The iPhone pricing plans have come out and there are a lot of people who aren’t so happy with what AT&T had to say. Katie and Corey give you their thoughs on the matter. We also talk MobileMe, Back to School, AppleTV, Apple Certifications and more. (Running Time: 0:49:52)

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Katie and Corey give you their impressions of the announcments at today’s World Wide Developer Conference Keynote. We talk 3G iPhone, 2.0 Firmware update, MobileMe, Snow Leopard, and more... (Running Time: 0:51:25)

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Meet Kacey, she’s one of our most dedicated listners. Kacey is Corey’s dog and not only does she listen to every show, she usually hangs around while we record them (although we think she naps through quite a bit of it.) Kacey is modeling one ouf our MacCore T-shirts available at our cafepress store.

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Belkin TuneCast
Review by: Katie
http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatProductPage.process?Product_Id=404646
Price: $79.99

More and more cars are being built to work with iPods and other personal media players. in fact Steve Jobs regularly documents in his Keynote presentation just how many automakers are creating custom iPod solutions for their vehicles. But what about all of us who don't have one of the latest and greatest cars on the road? I personally drive a 1997 Toyota Avalon (it's a great car, only has about 75,000 miles on it and I plan to drive it another 100,000) and it certainly doesn't have any kind of iPod connection. Although I went out a few years ago and put a new stereo in the car that does have an iPod dock, it won't work with my iPhone, which is what I'd like to use as my primary iPod. That's where the third party manufacturers come in with some really innovative solutions. Read More...

BookEndz Docking Station for MacBook
Review by: Katie
http://www.bookendzdocks.com/Docking_Stations-Docking_Station_for_13_MacBook_Black.html
Price: $159.00 with other options available

While at Macworld earlier this year, I had a chance to see first hand a lot of the Mac products that I had read about over the years. One of the products that I specifically sought out was the Docking Station for MacBook by BookEndz. BookEnds makes docking stations for most Mac portables, and since I regularly "dock" my MacBook to an external monitor, keyboard, mouse and USB hub while working at home, I've long been interested in the concept of an "all in one" dock in hopes of replacing the mess of wires that currently sits on my desk. The good folks over at Dr. Bott were kind enough to send me a BookEndz Docking Station for my Black MacBook for review. Read More...

I don't use Windows much, but sometimes it is a necessary evil. When I originally installed Parallels, I very conservatively set my original disk size at the minimum, 8GB. With the new Service Pack 3 update and after installing a few programs within Windows I've found myself running very low on space. I used the Parallels Image Tool to expand my hard disk size thinking that would be an easy fix, problem is, it wasn't. Although the Parallels Image Tool does add more space to your virtual disk, Windows treats that as unused space. You can use that free space to create a new partition within Windows, but since I don't have that many files, that wouldn't solve my problem. What I needed was some way to easily take that unused space and allow my current installation of Windows XP to recognize it. After some searching I found a quick and easy solution so thought I'd post it here in hopes it could be of help to someone else.

1. Use the Parallels Image Tool to expand your virtual disk. This may take a while, so be patient, the rest of the process is fairly easy.
2. From within the Finder, create a duplicate of your hard disk image file. Mine was named winxp.hdd so the duplicate was named winxp copy.hdd
3. Open Parallels, but don't start Windows. You need to make two changes here. First, change the hard disk to the new duplicate image you just created. Second, add a second hard drive, and point that to your original virtual disk. Basically what you're doing is setting the copy to be your primary and boot disk, and adding the original as a secondary hard drive. In order for this procedure to work, you have to be booted from an image that is not the one you seek to change.
4. Boot into Windows and wait a few minutes for it to recognize the new hard drive. Once everything is up, go to the Start Menu and choose Run. Type "DISKPART" (no quotes)
5. Once inside DiskPart type "list volume" (again, no quotes in any of this) and hit return.
6. You should see to volumes. Volume 1 is the copy and Volume 2 is the original drive.
7. Type: "select volume 2" press return Then type "extend" and return. Give it a minute and it should say the process is complete. Once it's finished type "exit" and shut down windows.
8. When back to the Parallels settings screen, go back and remove the secondary hard drive that you added in Step 3 and set your original virtual disk as Hard Disk 1. At this point, we're putting things back the way they were before we started. You can also trash the virtual disk copy that you made in step 2.
9. Now, restart Windows and you should be back to your original virtual machine, though when you look at the disk properties, you should now see the extra free space. You will probably have to restart your windows after it's done recognizing the new hardware. Once that's done, you're back in business with your expanded disk space.

What's going on with the iPhone, what would it take to make you upgrade to iPhone 2? Apple faces more competition from Netflix and Napster, are the record labels and the networks snubbing Apple just to be nasty? Apple ranks number 1 in Tech Support, but unfortunately people are having more interactions with AppleCare. Apple claims 66% of the PC market share over $1,000 but does that really mean all that much? We pick a winner for our AudioEngine W1 giveaway and we take your questions and comments regarding Quicken, PDF organization, and iPhone speakers. Oh yeah, did you know that you can get MacCore stuff for your dog? (Running Time: 0:53:02)

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Congratulations to Chris from Springfield, Virginia! He's our lucky winner of our AudioEngine W1 giveaway. Our thanks to all of you who entered the contest, we hope to bring you more promotions like this in the future. For those of you who didn't win the W1, there is good news. We have teamed up with AudioEngine to give all MacCore listners a 10% discount off any AudioEngine product. Simply use the code MacCore10 at checkout. You can learn more about the great line of AudioEngine Products at www.AudioEngineUSA.com

I just wanted to give you all a heads up that I'm going to be doing some under the hood work on the website. I'm considering moving the site over to WordPress but wanted to play around a bit with the current version, the podcast feeder, and such to make sure that it does everything I need and see if it works any better than our current system. I'm going to be experimenting in a separate directory of the site, and if things work, may transition things over and move them over to the main directory of this site. This work should not in any way interfere with the operation of the current website or the feeds. However...you know how these things go when geeks start tweaking with things they shouldn't. If you have any problems with the site or the feed over the course of this weekend, please email me at themaccore@gmail.com or shoot me a note on Twitter. Please, don't just assume that I know there's a problem. Thanks!

I've often said that in a perfect world with unlimited funds I'd probably run with an iMac on my desk as a primary machine and a MacBook Air in my briefcase. It's a very tempting thought, and it got even more tempting this Monday when Apple released new iMacs with faster processors and graphics options. The new iMac includes faster processors with 6MB L2 cache and a faster 1066 MHz front-side bus across the entire line, and 2GB of memory (finally!) standard in most models and are expandable up to 4GB. The 24-inch iMac now offers a 3.06 GHz Intel processor and the NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS.

The entry level iMac features a 20-inch screen, 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor w, 1GB of SDRAM, a 250GB 7200 rpm SATA drive, SuperDrive, and ATI Radeon HD 2400 XT with 128MB GDDR3 memory memory all for $1199 US. The top of the line 24-inch model comes with a 3.06 GHz Core 2 Duo Processor, 2GB of SDRAM, a 500GB SATA drive, SuperDrive and an NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS with 512MB memory for $2199.

I am resisting the urge to pull out the Visa as I type this...