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How many SDK’s does it take to screw in a light bulb? You won’t find the answer in this week’s leaky edition of the Engadget Podcast Show, but you will get an exclusive chance to peer into the future of Paul Miller’s voiceover career.

Hosts: Josh Topolsky, Nilay Patel, Paul Miller
Producer: Trent Wolbe
Music: MPC2059 – The Beyonce Error

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00:01:40 – iPad pre-order is go — will you buy one?
00:08:37 – iPad mute switch magicked into a ‘screen rotation lock’ overnight, a flurry of other tidbits emerge
00:14:18 – Leaked Dell Streak flyer shows multitude of color options, confirmed specifications
00:14:35 – Microsoft’s Courier ‘digital journal’: exclusive pictures and details (update: video!)
00:16:35 – Leak: Microsoft Pink phones coming to Verizon, on shelves April 20th?
00:24:42 – JooJoo revamps interface ahead of launch, adds local video playback — and changes color
00:32:02 – JooJoo hits the FCC, reveals NVIDIA Ion, 3G card
00:35:17 – HP Slate makes an appearance to show off Flash, stays for a rock concert
00:50:24 – Palm’s webOS PDK beta adds Pixi native development, PDK’d apps will hit the Catalog mid year
00:51:07 – Android NDK hits Release 3, brings OpenGL ES 2.0 access to devs
00:51:30 – Microsoft shows off XNA games running on Windows Phone, full 3D is a go
01:04:38 – PlayStation Move: everything you ever wanted to know
01:11:45 – Joystiq and Sony VP Scott Rohde talk PlayStation Move
01:17:20 – Caption Contest: 3D is a mind blow, everyone can agree on that

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Engadget Podcast 187 – 03.13.2010 originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 13 Mar 2010 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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What would have been a perfectly fine, eco-friendly, nicely paced, and Apple-free podcast is ruined by a surprise appearance by jetsetting Engadget Editor-in-Chief Joshua Topolsky.

P.S.- KHOTAR. Keyboard Haptic Operation and Tactility Assessment Review. Think about it.

Hosts: Nilay Patel, Paul Miller
Guests: Ross Miller, Josh Topolsky
Producer: Trent Wolbe
Music: Mighty Mike – In Bloom (Mike’s Rockabye Mix)

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00:02:28 – The Bloom Box: a power plant for the home (video)
00:05:05 – Live from the Bloom Box press event
00:08:00 – Bloom ‘Box’ Energy Server hands-on (literally) with video!
00:11:58 – Nintendo DSi XL hands-on
00:15:00 – Nintendo to release 100 Classic Book Collection for DS on June 14
00:23:16 – Palm sales ‘lower than expected,’ revenues to miss targets
00:24:14 – Analysts turn sour on Palm stock, cite weak sales on Verizon
00:30:55 – Motorola Devour goes hands-on, hits Best Buy for $99 this week (update: video!)
00:46:05 – Engadget PMA 2010 coverage
00:54:21 – Alienware M11x review
01:01:55 – The winners of the 2009 Engadget Awards!
01:10:38 – Engadget for iPhone / iPod touch 2.0.1 now available!
01:11:47 – The Engadget Show returns this Saturday, Feb. 27th… now with live streaming!

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Engadget Podcast 185 – 02.26.2010 originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 26 Feb 2010 17:14:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Sleeplessness. Angst. Megalomania. Just a few of the conditions that bloggers can succumb to at the tail end of a mobile technology trade show in a faraway land.

Well, one outta three ain’t bad.

Join your traditional Engadget Mobile Podcast Crew as they round up the best things that happened at Mobile World Congress in 2010.

Hosts: Chris Ziegler, Sean Cooper
Producer: Trent Wolbe
Music: Daestro – Light Powered (Ghostly International)

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Engadget Mobile Podcast 037: MWC Day 3 – 02.19.2010 originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Fri, 19 Feb 2010 18:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Four men in a Catalonian apartment talk about the weather and the future of telephones. Hilarity ensues.

Hosts: Chris Ziegler, Sean Cooper
Special Guests: Joshua Topolsky, Thomas Ricker
Producer: Trent Wolbe
Music: Daestro – Light Powered (Ghostly International)

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Engadget Mobile Podcast 035: MWC Day 1 – 02.16.2010 originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Incontrovertibly, This American Life is one of the most popular radio programs in the United States. And its iPhone app, which delivers unlimited access to the show’s entire archive, is sure to please fans.

The $3 app can stream every This American Life episode all the way back to 1995. That’s a sweet deal, because each archived episode normally costs a buck apiece to download through iTunes. And if you do wish to store an episode in your audio library, you can still choose to buy it for a dollar through the app.

Ira Glass has churned out a heck of a lot of content in his 15 years hosting the show, so the main challenge is going to be remembering and finding the episode you’re in the mood for. Fortunately the app includes the ability to search not just by keyword, but also by contributor. So if you’re looking for that episode where John Hodgman speaks, for example, you can look up his name to find the episode easily.

The iPhone app also offers the option to listen to a free live stream of the latest episode as it’s being aired by WBEZ. You can even enable push notifications to remind you when an episode is about to air.

As for the This American Life TV show, you can’t watch entire episodes, but you can view sample clips. (We’re sure most people are going to want the app for the audio anyway.)

The biggest drag about the app is it can’t run in the background, because Apple won’t allow background processing for third-party apps. That means you must close the This American Life app and interrupt listening whenever you need to do something else with your iPhone like check your e-mail. This app actually inspired me to download the free “Backgrounder” app for jailbroken (i.e. hacked) iPhones through the underground Cydia app store. That allows apps to run in the background — but it’s worth noting that if you leave background processing on, you kill your battery pretty fast.

The This American Life iPhone app is available for download through the iTunes App Store.

A hat tip to Jacqui Cheng of Ars Technica, whose review of this app brought it to my attention.

This American Life Download Link [iTunes]

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• iPhone App Enables Dogs to Be Emo on Twitter
• Wired’s 20 Favorite iPhone Apps of 2009
• The Top iPhone Apps of 2009: Apple’s Picks and Yours