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AwesomeCast: Tech and Gadget Talk

799 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 10 ratings

Everything awesome in the world of technology, social media, and entertainment! Join us as we discuss the latest gadgets, web sites, and talk with people doing awesome things in tech! www.AwesomeCast.net

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Episode 49: AwesomeCast 49: Human centiPad

May 03, 2011 23:00 - 53 minutes - 49.2 MB

Rob de la Cretaz, Tony "Chachi" Walker, and Michael Sorg welcome Christopher Whitlatch to the show! Chris is Manager of Marketing and Communications for the Pittsburgh Foundation, including work on PittsburghOnVideo.org, who have been big supporters of the show! We talk with him about his work with non-profits in the area and applying social media, POV, and more. We also answer our first major mail call of the show! This, and we talk about Chachi's problem with the T-Mobile G2, how cool the i...

Episode 48: AwesomeCast 48: Baja Blast to Your Network

April 27, 2011 00:00 - 58 minutes - 53.8 MB

Rob de la Cretaz, Tony "Chachi" Walker, and Michael Sorg plow through the meager news pickings of the week. Chachi finds another reason to strongly dislike Sony and their Playstation efforts, we map out the anatomy of a near week long online service down time, white unicorns (iPhone 4), and much more. Join the AwesomeCast on Twitter, Facebook,, and be sure to follow us on iTunes in both video and audio formats, as well as YouTube, Boxee, Roku, and Blip.tv! As always, you can chime in with new...

Episode 47: AwesomeCast 47: Password Protected Pillows

April 19, 2011 23:00 - 1 hour - 62.1 MB

Rob de la Cretaz, Tony "Chachi" Walker, and Michael Sorg welcome Dan Greenwald of the Comic Book Pitt to the show for all of the post Pittsburgh Comicon talk as the crew talks about trends and cool things from the weekend as Sorgatron Media sponsored their first booth at a Con! We also talk about the updates coming to us in Final Cut Pro X, the fall of FlipCam, Jesse Jackson Junior's love/hate relationship with the iPad, Obama's frustrations with White House tech, and more! Join the AwesomeCa...

Episode 46: AwesomeCast 46: Where Does He Get Those Wonderful Toys?

April 12, 2011 23:00 - 1 hour - 67 MB

Rob de la Cretaz, Tony "Chachi" Walker, and Michael Sorg welcome John Chichilla back to the show, and into the studio to show off some of the cool toys he gets to play with on a daily basis. We get hands on with iPad travel gear, wireless keyboards, home automation techniques, and compare the Motorola Xoom with the iPad 1 and 2. This and we touch on Chachi's continued hate for Sony gaming products, failure in acquiring Blockbuster, and Adobe's new subscription pricing. Join the AwesomeCast on...

Episode 45: AwesomeCast 45: Erecting a Pay Wall

April 05, 2011 23:00 - 1 hour - 64.1 MB

Tony "Chachi" Walker, and Michael Sorg are joined by our first invited female to the show! (stop the hate mail!) Cynthia Closkey of Big Big Design joins the show and brought a bag of awesome with her! We talk about the real life effect the disasters in Japan will take on our shiny gadgets, especially the iPhone. Is Apple losing it's hold with crazy cooks like Sony spilling it's beans? We ponder if we would pay $30 for a movie before it's on DVD, and just how awesome could the technical aspect...

Episode 44: AwesomeCast 44: A Flaming Glass of Awesome

March 29, 2011 23:00 - 1 hour - 74.6 MB

Rob de la Cretaz, Tony "Chachi" Walker, and Michael Sorg are joined again by AJ Kuftic of AJ Eats to talk tech! We get into WWDC, and what it takes to be amongst the Apple Dev Elite. The good and bad of Cloud Computing as Amazon launches Amazon Cloud, and the perils of Gmail and Netflix downages, and is the promise real? And we take a reflective look back at Radio Shack and the crazy things they do in advance of their new ability to sell iPads, including an in show appearance of a Cue Cat! Re...

Episode 43: AwesomeCast 43: It Needs More Zombies

March 22, 2011 23:00 - 1 hour - 70.4 MB

Rob de la Cretaz is gallavanting about the Northern Hemisphere, so it's up to Tony "Chachi" Walker, and Michael Sorg to survive their encounter with Scott Simmons, the Creative Director of Pittsburgh's own Scarehouse as we talk about their success as one of the best haunted houses in the nation, and how thay maintain that using social media outlets, Groupon, and the lessons learned over the years. All this and we weigh in on the big news about AT&T looking to buy out T-Mobile, and just what t...

Episode 42: AwesomeCast 42: The Meaning of Awesome

March 15, 2011 23:00 - 1 hour - 72.4 MB

Rob de la Cretaz, Tony "Chachi" Walker, and Michael Sorg get back to basics. This week, we talk about the latest from Japan, and how technology has been effected, and has been helping the situation after maybe the biggest earthquake ever. We touch base on the iPad 2 launch, talk about bandwidth caps, and why their happening, Internet 2, the sequel, and more! Join the AwesomeCast on Twitter, Facebook,, and be sure to follow us on iTunes in both videoand audioformats, as well as YouTube, Boxee,...

Episode 41: AwesomeCast 41: Naughty Droid

March 09, 2011 00:00 - 1 hour - 63.2 MB

Rob de la Cretaz, Tony "Chachi" Walker, and Michael Sorg see the return of Mulango Akp-Esambe of Mangtoons.com and Carbon Copied Squared. We talk iPad 2, the Android overtaking Blackberry and what that means, Malware hitting the Android, and being taken away, and much more! Join the AwesomeCast on Twitter, Facebook,, and be sure to follow us on iTunes in both videoand audioformats, as well as YouTube, Boxee, Roku, and Blip.tv! As always, you can chime in with news, thoughts, or comments at Co...

Episode 40: AwesomeCast 40: iPad 2 Slices and Dices

March 02, 2011 00:00 - 56 minutes - 52.1 MB

Rob de la Cretaz, Tony "Chachi" Walker, and Michael Sorg are joined once again by Norm Huelsman of the wildly exciting StromHuelsman Podcast, and newly transistioned to his new position at Loud Mountain. We also get to varying degrees of wildly speculation for the yet to be announced iPad 2, Rob talks Sorg onto the Thunderbolt cliff, and we discuss the future of cloud gaming, and more! Join the AwesomeCast on Twitter, Facebook,, and be sure to follow us on iTunes in both videoand audioformat...

Episode 39: AwesomeCast 39: Peanut Butter on the Shelf

February 23, 2011 00:00 - 1 hour - 62.7 MB

Rob de la Cretaz, Tony "Chachi" Walker, and AJ Kuftic and Michael Sorg are getting awesome, and getting spiteful? The crew dissects their takes on Twitter vs UberMedia, Apple vs Publishers, Detroit vs RoboCop, Developers vs Mobile Gamers, and Sorg vs Android! Check out our cohosts Rob and Mike in their cameo on The Baristas Episode 4! * Join the AwesomeCast on Twitter, Facebook,, and be sure to follow us on iTunes in both videoand audioformats, as well as YouTube, Boxee, Roku, and Blip.tv! As...

Episode 38: AwesomeCast 38: Now with more Watson

February 16, 2011 00:00 - 1 hour - 98.6 MB

Rob de la Cretaz, Tony "Chachi" Walker, and Michael Sorg are preparing for their Jeapordy winning robot overlords as Watson stares Alex Trebek in the eye. We also talk about the problems with Sony, and if we think they'll ever do anything cool again, the FCC, Anonymous, and much more! Join the AwesomeCast on Twitter, Facebook,, and be sure to follow us on iTunes in both videoand audioformats, as well as YouTube, Boxee, Roku, and Blip.tv! As always, you can chime in with news, thoughts, or com...

Episode 37: AwesomeCast 37: ChachiCast

February 09, 2011 00:00 - 1 hour - 86.2 MB

Rob de la Cretaz, Tony â??Chachiâ?? Walker, AJ Kuftic and "Uncle Crappy" Mike Pound are taking the show on sans Sorg as they talk about AOL's latest acquisition in Huffington Post, The Daily, and just what should be done with the supposedly for sale Myspace? Please support our friend at www.ChachiPlays.com as he games for 24 hours February 11 -12 for Make Room for Kids and the Mario Lemeiux Foundation! Join the AwesomeCast on Twitter, Facebook,, and be sure to follow us on iTunes in both vide...

Episode 36: AwesomeCast 36: Where's Egypt

February 02, 2011 00:00 - 1 hour - 70.6 MB

Rob de la Cretaz, Mike Sorg, Tony "Chachi" Walker and AJ Kuftic tackle the revolts and results of the week as we talk about the upheaval and internet disconnect and dissonance in Egypt, the bad idea that was the Galaxy Tab, smartphones are your life, Netflix vs Hulu vs Amazon, Chachi takes on JK Rowling, and much, much, more! Please support our friend at www.ChachiPlays.com as he games for 24 hours February 11 -12 for Make Room for Kids and the Mario Lemeiux Foundation! Join the AwesomeCast o...

Episode 35: AwesomeCast 35: Not Yet Pulled From iTunes

January 26, 2011 00:00 - 1 hour - 61 MB

Rob de la Cretaz, Mike Sorg, Tony â??Chachiâ?? Walker and AJ Kuftic tackle a slow news week with glimmers of hope for a Duke Nukem Forever release date, Mashable honoring the WWE, Android and iPhone talk, Kevin Smith's attempt at Indie 2.0, and the rise, and fall, and rise, and fall again of iDOS for iPad. Join the AwesomeCast on Twitter, Facebook,, and be sure to follow us on iTunes in both videoand audio formats, as well as YouTube, Boxee, Roku, and Blip.tv! As always, you can chime in with...

Episode 34: AwesomeCast 34: Cooler than G4

January 19, 2011 00:00 - 1 hour - 52.1 MB

Rob de la Cretaz, Mike Sorg and Tony â??Chachiâ?? Walker are back in their respective studios and joined by Walt Ribeiro of ForOrchestra.com, who we first got the chance to meet back at Podcamp Pittsburgh 3. We talk about his growth and time doing the Weekly Music Lesson as part of Revision3 Beta, and the transition to his new gig. We talk about King of Kong to hear Chachi geek out, a Pac Man reality show, Chachi's new T-Mobile G2, Sprint and T-Mobile UK staking high fees and limits for data,...

Episode 33: AwesomeCast 33: I Would Suck on a Plastic Game Piece

January 12, 2011 00:00 - 55 minutes - 77.1 MB

Rob de la Cretaz, Mike Sorg and Tony â??Chachiâ?? Walker are live at the Sharp Edge Bistro on Penn for the 5 year party for the Wrestling Mayhem Show! We're joined, in part, by Doug "Fatherspoon" Derda of ShouldIDrinkThat.com, another almost 5 year old Podcast, and Mulango Akpo-Esambe of Mangtoons Studios and Animation What? as we discuss all the latest in technology post CES, which is almost forgotten since today was the announcement for the iPhone on Verizon. We also talk Angry Birds board ...

Episode 32: AwesomeCast 32: The iPad Killer

January 05, 2011 00:00 - 1 hour - 59.1 MB

Rob de la Cretaz, and Mike Sorg are joined in the studio by Tony â??Chachiâ?? Walker of ChachiSays.net who should be around more often as we venture into 2011. We are also joined on Skype by John Chichilla to talk iPads, all of the tablets and 3D speculations of this week's CES, real Angry Birds, novel uses of Twitter in New Jersey, and much more! Join us in person and online when we go live 1/11/11 at Sharp Edge on Penn. More info here! Join the AwesomeCast on Twitter, Facebook,, and be sure...

Episode 31: AwesomeCast 31: Closing the Year on Tron

December 22, 2010 00:00 - 1 hour - 84 MB

Rob de la Cretaz, and Mike Sorg are joined in the studio by Tony "Chachi" Walker of ChachiSays.net to bring you greating tidings and cheer! We talk about Delicious's exagerated demise and it's alternatives, Rob fights his computer to conquer Google Body Browser, Word Lens, the future of iPhone gaming with Unreal, what we thought of Tron Legacy and the 3D Experience, and we look at 2010's top gadgets and trends and make that big prediction for 2011! Merry Christmas! We'll be off for the last w...

Episode 30: AwesomeCast 30: Punching Kim Jong-il in the Face

December 15, 2010 00:00 - 1 hour - 59.5 MB

Rob de la Cretaz,and Mike Sorg are online, and rejoined by AJ Kuftic once again, who joins us in studio! We run the line of tons of news and talking points for the week, including the latest in the WikiLeaks/OpenLeaks saga, Smurfy hackers, Mortal Kombat lameness, dealing with denial from the upcoming Mac Store, teaching our parents tech, and a little techy throwback. Please excuse the geekery. Oh, and how about Kim John-il staring at things? Join the AwesomeCast on Twitter, Facebook,, and be ...

Episode 29: AwesomeCast 29: No Wait And Our Webbiness

December 08, 2010 00:00 - 1 hour - 58.7 MB

Rob de la Cretaz,and Mike Sorg are in studio! Together! And we're joined on the couch by Robb Myers, and via Skype by Richard Colvin, both of Pittsburgh-based Alphalab startup No Wait to demonstrate their weeks old app live on the show! We also go Google crazy in the news as we cover the new Chrome WebApp Store, Plants vs Zombies, ChromeOS netbooks for all, Nexus S, eBooks, Groupon, new Facebook profiles, and more! Join the AwesomeCast on Twitter, Facebook,, and be sure to follow us on iTunes...

Episode 28: AwesomeCast 28: Cyber Everything

December 01, 2010 00:00 - 47 minutes - 66.3 MB

Rob de la Cretaz,and Mike Sorg are joined by Sam Winston of StoryPixel.com talks with us about tech in Kentucky, Epic Small, and weighs in with us on the stories of the week including Cyber Monday, domain seizures, bandwidth battles, magazine and news on tablets, and more! Join the AwesomeCast on Twitter, Facebook,, and be sure to follow us on iTunes in both videoand audioformats, as well as YouTube, Boxee, Roku, and Blip.tv! As always, you can chime in with news, thoughts, or comments at Co...

Episode 27: AwesomeCast 27: State of the Art Traffic Reporting

November 24, 2010 00:00 - 1 hour - 85.4 MB

Rob de la Cretaz,and Mike Sorg are joined this week with KDKA TV 2's Traffic Man, and YinzTeam Softball coach, Jim Lokay. He joins us to talk about social media's growing role in his work using Twitter, Facebook, and whatever else comes across. We also talk about the new iPad newspaper initiative, iOS 4.2 and it's updates for iPad, free Find my iPhone, Netflix price changes and streaming only plans, id Software's Rage HD, Angry Birds issues on Android, and more! Join the AwesomeCast on Twitte...

Episode 26: AwesomeCast 26: The Slaughterhouse

November 17, 2010 00:00 - 55 minutes - 76.8 MB

Rob de la Cretaz,and Mike Sorg are on with our old friend Tony "Chachi" Walker. And we're catching up with the latest on RockMelt, Firesheep, Boxee Box, Samsung Tab, Netflix on Android, and more! Join the AwesomeCast on Twitter, Facebook,, and be sure to follow us on iTunes in both videoand audio formats, as well as YouTube, Boxee, Roku, and Blip.tv! As always, you can chime in with news, thoughts, or comments at [email protected] or 724-25-A-CAST.

Episode 25: AwesomeCast 25: Not As Cool As iCarly

November 10, 2010 00:00 - 51 minutes - 24.2 MB

Rob de la Cretaz,and Mike Sorg are on with our old friend Tony "Chachi" Walker. And we're catching up with the latest on RockMelt, Firesheep, GoogleTV, Windows Phone, Skyfire, and more! Join the AwesomeCast on Twitter, Facebook,, and be sure to follow us on iTunes in both videoand audioformats, as well as YouTube, Boxee, Roku, and Blip.tv! As always, you can chime in with news, thoughts, or comments at [email protected] or 724-25-A-CAST.

Episode 24: AwesomeCast 24: The Show of Two Fires

November 02, 2010 23:00 - 59 minutes - 82 MB

Rob de la Cretaz,and Mike Sorg are welcoming back the MC for the upcoming Evening with Podcamp event, Norm Huelsman! We talk about the fires in the news this week, including the threatening FireSheep plugin plaguing our coffee shops, SkyFire spreading Adobe Flash to iPhones like a virus, iPads invading Verizon stores, and whether it may be a better option, Netflix on Xbox, Boxee Box, and much more! Join the AwesomeCast on Twitter, Facebook,, and be sure to follow us on iTunes in both videoand...

Episode 23: AwesomeCast 23: Why Can't I Buy Wine Like a Normal Person??

October 27, 2010 00:00 - 1 hour - 29.6 MB

Rob de la Cretaz,and Mike Sorg are fresh off an exhausting shoot with The Baristas, and have welcomed back our first ever guest, Mike Pound AKA Uncle Crappy! We hash out the details from last week's Back to the Mac event, including the Macbook Air, Mac App Store, and iLife? We hit up how the GoogleTV is fairing, the Playstation Phone, Nook Color, and Uncle Crappy shares his experience with Pennsylvania's new automated wine kiosk. Join the AwesomeCast on Twitter, Facebook,, and be sure to foll...

Episode 22: AwesomeCast 22: As Addictive As Farmville

October 19, 2010 23:00 - 58 minutes - 81.1 MB

Rob de la Cretaz,and Mike Sorg welcome back Mitch Donaberger of Chemistry Communications to tear apart what we think Apples and Lions have to do with eachother for Wednesday's "Mac to Mac" announcement, Facebook security, Zynga's hold on our souls, and Fox putting the Smackdown on Cablevision subscribers on Hulu. Join the AwesomeCast on Twitter, Facebook,, and be sure to follow us on iTunes in both videoand audioformats, as well as YouTube, Boxee, Roku, and Blip.tv! As always, you can chime i...

Episode 21: AwesomeCast 21: Caffeine Induced Psychopath

October 13, 2010 00:00 - 1 hour - 88.7 MB

The AwesomeCast is ramped up again! Rob de la Cretaz, Tony "Chachi Says" Walker and Mike Sorg are back from the SorgatronMedia.com hiatus and ready to dive into phones, TVs, and books. That would be the avalanche of announcements for the Windows 7 Phone, comparing it to iPhone (which may be coming to Verizon?) and Android platforms, the Logitech GoogleTV devices, and we have a live demo of who three self described tech industry know hows can't figure out Facebook's new Groups. Join the Awesom...

Episode 20: AwesomeCast 20: The Social Coffee Shop

October 02, 2010 21:00 - 52 minutes - 72.2 MB

Since Sorgatron Media is on vacation for the rest of the week, Mike Sorg and Rob de la Cretaz are joined by Mulango Akpo-Esambe and Tony "Chachi" Walker after watching The Social Network for a little bit of a roundtable discussion. We talk about the movie in general, it's impact on Mark Zuckerberg's image, and the impact of social media in general. All this, and hear Rob lose his damn mind when a furry walks into the coffee shop. A huge thanks to Caribou Coffee down at the Southside Works fo...

Episode 19: AwesomeCast 19: AwesomeLab

September 28, 2010 23:00 - 1 hour - 29 MB

The AwesomeCast is ramped up again! Rob de la Cretaz, Tony "Chachi Says" Walker and Mike Sorg are ready to dig into the dirty, dirty tech news for the week, along with a friend in the Pittsburgh tech community, Mike Woycheck of the Alphalab. We talk to him about what this tech incubator has to offer new recruits, and it's latest cycle of applications. We also run down the new Twitter, the Blackberry Playbook, Windows Phone 7's ad campaign, bad news for French pirates, wiretapping extensions t...

Episode 18: AwesomeCast 18: Rise of the Teenage iPads

September 21, 2010 23:00 - 57 minutes - 79.7 MB

We're recovering from Podcamp Pittsburgh 5 and our first ever live audience podcast! Rob de la Cretaz and Mike Sorg are joined again by regular Tony "Chachi" Walker, and Spike Katora from Vivo! We talk about the latest Twitter bug, Intel's master CPU plan, HDCP gets cracked, Google Voice on iPhone, Podcamp Pittsburgh 5, and much more! Join the AwesomeCast on Twitter, Facebook, Delicious, and be sure to follow us on iTunes in bothvideo and audio formats, as well as YouTube, Boxee, Roku, and Bl...

Episode 17: AwesomeCast 17: Podcamp Pittsburgh 5 LIVE!

September 19, 2010 18:00 - 47 minutes - 22.2 MB

It's Podcamp Pittsburgh time! After Sorg's Video Podcasting 201, we decided to do a little more show and tell and show them our show in person! For the first time, Rob de la Cretaz and Mike Sorg get to be awesome in one room together! We are also joined by an allstar cast! Tony "Chachi" Walker joins us with a little bit of a crowd participation experiment! DJLunchbox Will Rutherford joins us and gets his just violence in true Podcamp historical fashion via Jennie Roth! "Uncle Crappy" Mike Pou...

Episode 16: AwesomeCast 16: Support Some (fake) Baristas

September 14, 2010 23:00 - 1 hour - 94.4 MB

Rob de la Cretaz and Mike Sorg are getting all Podcampy gearing up for the big event this weekend! We have the mad man behind the original Podcamp Pittsburgh, and creator of Something to Be Desired and the upcoming The Baristas, Justin Kownacki, to talk about the event, and his new venture into his next project with your help via Kickstarter. We also hit the news about Apple's spelled out app restrictions and the return of Flash, fun with Google's Instant Search, Sorg's take on The Social Net...

Episode 15: AwesomeCast 15: iShiny

September 07, 2010 23:00 - 1 hour - 29.7 MB

Rob de la Cretaz and Mike Sorg are back to a decent hour of the day, and they'be brought back Chachi, fresh off his new video show launch, and introduce Norm Huelsman, an instrumental co-organizer of Podcamp Pittsburgh 5, and blogger at Casual Magic and his own blog. We talk the Apple TV, and what it means for internet TV, the new iPods, Apple's Ping, Brightkite's corporate play, Duke Nukem Fornever, and Pirate Bay's movie hopes. All this and we talk about leading up to Podcamp Pittsburgh and...

Episode 14: AwesomeCast 14: We're Suing Everybody

August 31, 2010 23:00 - 49 minutes - 68.8 MB

Rob de la Cretaz and Mike Sorg are live, late night, and ready to roll, whether we're ready or not. This week, we rope back in Chachi to talk tech, and we add Stephen Heywood of the Tech Buzz into the mix to talk about the merits of Podcasting and his experience. We tackle the last trickle of Apple rumors leading into the September 1 announcements, YouTube's pay per view play, Netflix on iPhone, Paul Allen sues everyone, and the Last ChatRoulette. Video watchers get to see Sorg smile far too ...

Episode 13: AwesomeCast 13: The Problem with Places

August 24, 2010 23:00 - 1 hour - 84.5 MB

Episode 13 is live with Rob de la Cretazand Mike Sorg as we welcome Mitch Donaberger of Chemistry Communications to go over all of the news, including his adventures with Facebook Places, the near future of tablets, including Samsung's latest model, used video game attacks, and the nearly speculative future of how we're going to watch tv....Join the AwesomeCast on Twitter, Facebook, Delicious, and be sure to follow us on iTunes in both video and audio formats, as well as YouTube, Boxee, Roku,...

Episode 12: AwesomeCast 12: Phone Sects

August 17, 2010 23:00 - 57 minutes - 80.2 MB

Episode 12 is live with Rob de la Cretaz and Mike Sorg as we are rejoined by Tony "Chachi" Walker to talk about the Xbox Live Windows Phone 7 service, Nintendo phones, Sony PSP phones, FM Radio Phones, Oracle raining in Google's Java cereal, even more net neutrality, and so much more. Join the AwesomeCast on Twitter, Facebook, Delicious, and be sure to follow us on iTunes in both video and audio formats, as well as YouTube, Boxee, Roku, and Blip.tv! This week's Audible Pick: Freakonomics: A R...

Episode 11: AwesomeCast 11: International Incidents

August 10, 2010 23:00 - 1 hour - 52.8 MB

It's episode 11 of the AwesomeCast! Our hosts Rob de la Cretaz and Mike Sorg are online, and joined by Tim Kirby host of the TSAR Podcast (and former Art Institute of Pittsburgh classmate of Sorg's ) live from Moscow, Russia, to talk about his show, and five some incite to tech on his side of the world. We talk with him about his show, moving from the midwest United States to his current nation, and what the podcasting and social media scene is like over there. All this, and we talk Net Neutr...

Episode 10: AwesomeCast 10: Building a Podcast in 3D

August 03, 2010 23:00 - 47 minutes - 66.4 MB

It's episode ten of the AwesomeCast! Our hosts Rob de la Cretaz and Mike Sorg are online, and are joined by Nick Pingston, Founder of CloudFab.com. We get to talk to Nick about polymath, 3D printing, and starting a business in a smaller town like Pittsburgh, PA. All this, and we talk about the new JailBreakMe.com, the KMart Android Pad, the new Blackberry, and more.... Join the AwesomeCast on Twitter, Facebook, Delicious, and be sure to follow us on iTunes in both video and audio formats, as ...

Episode 9: AwesomeCast 9: Amateur Photogenics

July 27, 2010 23:00 - 50 minutes - 23.8 MB

Itâ??s episode nine of the AwesomeCast! Our hosts Rob de la Cretaz and Mike Sorg are online, and are joined by Chris Maverick of Cosmic Hellcatsand ElseWorld to talk about Photography in a world where we all have access to it on our cellphones and pocket devices. We also have a chance to talk about Apple's new hardware, the Flipbook controversy, Samsung's Galaxy givaway, legalized Jailbreaking, and the secret tethering app. Join the AwesomeCast on Twitter, Facebook, Delicious, and be sure to...

Episode 8: AwesomeCast 8: Apology Accepted?

July 20, 2010 23:00 - 1 hour - 30.2 MB

Itâ??s episode eight of the AwesomeCast! Our hosts Rob de la Cretaz and Mike Sorg are online, and ready to give apologies out left and right. But no bumpers in sight. We're joined, once again, by AJ Kuftic to talk about the fallout of Apple's big press conference, the backlash from other smartphone makers, the Wired article about ATT and Apple, Droid X, Android as a platform, Nokia in Europe, Sorg complains about the App Store, and much, much more. Join the AwesomeCast on Twitter, Facebook, ...

Episode 7: AwesomeCast 7: Lack of Polish

July 13, 2010 23:00 - 52 minutes - 73.2 MB

It's episode seven of the AwesomeCast! Our hosts Rob de la Cretaz and Mike Sorg are back, and Sorg fails in plugging in a vital cord for conversation. But there are words in there! And some of those words are from the returning Mulango Akpo-Esambe as we talk about Google's social gaming play, Mega Man Doom, Blizzard's RealID lash back, Skype putting the kibosh on Fring, iPhone unconsumable, and alternative methods to get Hulu on your iPhone. NOTICE: There are severe issues with the first half...

Episode 6: AwesomeCast 6: It Shrank

July 06, 2010 23:00 - 56 minutes - 26.5 MB

Itâ??s episode six of the AwesomeCast! Our hosts Rob de la Cretaz and Mike Sorg had some disagreements with Skype and bringing in their scheduled guest Andy Quayle (but check out his sites!), but Chachi is on hand to talk about the news and notes from a slow news week, as we talk about Apple's recent iPhone and App Store woes, Netflix's new deal with Relativity Media, Tapulous, Best Buy hating cute bears, and a small discussion about our shrinking computers. Join the AwesomeCast on Twitter,F...

Episode 5: AwesomeCast 5: A Little Face Time

June 29, 2010 23:00 - 1 hour - 29.1 MB

Itâ??s episode four of the AwesomeCast! Our hosts Rob de la Cretaz and Mike Sorg are joined by AJ Kuftic, a Pittsburgh area IT Professional. Bot Rob and AJ have the shiny new iPhone 4 in hand and are ready to show them off and let us know how difficult, or not, it was to get them. We also talk a bit about Hulu Plus, Google Me,Digg 4, Windows 8, and more! Join the AwesomeCast on Twitter,Facebook, Delicious, and be sure to follow us on iTunes in both videoand audio formats, as well as YouTube a...

Episode 4: AwesomeCast 4: Smodcasting

June 22, 2010 23:00 - 51 minutes - 24.4 MB

Itâ??s episode four of the AwesomeCast! Our hosts Rob de la Cretaz and Mike Sorg are joined by John Carman of the G Spod to talk about the state of Podcastingâ?¦on a Podcast, as well as the news of the week, including the impending OnLive service and Forceteck XIO from E3, the iOS4 and iPhone 4 launches this week, ThinkGeekâ??s problem with Unicorn Meat, and more. Join the AwesomeCast on Twitter, Facebook, Delicious, and be sure to follow us soon on iTunes in both videoand audio formats!

Episode 3: AwesomeCast 3: Using our body to game

June 15, 2010 23:00 - 55 minutes - 26.1 MB

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Episode 2: AwesomeCast 2: Full on Face(time)

June 08, 2010 23:00 - 48 minutes - 22.7 MB

Itâ??s episode two of the AwesomeCast on Sorgatron Media! Welcome your hosts, Rob de la Cretaz andMike Sorg, and itâ??s time for the new iPhone! And to make sure we have â??fair and balancedâ?? reporting, we invited local blogger, IT professional, elections judge, and Android G1 user, Anthony â??Chachiâ?? Walker to the show! We go over what this means for our addictions to Farmville, the tech advancements, and take a look back at the D8: All Things Digital Conference, AT&Tâ??s new data plans,...

Episode 1: AwesomeCast 1: Full on Face(book)

June 01, 2010 22:49 - 47 minutes - 22.5 MB

It's the very first episode of the AwesomeCast on Sorgatron Media! Welcome your hosts, Rob de la Cretaz and Mike Sorg, and we are joined this week by our first guest, Mike Pound, a local blogger and journalist for the Beaver County Times as we talk about the Facebook privacy issues, Yahoo's language, and where the newspaper stands in this world of the internet and iPads.... Joins the AwesomeCast on Twitter, Facebook, Delicious, and be sure to follow us soon on iTunes in both video and audio f...

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