Google Wave/Chrome/OS, Ramp Champ, SEGA, & your user questions.

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Google Wave is a very nice and free online collaboration tool, which allows users to directly interact with each other through text, audio, and more. You can even see people typing as they are typing, which is very neat. It’s currently in beta, and you will need to be invited by someone to join at this moment.

Google Chrome is Google’s very own web browser. After doing a speed test of Safari, Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Camino, Chrome came out on top (click here). It’s free for Windows and Mac OS X.

Google is also working on a totally new and somewhat unexpected project. They’re going to make their own operating system, mainly geared towards netbook owners who spend all their time and work using their web browser. It’s called Chrome OS.It’s a highly modified version of Linux that can boot in under 10 seconds. All it is is a browser window that let’s you do all your things in a fast and safe environment.

Ramp Champ, by Icon Factory, the makers of Twitterrific, has gone free this past weekend (and still is) in the iTunes store. If you don’t know what it is, it’s a very fun carnival-style skeeball game with very nice graphics and gameplay. There is even an easter egg (there are easter eggs in all of Icon Factory’s apps), where you can get two special trophies to add to your loot. You can get them by going to the ‘Redeem’ section of the game, and holding on your ticket count for 5 seconds. The credits should come up, to where you can then redeem these two new prizes. The game also features extra addon ramps for $.99 each.

SEGA this past week has released Super Monkey Ball 2 for the iPhone and iPod Touch. It is available for $9.99 in the iTunes store. BUT, if you are planning on purchasing it and you are jailbroken, you may want to wait. This game does not work for jailbroken users. There is a simple workaround for this, though, which involves installing an application called “SwapMode” from Cydia, which allows users to switch to a “Game Mode”, which disables all MobileSubstrate extensions. Doing so will allow you to play the game, but this can become somewhat annoying after a while, since you have to enable and disable Game Mode to get your mods back or thing like that.

Apple and Psystar have basically finished their legal proceedings. Psystar doesn’t seem to be selling anymore computers with Mac OS X preinstalled (they barely sold 800 of them anyway), but have come up with “Rebel EFI”, which allows users to install Mac OS X on any PC with ease, but at a price of around $70. Rebel EFI is actually based off of free open-source code (boot132). There is a free and just as easy alternative to this called “Empire EFI” that can be downloaded for free here.

We’ve received a bunch of user questions this week, ranging from jailbreaking to the Magic Mouse.

I’d like to thank Alan (http://twitter.com/alnandr, http://youtube.com/alnandr) and James (http://twitter.com/jdrydenme) for being on the show. They may be on next week as well!

This was the first episode of the podcast and it was rather… Not too bad or not too good (to say the least). Next week’s show should be a lot better and more fun. Stay tuned for it!