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			Stormfront comes to Kent Billed, as the largest independently owned Apple Premium Reseller in the UK, Stormfront will open its latest, biggest flagship store on Saturday, 13 December. Stormfront already has extensive retail outlets in Plymouth, Salisbury and Exeter. The new store will open in Maidstone on Fremlin Walk, promising to have every Mac, iPod and Apple accessory on display. Stormfront are offering a range of incentives to entice pre-Christmas shoppers to the new Maidstone store. On Saturday, the first 50 people to come into the new store and buy an item over £30 will get a Golden Ticket, guaranteeing them a prize ranging from iPod accessories to iPods and a MacBook. Stormfront say there will an iPod given away every hour the store is open on Saturday. Stormfront add that this weekend any Mac (with the exception of the Mac mini) will have a generous £50 off the normal price, with up to £10 off iPods (excluding the iPod shuffle). Apple experts, including Stormfront’s In Store Technical Bar, are on hand to guide customers and offer friendly jargon-free advice. Fremlin Walk is at the heart of Maidstone, and is ideally suited for your Apple Christmas shopping promise Stormfront.

			Old Magazines dusted off Google announced on Wednesday that it's teaming up with a slew of publishers to give old magazines new life by bringing them online. Users will be able to search for current and old magazines, like New York Magazine, Popular Mechanics and the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, through Google Book Search, according to a blog post by Dave Foulser, a software engineer at Google. "Over time, as we scan more articles, you'll see more and more magazines appear in Google Book Search results," wrote Foulser. "Eventually, we'll also begin blending magazine results into our main Google.com search results, so you may begin finding magazines you didn't even know you were looking for.” “For now, you can restrict your search to magazines we've scanned by trying an advanced search." Google has also been digitising books since 2006. This news comes on the heels Google's announcement last month that it planned to archive as many as 10 million photos and digitised images from the Life magazine archives. Some of the images date back to the 1750s, and many have never been published. This latest addition to the search giant's data coffers comes in the midst of an ambitious Google effort to add offline content like newspaper archives to its site. In September, the company launched a project to digitise millions of pages of news archives, making millions of old newspaper articles searchable online. In his blog post Tuesday, Foulser noted that users will be able to pull up an article in a 1973 issue of Ebony about Hank Aaron pursuing Babe Ruth's record. "You can read the article in full color and in its original context, just as you would in the printed magazine," he added. "In many cases, these magazines aren't just history as history, but history as perspective - a way of understanding today."

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			Getting Organised Hi gang, I am slowly coming around to the idea that I need to get myself organised. I don't use my Psions much anymore (Boo…) and I keep losing my paper lists. Does anyone here use software to help keep themselves organised? I would be keen to hear of your experiences/recommendations before buying anything. Mr Cat Software really doesn't work for me because unless I have whatever the software is on with me, I get completely disorganised! It was fine while I carried the Psion around with me, but even using a mobile 'phone doesn't work any more - I can't use it easily while I'm on the bike and we're not allowed to take them on-site at work. Can I suggest one of those things that people get around Christmas ... what's it called ... old people used to use them, way back in the old days ... something to do with cows ... that's it, a diary! Jock No, it needs to be something that can sync between iPhone and Mac. Those Filofax things are o.k. but they grow to caravan size in about a fortnight if you feed them. Mr C You should have a look at things http://www.culturedcode.com/things/ I think it is going to steel omnifocuses crown as the best mac/Iphone GTD app. BigAl

			I had an interesting day... We took some of our singing students to the local hospice and gave the staff and patients a Christmas sing song. I don't have much of a voice so as usual I was on PA. The carers there are fantastic. The visitors (this was a day centre hospice) were all in remarkably good spirits. I was plied with tea and mince pies and all in all a good time was had by all. We do this kind of thing a couple of times each year. We see familiar faces from the staff and of course new faces from the visitors. For most it will be their last Christmas. The thing is it is hard to know what emotion to come away with. One is at the same time saddened and uplifted, fearful and reassured, pitying and filled with admiration. All in all an interesting day.

			Sorry... Pressed send too early! Anyway... I now have several apps that give me all the functionality I need. Take a look at qik.com as it allows any mobile to play video as either a stream or as a recording that you can upload to the web. It only works on a jailbroken phone so you might not talk about it in the show. But it does also work a treat with a PowerBook and an iSight cam. No need to understand video codecs or how to upload as the app does it for you. Anyway, back to my train journey from newcastle to silverton in devon. Sent from my iPhone Joel Mills

			Dear Will Love your show, been an avid listener for 3 years, never missed an episode. My favourite iPhone app at the moment is Touch Physics - I warn you not to try it, it is seriously addictive All the best Tony Denson

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			Hi Will After downloading some rather splendid iPhone games from Pangea software, I stumbled upon this excellent find.. It is a full book downloadable for free covering Mac games programming techniques, all they ask is that if you find the book useful that you consider purchasing one of their excellent games for the Mac or iPhone. Can't say fairer than that! http://www.pangeasoft.net/book/index.html

			Hi Will, I think I’ve sussed the issue I was having, and I think I have found an iPhone bug. Each podcast episode I have watched appears as unwatched in the morning if I turn the phone off at night. This was confusing the hell out of me, since I thought I had some itunes settings that were incorrect. If I leave the phone on overnight and sync it with iTunes BEFORE letting iTunes check for new podcasts and then syncing again, all is well. Hope that sentence makes sense ;) I have set iTunes to check for new episodes manually. Put another way, you need to make sure you tell iTunes what you have watched (by syncing) before iTunes can get new podcasts back to the phone so that they are properly in sync... God I’m not explaining this very well am I, its early. I’ll have to try turning the phone off overnight to see if the problem still happens after I have updated to the 2.2 firmware. Cheers. -- Darren Davies

			Hi Will, I bought one of the early Asus eee (obviously named by a Yorkshire man) machines last year, running Linux with a 4 gig SD drive and another 2 gigs on SD, plus a tiny half a gig of ram.  And it's all right, does the job.  But a Mac version would definitely be much better.  One of the arguments against a Mac version suggested by a couple of the Mac mags was that the iPhone is a netbook in that it does email and internet.  Except of course that it doesn't have cut and paste or, crucially, an office suite.  Surely a nice version of iWork or OpenOffice  or Microsoft Office for Mac is not beyond the ken of those who can give us world class iphone apps like the light sabre  or doggy poop ... While I'd love to be at the Malt House seasonal mac-focused piss-up, I'm in the middle of panto rehearsals (10 days and nights beneath the bright lights of ... er ... Walsall - more on my website) and we're rehearsing that day.  But if a strange man in a frock suddenly staggers up the ramp, you'll know who it is. Yours aye, John

			http://culturedcode.com/things/wiki/index.php?title=Welcome Hi Will   and iPhone that is really impressing me at the moment. Things. Apologies if you've already reviewed it.  I am (er) a bit rubbish at time management, tasks and the like. Any task manager I try, even if I am diligent enough to keep adding things and checking them, soon looks as messy as my life, so of course I am overwhelmed and move on to another with a clean sheet. This software is both simple and complicated enough for me to manage domestic and business tasks, log what other people should be doing too, and have their tasks appear under the relevant project as well. Even better it syncs with the (free) iPhone version, to which you can add items. It doesn't use mobileme for the sync, just open the iphone app and it syncs via wifi. Here is a screen grab so you can appreciate some of its niceties. I shall probably blog about it soon, but I have a back log at the moment. (Want to cover a cerain kernel panic, how crap the BlackBerry Bold is for mac users, and something else that will come back to me soon after I send this). Still loving the show, Will. Best wishes John

			This one is really useful, sort of like whatsize but free. http://grandperspectiv.sourceforge.net/#download -- Darren Davies

			Oliver Postgate has died aged 83, his family has confirmed. Postgate, who lived in Kent, created some of the best-loved children's TV series including Ivor the Engine, the Clangers and Noggin the Nog. His work, screened on the BBC and ITV from the 1950s to the present day, was often in collaboration with the artist and puppeteer Peter Firmin. In a poll earlier this year, Bagpuss, a saggy pink cloth cat, was voted the best TV animal of all-time. Postgate's partner, Naomi Linnell, confirmed he died at a nursing home near his home in Broadstairs in Kent on Monday.