Just wanted to let you all know that I’ll be doing the “live” Typical Mac User Podcast with Victor Cajiao tonight at 8pm EST. Because it’s live, you can text/call-in with questions, and details are available at their site. Should be quite fun, and I’m very much looking forward to it.

Due to my travels and schedule this week, John and I decided to take a brief hiatus and skip this week’s Mac Geek Gab. We’ll be back next week, recording Monday night as usual.

As some of you may have seen, this week we rolled updates to two of our sites.The Mac Observer sees a layout refresh, changing the location of the columns, moving the content up and to the left, and allowing room for some more modern ad types…. Sunday I get to hang out and relax with Paul, his family, and some friends, then Monday a meeting in Cupertino before getting on the redeye home.

The Mac Observer will be on hand providing live coverage, if technically possible, and we look forward to seeing what happens.The “technically possible” part was complicated this time because Bryan, our on-site editor, recently converted to the iPhone, a device that technically doesn’t allow tethering — that is, using it as a wireless modem for a laptop. Thankfully, Michael Johnston of iPhoneAlley.com pointed us in the right direction and got Bryan set up with a WiFi-to-iPhone bridge that will hopefully allow him to post easily.

I just wanted to take a quick minute this morning and let you all know about two publications we recently brought into the family here at BackBeat Media.
iPhoneAlley.com is a site created and published by Michael Johnston, focusing directly on Apple’s latest gadget and its impact in the market. Already iPhoneAlley has [...]

Tomorrow I head out to California for my first visit to WWDC, which runs all next week. I’ll have the opportunity while I’m there to get to speak to quite a few Mac developers, of course, and am also looking forward to attending more than a few sessions to increase my practical and background [...]

On top of that, I’m looking forward to getting some time with Jeff Questad, another sales rep of ours based in Austin.I have a few other business matters to attend to down there, and am looking forward to some personal time catching up with my old friend, Lee Robin, of Computer NERDZ! I haven’t seen Lee in probably 4 or 5 years, and am eagerly looking forward to visiting with him and his family.More either from the road or once I’m back in New Hampshire, I’m sure.

I love it when I’m truly able to transcend my involvement/interest in a site we own and can simply use it the way it was intended. That happened yesterday with our DealsOnTheWeb.com site. The kids’ old (and initially free!) Windows machine is showing its age in that it’s simply not fast enough to [...]

A few months before the party, Andrew Stone told me about this idea he had to use his Videator software to create a light show for the band…. From what I understand, this is an easy thing to as a one-man or even unmanned light show, perhaps perfect for local bands to enhance their visual appeal.

or rather next to the quotes…… Here; CBS News (and in the video on the sidebar)Washington Postand, of course, there were plenty of mentions of our staffers at TMO, too:John Martellaro mentioned at InfoWorldBryan Chaffin mentioned at the SacBeeJeff Gamet mentioned on the AP wire in many, many, many places.All in all, a fantastic week!