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			Petition news... 46 to 68!! 68. Per Bluhm Go Mac! 67. Tony Farndon Very good cause, but don't forget our two legged friends, the MACdougals, MACalpines, MACdonalds, etc :-) 66. Jim Tetzlaff Ê 65. Richard Selby   64. Nigel Byde We share the same birthday June 11th - Happy Birthday for then old Boy 63. Michael Xuereb if I hear you pronounce my surname properly I'll feed myself you your cats 62. Paul Monaghan   61. jeremy north   60. stephen Lee A good campaingh Will hope it goes well. 59. Paul Malam   58. Paul Donnelly Please give a little back to our 4 legged felines 57. Ollie Kirby   56. Steve Townsend Great Idea. 55. Robin Berry   54. Neil McLoram A great idea, hopefully Apple Inc. will take notice and contribute. Well done Will! 53. Chris Waddell Don't pussey around, help save the big cats. 52. Simon Mirfin Giving makes you feel great!! 51. Mark   50. john burrows   49. Thornton Kay Good idea 48. Andrew Ingham Hear us Roar! 47. Joe Sayer Great idea, loving the show, keep up the good work.

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			1. Olly with Call Recorder 2 Hi Will, Hope you're well, loving the show and all that! I know I'm a bit behind on my podcast listening, but I heard that you were accepting submissions for Desert Island Applications. One that I'd like to recommend is a nifty little app called Call recorder 2.0 (http://www.ecamm.com/mac/callrecorder/). The guys who made it were at the Mac Expo in London last year and seemed really nice and enthusiastic about their product. I've been using it for a while now, but version 2 was released today and it's got a great new feature which allows you to add chapters 'on the fly' which saves tons of time in editing enhanced (and even non-enhanced) podcasts etc hen you're doing an interview. I'd highly recommend checking it out! Regards, Olly

			2. Mike with MagiCal Hi Will, A little application I always have on is the free MagiCal. It puts the date in the menu bar, so you now can see the day, time and date without a click of any buttons. And, if you want to see the calendar, all you need do is click on the date. Screenshots attached. You can get MagiCal from:- http://www.charcoaldesign.co.uk/magical Best regards, Mike§§

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			5. The Letter Manager from www.thelettermanager.com @ £19.99 for the lite version, but if you write alot of letters and do mail shots and mail merge it's a really great application. To quote Stephen Fry on the website "What a delightful programme and how well thought through it is. I think I shall definitely be using it a great deal. Stephen Fry Actor/Writer http://www.stephenfry.com/"

			What is the little Automator man holding? The answer is not a gun, but a pipe! Why a Pipe? Apple says it was inspired by Unix in Unix's ability to use the output of one tool or command as the input of a second tool or command, without a break in the process. Infact the working title of Automator was 'Pipeline'. So to best demonstrate this let us take two Unix commands and join them using a pipe. A pipe in Unix is represented by a vertical line. Unix Command 1. Open terminal and type ls Documents and press enter. Remembering Unix is case senstitive so make the D in Documents upper case. You should then see the contents of your Documents folder listed. Unix Command 2. The grep command is jolly useful and amazingly fast, it allows you to search inside files and for files. An example of grep is I have a dummy list of names and address stored in my Documents folder called tlmsample.csv, and I want to find a entry for Leeds. I navigate to my Documents folder by typing cd Documents, press enter and type: grep  Leeds tlmsample.csv and press enter. Blindingly fast Unix returns the result Mr, Ian,Hutchinson, 34 The Road, Leeds, M34 3H! You couldn't combine a directory change and the grep command, because change of directory doesn't really have an output. But you could type ls Documents | grep ".csv" and the result is tlmsample.csv Using the quotation marks as a wild card thing. All good stuff!

			Flickr for Photographers Hi Will, Glad to hear you back and in full swing with the podcast.  I listen to a couple of mac podcasts, however yours is without doubt by far the best.  I get funny looks from my wife as I'm wandering round my house, white headphones in and laughing my head off! Anyway, I just wanted to draw your attention to www.flickr.com  I've started to take up photography and am using iPhoto which is fantastic for what I need. However I wanted to load my photo's up on the net without the hassle of a .mac account.  Anyway check out flickr  www.flickr.com/photos/ingham/  It's much more than a web site for uploading your shots for family & friends to see, it also has the benefit of other photographers from various levels to offer their comments. Also you can use it as a resource for free stock photography... I use it now for my work presentations much more than google or yahoo! images. Thanks again for the podcast. Andrew Ingham.

			Mac TV and Scart Adaptor Hi Will, as mentioned in British Mac, you, like many others, don't have a modern enough TV to hook an AppleTV  to. Well it seems that there's a solution. If you have a SCART connector on your television set, you can buy an adaptor (SCART-Component Video). It seems to work. They are not dear at all only £26. Oh and by the way you don't need the 802.11n standard to transfer content, it just makes the process faster. You'll be fine with 802.11g. Though I doubt it will work with the 802.11b standard. Adam.

			Moving from Old Mac to New Hi Will,     In answer to the question you had about upgrading Macs. I’ve recently gone through that and providing your old Mac has a FireWire socket (mine’s was a 2003 eMac and that had one so I’m betting they all do) it couldn’t be simpler!      There’s an application in the Utilities folder that comes with OS X called “Migration Assistant”. Launching that on your new Mac takes you through what to do step-by-step, but basically you connect both computers via a FireWire cable and start your old computer in “Target Mode” (by holding the Control plus T keys) and the new computer will copy all your files and settings to your new machine which, after rebooting, will be identical to the old one.      It only took about half-an-hour to copy my old 60gig drive and didn’t lose a thing.          The old Mac will be untouched so remember to de-authorise any iTunes and Audible accounts and scrub the hard drive before getting rid of it!     If you want to check it out, there’s no harm in running Migration Assistant (found via the “Go” menu) at any time, although, of course, you can only follow it up the part where you have to connect the cable.               Take care      Peter Williams Livingston Scotland

			External Hard Drive One Hi again Will, In response to a user request on the show for help with backup solutions for the Mac, I'd like to throw in my two cents.  Following the sound advice of Adam from the MacCast (Maccast.com) I decided that it might be a good idea to begin backing up my saved files and programs on an external hard disk drive using a nifty backup application called SuperDuper (http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/), but at the time I wasn't too keen on the idea of ruining the beautiful aesthetics of my Mac Pro with some horrible clunky beige plastic Hard Drive from PC World! I was hence forced to look for other solutions, without much success!  However, my prayers were finally answered at the Mac Expo in October last year when I saw that a company called Iomega had recently introduced a new product lineup designed especially for Macs which actually looked half-decent! I ended up selecting the "Iomega 1TB UltraMax Hard Drive" not just because it looks very similar to the 'Cheese grater' design of the Mac Pro, but also because of the great value per Gigabyte that it offered. Since the day of my purchase it's been working great, and I struggle to find fault with the product itself. It looks great sitting next to my Mac on my desk and it's whisper quiet. The only downsides are that the external power brick is rather large and unsightly and that you do have to pay the usual 'Mac tax' that occurs when purchasing most Mac-exclusive products but this is to be expected! A few words of warning that I would offer to anyone considering a purchase of the one of the more low-end external HDDs are: 1. Most multi-platform External HDDs operate via USB 2.0 which is a much slower technology than Firewire 800 which is almost exclusive to Mac-only products (USB being up to 480 Mbit/s vs. Firewire 800 which offers up to 800 Mbit/s transfer speeds!) 2. Many cheaper HDDs only offer a limited warranty of 90 days which is a worrying prospect, given the amount of money you will be investing into the product. (It's worth mentioning that the Iomega Ultramax comes with a 2 year warranty upon purchase) 3. Finally, I'd warn people strongly against buying one of the 'power-dependent' hard disks (i.e., HDDs that don't have their own power supply) that I have seen an increase of in recent times. This is for two main reasons: one is that these HDDs are a huge drain on your computers power supply which means that you are more likely to over-stretch your available power, and two is that your file transfer performance will be dramatically decreased if your cable is having to transfer power as well as data. I hope that this will help people choose a backup solution that suits them. Thanks, Will for your continuing contribution to the Mac Podcasting community, Regards,  Olly PS. Tom Katt was me! :P

			External Hard Drive Two... Hi Will First of all you have a great show, really unique and different from anything else out there and I really enjoy listening in each week.  Its nice to have a mac podcast with someone british hosting, just makes a change to all the american ones out there. In reply to the person who was looking for an external hard drive.  I just have an external hard drive enclosure.  This means I can take any normal internal ide ultra ata drive(I believe there's ones for sata drives aswell) and turn it into an external drive.  The first advantage of this is that internal drives are less expensive that external units, although you do have to buy the enclosure to start with.  Mine cost me just over £20 but it came with connections for usb2 and firewire.  Also being able to just swap drives in and out means in the future I can just replace the drive rather that buying a whole new external drive with its casing etc.  So far as normal external drives go I have never had one, however a friend has a maxtor one which he hasn't had any problems with.  Hope this helps. Also I came across this website a few weeks ago which I think is pretty cool.  Its called Musicovery and basically it lets you choose what sort of music you would like to listen to by mood.  So you can choose Positive, dark, energetic etc.. and you are able to narrow it down further, with the music type.  The interface is fun aswell, with like a trail of music with colourful flowery shapes.  The catalog of music seems to be quite vast and it has lots of different artists.  The music quality isn't that great, but I would say its no worse than listening to radio over the net.  Overall I think its great, a nice way to choose what sort of music you want to listen to and good for discovering other artists/bands which you may have never listened to. http://www.musicovery.com/ Anyway keep up the good work, Dave Bracey

			External Hard Drive Three... I am just playing catch up on the old pod-cast and have heard you talking about external hard drive storage (you may have already gone over this subject but I haven't listened to the easter additions yet!) I am awaiting delivery of a Western Digital 500GB MyBook Pro USB/Firewire 400/800 7200RPM 16MB Cache - Retail (copy and paste hence full description :-) ) I went for the Pro version as I wanted to make use of the firewire 800 connection - hopefully it will keep the transfer rate up. I will try and do some speed tests and let you know how well it performs. I am currently writing this on my lovely new 17inch mac book pro... I opted for the standard config with the 5400rpm 160 gig drive rather than down grading to the 7200rpm 100 gig version as all that additional space was too tempting (soon ran out though hence the external drive!) It will be quite interesting to see the speed difference between writing/reading to the internal drive rather than the external - will try and let you know. Enjoy the pod-cast - keep up the good work (stop taking breaks :-) ) David Hopkinson§

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