AwesomeCast: Tech and Gadget Talk

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 YouTu...

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 plan...

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...

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 commen...

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...

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 Pennsyl...

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 bot...

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 thr...

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...

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 Blackber...

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 su...

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 g...

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 rest...

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 Fornev...

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, P...

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...

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 f...

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, a...

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 Twit...

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, a...

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, Sor...

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 al...

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 cut...

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, D...

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,...