreen and which apps she uses daily. Then, they both make fun of Jamie's delirious blog post on a missing iOS 5.1 "feature" and how none of the readers got what she was on about.

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Links

Karen on Twitter: @karensfreeman

March 7, 2012 Apple event video

AppAdvice: Just Call It An iPad And Call It A Day

VentureBeat: Apple's Press Conference Showed A Brand Unraveling

AppAdvice: Orchestra To-Do Review

AppAdvice: Lock Screen Camera No Longer Available During Calls In iOS 5.1

Apps

Readability for iOS

Instapaper for iOS

Evernote for iOS

Dropbox

OmniFocus for iPhone

OmniFocus for Mac

Pages for Mac

iA Writer for Mac

iA Writer for iOS

Toshl Finance for iPhone

Orchestra To-Do

Launch Center for iOS

Tweetbot for iPhone

White Noise for iOS

White Noise Box for iOS

AppAdvice for iOS

Dragon Go! for iPhone

Words With Friends for iPhone

Fahrenheit for iOS

Clear for iPhone

Paprika for Mac

Paprika for iPhone

Paprika for iPad

Episode 5

It's a super-long show, but it crackles with passion. Jon and Jamie rage about Facebook (and Google+) and wrestle with Path, the thing that Facebook should have always been. They both have conflicting emotions about Path, but they can't deny that Path 2.0 is just about the most beautiful app ever made. They discuss their theories of why Path repositioned itself as the mobile app that Facebook wishes it had. In fact, Jon kinda wishes that Path was the phone operating system in itself. Jon deletes Google+ from his iPhone live on the air. Path could replace Instagram, too, in certain ways, and we always love an app that can kick two apps off the homescreen instead of one. The real problem, as always with new apps like this, is that our friends aren't on there yet.

Question posed by this show: Is the smartphone a better place to be social than the desktop?

Oh, and Aunt Jamie and Uncle Jon gon' learn you some Twitter manners, young'uns.

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Links

RWW: Path, Timeline & Worship of The Self

Facebook's preview of Timeline

Giant screenshot of Jon's Facebook Timeline

RWW: Google to Launch Major New Social Network Called Circles, Possibly Today

Evan Williams: Why Retweet works the way it does

Apps

Path

Facebook for iOS

iHome+Sleep for iOS

Instagram for iPhone

Instagallery for iOS

Google+ for iPhone

Twitter for iOS

Tweetbot for iPhone

Scrabble for iPhone

Words With Friends for iPhone

Words With Friends Free for iPhone

Instapaper

Instacast for iPhone

Episode 3

A solid 4.5 stars. Jon and Jamie talk about TV. Specifically, whether it's possible to connect an iPhone to an iPad to an Apple TV. Or something. Then they move on to the games they love, especially puzzle games, with a serious detour into what's wrong with Tetris for iOS, in that it is a piece of crap. They also discuss app store prices and universal apps. There's a brief diversion into email, which leads to conspiracy theories about Apple's App Store policies and some Google-bashing. Then it's back to games, contemplating the romantic appeal of space piracy and how Jamie and Jon are both item hoarders. Finally, Jon attempts to do math on air and fails.

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Links

Google Pulls Bad Version Of Gmail From iTunes

Jamie's Review Of Connectrode

Jamie's Review Of The Dark Meadow

Apps

Apple Remote

Mobile Mouse for Mac and iOS

Rowmote Pro

Netflix for iOS

Apps Gone Free

Zonr

Tetris for iPhone

Tetris for iPad

Osmos for iPhone

Osmos for iPad

Connectrode

Tiny Wings

Sonic the Hedgehog

Sonic the Hedgehog 2

Sonic the Hedgehog 4

Sword and Sworcery (universal)

Sword and Sorcery (iPhone only)

Reeder for iPhone

Reeder for iPad

Reeder for Mac

Day One for iOS

Day One for Mac

Instapaper

Sparrow for Mac

Gmail for iOS

Myst for iPhone

Riven for iPhone

The Dark Meadow

EPOCH.

Mage Gauntlet

Escape Velocity

Warpgate

Fractal Combat

Blizzard Games (Diablo II, Diablo III, World of Warcraft)