Radio MacGuys for Thursday, April 14th, 2005 - Click to listen!

Apple's stock dropped today, apparently in reaction to the Q2 financial analyst conference call. The company reported record quarterly earnings, and record shipments of computers and iPods. No wonder the value of the stock went down.

Software updates out today on some of the iApps.

The Apple local self discovery networking protocol formerly known as Rendevous has been renamed "Bonjour".

During the conference call yesterday, Apple announced that over 350 million iTunes had been purchased at the iTunes Music Store (iTms). The Register is suggesting that the total may go over a billion by the end of the year.

Amazon is offering a very sweet deal on Brother laser printers. You can pick up a refurbished USB laser printer for way under $100.

NetNewsWire has a new, bug fix release of both of their products.


The Soul of a New Machine is a wonderful book that gives you an insight into how computers are developed, and why troubleshooting is such a challenge at times. In this podcast, I speak highly of, and encourage folks to buy Disk Warrior from Alsoft. It's the most important single tool that I use in keeping Mac OS computers running.

The podcast ends with a beautiful tune from a Salt Lake City, Utah artist named Allison Affleck.

Bonjour, y'all.