British Users of Mac Podcast

As you may have noticed recently neither Stu or I or any of the other bloggers we have on our staff have been blogging lately. The reason for this is we are currently working on a new project. The im-podcast, which stands for International Mac Podcast.

This will be a show with the same type of feel but will have more international focus. We have spoke about it on the podcast previously and if you want to know more check out some of the shows.

Now BUMP will not be dying we have no intentions of letting that go but for now we have some plans for that we are working on which we will talk about in the future. When we have more full featured plans we will talk about them and let you know what’s going on but for now we are still here.

32 years ago to the day When Apple computer Inc. was born to the proud parents of Steven Gary Wozniak and Steven Paul Jobs. The birthed the Apple 1 in a garage in their hometown and now 32 years later the company is sat with many children such as the iPhone and the iPod.

Thank you Steve’s and Happy Birthday Apple!

As some of you have noticed I (Chris) haven’t been on the podcast or blog as much lately. I just wanted to let you guys all know that I am still here and I will be on the shows more regularly and also be blogging a lot more in the time to come.

The reason for my absence has mainly been due to some small exams and they are not over yet. I have completed one GCSE this Friday just gone (hopefully got an A according to teacher) a year early and I still have some to come towards the end of April.

I have been working hard on these and they have taken up a lot of my time but rest assured I will be back blogging again and on the podcast hopefully this week. Thanks for everyone who has wanted to hear me again it means a lot and I will speak to you sometime soon.

Hi everyone, hope you’re all well, I thought I’d take a few minutes to give you an update on how things are going, and what you can expect this next few months.

First up, I’d like to thank the team particularly Chris and Daniel, they’ve both been fantastic and it’s great to have Daniel with us on BUMP, I’m sure you’ll agree he’s a great addition to our already fine team! We’ve actually promoted him too, he’s now on the production team as well as a blogger, I gotta say editing video and audio together is a lot of fun.

Update : OK after looking at the podcasting episode we did on Sunday, the audio quality was poor because of TalkShoe, so I’m releasing a news show as BUMP 028, and we’ll redo our podcasting special this weekend with Daniel

Coming up in the next few months we have some great guests planned, more details to come soon and also a huge range of special episodes such ad ‘DJing with your Mac’ and ‘Mac vs Linux - The Live Debate’.

We hope you’re enjoying what we’re doing with the show, if you aren’t then please let us know by emailing us using the contact page!

Thanks for your time

Stu

February 2nd is here and for those of you who remember it is the day of BUMP LIVE! If you are in Leeds at around 7 o’clock please come and join us , you can find details on how to get there from this post.

If you can’t make it then we do encourage you to join us live on talkshoe.com so head over at 7:00pm British time (2:00pm ET or 11:00am PT) hit the “Live Now” then look for our logo and click the “Join Now” button. Its really that easy.

If you cant make it don’t worry it will be sent out on the feed for you to listen to! We hope to speak to you soon!

If you have been following my Software Saturday segment you will know that basically every Saturday I run down or recommend a piece of software that I think people will like or enjoy. After some talks with the rest of the team we want to expand Software Saturday into a video podcast.

What we want to know from you is : Would you like to have a separate feed from the show audio or would you like it all bundled into one feed or even both?

We want to make it as listener friendly as possible so we want to know how you want it. Sound off in the comments below or e-mail bumpodcast [at] googlemail [dot] com.

Hi everyone, hope you’re all enjoying the latest episode, if you are as always please leave some comments etc!

As I mentioned at the end of the last show, we have the great joy of being able to an actual live show, here in Leeds with a fair few panelists including Chris, Zak & Mani, myself and special guests Brandon & Bobby from the Masterdb8rs podcast, sadly Aaron can’t make it and it would take a lot of money and planning to even attempt to get Billy over!

This wonderful even is gong to take place on TalkShoe and also at Lister Hill Baptist Church in Horsforth, Leeds (full details at the end of the post) We’d love to have as many people with us in Leeds as possible but for those of you who just can’t make it, please come join us on TalkShoe!

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If you have an iPhone or iPod Touch and visit our site and you also have the latest version of the firmware for each, you will now be able to add our site with our very own WebClip icon.

Other sites such as Meebo and Pocket Tweets (two of the BUMP team favourite) have icons that makes them look like native applications. You can now add our site and you will get our logo, just try it and see.

If you want to add your own webclip icon:

• Make a “png” you want to use that is 57×57 pixels
• Save the file as “apple-touch-icon.png”
• Upload the file to the root of your site
• Navigate to your webpage on your iPhone and try it out!

If you are a little more code and tech savvy you can add a icon for each different page. See The Apple iPhone Devcenter for more details. You don’t need to add the effects like the semi-circle type effect as the iPhone will do that for you. Go out and add us as a webclip and you have easy access to our site wherever you are :D.

Hello everyone and welcome to 2008! This may be a little late but we hope your holiday season has gone really well and you got that iChristmas you were dreaming of.

We realise it has been ages since we have posted on here but doing some behind the scenes work and also me loosing my internet connection has made it very hard to get much done around here. This is a new year though and we have huge plans for BUMP in 2008.

This year we will hope to start our live podcast which you can join in on probably at Talkshoe.com also we will be looking into ways to expand the website adding forums and the like. We do encourage you to stick with us through these times as we are really looking forward to this taking off in 2008!

Finally we all want to say a huge thank you to everyone who has e-mailed us and showed us support for starting this. It really means a lot when we get your feedback and its really amazing to hear people out there are actually listening to us.

Look out today for a new series of “Software Saturday” and some more blogging to come this year. Also more podcasts where i finally return and of course we have Macworld coming up soon so stay tuned to find out what happens there.

Again Happy New Year and We at BUMP hope you have a fantastic 2008!

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Hey everyone, hope you’re all well, just wanted to update you all with what’s happening with the shows, as in why there haven’t been any new episodes posted, no we’re not part of the writers guild before anyone asks!The honest and simple truth is that we’ve all been very busy lately, both Chris and Billy have had a lot of school work to sort out and Aaron and myself have been busy at work. The good news is that we are having a blitz this weekend, BUMP 015 is in the can with Chris and myself, BUMP 016 is being recording pretty much after I post this, with Chris, Aaron and myself and then BUMP 017 is being recorded Saturday night with Billy, Aaron and myself. The reason for the 2 shows in one weekend is simple, we want to have the whole team on a show, but Billy and Chris aren’t available on the same nights, which would imply me and Aaron don’t but he’s just told me to speak for myself so there you go.So keep an eye on the feeds, we’ll be coming at you with a triple bill of BUMP goodness very soon!