This is Only a Test

Norm's on the road at Comic-Con, "working hard" and taking lots of pictures of scantily clad cosplayers down at Comic-Con, while Will is holding down the home office. In his stead, Tested.com's Matt Braga is signing in, and he and Will talk about Alien Swarm, the Tested TF2 server, the current crop of Android phones, the problem wtih the iPhone 4, and then take a whole lot of reader questions.

On this week's show, Will sits down with Gary Whitta (who's subbing in while Norm has a cold) and talks about 1 vs. 100, the Team Fortress Engineer update, and the never-ending controversy around the iPhone 4's antenna death grip.

We've moved! We've sunny Sausalito for the fog-shrouded shores of San Francisco. Yes, our new offices are in a basement, but it's a really, really awesome basement, with a bar. We talked about the new office, all the stuff we've gotten into in the last two weeks, and all the tech news that's happened since then--Froyo is out and in people's hands, Firefox 4 went beta, YouTube launched a living room-friendly feature, and the Kin met an untimely end. All that, and a whole mess of reader questions on this week's episode of This is Only a Test.

The iPhone 4 has arrived, so Norm, Will, and special guest Gary Whitta sit down to talk about the latest version of Apple's wunderphone, plus all the latest news, including details about the imminent release of Froyo, the svelte new Xbox 360 S, and Motorola's super-sized Droid X.

The Tested crew took a magical day trip to LA to see what hardware E3 had to offer. Here's all the info you wanted to know about the Nintendo 3DS, Microsoft's new Xbox 360 design and Kinect, the new Rock Band 3 hardware plus talk about Sony's E3 offerings and the imminent OnLive launch.

It's WWDC week, so that means it's finally time for the official reveal of the iPhone 4 and iOS 4. Will, Norm, and a special guest talk about all the latest Apple news, plus a whole lot more, including the latest on Windows Home Server, the HTC Droid Incredible, and of course, churros. All that, plus the latest on the WDTV Live, RIAA vs. Limewire, and Bing's Treasure Maps, on this week's episode of This is Only a Test.

Computex! D8! Ballmer! Jobs! Zuckerberg! Tablets! Lots and lots of tablets! It's time for another riveting episode of the This is Only a Test, where we discuss all the days news, enjoy a tasty beverage or two, and still get done in time to take out the trash--proverbially speaking, of course.

Will and Norm recount their adventures at Maker Faire 2010, talk about the amazing Gothic Rocketship and the Mondo Spider, as well as the new info on Android Froyo, Google TV, J Allard and Robbie Bach leaving Microsoft, and a whole lot more, on this weeks episode of This is Only a Test.

Big news today on the Google front. Will and Norm talk about the new WebM video codec, Froyo dreams, Google Chrome's new app store, more new iPhone OS 4 news, the latest iPod Touch rumor, the Twitter client formerly known as Tweetie, and tech to help you exercise better. All that, plus reader questions in this week's episode of This is Only a Test.

On a very special celebration of their 11th episode, Will and Norm talk about a bunch of stuff, including the Sony Dash and the history of alarm clocks, rumor's of Google's tablet, pricing for the Evo 4g, the second iPhone that Apple lost track of, and the upcoming Firefox 4.0. All that, plus lunch options and a brief interlude on Friendster's problems, on this week's episode of This is Only a Test.

This week, the Tested crew talks about the KIN One and Two, HP's new Envy notebooks, some more iPhone OS 4 news, the new Netflix UI for Roku owners, Bumptop and Google, Google's New UI, and a little about Chrome 5. Check it out.

Big happenings in the tech world this week. Norm and Will talk about HP buying Palm, the cancellation of Courier, Steve Jobs' memo on Flash, the HTC Incredible, Ubuntu 10.04, and Flash acceleration on Mac. All that, plus reader questions and a lot of talk about the MakerBot on this week's episode of This is Only a Test.

All sorts of exciting stuff happened this week. Norm and Will talked about a whole lotta leaks. Apple's next-gen iPhone leaked to Gizmodo, Dell's next-gen tablets and cell phones leaked to Engadget, and Hulu's plans for a pay-service leaked to the LA Times. All that, plus listener questions on this week's This is Only a Test.

Sorry for the shitty audio quality this week, there was an accident with a time machine, three condoms, and our new podcasting mixer that resulted in stripping the audio from a FLV and editing that to make a podcast. This week, we talk about a ton of stuff that isn't the iPad, answer reader questions, and eat pie.

This week, Norm and Will are joined by special guest, Gary Whitta--editor, screenwriter, and Apple enthusiast--to talk iPad, iPhone OS 4.0, and coffee on an almost exclusively Apple podcast. Despite some technical difficulties that were entirely Will's fault, the show must go on, and Norm's audio comes in about 10 minutes into the show. Sorry about that.