TPN::MacHelp from Maui

The Last Machelp from Maui Podcast

Scott — Fri, 04 May 2007 08:11:18 +0000

“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 just great. Hawaiian music wins Grammy Awards and fans all over the world every day. Even Microsoft, our old foe has become an embarrass to itself. So after a delightful two-year assault on the patience of over a thousand otherwise sensible listeners we’re going to give it a rest.

As a Go-Away-Already bonus and to increase the maudlin self-indulgence of this occasion, we are giving away five (5) of Pekelo’s new CD “Hana By The Sea.”

You’ve heard many of the songs on the show, so this is your last chance to score the whole thing. Just send email to scott@machelpmaui.com or carmen@machelpmaui.com and we’ll choose the winner in some devious manner. Because any promotional benefits are essentially nil, we only ask that you contribute the cost of shipping - probably via our Paypal acct. We’ll contact the winners by email.

Carmen and I both picked the same song as our all-time favorite: Diesel singing “I want to die young…” This last podcast will be in stereo and 128-bit ACC so you can enjoy this wonderful song from a great talent.

“Live Well, Do Good Work and Use Really Great Tools!”

Aloha a hui hou,

Scott Waters
Carmen Gardner

Ulu the Border Collie

Mike the Mixer

Roland the Edirol

Roy the binaural head

Cadbury’s the chocolate

Tetley’s the tea

MacHelp Podcast #91 Rumor Milling

Scott — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 05:36:21 +0000

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 rumor mill to see what’s in Apple’s near future so that the stress won’t overcome you.

Then, after a few dozen chocolate chip cookies, Pekelo plays the Hoki Poki Hula all around Hana town before we go out with a whimper.

MacHelp from Maui #90 The 10.4.9 Update - Viruses & Jawaiian Reggae

Scott — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 01:47:07 +0000

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

MacHelp from Maui #89 Charley’s

Scott — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 19:43:12 +0000

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)

MacHelp from Maui #88 Iliili!

Scott — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 07:32:27 +0000

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.

MacHelp from Maui #87 Podcasting HowTo

Scott — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 08:05:34 +0000

Podcasting from end to end
Care and feeding of RRS Feeds
How to explain it to your friends
Flowers and Birds
Pekelo live on the old radio

MacHelp Podcast #86

Scott — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 21:28:25 +0000

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.”

The Return of the Steve and the Diesel

Scott — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 07:35:06 +0000

• Stories about the day that Apple saved its “okole” by buying NeXT computer and got Steve for $1.00 a year.
• Tips to make your searching more specific.
• Diesel returns with a Gordon Lightfoot song.

MacHelp from Maui #84 Makena Interview

Scott — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 07:28:34 +0000

Da Cute!
The Makena Interview - Siena & Toast tell how they did everything on their iBook.
Then we hear them play “Waikiki Hula”
Keola reappears with a great Hawaiian Technology word of the fortnight.

MacHelp Podcast #83

Scott — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 20:41:20 +0000

The latest Maui CompuSwap is now just a sunburn and a memory. Find out what tat’s all about as we do a quick on-site interview with the suspects.

The music is from sistahs Toast and Siena of Makena who will be featured in next week’s interview. They play “Ulupalakua” one of my favorite songs.

MacHelp #82 OZ!

Scott — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 03:53:10 +0000

The First MacHelp Trans-Pacific Interview

We interview Mick Liubinskas, Chief Customer Officer of Tangler in Sydney, about his new MacintoshBook. (…”just graphics…?)
Keola picks on Bill@Redmond
At Last! Raiatea Helm sings again - but there’s a question…

MacHelp from Maui #81 iPhone!

Scott — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 05:05:11 +0000

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!

MacHelp from Maui #80

Scott — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 18:37:17 +0000

We’re back with rumors and hopes about MacWorld and a few new year tips.

Wonderful music from Raiatea Helm’s CD Sweet & Lovely

Happy New Year from Grandma’s Coffee House in Keoka!

Scott — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 01:46:38 +0000

We’re taking it easy at the end of the year.
The good news is that I had the little Roland Edirol recorder with me this morning when we went to Grandma’s to meet a few friends over caffeine and scones.
Joe Cano and his pals were playing for the bike and brew crowd and they were gracious enough to let me record them for use in the last great podcast of 2006.

LINKS:

Grandma’s Maui Coffee

Joe Cano

MacHelp from Maui #78

Scott — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 04:46:06 +0000

Mele Kalikimaka Ya’ll

Mac gift ideas and hints from Scott and Carmen.

Bad Apple Tech Support

Pekelo plays this time about Kahoolawe

Tea by Tetley’s with Peanut Butter Cups

MacHelp from Maui Podcast #77 Pekelo Sings

Scott — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 18:40:37 +0000

More Apple Mail tricks and a few gift tips for the Mac lovers on your list

For the first time ever we say rude stuff about Microsoft

Support the Makahiki Hou world wide 24-hour cease fire on January First

Keola takes a parting shot

Pekelo plays about going to Hana Maui

Tea by Tetley’s with Hana Donna’s Cookies.

MacHelp from Maui #76

Scott — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 18:04:23 +0000

While the mothership is keeping quiet, we’ve added another local Maui artist, Diane Epstein - Silk Painter to our roster.
Carmen gets into painting silk, like watercolor isn’t hard enough!

Rumors and rumors of tablets

Music by Diesel: “Fever”

Tea by Tetley’s with shortbread.

MacHelp from Maui #75 Tips & Sites

Scott — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 16:46:33 +0000

We mine the Apple rumor sites and reveal some more Apple Mail tips.

Keola pops in with a Hawaiian tech word I forgot.

There’s a site for free Mac software.

Guy Kawasaki Interviews Woz

There are some strange noises.

Tea by Tetley’s

No more Mr. Nice Guy until Cadbury’s puts out!

Music by Diesel: “Doing What the Lonely Do

MacHelp Maui Interview

Scott — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 17:45:24 +0000

MacHelp Maui Interview Dick
Nelson is one of Hawaii’s greatest painters and teachers. In the first
MacHelp interview Dick talks about the influence of the Mac on art and
how well the technology mirrors the world of paints and pigments.

We’ve also got some local bagpipe music and another wonderful song from Steven Espaniola.

Scott promises not to mess up the Hawaiian language any more than necessary.

MacHelp from Maui Podcas #73

Scott — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 08:12:15 +0000

Maui Weather

The Maui Ukulele Festival

Carmen joins the Jake Shimabukuro fan club

More Apple Mail tricks.

Music by Steven Espaniola from his CD “Ho’omaka”

Tea by Stash - Earl Grey

Great stats! Thanks ya’ll

MacHelp Maui #72 Halloween!

Scott — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 06:59:27 +0000

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 Aquino
Chocolate by Ghardhelli

MacHelp from Maui #71

Scott — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 05:01:51 +0000

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 week
Music from Kenneth Makuakane

MacHelp Podcast #70 Earthquake!

Scott — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 20:31:59 +0000

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 up to Kula. Today I expect flaming toads or something. What a week!

Diesel saves the day with “I’m Always Coming Home” and Keola gets in a lick at King George.

MacHelp from Maui #69

Scott — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 19:16:54 +0000

Number 69 Presents more adventures from Carmen

Apple Hysteria News
Carmen’s DVD Burner Breaks
AppleCare
Buying a Used Mac
Music from a Maui girl: Diesel http://www.dieselmusic.com
Keola’s Hawaiian tech word of the week

MacHelp from Maui #67 CDs iTunes & Music

Scott — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 18:24:07 +0000

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

MacHelp’s Recording Rig

Scott — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 18:40:48 +0000

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 is amazing but difficult for tight editing, so I switched over to Sound Studio for the pre-production work. I like Audacity, but it crashes if you don’t save often and Sound Studio allows me to add track marks, compress and normalise.

But my old G4 was always so loud I could hear it in the mix so we’re now recording to a tiny Edirol R-09 recorder patched directly into the mixer. This lets me turn the big Mac off when recording and use my PowerBook to browse as needed. The Edirol is just amazing! I get three hours recording at 330bits, or 45 minutes at 24-bit WAVE and it’s absolutely silent. It’s about the size of an iPod and has great headroom with built-in mics for doing interviews.

The R-09 is then plugged into my big Mac (USB) where the tracks are chopped and compressed with Sound Studio before being dragged into GarageBand for the final mix.

I wish I didn’t have to move the files around so much, but I like a real clear sound and the whole rig, except for the mic stands, fits into a shoulder bag. If GarageBand had better editing I’d do everything there.

We’re going to try some phone interviews soon, Apple’s iChat automatically patches into GarageBand recording both sides of the conversation as well as the mic inputs on separate tracks. It’s a little fussy getting the programs to talk, you have to open everything in the right order but then the tracks just appear and you hit record.

Since all of our listeners are on Macs or listen through iTunes, we mix down to AAC with embeded graphics and links. A 45 minute mono show ends up at about 9-12 megs even with all the pictures attached.

The RSS feed is made with Radio UserLand which, except for it’s perfect RSS rendering sucks rocks. I run the feed through FeedBurner where the header and iTunes tages are added. The podcast shows up at iTunes within 15 minutes of being posted.

Each podcast currently takes about an hour to record then two to three hours to edit. It would be nice to just record, edit, upload then put the kettle on.

Scott & Carmen

MacHelp from Maui #66 CD-R vs CD-RWs

Scott — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 07:53:31 +0000

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.

MacHelp from Maui Podcast #65

Scott — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 22:54:25 +0000

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 “Mango Tree” love it and want to buy more.

The Mac User Show #018

Administrator — Thu, 16 Feb 2006 15:07:19 +0000

The Mac User Show #018 (40min)

AAC (10MB): LISTEN HERE
MP3 (7MB): LISTEN HERE

Joining me (Raj Deut) again is Anthony Agius is back from AppleTalk and Luke Tupper from LT Consulting. Three Aussies telling you how it is and what’s news over the last two weeks of all things Mac.

LINKS
- Apple gives it Developers a free trip[LINK]
- Macbook Pro CPU upgrade for free [LINK]
- iBook Speculation [LINK]
- Video iPod [LINK]
- The Special Event a hoax [LINK]
- New 1Gb Nano [LINK]
- 1 Billion song countdown [LINK]
- iPod Hearing Loss Lawsuit [LINK]
- Motorola SLVR L7 with iTunes [LINK]
- Adobe Lightroom [LINK]

Don’t forget to send in your feedback and suggestions to themacusershow@gmail.com.

The Mac User Show #017

Administrator — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 06:55:44 +0000

The Mac User Show #017 (36min)

AAC (9.5MB): LISTEN HERE

The show just gets bigger and BIGGER! This week Anthony Agius is back from AppleTalk along with Luke Tupper from LT Consulting and Chris Colwill, a Mac Switcher. Join us as we take you through what’s new in the Mac world.

LINKS
- The Intel Macs are here [LINK]
- Mactel FAQ [LINK]
- Boot Windows get US$8000+ ! [LINK]
- Acer Travelmate (Dual Core Intel) [LINK]
- The MacBooks were prototypes? [LINK]
- G5 iMac’s are dead? [LINK]
- Disney buys Pixar [LINK]
- iPhoto RSS, Apple’s own standard [LINK]
- Ancient flaws in OS X [LINK]
- AppleTalk [LINK]

Don’t forget to send in your feedback and suggestions to themacusershow@gmail.com. The MP3 version will be available this

[MP3 VERSION]

The Mac User Show #016

Administrator — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 07:48:02 +0000

The Mac User Show #016 (54min)

AAC (13.5MB): LISTEN HERE
MP3 (11MB): LISTEN HERE

This week I’m joined by Anthony Agias, co-founder of Australia’s largest online Mac community AppleTalk for a recap on Apple’s announcements at Macworld San Francisco 2006.

LINKS
- iLife `06 [LINK]
- iWeb [LINK]
- iPhoto [LINK]
- iDVD [LINK]
- iMovie HD [LINK]
- Garageband [LINK]
- iWork `06 [LINK]
- Intel iMac [LINK]
- Apple’s Intel page [LINK]
- MacBook Pro [LINK]
- Rosetta [LINK]
- Intel not happy with Apple’s Intel ad [LINK]
- Song BMG comes to the iTMS party [LINK]

Don’t forget to send in your feedback and suggestions to themacusershow@gmail.com

The Mac User Show #015

Administrator — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 04:06:37 +0000

The Mac User Show #015 (32min)

AAC (13.4MB): LISTEN HERE
MP3 (11MB): LISTEN HERE

NOTE ON AAC DOWNLOAD: It would seem in some browsers you’ll need to right click on the AAC link and choose “save file”. It may also add .txt to the end of the filename. Simply rename it so the extension is .m4b and it will load into iTunes fine. Apologies, this is a known issue & we’re waiting on a fix…

This week we tackle the upcoming MacWorld and the moutain of rumours surrounding it, plus we have a brand new AAC chapter version of the show, oh and let’s not forget our GAME REVIEW, finally we take a look at Stubbs the Zombie!!

NEWS
- South Park turns to Apple for storage [via ComputerWorld]
- Intel rebranded [via Bloomberg]
- Acer releases Intel Yonah powered notebook [via MacRumors]

LINKS
- MacWorld Expo [LINK]
- Keynote Countdown Widget [LINK]
- New iBooks, Mac Mini’s, Shuffles @ MacWorld [LINK]
- Top 10 things Apple could announce @ MacWorld [LINK]
- More predictions & The Simpsons [LINK]

Don’t forget to send in your feedback and suggestions to themacusershow@gmail.com

The Mac User Show #014

Administrator — Wed, 21 Dec 2005 04:56:37 +0000

The Mac User Show #014 (MP3 – 13.6MB – 38min)

LISTEN HERE

These are a few of my favourite things….. No I’m not doing a rather bad Julie Andrews impersonation, rather in this episode we take a look at 5 of the most important things I just can’t do without on my Mac.

NEWS
- Apple offers new TV Shows in US iTMS [via ThinkSecret]
- Low iPod stocks before Christmas, no 4Gb Nano’s in Australia
- Upcoming low down on MWSF [via ThinkSecret]

LINKS
- Paul Stamatiou’s blog post “10 Apps every Mac user show download” [LINK]
- Skype [LINK]
- Firefox [LINK]
- VLC [LINK]
- Azureus [LINK]

Don’t forget to send in your feedback and suggestions to themacusershow@gmail.com or Skype us on “themacusershow”