Listener Steve (reboot98@gmail.com) took advantage of a tax free day for computers, clothes and school supplies in Missouri.

Is a new Mac store opening?
Are they just now releasing Tiger in the Midwest?
Are they giving away Ipods? Well actually yes but only to teachers.

This weekend is a tax free holiday in Missouri, for computers, clothes and school supplies. Looks like everyone was using it to buy Macs.

Here are some pics of the Apple Retail Store opening at The Woodlands, Texas

Special thanks to listeners Charlie and Eugene for sending these in.

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A podcast about Macs done by a Mac geek for Mac geeks. Show 79. Apple releases the Mighty Mouse, HP discontinues iPod sales, Apple using DRM to prevent OS X Intel on non-Apple hardware, Mac OS 10.4.3 seeded to Feeder 1.2 with iTunes Podcasting support, judge stops Georgia schools purchase of 63,000 iBooks, more Apple retail store opening this weekend and Apple expands iPod Trademark to include video. More Follow-up on iPod -36 errors, using Macs in your business environment, a rant on restrictive software authentication schemes, how to uninstall Mac applications and strange tales of iTunes, converting tapes to CD. New music, Waste Another Night by My Little Radio

Autobots, transform… And roll out!

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Correction: I just received my new Mighty Mouse (awesome BTW) and it turns out the side buttons work by squeezing the mouse and are both assigned to the same action. So it looks like it is a 4-button and not a 5-button mouse. Listen for a full review on the next MacCast!

So this is a really horrible case of bad timing. I recorded the new show and it is ready to go. Just when I am ready to give it to you, I see an email from Libsyn saying they are transitioning and upgrading their servers on August 1st and 2nd. In testing right now, I see the servers are moving really slowly. I can’t even get the new show to download most of the time and in one case, when it finally did start to download the show, several seconds were missing from the beginning of the show. I think I am going to wait a couple of hours to see if they can get stuff sorted out. I am really afraid if f I update the feed now many of you won’t get the show and that would be awful. The new show is coming, please be patient.

Update: (1:00 PM PST 08/03/2005) I think Libsyn is still having issues, but I cannot wait any longer. I am going to go ahead and update the feed. Sorry in advance to anyone who has issues with the download. Please don’t swamp me with email saying there are issues. I already know. thanks.

Here is another great story from Albert who also successfully runs his business using Macs.

My Wife and I started Due, three years ago. It started out as a little maternity boutique down here in sleepy Santa Barbara.

Because we used Macs in our past careers, (in advertising and PR) we decided to run the store on Macs too. It wasn’t an easy choice at the time because there was only 2 advanced retail applications that ran on the Mac, and one of them had poor industry ratings.

So we went with POSIM (Point of Sale Inventory Management) produced by Ensign, a company based in Utah. http://www.ensign.com

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You don’t often get stories of businesses switching to Macs, so whwn I received this story from listener Jamie I wanted to share it with you.

Thought you might want to hear about my Mac experience.

I am a business owner of a computer software/support company. I have for years been slaving over books and updates to keep current on programming languages and new support bug fixes. In my offices I have several Windows Servers and Windows XP laptops and desktops. You guessed it, I am (was) a PC geek.

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Here is a great story of an experienece listener Michael had at his local Apple Retail Store:

I just had to tell the story of a great experience at my favorite Apple store in Salem, NH (at the Mall at Rockingham Park in Salem New Hampshire)!

On July 14th on the way to the White Mountains of NH for some camping, I stopped in to pick up a 12 inch iBook, an extra 256 MB of RAM and a trusty apple care plan for it. I was in and out in no time and en route to my first campground.

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A podcast about Macs done by a Mac geek for Mac geeks. Show 78. New Mac Mini and iBooks released, iPhoto 5.0.4 update released, Apple opening two more US retails stores this weekend, planned Apple Music event in Tokyo. Could it be iTunes Japan? iTunes Phone to debut in August, yeah whatever. Apple will supply 30,000 iBooks to Florida schools, buy some pants, get a song, Canadian “iPod tax” will not be moving forward thanks to Supreme court. Survey shows Podcasting far from “mainstream”, even with help from iTunes and Sharp sales reps brag about their chip in new video iPods. Using your DV camera for iChatAV, Windows Media player issues under Tiger. Are XBrite™ LCDs better? Follow-up on the iPod -36 error. Vote for MacCast at Podcast Awards.com. New music, Wrong Way by Secret Suburbia.

Ninty percent of the game is half mental.

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Correction: I said the new ATI Radeon 9550 did not support Core Image. Apparently I had read wrong information and several listeners pointed out the fact that the 9550 DOES support Core Image. Carry on.

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A podcast about Macs done by a Mac geek for Mac geeks. Show 77. New Mac Mini and iBook part numbers show up in Apple’s database, photos of widescreen iBooks on Apple’s web site? I think not. iPods at RadioShack in time for the Holidays, Delicious Library Co-Creator goes to work for Apple, latest Safari updates seeded to developers and Apple campus does not appear on new Microsoft mapping software. MacCast One Minute Tip #4 – Photos and DVD. Stuffit Expander no longer included with OS X, Widows Media Player crashes under 10.4.2, a great alternative to Windows Media Player, Video Lan Client, turn your external USB hard drive into network storage, what to do if you get a “-36 error” when syncing iPod in iTunes, different Mac boot-up options and a recent switcher shares a story of “The Apple Store experience”. Special offer from Showmacster. Don’t forget to vote for MacCast in Podcast Awards Way to support the show: PayPal donations on MacCast.com, shop at store.maccast.com and get great MacCast logo items at Podthreads.com. MacCast under attack by hackers, again. Please keep your emails and audio comments coming. New music, Polyvinyl by Aratone.

Those guys think they’re revolutionaries. They’re not revolutionaries, we are.

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UPDATE: Well of course the new Mac Minis and iBooks are out today, but as I mentioned the widescreen images were a hoax. Guess this is what happens when you record at 12:00 AM and then post in the morning. ;)

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A podcast about Macs done by a Mac geek for Mac geeks. Show 76. More video iPod speculation, Motorola media event may finally unveil iTunes phone, Apple planning clearance of old inventory via Overstock.com, Apple offers storage upgrade for .Mac and limits bandwidth and new Windows worm masquerades as iTunes download. Stuffit Expander no longer included with OS X, what are OS X “Proof of Purchase” coupons for? Setting up birthday reminders on your Mac and Airport Express Airport Extreme questions. Vote for MacCast at PodcastAwards.com. New music, Oh I See by Tyler Dodds.

These humans are dangerous, don’t you understand that? They think that they’re as good as we are!

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