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| Problems with iWeb 08...
From MacFix It:
Backup your Domain files Make a copy of this file -- located in ~/Library/Application Support/iWeb/Domain -- before attempting to update to or use iWeb '08. The program is causing serious issues for a number of readers (as discussed below), and may delete or make inoperable parts of your stored Web site(s). Saving this file can mean the difference between losing or maintaining your current site data.
Missing site elements including photo galleries The most dire issue users are experiencing after updating to iWeb '08 is the sudden disappearance of various site elements, particularly photo galleries. Many users have reported that entire swaths of their sites are completely missing after launching the update and attempting to work with their pre-existing site(s) file.
Crashes A surprisingly high number of users are reporting repeated crashes after updating to iWeb '08.
Ironically, it appears that many of the crashes can be resolved by removing the file ~/Library/Application Support/iWeb/Domain. In essence, it looks like iWeb '08 is choking on the sites file created by older versions of iWeb. So move this file to a separate location, and try launching iWeb '08 again.
Increased resource usage/slowness Users are reporting that the new version of iWeb uses significantly more memory and processor time than its predecessor.
Cured with update?
iWeb '08 2.0.1 released: "addresses issues with upgrading and publishing iWeb 1.x websites."
Hopefully resolving some of the major issues with publishing previously created Web sites that afflicted the initial 2.0 release. Apple's release notes state only that the update "addresses issues with upgrading and publishing iWeb 1.x websites."
The most dire issue users are/were experiencing after updating to iWeb '08 (2.0) is the sudden disappearance of various site elements, particularly photo galleries. Many users have reported that entire swaths of their sites are completely missing after launching the update and attempting to work with their pre-existing site(s) fil
Podcast problems (Dave in Oz)...
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| Skype 2.7 for Mac beta ships
New version Skype offers Address book support and more
Jonny Evans
Skype has released Skype 2.7 for Mac beta.
The new version of Skype introduces a range of features to the popular VOIP software: group contacts, Address Book support and more.
Group contacts enables users to organize contacts into as many groups as required, which should help keep large lists organised.
Skype 2.7 for Mac also lets users see their Apple Address Book contacts in Skype, allowing them to call or SMS anyone who has a phone number in their address-book profile.
Users can also create and manage public chats by clicking on Chats in the menu bar and use the new Auto Redial facililty.
Skype has also improved the appearance of the software's file-transfer utility.
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 | Jobs exercises 120,000 Apple shares
Steve Jobs exercises options, but has no plans to cash in yet
Karen Haslam
Apple CEO Steve Jobs this week exercised 120,000 Apple shares, likely to be worth between $14.5 million and $14.8 million.
Steve Jobs bought the 120,000 shares for $5.75 apiece this week, according to a regulatory filing made public on Wed 17 August 2007; Jobs paid a total of $690,000.
Apple gave Jobs the options, which carried a strike price of $5.75 a share, in August 1997 when he joined the company. The 120,000 options were set to expire this week, writes Bloomberg.
However, he hasn't sold the shares and has no plans to do so at this time, Apple said.
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noun Stock Market
the price per share at which the owner of a traded option is entitled to buy or sell the underlying security.
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| exercise price
noun Stock Market
the price per share at which the owner of a traded option is entitled to buy or sell the underlying security.
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| Fake Steve Jobs blogger unmasked
The blog was started 14 months ago
The anonymous writer of a prominent blog which lampoons Apple boss Steve Jobs has been unmasked.
The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs, in which the writer pretended to be the Apple chief executive, has become a must-read for technology watchers.
After months of speculation, the New York Times reported that the writer was Daniel Lyons, a senior editor at business magazine Forbes.
Despite the unmasking, the diary will continue but on the Forbes website.
Mr Lyons, who writes about technology, told the New York Times: "I'm stunned that it's taken this long (to discover my identity)."
'Ruined mystery'
He said he had had to buy books and biographies to "learn about a lot of the back story" of Apple.
Writing as Steve Jobs on the blog, Mr Lyons said: "Now you've ruined the mystery of Fake Steve, robbing thousands of people around the world of their sense of childlike wonder."
He added: "Apple faithful, here in our darkest hour I know what you're thinking: What's next for FSJ?
"Well, I'm taking a few days off to sit in a lake and do some yoga and meditation and non-thinking. Then I'm coming back next week, badder than ever, with a new sponsor - my homeboys at Forbes.com."
Mr Lyons told the newspaper that the blog was intended as an experiment to find out what happened if a company chief executive kept a blog and told the truth.
The journalist has used the blog to poke fun at many different figures in the technology industry, including Oracle's Larry Ellison, Bill Gates, and Google's Eric Schmidt.
The real Steve Jobs and Bill Gates admitted to reading the blog.
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| Very secret new Photoshop for the rest of us killer, but can't say more
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| First UK iPhone review:
Hi Will,
Hope you are good. Just wanted to first thank you for the link and the publicity you have the site since it launch just over a month ago. So far we have had over 5000 hits in the first month. So things have been a little crazy.
Just wanted to let you know that I have posted a review of the iPhone on the site, as we managed to get a play with 2 of the iPhone up here in Glasgow last night. Got to say, I am well impressed.
Thanks for the plugs and if you want any more info on the iPhones, let me know.
Regards
Steve
http://www.iphoneuklaunch.com/
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| Apple cans AppleWorks
AppleWorks declared 'end of life'
Jonny Evans
AppleWorks' last breath was masked by last week's iMac, iLife and iWork announcements - Apple has discontinued the product.
Apple told resellers of the demise of AppleWorks last week, announcing that the software had reached "End of Life" status. It will no longer be sold. The AppleWorks website now directs users to the iWork section of Apple's website.
The original AppleWorks was written by Robert Lissner and released in 1984 by Apple for the Apple II family of computers, and at one point was the biggest-selling software package in the industry.
The modern incarnation of AppleWorks started life as ClarisWorks, written by Bob Hearn and Scott Holdaway.
At one time, AppleWorks was bundled with all consumer level Macs sold by Apple. It reached version 6.0, where it languished since the late nineties.
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| Hi Will
Firstly, thanks for the (almost) weekly breath of fresh air that is British Mac. It is, without doubt, the podcast that I look forward to hearing more than any other. Keep up the good work.
I've attached a screen shot of my Dashboard which you're welcome to add to Frankenwidget if you like. Just to mention a couple that I particularly like: The Tuna Pitch widget is a quick and easy way to tune your guitar or, indeed, any musical instrument. It does just what it says on the tin. The Chi Pet widget seems to be the perfect pet, it doesn't chew the furniture or p*ss on the carpet and only needs feeding a single drop of water every three days. The Character Pal widget is useful when you're looking for strange characters and can't remember the keyboard combination and the BBC Listen Again widget is wonderful when you've missed your favourite programme and want to... errr... listen again!
Of course, the very best widget of all is not visible on this screen shot as I do not have room to leave it there permanently but the most rewarding utility of all must surely be the Whoopee cushion widget. Genius!
I've annotated the screen grab with a tool called Skitch, which is currently under beta testing but I do have an invitation that I can send you if you would like to join the beta testers.
Thanks again for British Mac. It really is a fine example of British eccentricity and you're to be applauded for keeping our national heritage alive.
Cheers
Gavin Gough
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| Hi Will!!
Loving your podcast (but i find the 50th episode a little disappointing. I thought you were going to talk a little about Macs and their history or something like that... After all this podcast is about Macs right?)
Anyway no hard feelings! I'm emailing to send you a screenshot of my Dashboard. (It's attached to the email)
Ok, thanks for your time!
Adam Johnston.
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| Hi Will,
Hi, when I was listening to your podcast I had the real feeling that
you were just skimming the surface of what the Terminal can do for
you. You showed how to get quick full paths to folders by dragging the
folders into the Terminal.
So let me explain now, and give you a nice hint and maybe something to
talk about, that i much more powerful:
The problem is that not all folders show up in your Finder. Mac OS X
does a cool thing of hiding the system files to the user. In these
cases you could go to the terminal, browse around with "ls" (or "dir")
to see what is in a folder, and then use "cd" to go to a folder. This
is pretty tedious, so let me explain how to get ANYWHERE in your file
system at the same speed as in the finder.
Open terminal, and let's say we want to find something in the folder
/etc/ but we don't know which files exactly, or we don't want to type
the whole name. Now type in your terminal "cd /e" and hit tab. This
will auto complete to "/etc/", cool right? Now if you want to continue
looking around, you can either type part of what you were looking for,
or hit tab again.
If you hit tab again, it shows you all the files in that folder, after
which you can give it a search and then when you find it, start typing
it. In my case I gave it a look, found the folder I was looking for to
be "defaults", so I type an extra "d" (which makes my entire path now
"/etc/d" and hit tab again. Tada: now I have the entire command "cd
/etc/defaults/.
You can basically continue looking around without having to type a
lot of "cd" and "ls" command, and I think that in some cases it is
maybe even faster that the Finder. I was in the Apple Store Regents
Street in London last week and showed one of the Geeks at the Geek Bar
this trick and he was amazed.
-- Cristiano
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| Hey, I was browsing around iTunes for pod casts & thought I'd give British Mac ago expecting a polished, to the point pod cast about things I'd already red about on Macworld.com or something. Happily a quote for the true Italian Job had me very happy. Your cast is brilliant, although why Guinness? Surely you can get some decent British ale in Ironbridge? You can in Shrewsbury where I'm from :)
Anyway I thought I'd comment about the terminal commands from the cast. The shutdown sudo command is really shinny. But more to the point typing quit in the bc calculator will take you back to the login part of bash. :)
Oh and as a side not sudo gives you FULL access to the machine as an administrator. I have to start MySql with a sudo command. I believe Ubuntu does the same, to prevent a user from deleting something in Unix that you shouldn't. Similar to how the MAC Finder hides a bunch of your machine.
I'll be off now to have a gander at Skitch
Regards
Dave
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| Will
The dragging of a folder from finder to terminal to get the path...
Gobsmacked.
Sure folks have told you Ctrl z will exit most unix commands including bc.
Cheers
John
http://www.macwiz.co.uk/apple/
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| Hi Will,
Nice touch, thanks.
Listened to the latest episode this morning (54 I think) not sure if you know, but a quick way to get to the Application/utilities folder for the terminal is apple + shift + u in the finder.
apple + shift + a gets you the application folder.
Keep up the good work, britishmac always has me chuckling
Nick
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| Hi Will
As ever BritishMac is both informative and entertaining. Just catching up on no.54 and heard you talking about things you can do with Terminal. I thought you might like this one. (Ignore the quote marks below, but include the word spaces).
If you type 'Cal' (return), you'll get the current months calendar
If you type 'Cal 2002' (return), you'll get that year's full calendar (same for any other year)
If you type 'Cal 8 2002' (return), you'll get that month's calendar (same for any other month/year combination).
Now a really, really useful one...
If you type 'Cal 1752' - take a look at September - you've discovered when this country switched from the Gregorian calendar to the Julian calendar and lost 11 days in the process - you already knew that of course, but I'd bet a pint you didn't know the Mac knew it!
More power to your elbow
P e t e r
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| Hi Will
If you have carried out several commands in Terminal and you find you want to repeat one - just tap the up-arrow key.
To get further back than the previous command just keep tapping the up-arrow until it appears.
Down-arrow will bring you back down through the commands.
All the best
P e t e r
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| It's Job: The Command key has a single purpose: allowing the user to enter keyboard shortcut commands to GUI applications.
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| It's History: The clover symbol is a Saint Hannes cross which is sometimes found in Scandinavia as an ornament on Viking artifacts. It is also similar to a traditional heraldic emblem called a Bowen knot. Jobs felt that this was an over-use of the company logo, he opted for a different key symbol. With only a few days left before deadline, the team's bitmap artist Susan Kare started researching for the Apple logo's successor. She was browsing through a symbol dictionary when she came across the cloverleaf-like symbol, used in Sweden for "attractions on a campground".
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| Some Examples: Command and Q = Quit Application. Command and W = Quit Window Command and I = Copies Web Page content to email
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| It's Job: Switches the function of for example a mouse or return key press, and also to provide easier access to various accents and symbols
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| It's History: This symbol represents a microswitch, allowing the current to go one of two directions.
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| Some Examples: Safari, Finder - the Option key causes the "Close Window" menu item to switch to "Close All Windows" when pressed down.
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| It's Job: It is mostly used as a modifier key for key-combinations. And as to bring up contextual menus, ie: left hand button on a mouse
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| It's History: On teletypewriters and early computer keyboards, holding down the Control key while pressing another key zeroed the leftmost 2 bits of the 7 bits in the generated ASCII character. This allowed the operator to produce the first 32 characters in the ASCII table. These are non-printing characters that signal the computer to control where the next character will be placed on the display device, eject a printed page or erase the screen, ring the terminal bell, or some other operation. Aptly, these characters are also called control characters.
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| Some Example: Left mouse button
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| British Mac Labour Exchange
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| I'm a 22 year old student of Computer and Networking Technology about to go into the last year of my degree. This year will only be part time, so I'm looking for something else to occupy my time. I'm based in Manchester, but I am willing to travel around the North West. I'm mainly looking to get a foot into the technology / creative industries so pay isn't that important (as long as it pays the bills!). A full resume is available at my site http://grahamgilbert.com
Cheers
Graham
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| Graeme John Hogg
About me, well I've been working in the colouring 'n' and draw 'n' industry since oooo about '87.
Graphic design and illustration stuff. Always on the look out for more graft.
I'm based in the North East, sunny North Shields.
Love the show yer deein a canny job and allways give me a giggle.
I'm attaching a few jpgs of samples.
I work either traditional, Photoshop or vectored image.
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| Southbank Show
Interview with Brian Thomas Part 1
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| Desert Island Applications
Brian Thomas
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| Missing emails...
1. Dancing with my Powermac / Powerbook
2. I don't know! If I haven't replyed, please let me know!
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| I've had similar issues using wi-fi on my Macbook - if I switch off my router while my Mac is switched on and active (i.e. by accident) then put it back on, I have to restart my Mac before the wireless connection is picked up again. Odd.
Maybe the user could try switching his router on and off? Now that I read over it again, it seems that his issue is almost the exact opposite of mine. :-P
Neil
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