A Podcast
The hello Show is a podcast, hosted by David Kendal and Dave Lawrence, about Apple Macintoshes new and old, and about other Apple products, including Newtons, iPods, iPhones, and other products long gone by. In particular, we discuss trying to get along with our older gadgets and using them in the modern computing world. You can subscribe in your favourite RSS reader or in iTunes by clicking on one of the icons below.
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With our guest, Damian Ward.
(more description coming soon; we’re very lazy, as you know.)
Download (mpeg-3 audio file) · 14th July, 2010
A short show following the iPhone 4 announcement. We discuss Steve Jobs’ opening keynote at WWDC, from its announcements to the problems. The lack of Mac announcements irritates us but we could see it coming, sort of.
Errata for this show: Safari 5 was in fact accounced at the Safari State-of-the-Union.
Also: Dave’s iPad experience, the hello Show Wii Tournament, and Listening to the hello Show Requires Ownership of a Wii.
Download (mpeg-3 audio file) · 10th June, 2010 
Further technical difficulties meant we had to cut the whole first section of this episode. It hopefully still makes sense. Topics up for discussion are the Palm Pre and its user-experience, and overclocking of those devices and Newtons. We also talk Apple product names, from Macintosh and Newton in days of yore to the proliferation of obnoxious i prefixes today—and of course the awful numbering system used in the inter-Jobs era.
Also: the UK election; our favourite apple varieties (as in the fruit); the demise of the Chyrp blog system; Dave’s various projects (including Seven Days of System 7); the magic of Spotlight and AppleScript; and Dammit, This Recording Thing Might Just Turn Out to Be a Long-Term Problem.
Download (mpeg-3 audio file) · 29th May, 2010
We finally managed to get another episode done—our long-promised picks show, and we even found time for discussions of a new Mac for David, older apps like Audion and BBEdit Lite, and why Quark XPress is going the way of PageMaker. (the notes on our picks for this episode and episode 8 are forthcoming; watch this space)
Also: weird things to do with USB, the G4 era’s industrial design, full-content RSS feeds, iPad purchasery, what happens to David’s brain at 11 PM at the end of a three-day weekend, old keyboards and the iPad, and a floating strip club.
Download (mpeg-3 audio file) · 6th May, 2010
The hello Show returns! With less than a week until the first iPad lands in the hands of a paying customer, we consider how people are going to use their tablets. Will it replace their Macs almost entirely, like Patrick Rhone? Is the lack of multitasking a show-stopper? What does it mean for hackers and tinkers? In addition, David’s bad luck on eBay continues with the sniping of a Power Mac G4 “Quicksilver.”
Also: what David (aka David Gilmour, aka Leonardo di Caprio) and Dave (aka Scott Simpson) really look like, how video podcasts are killing the Internet, OS X 10.5 Leopard system requirements stupidity, musical instruments (do-it-yourself and real), and What Makes Someone a ‘Friend of the Show?’
Download (mpeg-3 audio file) · 28th March, 2010
We finally managed to get our guest on the show! Grant Hutchinson, retro technology collector extraordinaire, joins us, as we talk about his projects and his work. Starting off with the Newton, including Grant’s custody of the Newted website and its major crash, and the NewtonTalk mailing list, before moving on to discuss Be, Inc.’s BeBox and BeOS systems as well as the NeXT system. News includes the iPad ship date; Apple, Google and Bing; David loses another Apple Extended Keyboard; and Publish Press and the Syndicator.
Also: text input (keyboards vs. handwriting), borrowing equipment from Grant, a retro server setup, and Where the Heck Did the Name ‘splorp’ Come From?
Download (mpeg-3 audio file) · 10th March, 2010
Apologies to our upcoming guest as his email etiquette is criticised on-air, in a discussion about the From, Cc and Bcc fields in mail clients. David and Dave talk about email, including the 28-year-old RFC 822 standard, and quoting styles. In addition, we talk about backups and transferring files from newer Macs to older ones using a USB floppy drive. News includes MacBreak Weekly’s all-picks special episode and school laptop privacy concerns.
Also: the Macintosh File Systems, asking smart questions in comp.lang.c, further apologies to those incapable of operating an email client, and Will Next Week’s Show Be a Retro All-Picks Show?
Download (mpeg-3 audio file) · 3rd March, 2010 
In another shorter episode, David and Dave continue their discussion of commenting on Websites with a section on Web forums, in particular Dave’s new project, Wiipocalypse. We follow with a section on Wii games and NES and SNES nostalgia. In addition, David prophesises new MacBook Pro and Mac Pro machines coming soon with i3, i5 and i7 processors.
Also: how we use our old Macs (including David’s use of an iMac G3 as his main machine), switching from WordPress to Chyrp, a memorial to Joli Davidson (sister of James Duncan), and Will Next Week’s Show Be Done While Racing on Mario Kart?
Download (mpeg-3 audio file) · 17th February, 2010In this pint-sized episode of the show, David and Dave run through the latest happenings in the Internet world. We discuss commenting on Daring Fireball, the Anthology of Hypertext, Newton Poetry and tumblelogs. Although our guest had to pull out at the last moment, we hope to have him on the show very soon.
Also: Macworld, our new Twitter account and email address, and sponsorship of the show. That is all.
Download (mpeg-3 audio file) · 11th February, 2010 
It’s the second episode! David and Dave discuss the arrival of the Apple Tablet in the form of the iPad. We discuss the applications for it, the A4 processor inside it, and David decides whether he will be getting one or opting to get an iBook G4 as a portable computer.
Also: the Apple Aluminium Keyboard, the Macintosh LC, Helvetica vs. Arial, The Conversation, and Just Who Will Be Our Special Guest Next Week?
Download (mpeg-3 audio file) · 3rd February, 2010
In the first episode of the show, David and Dave discuss Dave’s keyboard clean-up, David’s iMac hard drive and optical drive replacement and the various rumours of the Apple tablet, recorded shortly before the keynote at which it is expected to be introduced.
Also: the Mac SE, Bento, HyperCard, Holgas and Just How Do You Pronounce zen-y?
Download (mpeg-3 audio file) · 27th January, 2010
