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| | | | | | MacTalk Meets - Brisbane and Perth - This Sunday! | | | | MacTalk Meets - Brisbane & Perth - This Sunday!
 This Sunday will see a gathering of MacTalkers in Brisbane and Perth. All members are invited and encouraged to come along for an afternoon of good food and company. MacTalk will be supplying a free BBQ and nibbles as well as drinks. Please register your interest in the relevant thread and we hope to see you there!
When: Sunday, 18th of May, from Noon until whenever...
What to Bring: if you want anything beyond BBQ sausages, chips and soft drink, then it's BYO. Also bring your cameras, but perhaps leave the laptops at home you geeks.
Brisbane Where: New Farm Park - Google Map link
Contact: Andrew via email: andrew.wilson[at]mactalk.com.au or iChat: andrew_mtb[at]mac.com
Ashley via email and iChat: ashaleee[at]mac.com
Where: Kings Park, Pines Picnic area - Google Map
Contact: jeremy_warnock via PM
| | | | | | News, News and More News - Thursday May 15 | | | | News, News and More News
Thursday May 15 Edition
Swisscom have confirmed that they will carry the iPhone. No word on the other alleged details (mobile TV, GPS, flux capacitor etc).
GeekSugar claims that the 3G iPhone will be announced June 9 (duh) and available the same day (wha?). Not sure how this would fit with the leaked AT&T vacation freeze period, which begins June 15.
The 1st generation iPhone shortage has now led to a limit of one per customer at AT&T stores, so if you're after one of these you may be in trouble... unless you go for one of the refurbished 16GB models Apple is now selling.
In potentially the biggest news of the day, Intel Germany's CEO seems to have inadvertently confirmed the iTablet:
As part of an Intel event for the 40th birthday of the semiconductor company at Munichs BMW World, Germany managing director Hannes Schwaderer confirmed today what has long been a rumor on the Internet: namely, that there is an iPhone with Intels new Atom chip. The device is slightly larger than the current version, Schwaderer said. That is not, however, because of the Intel chip, but because of the larger display used in the new iPhone.
Wonder if this will be pre-announced at WWDC for an August release...
Ever wanted to turn your "Slide to Unlock" screen into a Windows Mobile-esque Today screen? Check out IntelliScreen.
And in non-multitouch news, Macworld benchmarks the current generation of iMacs against the previous generation. It's amazing what a difference two and a half years makes.
Finally, if you don't have your WWDC tickets yet, you're out of luck. Apple have sold out the event for the first time.
| | | | | | News, News, News, and More News - Wednesday, May 14th | | | | News, News, News, and More News
Wednesday, May 14th Edition
 Spotlight received a big update in 10.5, bringing in many features to enhance the accuracy of your searching results. MacWorld has a guide on making the most of those new features.
People are vandalising Telstra's phone infrastructure, leaving people without a phone service. As much as I loathe Telstra, going around breaking their gear isn't cool, okay?
As Apple sells more Macs, Microsoft sells more copies of Office. Microsoft are selling three times more copies of Office 2008 than at the same stage of the product's life cycle as Office 2004.
RIM have some tricks up their sleeve to try best the iPhone (heh, yeah right, as if that suit-fest will ever top the iPhone). First up is the BlackBerry 9000 aka "Bold" a clear homage to the iPhone, but if that wasn't bad enough, RIM are bringing out the BlackBerry 9500, which looks a crap load like an iPhone to me. RIM also launched a BlackBerry Partners Fund, worth $150 million - the same idea as Apple's iFund to give a leg up to software start-ups developing for their devices.
Apple re-released their documentation for administering Open Directory in 10.5 server. About time - that thing was so inconsistent it was near useless.
Adium have added Facebook chat support! Soon you'll be able to chat with your Facebook friends, without needing to actually use the web-based client on the Facebook page. It's not in Adium yet, but expect it in an update soon.
Lots of big software updates lately too:- Microsoft Office 2008 gets a service pack (Microsoft are in service pack mode lately with SP1 for Vista and SP3 for XP)
- Picturesque, made by MacTalk forum member AppleZac and which won an Apple Design Award at last year's WWDC, goes to v2.0
- Pixelmator goes to v1.2 also. If you've ever used Photoshop and thought, "This app looks archaic", Pixelmator is worth taking a look at as your new bitmap manipulation application.
And a bit of housekeeping:- We've got meets going in Brisbane and Perth this Sunday - so if you're in those towns on Sunday, head on down to get a free feed on MacTalk and meet up with other forum users.
- MacTalk Micro is an RSS feed of highlighted threads on MacTalk updated many times a day by Currawong and I to let you all know about threads we think are cool - sorting the chaff from the wheat so to speak. If you're short on time but still want your forum fix, subscribe to the RSS feed and you'll get directed to the latest threads we recommend.
| | | | | | | | iPhone 2.0: Is the writing on the wall? | | | 
iPhone 2.0: Is the writing on the wall?
Excuse the cliche but let's face it, if you haven't heard that the next generation iPhone is inevitable you need to crawl out from that rock under which you have been living. Rumours, fake spy shots and supposed insider info is greeting your RSS reader at every turn, but what the... [Read More]
| | | | | MacTalk User Survey 2008 - Results | | | | MacTalk User Survey 2008 - Results
 The average MacTalk user is male, aged between 27 and 35, has a university education and earns between $30,000 and $50,000/year. He calls himself an early adopter of technology, as well as a very confident technology user and has a very strong impact on the role of technology in their workplace. He plans to spend between... [Read More]
| | | | | It's Official - iPhone to be on Multiple Carriers in Australia | | | | It's Official - iPhone to be on Multiple Carriers in Australia
  Last week we had Vodafone put out a press release stating they will be carrying the iPhone in 10 different countries, along with Australia. Today we see Singtel placing a press release stating that they will be bringing... [Read More]
| | | | | Meet the MacTalkers - natakim and swoffa + marc | | | 
Meet the MacTalkers! Meet the MacTalkers - natakim and swoffa + marc
| | | | | News, News, News, and More News - Sunday, May 11 | | | | News, News, News, and More News
Sunday, May 11th Edition
 MacWorld USA reviewed the Psystar "Open Computer" and discover that it's a turd. Noisy, not so fast, inability to do proper software upgrades and... [Read More]
| | | | | MacTalk Podcast - Episode 26 - Exhaling While You Make Sound | | | | MacTalk Podcast - Episode 26 - Exhaling While You Make Sound
 Episode 26 is uploaded, featuring Peter Wells (fulltimecasual), Christopher Kahler (arkenstone) and Alexander Reid ([Read More]
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