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				And finally - Distraction free writing, back to the good old days! http://www.hogbaysoftware.com/product/writeroom For Mac users who enjoy the simplicity of a typewriter, but live in the digital world. WriteRoom is a full screen, distraction free, writing environment. Unlike standard word processors that focus on features, WriteRoom is just about you and your text. Requires Mac OS X 10.4 or later. A place to sit down and write Walk into WriteRoom and your busy computer life fades away. The distractions of e-mail, the web, and your thousand desktop icons are gone. Only you and your text remain. This is a place where work gets done and procrastination has no place. When you've finished exit your WriteRoom, and you are back in the busy world with your work in hand. Furnish to your liking Your WriteRoom doesn't have to be green on black. Choose your own colors, fonts, and page layout. Make it your own and then enjoy your new distraction free writing environment. User-powered software We deeply trust your instincts and opinions, and so we've developed a user-powered software development process. We invite you, as a user of WriteRoom, to directly participate in its development process, by requesting features, reading other people's requests, and voting on them so we can prioritize our time. We love this feedback; come and join the community, and make WriteRoom even better. If you are a programmer, we'll even give you access to WriteRoom source code.

				iTunes Tutorial Part 2 by Mike Bradbrook

				Hello to new Frappr Members

				Phil and Sharron, we live in Little Weighton, which is in the East Riding of Yorkshire ( rains all the time, but the beer compensates ). By the way, you should have a couples marker on your map, not just guys and gals, as I am certain there are lots of Mac families out there. Sorted!

				Nike+iPOD Tutorial Part 2, by Rob Hancox

				Rob Hancox iTrip Review Following your piece in this weeks mac news relating to transmitting devices, I thought I'd share my opinion of the iTrip. Earlier this year we went on holiday abroad and hired a car. Rather than take a load of cds I got an itrip in order to use my ipod as a music source in the car. On the whole it worked but I'd not recommend it for three reasons. 1 Sound quality. The audio is taken from the headphone output on the ipod which is not good for an in car system. Poor treble, muddy overall and hisssss too. 2 Reception. The signal picked up by the car's antenna was very much affected by the orientation of the ipod. it would be ok in one direction but turn the device 90 degrees and the signal would drop off dramatically. 3 iPod choice. My 4th gen ipod photo is no good in a car. The problem is that any lumps ans bumps on the road would cause the ipod to park it's hard drive. I tried all sorts of things to prevent it doing so, putting it on soft things on the seat just about worked but not entirely. A flash drive ipod would be much better but the above problems would still exist unless griffin adressed them. (in my opinion)

				Jeremy clarifies A point you mentioned in your latest pcast was about the amount of music a cd can contain, you said it was Beethoven's 3rd symphony which you forgot the name. It is called the Eroica. However, you were not quite right. It was a beethoven symphony which determined the capacity, but it was his 9th 'Choral' which is about half an hour longer than the third. Incidentally, lps were designed to take most classical symphonies by splitting the movements 2 per side. 45 rpm singles were a direct higher quality replacement for 78s.

				More Net Neutrality, from Mike Bradbrook (Play Clip) Jon Stewert, This is so really really good and follows on from last week's email I sent. I love the Way Jon gets John Hodgman to say he's a PC (for those who don't know, John plays the PC in the Mac vs. PC Apple advertising campaign Get a Mac (http://www.apple.com/getamac/ads) http://www.veoh.com/videoDetails.html?v=e97206szs4npk9

				Liven up your Mac for free! Calum in pointed out a new web site that is rich in Mac themed wallpapers. http://www.macdesktops.net/

				Innovation - Punch & Judy The show is traditionally performed by a single puppeteer, known as a Professor. Punch wears a jester's motley, is hunchbacked and his hooked nose almost meets his curved jutting chin. He carries a stick, as large as himself, which he freely uses upon all the other characters in the show. He speaks in a bizarre rasping voice, produced by a contrivance known as a swazzle or swatchel which the Professor holds in his mouth, transmitting his gleeful cackle— "as pleased as Punch". So important is Mr. Punch's signature sound that it is a matter of some controversy within Punch and Judy circles as to whether a 'non swazzled' show can be considered a true Punch and Judy Show. May 9, 1662 is traditionally reckoned by 'Professors' as Punch's UK birthday, for that was the first recorded date on which the figure who later became Mr. Punch was seen in Britain. The diarist Samuel Pepys observed a puppet show featuring an early version of the 'Punch' character near St. Paul's Church in London's Covent Garden.

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