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Episode BritishMac013 |
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;){kind=small} | Apple Financial News |
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 | Apple Computer Shares Rise on 2Q Results Apr 20 - By May Wong, AP Technology Writer Shares of Apple Computer Inc. rose Thursday, a day after the company said its second-quarter profit rose 41 percent, beating Wall Street estimates, as sales of its iPod players continued to soar and Macintosh computer shipments increased by 4 percent. |
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| Shaw Wu "While there could be concern with weak Apple Retail Store (15 per cent of total) sales, we are not too bothered as we believe most of the weakness was seasonal and from our checks, Apple's sales representatives have been instructed to not push PowerPC Macs to customers who want to wait for Intel versions." He added: "In this day and age where making numbers is important, we believe Apple is in a rare group of companies willing to sacrifice its near-term revenue opportunity for greater longer-term success by developing customer trust." |
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;){kind=small} | Apple release Remote Desktop 3 |
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| Apple Remote Desktop is the best way to manage the Mac computers on your network. Distribute software, provide real-time online help to end users, create detailed software and hardware reports, and automate routine management tasks — all without leaving your desk. Featuring Automator actions, Remote Spotlight search and a new Dashboard widget, Apple Remote Desktop 3 makes your job easier than ever. Apple Remote Desktop 3, the award-winning desktop management system for Mac OS X, has more than 50 new features that deliver improvements in software distribution, asset management and remote assistance. Apple Remote Desktop 3 offers a wide range of high performance features, including lightning-fast Spotlight searches across multiple Tiger systems; more than 30 Automator actions for easy automation of repetitive tasks; a Dashboard widget that provides quick and convenient observation of remote systems; and AutoInstall for automatically updating software on mobile systems once they return to the network. |
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;){kind=small} | NeoOffice 2 out 25 April |
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| NeoOffice is a full featured office productivity suite including word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, vector drawing, database, and macro functionality. It can be used as a free alternative to Microsoft Office:Mac. You can exchange documents with Microsoft Office and OpenOffice.org users, even on other platforms! |
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| NeoOffice 2.0 Alpha PowerPC will soon be released Starting 25 April 2006, the release will be available through the NeoOffice Early Access Program. |
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| http://www.planamesa.com/neojava/earlyaccess.php |
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| 999 service offers first aid via iPod Bobbie Johnson Thursday April 20, 2006 The Guardian It has already been heralded as the saviour of the music industry, but now the iPod could help save your life. Sussex ambulance service yesterday launched a series of audio downloads which guide MP3-player-toting members of the public through emergency first-aid situations. The step by step guides, which are available free from the service's website, www.sussexambulance.nhs.uk, offer advice on common conditions and are based on scripts used by 999 operators. The project was the idea of a paramedic, Stuart Rutland, who said that he hoped it might help in an emergency. "I like to go running and listen to music - but what if I turned the corner and somebody had collapsed? I have 11 years of paramedic training, but not everyone will. It's just about what to do in those moments before an ambulance arrives." The Sussex ambulance service was keen to emphasise that the downloads were not intended to replace conventional first-aid assistance. |
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;){kind=small} | UNCLE MAC'S MAC MOMENT |
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| If you're looking at the British Mac web site when you should be busy working and your boss walks in, press Apple H. The current application is hidden although not closed, nor is it minimised to the Dock. Use Apple and Tab to scroll through open applications to make it visable once more! Wonderful, |
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;){kind=small} | SPECIAL FEATURES |
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| Happy birthday to the Queen! |
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;){kind=small} | Listener's letters |
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| From Dino Will, thanks for the shout out for help on the last podcast. Hopefully i'll get this fetchart problem sorted out pronto. I'm gonna bug you again with another question, only cause your so helpful! Microsoft, ie; the root of all evil, have one program that isn't avaliable on the mac that i need! ACCESS! i need it to do a database of 600+ staff and i'd prefer to do it on the mac. I'm not so keen on using the hack to run windows on the mac and was wondering if you have any suggestions for database mac applications, preferably free! cheers again, have a pint on me, dino |
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| Fromf Marian, a teacher of English from Slovakia Dear Will, I've listened to every podcast from BritishMac and I jus love them! You have a lovely sense of humour and you're British, which I like. I do listen to American podcasts about Macs but was very happy when I came across yours. If you want to know why, keep reading. To introduce myself, I'm from Slovakia and I work as a teacher of English. I learnt my English in the UK where I lived and worked as an au pair and student for more than 3 years (in Wales, near Welshpool and in Lodon), so, understadably, I consider Britain to be my second home. I usually go back during the summer to visit my friends, shop in Apple Store in Regent Street, buy some Mac magazines and work to earn a few quid. Hopefully I'll be able to come this summer too. I switched to Mac last year when I bought my Mac mini and I just love it. It so different from my old, beige PC. I first came across Macs, which are rather rare in my country and the majority of computer users don't even know they exist, when I saw an ad in a PC magazine for iMac G4 - it said it is a computer you can see into. I just loved the design - it looked so much nicer than my beige PC. I then tried to find out more about Macs on the Internet. Then, one day when I was in London, I went to PC World and saw Cube G4. It looked so incredibly elegant... I knew, however, I couldn't afford it. Last year I seriously started thinking about switching to Mac. When I talked to my PC friends about it, they thought I was mad. I was planning to buy an eMac or a second hand ibook. Then I bought Mac mini as I wanted to get the latest OS + iLiife and eMac just seemed so bulky. Since then I've bought a 30Gb iPod with video and I use it a lot at school when teaching English to play stuff for listening but also videos. My students are just stunned by the beauty of the device and what it can do. I'm thinking of buying an Intel ibook/Macbook when they come out providing I can afford one. I'd just love to show the kids at school what Mac OS X looks like. They only know Windows and some possibly Linux. I wish we had a Mac at the grammar school where I teach, so that the kids could try it and see the difference. I know this is crazy and naive, but if a listener of yours had a Mac capable of running Mac OS X at a decent speed and would be willing to donate it to my school, I'd be extremely happy. I know this is unlikely. Sorry for being so naive. Anyway, keep up the good work and take care. Marian P.S. Do you ever watch ClickOnline on BBC? I watch it via satelite on BBC World. There are a few episodes where they talked about Macs. It seems to me that they're a bit anti-Mac. Well, see for yourself if you want to. Here are the links: - about cleaning keyboards - Apple Cube mentioned - seems ridiculous http://www.bbcworld.com/content/clickonline_archive_21_2005.asp?pageid=666&co_pageid=14 "Interestingly, you're far less likely to suffer a total failure if you spill a drink near a desktop computer, because most of the time you've only gummed up your keyboard. Much easier to clean, and a lot cheaper to replace. There was one exception to this - the otherwise well designed Apple Cube. Both the CD bay and the main chip parts are mounted vertically, the cooling fins, therefore, were perfectly placed to convey liquid straight into the heart of the computer. I think that's just tempting fate!" - About OS Tiger http://www.bbcworld.com/content/clickonline_archive_18_2005.asp?pageid=666&co_pageid=2 - and Windows Longhorn http://www.bbcworld.com/content/clickonline_archive_18_2005.asp?pageid=665&co_pageid=3 - Mac Attack http://www.bbcworld.com/content/clickonline_archive_39_2005.asp?pageid=666&co_pageid=2 - Apple Expo Paris 2004 http://www.bbcworld.com/content/clickonline_archive_35_2004.asp?pageid=666&co_pageid=2 - ipod people http://www.bbcworld.com/content/clickonline_archive_43_2004.asp?pageid=666&co_pageid=3 Hope this is somehow useful and entertaining. Marian (I'm a male, BTW) |
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| From Graham Hi, great idea with the podcast and nice website. I was hoping you could do a plug for our Mac User Group. It is for Exeter and the surrounding area. Our first meeting is pretty soon (26.04.06) I realise this may not be enough notice but whenever you can it would be cool. Check out our website: www.examug.org.uk (the wonders of iWeb!!). I am going to add a links section and I will include one to your podcast. Best Wishes Graham |
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;){kind=small} | British Mac Rules the world! |
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| Listener's in... Thomas Langley in Moscow, Russia Terence Arthur in Saint Michael, Barbados John Bailey in France Hhe in Bavaria, Germany Eric in Dublin |
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| Shout out for Mac users with disabilities |
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;){kind=small} | BRITISH ICON |
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| Spike Milligan |
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| Terence Alan Milligan, KBE (16 April 1918–27 February 2002), known as Spike Milligan, was a writer, artist, musician, humanitarian and comedian. He also played the piano and was a dab hand at raspberry blowing, and is best remembered as the creator, principal writer and performing member of The Goon Show |
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