British Mac Show Notes

Episode BritishMac008

				NEWS

				Free iLife Training in the UK

				Throughout March your local Apple centre will be showing off iLife'06, iWork'06 and .Mac. If you're new to Mac's it's a good way to learn about your Mac software. Visit http://www.apple.com/uk/events/ilife/ for more info.

				UK TV Programs on iTunes get closer

				NBC Universal is close to signing a deal to sell TV shows to UK customers on iTunes. The programs available for download include Battlestar Galactica, Surface and Alfred Hitchcock Presents.

				US iTunes Films get closer

				The first full length movie was featured on iTunes US recently. The film was The High School Musical, initially for sale at $1.99, it soon increased to $9.99. $9.99 is £5.72

				Leopard Finder Clues

				http://www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id=1593

				Pull down menu to easily spotlight keywords.

				Plus Search history of Spotlight

				Select files simultaneously from multiple Finder windows, so you could move to trash, or create a new folder based on the items.

				Get financial help for UK Apple Courses

				If you live Birmingham or Solihull area you can get 50% funding match for Apple Training Courses. The NTI Apple Authorised Training Centre has joined forces with the Birmingham Chamber of Commerce and Business Link. You can get up to £1,000 - towards Apple-accredited courses. This month's course are FCP101: Introduction to Final Cut Pro, with a Level 1 Exam and Apple Pro Certification. This course runs between March 27-29 and costs £750, including courseware, exam fee, lunch and refreshments. For more info call Neil Emery, Apple Business Development Manager at the NTI Apple Authorised Training Centre, 0121 202 4800.

				British Mac presents the world's first Podumentry!

				British Mac Broadcasting is proud to announce the world’s first Podumentry to celebrate Apple’s 30th Birthday. The Podumentry is the complete Apple story, from its pips to the present day. Released Friday 31st March ’06. I’m pleased to announce what I’ve been working on in readiness for Apple’s 30th, a Podumentry entitled the Apple Story. Instead of calling it another Special Edition, which it is as well of course, I wanted a name that would tell the listener what to expect. It’s not another episode, or review, or tutorial, it’s a documentry delivered via Podcasting, thus was born a ‘Podumentry’. Check out the home page for more info.

				UNCLE MAC'S MAC MOMENT

				In Safari if you type a web site address into the address bar or select a web site from your bookmarks, a SnapBack point is created. This SnapBack is a little orange button next to the current web page's address. Click the button to return to your original page at any time. Wonderful!

				FEATURE SECTION

				Book Review

				iCon, Steve Jobs. The Greatest Second Act in the History of Business. Jeffrey S. Young & William L. Simon. ISBN 0 471 72083 6 £10.55

				INTERNET HISTORY NEWSLETTER - MARCH 2006 Welcome to the Internet History Newsletter, brought to you by the www.nethistory.info website. In this edition; => Internet celebrates 1 billion users => Death of the telegram => Steam driven Internet? => Origins of Ping

				Prologue. PART ONE: Flowering and Withering. 1 Roots. 2 A Company Is Born. 3 Let's Be Pirates! 4 Learning to Fail. PART TWO: New Beginnings. 5 The NeXT Step. 6 Show Business. 7 Master of Ceremonies. 8 Icon. PART THREE: Defining the Future. 9 Mogul. 10 Breaking New Ground. 11 iPod, iTunes, Therefore I Am. 12 Clash of the Titans. 13 Showtime. Epilogue. Acknowledgments. Notes. Index.

				My summary. Personally I couldn't put it down, a rollercoaster of gossip and tittle-tattle. If you're interested in the man behind Apple, I can recommend no other book higher.

				Listeners Comments

				Powerbook battery question from Jeremy North After only a couple of years the battery on my G4 powerbook is pretty well useless giving only a few minutes power. This in spite of having only light use, as I usually plug it in to the mains. Therein lies the problem. After a good few months of getting it, I found out that I should have been letting the battery drain about once a month in order to keep it in good nick. Well it is no good crying over spilt milk, so I had an idea. Knowing that most battery packs are built from using stock cells, I thought I'd build my wn replacement simply by swapping the li-ion cells in the battery pack. I gained access very easily by prising off the lid of the pack. Inside there are 6 cells, type 18650. The problem is tracking down a uk supplier. I found only one who charged (no pun intended) £10.89 per cell making it more expensive than just buting a replacement pack! I've seen US sites selling them much cheaper but I hesitate to import them as often the duty/collection fee makes it costly. Having google searched, i was frustrated in that virtually all the promising links I could find were as dead as my battery! Can you put it out there to find other's experiences?

				Andrew Rudkin application recommendation. I heard you talking about the Soho apps from Chronos and that you had problems un-installing the various elements which had been blasted around your system. You should look at a very cheap application (less than $13) called App Zapper. You can get it from http://www.appzapper.com/ and is perfect for getting shot of programs from your system

				Shaun Madden naming convention suggestion I know you have been asking for feedback for your podcast, the only thing that i am going to suggest is your naming conventions for episodes. I listened to most podcasts on my powerbook but the last episode i listened to on my ipod, but finding it was a bit hard as it was named only "Episode 7" and i was looking for the words British mac, and although you have the name correctly for the Album and your own name in the Artist when viewing in itunes- they don't show up on the ipod when scrolling through all my podcasts. I notice that most other podcasts such as ScreenCastsOnline would use naming conventions such as 'SCO007' for episode 7. Maybe you could use BritishMac007 and similar for special editions, such as BritishMacSE002. Actually screen casts online started using the name convention after the first few episodes.

				Jim Buckley, Alabama If possible please do a show on using smart folders & automator to there full potential.

				Hello to international users!

				Start up tune.

				Called Sosumi

				Created by Jim Reekes first quipped it should be named "Let It Beep", a pun on The Beatles' "Let It Be", but renamed it Sosumi, which is pronounced "so sue me".

				Actually is chord is a very flat G major

				Created new jingle to tail end of show, using chord.

					Other music using the Chords are Transformer di Roboter's ace cover of 'Stranger in Moscow' Funky Mac - http://www.jgiesen.de/javascript/HTML/HTML9/sounds/FunkyMac.wav

macstartup.mp3

				http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sosumi

				Vote for me at Podcast Alley!

				Thanks to everyone who's written nice things about British Mac on iTunes & Podcast Alley. I really value the feedback.

				BRITISH ICON

				Michael Bradbrook Bring on Father Ted!

				Father Ted. Facts Father Ted Crilly - Dermot Morgan - died 1998 Father Dougal McGuire - Ardal O'Hanlon Production The show was made by Hat Trick Productions It was made for Channel 4 television in the UK It was filmed on location in Ireland, and studio work was at the LWT studios, London Broadcast It was broadcast on Channel 4 from 21st April 1995 to 1st May 1998 Lesser known facts Mrs. Doyles' first name name was Joan. Although never used in the TV show, it appears in the scripts book Mrs. Doyles' facial mole moves between the three series.

				http://www.fathertedonline.ukf.net/

				Father Ted on Mastermind If you've ever wondered if you could have a sitcom as a specialist subject, then wonder no more. You can, and the winner of BBC's Mastermind 2005 no less, chose the daddy. I didn't see most of the show, but he did score a rather impressive 17 in the specialist round, and won the show with a total score of 35. He also won the million pound jackpot on ITV's Who Wants To Be A Millionnaire. Proof, if needed, that Ted is the sitcom of the inteligent types. That's my argument, and I'm sticking to it. So congratulations to Patrick Gibson - Mastermind 2005!

				New American remake of Father Ted Yes you read the title correctly, the wheels are in motion for a remake of Ted in America! There's a lot of information and titbits floating arround the internet about this, and of course the only people who know that facts are those who are involved. It's really a case of wait and see, but for now, here are some things we've unearthed that are apparently true... The latest unconfirmed news is that Steve Martin will take the lead role. Hat Trick, makers of the origionl, have teamed up with former Seinfeld writer Spike Feresten to create the US version. Details are very sketch at best but it seems the show will use the original scripts although probably adapted slightly. It also seems that is the show becomes Popular and out runs the 25 episodes worth of scripts, then new episodes might be written by a team of American writers

				Terry Jenkins With the weather being what it is here at the moment, I look forward to the ‘lighting the fire’ bit as I usually listen to British Mac on my Nano when I’m walking the dog and it brings a warm glow to my freezing ears