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Apple technology is fascinating, but has its ups and downs. There's a big, wide world out there, that we barely touch on -- until now. Enclosed within, is the first episode of MacNN: Off Topic, our newest weekly podcast where the staffers talk about their passions, their interests, and the things that get them up in the morning. This week, Mike and Jordan talk to Mitch Gitelman, co-founder of Harebrained Schemes, and one of the main drivers behind the insanely successful Battletech Kickstarter.

We call him the Black Rider, though he isn't actually riding anything. Nonetheless, he is the Stranger of Reason, he is the Masked Man of Information and he's come along for this week's installment of the MacNN One More Thing podcast just as Malcolm Owen and William Gallagher are getting far too deep into the topic of keyboards.

We call him the Black Rider, though he isn't actually riding anything. Nonetheless, he is the Stranger of Reason, he is the Masked Man of Information and he's come along for this week's installment of the MacNN One More Thing podcast just as Malcolm Owen and William Gallagher are getting far too deep into the topic of keyboards.

Finally a special guest! In addition to weighing in on some of the big tech topics of the week, we talk to Macphun about the company's great line of photo-editing apps and their new abilities in Photos. Also on the block are recent gaffes by Aaron Sorkin and Elon Musk, Apple's reversal on removing access to purchased items, Apple Pay at Starbucks, and new Harry Potter e-books. A jam-packed hour!

Finally a special guest! In addition to weighing in on some of the big tech topics of the week, we talk to Macphun about the company's great line of photo-editing apps and their new abilities in Photos. Also on the block are recent gaffes by Aaron Sorkin and Elon Musk, Apple's reversal on removing access to purchased items, Apple Pay at Starbucks, and new Harry Potter e-books. A jam-packed hour!

Nobody has ever thought this before when they typed a filename ending in 007. Nobody. Please join the roguishly handsome William Gallagher –– oh, you're never going to check –– and suave Malcolm Owen as they get down into OS X El Capitan in earnest. Then there is the sheer sea of news from Adobe that Malcolm's going to explain and Tim Cook's visibility award that he, William and you are going to applaud. Plus, keep in mind that this is the Other Podcast. It's not meant to be planned, it's a kitchen-table blather. Still, we should probably look at this in future as for the first time ever, both William and Malcolm have picked headphones as their Thingies of the Week. It is a sheer miracle they didn't pick the same pair.

Nobody has ever thought this before when they typed a filename ending in 007. Nobody. Please join the roguishly handsome William Gallagher –– oh, you're never going to check –– and suave Malcolm Owen as they get down into OS X El Capitan in earnest. Then there is the sheer sea of news from Adobe that Malcolm's going to explain and Tim Cook's visibility award that he, William and you are going to applaud. Plus, keep in mind that this is the Other Podcast. It's not meant to be planned, it's a kitchen-table blather. Still, we should probably look at this in future as for the first time ever, both William and Malcolm have picked headphones as their Thingies of the Week. It is a sheer miracle they didn't pick the same pair.

Hosts Charles and Mike talk more about El Capitan, and the reasons why you should -- or should not -- upgrade right now. Also discussed is the new iPhone 6s Plus and its differences to the 6s, why a 16GB iOS device can be okay, the recent Patreon and Experian/T-Mobile data thefts, Amazon's refusal to carry streaming video boxes that don't support Prime Video, a bad actor who is ripping off developers in the bundle business, and William stops by with his App of the Week.

Hosts Charles and Mike talk more about El Capitan, and the reasons why you should -- or should not -- upgrade right now. Also discussed is the new iPhone 6s Plus and its differences to the 6s, why a 16GB iOS device can be okay, the recent Patreon and Experian/T-Mobile data thefts, Amazon's refusal to carry streaming video boxes that don't support Prime Video, a bad actor who is ripping off developers in the bundle business, and William stops by with his App of the Week.

Hand on heart, we started with the episode title and tried to work backwards but failed. This week's episode does indeed feature the new OS X with the daft name but it also features some Android thing with a sillier one. Unless Google has named its next Android operating system Marshmallow as a nod to Veronica Mars: we'd respect that.