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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="An iPhone, but not from Apple?">
        <outline text="As Gizmodo's Brian Lam promised it came out Monday, but from Linksys. See post on MacCast.com"/>
        <outline text="The Linksys site claims they and parent Cisco have a trademark on iPhone which the do, but a Mac NN article points out the so do 3 other companies. 2 were refused, but on is issued to Ocean Telecom and this actually refers to &quot;MP3 and other digital format audio players.&quot;"/>
        <outline text="The existence of multiple iPhone trademarks may  mean there is no one dominant claim and so it may make it open for Apple to try and use too."/>
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      <outline text="Is Apple developing OS X Mobile?">
        <outline text="ThinkSecret is reporting that Apple is developing a slimed down version of OS X for embedded devices"/>
        <outline text="The report says the company has plans to use the new OS in a &quot;couple&quot; of devices next year with the new iPhone being the first."/>
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      <outline text="Apple addresses Quicktime flaw with security update">
        <outline text="Apple released Security Update 2006-008." MediaLinks="Security Update 2006-008 &lt;http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/securityupdate2006008universal.html&gt;"/>
        <outline text="This fixes the issue in QuickTime for Java and Quartz Composer."/>
        <outline text="According to Apple, &quot;Java applets may use QuickTime for Java to obtain the images rendered on screen by embedded QuickTime objects and upload them to the originating web site. When this facility is used in conjunction with Quartz Composer, it becomes possible to capture images that may contain local information,&quot;"/>
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      <outline text="Some Apple, iTunes Store and Apple Store Updates">
        <outline text="Apple added Soduku and Royal Solitaire to it's iPod Game offerings"/>
        <outline text="Apple has removed the iSight from sale on the online store.">
          <outline text="Other Firewire Web Cams?">
            <outline text="Fire-i from Unibrain, out of stock. New model in January" MediaLinks="Fire-i &lt;http://www.unibrain.com/Products/VisionImg/Fire_i_DC.htm&gt;"/>
            <outline text="Used? iBot from Orange Micro and Pyro 1394 from ADS Tech"/>
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          <outline text="USB Drivers,">
            <outline text="iChat USB Cam from eCamm or their iMage USB Camera (no drivers). Also make iGlasses and Call Recorder." MediaLinks="eCamm Network &lt;http://www.ecamm.com/&gt;"/>
            <outline text="maccam, open source USB drivers" MediaLinks="maccam &lt;http://webcam-osx.sourceforge.net/&gt;"/>
            <outline text="IOXperts, Firewire and USB WebCam drivers" MediaLinks="www.ioxperts.com &lt;http://www.ioxperts.com/products/webcamx.html&gt;"/>
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        <outline text="Apple has posted a Holiday &quot;Get a Mac&quot; ad, &quot;Goodwill&quot;" MediaLinks="&quot;Goodwill&quot; Holiday Ad &lt;http://images.apple.com/movies/us/apple/getamac/goodwill_480x376.mov&gt;"/>
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      <outline text="Intel to launch another Quad core chip in January">
        <outline text="Intel will show off it's new Intel Core 2 Quad chip at the CES Show in Las Vegas during the first week of January."/>
        <outline text="This is the 3rd chip in Intel's quad Core line up. They already have the quad-core Xeon 5300 for servers and Core 2 Extreme QX6700 for gamers."/>
        <outline text="Most people. myself included, already felt we would see an &quot;Octo&quot; Mac Pro (8 core) announced at MacWorld. My assumption would be that Apple would use the quad Xeon since the dual core version currently power the Mac Pro."/>
        <outline text="ArsTechnica already did a brain transplant of a MacPro and inserted the 4 core Xeons. The bummer is there were no current apps that could successfully tax all 8 cores, meaning that even if we get a MacOctopus Pro it may be a while before we see it's full potential."/>
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      <outline text="Security research targets OS X with &quot;Month of Bugs&quot;">
        <outline text="During the month of January an independent security researcher, Kevin Finisterre, and a hacker known as LMH will announce one OS X security flaw per day in an effort to"/>
        <outline text="The flaws will range from low risk to high risk and will span across the OS from kernel vulnerabilities to software flaws in iLife and other apps. The team also will try to produce working (proof of concept) exploits for every vulnerability they disclose."/>
        <outline text="The team says they were encouraged into action by the negative response given to David Maynor and Jon Ellch (the team who disclose a wi-fi vulnerability in OS X at a hacker conference) by pro-Apple fan."/>
        <outline text="The team hope their stunt will raise awareness of security issues among the Mac community and help improve security in future versions of OS X."/>
        <outline text="The team claims they are not doing anything illegal, have contact with Apple and are willing to help them in any way possible"/>
        <outline text=" In response to the event, Anuj Nayar, an Apple spokesman said, &quot;We always welcome feedback on how to improve security on the Mac&quot;"/>
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      <outline text="A new file system makes it's way into Leopard">
        <outline text="There is a lot of news about Sun's ZFS file system showing up in the latest OS X Leopard builds."/>
        <outline text="I don't understand it, but luckily Maccast.com's Dale Mugford does."/>
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    <outline text="Feedback, Comments and Commentary">
      <outline text="Apple makes nice with South Park fans">
        <outline text="After all the confusion around the South Park Season 10 Season Pass on iTunes, it was sold in two parts A and B for US$12.99 EA."/>
        <outline text="Listener Christopher and others who bought before the split was clear are now getting the full season. Apple has sent emails with links to download the whole season."/>
        <outline text="For some reason Comedy Central decided to split the season and Apple changed the listing in iTunes to add the A and B after the fact. The cheap price should have been a clue. Most Season passes run in the US$30 range."/>
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      <outline text="Could iTunes Gift Card explain &quot;slumping&quot; iTunes sales?">
        <outline text="I though about this recently when I heard the Forrester report was based on credit card processing data."/>
        <outline text="Listener Jimmy pointed out that the iTunes gift card is the #4 best seller in Electronics on Amazon."/>
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      <outline text="A possible fix for iPods not playing purchased music">
        <outline text="From listener Marie (says she works in iPod Applecare)">
          <outline text="From the Finder, choose Go --&gt; Go to folder"/>
          <outline text="Type:  /iPodName/iPod_Control/iTunes"/>
          <outline text="Find a file named iEKInfo. Create a copy of it and store it on the desktop"/>
          <outline text="Find a file named iTunesDB. Copy this and store it on the desktop as well"/>
          <outline text="Create a new account &amp; mark it as an administrative user"/>
          <outline text="Restart the computer (log out) &amp; log in to it"/>
          <outline text="Launch iTunes. Sign into your iTunes Store account under this user"/>
          <outline text="Download the free single of the week from the iTunes Store"/>
          <outline text="Restore the iPod on this new user account"/>
          <outline text="Manually sync the free single to the iPod after restoring"/>
          <outline text="Eject the iPod and see if the song plays (9 times out of 10 it does)"/>
          <outline text="Log back in to the original affected user"/>
          <outline text="Manually sync some older purchased content to the iPod"/>
          <outline text="Eject the iPod and see if this music plays now."/>
          <outline text="If it does, the user ought to be able to go back and auto-sync the rest of the library to the iPod"/>
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      <outline text="My procedure for clean installing OS X">
        <outline text="Listener Rick was asking since Leopard is on the horizon and I have mention I like to do clean install with each OS update."/>
        <outline text="First, backup, backup, backup.">
          <outline text="Spring clean. Move off old data that has been lying around cluttering up your Mac. Burn DVDs or CD of old documents, projects, images, music, etc."/>
          <outline text="I use SuperDuper to make a bootable &quot;cloned&quot; backup of my system. I actually do this every night."/>
          <outline text="Since you will be erasing your drive your &quot;backup&quot; is your primary until you restore. For that reason backup really critical files beyond the &quot;clone&quot; backup. You can use another external drive or DVDs/CDs. For example, I backup iPhoto, iTunes and my Documents folder (my files projects, etc)."/>
          <outline text="Sync to .Mac. This covers my Address Book, iCal, Mail settings and Safari bookmarks."/>
          <outline text="I will reinstall my applications from scratch, so I don't worry about those."/>
        </outline>
        <outline text="Collect all your software installers, license and registration codes, etc and have those handy."/>
        <outline text="Boot from OS X and do an 'Erase and Install'"/>
        <outline text="Create an account and then run software updates for OS X. May need to run it multiple times. If this account has the same name as your old account it will be replaced when you do  the migration in the next step."/>
        <outline text="Once OS X is fully up to date I attach the &quot;cloned&quot; backup drive and then run Apple's Migration Assistant (Applications--&gt;Utilities). Choose 'From another Volume in this Mac."/>
        <outline text="I migrate my User Account , Files and Folders and Network Settings. This brings back the content of my User folder including iPhoto and iTunes Libraries, etc."/>
        <outline text="The Migration assistant can also restore your Applications, but I just reinstall those clean including all application patches and updates."/>
        <outline text="Finally run Disk Utility and repair permissions."/>
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    <outline text="Closing">
      <outline text="Podcaster Meetup at Macworld">
        <outline text="Begins Thursday night 6:00 PM at the Apple Store San Francisco with your favorite podcasts and discussing their take on the best (and worst) announcements from the show floor."/>
        <outline text="A who's who of Mac podcasters">
          <outline text="Adam Christianson, MacCast"/>
          <outline text="Leo Laporte, Alex Lindsay, Scott Borne, MacBreak"/>
          <outline text="Ken Ray, Mac OS Ken"/>
          <outline text="Merlin Mann, 43 Folders"/>
          <outline text="Todd Maffin, CBC Radio (Canada)"/>
          <outline text="Dave Hamilton, Mac Geek / Mac Observer (maybe)"/>
          <outline text="Chris Breen, Macworld (maybe)"/>
          <outline text="Bill Palmer, iProng"/>
          <outline text="Chris Christensen, Amateur Traveler"/>
          <outline text="Shelly Brisbin, Shelly's Podcast"/>
        </outline>
        <outline text="After the panel you will get  a chance to mingle with the podcasters at a local lounge or bar. Location TBD soon."/>
        <outline text="Need a RSVP Count. Send email with 'MacWorld Meetup' as the subject."/>
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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;White Top Cadillac&quot; by A Thousand Cures ">
        <outline text="Recommended from Garageband.com by listener Justin. A Canadian band out of Toronto who, according to Justin, was just signed by the Beatles label."/>
        <outline text="Serves as proof that Indie bands using grass roots marketing, like Garageband and Podcasts can get signed."/>
        <outline text="Band's GarageBand.com page" MediaLinks="A Thousand Cures - garageband.com &lt;http://www.garageband.com/artist/athousandcures&gt;"/>
        <outline text="Band web site" MediaLinks="athousandcures.com &lt;http://www.athousandcures.com/&gt;"/>
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      <outline text="Promo: JogTunes">
        <outline text="Play JogTunes Promo" MediaLinks="jogtunesindie.com &lt;http://jogtunesindie.com/&gt;"/>
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