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Surprise!! We're back will a shiny new design for our shownotes and lots of good stuff coming your way ;-) In this short ’getting back into the groove’ episode we discuss what we've been doing while missing in action from MacBites and the imminent WWDC, together with details of several exciting tech related local events coming in the next few weeks. ChatBites Munich58.co.uk Duncan Edwards Apple - one-to-one training Photoshop Express video demo WWDC Speakapedia Events NWMUG - Toast 9 NWAG - Mission Control - Lightroom and Bridge GeekUp

ChatBites MacBook Back to my Mac VMWare Fusion VMWare Disk Driver Private browsing Trackpad settings Toolbar Toggle MacBites Shortcuts Demise of Navigator Switchers Corner/Software Review PaintShopPro Portfolio iPhoto Adobe - Bridge, Elements, Lightroom Aperture FotoMagico Mike's FotoMagico Demo Slideshow Calendar Sharing BusySync Elaine's how-to for sharing calendars on a single Mac Screen Capture Additional features to built in screen capture in Leopard

ChatBites iCal Exchange Web Snapper SWF & FLV Player BusySync Adding Calendar Content to your Application Switchers Corner/Software Review Notepad WordPad NoteTabPro EditPadPro Acetext Powergrep RegExBuddy TextEdit TextWrangler BBEdit TextMate Screen Spanning Screen Spanning Doctor Bundles MacHeist MacSanta Order Tracking Tracking online orders

iPhone Special Experience the launch at The Trafford Centre Activation Synchronizing contacts and calendar iTunes - managing with only 8mg Making calls - sound quality Messaging using the keyboard Email Camera - verdict on the lowly spec'd camera Web apps directory Web Apps Directory UK Traffic News Connection speedtest Translation tool Talking phrasebook Jivetalk enables use of ichat and other chat clients for text chatting. Free to use for iphone and ipod touch users Accessories V-Moda Headphones Belkin Headphone Adapter Tips Saving multiple images as a PDF in Preview Using the Scrollball to control Spaces

Leopard Special - Part 2 Living with Leopard - One week in MikeT relates his experiences of the Leopard install. It's been said before but Backup Backup Backup and MikeT prefers SuperDuper So Mike any issues with the new Cat? All three of us our now running with Leopard We share some of our likes and dislikes. We'd all love a dual monitor setup - Leopard does too. Safari 3 - what's new? Transferring Mail Networking Airport Screen sharing Back to my Mac Other Features Spaces Time Machine The new Finder Preview Coverflow Quicklook Comments and Feedback So Gazmaz have we tempted you yet? Let us know how you get on What about everyone else? Upgraded yet? & how did it go? Next week - it's finally here - iPhone has landed

Leopard Special Live recording from The Apple Store, Trafford Centre, Manchester Interviews with those in the queue and a member of staff from the store Sample the excitement of the build up to the launch Leopard - The MacBiters First Thoughts Installation experiences Clean vs Over-the-top The Dock DockSwitcher TigerDock Dockgawk 1.0 DockDoctor 1.0 Transparent Menu Bar OpaqueMenuBar LeoColorBar Adobe CS3 and Leopard John Nack’s Blog Adobe Support for OS X Leopard Lightroom Blue Screen of Death The Register MacMerc MacFixit Aperture and Time Machine Issues Apple MacRumors

In the news this week: Leopard launch 26th October. Apple retail stores will close at 4pm. They will re-open at 6pm and remain open until 10pm. Apple premium resellers will also commence selling Leopard at 6pm Apple and its wireless partner in France, Orange, will sell an unlocked version of the iPhone. www.macworld.com/news/ Third Party applications on the iPhone - Open letter from Steve Jobs on www.apple.com/hotnews iTunes Plus DRM free tracks reduced by 20p to £0.79 ($0.99 in US) The Good: Apple releases Leopard guided tour video The Bad: Some reviewers are knocking the iPod Touch as just a crippled iPhone The Ugly: The Barbie iPod dock Yes its pink and flowery Switchers Corner Address Book and iCal Using O2M for importing contacts and calendar items from Outlook www.littlemachines.com Useful features include multiple calendars, calendar sharing and publishing, colour coding, easy to backup (Price: $10) Software Review Typinator ww

In the news this week: Intrepid hackers have brought Apple’s shiny new menus to older models. Apple Launches WebApps Directory. Apple has launched a directory of web-based applications designed for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Apple to Announce 3rd Party iPhone App Development? Apple iPhone 2 for Macworld Expo? As confirmed by Apple CEO Steve Jobs in September, Apple is already working on the development of the second-generation iPhone. The Good: T3 - Apple cleans up at T3 Awards The Bad: Royalty demands may have kept Valve's Half-Life 2 off the Mac The Ugly: The new iPhone ads on the US site. Switchers Corner Using Mail Reasons for transferring for Outlook to OSX Mail Using O2M (from littlemachines.com) for importing mail from Outlook. Price: $10 Software Review SpamSieve - powerful spam filtering for Mac OS X. More information about SpamSieve can be found at c-command.com Requires: Mac OS X 10.2.8 or later (10.4.0 or la

News: Leopard, Amazon's MP3 download store, French iPhone launch delay, The Cloud, Freezing iMacs, Zune Switchers Corner: Browsers - Netscape, Shiira, Safari, Opera, Firefox, Omniweb Software Review: Saft Introductions The MacBiters introduction - Elaine, MikeB and MikeT - and have their first gab! A brief insight in to how & why we switched to the Mac platform. News Items For the week ending Friday 5th October 2007 Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard is coming Macworld.co.uk news is reporting that rumours are rife that we can expect Leopard to land on the 26th of October. Also, details released from testers of the latest pre-release version, list min system requirements of a Mac running a G4 867MHz or faster processor, which makes several older Mac models incapable of running the forthcoming operating system. iTunes killer??? Amazon.com launches mp3 download store - currently in Beta for US customers only. Prices are only $0.89 for a DRM free, 256bit mp3 track and recent a

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