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A podcast about Macs done by a Mac geek for Mac geeks. Show 60. First Tiger update OS 10.4.1 update released, second manufacturer now making iPods, snother new iPod commercial launched during SNL, Apple stop injunction from Tiger Direct lawsuit and Apple officially announces 1st Canadian Apple Store. A comment about the MacCast forum spam attack, update on the 10 Top Reasons to Switch contest, summary of The MacGathering event, using Tiger to set up safe email for kids and why should I switch to Mac?Plus, what is Jabber? New music, “Burn in Hollywood” by Awe Persona. You’d listen if your mother told you to. Shownotes in HTML or OPML

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A podcast about Macs done by a Mac geek for Mac geeks. Show 59. Gates says iPod success is unsustainable, 1st Tiger update continues to loom, Apple may be leaving KHTML for it’s own technology, Apple settles lawsuit with rapper Eminem, Apple releases DVD player 4.6, Apple granted patent on Tablet computer design, Toshiba announces 45GB next-gen DVD, Malicious .MOV files possible in Tiger, Toast 6.1 blocks iTunes download burning and XBox 360 Demos were running on Macs. listener comments on MBox Tiger incompatibilities, Opinion: Curt’s 2 cents on Macintosh gaming and more Tiger tips for removing Widgets. Reminder I will be at the 2nd Annual MacGathering in Los Angeles, CA this Sunday may 15th. Please come out and say hi. New music, Waiting by Taxi Doll. Listen up. Shownotes in HTML or OPML

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I received this great email from listener Scott. I think it proves once you give a Mac a try you’ll be convinced it is a better experience.

I was a PC person for a little over 20 years starting with the Commodore 64 and working my way up. I have spent hundreds of hours working on my own computers and helping others with theirs and it never really gets old.

I just recently bought my first Apple product, the 40gig ipod photo and totally fell in love with it. I work in aerospace on the graveyard shift and I get to listen to audiobooks all night and that helps a lot. After finding out how awesome the ipod was I decided to take the plunge and buy my first Mac. I got the new 15″ Powerbook 1.67GHz model with a gig of RAM and the extra 64MB of RAM (128MB) on the ATI Radeon 9700 so now I am REALLY REALLY in love.

I still have a really high end PC that I mostly just keep around for gaming now but use my Mac for everything else. I only wish I had given Mac a chance years ago.

Christopher sent in this info about a new System Preference pane to help you manage your Widgets.

Adam-I just wanted to drop you a line and tell you how much I love your show and tell you about a little app called Widget Manager. This application installs into your system preferences pane and allows you to ‘manage’ your widgets meaning that you can remove, disable, or enable all of your widgets. The app is free and here is the link to the download site. Hope this is helpful and keep up the great work

[ Widget Manager from Downtown Software ]

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A podcast about Macs done by a Mac geek for Mac geeks. Show 58. Dashboard Widgets susceptible to attack, Four new European iTunes Music Stores launched, iTunes 4.8 released with support for video and new iPod+iTunes “Skater” ad debuted on SNL. How to chat with MSN and Yahoo users on iChat using the Jabber interface, why Stuffit Expander and Internet Explorer are not included with Tiger, Kenneth says try Camino, it’s fast and an iPod Shuffle review, tips and commentary from the Frat Pack. New music, Someone by Charlie Don’t Surf. The sound your hearing is the future calling, don’t tie up the line. Shownotes in HTML or OPML

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MacCast listener Clark sent this warning for PGP users who are considering moving to Tiger:

A note for those using PGP 8.x and Tiger. This combination also
causes problems, especially with Mail.

Symptoms are things like loosing your mailboxes and loosing your POP
entries. Literally you enter the POP information. After attempting
to connect
you will receive a message indicating that new attributes are
available for synch. You are asked if you would you like to save
them. If you select yes,
your POP entries and usually your mailboxes are toast! They are
still available in Library/Mail, but now you really need to be a geek
to rebuild your entries.
Solution: Dump PGP for now. Stability will return and life will once
again be like having a crisp Granny Smith’s on a warm summer day!

There is a note on the problem at http://www.pgp.com/products/tiger.html

So if you are using PGP, quit for awhile.

I do not know if this affects the GNU version of PGP (PGPFree) yet.

Listener Scott sent me this info about a great, and very in depth, article on the tech of Tiger.

John Siracusa writes these in-depth looks at the technology of OS X
and has been reviewing each release since DP2. He is a hard-core user
interface guy with some strong opinions of things Apple is still not
doing right (oddly, these are things they were doing right in the
pre-OS X days).

He also spends quite a bit of time talking about changes in the file
system, how Spotlight works behind the scenes, as well as what this
might all mean for where Apple is headed with OS X features.

I thought you might enjoy the read – one Mac geek to another.

http://arstechnica.com/reviews/os/macosx-10.4.ars/1

He all I did a fun interview with Paul over at the Austincast. We talked about the MacCast, the current and future state of Podcasting, technology, indie music and more. We talked for over an hour. You can find the file over on the Austincast blog or in the Austincast Podcast feed. Enjoy.

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A podcast about Macs done by a Mac geek for Mac geeks. Show 57. All Mac models now shipping with Tiger, Tiger not playing nice with Windows, Apple releases Bonjour for Windows, OS X Tiger 10.4.1 seeded to developers, MacDevCenter offers Tiger tutorials, iPod Shuffle grabs 58% of flash based MP3 market, Pod2Go Developer releases SpodLight to add Spotlight indexing to iPods, iTunes Australia launch held up by record company and new Oasis album released 4 weeks early on iTunes Germany. Special Report on using Tiger continues. I discuss my Tiger issues with iChat AV and wake from sleep. Also a tip on using the new dictionary in Tiger. Darrell’s Guide for New Mac Geeks #5, questions about MacCast voicemail, how to burn Mac DVDs on your PC, Bluedogbanter.com promo and Spotlight and indexing Entourage. I debut a new opinion segment from Curt covering his thoughts on Apple’s advertising. I will be at the 2nd annual MacGathering in Hollywood California on Sunday May 15th, please come out if you can. Updates on the MacCast contests. New music, The Fall by Innocent Noise. Your ears will never be the same. Shownotes in HTML or OPML

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Listener Sam sent in this tip:

Spotlight is a wonderful wonderful thing, but some people have noticed occasions when a document or group of documents have not been captured during the indexing process. In such cases, one might want to reindex the volume. Apple did not build into Spotlight a way to reindex, but it can be done quite easily.

1. Open Terminal (in /Applications/Utilities/)

2. Type the following:

sudo mdutil -E /

to reindex the root volume, or:

sudo mdutil -E /Volumes/volumename

to reindex another volume named volumename.

3. Enter your admin password when prompted to do so and press enter.

4. You will receive the message “Volume index removed. Index will be rebuilt automatically.” in the Terminal window. You can monitor the reindexing progress in the Spotlight toolbar drop-down window.

5. Hooray, get back to using Tiger!