The least not be dead. Feliz knavidad, I hope I said that right. Noel, that's another one. Merry Christmas! And for people who don't care about any of that stuff, a good Wednesday to you.

Welcome to a special edition of Maco-Hascan, a December 25th edition.

This is a year of firsts for this show. The first Saturday episode of Maco-S-Kon came out the

Saturday after Thanksgiving. The first Saturday edition ever of Maco-S-Kon. And you are now

listening to the very first Christmas Day edition of Maco-S-Kant.

I'm not going to do news today instead going to do sort of a recap a very informal

recap of some of the biggest stories of 2013 and we will be joined

by Jeff Gamut managing editor of the Mac Observer to help recap some of those in just a few

minutes before we get to that though, do you hear that?

Do you hear that? Sounds like a rising tide, right? You know what that is? That is a boatload

of junk email getting ready to head your way.

The good people at Sainbox have sponsored this week's edition of Maco S. Ken.

I want to take a couple of minutes to tell you about their service.

There's a ton of spam coming your way. There's a ton of special

offer stuff coming your way. Personally I don't like to shop after Christmas. I

don't like to shop for Christmas. I certainly don't like to shop on Christmas but afterwards I don't I don't need it. There's a lot of stuff that I'm not going to need that is going to be coming to my inbox tomorrow. I'm not going to see it though because I've got Sainbox. Now if your inbox has become just a junk junk

pile of junk, Sainbox is something that you should check out. You've heard me talk about it before.

It's pretty simple what it does, it moves on important

emails.

Or emails that you're not likely to respond to right away, that you're not likely to care about so

much, to a special as seen later folder. And this way, the email that's in your inbox is the

email that you'll want to pay attention to but it's not just tossing that other

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