Apple has released iPhone Software 2.0.1, an update for the iPhone and iPod touch. The update promises bug fixes and reliability improvements, but Apple has remained reticent on the details. The update is fairly hefty, weighing in at 249.2MB. It has been reported the update makes the iPhone more responsive, speeds up backups and improves on-screen animation. The update is available when the device is connected to iTunes using the "Check for Updates" button.

			Apple is Europe's number one PC manufacturer in Education Statistically, Apple sold 19.2 percent of all computers sold in the European education sector - including servers. Apple is also the leading PC manufacturer in the UK - eclipsing Dell - for notebooks and now also desktops, holding 17.3 percent of UK education marketshare, the analysts said. The situation is very similar in the US, where Apple surpassed Dell as the number one supplier of portables to US higher education for 2007. Apple's good news continues, according to Gartner's figures, released yesterday: PC shipments in Western Europe totalled 13.8 million units in the second quarter of 2008, an increase of 22.9 percent compared with the same period in 2007. In the UK, Apple shifted 119,000 Macs, giving the company a 4.3 percent grip on the overall computer market, the analyst's revealed. That's up from 85,000 Mac sales last year, giving Apple respectable growth of 40 percent - almost double that of the wider PC industry. Apple is now the fifth biggest PC maker in the UK. "The PC market in the UK performed strongly this quarter with both the consumer and professional markets fuelling growth. This strong performance can only be sustained if new users are being reached or existing users are buying additional PCs or replacing their old ones more rapidly," said Ranjit Atwal, principal analyst at Gartner. The market was driven by strong mobile PC sales that accounted for 64 percent of the total PC shipments, with volumes increasing 60 percent in the second quarter of 2008. The desk-based PC market suffered again with an 8 percent decline year-on-year. The PC market in the UK again performed above expectations as the consumer market continued to boom. The introduction of the mini-notebook PC has created some excitement, and we expect sales in this segment will help the market sustain growth for the rest of the year," said Atwal told Macworld.

			Stephen Fry on iPhone

			iPhone dents WIndows Mobile Microsoft failed to meet its Windows Mobile sales target for its fiscal year 2008, the company said on Thursday. By 30 June, when the fiscal year ended, Microsoft had managed to sell more than 18 million licenses, less than its 20 million goal. While the iPhone 3G didn't hit stores until 11 July, after Microsoft's fiscal year ended, it could have had an effect on Microsoft. "The iPhone 3G is causing people to hesitate," said Bill Hughes, an analyst at InStat. "That doesn't mean those two million all went to the iPhone." But some people likely decided to wait and see if the newest version of Apple's phone could be more attractive to them than a Windows Mobile phone, he said. More so than the iPhone effect, delays with Sony Ericsson's first Windows Mobile phone, the Xperia, may have impacted Microsoft's sales figures, said Chris Hazelton, an analyst with The 451 Group. While Sony Ericsson has always maintained that the new phone will launch in the second half of the year, Microsoft may have expected the phones to start shipping in the second quarter in preparation for an early third quarter launch, he said. But delays in Xperia's shipment may have meant that Microsoft couldn't tally its sales to Sony Ericsson in its fiscal 2008, he said. ABI Research analyst Kevin Burden suspects that Microsoft did ship the software to Sony Ericsson, but that the shortcoming in sales was due to a failure to make more headway among consumer users. While Microsoft has typically targeted Windows Mobile at enterprise users, it has recently begun talking more about the consumer-oriented features to the software. Microsoft may have inflated its potential Windows Mobile sales for the year based on hopes that it would gain customers attracted to the consumer-oriented message, he said. Microsoft follows competitor BlackBerry and even struggling Palm in looking toward consumers to boost sales. BlackBerry found significant success marketing the Pearl to the consumer market, Burden noted. While Palm sales overall have flagged in recent years, it too found surprising success in marketing to consumers with its recently introduced Centro phone. Microsoft continues to face tough competition overall from BlackBerry devices. During its fiscal year ending 1 March, Research In Motion, the BlackBerry maker, shipped 14 million devices. "Competition in enterprise smartphones is going to be between BlackBerry and Windows Mobile," said Hughes. "Who wins could go either way." While Microsoft has been in the smartphone market for many years, the mobile-phone operating system market is growing increasingly crowded. In addition to the new iPhone, Microsoft will soon also face competition from rival Google, which plans to release its Android mobile-phone software later this year. Android phones, like the iPhone, are likely to appeal to the consumer market more so than enterprise users, which has traditionally been Windows Mobile's target. However, that could pose a problem for Microsoft. Hughes recently noticed an increase in the number of companies that don't dictate which phones employees should use, instead allowing them to make their own buying decisions. That shift could be good news for the iPhone, which now allows users to receive Outlook mail on the phones, and potentially for Android phones. Still, Hughes cautioned that in his experience, companies change their policies on phone-buying year to year, and so next year might find more companies dictating which phones employees can use.

			Google Calendar works with iCal Google has introduced support for iCal within its online Google Calendar service. In order to achieve the support, Google has implemented some support for CalDAV, an open protocol that allows calendar access via WebDAV. The support means users will be able to view and edit Google Calendar events directly in iCal. While other calendar applications support CalDAV (including Mozilla Sunbird), Google Calendar only supports CalDAV using iCal. Any changes made in iCal will automatically appear in Google Calendar the next time you sign in (and vice versa). If you use iCal while offline, changes you make will be saved and updated in Google Calendar when you get back online. CalDAV models calendar events as HTTP resources in iCalendar format, and models calendars containing events as WebDAV collections. This allows you to publish and subscribe to calendars, share them collaboratively, sync between multiple users and sync between multiple devices.

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			Confused by computer tech talk? Why not use the built in Apple dictionary? Also remember to set to British English in preferences!

			The heavens on your iPhone!

			Sol: Daylight Clock 59p You are on a trek in some remote place where you do not know how long the daylight exists. And you are not a cartography fan either who will calculate the latitudes and longitudes either to figure out everything. Daylight Clock

			Starmap

			Sun Compass 59p Sun Compass is an iPhone / iPod Touch application. Its main purpose is to help you find North using the position of the Sun or the Moon. How to use 1. Check your location, time and date. 2. Find the sun or the moon in the sky. 3. Align the compass. Place your iPod / iPhone horizontally, facing up. Drag the compass or rotate the iPod / iPhone so that the sun arrow points to the sun. http://longneck.ro/suncompass/

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			Hi Everyone, I'm Ray and picked up the forum after listening to the last three podcasts which I found on iTunes, and really liked the Britishness and quirky style, particularly after trying Mac Format's Podcast. (have you heard that American guy's accent!!) I bought my first Apple product only back in November 2007, an iPod Classic 80GB, and since then have become something of an Apple product collector, although not classic stuff like the guy mentioned in the gallery section of the podcast, I'm more your modern day collector of gadgets of all sorts. I now have 6 iPods of differing capacities and colours, of which the best is my 32GB iPod Touch. I also have a 1st Gen iPhone, an iMac 24 inch, 2 Macbooks, and most recently an iPhone 3G 16GB. I can't wait for the next version of the MacBook, which will probably come out later in the year and is rumoured to be aluminium rather than plastic. A touch screen model with the same technology as the iPhone screen would be good. I'm still getting used to the Mac, and particularly the OS, but I love the technology and the way that things just work. I haven't got rid of the PC yet, but one day I probably will. I look forward to the Podcast, and learning a bit more about using the Mac from the forum, the Podcast, and the Website. Have you guys thought about producing a magazine? Keep up the good work. Ray

			One of the applications that has stopped me using the Mac for everything has been my GPS. Although I use the GPS a lot, I don't trust it ... not since I found myself on the wrong side of a swollen river in November and had to detour almost eight miles through snow (and if I'd had a map I'd have realised that if I'd gone only half a mile in the other direction, I'd had found a bridge!) Anyway, I always plan my routes on the computer and download them to the GPS (and I still carry maps!) Up until now I haven't been able to find anything which easily integrated all this into one package on the Mac ... but for those with Garmin GPSs, Garmin now has Project Bobcat! OK, it lacks the bells and whistles of MapSource,(the PC version) but it goes to prove that Garmin are developing for the Mac, so if you own a Garmin GPS - go to http://www8.garmin.com/support/download_details.jsp?id=3886 and grab a free copy! (Note: The link may change over time as the software is updated). (You will need registered Garmin mapping software to be able to use the maps.) Jock

			i vote the pier at Weston for British icon since its unfortunate demise today http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7528747.stm Grand Pier R.I.P. mattiles

			David Jason surely has to be there? Delboy is the king! cheers Ray

			A Review of Rapid Weaver

			Hiya Will, I don't have 5 applications I'm afraid, I only have two never the less they are both applications I couldn't go without. First off is Twhirl - a popular Twitter client that also works with Friendfeed. Secondly is FLV2itunes - This is a freeware application that coverts popular video format to MPEG 4 and H.264 I hope this helps and keep up the great work with the podcasts! Hayden Barker.

			The Mac & Psion

			Hi Will, Hope all is well with you in Exeter.  (I've been sending some mails to your gmail address but just realised will@britishmac address might be more recent) An idea has been forming over the past few weeks ever since you launched 'The Gallery' on British Mac.  Love the music on that page by the way - all of a sudden I'm seven again and watching Tony Hart on the TV.   I'm on the road a reasonable amount with work these days and I venture all over the UK and Ireland.  I also am a keen photographer and strobist.  I wonder if the British Mac community would like to have their picture taken to contribute to a members gallery on British Mac?  It would also be a bit of a social documentary on mac users in general.  I get inspired by seeing other photography essays such as those posted on the excellent Magnum agency website.  I'd be interested in a) getting a quality snap of British Mac listeners with their Mac(s) and b) trying to get an angle on how British Mac listeners interact with and use their Macs.  For example if I was doing a portrait of your good self I'd be trying to squeeze in a podcasting and music theme into the shot. No idea if you or British Mac listeners would be keen but if  you think its a go-er then get in touch and we can talk more about it. A few shots of the sort of thing I get up to are attached to this mail.   Cheers Graham

			With Dave in Oz

			Hi Will I think the trouble with GTD is that it takes more time to manage the lists than it would just to to the bloody tasks in the first place. I've found some common-sense approaches to GTD at Zen To Done (http://zenhabits.net/2007/04/zen-to-done-ztd-the-ultimate-simple-productivity-system/). I hope you like the Rapid Weaver app. It's one of the few bits of software that I don't object having to pay for. No, I'm not on their payroll ;) Hope you're having a good weekend. Gavin

			Once you’ve read the PDF, I’d be very interested if listeners knew of Mac game engines for Doom, and Wolfenstien as I’ve not had time to look for those. Any other Mac engines and free games such as free CIV would be really interesting as well. Normal service will be resumed 2 weeks from now, when we’ll learn about Time Machine and integrating Time Capsule on a network. -- Darren Davies

			Only Fools and Horses