20:00 – 21:30 BST

Dreamweaver CS5 is the latest iteration of Adobe’s flagship web design tool. Our demonstration is focusing on the new features added to this version aimed at making web site development faster.

So whether you are an existing Dreamweaver user or completely new to it there’ll be plenty to amaze you.

If you don’t use Dreamweaver come along anyway, there’ll be plenty of chat before, during and after the event!

20:00 – 21:30 BST

Google Wave is the new paradigm in collaborative working.

Let’s be clear Wave is not Twitter, it’s not Facebook, it’s not LinkedIn and it’s probably not like anything you’ll have seen before.

Wave promises to revolutionize the way people work together, offering real time content sharing, communication and collaboration. If you’re anything like us once you’ve tried it you’ll never want to work without it.

You can login using your Google account or sign up for FREE right now and join in our interactive demonstration on the night.

BackBites

• Sim Transfer
• EyeTV special Vuvuzela edition
• MacMini & the Missing BluRay
• Steve’s Secretary

ChatBites

• iOS 4 update on iPhone 3G
• Thanks to Mark Dalton for the Terminal hack to disable backup

defaults write com.apple.itunes DeviceBackupsDisabled -bool YES
defaults write com.apple.itunes DeviceBackupsDisabled -bool NO

• Backup Disabler

iPhone iPhone iPhone

• Tariffs
• Tariff Comparison spreadsheet
• Customer Service
• PAC Codes & Transfers
• PAC Codes & Transfers (PDF Download from Ofcom)
• Our iPhone 4 purchasing experience
• Elaine’s video of the queue
• Antenna issue
• Yellow screens
• Camera yellowing
• Proximity Sensor
• Apple deleting the threads from their official forums
• Bumpers
• iMovie
• Meyer’s Howling Mad
• iWork for iPhone
• Cloud based iTunes
• iTunes hacked
• Changing MobileMe password
• New MobileMe Calendar Beta

iPad iPad iPad

• Vodafone Contract con

Software Review

• Adobe Digital Editions

Hardware Review

• Power Monkey
• James Turner / WoodPad interview

Events

• MacBites Live on 15th July. Elaine is demonstrating Adobe Fireworks CS5 – http://macbites.co.uk/liveonline
• MacBites Live on 29th July. Elaine is demonstrating Google Wave – http://macbites.co.uk/liveonline

BackBites

• Many Tricks
• Paddock
• Audible v. O2/Be

ChatBites

• OSX 10.6.4
• Safari 5 tabs issue
• iTunes updates
• Calibre
• Goodreader

iPad iPad iPad

• US launch
• Carpet baggers
• Pre-ordering
• iPads arrive at MacBites HQ
• iPad woes – the dead pixel disaster
• Our initial software must-haves for iPad
• 1Password
• Evernote
• Adobe Ideas (iTunes link)
• OmniGraffle
• OmniGraphSketcher
• Omni Guarantee
• Gowalla
• Eyewitness from Guardian (iTunes link)
• Reeder
• Elaine’s (jokey) pick of the week – Vuvuzela 2010
• Accessories
• Case
• Dock
• iPad stands – Elaine’s blog post
• Woodpad iPad stand
• Bluetooth keyboard

iPhone iPhone iPhone

• Tariff & ordering fiasco
• Case

Feedback and Comments

• HeartyD’s PAYG 3 MIFI success

Events

• MacBites Live on 24th June. Elaine is demonstraing Evernote – http://macbites.co.uk/liveonline

Lots to catch up on of course and the next episode will be with you shortly. In the meanwhile why not take a look at Elaine’s search for the definitive iPad stand and prepare yourself for the hilarious tale of Mike’s multiple iPads.

BackBites

• Aperture 3 Update (Apple KB)
• Aperture 3 Update
• Rucksack licence lookup
• Mifi unlocking
• Flame

ChatBites

• Elaine’s new iMac
• Rumour of new displays
• Inserting RAM into an iMac
• iTunes Transfer Fiasco
• iTunes File Sizes
• Unify
• Gifting iTunes apps
• Facial Recognition for pets
• Jobs v. Schmidt (CNBC)
• Jobs v Schmidt
• Adobe CS5
• Adobe CS5 launch site
• Amadeus Pro St Patrick’s Day icon
• Why of the Week

iPhone iPhone iPhone

• Apps of an adult nature
• ZitsNPimples
• Snowtape
• Snowtape
• App Store Facebook page
• Screen protectors

iPad iPad iPad

• Diamond encrusted iPad
• Camera Connection Kit
• iBooks
• Kindle for Mac
• iPadMixr
• Shipping

Software Review

• Bumptop Mac
• Bumptop Mac (video)

Mice

• Mickey the MacBites Magic Mouse
• Prosethics for under endowed Magic Mice

Mickey settles into his new home

Feedback and Comments

• HeartyD – purchased a 3 MiFi unit. Works well where I don’t get a 3G signal on iPhone
• Christina – “I think they should have a Barbie with a buzz cut.”

BackBites

• Pink in a Positive Way
• Aperture 3 – The Update
• Aperture 3 – The Update (MacUpdate)
• Aperture 3 – export to Ember
• Cinder
• Cinder
• muCommander
• Fireworks CS4 Update

ChatBites

• MacHeist NanoBundle 2
• 1Password for serials
• iArchiver
• RuckSack for free via MacBuzzer
• Office 2011
• ManyTricks
• Aviary Goes Free
• Google Buys Picnik
• Mac’s Advertising Windows Goodies
• Startup Sound
• Startup Sound (MacUpdate)
• Startup Chime Stopper
• Google Chrome Fonts
• Google Chrome Fonts (MacRumors)
• Google Chrome Fonts (MacRumors)
• Google Chrome Fonts (Apple discussion forum)

iPhone iPhone iPhone

• iPhone Mod – gorgeous titanium alloy back
• iPhone Alternative
• Vanishing WiFi detectors
• Apple’s App Purge

iPad iPad iPad

• Battery Replacements

Software Review

• SecondBar
• Menuless

Hardware Review

• Novatel MIFI
• Unlocking a SIM
• The Space Bar
• MacBook Pro TrackPad
• Magic Mouse

Feedback and Comments

• MacJim’s fashion tips
• GazMaz
• Apple Store – Manchester Arndale – Hi to Alex and Alex

Events

• The next MacBites live event is on 18th March 2010 (20:00 GMT) when Elaine will be doing a demonstration of OmniGraffle. To attend, go to http://macbites.co.uk/live. We’ll be in the chatroom from about 7:30 and the chat continues afterwards.
• On 25th March 2010 (20:00 GMT) Mike will be doing a demonstration of Office 2010 (especially for all you Sliders). To attend, go to http://macbites.co.uk/live. We’ll be in the chatroom from about 7:30 and the chat continues afterwards.
• To keep up to date with all our events you can subscribe to the MacBites calendar – http://macbites.co.uk/liveonline/

BackBites

• XMarks
• Pink tech – BBC
• Buy a Barbie
• More pink tech
• Ken and Barbie video – YouTube
• Adobe product activation limits
• Evil and Lazy mug

ChatBites

• Full Disclosure
• Columnist revealed as company’s non-existent CTO
• An unfortunate ending
• Windows metrics source lies about identity
• Woolworths and AppleCare
• Aperture3
• ScanSnap S1300 datasheet
• ScanSnap S1300 – Crunchgear review
• Microsoft offers a choice of browsers

iPhone iPhone iPhone

• iMindMap Mobile
• iPad iPad iPad
• Our quest for a Mifi continues

Software Review

• Google Buzz – The Guardian
• Google Buzz – MacWorld

Hardware Review

• Andy’s review of the Magic Mouse

Feedback and Comments

• Matias Laptop Armor case
• Phillip’s comments about the show, his O2 experience and ReQall
• Steve’s iPhone exploits
• Jane73′s gift to Mike…or Thongs for the Memory – what a fantastic present and so sorry we couldn’t meet up in Liverpool

Events

• The next MacBites live event is on 25th February 2010 (20:00 GMT) when Mike will be demonstrating how to run Windows on a Mac. To attend, go to http://macbites.co.uk/live. We’ll be in the chatroom from about 7:30 and the chat continues afterwards.
• On 4th March we’ll be chatting again. Same time, same place. Come along for an online social and a MacBites Q&A session.
• To keep up to date with all out events you can subscribe to the MacBites calendar – http://macbites.co.uk/the-macbites-calendar/

I bought my iMac in February 2009 when my PC decided it had had enough of the competition from Apple (I was also running a Mac Mini side by side with my PC). When I bought the iMac I was tempted to buy it with the wireless keyboard, but I decided that the battery life might not be that great, plus the wired keyboard had a keypad.

2009 rolls on and we are nearing Autumn (the fall as it is known on the other side of the pond), Apple release the Magic Mouse, a wireless mouse with just a curved clear white plastic surface for touch sensitive finger gestures.

It’s a work of art let alone a functional mouse to attach to your Mac. By this time my Mighty Mouse’s scroll ball had been playing up, i.e. refusing to work, I had already fixed it a few times by rolling the upper-side on a soft surface, which fixed it for a few weeks, anyway; I was getting annoyed with the Mighty Mouse, so the arrival of this beautiful Magic Mouse was my savior.

Reading more and more reviews of the Magic Mouse had also confirmed in my mind that I needed one, when I say needed one that is geek-speak for “I want one”. Anyway, I needed someone I could trust to confirm what in my mind was a must have product, so does Elaine of MacBites fame go along to her nearest Apple store and play with this device, no she doesn’t, so I just had to go along and try it myself. By now it’s December and we are getting into Christmas present buying mode, which as always I hate, I hate shopping at the best of times, but visiting shops full of Christmas shoppers to me is a nightmare. Anyway, Mrs Andy knows that I like all things from the Apple stable, so it is agreed we will go shopping in Kingston (upon Thames, not Jamaica), and we can visit the Apple store so that I can try out the Magic Mouse, and if the creature is loveable she would buy it for my Christmas pressie. We arrive at the Apple store, which as usual is very busy full of the kids who are there just to play, but I manage to get myself onto an iMac with said Magic Mouse connected, I play with the mouse testing it with as many finger gestures for scrolling etc, that I can think of, until such time that Mrs Andy, who by now must have been getting bored, and asks; well do I like it or not.

I answer, yep it’s great much much better than the Mighty Mouse, I’ll have one. Then we find out from a staff member that they had sold out of Magic Mice, and I would be better ordering one from the Apple online store. Mrs Andy was quickly despatched to purchase a wireless keyboard, which was to become my Christmas pressie for this year. On arrival back at home, I duly placed an order for the Magic Mouse. Two weeks later, approx, it arrived, I unpacked it and followed the setup instructions, and I was in business the Mighty Mouse had at last been replaced by the Magic Mouse a far superior rodent for your Mac.

To use the Magic Mouse, once connected to your Mac, is simplicity itself. For me the main problem I have with mice, mainly on my work PC in the office, is that the wire keeps getting trapped on something on or behind the desk and movement of the mouse as a result is hindered. Being a wireless mouse is great it just can’t get hindered by it’s trailing wire, it doesn’t have one. Together with my wireless keyboard, I now have a wireless desk which I much prefer, even just for the aesthetic beauty. The Magic Mouse is much lower than conventional mice, and this means your fingers are flatter, and I find I don’t get any finger strain using it which I do get from conventional mice. Scrolling window content is much more intuitive with the swipe of your fingers up and down the clear touch sensitive surface and feels much smoother than a conventional mouse especially the Mighty Mouse with it’s awful scroll-ball, which as mentioned earlier, has a tendency to get stuck. There are no noticeable buttons on the Magic Mouse as the surface is just one piece of clear white plastic, however the whole surface acts as a button which when pressed has a very positive click feedback, the Mac interprets the button-down and button-up events just the same as for other mice. The Magic Mouse, through (System Preferences | Mouse) can be setup for a secondary click, which I can’t do without. Because the whole surface of the Magic Mouse is touch sensitive, clicking the right hand side of the mouse will give rise to a secondary click event, once secondary clicking has been enabled.

Before I had started to use the wireless keyboard and mouse, and the reason why I didn’t get a wireless keyboard when I bought my iMac, was because I thought that the battery life of each device would not be that great. However, as I write this review it is the end of January 2010, and the battery indicators in Snow Leopard show the battery levels are 81% and 83% for the keyboard and mouse respectively, which considering that I use my iMac most evenings and weekends, is very good in my opinion. According to Apple from it’s two AA batteries you should expect up to four months use for the Magic Mouse.

The main gripe I had until recently with the Magic Mouse, was when I put my iMac into sleep mode (I don’t normally switch it off) and switching the Magic Mouse off once the iMac was asleep, was that the iMac waking up from its slumber before being instructed to. I have found to get around this small problem, to switch off the Magic Mouse before putting the iMac into sleep mode.

I would highly recommend the Magic Mouse, and if you haven’t yet tried one out, Elaine, then strongly suggest that you do so in the not too distant future. Now when are those lovely iPads due for release?