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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="Apple acquires Proximity asset management company">
        <outline text="The company’s flagship product is artbox, an all-in-one asset management and workflow."/>
        <outline text="Artbox can catalog content and makes it easy to search, find, browse media and create rough cuts. It also integrates with editing tools like Apple Final Cut Pro."/>
        <outline text="Supports video and image formats, like TIFF, TARGA, PNG, DPX, Photoshop, MPEG-1*, MPEG-2*, MPEG-2 IMX*, MPEG-4, DV25, DVCPRO, DVCPRO50, HDV*, AVI, Quicktime, Media100, and more."/>
        <outline text="Artbox is targeted at professional video applications including TV, news production and post-production."/>
        <outline text="All technology and intellectual property, including artbox workgroup and artbox enterprise have been acquired by Apple."/>
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      <outline text="Rose leaks new iPhone info">
        <outline text="Saying from a reliable source, Kevin Rose spills the beans on a recent Diggnation"/>
        <outline text="2 Batteries. 1 phone and 1 Music Player"/>
        <outline text="Slideout keyboard (ichat? email?), touchscreen"/>
        <outline text="4GB and 8GB Flash. $249.00 and $449 respectively"/>
        <outline text="Supports many carriers and technologies (CDMA, CSM, etc)"/>
        <outline text="Can't confirm it's running a mini version of OS X"/>
        <outline text="At least one analyst says Apple has begun small scale production on the device with a release scheduled for around the end of Q1 2007"/>
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      <outline text="Universal Photoshop in Q2 2007?">
        <outline text="Think Secret reports the new version should be here around March or April 2007"/>
        <outline text="Of course it will be Universal, but will sport other new features too"/>
        <outline text="Photoshop CS3's interface is said to closely resemble the look and feel of Adobe After Effects."/>
        <outline text="Best news is performance is said to be exceeding performance expectations on both Intel and PPC platforms."/>
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      <outline text="New Zealand iTunes and Apple Online Stores">
        <outline text="As rumored by the The New Zealand Herald Apple opened iTunes and Online stores in New Zealand."/>
        <outline text="In addition to the Herald scoop, one blogger had found New Zealand flag images on Apple's iTunes content servers."/>
        <outline text=" Songs are priced at NZ$1.79, music videos at NZ$3.59 and most albums at NZ$17.99."/>
        <outline text="Australian iPod owners will not become criminal next year.">
          <outline text="A bill that goes into effect on January 1, 2007 was amended by both houses of  Parliament"/>
          <outline text="The amended bill permits the use of iPods, time-shifting recording devices like TiVo, playing region encoded DVDs from outside Australia, and recording yourself lip-syncing to commercial recordings. All which would have been illegal under the original version of the bill."/>
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      <outline text="Apple claims no ownership of &quot;podcast&quot;">
        <outline text=" In response to concerns that Apple was attempting to trademark the term Podcast (Podcast Ready) Dave Gray, host of the Global Geek podcast on the &quot;PodcastNetwork&quot;, sent Apple a $1 “royalty check”." MediaLinks="GlobalGeek Podcast &lt;http://globalgeek.thepodcastnetwork.com/&gt;"/>
        <outline text="Apple sent a written response and said, “Apple does not object to third party usage of the generic term ‘podcast’ to accurately refer to podcasting services,” and “Apple does not license the term ‘podcast.’”"/>
        <outline text="Leo Laporte launched a public campaign to change the term to 'netcast' as he feels the term 'podcast' leads to confusion and hinders the general acceptance of 'podcasting'."/>
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      <outline text="Apple gains right to &quot;digital media&quot; download patent">
        <outline text="Apple settled out of court a lawsuit filed by Vermont inventor David Contois."/>
        <outline text="The patent filed in 1996 by Contois Music Technology originally consisted of a desktop computer holding multiple songs with an interface that allowed a hotel guest to select three songs and play them on an electric grand piano."/>
        <outline text="On urging of his lawyer David broke it out into three elements; remote music storage, selection of music to download and playing music on a music device."/>
        <outline text="The terms of the settlement were not disclosed but Michael Starkweather, a lawyer for Controis stated, &quot;&quot;I believe that, with this patent in hand, Apple will eventually be after every phone company, film maker, computer maker and video producer to pay royalties on every download of not just music but also movies and videos&quot;."/>
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      <outline text="Another Apple Rumor roundup">
        <outline text="EETimes reporting that next gen video iPod delayed until Q2 or Q3 2007 due to delays in the NVidia GFX chips (another rumor that Nvidia beat out Broadcom)"/>
        <outline text="MacOSXRumors reports on an Ultra-thin 12&quot; MacBook Pro">
          <outline text="Dual-Core processor, optical drive"/>
          <outline text="USD $1700 to $1800"/>
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        <outline text="Apple has hired video game designers and may have aspirations of entering the video game market in long-term? Pippin, iPod Games (cheats)."/>
        <outline text="16GB Flash based iPod? Toshiba announced a 1.8 100GB HD, video iPod?"/>
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    <outline text="Feedback, Comments and Commentary">
      <outline text="Correction on the Beatles ">
        <outline text="Listener Tom points out. &quot;The Beatles aren't a London band, they're quite famously from Liverpool.&quot;"/>
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      <outline text="Resolution Independence. The good, the bad, the really ugly.">
        <outline text="In 1984 the original Mac had a resolution of 72 DPI. They use 72 because in printing 72 points = 1 in. Thus what was printed on the MAc screen had a 1:1 relationship with what appeared when you printed stuff out."/>
        <outline text="Guess what? Things gave changed. Most monitors to day fall between 85-100 DPI and that number is going up. Windows tried to fix the 73 DPI dilemma by using a 96 DPI standard (in between 85 and 100)."/>
        <outline text="Monitors are getting bigger, pixels are getting smaller, and icons are becoming increasingly-larger in order to maintain their relative size on-screen (128 x 128 icons debuted in OS X Tiger). Almost no monitor sold today (including Apple's) adhere to a 72 pdi resolution."/>
        <outline text="Resolution independence will debut as a user-level feature in Mac OS X Leopard (and Windows Vista) giving us the ability to choose the resolution at which they wish to view any graphics on their screen. (instead of just 72 pd. (96 pdi on Windows ) as it exists today."/>
        <outline text="An operating system needs two things to be resolution independent: the ability to scale UI elements, and the use of vector images and high-res bitmap images to ensure scaling occurs properly.">
          <outline text="OS X has the scaling functionality but lacks the vector and high-res bitmaps in the interface (in most cases)"/>
          <outline text="You can catch a preview of the scaling using Apple Developer Tools and the Quartz Debug.app. Developer--&gt;Applications--&gt;Performance Tools. Under 'Tools' menu choose 'Show User Interface Resolution' and check the 'Restore scale factor to default on quit'. Now you can adjust the scale factor up to 3x and see the results when you launch an App."/>
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        <outline text="All of this has sparked big debate among icon designers, software developers and engineers over what is better, multiple size bitmaps vs. vectors.">
          <outline text="Vectors get very large in file size when you try to add a lot of shading to create photo realistic icons and UI elements like we have today"/>
          <outline text="Vectors don't scale well to small sizes 16 x 16 or 32 x 32. Designers traditionally had edit each resolution for the best look."/>
          <outline text="Some argue that todays GPU won't deal with vectors as efficiently because the GPU can process raster images in parallel. If you seen the &quot;drawing in&quot; effect of a large vector PDF, Flash or Illustrator file you know what they mean."/>
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        <outline text="The solution from Apple's perspective seems to be a combination of both. Leopard will support 512 x 512 icons. And Apple's resolution independence documentations says:">
          <outline text="Vector-based art is automatically scalable, so you should use vector-based images for simple artwork; such as black-and-white images or flat images without dimensional detail (such as shadows or gradients)."/>
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        <outline text="There is a great article on iSlayer.com (the developer of iStat) with links to other relevant articles on the subject" MediaLinks="iSlayer Resolution Independence &lt;http://islayer.com/blog/?p=87&gt;"/>
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      <outline text="Saving photos from flash cards">
        <outline text="Listener Bruce recently went on a cruise from Scandinavia and Russia. He snapped 270 pictures in a 1GB SD card, but when he went to import them into iPhoto the card appeared empty"/>
        <outline text="Luckily he found PhotoRescue.">
          <outline text="Demo lets you scan the card an see recoverable images with a thumbnail" MediaLinks="PhotoRescue &lt;http://www.datarescue.com/photorescue/&gt;"/>
          <outline text="Can purchase for USD $29.00"/>
        </outline>
        <outline text="I personally like and have used Picture Rescue from ProSoft (USD$59.00)" MediaLinks="PictureRescue &lt;http://www.prosofteng.com/products/picture_rescue.php&gt;"/>
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      <outline text="What to do if your Mac got the &quot;blues&quot; after 10.4.8 update">
        <outline text="This is a strange one, but some people are reporting that there Mac LCD displays getting a &quot;blue&quot; tint after running the 10.4.8 update"/>
        <outline text="Listener David suffer &quot;the blues&quot; and a remedy is:">
          <outline text="The solution may be to delete the file &quot;com.apple.universalaccess.plist&quot; from  ~/Library/Preferences"/>
          <outline text="This file can become corrupt during the update process, resulting in the blue tint."/>
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        <outline text="You may also try to replace your Color profile or create a custom one. You can find some online to deal with the blue issue. They install into your Library/ColorSync/Profiles/Display directory and then you need to go to the Displays pane of System Preferences, go to &quot;Color&quot; and select the new Color LCD profile."/>
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      <outline text="MPEG video files get &quot;muxed&quot; up in Quicktime">
        <outline text="Play comment from Gregor" MediaLinks="MPEG Streamclip &lt;http://www.squared5.com/svideo/mpeg-streamclip-mac.html&gt;"/>
        <outline text="MUXED: they contain interleaved audio and video tracks (they're mixed together instead of stored in separate tracks). QuickTIme, iMovie, FinalCut, etc seem to have issues with muxed files."/>
        <outline text="New TiVO hacked files also are in muxed format. (see maccast.com)" MediaLinks="www.maccast.com &lt;http://www.maccast.com/&gt;"/>
        <outline text="VLC will playback and muxed files."/>
        <outline text="Can also convert with VisualHub (USD$23.32)" MediaLinks="VisualHub &lt;http://www.techspansion.com/visualhub/&gt;"/>
        <outline text="To playback MPEG-2 in QuickTime you actually need the QuickTime MPEG-2 Playback Component. (USD $19.99). Even with this it won't handle muxed files." MediaLinks="QuickTime MPEG2 Playback &lt;http://www.apple.com/quicktime/mpeg2/&gt;"/>
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      <outline text="Cataloging your archived files">
        <outline text="Play question from James"/>
        <outline text="DiskTracker, Shareware USD$30.00" MediaLinks="DiskTracker &lt;http://www.disktracker.com/download.shtml&gt;"/>
        <outline text="Disk Library, Shareware USD$29.00. More OS X like look and feel Universal" MediaLinks="Disk Library &lt;http://www.obviousmatter.com/&gt;"/>
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    <outline text="Closing">
      <outline text="MacCast at Macworld">
        <outline text="Want to plan a meet-up, but need help in picking a location"/>
        <outline text="New to MacWorld, any tips? Can't seem to get into the keynote, so any help would be appreciated."/>
        <outline text="Will be on the floor doing interview for the full 4 days"/>
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      <outline text="2nd Anniversary next week, 200th Show">
        <outline text="December 13th, 2004 marks show 0 of the MacCast."/>
        <outline text="We are at show 170, so 200 is around the corner."/>
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      <outline text="Visit the website">
        <outline text="Show notes."/>
        <outline text="Maccast RSS Blog Feed" MediaLinks="Maccast Blog RSS &lt;http://www.maccast.com/rss&gt;"/>
        <outline text="Maccast Dashboard Widget" MediaLinks="Maccast Widget &lt;http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/blogs_forums/maccastwidget.html&gt;"/>
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      <outline text="Keep emails coming. 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"/>
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        <outline text="MacCast Forum" MediaLinks="forum.maccast.com &lt;http://forum.maccast.com/&gt;"/>
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      <outline text="&quot;Baby It's True&quot; by Mario Carrillo and the Bashers">
        <outline text="A local artist and friend of mine"/>
        <outline text="If you want to buy the CD, email sales@firstcutdemos.net &lt;mailto:sales@firstcutdemos.net&gt;" MediaLinks="sales@firstcutdemos.net &lt;mailto:sales@firstcutdemos.net&gt;"/>
        <outline text="Band website" MediaLinks="www.firstcutdemos.net &lt;http://www.firstcutdemos.net/Artists.asp&gt;"/>
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