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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="Macworld Announcements"/>
      <outline text="Retail Sales figures">
        <outline text="Apple retail sales of $1 Billion for the last quarter of 2005"/>
        <outline text="Apple total retail sales for holiday quarter 2005 were $5.7 Billion "/>
        <outline text="14 Million iPods sold in the holiday quarter. 42 Million total iPods sold. 32 Million in 2005."/>
        <outline text="850 million songs sold on iTunes. 3 million per day. 83% share of the music download market"/>
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      <outline text="iPods">
        <outline text="FM Tuner remote control. Radio tuner interface on the iPod. The interface looks cool. Has the &quot;needle&quot; type tuner with digital read out and presets. $49.00"/>
        <outline text="New iPod &quot;Jazz&quot; ad with Wynton Marsalis" MediaLinks="Wynton Marsalis iPod Ad &lt;http://www.apple.com/itunes/ads/&gt;"/>
      </outline>
      <outline text="New Widgets in OS 10.4.4 update">
        <outline text="Google, ESPN Sports, Calendar, new Address Book, Snow conditions and White Pages"/>
      </outline>
      <outline text="iLife 06 ($79 USD, $99 Family)">
        <outline text="iPhoto">
          <outline text="Support for 250,000 Photos. Improved performance. Steve says it &quot;flys&quot;"/>
          <outline text="Photocasting (RSS). Requires .Mac to publish but any app can subscribe."/>
          <outline text="Full screen editing"/>
          <outline text="One-click effects. A little panel, B&amp;W, Sepia, Antique, Fade Color, Boost Color, Matte, Vignette and Edge Blur. Can combine effects."/>
          <outline text="Cards, Calendars and improved books with better printing."/>
          <outline text="Integration with new iWeb for Gallery and Blog publishing in one-click"/>
        </outline>
        <outline text="iTunes">
          <outline text="New TV content. SNL from NBC"/>
          <outline text="New &quot;Mini Store&quot; in the Library. Can be turned off from icon or Edit menu (Apple+Shift+M)"/>
          <outline text="Is the Mini Store a privacy concern? Adware and Spyware all in one? (I think that is a bit extreme)."/>
        </outline>
        <outline text="iMovie HD">
          <outline text="Really cool Themes. Makes it easy to create a pro looking movie with matched titles, transitions graphics and effects."/>
          <outline text="Real time effects and titles using core video and core image, if your Mac supports it."/>
          <outline text="Core audio effects like EQ, reverb, etc."/>
          <outline text="Multiple projects open at once"/>
          <outline text="iPod export and support for video Podcasting with iWeb integration"/>
        </outline>
        <outline text="iDVD">
          <outline text="Magic iDVD. Wizard to create quick DVDs. Select video, photos and theme and then it generates a DVD"/>
          <outline text="Support for Widescreen DVD."/>
          <outline text="Autofill dropzones.  Select all the photos you want to use and then auto fill will populate all the drop zones."/>
          <outline text="Improved DVD Map view"/>
          <outline text="Support for 3rd party DVD burners. This is BIG."/>
        </outline>
        <outline text="Garageband">
          <outline text="Podcast recording studio. Add images and links for enhanced podcasts. Auto &quot;ducking&quot; for background audio"/>
          <outline text="royalty free jingles, stingers, sound effects for podcasts"/>
          <outline text="Vocal enhancements and noise filters"/>
          <outline text="iChat recording. Each participant is recorded to a separate track."/>
          <outline text="Video Track for iMovies so you can add scores and time audio and sound effects."/>
          <outline text="Integration with iWeb for publishing."/>
        </outline>
        <outline text="iWeb">
          <outline text="A brand new app."/>
          <outline text="Really nice templates and iLife integration for adding media"/>
          <outline text="Blog and Podcasts pages with RSS"/>
          <outline text="Photo slides shows utilize AJAX technology to add a little slide show controller in the web page."/>
          <outline text="Works with .Mac for easy publishing, but does have an HTML export."/>
        </outline>
        <outline text="Universal"/>
      </outline>
      <outline text="iWork 06 ($79 USD, $99 Family)">
        <outline text="Pages 2 and Keynote 3">
          <outline text="New themes. HD Themes"/>
          <outline text="3D Charts, Tables with Calculations"/>
          <outline text="Freeform shapes curves and masks"/>
          <outline text="Address Book mail merge"/>
          <outline text="Reviewer comments"/>
        </outline>
        <outline text="Universal"/>
      </outline>
      <outline text="New Intel iMac">
        <outline text="Same models (17&quot; and 20&quot;), same prices ($1,299 USD and $1,699 USD)"/>
        <outline text="1.83 GHz Core Duo and 2.0GHz Core Duo"/>
        <outline text="ATI Radeon X1600 PCI Express graphics with 128MB GDDR3 memory"/>
        <outline text="Built-in iSight, Frontrow, remote."/>
        <outline text="2-3 times faster than the current iMac G5 (raw benchmark)"/>
        <outline text="Some iMac purchasers may be upset. Lesson, if you care, think twice about buying a Mac near MacWorld."/>
        <outline text="Extended desktop support using the new Mini-DVI connector. Listener Leo saw this in the user guide."/>
        <outline text="Developers who bought a $999 Developer Transition Kit are now eligible to get a free 1.83 GHz 17&quot; iMac."/>
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      <outline text="New Intel MacBook Pro">
        <outline text="New Intel based Mac Pro laptop. The MacBook Pro. Love the machine. Kinda hate the name." MediaLinks="Apple MacBook Pro &lt;http://www.apple.com/macbookpro&gt;"/>
        <outline text="1.67GHz Intel Core Duo ($1999 USD) or 1.83GHz Intel Core Duo ($2499 USD)"/>
        <outline text="4-5 times faster than the PowerBook G4. (raw benchmark)"/>
        <outline text="15.4&quot; Screen 67% brighter than G4 display."/>
        <outline text="ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 graphics processor, dual link DVI support, 128MB of GDDR3 on 1.67 GHz configuration. 256MB GDDR3 on 1.83GHz configuration"/>
        <outline text="Built-in iSight. IR sensor and Remote for FrontRow."/>
        <outline text="4x single layer instead of 8x dual layer SuperDrive??!"/>
        <outline text="One FireWire 400 port, Two USB 2.0 ports, ExpressCard/34 slot (new PCMCIA spec. The 54 is full size the 34 is smaller)."/>
        <outline text="Slightly thinner than the 17&quot; PowerBook"/>
        <outline text="The power cable is held in place magnetically. MagSafe."/>
        <outline text="Ships in February."/>
        <outline text="No battery life specs?">
          <outline text="A comment from a rep at the Expo, &quot;These are pre-production models, so were not commenting on battery life.&quot;"/>
          <outline text="The processor should give better battery life, but maybe the brighter screen is using more battery. It better be at least 4 hours."/>
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      <outline text="New Apple Intel TV Ad">
        <outline text="Finally an ad that is not iTunes"/>
        <outline text="play the tv spot" MediaLinks="Apple Intel Ad &lt;http://www.apple.com/intel/ads/&gt;"/>
        <outline text="&quot;trapped inside PCs--dull little boxes, dutifully performing dull little tasks.&quot;"/>
        <outline text="Intel says their customers are not &quot;dull&quot;, but wouldnt complain if the Apple partnership helped their other customers be more creative."/>
        <outline text="Many are pointing out the similarities to The Postal Service &quot;Such Great Heights&quot; music video." MediaLinks="The Postal Service Video &lt;http://www.musicvideocodes.com/?song=1384&gt;"/>
        <outline text="Remember Apple was sued for the Eminem iPod videos similarities to a Lugz shoe commercial."/>
      </outline>
      <outline text="Technology may make Intel Mac Dual booting a challenge">
        <outline text="Phil Schiller still says that Apple will not prevent users from booting Windows, but the technology inside the new Macs may."/>
        <outline text="The new Intel Macs use Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) instead of BIOS."/>
        <outline text="Windows XP 32bit does not support EFI at this time, so booting Windows XP may not be possible without some tweaking."/>
      </outline>
      <outline text="Pro Apps Universal in March">
        <outline text="FinalCut, Aperture and Logic"/>
        <outline text="Can trade in current disks (&quot;crossgrade&quot;) for $49.00"/>
      </outline>
      <outline text="3rd Party Apps">
        <outline text="Quark is Universal"/>
        <outline text="Microsoft Office and Messenger in March"/>
        <outline text="Adobe Photoshop committed to universal"/>
        <outline text="Rosetta until then. Steve says Office runs &quot;great&quot; under Rosetta"/>
      </outline>
      <outline text="Quicktime 7.0.4 released, pulled and re-released">
        <outline text="The first release of the day was available via Software update, prior to the Keynote web stream being posted. It contained a security flaw. The flaw effected Mac and Windows and could allow an attacker control of the effected system"/>
        <outline text="The file was pulled and an uninstaller (revert to 7.0.1) was put in its place." MediaLinks="Quicktime 7.0.1 Reinstaller &lt;http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/quicktime701reinstallerforquicktime704.html&gt;"/>
        <outline text="Apple then re-released the 7.0.4. update"/>
        <outline text="If you think you have the bad one best bet is to run the 7.0.1 re-installer and then run Software Update to get the known good update of 7.0.4" MediaLinks="Fixed Quicktime 7.0.4 Update &lt;http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/macosxupdate1044.html&gt;"/>
        <outline text="Trevor Tye from the OptionKey podcast noted that the QT update on OS 10.3.9 messes up the Macromedia Player 8 Flash plugin on Firefox and Safari. Just re-install Flash 8 to fix it."/>
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      <outline text="Apple Stock closes at an &quot;Intel&quot; Price.">
        <outline text="On the day of the launch of Intel based Macs, Apples stock price closed appropriately at $80.86"/>
        <outline text="The 8086 was the original 1978 Intel processor that spawned the x86 architecture."/>
      </outline>
      <outline text="Levis announces iPod jeans">
        <outline text="a small built-in iPod cradle “invisibly” housed within a side pocket and a special joystick remote control located into the jeans’ watch pocket."/>
      </outline>
      <outline text="Google Earth now available for Mac OS X">
        <outline text="Google has finally launched Google Earth for OS X" MediaLinks="Google Earth for OS X &lt;http://earth.google.com/index.html&gt;"/>
        <outline text="Fly through, satellite imagery, points of interest."/>
        <outline text="Open API so cool add ons like Flickr Photos"/>
        <outline text="Requires OS 10.4 and a minimum of 500 MHz processor."/>
      </outline>
      <outline text="Apple starts using &quot;Vingle&quot; trademark">
        <outline text="The trademark was filed in October"/>
        <outline text="Being used on the iTunes music store to refer to new Pussycat Dolls a Video Single."/>
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    <outline text="Feedback, Comments and Commentary">
      <outline text="Tip: Word complete/lookup in Apple Mail">
        <outline text="From Listener Alex"/>
        <outline text="Upon typing an incomplete word – or start typing the begin of a word and immediately hit Apple Period combo and a list appears of suggested words."/>
        <outline text="Maybe an &quot;Easter Egg&quot;? Seems to only work for new messages and not on replies."/>
      </outline>
      <outline text="Review of Logitech USB Microphone">
        <outline text="Play review from Rob" MediaLinks="Logitech USB Desktop Microphone &lt;http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/products/details/US/EN,CRID=103,CONTENTID=6776&gt;"/>
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      <outline text="Do Widgets slow down your Mac?">
        <outline text="Listener Steven was wondering if having open widgets can effect your Macs performance."/>
      </outline>
      <outline text="Apple also offers Governmental discounts">
        <outline text="Play comment from listener Brandon"/>
      </outline>
      <outline text="Powerbook update can improve battery life">
        <outline text="In software update for 15-inch Aluminum PowerBooks."/>
      </outline>
      <outline text="Listener feedback on Aperture VS. Adobe Lightroom">
        <outline text="Listener Patrick ( a pro photographer) uses Cannon D2Hs and like Lightroom better than Aperture, but says both have a long way to go."/>
        <outline text="The main issue lies in their conversion of the RAW format. Both have difficulty translating the white balance and images tend to be washed out and lose detail."/>
        <outline text="He prefers Nikon Capture."/>
        <outline text="He notes that all these apps are slow performers even on Dual 2.0 GHz G5 with 3.5 GHZ RAM. Aperture is the slowest."/>
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    <outline text="Closing">
      <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="PLEASE LEAVE YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS"/>
        </outline>
        <outline text="MacCast Forum" MediaLinks="forum.maccast.com &lt;http://forum.maccast.com/&gt;"/>
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      <outline text="&quot;Every Little Thing&quot; by Valley Lodge">
        <outline text="Podsafe Music Network" MediaLinks="music.podshow.com &lt;http://music.podshow.com/&gt;">
          <outline text="Band web site" MediaLinks="www.valleylodgemusic.com &lt;http://www.valleylodgemusic.com/&gt;"/>
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