Radio MacGuys for Saturday, April 16th, 2005 - Click to listen!

The lastest (and final?) update to Mac OS 10.3 is available from the usual sources. It's Mac OS 10.3.9 and is mostly a bugfix update. There is also an update to 10.3 server.

Skype has a new beta of their amazing VOIP offering. The new update, 1.0.0.15 includes improvements to the Skype-in and voicemail offerings.

Apple has a new page up on their site which lists about 200 of the new features in Tiger.

Trent Reznor of the band, Nine Inch Nails, has released a GarageBand 2 file of the bands song, "The Hand That Feeds".

The Apple retail stores are going to be open from 6PM until Midnight on April 29th for the launch of Tiger. The Apple retail web site says that people attending the launch are elgible to win some nice prizes.

The newest Apple Retail store will open in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida on Saturday, April 23rd.

The podcast finishes with a nice instrumental tune from Rob de Klerk, a composer from 's Hetrogenbosch in the Netherlands.

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.

Radio MacGuys for Wednesday, April 13th, 2005 - Click to listen!

Apple Computer, Inc. released their financial report for the 2nd quarter of 2005 in a public conference call with investement banks and other financial institutions. The short version is 290 million US dollars in profit for the quarter, 1,070,000 computers shipped, and 5,311,000 iPods shipped.

Slashdot is covering the antics of a group of smart kids at MIT who wrote a computer program that builds scientific research papers using random content. The program works so well that a paper generated by the program was accepted at a scholarly meeting.

T oday's troubleshooting topic is "Start Up Problems". Our tune of the day comes from a very talented musician who lives in Eindhoven in the Netherlands. The artist is François Besson, the band is Light and Shade, and the tune, an instrumental, is Dutch Mountain Breakdown.

Radio MacGuys for Tuesday, April 12th, 2005 - Click to listen!

The Tiger roared again today. Apple Computer announced that they will ship Mac OS X 10.4, named "Tiger" on April the 29th; just a couple of weeks away. There will be a special event in the Apple retail stores that evening starting at 6PM.

Amazon.com is offering a $35 rebate on Tiger to people who pre-order.

Apple has announced a $30 rebate program for .Mac subscriptions in the US.

The dates for the Apple Expo - Paris have been announced.

The local press in the Atlanta Georgia area is talking about a proposed deal betwen Apple Computer and the Cobb County School Board, that if successful, will provide iBooks to all the teachers, high school and middle school students in the district.

Today's tech topic has to do with permission repairs. I give a lame eplination of what permissions are. For a better explination, check out this Apple Tech Note.

Radio MacGuys for Monday, April 11th, 2005 - Click to listen!

If you're anywhere near London, in the UK on April the 19th, stop by the Regent Street Apple Store where the Stereophonics will present some of their music. Space is limited so come early. Actually, there are three events on April 19th in three different contries that would be worth attending. Our iCal page has the details on many upcoming Apple focused events. If you'd like us to include your event on our calendar, drop us a line.

A listener wrote us advising that we might be a little too proactive in our endorsement of Mac OS X 10.4, Tiger. He pointed out that some users may experience problems with some applications when a new OS version is released. He's right. Some people do have problems when a new OS is released; especially people running old applications. Most serious Mac OS software developers are members of the Apple Developer Connection and have had pre-release versions of Tiger for many months now. Some shareware/freeware applications may have problems, but again, it's mostly going to be the old stuff that hasn't been updated lately.

Today we start a series on troubleshooting Mac OS computers. My favorite author of MacOS troubleshooting books is Ted Landau. I recommend his books, especially Mac OS X Help Line

Tonight's podcast ends with a tune from Benjy Rivas and the BBR Band. The tune is "I'd Rather Make It".

Radio MacGuys for Sunday, April 10th, 2005 - Click to listen!

Today is a special FileMaker edition. Listen while I tell you how I use FileMaker and why.

Links for today:

Special Edition Using FileMaker Pro 7 - A great resource for FIlemaker developers.

You can get a free 30 day trial of FileMaker Pro 7 by clicking here.

Amazon sells FileMaker Pro 7 with a 10% discount.

FileMaker Advisor is an excellent publication for FileMaker developers.

Todays tune is 123 from a Belgian band, Tantra.