Episode BritishMac016
NEWS
Apple updates QuickTime, Front Row
Apple has released updates for QuickTime and Front Row.
The company's QuickTime 7.1 update (49.1MB) is designed for Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later.
"Delivers numerous bug fixes, support for iLife '06, and H.264 performance improvements. The update is available in multiple languages: Dutch, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portugese, Netherlands, Simplified and Traditional Chinese, and also Swedish.
Apple has also updated its Front Row Mac media centre software, introducing version 1.2.2 of the application, which ships with the latest Intel-powered Macs.
The software (4MB) integrates a number of bug fixes, including:
- Addresses bugs that prevented song shuffling within playlists;
- Front row no longer says the server was not found when its waiting for a large movie trailer or long shared video to load;
- Corrects bugs that prevented authorized Audible Audiobooks from playing
- Fixes a variety of DVD compatibility issues;
- Purchased movies located in the Movies folder are now correctly recognized
- Includes a variety of fixes for VoiceOver accessibility;
- Fixes a bug that prevented Front Row from reconnecting to shared video libraries after wake from sleep.
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Apple invites press for its Fifth Avenue retail store launch apple in the big apple
Sources who are in the media reported MacosXrumors that Apple has sent invitations to the press for a special event that will take place on May 18th on the 767th Fifth avenue at 59th Street in Manathan, New York.
The invitation’s slogan is “Think inside the box” and the invitation states:
Please join us at a press preview for the launch of the Apple Store, Fifth Avenue at 10:00 a.m. on May 18, 2006. Registration begins at 9:30 a.m.
Here is a picture of the invitation.
Apple is expected to unveil its next generation iBook next week. The entry-level laptop will probably be called “MacBook” and will be powered by an Intel CPU. Recent unconfirmed reports also suggest the release of a red flavored iPod.
However, the event is officially dedicated to the opening of the new flagship store location on the 5th avenue. The invitation doesn’t state anything about new product releases though. So we can expect the release of the MacBook and maybe other products anytime next week.
Intel Core 2 Duo and Core 2 Extreme new intel cpus
Intel has announced the commercial names of its two forthcoming processor line-ups.
The code-named Merom will be called Core 2 Duo while the code-named Conroe will ba called Core 2 Extreme. These new processors feature two cores and 64-bit processing while the Core 2 Duo is intended to laptops and compact PC such as the iMac.
Both of the processors are likely to be used by Apple in future products. The Core 2 Duo can fit in an iMac or a Mac Book Pro while the Core 2 Extreme could be used in the next-generation, Intel-based PowerMacs that could see their name changed to Mac Pro (according to trademark data).
The two processors are now expected to be made available in July or August
new itunes phone
Japanese Web and telecom conglomerate Softbank Corp. (9984.T: Quote, Profile, Research) is working with Apple Computer Inc.(AAPL.O: Quote, Profile, Research) to develop mobile telephones with built-in iPod music players, Nikkei reported on Friday.
The music-playing phones can download songs from Apple's iTunes Music Store, The Nihon Keizai Shimbun said in an article posted on its Web site.
A spokesman for Apple in Cupertino, California, was not immediately available to comment.
The report said Apple and Softbank have agreed to co-develop the phone for sale as early as this year. The device is expected to carry both the Softbank and Apple brands, the report said, without citing the source of the information.

The new mobile phone will enable downloading of music from the iTunes Music Store, just like existing iPods, the report said. The companies will also launch a new product as early as next year which will enable users to download music on the go over wireless networks, it said.
The price of music downloads would be the same as to iTunes, the report said.
Softbank, which last month said it would buy Vodafone's(VOD.L: Quote, Profile, Research) Japanese mobile phone business, appears to be looking to use the power of Apple's brand to compete against mobile market leaders NTT DoCoMo (9437.T: Quote, Profile, Research) and KDDI Corp.
Apple beat Apple Corps
Computer giant beats Beatles in legal case
08 May 06 - Apple Computers has won it's battle against the Beatles' Apple Corps, a judge at London's High Court has just ruled.

Apple Corps, owned by Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, John Lennon's widow Yoko Ono and the estate of George Harrison, argued the computer company had violated a 1991 trademark agreement by moving into the music business through its market-leading iTunes online store.

However, Apple Computer has won its argument that iTunes was primarily a data transmission service, which is permitted by the agreement.

The 1991 out-of-court settlement, which included a $26 million payment by Apple Computer, set out areas in which each party would have exclusive use of their respective fruit-shaped logos.

In his judgement, Mr Justice Mann said: "I find no breach of the trademark agreement has been demonstrated," Mr Justice Mann said in his judgment. "The action
therefore fails."

Apple Corps said it would appeal the decision, while Apple Computer was awarded court costs.
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Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Paul Neil Milne Johnstone was the person originally credited in the original radio play version of Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy with being "the very worst" poet in the universe. The name given was that of a real person, who apparently was not amused, and complained. However this was not because he was being credited as the worst poet in the universe (which he merely found amusing) but the use of his address. The original name and address appear in the first printing of the Pan paperback and the first issue of the Original Records recording. The recorded version was changed by cutting up the tape and reassembling it in a different order to produce gobbledegook, whilst for later book printings and subsequent versions of Hitchhiker's, e.g. TV and film, the name was changed to "Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings of Wasp Villas, Greenbridge, Essex, England".
The poem to which Douglas Adams indirectly referred in the original radio series (and directly referred in the television series) can be viewed here:
The worst poem in the universe
The dead swans lay in the stagnant pool.
They lay. They rotted. They turned
Around occasionally.
Bits of flesh dropped off them from
Time to time.
And sank into the pool's mire.
They also smelt a great deal.