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Episode BritishMac070

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iPhone 2. Out on July 11th
Hardware
    What's changes?
    Plastic curved back
    Metal buttons
    Built in GPS (also using cell towers and wifi together with 3G)
    3G
    Better Audio
    Non-recessed audio jack
    Needs new dock
    Improved battery life

    What hasn't changed?
    Camera
    Screen
    Home button
    Available in white

Software
    What's changed?
    Scientific Calculator
    Delete and move multiple email messages
    Push email, contacts and calendarBuilt-in Micrrsoft Exchange support
    Cisco Secure VPN services
    Contact search
    iWork document support
    Powerpoint support
    Save images
    Parental Controls
    Multiple language support - switch between them on the fly
    Free $9.95 for software on iPod Touches

    What hasn't changed?
    Seemingly no copy & paste!


App Store & 3rd Party Apps
    Play demo of UK software
    App store on iPhone - wirelessly download
    Wirelessly updates
    70% of revenue goes to developer
    No charge apps, no charge to devs.
    App store 62 countries
    If app is 10mb less can download it via cell network (does this include EDGE)
    Fairplay DRM

Price
70 new countries
UK prices from o2:
    Pay as you Go coming soon
    New 18 month contract
                8GB    On £35 contract, phone costs you £99
                    On £45 or £75 contract phone is free
                16GB    Free on our £75 tariff.
                    £59 with the £45 tariff and £159 on our £30 and £35 tariffs. All tariffs include unlimited browsing on your iPhone, unlimited Wi-Fi access, visual voicemail and reduced roaming rates with our International Traveller Service and are subject to a minimum term contract of 18 months.

What happens to your old iPhone? If you've a friend or family member already on an eligible O2 tariff, they'll be able to transfer to one of our new tariffs for iPhone. If they're not already with O2 or on an eligible O2 tariff, they could get one of our new iPhone Pay & Go SIM cards.

Monthly Charge	£30	£35	£45	£75
Cost of 8GB iPhone	£99	£99	Free	Free
Cost of 16GB iPhone	£159	£159	£59	Free
Minutes	75	600	1200	3000
Texts	125	500	500	500
Unlimited Data & Wi-Fi
Visual Voicemail
Reduced Roaming Rates
Minimum contract length	18 months	18 months	18 months	18 months

				iTunes UK selling & renting movies Apple quietly introduces film rental services to the UK Jonny Evans Apple has stealthily made the Apple TV a whole lot more popular in the UK, with a softly-softly launch of film downloads and rentals through iTunes UK. Films from 20th Century Fox, The Walt Disney Studios, Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros. Entertainment, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (MGM), Sony Pictures Television International and Lionsgate UK are now available on the iTunes Store in the UK. The iTunes Store in the UK features over 700 films available for rent or purchase, with titles available for purchase on the same day as their DVD release. . iTunes movies are available at £6.99 for library title purchases and £10.99 for new releases. iTunes Movie Rentals are £2.49 for library title rentals and £3.49 for new releases, and high definition versions are priced at just one pound more “We’re kicking off movies on the iTunes Store in the UK with over 700 films for purchase and rent”, said Eddy Cue, Apple’s vice president of iTunes. “We think customers in the UK are going to love being able to enjoy their favorite movies on their iPod, iPhone or on a widescreen TV with Apple TV”. Some highlights include Matrix, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, An Inconvenient Truth and I Am Legend. The Times last week claimed Apple to have reached a film distribution deal with Disney, Paramount, Twentieth Century Fox and Warner Brothers, though studios insisted download prices do not undercut the cost of physical DVDs. iTunes film rental uses DRM to protect purchases but allows users to watch them using a Mac or PC, and to transfer them to an iPod or iPhone. For rental, customers have 30 days from the time of their "rental" transaction to start watching the movie, and after they start, have 24 hours to finish watching it. Film purchases and rentals from the iTunes Store for Mac or Windows require iTunes 7.6.2. They can be previewed and watched on iPod classic, iPod nano with video, iPod touch, iPhone and on a widescreen TV with Apple TV.

				Apple Introduces MobileMe Internet Service Push Email, Push Contacts and Push Calendar for iPhone, iPod touch, Macs and PCs SAN FRANCISCO—June 9, 2008—Apple® today introduced MobileMe™, a new Internet service that delivers push email, push contacts and push calendars from the MobileMe service in the “cloud” to native applications on iPhone™, iPod® touch, Macs and PCs. MobileMe also provides a suite of elegant, ad-free web applications that deliver a desktop-like experience through any modern browser. MobileMe applications (www.me.com) include Mail, Contacts and Calendar, as well as Gallery for viewing and sharing photos and iDisk for storing and exchanging documents online. “Think of MobileMe as ‘Exchange for the rest of us,’” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “Now users who are not part of an enterprise that runs Exchange can get the same push email, push calendars and push contacts that the big guys get.” With a MobileMe email account, all folders, messages and status indicators look identical whether checking email on iPhone, iPod touch, a Mac® or a PC. New email messages are pushed instantly to iPhone over the cellular network or Wi-Fi, removing the need to manually check email and wait for downloads. Push also keeps contacts and calendars continuously up-to-date so changes made on one device are automatically pushed up to the cloud and down to other devices. Push works with the native applications on iPhone and iPod touch, Microsoft Outlook for the PC, and Mac OS® X applications, Mail, Address Book and iCal®, as well as the MobileMe web application suite. MobileMe web applications are 100 percent ad-free and provide an incredible, desktop-like experience that allows users to drag and drop, click and drag and even use keyboard shortcuts. MobileMe provides anywhere access to Mail, Contacts and Calendar, with a unified interface that allows users to switch between applications with a single click, and Gallery makes it easy to share photos on the web in stunning quality. Gallery users can upload, rearrange, rotate and title photos from any browser; post photos directly from an iPhone; allow visitors to download print quality images; and contribute photos to an album. MobileMe iDisk lets users store and manage files online with drag and drop filing and makes it easy to share documents too large to email by automatically sending an email with a link for downloading the file. MobileMe includes 20GB of online storage that can be used for email, contacts, calendar, photos, movies and documents. Pricing & Availability MobileMe, available on July 11, is a subscription-based service with 20GB of storage for $99 (US) per year for individuals and $149 (US) for a Family Pack, which includes one master account with 20GB of storage and four Family Member accounts with 5GB of storage each. Users can sign up for a free, 60-day MobileMe trial at www.apple.com/mobileme and current .Mac members will be automatically upgraded to MobileMe accounts. MobileMe subscribers can purchase an additional 20GB of storage for $49 (US) or 40GB of storage for $99 (US) annually. Using an iPhone or iPod touch with MobileMe requires iPhone 2.0 software and iTunes® 7.7 or later. For use with a Mac, MobileMe requires Mac OS X Tiger 10.4.11 or the latest version of Mac OS X Leopard. For a PC, MobileMe requires Windows Vista or Windows XP Home or Professional (SP2), and Microsoft Outlook 2003 or later is recommended. MobileMe is accessible on the web via Safari® 3, Internet Explorer 7, and Firefox 2 or later. Internet access requires a compatible ISP; fees may apply. Broadband Internet connection recommended. Some features require Mac OS X Leopard and iLife® ’08, available separately. Apple ignited the personal computer revolution in the 1970s with the Apple II and reinvented the personal computer in the 1980s with the Macintosh. Today, Apple continues to lead the industry in innovation with its award-winning computers, OS X operating system and iLife and professional applications. Apple is also spearheading the digital media revolution with its iPod portable music and video players and iTunes online store, and has entered the mobile phone market with its revolutionary iPhone.

				Apple Previews Mac OS X Snow Leopard to Developers SAN FRANCISCO—June 9, 2008—Apple® today previewed Mac OS® X Snow Leopard, which builds on the incredible success of OS X Leopard and is the next major version of the world’s most advanced operating system. Rather than focusing primarily on new features, Snow Leopard will enhance the performance of OS X, set a new standard for quality and lay the foundation for future OS X innovation. Snow Leopard is optimized for multi-core processors, taps into the vast computing power of graphic processing units (GPUs), enables breakthrough amounts of RAM and features a new, modern media platform with QuickTime® X. Snow Leopard includes out-of-the-box support for Microsoft Exchange 2007 and is scheduled to ship in about a year. “We have delivered more than a thousand new features to OS X in just seven years and Snow Leopard lays the foundation for thousands more,” said Bertrand Serlet, Apple’s senior vice president of Software Engineering. “In our continued effort to deliver the best user experience, we hit the pause button on new features to focus on perfecting the world’s most advanced operating system.” Snow Leopard delivers unrivaled support for multi-core processors with a new technology code-named “Grand Central,” making it easy for developers to create programs that take full advantage of the power of multi-core Macs. Snow Leopard further extends support for modern hardware with Open Computing Language (OpenCL), which lets any application tap into the vast gigaflops of GPU computing power previously available only to graphics applications. OpenCL is based on the C programming language and has been proposed as an open standard. Furthering OS X’s lead in 64-bit technology, Snow Leopard raises the software limit on system memory up to a theoretical 16TB of RAM. Using media technology pioneered in OS X iPhone™, Snow Leopard introduces QuickTime X, which optimizes support for modern audio and video formats resulting in extremely efficient media playback. Snow Leopard also includes Safari® with the fastest implementation of JavaScript ever, increasing performance by 53 percent, making Web 2.0 applications feel more responsive.* For the first time, OS X includes native support for Microsoft Exchange 2007 in OS X applications Mail, iCal® and Address Book, making it even easier to integrate Macs into organizations of any size. *Performance will vary based on system configuration, network connection and other factors. Benchmark based on the SunSpider JavaScript Performance test on an iMac® 2.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo system running Mac OS X Snow Leopard, with 2GB of RAM. Apple ignited the personal computer revolution in the 1970s with the Apple II and reinvented the personal computer in the 1980s with the Macintosh. Today, Apple continues to lead the industry in innovation with its award-winning computers, OS X operating system and iLife and professional applications. Apple is also spearheading the digital media revolution with its iPod portable music and video players and iTunes online store, and has entered the mobile phone market with its revolutionary iPhone.

				Quick News

				iTunes UK offers free Starsky and Hutch TV Starsky and Hutch and Charlie's Angels pilot episodes available now for free download Jonny Evans Apple has made TV four vintage television shows from Screen Gems available for sale through iTunes in the UK - and is offering two classic episodes for free download now. Screen Gems distributes a number of vintage classic shows, including TJ Hooker, Charlie's Angels, Starsky and Hutch and I Dream Of Jeannie. Individual episodes of all four shows cost just £1.19 each. Marking the introduction of the new content, pilot episodes of both Charlie's Angels and Starsky and Hutch are being made available for free download from the iTunes UK Store.

				Apple ships QuickTime 7.5 Apple updates QuickTime, security patch Jonny Evans Apple has introduced QuickTime 7.5, the latest version of its multimedia standard. The company explains QuickTime 7.5, "improves application compatibility and addresses security issues" and is recommended for all QuickTime 7 users. The update fixes secuity issues related to opening maliciously crafted AAC-encoded media, PICT image files, and Indeo video content. It's available now for download for Leopard, Panther and Tiger systems. Available through Software Update and for direct download from the QuickTime website.

				Steve Wozniak speaks in London 30 September Steve Wozniak, Richard Branson, Carly Fiorina others talk tech in Sept. Jonny Evans Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and others will appear at an exclusive Royal Albert Hall event, looking at the technology of tomorrow. Technology of Tomorrow 2008 is an all-encompassing event aimed at business leaders, featuring a roll call of some of celebrity speakers: Sir Richard Branson and Carly Fiorina appear along with Wikipedia founder, Jimmy Wales, ARM CEO, Warren East and many more. A special guest and more speakers are to be announced at a later juncture, the Technology of Tomorrow 2008 organisers confirmed. The only snag appears to be the price: tickets for the event, which takes place on 30 September, start off at £650 per person (excluding VAT).

				The Pussy Cat Club

				Say Hello

				OK, Hi Im Paul Roche, A computer Engineer from Stockport in Cheshire. Love this podcast, although I was wondering when Number 69 will appear,Are they weekly or monthly?

				Hello there, my name is Simon Verhoef , I live in a caravan on top of a hill in the North Yorkshire moors. I'm a musician and animator and keen astronomer. However those activities cost me rather than make me money so i'm also a builder of sorts. I stumbled across BritishMac on itunes , drawn in by the logo (great logo btw!) I think it's a gloriously daft podcast with great music..particularly loved the episode which ended with Handel and Will doing the sign off. I enjoy the eclectic range of music very much, and while not normally considering myself to be very patriotic, sometimes i do feel like standing up during parts of the podcast, like my Grandad used to encourage us to do during the Queens speech. Come to think of it my Grandad and all his family were from Ironbridge so maybe it's something in the water. (alcohol?) I have a pre-Intel iMac G5 17" running Logic Pro, Final Cut HD, After Effects 6.5 all which run gloriously. a marked contrast to the days when i used Windows (boo).I also have an ipod classic. I know this isn't a request page, but i think Roy Harper's song "when an old cricketer leaves the crease" wouldn't feel out of place in this podcast, espescially the part with the Grimethorpe Colliery brass band. A real Hovis moment and it's about Cricket. Anyway, best of luck guys, may your podcast and site go from strength to strength I raise a glass of hot cider in your direction, Slim

				Hi Slim Heh - what is it with Mac people living in caravans? I'm a bit worried. You seem to be stalking me... why else would you be thinking about 'When the Last Cricketer...' and Count Arthur Strong (British Mac Icon suggestions...) Roy Harper is a true Brit folk/prog/hippy icon; still AFAIK going strong, as is his son, Nick, now a recording artist in his own right. The song in question is one that sums up all that is Cricket, bygone summers and maybe even a little John Arlott... it genuinely brings a tear to the old eye when I hear it. Roy also deserves bonus British Mac Eccentric points for the (very possibly apocryphal) story about him catching something very nasty after giving the kiss of life to a dying sheep... All the best Tim

				Lumenbrother You know Tim i think you're right Roy Harper did kiss a sheep......they had to put it down afterwards.. I think it is a true story....i used to go and see him a lot and people in the audience were always baaahing. It certainly bemused me for a while , but didn't seem to faze him a great amount so he must've done it. Apparently it left him with one working lung , which is probably 1 more than he should've had after his misspent youth,middle and old age Good old Roy. One of those days in England with a sword in every pond, and birds in every garden in the land One of those days in England that you just could not forget, from the mists of secret mornings to the gold and red sunset.

				The warm Rosey Glow

				Frankenwidget

				Gear Calculator About Gear Calculator Calculates the gearing of your bicycle, either in meters of development or in gear inches. It uses the number of teeth of the front and rear sprocket and the wheel size. You can enter either the tire size (ETRTO system) or measured data (diameter or circumference). What’s New in this Version - You can now calculate gear inches.

				Uncle Mac's Mac Moment

				Hi Will, Just a very quick tip. I use spaces a lot but found that some applications (in particular Microsoft ones) moved themselves to the wrong space while switching applications. This can now be fixed by clicking on Expose & Spaces in system preferences and un-ticking “when switching to an application, switch to a space with open windows for the application”. Just to clarify, you want this switched OFF.

				St. British Mac

Image editing and stitching panoramas for free.pdf

				Desert Island Applications

				Oh yes, and the links for the show notes are: www.line6.com www.sonomawireworks.com Cheers Gav

				British Mac Labour Exchange

				Just a quick note to say ta for reading out my blog post (again!). I sent it to you last year and you read it out then - oh well, nice to have my site pimped again. Also, I thought you'd like to know that you read out an advert for me on the Labour Exchange last year and now I've finally stopped being a layabout student, I'm now working full time for one of the companies that got in touch for some freelance work (RMStudio - http://rmstudio.co.uk - I'm sure the boss won't mind me mentioning it...). So cheers again! By the way MPEG Streamclip is indeed free. Graham Gilbert

				The Gallery

				Hi Bill I am new to the mac, and I love your show over the ones that I listen to from the USA, which are good, but very very MAC is GODish. I like the fun of your blog, and the music and they way you laugh at yourself it is great! I am interested in your VW, you should talk more about that. Anyway I take a photo of Oxford, not very good most times, anyway everyday I take a photo of Oxford and put it on a small blog, you maybe interested in this, have alook and tell me what you think. www.oxforddailyphoto.blogspot.com Thanks Pete, but I use the Name Percy for the Blog...... _______________________________________

				Ye Olde Mac and Mouse

				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?

				New and exciting website coming soon! The archive problem was solved by Gareth Thompson who has also kindly agreed to become the British Mac webmaster

				One thing I'd like to see in the program is a focus on what people are doing with there macs, what they specifically do with it. If that makes sense. From Tim

				Good Evening Will, Hope you are keeping well. I have solved your problem with the archive's directory, so now you can change the link from the "library.htm" page to just "/library/show_archive/". For your information, your domain is setup so that whenever a link is clicked to a page or file that doesn't exist, it displays an extract about Sherlock Holmes! As this safety net was applied across the whole domain (britishmac.com) it stopped your folder from displaying the files. The way to solve this is to use a ".htaccess" file which is used by the actual web server to determine whether there should be any access to the files and folders in your chosen folder. The file is literally called .htaccess and within the file, you use a set of pre-determined phrases to specify what you want to happen. In the directory, i set the rule so that any files and folders are displayed, so if you add another folder or genre of podcast, it'll still work. Regarding the site, i see that it is all run by standard HTML pages, which i can imagine to be a pain to alter or keep up to date easily. Have you considered using a database driven site? I would like to point out that i am not selling anything, but i can see the potential for a database driven site to help you make changes to it. I am more than happy to help / advise / install / configure etc etc what ever you need. Consider it a big thankyou for creating such a bloody good podcast! Let me know what you think. Kind Regards, Gareth Thompson

				Hi Will, Thanks for the mention on the show! its a real thrill to hear a response read out on air (or mac mini or whatever you podcast from haha!) Just in a further comment I would say that I agree that TV is changing rapidly and that IP TV is just round the corner for the masses but only the techy end of society has taken it up so far. The wide open access to the net for all is just round the corner and a more common platform for access is required, everybody feels comfortable with a TV even my Dad who's 70 has a telly! (i think i'd even go so far to say most people have a telly haha) That's why I think people (of all ages) will feel more inclined to use a telly with web access and hopefully something with all the usability of a Mac combined with a Sky+ ease of use for TV recording etc. And as if by magic Asus seems to agree with me I hadn't seen these before but this is just the sort of thing i was meaning just combine it with Sky+ and an Apple TV (itunes movie access woohoo!) and it would be perfect. http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/05/asus-intros-the-eee-monitor-all-in-one-pc-says-more-eee-models/ http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/05/asus-42-inch-eee-tv-spotted-at-computex/ I think the second is also a tv with eee pc guts but its not clear in the article. And of course we all know who Asus manufacture laptops for!!! MB = motherboard correct! 10 bonus Mac points to you for interpreting my cryptic writing... Sorry! Once again thanks Will ...love the show Phil

				Hi Will, Thanks. So far I've downloaded the first 20 podcasts and managed to listen to them all in 5 days. I've been doing a lot of driving! I thought I'd send you this Voice recording for the podcast as it's something people where doing in episode 20. Keep up the good work. Happy birthday for the 11th June. Are there any t-shirts still knocking around? How about version 2. Just maxed out my mac today with 4 Gb of Ram and recorded my first garageband track your message. I have to use pc's at work but love using my mac when i get home. Cheers Tim.

				Hi Will, Loving the podcast, keeps me informed with all the latest news and has all the information i need. One suggestion though, have you ever thought about doing an enhanced podcast. Several other podcasts i listen to are enhanced and having the pictures and markers is brilliant. I had a go at making Episode 69 enhanced with garageband and it is very easy, You can just drag the pictures into the top track and name them and it creates the markers for you. So thats my idea for enhanced podcasts. Hope you like it. Sam Diaz

				On another matter, you might be interested in a mac application called "dropbox". http://www.getdropbox.com/home http://www.getdropbox.com/screencast Looks like a good way to share files between two macs, PCs or whatever. Might find a use for it for hosting your archives... Don't know. I am trying it out at the moment and t looks like a good way to share files from my home to my work as work has no VPN... If it isn't any good for you to use for the archives, I might be able to do some PHP wizardry to help you out. Just let me know if you need a hand and i'll take a look. Anyway, if you want to try out dropbox, let me know and i'll send you an invite to the beta. As a beta owner you get to try it out and when it goes to alpha you get to keep a free account.... Ok... enough from me for now. Keep up the good work. Loving the show. And hope to see you in the summer. Joel Mills (Devon lad acting as a Geordie) Newcastle upon Tyne

				Hi Will, So the new iPhones out and there's lots of talk already on the forums about video calling and whether or not the new phone has a forward facing camera on the screen for video calling. Nobody who has had first hand accounts of handling the phone has noticed one but there is a feeling that this could be Steve's usual one more thing at the Keynote when the phone is officially launched. To be honest its not something that bothers me but iChat on the phone would be nice. Thing is this gets me to thinking every pic or vid of the phone i've seen either looks computer generated as in the pic on Apples website or shot from unrevealing angles as in the iPhone in the security box ad, which makes me wonder is this really what the production version is going to look like or is it going to change in between now and the 11 July launch? is this Steve's big deception? is the phone really plastic backed (seems like a back step to me) is it likely to be launched with a 3.2 mp camera? only time will tell but i cant help thinking he will have something up his sleeve! One thing i do know is i will be at the front of the queue for my £59 upgrade (on the £45 plan) to the 16gb model come July 11th - why would anybody want to buy any other phone its such a bargain now!! Best Regards Phil Roberts Just as an aside now the phones getting IPSec and i can get into my server at work have you heard of any autocad viewers i could use on the phone?

				British Icon

				Count Arthur Strong

				Roast chicken is an iconic dish in British culture. It probably ranks close to the top of most people's list of favourite foods. It may be affordable for the masses, but it is also fit for a king. But how many of you know about the life your fresh supermarket chickens lead before they reach your table? That their short, intensively farmed indoor existence is managed like a factory production line, to ensure the big retailers can sell them to you for as little as £2 a bird? Is that all the life an animal, born and raised to feed us, is worth? Unacceptable conditions I believe that conditions in which most chickens in the UK are reared are unacceptable. Stocking densities are too high. Severe leg problems - associated with rapid weight gain and restricted movement - are common. The birds are deprived of essential stimulation and unable to express their natural behaviour. Under these conditions, decent welfare standards - and British farmers have some of the highest in Europe - are impossible to achieve. Reform the industry I would like to see the industry 'de-intensify' by lowering stocking densities and including environmental enrichment programmes in all its chicken sheds. Existing models for this reform include the RSPCA Freedom Foods system. I believe that this, or similar audited systems very close to it, should be the new minimum welfare standard for indoor-reared broiler chickens. Supermarkets and fast food outlets should adopt these higher welfare systems as their new baseline standard, and should in turn insist that all their suppliers adopt them. I would like the supermarkets to end their poultry price wars, as they put pressure on farmers to maximise the intensity of their operations. I also urge them to pay a fair price to farmers, for higher welfare birds, and to support them with clear labelling so that consumers can understand what they are paying for. Above all, I would like to see more birds reared outdoors, on assured free range and organic systems. I believe this is the natural and appropriate way for a chicken to live. The Chicken Out! campaign I feel so strongly about our chickens that I'm launching a national campaign, which I'm calling Chicken Out! Part of it will be a new TV series on Channel 4, which will help you to understand the conditions in which most table birds are reared, and to put pressure on the industry to raise its standards. Chicken Out! is being led by River Cottage locals, especially in and around Axminster, who are boycotting intensively-reared chickens and choosing free range instead. I need you to do the same. Support us! I also need you to register your support on this website. We need thousands of signatures to convince supermarkets, farmers, government regulators and anyone else involved in this unacceptable business that they must change.