“Da kine go stay go!”

Carmen and Scott regret to announce that as of this show, the MacHelp from Maui podcast will no longer be heard.

That’s right, we’ve finally given in to the ennui of the islands - this is just too much like work!

Not really - but Apple doesn’t need us anymore - they’re doing […]

Should you get a new Mac now or wait until the heat death of the universe?
Why are some many people waiting for Leopard? So what if you don’t have the newest Mac on the block. So what if your friends all think you’re a raw newbie? We attempt to peer past the noise of the […]

Description: Internal Apple information on the iPhone OSX architecture.Apple’s iPhone architecture exposed! For those of you who are into such things, here’s a little geek porn - the first known diagram of how the hardware and software of the iPhone work. You can see how they assigned priorities and dependencies to the code and chip […]

I know he’s trolling for hits again by pissing off Mac users, but some other twit may then take his demented ravings to heart and decide to wait for the ZunePhone. This could bring an end to civilization as we know it.
“Johnny C” - as he is known in the troll escort business - is […]

Viruses & what’s in the Mac OS X.4.9 Update. Sahra Indio plays Sweet Reggae Music From Hawaii

At YouTube a Mac PowerBook user closes his computer to show the baby squirrel that has cuddled up underneath. Too freakin’ cute.
Go see this! LINK

Live from Charley’s in Paia - Pekelo!
Get your headphones ready! After we slosh about in the rumor pool, you’ll hear a special binaural recording of Pekelo live at Maui’s best local bar. Almost like being there.
(picture of “Roy” the binaural head and Pekelo pretending this is normal)

A little history - with no time left for the music of which we speak.
Our guest/victim this time is David Kapralik, a dear friend and inspiration who takes us back in time, then forward into our future.

Since I’m always recommending LaCie drives for backups and production storage here’s an announcement of the software for your drive.
LaCie Update Tool v1.3.3 is now Mac OS X Tiger (10.4) compatible and adds the latest firmware support for d2 and Design by F.A. Porsche drives with FireWire 400 and 800 and/or USB 2.0 interface.
IMPORTANT: Updating […]

Here’s a nice, concise article about how to make your blog or website show up in the various search engines.
When talking with new website clients, I can always tell that it’s going to go bad if their first two requirements are 1. Flash and 2. Google ranking.This is because the actual goal of a website […]

I could listen to Woz talk all day long. He’s funny, hyper and he has something to say about growing up smart and doing good work. Woz is America at it’s best. His grandparents were some of those awful immigrants you’ve heard so much about lately.
Guy had a chance to interview Woz and […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

There’s extreme and there’s EXTREME. Backyard security installation of your humble Apple iSight
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Taking a break on the avalanche of Macworld rumors here’s something that actually has some body to it. Apple has filed a patent for Dashboard widget authoring that has some rather interesting information leading to believe that some widgets will run on iPods…. Here’s a little more from MacNN.
“The patent titled “Widget authoring and editing […]

I’m not sure what drugs the folks over at Creative are taking but they’ve come up with this wonderfully whacky definition of “podcast”:
Story via Creative Zen [LINK]

For those of you who have trouble mentally keeping track of how many minutes it is before Steve unleashes what we all hope to be a plethora of new devices and goodies for us all, here’s a widget to do the maths for you ;)
Download it HERE

A Mililani, Hawaii woman claims that she purchased a video iPod for her 14-year-old son as a Christmas gift, but when he opened it the device had been replaced by some kind of mystery meat. “He went from joy, really happy joyful,” Rachel Cambra said, “then to discover this, just angry and hurt.”
Cambra said the […]

Now when I get underwear each year for Christmas not once has it ever been a pair of these! For those of you who like to go running in your boxer’s no longer do you have to hold your iPod in your hands or waste countless piles of 20cent pieces for an iPod armband. Now […]

Don’t worry folks we certainly aren’t about to charge for our little blip on the world’s podcasting radar, however it seems that some of the folks over there in old England land have let it slip that in January they’re going to be charging for “podcasts”. What I Want Podcasting promises to offer podcasts for […]

Remember those Apple logo stickers you used to get (or may still do if you’re lucky!) with a new Mac…. well one fan boy has taken things to the next level decorating his vehicle to somewhat “extreme” measures ;)
Story via Flickr [LINK]

It may not be available here in Australia until March next year (booooooooo MicroSuck!) but for those of you over in US & Japan lands then Engadget has an interesting article on how to integrate your iPod straight in to the 360’s shell. Now if the engineers over @ Apple can follow this perhaps they’ll […]

An article that any woman attached to a software developer (not necessarily Apple guys only) should read. Here’s a small taste:
“I date a geek and I thought I was the only one that had to face these sort of situations. If you’re a geek and you have a girlfriend let her in on the read. […]

It seems back in the younger days of Apple Steve Jobs had a very interesting add on placed in the ROM of the Macs that could be used to show if a competitor had stolen/copy the Mac’s ROM. A few keystrokes into an unmodified infringing machine and a large “Stolen From Apple” icon (featuring a […]

coconutIdentityCard is just a small app that reads out where and when your Mac and your iPod were built by Apple. Just plug in your iPod while the app is running and it will show you the information about your iPod instantly. Because it’s UniversalBinary, it will run also on the upcoming Intel-Based-Macs. It can […]

Apple this week informed its channel partners of a new Mac mini accessory that will make it more convenient for users who like to use the miniature computer in more than one location.
“We are very pleased to announce the Mac mini Power Adapter,” Apple said in a brief bulletin. “The Mac mini Power Adapter […]

Adobe Systems today announced the completion of its acquisition of Macromedia which was finalized on Saturday, December 3rd. Additionally, as part of the initial integration of product portfolios, Adobe announced three new product bundles that combine Adobe Creative Suite 2 and Adobe video tools with the recently-released Macromedia Flash Professional 8 and Macromedia Studio 8 […]

Ummm…. this is a tad scary but funny none the less. Head over to ILoveMyMyMacTheSong.com to hear this rather elaborate anthem for Mac users and the wonderous Mac life. Lyrics included on the page along with some interesting info on the song and it’s creators, not to mention the film clip!
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AppleInsider reports that IDG World Expo announced Steve Jobs will be the keynote speaker for MacWorld San Francisco at the Moscone Center on January 10, 2006.
MWSF keynote speeches are typically a forum for Apple to make consumer-level product announcements, with last year’s address releasing the Mac mini and iPod shuffle, along with iLife ‘05 […]

On Nov. 29, the US Patent & Trademark Office revealed that Apple was granted a reissue patent number “RE38,896” for “Apparatus and method for rotating the display orientation of a captured image.” This Reissue Patent makes clear reference to Apple’s QuickTake digital camera that was discontinued in 1997.
Could Apple be preparing to reintroduce a digital […]

Just in case you’re in the highly attractive business of the spy world and espinoage then this little item may come in handy for those lengthy trips to Munich and Russia. The “Duma” laptop case from “Chrome” in the US incorporates a nifty idea in putting Kevlair (the stuff bullet proof vests are made of) […]

Atomic Learning offers a variety of free video tutorials covering many aspects of Mac OS X 10.4. Here you can learn about the Dashboard, Spotlight as well as other new features.
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At US$12.95 you might think it’s a little much for this cute toy but how can you possibly go past it when not only does it keep your iPod headphones neatly stored it can be used as a stress ball, foot massaging tool and of course cute decorative toy on your desk for fellow office […]

Apple is planning to release its first entry-level iBook laptops with Intel processors next January at Macworld Expo in San Francisco, highly reliable sources have confirmed to Think Secret.
It is not known exactly what processors or price points the new models will debut at, but it is thought Apple will expand the iBook line with […]

A second-generation iPod shuffle digital music player from Apple Computer will be noticeably smaller than the existing model and could see an introduction as early as January, says one Wall Street analyst.
“We are hearing of an even smaller form factor (smaller than a pack of gum) and the potential for the re-introduction of multiple colors,” […]

ZDNet UK has published a first look at Mac OS X on x86, installing the Mac OS X operating system on a generic PC and circumventing Apple’s own security measures: “When Steve Jobs announced the platform change, he publicly demonstrated Apple computers with Intel processors running an x86 version of Mac OS X. The OS […]

Locate the album [cover] and right-click on the album title. Select ‘Copy iTunes Music Store URL’. Paste the URL into the ‘iTunes Album URL’ field on this page. The script will spit out two image links. The higher resolution image is the bottom link of the two. Import the image into the corresponding track.

An Apple developer recently put together a 13 minute video demonstrating the capabilities of a yet unreleased development tool dubbed Dashcode. Designed to make developing Widgets as easy as possible, Dashcode sports an efficient and polished interface that can accommodate novice and expert JavaScript/Widget developers alike.
The demo video showed four templates that made creating templates […]

In what looks like an effort to put the whole nano scratching issue behind them, Apple has quietly begun shipping cases with iPod nanos. According to reports on various sites, the cases are similar to the thin fabric sleeves included with 5G iPods. The cases are not listed as standard accessories on Apple’s site, possibly […]

The analyst (Benjamin A. Reitzes of UBS Investment Research) said Apple would introduce more video content and digital entertainment offerings at Macworld in January, helping to drive shares. Checks also indicate that the company may be ready to launch lower-end Intel (nasdaq: INTC - news - people )-based Macs earlier than its original June 2006 […]

The momentum generated by Apple’s iPod digital music players and related products continues to translate into new Macintosh sales according to one Wall Street analyst who estimates that over one million Windows users have purchased a Mac in the first three quarters of 2005.
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Story from AppleInsider [LINK]

An online petition has been created asking Apple to make the Front Row software that’s included with the new iMacs available to all Mac users to install on any machine. With over 6000 signatures hopefully Apple will come to the party!
Add your name to the petitioning parties here