Not Shaking anymore Apple has removed digital effects solution Shake from its online store, leading observers to speculate that the company has discontinued the software. Apple had hosted a Shake sub site on its website at www.apple.com/shake, however, from late Thursday this URL redirects to Final Cut Studio. The company had referred to Shake as "The perfect extension for Final Cut Studio," unfortunately it never made it into the suite. As of last night (Thursday) the UK Apple website was still showing the Shake page. According to MacRumors Apple sales representatives have confirmed that the product has been discontinued.

			iPhone trounces DS Apple's iPhone is behind a sharp drop in Nintendo's profits, according to the gaming company. In a conference call about its financial results, a Nintendo representative claimed the DS and DSi were suffering, “due to harsher competition in the portable arena stemming directly from Apple devices,” reports the Mirror. Nintendo's admission suggests that games from Apple’s App Store on the iPhone and iPod touch are weakening sales of the DS and DSi. A sharp fall in global sales of Nintendo's popular Wii console and a less dramatic slowdown in sales of the portable DS pushed down the company's sales and profits in the April to June quarter, the company said on Thursday. Nintendo said net profit for the three-month period was ¥42 billion (US$443 million as of the last day of the period being reported), down 61 percent on the same period last year, while sales dropped 40 percent to ¥253 billion. Sales of the Wii dropped more than half compared to the same period last year to 2.2 million units during the quarter. The drop was largest in the Americas, where unit sales fell 65 percent, and in Japan, where they declined by 60 percent. Unit sales in other markets, including Europe, fell 47 percent, Nintendo said. In the handheld market, the company saw unit sales of its DS drop on the same period last year by a million units to 6 million. Nintendo developed a new version of the DS, called the DSi, in response to falling sales and launched it in Japan late last year. The DSi was introduced to Europe and the Americas at the beginning of April but sales during the quarter were still lower than the same period last year. They only rose in Nintendo's home market of Japan. In addition to the lower unit sales Nintendo was also hit by the Japanese yen, which has strengthened against both the U.S. dollar and euro since the April to June quarter of last year. The strong yen increases the price of its products that are made in Japan and also reduces the value of sales and profits made overseas when that money is returned to Japan. Software sales for both the Wii and DS also fell. Nintendo said 29 million Wii games and 31 million DS games were sold during the period. Those figures represent declines of 20 percent and 23 percent respectively against the same period last year. Nintendo attributed the drop to fewer hit titles being released during the quarter. For the April to March 2010 fiscal year Nintendo said it expects to record a net profit of ¥300 billion on sales of ¥1.8 trillion. The figures are unchanged on forecasts made earlier. Last year Nintendo achieved a net profit of ¥279 billion on sales of ¥1.84 trillion.

			iDisk for iPhone Apple has released its long-awaited MobileMe iDisk application for the iPhone and iPod touch. It’s available for free download from the App Store. MobileMe iDisk enables iPhone and iPod touch users with MobileMe accounts to access the contents of their iDisk — the online storage component of Apple’s subscription-based online service. The application lets you view and share files stored in your iDisk; you log in with your MobileMe user name and password, then tap the Share icon to share files with others; they’re sent a link by email. You can assign a password to keep files secure, and limit the number of days the download will be available. Viewing files is limited to iPhone-supported file types, including iWork, Office, PDF, QuickTime and others. Apple cautions that files larger than 20MB may not be viewable. System requirements call for an iPhone or iPod touch running iPhone OS 3.0 and an active MobileMe subscription.

			2GB Time Capsule Time Capsule - 2TB Back up a lifetime's worth of memories with the Time Capsule, a wireless hard drive that works seamlessly with Time Machine in Mac OS X Leopard. It’s also a full-featured 802.11n Wi-Fi base station with simultaneous dual-band support.1 Choose from 1TB and 2TB models. 1TB £229.00 2TB £379.00

			Safari shortcuts: Command and T - New Tab Command and L - type we address Command and I - send webpage as email Command Shift and I - send website link via email Command + or - - zoom in and out (graphics too!)

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			The Secret of Monkey Island Main article: The Secret of Monkey Island The series debuted in 1990 with The Secret of Monkey Island on the PC MS-DOS, Atari ST and Macintosh platforms; the game was later ported to Amiga, FM Towns and Mega-CD (1993). A remastered version with updated graphics and new voiceovers was released for PC Windows and Xbox Live Arcade on the 15 July 2009[2]. An iPhone version was also released on 23 July 2009. The game starts off with the main character Guybrush Threepwood stating "I want to be a pirate!" To do so, he must prove himself to three old pirate captains. During the perilous pirate trials, he meets the beautiful governor Elaine Marley, with whom he falls in love, unaware that the ghost pirate LeChuck also has his eyes on her. When Elaine is kidnapped, Guybrush procures crew and ship to track LeChuck down, defeat him and rescue his love. £4.99 for your iPod Touch or iPhone

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			Apple TV Hello, In the latest edition of british mac 93, apple tv got some coverage. it was very interesting and i would be very interested to know how to go about changing the 40gb hdd for a 160gb hdd. I have seen at other areas i.e lifehacker that there is a bit of fussing regarding the software. i have changed a hdd in a sky+. although that was very simple one out one in then reconnect and a software update. Please advise on this and can anyone tell me the name of the bloke who presented this item .Cheers. Ken.

			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. iPhone 1) TV Plus - http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=292756958 TV Plus is an app specifically for Sky+ boxes so if you don't have one, it's useless!  What it does is give you the option to record TV programmes remotely.  I don't use it a lot but I would be quite annoyed if I didn't have it.  It has an Electronic Programme Guide which lists all the TV channels along with brief descriptions of each programme.  To record, you simply tap the programme name and then hit the 'record' button.  A request is sent to Sky and your box is programmed remotely.   It's £1.79 to buy and I think it's worth it.  There is an app provided free by Sky themselves but it's quite buggy and I've found it to be very slow. 2) Vicinity - http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=284496131 Quite a simple premise.  It uses location services to tell you what's nearby.  I bought this when it first appeared and didn't find much use for it until I was sitting in a pub in Edinburgh trying to find somewhere nearby that did food.  I asked it to show me pubs because I fancied some pub grub and then I called each one in order of closeness until I found one that did food.  Vicinity gave me a link on the map to where it is and I used the built in Maps application to locate said pub and enjoy a delicious meal.  It's also £1.79 and there are probably free alternatives but as I use this, I thought I'd recommend it.  3) MMS - http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=300925874 The iPhone doesn't yet have MMS support but it will do in V3.0 of the firmware so in the meantime I use this free application that allows me to easily view any MMS messages that are sent to me.  I have a few friends who use MMS and with this application I can see the images without having to faff around with Safari and go to the O2 web site.  It charges to send messages (I've never done it) but receiving is free.  It will become redundant when the iPhone 3.0 firmware is released though. 4) SuperBall 3 - http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=290152571  The link I've provided is for the LITE version which is free, the full version is £1.19 and if you like 'breakout' style games then I think it's well worth buying this game.  It's the game I've gone back to the most on my iPhone and it really is excellent.  It uses the accelerometer for control and is a very addictive game with more levels than you could comfortably shake a stick at. 5) Wikipanion - http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=288349436 Quick and easy access to Wikipedia.  A free application which does exactly what it says, it gives quick access to Wikipedia without having to load Safari.  A really handy application to have. There are other for the iPhone which I couldn't be without such as TubeDeluxe (London Underground maps, routes, etc), National Rail (real-time timetable for the UK rail network), WiFinder (search for wireless networks and quickly and easily see whether they're open or secure), Tweetie (twitter app) and Pocket God (fun fun game) but I have to draw a line somewhere and the five I listed are a good bunch to start with.

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