Talkcast tonight, 7pm PT/10pm ET: Oscar night edition!

Oscar night! It's a big day for the movie industry, including Steve Jobs's Pixar protege John Lasseter; he's got his fingers in two nominated animated features this year (Brave and Wreck-It Ralph). Our weekly chat festival may not be up for any awards this year, but there's only one award that matters: your enjoyment of the show. We'll go over the week in all things Apple, and we'll do it with style.

Since it's really all about you, the community, do see if you can join us, won't you? To participate, you can use the browser-only Talkshoe client, the embedded Facebook app, or download the classic TalkShoe Pro Java client; however, for +5 Interactivity, you should call in.

For the web UI, just click the Talkshoe Web button on our profile page at 4 HI/7 PDT/10 pm EDT Sunday. To call in on regular phone or VoIP lines (Viva free weekend minutes!): dial (724) 444-7444 and enter our talkcast ID, 45077 -- during the call, you can request to talk by keying in *8.

If you've got a headset or microphone handy on your Mac, you can connect via the free X-Lite or other SIP clients (aside from Skype or Google Voice), basic instructions are here. Talk to you tonight!