Apple 10.5.4 update released The 10.5.4 Update is recommended for all users running Mac OS X Leopard and includes general operating system fixes that enhance the stability, compatibility and security of your Mac. General     * Includes recent Apple security updates.     * Resolves an issue with saving and reopening Adobe Creative Suite 3 files on a remote server.     * Includes additional RAW image support for several cameras.     * Addresses an issue that may result in a partially installed X11 application.     * Improves L2TP VPN client reliability. AirPort     * Addresses AirPort reliability issues with 5GHz networks.     * Addresses AirPort issues that may result in slower performance in Logic Studio or MainStage. iCal     * Improves overall iCal reliability for meeting requests, cancellation notices, delegation, and syncing with iPhone.     * Resolves an issue that prevents deleting an iCal event without notifying the creator.     * Addresses an issue in which events in all calendars affect availability.  A checkbox now enables information-only calendars to be transparent from free/busy lookups.     * Resolves a UI issue preventing delegated calendars from showing up as a separate window.     * Addresses an issue with copying and pasting attendees from one event to another.     * Resolves an issue in which iCal may not delete events after a specified time interval, even when set to do so in iCal preferences.     * Addresses an issue in which To Dos cannot be marked private. Safari     * Addresses a potential performance issue when loading secure web pages.     * Resolves issues that may be encountered when accessing secure web pages with client certificates that reside on a smart card. Spaces and Exposé     * Addresses an issue in which switching from a space with a Finder window keeps the Finder as the active application instead of the application residing in the destination space.     * Fixes an issue in which dragging an application from the list of application assignments in Spaces System Preferences does not assign the application to the desired space.     * Resolves an Exposé issue that may result in only a subset of windows being shown.

			Apple Announces Snow Leopard details http://www.apple.com/macosx/snowleopard/ Since 2001, Mac OS X has delivered more than a thousand innovative new features. With Snow Leopard, the next major version of the world’s most advanced operating system, Mac OS X changes more than its spots, it changes focus. Taking a break from adding new features, Snow Leopard — scheduled to ship in about a year — builds on Leopard’s enormous innovations by delivering a new generation of core software technologies that will streamline Mac OS X, enhance its performance, and set new standards for quality. Snow Leopard dramatically reduces the footprint of Mac OS X, making it even more efficient for users, and giving them back valuable hard drive space for their music and photos. iMac and MacBook Pro Microsoft Exchange box Microsoft Exchange Support Snow Leopard includes out-of-the-box support for Microsoft Exchange 2007 built into Mail, Address Book, and iCal. Mac OS X uses the Exchange Web Services protocol to provide access to Exchange Server 2007. Because Exchange is supported on your Mac and iPhone, you’ll be able to use them anywhere with full access to your email, contacts, and calendar. Multicore “Grand Central,” a new set of technologies built into Snow Leopard, brings unrivaled support for multicore systems to Mac OS X. More cores, not faster clock speeds, drive performance increases in today’s processors. Grand Central takes full advantage by making all of Mac OS X multicore aware and optimizing it for allocating tasks across multiple cores and processors. Grand Central also makes it much easier for developers to create programs that squeeze every last drop of power from multicore systems. Open CL 64 Bit 64-bit To accommodate the enormous amounts of memory being added to advanced hardware, Snow Leopard extends the 64-bit technology in Mac OS X to support breakthrough amounts of RAM — up to a theoretical 16TB, or 500 times more than what is possible today. More RAM makes applications run faster, because more of their data can be kept in the very fast physical RAM instead of on the much slower hard disk. QuickTime logo Media and Internet Using media technology pioneered in OS X iPhone, Snow Leopard introduces QuickTime X, a streamlined, next-generation platform that advances modern media and Internet standards. QuickTime X features optimized support for modern codecs and more efficient media playback, making it ideal for any application that needs to play media content. Because Snow Leopard delivers the fastest implementation of JavaScript to date, web applications are more responsive. Safari runs JavaScript up to 53 percent faster with Snow Leopard.* OpenCL Another powerful Snow Leopard technology, OpenCL (Open Computing Language), makes it possible for developers to efficiently tap the vast gigaflops of computing power currently locked up in the graphics processing unit (GPU). With GPUs approaching processing speeds of a trillion operations per second, they’re capable of considerably more than just drawing pictures. OpenCL takes that power and redirects it for general-purpose computing.

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			50 widgets in 50 days from Church Cat

			Well I hope that you have enjoyed looking at my top 50 widgets. I have posted one a day for the last 50 days. I still have one or two more in my kitty-bag but I will not be posting them with the same regularity. Instead I will try to add a little colour to the forum in other threads. Till then enjoy widget number 50. Billed on the internet as the only widget that you will ever need.

			StopDashboard Widget A reader asked for a version of the DisableDashboard widget which only kills the Dashboard without losing the ability to restart using F12. So here’s a StopDashboard widget, basically a modified version of the DisableDashboard widget. All this widget does is kill the Dock process (which Dashboard is a part of). MacOSX will automatically restart the Dock but without Dashboard in memory. Press F12 to start it up again.

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			To find out the speed of your Airport Open the network utility. On the Info tab, select the Airport interface (probably en1). At the Bottom It'll say Model, and list the 802.11 standards supported.

			Mac streaming server Does anyone have ideas how to use MAC as a steaming media server for Sky+, DVD, iTunes, Front Row, etc? I'm particularly intersted in wires free and how to serve front row without logging in. Any assistance welcome Andy Butch

			Say hello! I have never kissed a sheep. Hello. My name is Gregor Findlay. Not a techie but I started out working at Xerox selling their Viewpoint based workstations and enjoyed the challenge of convincing Mac users that the Xerox system was even easier to use (which it was) - had to spend years in the clutches of Mr Gates's evil empire but moved me and the wife's businesses to MAC a couple of years ago and never looked back  ) Love the show - i hope the Americans are listening - also enjoy the mac geek gab keep it up!

			I have never kissed a sheep. Hello. My name is Gregor Findlay. Not a techie but I started out working at Xerox selling their Viewpoint based workstations and enjoyed the challenge of convincing Mac users that the Xerox system was even easier to use (which it was) - had to spend years in the clutches of Mr Gates's evil empire but moved me and the wife's businesses to MAC a couple of years ago and never looked back :o) Love the show - i hope the Americans are listening - also enjoy the mac geek gab keep it up! Hello! My name is Neil and I'm from Walsall in the West Midlands. Stumbled upon your show and was so taken with it that I've downloaded the lot and I'm working my way through them! Keep up the good work Will ! Neil. =) Hello My name is Matt and I'm a (Mac) Addict after resisting for almost a year waiting for the leopard to be released into the wilds. I gave in when the MacBook was updated in November 2007 installed VMWare almost straight away to relieve any teething problems i might have had (aside from a small number of proprietary apps i rarely use it). i was dragged in by the mythical "Halo" effect (i was playing Halo when i thought to myself i should get a mac) after almost 2 years of ipod use i finally decided to switch. First subscribed when i decided to make the move in early 2007 along with a few other mac shows (I've since unsubscribed from most of them) found it through iTunes as many others have and slowly using the site as well. finally joining the forums after meeting the man himself accidentally during his lunch break this past Tuesday 24th offering to buy him a pint and ending up having Will buy me a pint (Cola I've Been Sober since '97) at a local pub had a nice long chat about macs, iphones and various other topics including religion strangely enough. anyways enough about why I'm here onto who i here my names Matt i live in the wiltshire countryside town of Melksham after moving from Bristol. i work for a fruit machine company and therefore have plenty of time driving around listening to podcasts (so much nonsense on the radio these days) i visit the Tamworth Snowdome every month or so and am slowly building up my collection of apple gear from ipod to macbook and extreme router to hopefully soon a new iphone (with full wife approval surprisingly)

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			Keynote June 08 What do you think? Started by Church Cat and this comment from Gavin « Reply #1 on Jun 10, 2008, 4:09pm »     There was a tremendous amount of iPhone blah, very little on OS X and nothing at all on Mac hardware. It's easy to see where Apple's focus is right now. Having said that, the subsequent announcement about "Snow Leopard" is interesting. At the moment, I find it hard to see where next for desktop OSs in terms of features. Seems like a great idea to focus on performance enhancements. Now my question is, will Snow Leopard be a pay for upgrade, or will it be free? Since OS X arrived, Apple's OS releases have been accused of being nothing more than glorified service packs. Since the name is not really even changing, Snow Leopard sounds like a service pack to me! A free upgrade is not unknown - correct me here, but wasn't the upgrade from 10.0 to 10.1 free? As for MobileMe, well I'm quite pleased about that. Has the price gone up vs DotMac? I don't know. What I do know is that the demo at the Keynote looked quite slick. Although Phil Schiller is pushing it a bit to say that drag and drop is something new within webmail; Yahoo, Hotmail and DotMac have had this for ages. And the iPhone? Well I didn't get one last time round but with the new pricing and features, I think I'm sold. I am already an O2 customer and have an old phone, so I have registered my interest on their website. I note that the phones are now available with a subsidy (for the 8Gb) and are coming to Pay as You Go too. So WWDC Keynote.....some interesting stuff but nothing to get excited about is my feeling.

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			Hi Will, I've got it thanks, I love the podcast and look forward to listening to it. I'm not fully yet into everything in the show and think the jingles are great. It's great to have a passion and it really comes across in the podcast. my passion is old ferguson tractors www.ploughmyfield.co.uk and it's the reason I bought my mac. I find it so easy to edit movies, create the web pages with my mac (but don't tell anybody) 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. Keep it up I know that it can sometimes be a thankless task. Keep up the god work Tim.

			Hi Will, What part of the itunes store were you reading when you read the time you had to watch a movie was 24 hours from when you stared playing it.  I was just reading the iTunes store about 5 minutes before I started listening to Britishmac and it says 48 hours.  I'm sure my email isn't the first to point this out and won't be the last. And finally.... I was just watching Thunderbirds, the original puppet show not the slightly tacky remake movie and thought wouldn't the 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, countdown sound good at the beginning of Britishmac. Regards Paul Rapson Huddersfield, UK Long time listener, first time emailer.

			Hi Will,   Thanks for the mention again really great to see you look after your listeners, thanks.   Right well after the raft of recent new additions to the British Mac staff i'm making my play for official Mac rumour monger! lol   Found this on Appleinsider it's a breakdown of isuppli's estimates of the component cost for the new 3g iphone, makes interesting reading not least because of it's mention of the bluetooth chipset with bluetooth 2 + edr (i dont think 1gen iphone had this) anyway here you go!   Price in US$   Part 22.80        8gb nand flash mem 20.00        Improved touch screen 20.00        Display 13.50        Application processor 5.00          1Gbit Mobile DDR 15.00         HSDPA digital baseband module 7.00           2 Megapix Camera module 4.00           WLAN chipset 4.00           Battery 3.60           GPS 2.00           Motion sensor / Accelerometer 4.25           RF Transceiver 1.89           64Mbit NOR flash memory, 32Mbit PSRAM 1.80           Charger (usb) 2.00           Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR Sub total these items $126.84 other costs $37.16 = $164.00 Total bill of materials cost   $173.00 ($265 1st gen)Total bill of material + cost of manufacture (putting it together) only $9.00 to assemble it WOW you'd need to do a few of them a day to earn a living!   Link to the article (http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/06/24/briefly_8am_iphone_rumor_itunes_tv_shows_for_oz_iphone_3g_parts.html)   Retail price $199 not forgetting of course that AT&T or O2 in the UK will be coughing up in the region of  $325 subsidy ontop of the actual cost of the phone! (ouch)   But does the fact that it is now looking like its going to have BT2 + EDR mean that we may be able to couple the new phone to a foldout keyboard ala the Stowaway type bluetooth keyboards, well here's hoping, as good as the touch screen is i would still like a proper keyboard occasionally!   At the very least lets hope that the bluetooth stack will be open to allow an App for the App store to enable it?       I will now be in line at 7.02am to pick up my phone on July 11th as the latest rumours are saying it'll be a morning release, looks like an early start then!   Regards Phil

			Hi Will, I neglected to say where these photos came from... When I sent you the BM tutorial. I actually took them myself from a balcony of my hotel room whilst visiting lake Bled in Slovenia. I took the 4 photos early in the morning while the lake was still to keep those lovely reflections. I only spent 10 minutes with hugin to get these results as I was doing a quick job to illustrate and test the software for the tutorial, it was the first time I’d used the software. I’m sure I’d get better results by taking more time and effort during the stitching stage. It just shows you that you can take a pleasing panorama shot with no tripod whilst perched on a balcony. One mistake I made is to leave the camera on auto focus. Really you should use manual focus as a shift in focus for each shot can look very wrong. Luckily I was saved by using a high F number giving near infinite focus range. It’s a lot of fun learning about photography and using the Mac. P.S. This is a jpg, the tif file that hugin makes looks better. -- Darren

			Just to let you know Will, I have been trying the above piece of software for a few weeks after you recommended it and have now purchased the full licence. Thanks for giving us Mac users some useful advice! I use it for taking notes at meetings and I have yet to fully explore the sound recording features.....But I think as I work in a  College as a Manager with lots of meetings to attend to, it could be quite a useful tool!!! Cheers Joel

			Shout out to Matt Iles! thought i would send you an email as well as a facebook request regarding the stuff we spoke about. i'm trying to sort out a idiocracy clip for you to taunt the concierge's with and let them know how the job of greeter should be done. as an apple link Justin Long (Mac) Plays a small part as a Doctor http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi1622016281/ Trailer will send a clip through tomorrow  RetroGamingRadio is at http://retrogamingradio.com/ and avaliable through itunes Pastafarianism http://venganza.org/ and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Spaghetti_Monster The central belief is that there is an invisible and undetectable Flying Spaghetti Monster, who created the entire universe "after drinking heavily."[13] The Monster's intoxication was supposedly the cause for a flawed earth. All evidence for evolution was planted by the Flying Spaghetti Monster, in an effort to test Pastafarians' faith — a form of the Omphalos hypothesis. When scientific measurements, such as radiocarbon dating, are made, the Flying Spaghetti Monster "is there changing the results with His Noodly Appendage http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gospel_of_the_Flying_Spaghetti_Monster  <-- fantastic version of the ten commandments

			Hello Will, Thanks for the reply. I hope once you've had a chance to see it you'll be a fan. If you've no experience of Early Doors, it's co-written by Craig Cash (formerly the partner - in both senses - of Caroline Aherne; they co-wrote and starred in The Royle Family) and his mate Phil Mealey. Both of them star in the series as regulars of The Grapes, a traditional backstreet Manchester boozer. Mealey had never written for television before Early Doors and he makes a great job of it. More info is available at : http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/earlydoors/index.shtml All the best. Wayne