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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="Are iTunes sales slumping or not?">
        <outline text="According to a recent survey by research group Forrester, they claim iTunes revenue is down 65% from  January to June of this year. The report is based on a decline of 58% in the number of monthly iTunes transactions coupled with a 17% decline in the average size per purchase on the store."/>
        <outline text="Apple denies the report and other analysts agree">
          <outline text="Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster that said the number of songs sold per week on iTunes had risen 78 percent in the first nine months of 2006 compared with the same period in 2005."/>
          <outline text="Digital media research firm comScore Networks on Wednesday released a report showing that revenue from Apple’s iTunes Store rose 84 percent in the first three quarters of 2006 versus the same period a year ago."/>
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        <outline text="A CNBC Holiday Central survey estimates that Apple will sell 17 million iPods this holiday, that adds up to $2.7 billion in sales. What are people going to put on those iPods?"/>
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      <outline text="Apple may be carrier for iPhone service">
        <outline text="UBS analyst John Hodulik believes Apple may serve as their own carrier for the rumored iPhone."/>
        <outline text="Apple would become a MVNO (Mobile Virtual Network Operator), purchasing wholesale capacity from Cingular Wireless."/>
        <outline text="Disney operates as an MVNO with their Disney Mobile Service."/>
        <outline text="Brian Lam an editor for Gizmodo and former assistant editor for Wired magazine &quot;guarantees&quot; an iPhone will be released on Monday. Gizmodo has not had a good track record at making Apple predictions and Lam has been tricky with Apple fans before alluding to releasing a major gadget review on the eve on an Apple product announcement. The gadget... TiVo Series 3. Note Lams says an iPhone, but not an Apple iPhone, is there any other?"/>
        <outline text="Citing unnamed sources, Morgan Stanley analyst Rebecca Runkle said she has &quot;high conviction&quot; that the iPhone will launch in the first half of 2007. The specs:">
          <outline text="$599 for 4GB and $649 for 8GB"/>
          <outline text="Wider than the iPod nano, but thinner than the iPod Video  approximately 4/10ths of an inch thick."/>
          <outline text="Full screen  3.5 inch LCD and will include a virtual click-wheel"/>
          <outline text="Made of Metal and available in multiple colors, but at least including black, white, and silver"/>
          <outline text="Cingular Wireless is likely carrier in the U.S."/>
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        <outline text="This pricing is much higher than what was reported by Kevin Rose who has been accurate with predications before."/>
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      <outline text="Three new iPods for 2007?">
        <outline text="First the full screen video iPod.">
          <outline text="Jobs is not committed to marketing the device until he gauges interest in iTunes Movies and iTV."/>
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        <outline text="No details on what the other two new iPod products would be. iPhone?"/>
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      <outline text="Adobe to release Universal CS3 BETA on Friday">
        <outline text="Adobe will release a beta of Photoshop CS3 on Friday, December 15."/>
        <outline text="The free beta can be downloaded at Adobe’s Web site and used without restriction by any user with a valid Creative Suite 2 or Photoshop CS2 serial number. Anyone can tryout the Beta for 2 days with or without a serial number."/>
        <outline text="A MacWorld report claims Adobe has seen a 40 percent speed increase on an Intel MacBook Pro. This is over and above the 30 percent increase seen under Rosetta with the 10.4.8 update."/>
        <outline text="Recommended system requirements for Adobe Photoshop CS3 beta are Mac OSX 10.4.8 or 10.5, a 1GHz PowerPC G4 or G5 processor or an Intel based Mac."/>
        <outline text="According to Adobe, the beta will expire soon after the launch of Photoshop CS3 in spring 2007."/>
        <outline text="According to Adobe, the beta will expire soon after the launch of Photoshop CS3 in spring 2007"/>
        <outline text="The National Association of Photoshop Professionals (NAPP)  also released a comprehensive CS3 Learning Center offering 12 online video tutorials. The site also offers a free 7-day online CS3 training course." MediaLinks="NAPP CS3 Learning Center &lt;http://www.photoshopuser.com/cs3&gt;"/>
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    <outline text="Feedback, Comments and Commentary">
      <outline text="Correction on the show number ">
        <outline text="This is actually show 170."/>
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      <outline text="Exporting a disk catalog list from the Finder">
        <outline text="A listener looking for a way to export a disk catalog data to a Excel file or database."/>
        <outline text="Listeners Jeremy and Dave reminded me that many of the Disk Cataloging apps have a save or export to text feature. He likes and uses FileBuddy." MediaLinks="FileBuddy &lt;http://www.skytag.com/filebuddy/&gt;"/>
        <outline text="Many other pointed out Terminal tricks using commands like 'ls' combined with pipes, grep, etc. There are also Shell script solutions offered. I have a link to a forum thread with these solutions." MediaLinks="Catalog exports with Terminal &lt;http://forum.maccast.com/index.php?showtopic=10552&gt;"/>
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      <outline text="Explaining the different &quot;types&quot; of memory in OS X">
        <outline text="Listener Rob was having a look at the activity monitors memory usage and wondering about the different types of memory there."/>
        <outline text="Wired memory">
          <outline text="This information can't be cached to disk, so it must stay in RAM. The amount depends on what applications you are using."/>
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        <outline text="Active memory">
          <outline text="This information is currently in RAM and actively being used."/>
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        <outline text="Inactive memory">
          <outline text="This information is no longer being used and has been cached to disk, but it will remain in RAM until another application needs the space. Leaving this information in RAM is to your advantage if you (or a client of your computer) come back to it later."/>
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        <outline text="Free memory">
          <outline text="This memory is not being used."/>
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        <outline text="One more type... Virtual Memory, represented by &quot;VM Size&quot;. Basically equal to the amount of free space on your HD since VM uses your hard drive as RAM">
          <outline text="Slow"/>
          <outline text="&quot;Page ins/outs&quot; refers to the number of times Mac OS X has moved information between RAM and disk space. If you are doing a lot of page outs, then it may be time for more RAM or to run less apps concurrently."/>
          <outline text="A &quot;page&quot; is a memory in uniform units of a minimum size (usually 4K). Pagein is anytime a memory unit is moved &quot;swapped&quot; into RAM (say when a application is lunched and loads into RAM), page out is when RAM is &quot;swapped&quot; out to disk."/>
          <outline text="Note the numbers in activity monitor are for pageins and outs since the Mac was last restarted so high numbers don't indicate a need for RAM. The Pageins number should be significantly higher than the pageouts, if not you may need more RAM."/>
          <outline text="A better test is to run 'top' from the terminal">
            <outline text="Launch Terminal, located in the Applications &gt; Utilities folder."/>
            <outline text="At the prompt, type top and press Return."/>
            <outline text="Examine the output generated by top."/>
            <outline text="In the VM: line (6 lines down) note the pageins and pageouts in the last or VM (virtual memory) line. Specifically the number in the (), these indicate the number of pageins or pageouts performed in the last one second. If that number when you are running typical applications — especially pageouts — is consistently in the range of 25 to 50 or more, then the system is thrashing and it may be time for more RAM"/>
            <outline text="Type Control+C in the terminal to exit the 'top' program"/>
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      <outline text="Apple explanation and fix for &quot;blue tint&quot; issue">
        <outline text="Listener Martin pointed out this article on Apple's support site" MediaLinks="Blue Tint Fix &lt;http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304534&gt;"/>
        <outline text="&quot; After installing the Mac OS X 10.4.8 update, some MacBook computers will have a new color profile that is more consistent with other MacBook and MacBook Pro computers but may appear to have a blue tint when compared to the previous profile.&quot;"/>
        <outline text="You can determine which profile you're using by opening the folder /Library/ColorSync/Profiles/Displays/. If you see a file named &quot;Color LCD-4271780.icc&quot; then you have the newer profile."/>
        <outline text="Solutions are to re-load the old profile. Instructions and a download of the profile is in the support article or you can also create a custom profile by clicking the Calibrate button in the Color tab of the Displays preference pane."/>
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      <outline text="Re-download old iTunes Podcasts without re-subscribing">
        <outline text="This comes from listener Henry from a tip he found on 99ShadesOfGrey blog" MediaLinks="Missing Podcast Trick &lt;http://www.99shadesofgrey.com/2006/10/02/redownload_podcasts_in_itunes_without_subscribing_again.php&gt;"/>
        <outline text="If a podcast download fails, goes bad or you accidentally delete a podcast and want to re-download it you can use this trick rather than unsubscribing and re-subscribing."/>
        <outline text="How down the [Option] key on the Mac or [Shift] key on a PC while&#10;clicking the expand/collapse triangle expander next to the list of podcasts.  After the list opens, release the key and the missing episode(s) should appear.  Click the respective [Get] button to download the episode."/>
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      <outline text="iPod Shuffles losing their authorizations?">
        <outline text="Listener Mark is having this issue where his iPod Shuffle suddenly won't play purchased music. Pointed me to some threads. Also had a listener with a 5th Gen iPod that did the same thing?"/>
        <outline text="There is an Apple TIL that addresses this and offers solutions. Update your software, Deauthorize and reauthorize your account in iTunes, restore the iPod, Recreate the iTunes Library." MediaLinks="Shuffle won't play purchased music &lt;http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303854&gt;"/>
        <outline text="None of these worked and emails to iTunes Store support are slow and unresponsive."/>
        <outline text="Apple is currently offering live chat support to current Shuffle owners, http://www.apple.com/support/chat/ &lt;http://www.apple.com/support/chat/&gt;" MediaLinks="Apple Chat Support &lt;http://www.apple.com/support/chat/&gt;"/>
        <outline text="Update: Mark called AppleCare and checked the Product ID under high speed USB in System profiler. The ID there listed for the iPod (0x1300) which indicated that something was wrong and Apple is replacing the Shuffle free of charge."/>
        <outline text="The rep didn't indicate what the bad ID indicated. I don't actually think that was it. My guess is it had more to do with the iPod serial number being in a know bad batch."/>
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      <outline text="Comprehensive list of Keyboard shortcuts">
        <outline text="Listener Dan pointed out this web site which has a great list of OS X keyboard shortcuts." MediaLinks="www.danrodney.com &lt;http://www.danrodney.com/mac/index.html&gt;"/>
        <outline text="One example... Hit Apple+Space to quick do a Spotlight search. Press Apple+Enter to open the top result. Works well as a quick application launcher."/>
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      <outline text="Can't curl up in bed with a good 17&quot; MacBook Pro">
        <outline text="Listener 'zeus' from the forum reports on an issue with the 17&quot; MacBook Pro hinge that is confirmed by many sources, including some Mac technicians I know."/>
        <outline text="The hinge tension is not strong enough to hold the lid closed when it is at about 135° angle. Problem when you have it at a 90° angle in bed laying down and then lift your knees the lid will snap shut."/>
        <outline text="Apple says it is normal and the issue doesn't exist on the 15&quot; model. Weight of the larger display may be to blame, but I have not seen reports of the same issue on the 17&quot; PowerBook"/>
        <outline text="There is no way to adjust the spring/hinge tension."/>
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      <outline text="Review of Disco">
        <outline text="Play question from James"/>
        <outline text="Play review from Andrew"/>
        <outline text="Checkout Andrew's review on MacCast.com" MediaLinks="Disco Review &lt;http://www.maccast.com/2006/12/14/software-review-disco/&gt;"/>
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    <outline text="Closing">
      <outline text="MacCast at Macworld">
        <outline text="Still working on a Mac podcaster meetup.  Leo Laporte is in and will try to bring some other friends from the MacBreak crew. Also confirmed is Ken Ray from Mac OS Ken, Bill Palmer from iProng and Shelly Brisbin from Shelly's Podcast. More to come hopefully."/>
        <outline text="Looks like the meetup will start Thursday night at 6:00 PM at the SF Apple Store with a panel discussion of the coolest new products and announcements from MacWorld. Since it is Thursday give you a chance to go back and hit any booths you may have missed."/>
        <outline text="After that we will all convene to a local bar or lounge where you will have an opportunity to mingle with the Podcasters. It should be a lot of fun."/>
        <outline text="Need a RSVP Count. Send email with 'MacWorld Meetup' as the subject."/>
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      <outline text="Play 2nd Anniversary comment">
        <outline text="A well wish from Kevin Crossman"/>
        <outline text="We are at show 170, so 200 is around the corner."/>
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        <outline text="Show notes."/>
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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;I Love My IPod&quot; by Daphne Kalfon">
        <outline text="She id the &quot;I love my Mac&quot; Song last year."/>
        <outline text="Both songs are available on iTunes."/>
        <outline text="More info on the web site www.ilovemyipodthesong.com &lt;http://www.ilovemyipodthesong.com/&gt;" MediaLinks="I Love My iPod Song &lt;http://www.ilovemyipodthesong.com/&gt;"/>
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