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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="A very merry Christmas for Apple">
        <outline text="According to a Hitwise, Apple's iTunes Music Store received 413 percent more hits on Christmas day this year than last year."/>
        <outline text="And according to their Retail Index the Apple Store was the 4th most visited website on Christmas Day with 100% increase in traffic over last year."/>
        <outline text="Goldman Sachs analyst David Bailey predicts Apple will announce sales of 1.8 million Macs for the 4th Quarter of 2006. 1.1 million being notebooks."/>
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      <outline text="Month of patches for 'Month of Apple Bugs'">
        <outline text="Security researcher is revealing a Mac OS X bug a day along with proof of concept code."/>
        <outline text="The first was a vulnerability in the QuickTime rstp URL handler"/>
        <outline text="Second bug is actually a VLC  format string vulnerability (not technically an &quot;Apple' bug. But the team already has the fix committed to the source code so it should be out in a future version."/>
        <outline text="Former Apple BSD Technology Group engineer, Landon Fuller has vowed to provide fixes for the exploits." MediaLinks="MoAB Fixes &lt;http://landonf.bikemonkey.org/code/macosx/&gt;"/>
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      <outline text="Steve Jobs did (or didn't) know about backdating">
        <outline text="Kinda missed the whole scandal, but to summarize."/>
        <outline text="Rumors that an investigation could implicate CEO Steve Jobs in the stock option backdating."/>
        <outline text="Allegedly, Jobs was given 7.5 million stock options in 2001 without the required authorization from the company’s board of directors."/>
        <outline text="Apple's internal investigation said Jobs was aware of some backdating. Didn't understand the financial implications of backdating and never exercised the options."/>
        <outline text="Not sure what happened, as I thought we had covered it already."/>
        <outline text="Apple's 10-Q filing supported the original findings and concluded there was no wrongdoing on the part of current Apple management."/>
        <outline text="Apple found that 6,428 grants on 42 dates during the period between October 1996 and January 2003 were not properly recorded. 35,649 other grants issued during the same timeframe were fine."/>
        <outline text="Apple will restate financial data going back to 2002 and take an $84 million charge."/>
        <outline text="May not be over as the feds are still looking. A Wall Street Journal article says Steve, 'recommended the selection of some favorable grant dates', but not for the options he was granted. Pixar also seems to be under investigation for issues while Steve was CE), but he did not receive any of those options. "/>
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      <outline text="Apple and others sued over digital distribution technology">
        <outline text="Intertainer has filed a lawsuit against filed a lawsuit against Apple, Google and Napster saying their movie, tv and other media download services infringe on Intertainers patents for distributing digital media over the Internet"/>
        <outline text="Intertainer, which began in 1996, developed technology for using cable and phone lines to distribute movies on-demand to computers and televisions."/>
        <outline text="They shut down in 2002, suing the studios backing Movielink, the digital download service, for allegedly engaging in anti-competitive behavior. The suit was settled for a unknown amount."/>
        <outline text="Intertainer seems to now be an IP company."/>
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    <outline text="Feedback, Comments and Commentary">
      <outline text="Bond-eye, not Bond-ee">
        <outline text="I mispronounced the color of the original iMac, which was named for the water color at a popular beach in the suburb of Bondi, New South Wales in Sydney, Australia."/>
        <outline text="Thanks to all those down under who let me know."/>
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      <outline text="Macworld predictions and thoughts">
        <outline text="iPhone (iPod Mobile)">
          <outline text="4GB and 8GB Flash (Nano with a phone). USD $299.00 and $449.00."/>
          <outline text="Seamless syncing, iLife Integration (iTunes, iPhoto), iChat support. Bluetooth and possible Wi-Fi support for VOIP (Skype?)."/>
          <outline text="Slideout keypad. 2 batteries/1 charger."/>
          <outline text="CDMA or GSM? MVNO, stand alone or service partner?"/>
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        <outline text="iTV">
          <outline text="No power brick, 802.11 Wi-Fi. Likely N, USB2, Ethernet, HDMI connector, Component video (RGB), Analog audio (RCA), Optical audio, Remote. USD $299.00"/>
          <outline text="HD Supported?"/>
          <outline text="Hard Drive, Flash (buffer). PVR capabilities"/>
          <outline text="Real names, MacTV, iTheater, Showtime, iHD, all trademarked?"/>
          <outline text="More movie studios selling content in iTunes? Better quality? HD?"/>
          <outline text="Movie rental service?"/>
          <outline text="Running a slimmed down OS X"/>
          <outline text="Software quality controls issues may delay the release to late January or early February"/>
          <outline text="Speculation Microsoft may use CES to introduce an ITV competitor. Vista Media Center based, XBox 360 integration, no details on hardware specs."/>
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        <outline text="Updated Mac Pro">
          <outline text="Dual Quad Core 2.0 GHz Xeon &quot;Octo Mac&quot;"/>
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        <outline text="Leopard">
          <outline text="Demo some new features"/>
          <outline text="Finder enhancements/ Tabs?"/>
          <outline text="Resolution Independence, OpenGL and Quicktime enhancements, ZFS Filesystem (no), XAR Package format."/>
          <outline text="Shipping end of May or early June 2007"/>
        </outline>
        <outline text="iLife '07">
          <outline text="Updates and enhancements"/>
          <outline text="iWeb 2.0"/>
          <outline text="Music subscriptions on iTunes?"/>
        </outline>
        <outline text="iWork '07">
          <outline text="Addition of Charts? Numbers trademark was withdrawn. Spreadsheet and slimmed down DB based on Filemaker?"/>
          <outline text="Updates to Pages and Keynote"/>
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        <outline text="Updated displays">
          <outline text="built-in iSights"/>
          <outline text="Brighter, 20&quot;, 24&quot; and 30&quot;. Lower prices? Dell 27&quot; is rumored. (24', 27&quot; 32&quot;)?"/>
          <outline text="HDMI interface?"/>
          <outline text="40&quot; or 50&quot;?"/>
        </outline>
        <outline text="Core 2 Duo Mac mini"/>
        <outline text="New AirPort – 802.11n"/>
        <outline text="Xserve, Quad core?"/>
        <outline text="Other new hardware?">
          <outline text="Updated Mac Book Pros or Mac Books?"/>
          <outline text="Larger capacity for iPod and iPod nano?"/>
          <outline text="More (product) RED products?"/>
          <outline text="New stand-alone iSight?"/>
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        <outline text="True Video iPod">
          <outline text="Full screen with touch sensitive controls or bezel"/>
          <outline text="Jobs is said to be waiting to gauge success of iTunes Movies and iTV."/>
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        <outline text="Ultra-portable notebook">
          <outline text="Super-thin, full-featured"/>
          <outline text="12&quot; widescreen (1280x800)"/>
          <outline text="Tablet mode?"/>
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    <outline text="Closing">
      <outline text="Meet and Mingle at Macworld">
        <outline text="Meet. Thursday night 6:00 PM at the Apple Store San Francisco with your favorite podcasts and discussing the best 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="Bill Palmer, iProng"/>
          <outline text="Chris Christensen, Amateur Traveler"/>
          <outline text="Shelly Brisbin, Shelly's Podcast"/>
          <outline text="Mingle. Party beginning at 8:00 PM at Jillian's in the Metreon. Co-hosted by Deb Shadovitz, from Mac Efficiency. Sponsored by RadTech &lt;http://www.radtech.us/,&gt;, Teach Mac &lt;http://www.teachmac.com/,&gt;, iProng &lt;http://www.iprong.com/,&gt;, Now Software &lt;http://www.nowsoftware.com/,&gt;, DealMac &lt;http://www.dealmac.com/&gt; , MacSpeech &lt;http://www.macspeech.com/.&gt;,Thoughout.biz &lt;http://www.thoughout.biz/&gt;, TypeIt4Me &lt;http://www.typeit4me.com/&gt; , Circus Ponies &lt;http://www.circusponies.com/&gt; , and Macworld &lt;http://www.macworld.com/&gt;. "/>
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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="Two feeds, one Maccast">
        <outline text="The enhanced feed, in iTunes. It is in AAC format and includes chapters, hyperlinks and changing album art images. The best experience if you own an iPod or listen using iTunes." MediaLinks="Maccast (Enhanced) &lt;http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/stat?id=VxaqUf/Gvmc&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=http%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZStore.woa%252Fwa%252FviewPodcast%253Fid%253D74374416%2526partnerId%253D30&gt;"/>
        <outline text="The MP3, audio only, version is available for other devices and players." MediaLinks="Maccast (MP3) &lt;http://feeds.feedburner.com/maccast&gt;"/>
        <outline text="The links for both can be found on Maccast.com in the upper right corner. iTunes button for iTunes AAC feed and the orange XML icon for the MP3 version."/>
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      <outline text="Keep emails coming. Audio comments.">
        <outline text="maccast@gmail.com &lt;mailto:maccast@gmail.com&gt;"/>
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          <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;"/>
        <outline text="Podcasts on DIGG. Maccast is top &quot;up and coming&quot;" MediaLinks="DIGG Podcasts &lt;http://www.digg.com/podcasts/&gt;"/>
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      <outline text="Audio feedback and comments">
        <outline text="Normally I would play a new music track, but I wanted to share some voicemail with you."/>
        <outline text="Play comment from Brad, A case for Apple Care"/>
        <outline text="Play comment from Lon"/>
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