Awesomecast: Tech And Gadget Talk

Rob de la Cretaz, and Michael Sorg are joined by Sam Wilson returns to the show as we talk Electronic Arts trying to kill the disc, Guitar Hero's resurrection, how good is Mac OS X Lion, and Google Plus's gaggle of users.

Rob de la Cretaz, and Michael Sorg are joined by John Chichilla and talk Microsoft's strategy, the coming of Spotify, how is Google + doing, and has Apple bought a small country yet? 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 news, thoughts, or comments at Contact@AwesomeCast.com or 724-25-A-CAST.

Rob de la Cretaz, and Michael Sorg are joined by Will Rutherford "DJLunchbox" of Thoughtful Riot and the Wrestling Mayhem Show, AJ Kuftic of Virtual Potholes, and a host of discussions about tablets changing your restaurant experience, further talk on whether cutting the cord makes sense with the new Netflix price hike, what bandwidth data caps mean to our future, tabletgeddon, and the ISP's 6 strikes rules might be a good thing for users? 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 news, thoughts, or comments at Contact@AwesomeCast.com or 724-25-A-CAST.

Rob de la Cretaz, and Michael Sorg are joined Charles Kim, CEO of Geneva Mars, a recent spawn of Carnegie Mellon and grad of the Alphalab program, as we talk about his experience with the app store, developing an interactive story for kids, and the startup scene in Pittsburgh. We also talk about Capcom selling unreplayable games, Final Cut Pro X experience, Myspace gets bought (not by us) and Google+ is the future....? 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 news, thoughts, or comments at Contact@AwesomeCast.com or 724-25-A-CAST.

Rob de la Cretaz, and Michael Sorg are joined by AJ Kuftic again, who lets us know how that Android experiment is going...by showing us iOS5 Beta 2 live on the show! We also talk about the Supreme Court ruling on California video game laws, Google +, the Final Cut Pro X backlash, Sony's unfortunate timing in axing security employees, and just what does monkey genitals have to do with advertising? 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 news, thoughts, or comments at Contact@AwesomeCast.com or 724-25-A-CAST.

Rob de la Cretaz, Tony "Chachi" Walker, and Michael Sorg are joined Captain Awesome Bryan Snyder in his first non-cameo role on the show! We talk about Facebook's HTML5 project thanks to AJ, is iPad and Apple TV a dark horse of gaming consoles? The brave new world of ultra hacking, Dropbox messes up, Research in Motion isn't doing much better, the new Nexus 4G phone, and just how realistic is cord cutting as we debut the usefulness of Netflix, Roku, and what they mean versus just paying for that cable TV. 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 news, thoughts, or comments at Contact@AwesomeCast.com or 724-25-A-CAST.

Rob de la Cretaz, Tony "Chachi" Walker, and Michael Sorg are joined by Matt Sorg and his demo copy of Duke Nukem Forever to prove it's real as the world discovers their full versions today! We find out that most of the internet seems to hate it, we explore more thoughts on the Wii U one week later, and start worrying, learn where to buy drugs online, the latest data plan limit woes, why is the new HP TouchPad so cool and might be the iPad beater (hint, it's the Cloud), what dous cloud gaming and Onlive mean for the next generation, Rob's experience with iOS 5 beta, and moe! Join the AwesomeCast on Twitter, Facebook and be sure to follow us on iTunes in both video and audioformats, as well as YouTube, Boxee, Roku, and Blip.tv! As always, you can chime in with news, thoughts, or comments at Contact@AwesomeCast.com or 724-25-A-CAST.

Rob de la Cretaz, Tony "Chachi" Walker, and Michael Sorg are joined by AJ Kuftic of AJ Eats and Virtual Potholes are a year in on the AwesomeCast...and talking about E3 again. and WWDC again. But there's plenty of new with Windows 8, iOS 5, Mac OS X Lion, iCloud, Wii U, and more from Microsoft Xbox and Sony Playstation from the keynote craziness! 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 news, thoughts, or comments at Contact@AwesomeCast.com or 724-25-A-CAST.

Rob de la Cretaz, Tony "Chachi" Walker, and Michael Sorg are joined by Mike Dougherty of the Mikey and Big Bob Morning Freak Show on KISS 96.1 in Pittsburgh to talk about how they're applying social media to their old school radio industry, even to the point of doing a social media training video for the company. We also delve into Fox insisting you're not getting Avatar on Netflix, what the Kickstarter concept is doing for indie movies such as with the sweet looking Zero Charisma D&D flick, Apple actually tells us what they are going to unveil at WWDC, and this guy has my MacBook... 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 news, thoughts, or comments at Contact@AwesomeCast.com or 724-25-A-CAST.

Tony "Chachi" Walker, and Michael Sorg are joined by AJ Kuftic and Mulango Akp-Esambe of Mangtoons.com once again as the group gets geeky over recent turns in their phone experiences. Chachi gets into his recent throttling at the hands of T-Mobile, AJ tells us about his new Android experiment, what Mulango thinks of Lady Gaga and the Amazon 99 cent albums deal, we talk about Apple not helping poor malware victims, yet stepping in to help their developers from patent trolls, Microsoft handing out free Xbox's to students 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 news, thoughts, or comments at Contact@AwesomeCast.com or 724-25-A-CAST.

Tony "Chachi" Walker, and Michael Sorg are in the studio for the first time with Will Rutherford, or "DJLunchbox" of our Wrestling Mayhem Show sister program and ThoughtfulRiot.com! We tackle Netflix for Android, and the new places Chachi can watch The League, Sony's return to online service and what you can get for your trouble, what has happened to Sony's stock in the video game industry, phone gaming, the Nokia N-Gage, and 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 news, thoughts, or comments at Contact@AwesomeCast.com or 724-25-A-CAST.

Tony "Chachi" Walker, and Michael Sorg are set to celebrate 50 episodes of AwesomeCast! This week, we welcome back our first guest Uncle Crappy Mike Pound with all of his "real journalist" know how, as well as the first in studio appearance of "Fatherspoon" Doug Derda of ShouldiDrinkThat.com! We tackle the new iOS subscriptions with Conde Naste, the latest from Google i/o and the new features coming to Android, including tablets and GoogleTV. Plus Sorg drops an update about the new cafe's experience with the exciting Square application, talk "gamification apps" with beer check ins, beer talk with Doug and Crappy, 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 news, thoughts, or comments at Contact@AwesomeCast.com or 724-25-A-CAST.

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 iPhone tracker "bug" is to us geeks, the savors of Delicious, and what are you playing on the toilet? 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 Contact@AwesomeCast.com or 724-25-A-CAST.

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 news, thoughts, or comments at Contact@AwesomeCast.com or 724-25-A-CAST.

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 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 Contact@AwesomeCast.com or 724-25-A-CAST.

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 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 Contact@AwesomeCast.com or 724-25-A-CAST.

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 aspects of Zediva really be? Library ladder anyone? 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 news, thoughts, or comments at Contact@AwesomeCast.com or 724-25-A-CAST.

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! Remember those? 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 Contact@AwesomeCast.com or 724-25-A-CAST.

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 that could mean to our resident AT&T, T-Mobile, and even Verizon representing panel, the problem with tethering, and Mad Mike Rohrssen of Crisis of Infinite Mikes and Wrestling Mayhem Show weighs in with his hands on experience with the Nintendo 3DS! 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 news, thoughts, or comments at Contact@AwesomeCast.com or 724-25-A-CAST.

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, Roku, and Blip.tv! As always, you can chime in with news, thoughts, or comments at Contact@AwesomeCast.com or 724-25-A-CAST.