“I don’t know of anyone who has successfully cracked apps from the iTunes Store…” – Andy Ihnatko, November 2009.

Listening to Macbreak Weekly is pretty fun, especially when Leo forgets the names of the different releases of OS X. But I had no idea how much fun Macbreak Weekly could be until Andy Ihnatko and Leo Laporte revealed their total ignorance about cracked iPhone apps! Also guilty were the show’s other guests, Don McAllister and Wil Harris. For shame.

When you consider Andy Ihnatko writes books about the iPhone this faut-pas will surely have him shaving off his mutton chops and turning in his utility belt so that another Jedi might carry on his work.

OK Andy, so chapter elevnteen will be called www.appulo.us … and you’re gonna say how every fraggin’ iPhone app (even the totally shit ones) are cracked and ready to be downloaded and installed onto any jailbroken iPhone or iPod Touch with a Patched MobileInstallation Library. Then you’ll tell them how to patch a mobileinstallation library. Or I will.

This revelation occurred in Macbreak Weekly episode 166 and the offending excerpt can be heard below. That’s right! This is mac celebrity gossip! WARNING: This clip damaged the podcasting careers of 4 men, 2 of them British: http://machacks.tv/clips/MBW-TWITS.mp3

The third MacHacks.TV podcast focuses on BitTorrent in Mac OS X; the protocol, the clients and how to get it running on your Mac and how to download files with it.

 

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The second and rather bizarre podcast from MacHacks.TV. Special thanks to Jason Calacanis and Leo Laporte

 

 Some German guy got in my head. [4:59m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download