White Macbook Upgraded As expected Apple has upgraded the specs of their white 13-inch MacBook on the UK store, reflecting changes seen on the US store yesterday. Previously displaying 2.1GHz, the white 13-inch MacBook now is listed as 2.0GHz, but with an improved memory as standard up from 1GB DDR2 Memory to 2GB DDR2 Memory and a superior NVIDIA GeForce 9400M graphics card replacing the Intel GMA X3100 graphics card. Previously £704.00 from the Apple UK store, the refreshed spec increases the price to £719.00. This puts the price of the white MacBook back to its price it was when the unibody MacBook was released (it had been lowered by £15 when the VAT rate went from 17.5% to 15% in the UK.) The US price has not changed and remains at $999. The price increase can partly be attributed to the continual fall of Sterling's value against the US dollar, although it is bound to once again cause anxiety amongst Apple's UK customers. Apple is currently displaying ‘5 business days’ for delivery compared with ‘Within 24hrs’ for the aluminium 13-inch MacBook. Comparing the old MacBook 2.1GHz with the new MacBook 2.0GHz Old MacBook 2.1GHz Intel Core 2 Duo 1GB DDR2 Memory 120GB hard drive1 Intel GMA X3100 graphics Standard keyboard White polycarbonate shell £704.00 New MacBook 2.0 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo 2GB DDR2 Memory 120GB hard drive1 Nvidia GeForce 9400M graphics Standard keyboard White polycarbonate shell £719.00

			Apple's record profit Amid an ongoing recession that has dimmed prospects for consumer companies, Apple on Wednesday said that it recorded revenue and profit during its fiscal first quarter on the strength of solid laptop, iPod, and iPhone sales. For the first time in its history, Apple tallied more than $10 billion revenue, reporting sales of $10.17 billion for the three months ended 31 December.

			Cooking the netbook "We’re watching that space, but right now, from our point of view, the products in there are principally based on hardware that’s much less powerful than we think customers want, software technology that is not good, cramped keyboards, small displays, et cetera. And so we don’t think people are going to be pleased with those types of products, but we’ll see. We are watching the space. As you know, about 3 per cent of the PC industry was in this netbook kind of category so it’s a category we watch. We’ve got some ideas here. But right now, we think the products there are inferior and will not provided an experience to customers that they are happy with."

			Intego, a maker of anti-virus and firewall software, has issued an alert to warn Mac users not to download Apple iWork ’09 installers from sites offering pirated software.

			Apple today released QuickTime 7.6, which includes a number of performance, compatibility, and security updates. According to the support document for the release, the update includes the following changes: Video: - Improves single-pass H.264 encoding quality - Increases the playback reliability of Motion JPEG media Audio: - Improves AAC encoding fidelity - Audio tracks from MPEG video files now export consistently Application Support: - Improves compatibility with iChat and Photo Booth

			Apple recently posted a support document revealing that retail boxes of the new iWork '09 suite do not require users to input serial numbers to activate the product. Users who download the iWork '09 30-day trial from Apple's site, however, will still have to input serial numbers upon purchasing the full version online in order to unlock the applications.

			CNet reports that Google is hoping to release a version of their Chrome browser for both Mac and Linux in the first half of 2009. At the moment, the Mac version is just starting to become functional: "That team now is able to render most Web pages pretty well. But in terms of the user experience, it's very basic," Rakowski said of the Mac version. "We have not spent any time building out features. We're still iterating on making it stable and getting the architecture right." Chrome is a Webkit-based browser developed by Google that is currently available for Windows only. Google believes it "can add value for users and, at the same time, help drive innovation on the web." Google's co-founder even acknowledged that the lack of a Mac version was "embarrassing" and that he was running Chrome under VMWare Fusion on his own Mac.

			If you right click or control click an item such as a file or folder you can assign a coloured label to it. To rename the labels, whilst in The Finder go to Finder, Preferences and the Labels tab. You create red labels for urgent work, or use labels to organise a project. You can then create a Smart Folder that brings together files and folders with the coloured label where ever they maybe inside your filing system.

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			ComicZeal Hi Will, On your latest podcast you asked for iPhone app recommendations. I've written an app called ComicZeal. It's a comicbook reader and it works fantastically well. That's my objective and unbiased view. So ... I recommend it. Seriously though, I'm really quite proud of it and would be honored if you gave it a go and let me know what you think. Regards, Emiliano Molina Bitolithic.com

			BritishMacLists only a few podcasts left to track down (ep 033, 063 and 044 - I think 044 may have been released in 4 parts called BRITISHMAC EASTER1, BRITISHMAC EASTER2, BRITISHMAC EASTER3, and BRITISHMAC EASTER4). If you can pop a request into a future podcast that would be great.

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