British Users of Mac Podcast

Apple today amongst other releases let out of the Cupertino Campus iPhone and iPod Touch firmware 1.1.4.

What does it do?

Nothing.

No really nothing.

It improves stability as everyone already knows with the Apple notes and thats basically all it says. Maybe something to do with 3rd party applications is included but not documented. Engadget say that the jailbroken phones will update without problems everything still intact but be careful and if you have any complaints complain to them not me

It is a hefty update clocking in at around 160 megs it is almost as big as a OS 10 upgrade.

If you have one of the touchscreen Apple devices then update it and enjoy the nothing.

iPods now are becoming an extension of peoples beings. I feel it is becoming like the hoover. Instead of saying “Vacuum cleaning” people say “Hoovering” and now I can see it becoming not MP3 player but iPod. iPod has a status of its own. I could go on a post about how iPods are so big now they are creating a monopoly (gives me an idea) but this post is about breaking your iPod virginity and finding you the right iPod.

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The forgotton iPod the baby of the lot has grown bigger. He know is sporting a 2GB chip inside his little shell as opposed to the 1GB as before. There is also a 1GB version still available at a cheaper price of £32.00 but there is now (well soon) the 2GB version at £45.00! That’s cheaper than it was to start with!

Jolly Good!

After many months of rumours about the BBC coming to the iTunes Store here in the UK, Torchwood is now available (along with a few other shows, but being the Doctor Who geek I am, what else do you think I’m going to mention first) on the iTunes store, well at least the first few episodes of Season 2 are. So my mum is very happy, she’s got a bit of a crush on John ‘Captain Jack’ Barrowman, despite the fact he’s gay! Continue reading »

In the days of yore back before this small little blog was spawned there was no such thing as TV shows in the UK according to iTunes. Although we had this device they called the iPod, which would play video, there was only really one legal way of watching video and that was video podcasts. iTunes was just a small lump of a application learning its ways. Then we saw iTunes turn into a bouncing baby application when it signed up some of the shows such as “That’s So Raven” and “Hannah Montana”.

Now our little baby is turning into a boy. With Warner Bros signed up we are getting hits like:

• Bablyon 5
• Wonder Woman
• The Jetsons
• The Flinstones

and of course it wouldn’t complete without possibly the greatest show ever

• Friends!

Also joining WB are “Aardman Studios” they are the genius boffins behind the great Plasticine duo “Wallace and Grommit.”

Now we are seeing our iTunes grow up. I don’t think we can call him a man yet as he still hasn’t got his first movie but he will probably panic and give us Matrix 2 as the first one.

Someone at Apple has really started to listen to us here in the UK and with Steve saying at Macworld this year he was determined to get at least Movie Rentals to the UK.

Me and Stu both jumped at the chance to watch these new videos and Stu and I both feel they have great quality. Stu bought Bablyon 5 and I plumped for the Friends episode titled “The One With The Baby On The Bus” which is highly recommended by yours truly. We only have seasons 1-3 of Friends and it looks the same across the board but as time goes on so will more and more content come into iTunes.

I could have a massive rant about how we are not being treated fair but I won’t. What I will mention is the price per season! WOW! That is a lot! Sort it out Apple.

For now though lets celebrate with our model made friends, our iTunes’ first tooth and first words.

So it was yesterday but I am catching up on the news on the blog. Not such a big release but Apple now have the iPod Nano in PINK!

Just in time for valentines day so you can get it for that special loved one in your life. Or if you want to send me one to give to my girlfriend that works as well

How long before we see a pink shuffle?

A while ago on one of the episodes we were talking about how the UK gets pricing from big major companies. Adobe and Apple are huge culprits in this. Apple though have said on their blog that they will work over 2008 to lower prices in the iTunes UK and Europe stores. The only real scary part about this is that if you read the post its clearly stated anyone who doesn’t follow suit will be chucked. Continue reading »

Have you ever wondered what we are listening to?

Probably not but if you have then you can use something like last.fm to follow us if we have an account. Last FM is awesome and Apple have jumped on a similar band wagon with a thing they call My iTunes Widgets. They aren’t like normal widgets you don’t download them and stick them on your dashboard you stick them on a webpage. They basically are little pieces of HTML code that stick into your web page like normal HTML does. You sign into your iTunes account info in iTunes then you choose enable iTunes widgets.

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We sometimes feel like second class citizens by Apple sometimes. They are making steps in the right direction. We got TV shows on iTunes and until the 30th (so hurry) if you text the words “ROCK”,”POP”,”LIVE,” or “ITUNES” to 85100, Apple will do you the kind gesture of sending you a code to redeem a free song.

It only works in the UK and it is proven to work but if you like to text then go for it and enjoy your free iTunes song!

It’s been a slow couple of days as you may have noticed Apple wise ahead of the big event tomorrow but we do have the slightest bit of news that iTunes has been updated to version 7.4.2 .

This is from the release notes

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