RMG153 - Getting Ready for the Storm

Tropical Storm Arlene is on the way.

Quark, Inc. has an opening for a President.

Want to join the Apple Developers Connection?

WWDC is over. The Wallflowers played at the Campus Bash.

Our numbers are up. Thanks for voting for us at Podcastalley.com. Please thank Austin Michael Internet Solutions for hosting the MP3's for this show.

Today's podcast ends with a tune by singer/songwriter Arlene Bishop, from Toronto Ontario.

RMG152 - Remote Desktop

There's a new security update out and available from the software update service, or from the Apple Support web site.

Powerpage.org has photos of the inside of the Mac running on an Intel box that Apple is providing to certain developers.

Lexmark has been refused a hearing by the US Supreme Court on their attempt to restrict ink cartridge clones.

today's podcast focuses on Apple Remote Desktop.

today's podcast ends with a beautiful tune from LA singer/songwriter Circe Link. Circe is currently touring in Japan. If you're in the neighborhood, you should definitely attend a show.

RMG151 - Intel Inside

It looks like the regular press was right and most of the rumor bloggers got it wrong, but none-the-less, it's true. Apple is transitioning to the Intel platform. The announcement was made at the World Wide Developers Conference keynote address by Apple CEO Steve Jobs.

Even more interesting was the revelation that every version of Mac OS X released (from the 10.0 beta to Tiger) has had an Intel version developed "just in case".

For many developers, this will be an easy transition. These are the developers who have been writing native OS X applications and using Apple's tools and programming standards. For other developers, the task will be more difficult.

For users, this is not going to be a big deal, except for those folks running legacy OS 9 and earlier systems. These folks had better buy a few extra computers for spare parts, or move their enterprise into the OS X world.

Jobs keynote included an announcement that the iTunes music store will soon include the ability to subscribe to podcasts. During the keynote address, a short segment of Adam Curry's The Daily Source Code.

Also announced was the code name of the next version of Mac OS X. It's called "Leopard" and is due out around the time of the 2007 MacWorld Expo.

In other WWDC news, database developer, MySQL has released two visual tools for Mac OS X machines.

Today's Garageband.com tune is from Mesa Arizona fiddler, Buck Stud.

Tonight's podcast weighs in at 23 minutes.

Have all the fun,

Dave

RMG150 - Backing Up

Welcome to the 50th episode of Radio MacGuys.

Welcome to the attendees in San Francisco who came from all over the world to attend WWDC. Whether or not the rumors are true, this is going to be a very interesting day.

Apple is offering a 10% discount on a new iPod if you bring in an old one for recycling. Details are here.

Apple design guru, and Vice President of Industrial Design, Jonathan Ive, picked up two awards in the UK recently.

In an article in Slashdot, it is suggested that 16% of computer users are on the Mac OS platform.

Last week, I responded to a Adam Curry's comments regarding the problems he was having with Lacie hard drives. Several listeners pointed out that I sounded like an apologist for Lacie and wasn't "standing up for the little guy". While my experience with Lacie has been mostly positive, I understand that when drives fail, it's a bad thing. On the other hand, they do fail, and it's important to back up. In this episode, backup strategies are covered.

Today's episode is a bit long and includes two tunes from the Florida State Archives.

Have all the fun.
Dave