Friends of YML

The entire Your Mac Life family, staff and listeners, send out our most sincere thoughts, prayers and condolences to Miss Duh.

Ms Duh suffered a tragic loss this past week and we want her to know we're thinking of her. Ms Duh could use the help and support of her friends. Go to her web site and offer any support you are able to.

SmileOnMyMac wants to giveaway Party tickets to 2 lucky listeners!

Here's how it will work...

A pair of tickets will be awarded to one person based on the distance they have travelled to get to Macworld Expo 2008. One winner will be chosen from North America and one winner from outside North America.

To enter, send name and address to jean at smileonmymac.com with the Subject line of "YML Party".

SmileOnMyMac will use this website to measure distances between foreign cities and San Francisco; for U.S. cities, they'll use Google Maps. In the unlikely case of a tie, they'll have a random drawing.

Should be fun. SmileOnMyMac wanted to do something to make it up to the folks who couldn't enter the Smile Contest. What a nice bunch!

J just posted this video:

They got a damaged speaker from a customer who swore he didn't drop it... they tried to replicate what happened and it took them 11 attempts!

From TidBITS
TidBITS readers and staff have contributed all these gift ideas. Now it's up to you to rate them, so they can publish the top picks in their TidBITS Gift Guide for 2007.

They'll be collecting votes through December 6th. Cheers... -Adam, Tonya, and the rest of the TidBITS crew.

Click here to read more "TidBITS Gift Guide 2007 Survey"

Our good friend J Curtis over at Griffin Technology has sent us this sneak peak of their new "Evolve" speaker product!

The Evolve speaker system comprises a charging base and two cube-shaped speakers. Talk about stereo separation -- simply place the Evolve cubes wherever you want to hear the music. You can even move them into the next room with you. There are no entangling wires to hassle with.

The Evolve will be available at Best Buy on October 21st!

Click the above graphic to watch a video of the Evolve. The Evolve web site will go live on October 21st, 2007.

Congratulations to J and everyone at Griffin Technology!

From Macworld

Ed Prasek, founder and CEO of Spin Studio, has introduced SpinTips, a series of strategic and tactical business hints and tips created for Mac developers.

The new series of articles include Mac app development, distribution and retail, marketing and go-to-market initiatives and more. The first article is entitled “Creating a Successful Mac Product.” Others will follow monthly.

(Shawn's Comment: I've known Ed for years. Hire his company and take his advice. :) )

Click here to read more "Apple Vet Offers Mac Developers Advice"

Last night I installed Installer.app on my iPhone. Here is how it went.

Note: you must be in a WiFi hotspot to install applications on your
iPhone; Installer.app works over your USB sync cable, but all
subsequent installations are over WiFi. It will also be useful to
have an SSH/SFTP client on your Mac such as the free (and marvelous)
Fugu.

http://rsug.itd.umich.edu/software/fugu/

[1] Install Installer.app onto your iPhone from your Macintosh:

http://iphone.nullriver.com/beta/

Installer.app will instruct you on how to proceed. You will have to
plug in your iPhone, let it sync with iTunes, then shut off iTunes
before proceeding.

[2] A new icon will appear on your iPhone: Installer. Tap Installer,
and wait for it to refresh.

[3] Click the Update button on Installer, and Update the Installer
itself.

[4] Click the Home button, and wait for iPhone to update; iPhone will
probably shut down, and you will have to slide to unlock -- this
seems to be how iPhone updates the main screen (sometimes known as
the SpringBoard).

[5] Now it's time to install some applications! The first
applications you should install are Community Sources, BSD Subsystem,
MobileTerminal, Launcher, and OpenSSH. These applications are
essential to the function of most other applications. For instance,

From Macworld

Apple fans, re-hypnotize yourselves with the photo above and get ready for the wave of anti-Apple stories, because I can feel it coming. I've been in this business long enough to know how it works.

Click here to read more "Apple faithful, We must Prepare Together for the Media Backlash"

David Pogue does a video preview of the AppleTV, which can connect your computer to your TV without wires.

DST is stupid, and there’s no real justification for it. At least two states and four territories in the US don’t recognize it, and half the world by location, and likely population, doesn’t recognize it. Most importantly, the fact that clocks move ahead or behind an arbitrary number of hours at arbitrary dates at some places in this country and at some places in the world totally defeats the purpose of providing consistent, predictable time, the reason for time zones to begin with.

Click here to read more "Aaron's Anti-DST Rant"