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 | Other Apple leader dump stock
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 | Apple execs shed shares to meet tax obligations
March 29, 2006 - Less than one week after Apple CEO Steve Jobs gave up about 4.5 million shares of Apple to satisfy tax obligations on remaining shares he owns, several Apple executives have followed suit, although together the eight executives' shares number less than half of Apple's chief and co-founder.
Tim Cook, COO, Phil Schiller, Senior Vice President Worldwide Product Marketing, and Peter Oppenheimer, CFO, all acquired 250,000 shares and sold 114,375 to satisfy tax obligations.
Ron Johnson, Senior Vice President of Retail, Sina Tamaddon, Senior Vice President of Applications, and Jon Rubinstein, Senior Vice President iPod Division, also acquired 250,000 shares but sold 112,707 shares to meet tax obligations.
Nancy Heinen, General Counsel, and Avie Tevanian, Chief Software Technology Officer, each acquired 200,000 shares and sold 91,500 to meet tax obligations.
All the transactions took place on Friday, March 24, 2006 with the shares valued at $59.96.
Separately, Mr. Cook sold 300,000 shares of Apple on March 24, as well, at prices from $59.08 to $60.872, generating about $18 million.
Shares of Apple closed Tuesday at $58.71. The stock has been trading around five-month lows since hitting a high of $86.40 in mid-January.
Messrs. Tevanian and Rubinstein are scheduled to leave Apple at the end of March.
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| BBC - test your Apple knowledge
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| Steve Jobs - BBC face of the week
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| BBC review of 30 years of Apple
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| Apple v The Beatles - this Wednesday
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| LONDON — Two legendary companies in the music industry are to meet Wednesday in a London courtroom to fight it out over what might be the world's most recognizable logo: A simple piece of fruit.
Apple Corps Ltd., the Beatles' record company and guardian of the band's musical heritage and business interests, is suing Apple Computer Inc., claiming the company violated a 1991 agreement by entering the music business with its iTunes online music store.
The case will be heard by Judge Martin Mann, who said during pretrial hearings that he was the owner of an iPod digital music player, which is used with the iTunes music store.
At issue is a 1991 pact that ended a long-running trademark fight between the two Apples in which each agreed not to tread on the other's toes by entering into a "field of use" agreement over the trademark.
London-based Apple Corps said in a statement that "unfortunately, Apple and Apple Corps now have differing interpretations of this agreement and will need to ask a court to resolve this dispute."
Apple Corps — founded in 1968 and owned by surviving Beatles Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, the widow of John Lennon and the estate of George Harrison — is seeking both an injunction to enforce the 1991 agreement and monetary damages for the alleged contract breach.
The computer company's logo is a cartoonish apple with a neat bite out of the side; the record company is represented by a perfect, shiny green Granny Smith apple.
Apple Computer had asked to have the case heard in California, where it is based, but Mann rejected that application in 2004 and ordered the case be heard at the stately Royal Courts of Justice in central London.
Cupertino, Calif.-based Apple Computer was formed in 1976, when two college dropouts — Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak — filed partnership papers on April Fools' Day. Their goal was to build and sell personal computers, and their first product was a build-it-yourself computer kit. In 1984, the Apple Macintosh was introduced. Their ubiquitous iPods first came out in October 2001.
The iTunes music store first opened for business in the United States in April 2003; it is now available across Europe, in Australia, Japan, and Canada. About 3 million songs are downloaded every day from the service. In the United States, a song costs 99 cents; in the U.K, they fetch 79 pence ($1.38). Not available on the service are Beatles' songs, which haven't been licensed for downloading.
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| Secondary MetaData coming in Leopard rumour
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| Audio
Meanwhile, audio analysis of audio files could generate more information about your MP3/AACs. Beyond the usual metadata extraction, Mac OS X could also perform an actual analysis of the songs:
For example .... a frequency analysis (e.g., using spectrum analysis/filtering techniques) may be performed to determine the type of the music (e.g., Jazz or classical), and other audio related information.
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| Photo
For example, based on at least a portion of the metadata the nature of the image (e.g., photo, drawing, or painting) may be determined. In addition, as another example, based on the ISO setting, focal length, and/or shutter speed, whether a photo was taken during day or night time, and/or whether the photo was taken in a still or action situation may be determined. Some or all of this additional information may be used as a part of additional metadata.
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| British Mac enter fashion world
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| When playing chess that comes free with your Mac - try grabbing the corner of the chess board. You can rotate the board in any direction in its 3D world. Also chess can understand vocal commands by pressing escape and then talking the chess move, for example "Pawn A2 to A3". Wonderful!
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| Software Review - The Letter Manager
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| MintSoft have created The Letter Manager to help you avoid the frustrations often associated with using word processors to write letters and create mail shots using mail merge. With TLM you will easily produce professional looking letters every time.
Often likened to a simple eMail program, The Letter Manager completely automates the letter formatting process allowing you to concentrate on what you want to say in your letter.
You may preview your letter at any time and, when it's finished, print it and address an envelope or label with the click of a button, it's that simple!
When you need to write the same letter to a group of people, perhaps family and friends, club members, customers or staff, The Letter Manager gives you the easiest mail merge system ever.
Because TLM is a truly integrated package of address book, document processor and filing system you can create a mail shot in seconds, and reprint all or part of it at any time.
TLM takes care of saving your letters, automatically filing them away safely and securely.
The Letter Manager's filing system allows you to find any individual or group of letters instantly, no matter how long ago they were written.
Although it's so simple to use and requires virtually no word processing or technical skills, TLM has many advanced and powerful options quietly waiting in the background allowing you to run things just the way you want, making this a valuable time saving package no matter what your level of computer experience.
Both The Letter Manager and TLMExpress allow you to very quickly produce perfectly formatted letters, address envelopes and labels to individuals or groups (mailing lists) and both versions give you the fantastic letter filing and organising system.
So, whether you just write the occasional letter at home or send hundreds of mailings to potential customers, The Letter Manager should be sitting on your desktop ready to do the work for you!
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| Express £19.99 or Standard £39.99
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| TLMExpress does not have some of the advanced features like mail shots, envelope message printing and dynamic mailing lists, but it is perfect for the household and still allows you to batch print envelopes and labels, great for the Christmas card list!
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| Chrisitian Payne - Documentally. Also sent in some favourite apps, request more for next week's podcast.
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| Joe Fyans - The Toxamic Clown Show.
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| Lee Wilson - sending in northern 'Feature Section".
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| Mark Warner -
In response to the comment on show 9 about the Miglia £99 USB TV Tuner, I received one last week, and I think that it's brilliant. The freeview website says that I cannot get reception in my area, but I've been watching via a Sony freeview box on my TV for a year or so now. With the Miglia TV Tuner, I can receive all of the channels I get on the TV, and the Eye TV software is brilliant, with recording facilities, the ability to pause and rewind live TV, and built-in TV guides. When setting up the equipment, the trick was to use the "Exhaustive Scan" setting as this picked up many more channels than the regular scan.
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| Mark Trayner -
I have to point out that there is a little mistake in Jeremy description of
the E3c. The E3c does not implement "noise cancelling". Noise cancelling
is quite involved and implements noise cancellation circuitry...which
includes a mic on each earphone. The mic picks up ambient noise...inverts
the sound wave then plays it through the ears, thus cancelling the ambient
noise.
The E3c in fact only has "sound insulating" properties...simply because you
ram the ear type plugs into your ear canals and it blocks out a high
percentage of ambient noise.
I have used Shure E2's for some time for in ear monitoring for live use
whilst teching on tour. I love the E2's but recently picked a set of
Ultimate Ears Super.fi 5 Pro's. These are dual driver and the bass end is
extended a great deal. I will continue to use the E2's for working...and
use the UE's for my iPod.
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| Hack of the week - Dunnet from Hacking Mac OS Tiger by Scott Knaster
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| Start Terminal
Type emacs - press return
Press Esc, and then type x
Type dunnet
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| Dunnet is a Text adventure written by Ron Schnell. The game enjoys certain popularity because it is part of the default packages in many of the Emacs versions.
It was first written in Maclisp in 1983 for the DECSYSTEM-20, then later re-written in Emacs Lisp so as to be platform independent. The game starts out like most Text Adventures, but turns to the surreal, when players realize that they are actually walking around inside a Unix system, and transporting themselves around the Arpanet.
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 | BRITISH ICON - Brian Johnston
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| On 16 May 1994, more than 2,000 people crammed into Westminster Abbey to give thanks for the life of a cricket commentator.
The then Prime Minister John Major gave an address.
BBC in 1946 after wartime service in the Guards and before that in the family coffee business.
He joined to Test Match Special in 1970, his arrival at Test Match Special was a true homecoming.
In fact, he was still an integral part of the commentary team at his death in January 1994 at the age of 81.
Everyone was given a nickname. Scorer Bill Findall became 'the Bearded Wonder'. And to this day, Henry Blofeld and Jonathan Agnew are fondly known as Blowers and Aggers.
When asked about Test Match Special, Brian would say that it was "just a bunch of friends going to a Test Match and talking about it."
And with him, it was.
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| Booker T & The MGs - Soul Limbo
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