“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 […]

I didn’t even bother to read this, it’s so ridiculous. Microsoft must have hired some wonks from the Bush administration for planning. Did you realize that the iPhone doesn’t support OFFIC? Oh my, ya’ll had better wait for the Zune phone then.
The word “clueless comes to mind. Fuck you Bill!

Microsoft slams Apple iPhone as ‘irrelevant’
Apple’s […]

Apple grew faster than any other PC maker
Apple… picked up market share in the United States, growing to 5 percent, from 4 percent, as its shipments increased 30 percent, according to Gartner. Apple grew faster than any other PC maker in the United States, Gartner said.
Apple Pugs Security Holes
Apple Inc. on Thursday plugged over two […]

Whilst Microsoft was bragging about the sales number of their latest OS Windows Vista, few would actually know that they have only managed to sell 244 copies in the whole of China in the first 2 weeks. You heard that right, and that’s the number quoted from the headquarters of the Windows Vista chief (90% […]

Not that I would ever want to gloat about what a deviant piece of crap Windows is but it appears that some of the most important dentures, such as the ability to actually recover your files from their backup app are not available unless you buy the much more expensive version.
What’s that word… oh yeah: […]

Apple has sold its 100 millionth iPod. Microsoft announces Zune is rapidly approaching fifteen units sold

Plug it in, fire it up, Mr. President
The Detroit News
Credit Ford Motor Co. CEO Alan Mulally with saving the leader of the free world from self-immolation.
Mulally told journalists at the New York auto show that he intervened to prevent President Bush from plugging an electrical cord into the hydrogen tank of Ford’s hydrogen-electric plug-in hybrid […]

“Microsoft says DRM-free music soon to be available to all 14 Zune owners. Steve Jobs to announce Microsoft’s next move shortly.”

Carmen and I took a “mental health” break from the podcast last week - I hope someone noticed! Apple didn’t seem to be doing anything and the spring weather finally arrived so we went off to smell some flowers.
We’ll be back at the board later today though and if the creek don’t rise there will […]

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 […]

I haven’t been paying much attention to the Apple TV.Don’t get me wrong - it appears to be a cool product - but I just don’t ever watch television, so the whole idea goes right over my head which is usually pointed at a computer display or buried in a book.
But something very interesting has […]

The government should send AppleInsider to Iran or perhaps North Korea - they seem to be able to get the secret scoops on Apple’s weapons of mass construction better than most other rumor sites.
Their latest, to be found here, exposes plans to upgrade the venerable FlatMac iMac design and bring laptops to a new low […]

Sorry, this isn’t about Macs, but it pisses me off so much that I have to let everyone know about it.
The administration knows what would happen if the started up the draft again, so instead of doing what’s necessary at the cost of perhaps losing the next election, they are willing to risk the […]

Heard about the web: From I, Cringely
The Great Apple Video Encoder Attack of 2007: Cupertino plans to add H.264 hardware support to its entire line.
Now comes the rumor I have heard, that I believe to be a fact, that has simply yet to be confirmed. I have heard that Apple plans to add hardware video […]

You thought we were safe, a new month, no analog logic bombs from the sunshine state… but this would underestimate the ability of Florida’s citizenry to jump in the deep end with both ends:
Miami developer arrested after using official funds to buy watermelon statue
Fri Mar 2, 5:16 PM ET
A prominent Miami developer was arrested Friday […]

Here’s what’s boncing about the web right now!
Mac Display Eater kills home files
PR disaster waiting to happen
A MAKER of Mac software has uncovered a “scary” anti-piracy measure in a bit of code called Display Eater.
Display Eater records motion video on your screen which you can then convert to a Quicktime movie.
However writing in his bog […]

Macs and Rumors of Macs
MacSnoop and a few other rumor sites are quoting each other and unnamed sources on the inevitability of new Macs as soon as next month. In addition to inside leaks a case is being made that the Mini, MacBook and MacPro haven’t had a face life since the Paleozoic and […]

You got questions? Be careful, Scott might answer them.

Here are the secrets of input levels and all the different ways to get sound into your Mac. There will be a test.

To lighten things up, Pekelo sings a song about Hawaiian sovereignty called “Cry from a Nation.”

I just checked my calendar to make sure that we are living in the 21st century.So whycome are the citizens of such an otherwise civilized country counting the dots on an airline’s new logo? Don’t they have anything better to do? Get these folks on the internet.The suprising result was that enough of these idle-brained […]

Now why didn’t I think of this:
Man calls police after phantom visitor cleans and paints flat
Frankfurt (eCanadaNow) - A mystified 45-year-old German called police after he returned to his apartment to discover that the walls had changed colour and someone unknown had cleaned out the refrigerator and polished the mirrors, but left all his valuables […]

This morning at BoingBoing.com there was a clipette about how paranoid and clueless the Vancouver CA police have become about WiFi and computers.
Vancouver cops hate WiFi
Vancouver’s cops have espoused vague, technologically ignorant objections to city-wide WiFi. They argue that the ability to communicate anonymously will help criminals (cough pay-phones cough) and that WiFi is all […]

Why you don’t want to buy the cheapest computer you can find from a company that makes hardly any profit.
“Dell Laptop Burned Down My House”
On Monday morning I was heading to work like any other day.. little did I know that my home was being consumed by a raging fire. I arrived my desk to […]

It’s about friggin’ time! We’ve been waving this flag now for over thirty years and finally some of the borgs are starting rise up out of their graves and lurch towards the light!
Ok, for along time the Mac did have a few bumps and bothers, but ever since OS X got real, the only reasons […]

“For some reason, the military seems more afraid of gay people than they are against terrorists, but they’re very brave with the terrorists.
If the terrorists ever got a hold of this information, they’d get a platoon of lesbians to chase us out of Baghdad.”
- NY Congressman Gary Ackerman

Kodak may have just done something smart for the first time in years.
From Gizmodo: LINK
Kodak Invents Photo Ink That’ll Last 100 years.
…Kodak drops news we hinted at yesterday: Multifunction printers pumping a revolutionary ink through their nozzles that’ll create prints with an archival life of 100 years, versus standard inkjet photos that go the way […]

Someone has an issue. It’s a new month and time for the Gator-Bait State to escalate their exploration into the netherworld of irrational behavior.
Two arrested after fight over washcloth.
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Officials say a fight over a washcloth in Ponte Vedra Beach sent two people to jail.According to the St. Johns County […]

Or he’s finally dropped a parity-bit somewhere. Evidence this quote from the recent Newsweek interview:
“Nowadays, security guys break the Mac every single day. Every single day, they come out with a total exploit, your machine can be taken over totally. I dare anybody to do that once a month on the Windows machine.”
You can read […]

Zune’s Boss Steps Down. Is the iPod Killer…Dying?
Bryan Lee, the head of the Zune project for Entertainment and Devices Division at Microsoft, is leaving the company “to focus on the next chapter in his life,” but analysts claim it’s something fishy about his departure.
A spokeswoman for the Redmond behemoth declared that the corporate vice-president at […]

IN the latest podcast I quote Steve with the statement that “50% of new Mac buyers and former PC users. Now, that percentage reappears in a CNET poll showing that even the geeks who click buttons there are seeing the light.
Vista article’s poll shows over 50% readers on or going to the Mac
A CNET Vista […]

In an astounding burst of productivity Carmen and I have just succeeded in producing two podcasts in a single day.

The one about the Maui CompuSwap with music by Makena will appear here tomorrow - the result of a day in the parking lot schlepping and building Macs to give away and recycle into poisonous landfill.
Next […]

Bill Gates claims Vista will “wow” its users. As in, “Wow, does this suck” or “Wow, WTF happened to all my data?”

Cool! Reality takes another well-deserved kick to the head as the Swedish Embassy becomes the first and not the last sovereign nation to open an embassy in the virtual world of Second Life.
Reuters has their News Bureau, IBM a corporate location and many other businesses such as Toyota validate the virtual universe which in the […]

Microsoft Norway demos Vista on TV using an iMac! The QuickTime video is a wee bit bit gnarly, but the serious discussion going on just adds a surreal touch to the fact that these guys are talking about Microsoft’s newest Gestapo “operativsystem” Vista, while poking at a large-screen Intel iMac. At least them Norges […]

Is anyone suprised that Apple has once again come up with a great product that is a raving success?
Other manufacturers have tried for years to come up with a “set-top-box” that integrates the television and computer. Of course the mistake was that until now the devices were either entire computers or some attempt to put […]

Apple to air ’special’ Super Bowl ad on Feb. 4 By AppleInsider Staff
A deal between Apple Inc. and Apple Corps to bring the legendary musiccatalog of The Beatles to iTunes could see an announcement in the formof a Super Bowl commercial, according to a report published Wednesday.
Citing “sources with knowledge of the project,” the Toronto […]

“I’m not paranoid, they really are trying to get me!”
Careless mistake reveals subversion of Windows by NSA.
A CARELESS mistake by Microsoft programmers has revealed that special access codes prepared by the US National Security Agency have been secretly built into Windows. The NSA access system is built into every version of the Windows operating […]

SUPRISE!
Vista is a disaster. Microsoft is so desperate to get the entertainment industry locked into its platform that they’ll destroy themselves to get there. This is an operating system that, when idle, will have to check itself every 30 microseconds to make sure nothing is still happening, and no hackers are attacking it. It acts […]

Paper iPhones & Pekelo
Post-MacWorld iPhone lust.
Trying to explain the AppleTV.
More music from Pekelo’s “Hana by the Sea” CD
Geoff Muldaur on Maui
Some Artsy artist talk
Carmen wins the candy bar!

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PEANUTS KILL MORE AMERICANS THAN TERRORISTSSaturday, January 06, 2007 - FreeMarketNews.com
The menace of global terrorism has been labeled the greatest threat to western civilization since communism and yet swimming pools, peanuts and lost deer kill more Americans every single year. Why are our governments facilitating the terrorist’s agenda by hyping a peril that simply doesn’t […]

In spite of the small belch about stock options, which a few hysterical bloggers thought could “take down” Steve Jobs, all the other signs point to a great year for the company.
Steve Jobs Keynote Slated to be 2 Hours Long!Normally, Steve Jobs keynotes last anywhere between 1 to 1-1/2 hours. Not this year!
iTunes Sees 1,222% […]

I know this as nothing to do with Macs or anything but in my daily perusal of science blogs I stumbled across this startling bit of information:
Lesbians respond differently than heterosexual women, researchers find.

Lesbians react differently to the powerful sexual chemicals called pheromones than heterosexual women do, a new Swedish study finds. However, lesbians […]

At every party I went to over the holidays, at last one person who currently uses a PC told me that they planned on getting a Mac!I’ve been the lonley
Mac wonk for years - vainly trying to explain why something better was
better than, well, the crap that people kept buying. I’d just about
given up explaining […]

Software for Starving Students is a free collection of programs organized for students (but available to anyone).
They’ve gathered a list of best-in-class programs onto one CD (one for OS X, one for Windows), including a
fully-featured office suite, a cutting-edge web browser, multi-media packages, academic tools, utilities and more.
LINK

Walmart’s Zunes, now with porn?
It’s not the first time, nor the last, that people will find porn on (supposedly) new or recycled consumer electronics. This time it happened to a family in Southside Chicago who purchased Microsoft’s Zune from the local Walmart for their 12 year-old daughter.
The daughter, who says the box looked like […]

Long, Hodgman win ‘Bobby’ awardJustin Long and John Hodgman, the actors who portray a Mac and PC from Apple’s current ‘Get a Mac’ advertising campaign, won a 2006 Garfield Bobby Award in the Best Performance, Male category from Advertising Age.
The hands-down winners this year are Justin Long and John Hodgman.
The 9th Annual Bobby Awards honour […]

Like most of the trade press, Apple Insider is frothing about the non-existent Apple iPhone.
… an analyst for Morgan Stanley who retains reputable industry contacts, recently corroborated evidence of a dual-model strategy through her own proprietary checks. She told clients in a research note this week the phones will sport a metal-clad enclosure and feature […]

Dec. 12 (Bloomberg) — Apple Computer Inc. may serve as its own wireless carrier if it delivers an iPod-based cell phone next year and rely on the company’s network of retail stores to sell service contracts for the device, UBS AG said.
Bloggingstocks has just received an interesting tip that the Apple iPhone will have a […]

According to people who figure out this sort of stuff for a living, between twenty-five and fifty percent of those currently buying Macs are new users. This means they are probably refugees from Windows or very, very late adapters. Either way, the Mac is on its way to the mainstream - at the cost of […]