RMG156 - Migrating from OS 9

It's HOT in Florida!

Thanks to Austin Michael Internet Solutions for hosting our feeds the last two months. We've outgrown the bandwidth available there and are moving to a provider who specializes in podcast hosting. Listeners should notice no difference.

Thanks to a listener who pointed out some problems in our audio. We've been working on it and hope that this episode is a little better.

Billed as "WWDC for the rest of us", the ADHOC conference is taking place in Michigan next month.

Steve Jobs delivered the commencement address at Stanford University. It was a great speech and today, Stanford posted a transcript.

Ad Age has a (registration required) story about the Sundance channel signing a deal with Apple to include Sundance podcasts on the new iTunes podcast list.

Today we cover transitioning from OS 9 (and earlier) systems to Tiger. Specifically we discuss Outlook Express and moving mail and address files to the new environment. Check out ABxfer, a very useful tool.

Marketwatch is covering the relationship between Apple and Wall Mart.

rmg155 - News Roundup

Spotlight is way cool.

Apple and Wrigley gum have teamed up for a new promotion in the UK and Republic of Ireland.

Check out who won an Apple Design Award.

The German Mac Expo is this week.

Maxtor has a new OneTouch II that has Firewire 800 and 400 interfaces along with USB 2.0.

Apple and Nokia are teaming up to develop a new browser interface for cell phones.

Korean computer builder, U-Power, has announced a Pentium upgrade for the G4 Cube.

In the "We are the Borg" department, researchers in the UK are working on an implantable medical device that will monitor blood sugar, connect to a cell phone via Bluetooth and send an SMS to the clinic with patient data.

The podcast ends with a tune, "Tees" from the Belgian band, Tantra.

RMG154 - iRiver IFP-890 Review

Thanks to Hillary from Podcrawl for her nice comments on our podcast.

On today's podcast, we review the iRiver IFP-890.

Our podcast ends with a tune from the Russian Republic. I found the tune earlier this year on a web site for a group called "sweet poison". When I went back to create a link to the site, it was gone. So, if you know Natalie Viktorova or the group "Sweet Poison", please tell them that they have a fan in Florida. The tune is called "Gluposti".