First of all, I’d like to welcome back Billy Hime to BUMP, he’s come back to join us for the odd show from time to time.
We talk about Woz’s views on the iPhone, MacBook Air and Apple TV. The updates to the MacBook and MacBook Pro, what these mean in terms of performance and how the price is still not fair in the UK!
We’ll be back later this week with some new shows!
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
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.
With Chris away on a nice holiday this week Stu & Daniel decided to record a show based on Daniel’s great post about video for the web.
We first of all cover the latest Apple news, including the updates to the iPod Shuffle, the Keyboard firmware update and the BBC content on iTunes and the potential of iPlayer on the iPhone and iPod touch
We then go on to talk about all things video for anyone who wants to start editing video on their Mac. Be warned Stu and Daniel are video geeks, so the stuff we talk about may not be for the newbie, but we do give some great tips about how to get started.
We’ll be back next week with a show all about recording and editing our respective podcasts, we’re hoping Chris can join us for what will be a great show and of course if you want to join us we’ll be doing the show on TalkShoe and you can call in with any questions!
I have been in the search for the “perfect” audio set-up for about 3 weeks now. I have been looking at mixers, microphones, computers and everything else you need. Although I have come close, I haven’t found the “perfect” set-up. Through this fun hunt, I have found various pieces to the making of this dream set-up. Continue reading »
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.
Apple iPhone developers take note:
iPhone Copy and Paste from lonelysandwich on Vimeo.
This is a really good mock up of how the iPhone copy and paste could and should work. If they choose to implement it in this way I would be a happy man.
If any of the iPhone developers are reading this then take a good look. I find this video could educate you and make you see your mistakes. People complained about Leopard’s Menu Bar and you changed that. If we whine enough about the copy and paste will you? I realise I’m talking to no-one here but I am doing my little bit to help.
Funny great video.
A while ago in the UK the Mitchell and Webb versions of the hit US Mac and PC adverts were pulled offline. During a bored 3am time last night I found my self perusing through the great servers of YouTube and came across all the ads and I just wanted to know your opinion on them.
If you have a MacBook or MacBook Pro you are probably sick and tired of hitting that software update but you should again once more as Apple has released a keyboard patch that helps when a key is pressed for the first time after the mac has been idle and hasn’t done anything. It probably also “Improves stability and compatibility” in some way shape or form. All the updates do these days.
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!
