Carmen fixes that problem with AppleMail where it keeps asking for your password. More on the different kind of Macs and iPods in case you ask.Music by Darrell AquinoChocolate by Ghardhelli

It’s about time! I was getting so sick of seeing Dell-bricks being slathered across campuses in some sort of self-reinforcing cluster-fuck of low price crap somehow creates an emerging standard so the prices go down. As the bargain basement drones begin turning to slag, the kids are spending Dad’s hard earned bucks on something with […]

I’ve just added this blog to my list. 37 Signals states:
This is Signal vs. Noise, a weblog by 37signals about entrepreneurship, design, experience, simplicity, constraints, pop culture, our products, products we like, and more. Established 1999 in Chicago.
Except for the Chicago part, that sounds real familiar. What brought them to my attention was this […]

You can read it in the Guardian, which has joined in the frantic barking that someone has CRACKED the iPod so that it can now play tunes that don’t come from Apple.What a crock! iPods can play mp3s’ and a stack of other formats and they always have. There’s only a problem with Microsoft formats […]

Apple Upgrades MacBooks - now thinner, bigger, with more stuffApple today upgraded their MacBook Pro line of metal-clad lap warmers with new features, more speed and less thick. Still priced from $1999.999±.02, these new portables sport a faster double-wide chip, more RAM, larger capacity drives and a nice closet to store sweaters during the warm […]

Here we go!
Mac rumors abound!Back on track talking story about mail, PC viruses causing mail and all kind other stuffs,Keola’s Hawaiian joke of the weekMusic from Kenneth Makuakane

Apple Upgrades MacBooks - now thinner, bigger, with more stuff
Apple today upgraded their MacBook Pro line of metal-clad lap warmers with new features, more speed and less thick. Still priced from $1999.999±.02, these new portables sport a faster double-wide chip, more RAM, larger capacity drives and a nice closet to store sweaters during the warm […]

Bradenton Police Department bypassing courts in forfeitures
BRADENTON — For years, the Bradenton Police Department has quietly, without judicial review, confiscated hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash and property from people they arrested for drug possession and other crimes.
The police bypass the courts and confiscate money and property on the spot through a department-created form […]

Hawaii has recently had earthquakes, flash floods. volcanic smog - but nothing from Florida. It’s like the whole state finally got their meds right. Well, may not Katherine Harriss, but she doesn’t count any higher than her bra size or IQ, which ever is more plausible.
Now from sunny Bradenton comes this sad but strange bit […]

Is it just a rumor or my dreams come true?
I hate telephones, especially cell phones. The interface sucks, the buttons don’t work, they cost too much and they are UGLY. When my cell phone rings I have to pop out the ear bugs connected to my iPod, find the damn thing, push just the right […]

Today at Digg I found a link to Pixelspread where a recovering Window Borg lists the Mac apps that have made his life and his switch worthwhile.
Go there to find out what lights up borgs and what terminal geeks they can be.
So I made the switch. It’s been a little over a month since I […]

Here are a few bullet points culled from news reports of Apple’s last quarter,

Sales of Apple’s Macintosh computers over the past twelve month’s have grown faster than any other major PC manufacturer
The company’s share of the U.S. PC market is now 6.1 percent
Apple posted a fiscal fourth quarter profit of $546 million on sales of […]

From a Mac user at ComputerWorld.(There’s a Mac user at Computerworld?)
Apple’s top-end laptop runs Vista better than a high-end Sony Vaio
Who can resist a chance to surf the Web with a beta version of something like Firefox, running on a beta version of Microsoft’s next operating system, using a beta version of Apple’s Boot Camp […]

From Business News:

Silicon Color acquired by Apple Computer
Makers of the Mac computer and iPod digital music player Apple
Computer have acquired Silicon Color. Silicon Color is the makers of
FinalTouch color-correction software. The news was published on the
company’s website, which said:
“We are pleased to announced that all Silicon Color technology and
intellectual property, including FinalTouch color correction […]

An Earth shattering podcast this week as Carmen stays home and we talk about 6.6 quakes in Maui. There’s some mention of Macs - most particularly what to do when the floors move. And then there’s the “swollen” MacBook battery story.
This show was recorded over iChat because it was raining so hard Carmen couldn’t get […]

Wired magazine’s on-line variant has a great article on how Apple went about developing the iPod. The story is a shows how product development should happen and why Apple keeps getting better.
Here are some choice bits:
“Most people make the mistake of thinking design is what it looks like,” Jobs told the Times. “That’s not what […]

So there’s this lawyer who’s dumber than a redundant metaphor.  He buys a G5, sticks his head up his ass, then writes about it. So a Mac guy takes him to task only to prove that this lawyer is wrong about everything and should get his meds checked.
Make my day
A fellow named “Larry Bodine”, who […]

For a while I’ve been craving some place to house my non-Mac writings, so this evening I crawled under Google’s Blogger and in about 40-mminutes built another blog titled “ADDvanced Features.” Blogger is pretty damn cool, I was even able to put it up with a beta of the on-line software. With technology like this […]

That was special! In the twenty years we’ve been here perched on a volcano there have only been a few tremours - enough to skew the paintings. But the one this morning was noteworthy!
Even when I lived in California I never felt one like that - but we only lost a wine glass and […]

What is Dihydrogen Monoxide?Dihydrogen Monoxide (DHMO) is a colorless and odorless chemical compound, also referred to by some as Dihydrogen Oxide, Hydrogen Hydroxide, Hydronium Hydroxide, or simply Hydric acid. Its basis is the unstable radical Hydroxide, the components of which are found in a number of caustic, explosive and poisonous compounds such as Sulfuric Acid, […]

From Mac OX Hints
Over the course of the past few months, Dashboard had become painfully slow for me, sometimes taking 10 to 20 seconds to load.
I took a look at ~/Library -> Caches -> DashboardClient, and found that the Dashboard cache was 20MB. This seemed excessive (plus, I had a fairly recent backup), so […]

“We live in a global world.”                      -GW Bush

Go see if you can tell.
As a professional portrait artist, even I was almost fooled - this is pretty cool tech and one more step on the road to artificial people on the web and TV. Perhaps now they can come up with a more convicing artificial President - the one they’re using now shouldn’t […]

I’m suddely gettting Wordpress crashes i.e. WordPress database error:[Got a packet bigger than ‘max_allowed_packet’ bytes] when posting anentry. There’s seems to be a problem with the data base. Can you shedany light on this?
Scott Waters

On Oct 11, 2006, at 8:20 AM, pair Networks Support wrote:
Hello,
Thank you for contacting pair Networks.  The error you have […]

Number 69 Presents more adventures from CarmenApple Hysteria NewsCarmen’s DVD Burner BreaksAppleCareBuying a Used MacMusic from a Maui girl: Diesel http://www.dieselmusic.comKeola’s Hawaiian tech word of the week

On Oct 10, 2006, at 12:58 AM, Dale Waters wrote:

Scott, I believe one of my Macs is infected with a worm that is sending out erroneous emails because I am getting messages back that email from my computer can not be delivered. The return address is not one that I have sent email to.
Can […]

Lightning exits woman’s bottom
October 09, 2006 12:00amArticle from: The Australian
A WOMAN has suffered severe burning to her anus after being struck by lightning which hit her in the mouth and passed right through her body.
Natasha Timarovic, 27, was cleaning her teeth at home when lightning struck the building.
She said: “I had just put my mouth […]

I’m in class this morning learning how to help kids with computers. That’s not the right way to say it - how about: using computers to help kids.
Kids don’t need any help with computers, they are born knowing that just like I was born knowing about guitars and my dad was born ith an […]

From Apple Matters - a blogsite that specialzes in hysterical, attention-getting articles - also runs a great series called “This day in Apple history.” October 6, 1997 was a particularly special date, whence Michael Dell made one of his less prescient, stupid comments:
Michael Dell offers Guidance for Apple ExecutivesGil Amelio had recently been ousted […]

A few weeks ago a local photographer and I were showing our work to a client. He was about to open PhotoShop on his PowerBook just to display a folder of pictures when I showed him this little slideshow trick which made the presentation easier and better looking.
Now my secret is out - it’s been […]

We’ll ignore Mark Foley for now, you’ll already have heard about him. But, in case you want to study for the test here’s a link to the canonical list of Republican pedophiles: HEREOur Gator-Bait of the week is a Miami Cop who sold coke while wearing his uniform. It’s so embarrassing when amateurs get involved […]

Carmen does the Maui Country Fair • All about the MacHelp Podcast mics, mixers and audio set up • Apple’s iUpdates and new Old Fart Features! • Keola’s Hawaiian Technology Word of the Week • Music from the mainland c/o “The Slight Eccentric”commentCounter (222)

The current addition to my rouges gallery of unflattering caricatures.
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NPR Talk of the Nation has an extended interview with Woz. With more time than he had on Colbert, Steve discusses his philosophies of life, engineering and how Apple lost the lead, among many other things.
Ira Faltow also reveals himself as a real geek who even built a ‘blue-box’ phone dialer when he was younger. […]

I love Geezer features. Now that Steve jobs has kids in college, beat cancer, and is losing his hair, we’re beginning to see features that benefit those of us who actually saw Eisenhower on black and white television - live.While it’s still impossible for anyone over the age of seven to read a phone number […]

Guy Kawasaki, Apple’s former lead ‘Evangelist’ and current venture capitalist recently hosted a panel on what youngsters do with technology. The answers to his questions are very enlightening. As usual, the kids are doing things that us old farts don’t even understand. The manufacturers are shown as clueless about the features that this market wants […]