It’s been a busy week in Cupertino, what with the emergency fix iTunes 7, updating all the iApps and now the lastest version of Tiger.
Open your System Preferences and go get the update.
The 10.4.8 Update is recommended for all users and includes general operating system fixes, as well as specific fixes for the following applications […]

The news is good - IBM have realised that the Mac platform is doing quite well - growing and adding new users every day. For this reason they will now make their mediocre “Notes” application as bad on Macs as it is on PCs.
But would it be too much for them to use the same […]

The Woz was just on on the Colbert Report doing what he does best. Colbert said he would “nail him in a language her can understand 01011001″ but it looks like Woz freaked him out.

Whilst wandering the blogs over this morning’s bagel, I stumbled upon an article by ZDNet Australia’s Munir Kotadia that was sane and coherent - features not often found in mainstream geek sites such as ZDNet.
Here are some excerpts from an article he wrote a while back about Apple’s BootCamp program that allows Borgs to ‘downgrade’ […]

Apple have just released the iTunes 7.0.1 update. You’ll be notified automatically if you have Software Update set to “Daily,” otherwise open that from Software Update from the System Preferences and go get it. This is a “suggested update” - since iTunes 7 tends tofall over and blow up a lot, everyone with a pulse […]

Many things to hear and talk about

Carmen encounters multi-session CDs
iWoz and some old Apple tales
New Apple Ads
iTunes problems
The Hawaiian word of the day
More music from Kenneth Makuakane

I began the MacHelp from Maui podcast with a Tascam PocketStudio and an old singer’s mic I had laying about. But when my Carmen joined-up we upgraded to a Behringer 4-track mixer, a Shure SM-59 and an AKG something mic which made it sound 100% better. For a while I recorded straight into GarageBand which […]

This is real!

Compaq FAQ: Where do I find the “Any” key on my keyboard? (FAQ2859) The term “any key” does not refer to a particular key on the keyboard. It simply means to strike any one of the keys on your keyboard or handheld screen.

Rughlydrafted.com has put up a very interesting analysis of the popular fantasy that iTunes is some sort of monopoly, and poor, beleaguered Microsoft is the good guy.This fantasy is a trick called ‘F.U.D.,’ which stands for “Fear - Uncertainty and Doubt,” a technique first introduced by IBM then raised to an art form by Microsoft […]

Wow, somoeone’s finger slipped and they stumbled on one of the Mac’s secret keystrokes, the good-old “esc” or Escape key. in some applications, when you press this key after typing a few letters to begin a word, tapping this key will pop-up a scrollable list of words that start with those letters. 
“…I’ve obtained the […]

“Ku’upau means to give it everything you have, the pidgin equivalent would be “geev ‘um” or “go for broke”.
In the context of this song, it’s a call for all people of Hawai‘i,
Hawaiian and non-Hawaiian alike to support Hawaiian sovereignty, and to
give it all you have until it is achieved.
It seems there was another question for […]

This coment came in via an unused blog at my RSS feed so I’m moving it here in order that it be seen and to reply.
“The whole bit about using the USB drive on the Mini’s keyboard is not entirely acurate. We use one here in our office (a mini) and use an old keyboard […]

Camera buffs are one of the few gear-slut groups more compulsive than computer users. We Mac owners stay happy with our computers for entire weeks on end before the draw of new toys takes hold. Lens-wonks on the other hand have been known to start flipping through catalogs before even opening the box on a […]

MacHelp from Maui - Listen, you might learn something!

Carmen reports a about the music from the Pinapple Cannery Reunion.
Find out why you don’t want to backup on CD-RWs or jump drives.
We get all cultural and then play our first cut from Kenneth Makuakane’s new CD.

Apple.com is one of the oldest URLs on the web, their first website appearing in 1996.
Through the magic of the web.archive time machine, here is that first website in all it’s glory. As you could expect there are a few broken links, but it’s still fun to wander down memory lane and see what Steve […]

The prodcut namers at Microsoft - who once named a operating system for hand-held devices “WINCE” without doing so - have now released another ‘iPod killer.’ The device is called a ‘Zune’.There must not have been any naughty Canadians in the office that day - they’d all gone out for a beer or something.
From MacWorld […]

If you saw the scene in a movie, you would have laughed. At the time though, I didn’t think it was that funny.
Walking across the kitchen with a full cup of very hot coffee, I was plugged into the latest downloaded Podcasts. Arriving at the door to our front porch, I was just reaching for […]

Apple’s big ‘Showtime” event has gone and went, taking with it our expectations and fantasies.
The new iPods are great, their introduction came just in time and the changes announced were all improvements, especially for those who wanted less of a god thing. Fark.com announced the tiny new iPod Shuffle with their usual insight and […]

“It’s very similar to Harley-Davidson. So many people will only buy a Harley-Davidson. It’s already pre-decided and it has nothing to do with what the specs of a Harley are. And to keep that brand loyalty, Apple is doing a good job of differentiating their products with style and early features.”
-Woz
c/o AppleMatters

Hear the story of Carmen vs HP via India, Scott’s new Mac and iPod fantasies and how a CD cover got produced over iChat and across the islands.

Scott screws up the recording but it all works out in the end.

Send your questions, checks and suggestions to: scott@machelpmaui.com

From Keola Beamer’s Sweet Maui Moon CD you’ll hear […]

It was just an iPod event
Well, maybe not ‘just’, but Steve’s standup this morning was about movies, iPods and iTunes which are all very cool, and which all support the bottom line. It’s been a while since Apple did anything for the iPod and the webs was starting to get a little testy […]