This is Mac OSKIN. Greetings and salutations from a land far from where I normally am.

It's Wednesday, October 30th, 2013, I'm Ken Ray and this is a special edition of Maco As Can, brought to you by yours truly

and supported by I-Chart magazine.

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Like Rick Nelson, I'm a traveling man.

Away from home and away from the usual Apple news for a few days.

We're spending the rest of the week in the App Store and the Mac App Store, considering

the present and future of apps and pricing, and the Fate of Developers.

Before we get to that though, a word from Connected Data,

makers of the transporter and sponsors of this week's Mac OS Can.

There was a new transporter introduced yesterday, the transporter sink, and it looks like a lot

of people are already very excited about it. Transporter sink is a $99 unit with all the

sinking capability of transporter, but with your hardware.

Well, some of your hardware. You can connect any USB drive you want to the transporter sink.

Now if you're looking for an all in one out of the box solution, the original

transporters are great for you.

But if you want to use a USB drive you already have,

or if you want a greater range of drives from which to choose,

the transporter sink is the way to go.

At $99, if you've already got a USB drive to use, transporter sync is the easiest, least expensive way to start using a transporter.

Of course, because you're listening to this, we can make it even less expensive than 99 bucks.

I got a Twitter message from Zookeeper and emails from Derek and Michael yesterday

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