Ruining It For Everyone
By Maggie McFee and Christopher Harrington
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Podcast Description
Ruining it For Everyone is a weekly podcast for geeks, by geeks. Your hosts Maggie McFee and Christopher Harrington discuss everything in excruciating detail, from video production to how to make your own giant robot. Each week we take a topic, deconstruct it, and if we're lucky, put it back together without any leftover parts.
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Episode 15: Design Within Reach | In this episode we have Michael Critz (@mike_critz), Emmy-award winning motion graphics designer and user experience designer. We talk about Cat memes, Facebook, Apple UX oddities, and user experiences that go beyond the screen and keyboard. | 5/19/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 14: Cavalier Oblique | This week we've got Tim Cain, the father of the popular game Fallout, and lover of chocolate. We talk about storytelling, D&D, Fallout, classic arcade games, and how hard it is to preserve our digital heritage. | 4/23/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 13: The Edit Doctor is In! | Our guest is Mike J. Nichols, aka The Edit Doctor, aka The Phantom Editor. We talk about TV, film, what it took to edit The Phantom Menace into something watchable, and why we can't have nice things. | 4/11/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 12: Ready! Steady! GoPro! | In this episode we talk about the 5DmkIII, the C300, Sony's FS100, and our beloved GoPro, and how inexpensive hardware impacts budding filmmakers and veterans alike. We also pay homage to American Graffiti. | 3/31/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 11: Snowmonkey | In this episode of RI4E, Maggie hacks some space, Christopher falls from grace with the Kimpon Hotel chain, we question Apple's commitment to the Mac platform, surmise the probability your data getting pwned, and decide Google is scummy. | 3/16/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 10: Borderlands of Kanen | Part two of our conversation with Kanen Flowers. In this episode, we talk about what it is that makes a good podcast, that Heartbeat City by The Cars synchs up with Defender, other video games, and wanting to stab people in the cinema. | 3/7/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 9: Land of Kanen | This week's special guest is Kanen Flowers, independent film maker and creator of That Post Show, and Scruffy Thinking. In this episode we talk about making a feature-length film, hardware, phone phreaking, hackers, money, and blow — but no hookers. | 2/22/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 8: iBooks 2 Brace for Impact | In this episode we talk about the new iBooks 2 platform and the potential impact it has for the US school system, and elsewhere. We cover iBooks Author, the .ibooks textbook format, and the new courseware attached to iTunes U. | 2/9/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 7: It’s A Trapcode! | In this episode, we have our first Guests! Aharon Rabinowitz and Seth Worley join us via Skype to talk about visual effects and post production in independent film. You'll also learn the secret of THE MURDER HOUSE. | 1/30/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 6: Unconventional Conventionalists | In this episode we talk about CES in a very big way. We cover new advances in TVs, cameras, computers, and THE NEW MAKERBOT! Also, we talk about product specs, why they matter, and why that's part of the bigger picture of user experience design. Math is hard. | 1/23/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 5: Unsanitary Bag of Hurt | In this episode we talk about 3D in the cinema, and why sometimes IMAX isn't. | 1/9/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 4: The HIG Boson | In this episode we talk about what makes a good App. We we talk at excruciating length about the Apple HIG, and Apps that suck less. | 12/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 3: Why is the Fat Guy Named Porkins? | In this episode we talk about Star Wars, and how George Lucas even today, continues to change cinema. We had some audio problems while recording this episode that were not discovered until after the show finished recording. Please excuse the audio quality. The problem has been corrected, and we'll be back next week with our usual higher quality audio. | 12/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 2: Liquid Television | In our second episode, your fearless hosts gasbag about TV shows we like, home theatre PCs, and different ways of getting content to your television. | 11/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 1: Rounding Error | In this episode, we whinge about how Apple is leaving the high-end pro market. We talk about Mac Pros, education-as-enterprise, and giant 3D printed jumping spiders. | 11/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 15 Episodes |
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