News, Reviews and more from Australia's Macintosh Authority
News, Reviews and more from Australia's Macintosh Authority
MJCP talks to Danny Gorog and Paul Zucker about predictions for the Worldwide Developer Conference, what the future holds for iPhone, the Mac, and Apple's retail stores — and the risks inherent in predicting anything. Also: what to do with old technology.
Matthew JC. Powell | May 18, 2008
MJCP talks to Anthony Caruana about the recent flurry of -- generally not very informative -- anouncements about the future of iPhone. Also, Sean McNamara offers some troubleshooting tips for those wishing to run Windows in virtual environments on Intel-based Macs. BONUS: ten minutes and 37 seconds of recovered audio from Episode 20 -- The Lost Podcast.
Matthew JC. Powell | May 10, 2008
MJCP talks to David Holloway about Apple's second-quarter financial results, problems for Macs in New York, the plight of Dell and a new way to sell music. Keith White interviews special guest Adam Engst of TidBits and Take Control fame about his history with computers, the Mac, and publishing.
Matthew JC. Powell | Apr 27, 2008
MJCP talks to guest Adam Turner about his recent switch to Mac, while Nicholas Pyers and Sean McNamara offer advice for new Mac users about user groups and troubleshooting. Plus, we dissect the week's big iPhone rumours.
Matthew JC. Powell | Apr 11, 2008
MJCP talks to Dan Warne, Alex Kidman and Danny Gorog, mostly about the iPhone and related issues. This episode would have gone live on Friday except Matthew's wife went into labour halfway through the editing process. Mother and baby doing well.
Matthew JC. Powell | Mar 24, 2008
In this episode of the Weekend Edition podcast, MJCP talks to Nicholas Pyers about developments in Australian Mac User Groups. Sean McNamara offers tips about what to do when disk space runs short, and Anthony Caruana recounts an unfortunate experience with a MacBook Pro battery. Also, Nicholas and Anthony discuss the iPhone SDK, Sean reports on the Microsoft Office:mac 2008 update and Matthew is on the hunt for a movie.
Matthew JC. Powell | Mar 14, 2008
MJCP talks to Fleur Doidge, Barrie Smith and Ian Yates about the growth of iTunes, developments in photography and the best way to make use of "art" paper in an inkjet printer.
Matthew JC. Powell | Mar 7, 2008
MJCP talks to Keith White about a couple of upcoming movies about the Mac community, Martin Levins about Apple's history in the server department, and david Holloway about some really -- really -- bad music.
Matthew JC. Powell | Feb 29, 2008
MJCP talks to Dan Warne and Alex Kidman about things you shouldn't do, such as circumventing restrictions on the iTunes Store, running OS X on non-Apple hardware and getting around region coding. Dan explains why installing Linux is like stealing OS X and Alex hums "Girl From Ipanema". Now you're intrigued, aren't you?
Matthew JC. Powell | Feb 22, 2008
This morning Apple released a new version of its iPhone SDK for developers. iPhone SDK beta 2 includes Interface Builder, a component of Apple’s development tools that lets developers create the interface for their applications. That seems to be the only major change in the latest build, according to the SDK’s read me, which continues to list some known issues. Apple says “this second beta is known to be incompatible with installation folders other than the default /Developer.” Given the importance of UI on the Mac, Interface Builder is a pretty critical tool in the development process, and some developers had chosen to hold off on their efforts until the SDK was revised. Apple unveiled the iPhone SDK at a special event earlier this month, allowing developers to begin building applications for the iPhone and iPod touch. Several high-profile companies have already jumped onboard, demoing their applications at the event. Highlighting the demos was AOL with a native AIM client; other applications from Electronic Arts, Salesforce.com, and Apple were also shown.
