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hey everyone I'm Molly would welcome to the cnet mailbag the show where we take your feedback and answer your questions about the stuff we're doing here at cnet let's get started with what I am now officially calling our burning question Jamie and oh so many others asked us hi Molly I was wondering when the HD podcasts are coming to iTunes because I noticed that a few weeks ago there were two or three HD podcasts in my library and then they disappeared thanks love the show yes you may remember that we accidentally delivered some HD episodes into the feed and we've since rolled out HD streaming at seen at tv.com but we haven't resumed the HD podcast delivery that's because we run our podcast producer Jason Howells straight into the ground all day every day and he hasn't had time but he says he'll have them up and running this week and we're holding him to it now here are a couple things to know about this if you want to get the HD versions of our video podcasts you will have to subscribe to the new HD feeds will post those feed links at podcast cnet com as soon as they're available and they'll of course be in itunes there will still be a standard definition version for those of you who aren't quite ready for those mondo downloads and also we won't be reinterred in HD so the new HD feed that you subscribe to we'll just kind of start that day no HD archives for you sorry next up Scott wrote in and said what is with the voice at the beginning of the buzz report please get rid of it i will give you two dollars is that a deal he means this now from the number one on air and online information source with a digital age well here's the thing Scott that voice is Don LaFontaine and we found out right after he died that he actually used to announce a show called cnet central for cnet when we were a TV network in the 90s and we think that's really cool and so cool that we felt like we should honor him by using that intro on the bus report plus I love it like love it love it but if you all hate it that's cool just tell me and you know we'll see how it goes moving right along lon fall until he blew had a question about last week's show did you just pointlessly mentioned markless aya and mail bag because he is hot or because he actually liked your top from banana republic maybe he did it really doesn't matter because it's great that you mentioned him and flashed his picture too because he is hot I would like to suggest you mentioned markless taya in any context anytime like someone said they couldn't find the link to a thing on cnet website you could say you know who couldn't find the link to the thing on the cnet website mark lucia flash marks picture and then proceeded to show or tell how to find the link thing preferably get mark to demonstrate it to with his muscular arms sigh I'll see what we can do lon fault that's actually not why I mentioned him last week unless it was a subconscious thing you know who else has a subconscious mark Lucia oh I did it again anyway Sam from Australia wrote in and said in Brian tongs quick tip about gmail and fighting spam he had a green macbook what is it some type of shield custom Sam I know it's cool right here's how cool it actually is the case is called the spec hard shell from speck products com not only does brian Tong have one or like 10 he used to work at spec and it was his idea like he invented it and it was the first laptop case of its kind ever and thank you for asking that question because I never would have found out this amazing fact about brian Tong if you hadn't written in so awesome all right speaking of that quick tip alex AKA tales from the IRC i know what that means says bryan did a tip on finding spam with gmail and said you have to email address well you actually have a bazillion you can add a plus sign to your email us so I love mollywood at gmail com would become I love Molly would plus seen it at gmail com I love Molly would + iphone at gmail com I love Molly would plus Cylon @ gmail.com or anything else just thought I'd pass it along tails that is an awesome tip thank you and thanks for all your emails everyone keep that feedback coming mailbag at cnet com or send me a postcard to 35 second street san francisco california 94 105 see you next time