Author - Mike Thomas

Mike Thomas is an IT professional with over 20 years commercial experience primarily within training, helpdesk support, website development and application development. In addition to his role with NWIITT, Mike is a Fellow of the Institute of IT Training, a presenter on the MacBites podcast and an Adobe User Group Co-Manager.

You can follow Mike on Twitter, FaceBook and LinkedIn. Mike also regularly shares his tech knowledge and tech-related thoughts via his blog.

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Mike’s MacBites Magic Gluten Free Flapjack

Since announcing that Saturday is flapjack-making day at MacBites HQ, I’ve had a few requests for the recipe.So here goes…

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Apple store opening – Liverpool

We’re outside the store. Opening in an hour. 12th in the queue – another t-shirt for the collection Click here for Mike’s review of the day Photos and videos

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Elgato Turbo 264

Are you frustrated by the amount of time it takes to export video to the H.264 format? Are you unable to use your Mac for other purposes while you are converting videos to the H.264 format?

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iPhone iPhone iPhone

Two tired, hungry but happy MacBiter’s finally leave the Apple Store with 2 16GB White iPhones. Thanks to all the Apple Store staff for their help and patience….but a BIG thumbs-down to O2 and their flaky system that runs on IE (have you ever seen VMWare Fusion running Windows on a Mac in an Apple [...]

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Getting There…

Been here almost 4 hours (and in the store for 3 hours). O2 systems are playing up, but we have 1 iPhone in our hands!

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It's iPhone Day!!

Here we are live outside The Apple Store, Trafford Centre. It’s 7:10am and they open in 50 minutes!! The guys from the Store have brought out hot chocolate, coffee and water. But the question is…do we go for black or white? Well all will be revealed in the next episode! iPhone iPhone iPhone

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Apple Store, Liverpool

The North West (of England) is about to get its third Apple Store. This photo was taken by Mike on 6th July (we were in Liverpool for a friend’s birthday party and the store just “happened” to be en-route to the car park).

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More iPhone

Thanks to our mate Mark Johnson for the photo below. Mark was in the queue and one of the first to buy a phone on Launch Day . Mark also has one of the biggest Mac collections.  

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iPhone Launch

Some people said I was mad, going to The Trafford Centre and standing in the queue (well strictly speaking I was outside the queue) when I wasn’t even buying the thing. “It’s all part of the Apple Experience” I told them. “Geek” was their reply (or maybe it was “freak”!). Anyway I enjoyed myself and [...]

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