While the majority of Listeners are Americans and Canadians, we have listeners from around the globe. Wanna list?

Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bermuda, Brazil, Cayman Islands, Chile, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Estonia, Federated States of Micronesia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Honduras, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles, New Zealand, Norway, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, Scotland, Seychelles, Singapore, Slovakia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, Tuvalu, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom and Yugoslavia.

Welcome to all of you and thanks for listening!

Want a cool Your Mac Life Bowling Shirt? It's not too late!

YML Bowling Shirts: Deadline Extended to October 19th

On this past Wednesday's show, Lino Pucci, Product Manager for Bose's SoundDock Music System, was asked this question:

What are the physical dimensions of the SoundDock?

If you listened to the show, you'll know the answer and be eligible to win a SoundDock, valued at $299.00!

Send an email to [email protected] with the answer (in inches!) in the Subject Line and your name and address in the Body of the email.

Then tune in to the show on Wednesday, September 29th to hear if your name is called!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SLY!

Search engines, at their simplest, are big databases of web pages. The information in these databases is collected, maintained, and categorized by robots, which we'll refer to as spiders.

Search engine optimization is altering your web pages so that they communicate better with search engines, in order to increase your rankings for specific search terms or phrases. This is important not only for people to find your site, but miscommunicating with the search engines can have an adverse effect, resulting in ranking penalties, black listing, etc.

Search engine rankings refer to where your web page appears, in numeric order, on a results page returned from a search engine.

Search engine submission is the actual act of getting your web pages listed with the search engines. This does happen automatically, though it can take up to three months for your pages to get indexed. Google, in particular, isn’t especially fast.

Lesa's Top 10 Search Engine Optimization Tips

" I'm trying to get ircle working..... I'm not an IRC babe! Can anyone help me?"

Hi and thanks for your interest in our IRC chat room. The server is irc.netmug.org and the channel is #yourmaclife.

The following instructions on how to add the new server using 4 of the more popular IRC chat clients were passed along to me by David (aka Macman in our IRC room).

Born from a brief discussion that took place in the YML forums (in the I&I section no less) and in an attempt to offer our listeners something a little different, Your Mac Life is planning to produce a cookbook made up of recipes from you, the "bread and butter" of Your Mac Life, the YML listener. The cookbook will be made available for sale through Cafe Press - http://www.cafepress.com - and since we want this to be a collaborative effort between ourselves and our listeners, YML staff will contribute a recipe here and there as well.

Sneak Peak - while it hasn't been officially announced, Your Mac Life is going to be attending DLexpo in the Big Apple this September 26th.

Your Mac Life will be taking pics all weekend and doing video interviews with presenters, staff and attendees all day on Sunday. Stay tuned for more details!