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 | Apple's fantastic sales results
Apple has announced financial results for its fiscal 09 third quarter, which ended on June 27, 2009. Apple posted revenue of $8.34 billion and a net quarterly profit of $1.23 billion, its best non-holiday quarterly revenue and earnings in history.
Apple handily beat Wall Street estimates, which pegged Apple’s Q3 numbers at $1.17 billion in profit and $8.20 billion in revenue.
Apple’s numbers were driven by strong sales of both the Mac and the iPhone. The company sold about 2.6 million Macs during its third quarter, falling just short of the record for Mac sales set during the fourth quarter of 2008. As for the iPhone, the June launch of the iPhone 3GS helped Apple sell 5.2 million phones for the three-month quarter.
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 | Apple’s record-setting quarterly financial results, released on Tuesday, point out that the economic and marketing powerhouse that was the iPod has been eclipsed. The traditional iPod isn’t dead, not by a long shot, but its days of explosive growth are over - replaced by the growth of the iPod touch and the iPhone.
With the exception of the annual orgy of holiday iPod sales, Apple’s iPod numbers have grown every quarter. But during the third financial quarter of 2009, Apple sold 10.2 million iPods — 800,000 less than both the previous quarter and the same quarter a year ago.
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| Brighton welcomes Apple
Apple will open a new store in Brighton on Saturday, 25 July at 10:00 am, joining other retailers at Churchill Square.
The store is listed on the official Churchill Square shopping centre Web site and Apple Web site but appears to have been delayed since it first advertised job vacancies two years ago.
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| MacHeads movie on UK iTunes
Well-reviewed Apple Mac documentary MacHEADS is now available to buy and rent on the UK iTunes Store.
The documentary film on the power of the Macintosh community, features interviews with former Apple employees, industry commentators and a fair bunch of nutcases according to Macworld's Simon Jary.
Mac insiders Dan Kottke and Guy Kawasaki are amongst those interviewed.
The film takes an in-depth examination of just what makes the Mac, the iPhone, and Apple's other products seem like cultural phenomena rather than just consumer electronics
Available on the iTunes Store MacHEADS costs £6.99 to buy and £3.49 to rent.
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| O2 could be facing greater competition if Apple allows other vendors to sell its iPhone in Britain.
The company has already been given exclusive rights to sell the new 3GS model in the UK, but Apple is understood to be looking at allowing other firms to distribute its 3G handset.
Media reports have highlighted Orange and T-Mobile as two of the names that are in the running to sell the iPhone in Britain.
However, sources have stated that O2 is furious at the prospect of rival firms possibly undercutting its price of what it has hitherto sold exclusively.
Mobile Today suggested that by offering the iPhone to more vendors, people in the UK could be less inclined to purchase cheap imports from overseas.
This comes shortly after O2 secured the exclusive selling rights to sell the new Palm Pre handset on the British market.
The new device, which offers functions such as mobile web access, will be made available to UK consumers ahead of the winter holidays.
Will retailers welcome competition in the iPhone market?
By Neil Hill
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| New UK search engine showcases job opportunities
ZubedJobs hopes it will gain an edge on other job-hunting sites by uncovering hard-to-find vacancies
Jeremy Kirk
The creators of a new job-hunting Web site say they've built a specialised search engine that digs around the Web looking for jobs that may not be advertised elsewhere.
The search engine is part of ZubedJobs, a Web site that launched on Wednesday with a focus on showing vacancies within the UK, said Ian Haynes, chief executive of the Triad Group, which runs Zubed Geospatial, which created the site.
The custom-built search engine isn't directly used by end users but instead brings content to ZubedJobs. The search engine has been engineered to recognize words related to careers offerings within companies' Web pages, performing a kind of semantic analysis.
To find jobs, the search engine is fed a list of companies, such as those listed by Companies House, the UK government's official registry of businesses, Haynes said.
ZubedJob's search engine then seeks out their Web sites and automatically navigates to wherever a certain company is showing vacancies, Haynes said. It then captures the data and plots it on Google Maps, which results in a tidy display of positions by locale.
Job hunters input a post code on ZubedJobs, and it shows a range of postings in the approximate area where the job is. Hovering a mouse over a blue teardrop will show a list of hyperlinked vacancies. When a posting is clicked, a pop-up window shows the job's details.
While there are plenty of job-hunting sites on the Internet, ZubedJobs' creators are hoping its features will stand out from the rest.
First, many companies will only advertise their jobs on their own Web sites, which means unless people are looking at a specific Web site frequently, they could miss out, Haynes said. Other companies can't afford to advertise, so listing it on their own Web site is the cheapest option.
Secondly, it allows employers to potentially find interested people who live in the area, which is positive for communities as well as potentially reducing commute times, Haynes said.
ZubedJobs is free for job seekers
ZubedJobs is free for job seekers as well as for employers who want to submit postings to the site. Haynes said the site plans to make money from companies who want premium positioning of their job ad after a person starts a search.
For example, if someone searches for a job related to C++ programming in Milton Keynes, England, a company could choose to pay a premium to show their job ad at the top of the right-hand column of the Web site. Right now, there are no ads on the site.
"Everyone gets a [vacancy] entry but if you want your entry to appear above others, that's what you're paying for," Haynes said.
Haynes wouldn't say how much ZubedJobs plans on charging employers for that option. ZubedJobs' monetization plan may work better when the economy improves.
Right now, it's a client-driven market, meaning that there are too many people seeking too few jobs, so employers aren't having to compete so much for workers. Haynes said he soon expects employers to embrace paying for ads on the site once visitor traffic has increased.
"Even today there is a need for candidates, and people will pay for that need," Haynes said.
ZubedJobs' search engine is now scanning about 1.8 million UK-focused Web sites, Haynes said. Some Web sites it scans every day, while others every two, three or four weeks depending on size. Haynes said they'd like to scan sites no less than once a week, with Web sites of large companies scanned every 24 hours. ZubedJobs is still building up its server capacity and plans on increasing its bandwidth.
If a job ad expires, it will be removed from ZubedJobs' active listings. If the vacancy is withdrawn, it will be removed from ZubedJobs the next time the search engine scans the employer's site. But ZubedJobs cautioned that its site is still in beta testing, so it will need some fine tuning.
ZubedJobs will keep an archive of vacancies that people can view to see where certain companies have needed workers in the past.
To increase the number of jobs on the site, developers are also creating APIs (application programming interfaces) that will allow companies to automatically supply vacancy listings through whichever recruitment software they're using, Haynes said.
So far, ZubedJobs will just launch in the UK, although if it goes well, it could expand to cover other geographies.
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| Sequence Training announces Pinewood Making a Documentary Final Cut Pro class
The two-day course, held at Pinewood Studios, costs £300
Nick Spence
Sequence Training, a leading UK-based training and production centre for film and video editing, and Macworld Masterclasses partner, has announced new pricing for the Making a Documentary class.
Working with industry professionals and promising unique insights, the course, held at Pinewood Studios, costs £300.
The course details the various stages of documentary editing from viewing and logging right through to fine cutting and how best to approach these stages in different situations. Focus is placed on practical techniques in Final Cut Pro to achieve the best results at every stage of a documentary, technically, journalistically and creatively says Sequence Training.
The two days are based around cutting a long form creative documentary and contains a huge amount of tips and tricks with long-time Final Cut Pro user Alex Snelling offering expertise and advice.
Full details of Sequence Training courses can be found here (PDF).
Other creative applications covered by Sequence Training includes Photoshop, Aperture, DVD Studio Pro, Logic, Final Cut Server with Dreamweaver training coming soon.
Sequence Training is also teaming up with Macworld to offer a series of Photoshop Masterclass training days in September. More information about the Macworld Masterclass Photoshop training is available here.
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| The Case of the Missing Application
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| NAVIGON is introducing the first professional navigation solution for the iPhone!
Turn your iPhone into a first-rate navigation system with MobileNavigator. Try the feature for yourself and enjoy the excellent user control and superior design that allow simple and intuitive operating. The application includes the latest map material from the market leader NAVTEQ and can be used without an Internet connection, which is of enormous benefit abroad, for example, as no extra charges are incurred. With MobileNavigator you can turn your iPhone into an equally handy and convenient route guidance system.
Features and range of functions:
• 2D and 3D map displays
• Can be used in portrait and landscape format
• Precise voice announcements
• Intelligent address entry
• Reality View Pro (realistic display of motorway interchanges and exits)
• Lane Assistant Pro
• Real signpost display
• Speed Assistant with adjustable audio-visual warning
• Day and night mode for map display
• Direct access and navigation to contacts saved in the iPhone's address book
• The latest NAVTEQ map material including more than two million (EU version) places of interest (POIs)
• Navigation is automatically resumed after an incoming phone call
• Quick access to user-defined POIs in the area and along the route
• Take Me Home function with a single click
• Automatic language selection to match the iPhone's user language
Free Update will be available in July!
• Additional languages: Portugese, Czech, Polish, Turkish, Croatian, Romanian, Slovakian, Greek and Russian (GUI und Audio)
• NAVIGON's route planning function known from the companies PND line that enables users to plan a route with several destinations
• Radarinfo (not for all countries)
• Additional map view options (now displays street names in 3D view, optional points of interest (POI) display)
• Call POI function (call the number of a POI and save it to your contacts)
• Optimized volume control when using the NAVIGON navigation and the integrated iPod function of the iPhone at the same time
Even more features!
• More functions such as TMC and text-to-speech will follow in late summer.
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 | Say Hello and Introduce Yourself
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| Hi all,
I'm a web designer from Milton Keynes, and last year upgraded my G4 to a nice new shiny 24inch iMac. It's fantastic.
Listen to a lot of podcasts throughout the day and thought it was time I listened to a Mac-specific one. I've settled on this one which seems by far the best of the bunch I've been trawling through.
Just been listening to episode #91, and have listened to a few before that too.
Going to be upgrading my current phone next year when the contract runs out to an iPhone at last as well.
good times.
Muddy Bloke
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| ;D Hello!!
I am a brand spanking newbie just on the way over from PC! i have no idea about the mac OS but by listening to the podcast (since about number 30) i have decided to take the plunge. We are getting a new imac 3.06 24". I am not a designer or anything fancy, in fact i like to play games but that will no doubt change on the mac as it ain't no gaming computer which is a shame (don't shoot me down in flames) powerful enough yes but games just ain't made for them (i can play my fav footie manager however still).
Any hoooo , the podcast is the best thing since the last best thing and never change it to a more 'formal' layout, the humour is great and i love listening in bed and ignoring the screaming kids at night so the missis has to get up to sort them out.
So remember folks some of us out there are gamers who have just seen the light of the Mac and are not eggheads (as many of us PC users think of you (now us) Apple users)
David
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| Hi All. I'm Phil, a photographer based in sunny Lincoln. Been using Macs since my Performa 6200 on OS7 with photoshop 3 since 1995. Weird to think my iPhone has more power than that ol Mac could ever have!
The whole family here is all Mac Friendly and I'm slowly converting everyone around me!
Been listening to the podcast for the last 12 months and loving it's 'Britishness'
Keep up the good work
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| Hi Folks
I'm Chas, web designer, videographer, Mac troubleshooter and all-round tech-head. I've just discovered British Mac via the podcast and love the laid back style and laconic humour.
Looking forward to chatting with you good people.
Cheers
=:~)
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| I am Dan, I make videos and use macs. Yeah, that's it really. My whole life summed up there in one sentance.
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| Apple TV review from Alan Vickers
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| Uncle Mac's Pro Mac Moment
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| Will
I hope you are doing well. Great show, its always a breath of fresh air from the US podcasts.
I would like to know if its possible to record and upload the podcast a bit louder. If I listen at half volume at home its perfect but outside on my walks and cycles its a bit soft.
Is it possible to record it louder? Just a suggestion.
Thanks mate and have a great weekend
Andre Moster
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| Hi Will
Just listened to 092 - brilliant episode as ever.
Can you tell me where the audio interview about Faulty Towers episode 13 came from? Who are the people talking? Can I get it anywhere (the interview I mean)?
Cheers
Darren
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| I hear you have not yet updated to 10.5.7, perfectly understandable since you have specific hardware drivers to think of.
I have upgraded both my home iMac and work Mac mini (both intel) to 10.5.7 and I have noticed a good speed improvement, especially on the mini. I believe the graphics card drivers have had a major update, this is confirmed by :-
1. screensavers and cross fades in presentations being noticeably smoother.
2. dashboard and expose are much smoother
3. cinebench openGL benchmarks are improved
4. VMWare fusion 3D emulation support has broken, VMWare and Apple are working on a fix.
Cinebench benchmarks for my old mac mini (2xprocessor render 4 minutes 1 second) (openGL 1029 cb-gfx)
http://www.maxon.net/index.php?id=162
Would it be fun to start a speed table on your website?, where BM listeners could post their cinebench speed results? I’m going to find the results for my other Macs and perhaps a PC or two for comparison. I think it would be interesting, informative and fun – what do you think?
I have never had an issue installing OSX updates across the 2 Macs I use and my girlfriends Macbook, perhaps I’ve just been lucky but they have all worked perfectly for years. Perhaps the fact that they are all intel models makes a difference, although I had no issues with updates to my previous iMac G5.
The one thing that slows down this Mac mini I am using is the hard disk, it spins at a slow 4200rpm. Interestingly snow leopard will be heavily optimised for speed and stability with filesizes for applications sometimes 3 times smaller than present. This should mean that snow leopard running on my old intel Mac mini should be significantly faster than leopard.
After extensive testing of Windows 7 RC (release candidate) build 7100 I think that OSX Loepard 10.5.7 is better in many ways. I believe the innovations in snow leopard coupled with its extra speed and efficiency will cement it in the marketplace as the absolute best of the best operating system software. Mac OSX was actually the reason I switched to the Mac.
Windows 7 is very good indeed, but I fully expect Snow Leopard to be astounding.
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Darren Davies
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| Hi Will,
I decided it was about time I made a list of applications for the Desert Island Applications spot - I couldn't decide whether to do iPhone or Mac so decided to do both! I've tried to pick less common apps so that perhaps people won't have heard of them before.
Here goes, I hope the list is usable.
Cheers,
Keith.
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| Hi Will
I have got some iphone app ideas. Is there any iPhone developer talent out there in British Mac land? Could pitch my ideas and talk about how I think it all could work. We could talk over skype if your interested? skype: mickcoulter72h
When are we having those London beers?
Also still up for video special for your 100 podcast?
Regards.
Mick Coulter
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| Brilliant piece of music at the end of Ep 92 - you didn't hypnotize me tho' - sorry!
So who, What was it - loved it (and the show of course!)
Terryb, Ellingham, Northumberland
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| Hi All
Just moved over to Mac a couple of months ago and really enjoying it.
I was hoping for some recommendations as to what kit I need to get into audio provision. I am involved with a local charity which supports visually impaired people and we want to provide information in accessible formats including audio CD, DAISY format which is an industry standard for providing information, basically as MP3 files, on disc and download etc.
While the built in microphone on my iMac is good I need to provide a more professional sound. Any recommendations or pointers for the right kit to buy?
Any help would be appreciated.
Kind regards.
John T
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| Greetings Will,
Just a short mail, my name is Barry,location
Redditch Worcs,uk, in my late 50s,retired due to my health.
My children have got me a old g4 (PowerMac G4 AGP Single , 400mhz CPU ) + crt mon, & have loaned me a usb keybord & mouse.
mac os 10.4
At the moment I am enjoying your podcasts from my hospital bed ;-)
Can you help please ? where to start to learn the basics of useing mac's in every day life ?
e.g my music, my photo's, what to use please ?
I would like to run every thing on 12 volts,
Like you have done in your van, any advice on what to save for ?
Do you know of any 2nd hand places in the midlands I can get a apple keyboard from ?
Thank you for your time & help.
Take care
looking forward to many more great british mac podcasts.
bye
Barry
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| Bill Frindall - William Howard Frindall, MBE (3 March 1939 – 29 January 2009)[1] was an English cricket scorer and statistician. He was familiar to cricket followers from his appearances on the BBC Radio 4 programme Test Match Special, nicknamed the Bearded Wonder (often shortened to Bearders) by Brian Johnston for his ability to research the most obscure cricketing facts in moments, at the same time as keeping perfect scorecards, and because he had a beard.[1] In his obituary in The Independent, Angus Fraser described Frindall as "the doyen of cricket scorers".[2
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