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Episode 53 of The pause.com Entertainment Podcast is live!

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In this episode, Tony talks about Borderlands as well as Sword & Poker on the iPhone. Lou talks about WoW a little bit, and starting Mass Effect 2. Miscellaneous video game news follows.

In TV (~21:00), Tony didn’t really watch any TV (huh?!) and Lou talks about Idol and complains about not being able to talk about Lost because Tony didn’t watch it yet. Random TV news tidbits after that.

In Movies (~41:35) Tony talks about Inglourious Basterds and, um, Lou didn’t see anything. Some movie news is after that.

In the Mash-Up segment the news this week includes:

• The U.S. Transportation Secretary has advised people to stop driving Toyota cars affected by the gas pedal recall
• Hasselblad’s H4D40: a 40 megapixel DSLR for $20k
• The latest OS update for the Nexus One includes multi-touch for photos, maps & the web
• Rumor: The 27″ iMac problems are serious enough to have halted production
• President Obama wants NASA to scrap plans to put a man on the moon by 2020 (boo)
• Microsoft’s new $60 SideWinder X4 keyboard that lets you press up to 26 keys at a time and have them register correctly
• Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory successfully fired 192 lasers to the 1 megajoule level for the first time – the first step toward controlled nuclear fusion
• Honda has developed a solar hydrogen-making machine for peoples’ garages
• Gateway’s new FX6831-01 and FX6831-03 gaming computers, for $1,300 and $1,700
• IE8 now has a bit over 25% of the browser market (used to be IE7 was the leader)
• The next iPhone is referred to in the SDK by codename N89
• The Hubble has detected an “x-shaped” object moving through space at 11,000 mph and scientists have no idea what it is
• DARPA has approved Boston Dynamics’ contract: The BigDog will see some action!

As always, the end of the episode is when Tony & Lou reveal their votes for this week’s Best & Worst entertainment moments. And not to give away anything, but here’s a link to Lou’s favorite thing this week.

The pause.com Entertainment Podcast is hosted by long-time friends Tony Incopero and Lou Zucaro. Join them as they discuss all sorts of fun things in the world of entertainment, gaming, gadgets, cars and more with a healthy dose of their sense of humor.

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Episode 52 of The pause.com Entertainment Podcast is live!

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In this episode, Tony talks about Borderlands. Lou talks about WoW a little bit, and the huge disappointment that was the Star Trek Online Beta. Miscellaneous video game news follows.

In TV, the guys talk about American Idol and Lou talks about Chuck and 24, with a couple of random TV news tidbits after that.

In Movies Tony talks about The Book of Eli and It’s Complicated. Lou didn’t see anything. Poor Lou. Some movie news is after that.

In the Mash-Up segment the news this week includes:

• Apple’s iPad has been revealed
• Spin Master made a lifesize light cycle from TRON Legacy that somebody should send to Lou
• The Mars Spirit Rover is likely stuck where it is…for ALL ETERNITY!
• A Wisconsin prison has upheld its ban on Dungeons & Dragons
• The Big Trak is making a comeback, thanks to a company called Zeon
• The U.S. military’s YAL-1 airborne laser platform conducted its first successful missile engagement test
• A Dell technician was accused of being a peeping Tom when he remotely activated Diane Annunziato’s webcam during a support session…without her permission

As always, the end of the episode is when Tony & Lou reveal their votes for this week’s Best & Worst entertainment moments. And not to give away anything, but here’s a link to Lou’s favorite thing this week.

The pause.com Entertainment Podcast is hosted by long-time friends Tony Incopero and Lou Zucaro. Join them as they discuss all sorts of fun things in the world of entertainment, gaming, gadgets, cars and more with a healthy dose of their sense of humor.

iTunes subscribers! If you’re not seeing this episode on our iTunes page (linked at the top of this post) never fear! Just make sure you’re subscribed and your iTunes software on your computer will retrieve the latest episode. Just hit the refresh button in your library’s Podcasts page if you don’t see it!

The New release for Apple is the new iPad, it features everything that the ipod touch does just in a 9 x7 inch design.  Some new features for the iPad is iBook which on the main screen shows you a book shelf of all the books you have downloaded onto your phone and ready to read. It has a LED backlight screen for the best quality picture, some accessories that are available is a keyboard doc that lets you type instead of using the touch screen. It is a sleek design and will be what you wait in line for, not only for the chance to be the first to get your hands on it but also for the surprisingly low base price of $499 now this includes 16GB Wi-Fi, while other prices include Wi-Fi plus the 3G network and an increase of memory all the way up to $829. For all the Tech specs and videos and pictures click here.

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Episode 51 of The pause.com Entertainment Podcast is live!

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In this episode, Tony talks about Borderlands, as well as the 1 vs. 100 online game. Lou talks about WoW a little bit. Miscellaneous video game news follows.

In TV (~27:30), the guys talk about American Idol and Chopped, as well as how they both missed Modern Family for some reason. Lou talks about the return of Chuck, as well as Fringe and Heroes, with a couple of random TV news tidbits after that.

In Movies (~59:00) Tony & Lou talk about Sherlock Holmes and Tony also saw The Hurt Locker. Lou talks about The Book of Eli. Some movie news is after that.

In the Mash-Up segment (~1:23:30) the news this week includes:

• Used space shuttles going for CHEAP; space shuttle engines are free plus shipping
• LG’s newspaper-sized, flexible e-ink display
• The Bugatti Veyron costs some owners up to $300k / year just to own & service
• Rumor: Apple will release a 22″ touchscreen iMac this year
• Frabrice Gonet’s Black Pearl watch
• Rumor: Windows Mobile 7 won’t be backward-compatible with previous versions (oh darn)
• The Woz clarified his statements about Google’s Nexus One
• An idiot named Justin Barry put a bomb threat up on a screen at the Apple Store in Staten Island, NY
• Sony will not release any OLED TVs this year
• Netflix’ instant streaming movies and their source, Starz
• Gizmodo has a list of their top eBook readers. Here’s Lou’s List: <empty>
• The 18 Pro earbuds from Ultimate Ears, which are $1,350. Dollars.
• NASA discovered a bag of cocaine at their Discovery hangar in Cape Canaveral
• You can help victims of the earthquake in Haiti by texting HAITI to 90999, which will let you donate $10 to the Red Cross, and will be billed directly to your cell phone bill

As always, the end of the episode is when Tony & Lou reveal their votes for this week’s Best & Worst entertainment moments. And not to give away anything, but here’s a link to Lou’s favorite thing this week.

The pause.com Entertainment Podcast is hosted by long-time friends Tony Incopero and Lou Zucaro. Join them as they discuss all sorts of fun things in the world of entertainment, gaming, gadgets, cars and more with a healthy dose of their sense of humor.

iTunes subscribers! If you’re not seeing this episode on our iTunes page (linked at the top of this post) never fear! Just make sure you’re subscribed and your iTunes software on your computer will retrieve the latest episode. Just hit the refresh button in your library’s Podcasts page if you don’t see it!

At a guess, if you visit this site you like things. Well designed and well made things, especially for your home office/computer desk/paper file repository (you have to have someplace to put your pause.com-approved gadgets). @workdesign, just fifteen minutes west of Chicago’s Loop in Forest Park provides everything you need, desks and shelves from BluDot, beautiful task lamps from Koncept, even notebooks and folios from manufacturers OTHER than Moleskine. Independent business owner Julia Archer is on-hand to guide and direct all her customers to exactly the right solution for their needs, and @workdesign carries exclusive items from providers around the world. Naturally, if there’s something you don’t see, Julia can hunt it down.

Check out their website for regular announcements of new products and artist openings.

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Episode 50 of The pause.com Entertainment Podcast is live!

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In this episode, Tony talks about World of Warcraft a little bit, as does Lou. Lou also talks about starting to play Modern Warfare 2 on the PC. Miscellaneous video game news follows.

In TV (~25:15), the guys talk about Modern Family, Chopped and Conveyor Belt of Love. Lou also talks about Cake Boss and Heroes, with a couple of random TV news tidbits after that.

In Movies (~48:35) Tony talks about Nine and 500 Days of Summer, and Lou talks about Sherlock Holmes and Four Christmases. Some movie news is after that.

In the Mash-Up segment (~1:18:05) the news this week includes:

• Google’s Nexus One “superphone”
• The official opening of the Burj Khalifa
• Intel’s new Core i3, i5 and i7 chips
• Samsung’s C9000 aluminum-encased HDTV with 3D capability
• Haier’s completely wireless (including power) TV at CES
• The Hydrofill MiniPak from Fuel Cell Technologies that lets you charge USB devices with a fuel cell system
• The L5 Remote from L5 Technology that’ll let you use your iPhone as a universal remote for all your A/V stuff
• Microsoft’s new Arc keyboard
• The XStreamHD satellite HD movie download service launches in April
• Palm will give a million bucks to the two apps, paid & free, that get the most downloads from their app store
• Vizio’s CES reveals, including a CinemaWide TV and portable DTVs in 7″, 9″ and 10″ sizes
• Western Digital’s first USB 3.0 external hard drives are available for $200 for a 1TB version
• The Crosley Revolution: A portable turntable with USB out that goes for just $150
• Toshiba’s new NB300 and NB305 netbooks with specs much better than Lou’s Toshiba NB205 netbook
• Rumor: Windows Mobile 7 will be revealed next month at the Mobile World Congress

As always, the end of the episode is when Tony & Lou reveal their votes for this week’s Best & Worst entertainment moments.

The pause.com Entertainment Podcast is hosted by long-time friends Tony Incopero and Lou Zucaro. Join them as they discuss all sorts of fun things in the world of entertainment, gaming, gadgets, cars and more with a healthy dose of their sense of humor.

iTunes subscribers! If you’re not seeing this episode on our iTunes page (linked at the top of this post) never fear! Just make sure you’re subscribed and your iTunes software on your computer will retrieve the latest episode. Just hit the refresh button in your library’s Podcasts page if you don’t see it!

I’m sure you’re wondering why I just didn’t get an iPhone, which I researched, thought about, and sweated over for the better portion of a year. Short answer: I’m with Verizon on multiple phone lines. So, there’s that.

I was an early adopter of PDAs, and mine traveled the world with me. Though fairly primitive at the time, I had an mp3 player module, a phone module, and a screen the size of an iPhone–the entire phone, not just the iPhone’s screen. I used it to keep notes, read books, and play the occasional game. It even accepted SD cards.

Fast forward to not long ago. Having determined it was not practical to get an iPhone, I got the Verizon-friendly Motorola Droid phone. I have to say, it was nice. Real nice. Felt good in the hand, good screen, excellent size, the UI was generally attractive and easy to use.

However, there was one thing about it I could not get past, and that was that the applications available for it felt like I stepped back more than a decade and was using my old PDA. User interfaces were inconsistent, applications had no base-line consistency in operation, and for the most part, crashed. Ultimately, this is the major difference between the iPhone and any phone with the Droid OS. Everything on the iPhone has to be blessed by the high priests of Apple and personally vetted by Steve Jobs in a ritual similar to finding a new pope, white smoke and everything…okay, maybe not, but Apple still has some oversight on the apps for the iPhone. Everything on the Droid feels like it’s in beta.

In its defense, the Motorola phone allowed you to store data on it, though saving the data and getting to the data was a bit cumbersome. The Droid phone also has a flash for the camera, which is a nice feature. And it did have a nice weight.

I traveled with the phone for a week, and simply found it to be not worth hanging onto. Thankfully, switching back to my previous Verizon plan was easier than setting up the new phone in the first place.

Oh, wait, there was one more thing. The keyboard was completely worthless. A great feature to include, the keys were too small, too flat and unresponsive to have practical worth. Same with the little thumb-pad.

Light Touch

This cool device turns any hard surface into a interactive screen. Its software is limited at this time but I think in the near future there will be computer screen similar to this like in the 2 newest James Bond movies. It features up-and-coming tech like holographic laser projection technology that allows it to create a high-quality WVGA resolution image  up to 10 inches. It has an infra-red touch sensing system to turn the projected image into a touch screen. In addition, it runs Flash Lite, allowing for a bunch of different applications, it also has Wi-Fi and Bluetooth for connectivity, 2GB of onboard memory, and a microSD slot for expansion. pretty sweet if you ask me.

Despite the truth of the title, I’m not going to spend any time bashing this product, for two, make that three, reasons. First, the myPressi company was kind enough to send a test version where the competing company (Handpresso) was not. Second, when I had problems with the unit, the PR firm picked up the phone right away and answered all my questions and thanked me for my input. And third…well, if you can get it to work, this is probably just the thing you’re looking for.

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Episode 49 of The pause.com Entertainment Podcast is live, with guest host Todd Stashwick!

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In this episode, the guys welcome special guest Todd Stashwick, who can be seen as Eli on NBC’s Heroes. Todd sits in for the full episode talking with Tony & Lou about all the things they usually talk about.

You can find more about Todd here:
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As always, we start out talking about video games, and seems Todd was a good boy this year as Santa & his family brought a ton of video game fun for him.

In TV (~23:42), the guys talk about Todd’s role as Eli on Heroes, some fun behind-the-scenes tech stuff and other work that Todd’s done.

In Movies (~59:30) Tony & Todd talk about Up in the Air. A bit of miscellaneous movie news after that.

In the Mash-Up segment (~1:18:30) the news this week includes:

• German hackers who cracked the GSM encryption
• DirecTV’s new satellite that’ll let them broadcast the world’s first HD 3D channel
• The Palm Pre Plus and Pixi Plus coming to Verizon
• Carbon Trust’s grant to develop OLED wallpaper
• Every issue of National Geographic, in its entirety, from 1888 til now, on a hard drive for $200
• Microsoft is in fact bringing Xbox LIVE enabled games to Windows Mobile
• Tim Cook’s payment for filling in for Steve Jobs this year while Jobs was out sick (hint: it’s between $12.2 million and $12.4 million in stock)
• HP’s trademarks for Zeen and Airlife
• Seagate accused of stealing hard drive silencing technology and destroying the evidence
• Concord’s Keystone video camera: 1″ x 2″
• Rumor: Apple’s tablet will have a 10″ screen and be called the iSlate
• The antibody discovered by researchers that has between an 85% and 97% success rate in destroying prostate cancer in mice

As always, the end of the episode is when Tony & Lou reveal their votes for this week’s Best & Worst entertainment moments, and Todd is more than happy to share his as well.

The pause.com Entertainment Podcast is hosted by long-time friends Tony Incopero and Lou Zucaro. Join them as they discuss all sorts of fun things in the world of entertainment, gaming, gadgets, cars and more with a healthy dose of their sense of humor.

iTunes subscribers! If you’re not seeing this episode on our iTunes page (linked at the top of this post) never fear! Just make sure you’re subscribed and your iTunes software on your computer will retrieve the latest episode. Just hit the refresh button in your library’s Podcasts page if you don’t see it!