Woolworths to stop selling CDs Woolworths has ended sales of CD singles as iTunes takes over the music industry Jonny Evans UK high street retailer Woolworths has announced plans to end sales of CD singles. Commercial director Jim Batchelor explains: “CDs are alive and well for album sales, but unfortunately the physical singles market is in terminal decline. Our customers are now starting to embrace the world of download, which is why we feel the time is right to launch our new digital site.” Woolworths Download is a RealNetworks-powered music, video, games and mobile content store. It offers over 1.2 million songs and over a thousand films and TV shows. Music comes as WMA or MP3 where available.

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				Mac thief caught on camera You've been iFramed By John Leyden → More by this author Rate this story 55 Ratings Published Monday 12th May 2008 11:27 GMT See what the experts have to say on attracting, retaining and developing IT talent A pair of clueless US crooks were brought to justice when they went online using an Apple employee's stolen laptop. Edmon Shahikian, 23, of Katonah, and Ian Frias, 20, of the Bronx district of New York, were arrested and charged with burglary and possession of stolen property after their victim tracked them down. Kait Duplaga, who works in an Apple store, traced the duo thanks to software application installed on her stolen Mac, the New York Times reports. Along with the Mac another laptop, flat-screen TVs and computer games, DVDs, MP3 players and a set of car wheel hubs were stolen in a burglary at the apartment Duplaga shared with two other people in White Plains last month. Almost all the stolen booty was recovered when police arrested Shahikian and Frias. Duplaga used a feature called "Back to My Mac" to gain remote access to her laptop when the dynamic duo used it to surf the net. She saw that the pair of crooks were shopping for beds. Surreptitiously she activated a camera on her laptop which she used to take a picture of Frias, using an application called PhotoBooth. One of Duplaga's flatmates knew Frias, who attended a house party shortly before the break-in - a factor that led to his undoing when Duplaga turned over his picture to the police. ®

				Live From Abbey Road: Recording History By Jonny Evans Since opening in 1931, EMI’s world-famous Abbey Road Studios have been at the cutting edge of music and technology. It’s the historic source for some of the greatest music the world’s ever heard, from The Beatles to Radiohead and beyond. There’s really no other place quite like it, which is why producers Peter Van Hooke and Michael Gleason chose it as the location for their unique TV concept, Live From Abbey Road, screened worldwide – and built using Final Cut Studio.

				I came across another collection of Desert Island Apps or then again it could of been Frankenwidgets on a blog, but I'm blowed if I can remember where it was. It crossed over multiple pages.

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				Desert Island Apps Recently on the British Mac podcast a new feature has started up called Desert Island Apps. If you’re not from our lovely rainy little island, there is a feature on BBC Radio 4 called Desert Island Discs where celebrities come on and choose five records that they would take with them if they were stranded on a desert island. Anyway, time to get to the point. The idea is you choose five Mac apps that you can’t live without. I’m going to ignore all the usual things like Microsoft Office and the iLife suite, and focus on lesser known apps. Quicksilver is my first choice. I truly couldn’t live without it, I use it literally all the time. Basically it is an application launcher, but it is so much more than that. To start off with it is instant with its results. You know how Spotlight takes a moment or two to come up with results? There’s none of that with Quicksilver. It also seems to be psychic. It nearly always comes up with the right result, and if it doesn’t it learns for next time. But the real beauty of Quicksilver is in the other things it can do. It can manipulate files, run scripts - pretty much anything that you can think of. And if you can think of it and it isn’t there then you can probably find a plugin that will make it happen. My second app is Feeder. Its made by Reinvented Software, and it is used for the creation and management of RSS feeds. I have a couple of podcasts and I use it to make my feeds. Sure, creating RSS feeds isn’t particularly difficult, but it is a bit of a pain in the bum. Feeder just makes it easier since it handles the creation of the feed, and it will also upload any other files needed to your webserver. In short, it does what all good apps should do - takes something tedious and repetitive and make it quick and easy. Keeping with the “making something tedious nice and easy” theme comes app number three - CSSEdit. It is a visual CSS editor that uses webkit (the rendering engine that Safari uses) to display your edits in real time. Its especially useful to me since it can pull a website from the internet (such as your wordpress blog that is running on your server) and apply your custom styling to it. And speaking of blogs gives me a lovely link to my next app. TextMate is my default text editor. Now I know what you’re thinking “I already have TextEdit, why do I need another editor”. Well, there are editors and there are editors, and this is the latter. There are countless add ons, it recognises what language you’re writing in (that’s computer language) and has code completion. It does everything I need and more than I will ever use. My last application is MPEG Streamclip. My digital camera records in plain old MPEG and of course, iMovie only likes more modern formats. So I use MPEG Streamclip to convert my videos into a more iMovie friendly mp4 format. This can be done with many other tools, but this one is not only free, but it is really rather fast when compared to the others. Well, there are the five apps I’d take to a desert island with me. Hope they’ve been useful to someone.

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				About Wallsaver Want a more exciting wallpaper for your desktop? Then turn it into a Wallsaver! The Wallsaver widget allows you to run the screen saver of your choice on your desktop, right behind all your icons. Simply select which screen saver you’d like to see from the back of the widget and click the large green button on the front. To stop, click the same button which will have turned red.

				Hi Will I must tell you how much I have enjoyed listening to your British Mac pod-cast and thank you for giving us mac heads such  interesting and entertaining listening. Your pod-casts are something to look forward to, Thank You. I have attached a couple of photos I took when I was in Antarctica earlier this year (with my work) that you may decide to include in the gallery.  Interestingly the photos were taken with an inexpensive Casio point and shoot but have produced some nice pictures. There are a couple of out team who go south to the ice caped bottom of the world every December who take Mac Books & iPods to entertain us during the nights of constant sun shine and it's amassing how well Mac stuff performs in that cold environment. Still I hope you like the photos especially the one I took of myself to prove to my wife to be that I do go south and don't have another life in Bournemouth during the winter months. Thanks again for your efforts with the pod-cast, you are doing a very good job. Mark

				From Dom I think you should make an iMix on iTunes of all the music you use on the show, or at least put it in the show notes.  The music you use is awsome!

				Hi Will,   Listened for a while now, love the show as they say in America! your a great mix of news tips and irrelevance in a very english package.   Was listening to 67 i think it was and you were wondering where next for the iMac?   Well i think i might have a reasonable idea for where Jobsy is going. Now we all know that Steves plans are actually for world domination by Apples ever creeping reach of its markets (its no bad thing at least they look good and work pretty well). I think with the ever increasing convergence of technologies the next market to receive the Apple touch may well be the TV - a little slow there i hear you say well i mean the convergence of the big flat panel TV with a general application Mac and touch screen tec!   Apple are hiring again and they want peeps with flat panel design knowledge to work with there multi touch dept! http://www.macrumors.com/2008/05/13/apple-hiring-for-advanced-multitouch-displays/ touch screens are so easy to use even my parents wanted a go with my iphone and all had no trouble using it - more than i can say for using a mouse and computer.   Now personally for a couple of years now i have wanted a tv (a one box solution) that you could surf the web on. Yep but you can do that already you say well my thinking goes like this, the main theory of use of any product is - Barriers to Entry! if a product is hard to use you wont use it.Some times i cant be bothered turning on my lappie and waiting for it to boot etc but my TV is always on. My parents wont use computers / PVR's / web because there too difficult to use. Last year i almost wrote to Apple to plead for such a device.   I think the way that apple will go is a range of different size TV's with built in Mac's maybe running the new atom processors, as you've said even the smallest Mac's can run nearly all app's so you dont need a massive processor (would help with production scales using the neat little MB from the Air - i also think the tiny MB from the Air will be seen in another larger handheld later this year - why produce such a small MB if your only going to use it in a comparatively big case of the Air? but i digress).   So my thought is a touch screen TV with multi touch for web surfing, email basic stuff built in PVR with access to itunes for music and show downloads, it'll also have wifi n for an ability to act as your media server and broadcast to the rest of your house and maybe even act as a sling box for sending to any web based location - as we all know IP TV is the next big thing and it'll change the way everyone watches and uses TV. 20in for the kitchen (order the shopping kids do homework) 32in for the bedroom 50in for the lounge all linked and using there drives as raid type storage and backup automatically?   What do you think?   Regards Phil Roberts

				Hi Will, I'm a relative late comer to the podcast and I think started on about episode 60. I notice on itunes that 64 is the oldest one. Is it possible to download from anywhere older episodes? Ideally I'd like to go back to 1 and listen to them all (I have a 45 min commute in the morning so it would be ideal) Cheers Tim. P.s. Loving the widgets, I've never really used them before but it's nice to see what other people are using them for. Do you know anyone using there mac for home automation, controlling lights timers around the home etc maybe you could ask in your next podcast? Have you done something on creating widgets? A tutorial on what you can do?

				Hi Love your podcasts. Would like to download and listen to earlier editions, however I find that only links for editions 1 to 10 are active. Are editions after this not ready/available? -- Kind Regards David Akroyd

				Hi Will, just dropping in to point you to a fantastic set of albums that I happened across at generalfuzz.net.  http://www.generalfuzz.net/tunes.php General Fuzz a.k.a James Kirsch has put up his life's work for free download and I have to say some of it is rather tasty. Knowing your fondness for thumping out some tunes during your brilliant podcast I'd recommend 'Smiling Perspective' during the next interlude. Now whether these are put together on a Mac is unclear - but the could be as they were done with Propellerhead's Reason and Ableton's Live both of which are available for Windoze and Mac. I'm in awe of folks that can put together stuff like this - music that used to be the domain of Jean Michel Jarre and Mike Oldfield purely because of the expense of the hardware. I'd love to get into it myself but suspect that my meagre musical skills would be inadequate to produce anything worthwhile - but when you get round to telling us about Logic - then I'll have a better idea (hint - hint). Thank you very much Will for British Mac - in the long list of podcasts that I subscribe to, yours is the very best - don't change a thing. Ian Bartlett

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