Opening Music

Music is Say Anything by Manda and the Marbles

Mandaandthemarbles.com

www.mandaandthemarbles.com

Apple finally releases 10.4.2 Update

OS X 10.4.2 delivers bug fixes to the following areas of the Tiger system: file sharing using AFP and SMB/CIFS network file services; single sign-on authentication and reliable access to Active Directory servers; autologin for managed user accounts; AirPort and wireless access; and synchronizing your iDisk with .Mac

Improvements to Address Book, Automator, iCal, iChat, Mail, Safari, Stickies, the Finder, installation reliability, Core Graphics, Core Audio, Core Image, and ATI and NVIDIA graphics drivers.

Widget Manager. Can disable and remove widgets.

There was also an update to iSync 2.1

ArsTechnica claims to know real reason forApple's Intel switch

Claims Apple makes it hard for chip vendors to deal with them, and supply issues are caused by Apple not the vendor

Ask for custom chips and then only order minimal initial (launch) quantities.

Apple is more concerned with scoring Intel's famous volume discounts on the Pentium. Plans for XScale's in their iPods.

arstechnica.com

Claims Apple is shifting focus from performance to features and functionality. Actually entire industry is doing so.

Reports of iPod Shuffle's not playing some iTMS tracks

There is an active discussion thread on Apple's support site

Shuffle Issue on Apple

Tracks play on Mac and PC in iTunes, but not on Shuffle

In some cases they cause the Shuffle to need to be turned off and back on to resume operation

Apple quietly steers Cocoa developers away from JAVA

Report on OSNews points out, the latest technical documents on the Apple Developer Connection (ADC) site, explain that, ""Features added to Cocoa in Mac OS X versions later than 10.4 will not be added to the Cocoa-Java programming interface."

Polite way of warning developers to start moving to Objective-C

MacCast One Minute Tip #3: Mac Mail

Play tip from John

www.oneminutetip.com

Changing your home folder name in OS X

Listener Ben changed his home folder name and it caused issues on his Mac

If you change the file name of your Home folder while using your account, it will immediately appear as if all of your preferences, Mail, Address Book contacts, iCal calendars, iPhoto pictures, iTunes music, Dock customization, and other items have either vanished or been reset to default values.

Article on XLab on how to recover

www.thexlab.com

If you want to change it follow these instructions from Apple.

Change your short username

iBook Battery no longer holding a charge

Play question from Simon

Reset the power management unit (PMU)

Restting your PMU

Buy a new battery

OWC High Capacity Batteries

Quickly discover which groups a contact is in in the Address Book

Tip from listener Paul

In Tiger, when an address is selected in the main address book list hold down the alt key. All groups with that address will be highlighted in yellow.