Tuesday the president of the Maui Apple Users Society (MAUS) asked me to stand in for him at this weeks meeting. The subject of this meeting was to be the new AppleTV, so my part was to take his new one home, figure out how it worked, then present it to the understandably impressed inmates. […]

I’ve just successfully performed a brain transplant on my five-year old Pismo PowerBook - moving it’s hard-drive and a few other bits into the chassis that previously housed one gone to meet it’s Philippino maker.

Over the last couple of years, I’ve keep my eyes open and carefully collected a stack of PIsmo parts and two mordant chassis. So, […]

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 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 […]

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

From MacOS Hints(I didn’t know this one!)
Here’s another way to Force Quit an application:

Click the Apple Menu
Hold Shift, and notice that the ‘Force Quit…’ menu item has changed to ‘Force Quit [frontmost app name].’
Select ‘Force Quit [frontmost app name]’ to force quit the Application.

This method allows you to Force Quit (Relaunch) the Finder without
opening 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 […]

On Mar 8, 2007, at 12:22 AM, (lady in distress) wrote:
I am taking a Photoshop Elements class and bought the software
for Elements 4.0. Now when I open iphoto, and right click to open in
external editor, I want it to open in 4.0 but it still opens in 2.o.
Shouldn’t it have automatically transfered whatever was in […]

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 […]

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

From LifeHacker’s Adam Pash
If you use iTunes on the Mac, you should know about Doug’s AppleScripts for iTunes, a repository of scripts that add tons of useful functionality to Apple’s music player…
Take for instance #10 here:
10. Import iPod Audio Files: This handy little gem lets you grab audio tracks (AAC, MP3, Apple Lossless, AIF […]

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 […]

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.”

• 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. 

At nearly every party, inquisition or casual chat, after the “which Mac should I get” question, I’m often asked “which digital camera should I buy?”
My answer is simple: Get one made by a real camera company that has a good lens and uses normal batteries. The victim then responds with a string of Japanese […]

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 […]

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…

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!

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 […]

We’re back with rumors and hopes about MacWorld and a few new year tips.
Wonderful music from Raiatea Helm’s CD Sweet & Lovely

Did you ever think you would make it to the year 2007? Like most
kids, the twenty-first century always seemed impossibly far in the
future. But in spite of our best efforts we all now live in that future.
Unfortunately, the future doesn’t look like anything the photo
essays in old science magazines - those wonderful pictures and articles
never […]

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

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

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.

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 tabletsMusic by Diesel: “Fever”
Tea by Tetley’s with shortbread.

This is neat! It’s a technique I’ve been using for years.

Maintain a large space ahead of your car.

Encourage one, two even three cars to merge ahead of you.

If traffic slows to a complete stop, KEEP TWO CAR-LENGTHS OF SPACE OPEN AHEAD OF YOU.

Never “punish” merging drivers by closing your gap.

Granted, traffic jams on Maui […]

(sigh) How many times do I have to say this; Megapixels are magic numbers with only a glancing relevance to the quality of a digital photograph
A great lens on a good camera used by a good or lucky photographer are the cause of good photographs.
Too often, I’ve kept my mouth shut and nodded […]

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 […]

This handy tip was found strutting around the room at the
“MacOSHints” site which occasionally comes up with lifesaving tips from
contributors.
Here is explained
number-one free method of turning otherwise hilarious movies and porn
clips into luscious QuickTime movies that don’t stutter or offend your
Mac-sensibilities.
Convert WMA files to other formats with a free app
My
girlfriend is fond of sending […]

Apple has upgraded their MacBook line to Intel Core Duo
processors which are faster and hopefully cooler. This makes the
plastic encased laptops which were merely realvery fast. This whole fast thing is pushing me to the edge of my vocabulary. Next they’ll be; really, really a whole lot faster?
The MacBooks are
still available in two colors - […]

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

A very kind person, obviously a Canadian, named only ’seanadb’ has just posted a handy demonstration movie of Mac OSX features that is meant to explain the world’s best computer to PC borgs and newbies. (Did I forget to insult anyone?)

There was also a notice about this movie posted on DIGG where the responses immediately […]

The Echo Chamber and Statistics
Wired columnist Leander Kahney, author of “The Cult of Macintosh”, “The Cult of iPod” and soon the “Cult of iPhone” and the “Cult of iDildo” just wrote a great piece about the Echo Chamber effect caused by Apple’s growth.
Back when I accidentally had a job at a computer dealer, we experienced […]

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

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

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]