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			Hi Will, I am wanting to start a "show British Mac some love" campaign.  The purpose of which is to get BM onto the first page in Podcast Alley. You are currently sat at number 69. To get onto the front page you only need to get into the top 50 so it should be do-able. What do you think?  I will get a thread going on the forum.  I might even contact some of our ex forumites to see if we could get them to vote.  You could do some slushy lurve music and do a "show us some love" spot on the podcast. If you think it a good idea let me know.  Also there seems to be a problem with Podcast Alley.  When I try to listen to BM I get a "undefined" error and no podcast.  Is this a problem with your feed or with their site? The link to your home page could do with an update too.  Maybe you can get your new web genius on the case? So Will what do you think.  Show us some love?  Or not? The forum cat.

			Saying hello... Hello! from Jock OK, perhaps a little bit more ... my name is Jock and I'm an expatriate Scotsman living in the east Riding of Yorkshire. I started with a SCMP microprocessor many years ago, then had a Commodore PET, followed by an Apple ][, I've owned an Apple Lisa, Macintosh 128K, a "real" IBM PC (with cassette port!) and a few IBM clones, then a Macintosh Centris, more PC clones and currently a 24" iMac - still have the PC clones around for a couple of apps the Mac can't handle easily though

			A BUZZING IPHONE SECTION!

			Upto to 140 members!

			Top Shareware http://britishmac.proboards105.com/index.cgi?board=apps1&action=display&thread=136&page=1

			Now.....this morning at 08:35 I became a dad which is brilliant.  A baby girl, 7 lbs 4 oz and we have named her Georgia.

			Hi Will, I thought I'd take the time to pass on my top 5 'can't live without' apps. I'm fairly new to Macs (lovely wife bought me a MacBook 2 Christmases ago), and even newer to British Mac - obviously. So here they are in no particular order. Please pass them on to the chap on the island: 1) Evernote. www.evernote.com Recently out of beta. This is a note clipping app. with a difference. You can send it emails, clips from web pages, written notes, photos - anything. All can be tagged and retrieved either on the desktop, it's own web based portal or the dedicated iPhone web site. Each fully synchronizes with the other. Best of all, there is in built character recognition. So if you take a pic of a magazine cover say, with your iPhone, you can search for that note using words that appear in the picture - evernote hunts them out, like OCR. Brilliant! 2) MentalCase. www.maccoremac.com A really useful flash cards program that has clever screenshot abilities. Flash cards are presented beautifully, and can be displayed either as selected, or as study lessons where your least reviewed or incorrectly recalled notes are given priority. Great for everyday things you always forget, such as peoples names you must remember, or as an aid to exams as I have used it - got me through post grad medical exams. 3) TextExpander. smileonmymac.com/TextExpander/ A simple macro app - easy to use and easy to teach new macros for regularly used word combinations / phrases etc. Solid as a rock and simple, use it everyday. 4) Omnifocus. www.omnigroup.com/applications/omnifocus/ This one is for either very organised people, or , like me, very very disorganised people who wish to improve and understand things better when they are broken in to small pieces. It is a to do list which distinguishes between elements of a project or task, and where you will be or what you need to fufill them. When used for a while you can pull up a list of 'things to do when I'm shopping', or 'things to do when I'm on my Mac'. It is based on the GTD style of task management and takes some work to get used to, but with a little effort can really make you more productive. Also has fantastic and verstile means of entering tasks from emailing them to a dedicated address, quick entry via keyboard short cuts, and a soon to be released iPhone version. It is however pretty expensive ($45 I believe it was) 5) SuperDuper.www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html I'm sure everybody will know this one. It is a simple concept. You use it to make a fully bootable clone (bit for bit) of your hard drive.  It has a smart copy feature so that only changes since your last back up will be made, meaning most full backups take only minutes. In the event of a hard drive failure you can boot straight from the backup as if nothing had changed, and even use the app to copy the back-up to your new replacement drive when it arrives. Can't live without it and have never used Time Machine as a result (though there website states it works perfectly well along side it)! So there we are. Sorry it's so wordy. As a fellow Devonian I'm sure you know we love to jabber. Bye for now. James Hunt

			I find this widget amazing. http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/radio_podcasts/bbclistenagain.html Means I don't have to have a window running when I listen to the radio (again).  I usually listen to 2 or 6 for music, and 4 or 7 for comedy and docs.  I would recommend 'At Home With The Snails'. A very weird black comedy that comes on from time to time on bbc7 (the last series has just finished this week, but the whole thing will be played again in a little while) Domenic Minniti

			Just a quick Mac moment for you... If you want spotlight to run at its fastest, make sure you exclude the stuff you don’t want to be indexed. I have stopped spotlight indexing my Time Machine drive, my virtual machine folder, and my Windows partition, now its a whole lot faster. Simply go to system preferences / spotlight / and drag folders or disks that you want to exclude into the privacy window. -- Darren Davies

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			Hi Will, I am just listening to episode #71 of British Mac and had to stop to write this email after you said you didn't really see the point of the Open CL system in Snow Leopard that allows software to run on the GPU.  I have heard you mention in the past that you are like myself a Logic user (you probably know where I'm going with this now).  You will be aware that when you start using lots of software instruments and plug ins that Logic will soon bog down even the most powerful of Macs.  As Logic doesn't use much in the way of graphics processing wouldn't it be great to utilise the graphics power to run some of those plug ins and instruments? Anyway keep up the good work and don't worry about how long it takes to produce the next episode, all good things come to those who wait. Regards Paul Rapson Huddersfield UK

			Hi Will, I've listened to number 71. Great thank you. Mr Ferguson Invented 3 point link (all tractors now have it) Mr Harry Ferguson, joined with Mr FORD. Mr FORD ripped him off. - court case Mr ferguson won. Mr Ferguson got bought by Massey - Harris to become Massey - Harris - Ferguson. later to become Massey Ferguson. Just thought I'd fill you in on history side of things. It's amazing how many people you speak to have had something to do with tractors in the past. keep the passion. Tim

			From Darren Davies Creepy eh? On the subject of the Trojan horse recently discovered which exploits a flaw in ARD (Apple Remote Desktop). I’d just like to say, it is particularly well explained in the ‘For Mac eyes only podcast’ - the episode is called ‘got root’ I believe. While I am not particularly concerned about this threat, it is real. Many so called Mac viruses are no such thing. For a virus to be called a virus, it must be able to infect a computer, and then spread itself to other machines without user intervention. All of the Mac viruses that I know of, either cannot reproduce, are proofs of concept, or require the user to grant root access to something they are tricked into thinking is something nice. The ARD Trojan takes advantage of an OS exploit and the beginner user. The Mac is a fantastic computer, it is very secure, and it is extremely difficult to write a virus for it. Having said that we Mac users should not be complacent and think that evil doers will never try to take advantage of us. The best advice I can give is to make your day to day user account into a standard account. The Mac and our excellent software developers handle working in a standard account properly. 99.9% of software works flawlessly in a standard user account, something that windows cannot boast. If you want to make sure that windows is protected if you run it on your Mac, you should install a virus killer for just the windows side of things. I can recommend AVG 8 free edition. To help avoid your Mac turning into a zombie, use a standard account for your day to day work, your Mac will ask your permission to do things like installing software into your Applications folder, but that is a good thing. P.S. You must have an admin account as well, but most of the time you don’t need to log into it. Use it to give your standard account permission to do things when asked.

			Hi Will, First off let me say I really love the show. The light-heartedness of the presentations and the excellent use of the music make it something special. I have been listening since about show 55 or so in preparation for me getting a Mac and making the big switch after a lifetime of using Windows. Anyway, I am due to get my new iMac in about 11 days, it's shipping to me as I write this from Apple, but seems to be going via New Zealand or somewhere. I've gone for the stunning 24" version, 1TB of hard drive space, running at 3.06Ghz. Quite a monster I'm sure you'll agree. What I propose was to see if you fancy an audio diary of my moving to Mac. I have been a lifelong self confessed computer geek, having had computers since the ZX81 days. I still have quite a collection, including most Sinclair models, an Atari VCS and even a Vectrex! My first PC was in 1991 and i've had an AOL account since 1994! I would like to record how easy or difficult I found it moving to the Mac. I plan to install VM Fusion and Windows XP as I have several bits of software needed which have no Mac equivilent. I have several projects up my sleeve to do, ie: making a book and calendar through iphoto and compiling a DVD in iMovie, making a ringtone for my iphone in Garageband etc. How does this sound? I have appeared on podcasts before, namely Doctor Who Podshock, here http://www.podcastdirectory.com/podshows/164719 and here http://www.podcastdirectory.com/podshows/528418 this was when I was on the show being killed by a Cyberman! Although I do a bit of acting for fun my main job is as a bookseller for Waterstones. I'm currently Assistant Manager of the Plymouth Waterstones, just down the road from you. Which brings me to my next point, if you're ever in the vacinity and fancy a pint, do please let me know, i'd really like to meet up for a chat. BTW: Tony Hancock is probably my comedy hero as well, although Alan Partridge is up there. I'm assuming you have all the radio shows on mp3, if not I'll gladly put them onto a DVD for you and send them up. Anyway, let me know what you think, all the best, Jules.

			British Icon - Saturday Night Fry with Stephen Fry.  A sort of precursor to a bit of fry and laurie http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturday_Night_Fry <== explanation http://www.sadena.com/radio/ <== download all 6 episodes here I really couldn't recommend it any more! My favorite bit is attached (from episode 3) Domenic Minniti