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    <outline text="Opening">
      <outline text="Opening Music">
        <outline text="Music is Say Anything by Manda and the Marbles"/>
        <outline text="Mandaandthemarbles.com" MediaLinks="www.mandaandthemarbles.com &lt;http://www.mandaandthemarbles.com/&gt;   "/>
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    <outline text="News">
      <outline text="Microsoft going after Adobe?">
        <outline text="Last week released a preview of Acrylic an illustration, painting and graphics tool."/>
        <outline text="Longhorn will contain a file format called Metro that will act just like PDF."/>
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      <outline text="Podcasting comes to iTunes early and not from Apple">
        <outline text="The BadApple Plugin for iTunes from BadFruit. Allows you to find and download Podcasts right inside iTunes" MediaLinks="www.badfruit.com &lt;http://www.badfruit.com/&gt;"/>
        <outline text="Speculation the software may be from MP3Tunes.com which is the new company owned by former MP3.com CEO Michael Robertson">
          <outline text="The log file for the software shows several calls to a server at MP3Tunes.com"/>
          <outline text="Some of the software code contains references to MP3Tunes."/>
          <outline text="The privacy policies for MP3Tunes.com and BadFruit.com are almost word-for-word identical"/>
          <outline text="Some users are reporting issues with accessing the Apple Store after install and uninstalling does not fix it. Adds a line to the hosts file in Windows."/>
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      <outline text="New Freescale chips may mean faster PowerBooks">
        <outline text="The next generation of the Freescale processor currently in PowerBooks was debuted."/>
        <outline text="The MPC7448 is expected to be available in speeds up to 1.7GHz"/>
        <outline text="Uses a 90nm manufacturing process that increases clock speed and significantly reduces power requirements"/>
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      <outline text="Apple sued over iTunes interface">
        <outline text="Contois Music Technology has asked a judge to force Apple to stop distributing iTunes"/>
        <outline text="Alleges iTunes infringes on a 6-year old patent for, &quot;Computer Control System and User Interface for Media Playing Devices.&quot;, issued to Contois."/>
        <outline text="Exhibited at the 1995 COMDEX trade show and the 1996 NAMM music industry trade show."/>
        <outline text="Claim persons who were at the time employed by or later became employed by Apple were present at both trade shows and viewed Contois' software."/>
        <outline text="Also seeking unspecified damages."/>
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      <outline text="Sony BMG and EMI make statement by locking out iPod">
        <outline text="The companies are releasing copy protected CD that can't be transfered to iPods"/>
        <outline text="Already half the CDs being released by Sony BMG have the technology and EMI is releasing it's first ."/>
        <outline text="Have to register the disc and then can only rip into protected WMA format."/>
        <outline text="Only a problem on a PC and apparently you can get around it by holding down the shift key when you insert the CD on Windows."/>
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      <outline text="Apple drops Virex from .Mac">
        <outline text="According to MacFixit, Apple is dropping Virex from its stable of .Mac offerings, primarily due to incompatibilities with OS X 10.4"/>
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      <outline text="Interesting numbers">
        <outline text="According to Entertainment Media Research 35% music  fans download music from legal online music services. Close to the 40% that report downloading from P2P and other illegal sources."/>
        <outline text="Research firm In-Stat reports the iPods accounted for 30% of all MP3 players sold in 2004"/>
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      <outline text="When is an iPod not an iPod? When it's an Ipod MP4">
        <outline text="Shenzhen Orderly Science &amp; Technology has a 20GB portable media player they are calling the Ipod MP4"/>
        <outline text="Does Apple even need a lawyer for this one?"/>
      </outline>
      <outline text="Inventor of the integrated circuit dead at 81">
        <outline text="Jack S. Kilby, an electrical engineer whose invention of the integrated circuit gave rise to the information age, died Monday in Dallas."/>
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      <outline text="My 2 Cents with Curt">
        <outline text="Play commentary"/>
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    <outline text="Feedback, Comments and Commentary">
      <outline text="Response to Windows File Sharing">
        <outline text="Play response from Per"/>
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      <outline text="iMac G5 fan noise clarification">
        <outline text="Play audio comment"/>
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      <outline text="Publishing iCals to your .Mac">
        <outline text="Play audio question"/>
        <outline text="Puts it in a public area with no way to control it."/>
        <outline text="Was a great PHP project called PHP iCalendar, but it is not longer available."/>
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      <outline text="Aging MUGs and iMic Issues">
        <outline text="Play comments and questions from Kevin"/>
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      <outline text="Syncing iPod ratings">
        <outline text="Listener Ryan was having issues syncing his song ratings from his iPod back to iTunes"/>
        <outline text="Only works with auto syncing enabled"/>
        <outline text="Sync-iPod AppleScript from Greg Townsend" MediaLinks="Sync-iPod AppleScript &lt;http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/22152&gt;">
          <outline text="&quot;Date Last Played&quot;, &quot;Play Count&quot;, &quot;Rating&quot; and &quot;Comments&quot;"/>
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      <outline text="Feedback on Dittybot">
        <outline text="Play audio from Andy"/>
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      <outline text="Garagband won't stay open">
        <outline text="Play question from Scott"/>
        <outline text="Make sure to update to 1.1"/>
        <outline text="Repair permissions"/>
        <outline text="Check for plug-in conflicts. ~/Library/Audio/Plug-In"/>
        <outline text="Know issue with Digidesign hardware, 10.3.9 and Quicktime 7" MediaLinks="Apple Discussion on Issue &lt;http://discussions.info.apple.com/webx?13@984.3HmXaktlSwY.2@.68af8dad/14&gt;"/>
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    <outline text="Closing">
      <outline text="Podcast Awards Nominations Open">
        <outline text="Put in nominations for all your favorite podcasts at the web site" MediaLinks="www.podcastawards.com &lt;http://www.podcastawards.com/&gt;"/>
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      <outline text="Visit the website" MediaLinks="maccast.com &lt;http://www.maccast.com&gt;">
        <outline text="Show notes."/>
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      <outline text="Keep emails coming. More audio comments">
        <outline text="maccast@gmail.com &lt;mailto:maccast@gmail.com&gt;"/>
        <outline text="206-222-2788 (20-MACCAST-8)"/>
        <outline text="MacCast Forum" MediaLinks="forum.maccast.com &lt;http://forum.maccast.com/&gt;"/>
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      <outline text="&quot;Shine&quot; by Kevin Reeves">
        <outline text="Listener Kevin who made MUG comments"/>
        <outline text="His web site" MediaLinks="www.kevinreeves.net &lt;http://www.kevinreeves.net/&gt; "/>
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