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The Mac Show, an Internet-based live radio show focusing on all things Mac, has announced their guest lineup for tonight’s broadcast (9:00-11:00 pm ET). Tonight’s guests include Tom Cheek, Manager of Mac.Tucows.Com, the #1 Mac shareware site in the world; User Group Correspondent, Chuck Joiner, will interview Gail Glore, president of Wired Women; Valerie McLean, Vice President of the Vancouver Better Business Bureau, and more.

CRQ today released a Mac version of its software. The technology, coupled with the CueCat hardware device, allows users to scan barcode-like symbols found in print media, and then access related information over the Web later on by attaching the CueCat to their Mac. The Windows version has 1.4 million users. Both the software and hardware are available free of charge.

Blue World has announced Lasso Studio 5 and Lasso Professional 5, new versions of its Web application server technology. Lasso Studio 5, designed for Web developers who want to create data-driven sites with a visual editor, will ship in the Fall and features new syntax checking and debugging controls, an LDML 3 to LDML 5 converter, inline builder, URL builder and live data preview.

An Interactive Week article discusses Apple’s transition to Mac OS X, noting that the success of the operating system has shifted almost exclusively from Apple’s shoulders to that of developers, many of whom are experiencing some difficulties with the transition.

An interesting article at TheStandard discusses severe lag in the improvement of computer displays, noting that while processor performance tends to double every 18 months, display quality has been improving by just eight percent a year. Indeed, today’s monitors offer similar resolutions as their five-year old predecessors, and physical size has remained stangnant at around 20-inches for more than a decade.