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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"/>
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    <outline text="News">
      <outline text="Lionsgate adds to films on iTunes">
        <outline text="Monday Lionsgate films became the next studio to offer films for purchase and download on iTunes"/>
        <outline text="Follows Disney and Paramount"/>
        <outline text="The deal will bring over 150 new titles to iTunes in February."/>
        <outline text="Lionsgate is an independent studio and a producer and distributor of movies with over 10,000 titles in it's library"/>
        <outline text="Most titles will be &quot;library&quot; titles like &quot;Rambo&quot;, &quot;Terminator 2&quot;, and &quot;Basic Instinct&quot; Library titles sell for USD$9.99"/>
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      <outline text="Beatles not exclusive to Apple?">
        <outline text="From MacMinute quoting a Fox News story"/>
        <outline text="Neil Aspinall, head of Apple Corps, says 13 &quot;core albums&quot; have been re-mastered and will be released for digital download soon"/>
        <outline text="In the article Aspinall said once songs become available for download they, “will be on all the services, not just one.”"/>
        <outline text="It is rumored that as part of the recent Apple vs. Apple lawsuit settlement the Apple Corp may be receiving royalties on Apple iTunes sales and/or iPod hardware."/>
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      <outline text="Stock option woes continue for Jobs">
        <outline text="The Wall Street Journal and CBS Marketwatch both have reports on options offered to Pixar director  John Lasseter to lure him to Pixar"/>
        <outline text="The problem, the date on the options signed by Jobs was when shares were at their lowest and 3 months before Lasseter's contract was signed. Doh!"/>
        <outline text="Stock-options backdating is not illegal, but there are U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) regulations on how they must be accounted for and disclosed to shareholders."/>
        <outline text="Talk that if Jobs should suddenly become &quot;incapacitated&quot; Google CEO and Apple Board member Dr. Eric Schmidt is ready to step in at least temporarily"/>
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      <outline text="Apple TV still shipping this month">
        <outline text="Amidst rumors that Apple TV shipments might slip to March an Apple spokesman has reconfirmed that units will be shipping in February"/>
        <outline text="Pre-order customers have been given a February 28th ship date"/>
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      <outline text="EMI considers offering DRM free music">
        <outline text="According to an AP article EMI has been talking with online retailers about possibly selling its entire digital music catalog in MP3 format without copy protection."/>
        <outline text="They are asking for proposals on how big of an advanced payment online retails would be willing to give for the DRM free rights to their catalog"/>
        <outline text="EMI has been experimenting with selling some tunes sans-DRM and says,&quot; The results of those experiments were very positive, and the fan feedback has been very enthusiastic.''"/>
        <outline text="Yahoo! Music and Monster Cable have also come out in support of Jobs' vision for a DRM free music download society."/>
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      <outline text="Apple Store Bentall Centre opens this weekend in UK">
        <outline text="Apple plans to open a new retail store this Saturday, February 17th at 10:00 AM in Kingston upon Thames. The Apple Store is located on the first floor of The Bentall Centre."/>
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    <outline text="Feedback, Comments and Commentary">
      <outline text="Follow-up on replacing the MacBook Hard Drive">
        <outline text="Thanks to everyone who sent in this info"/>
        <outline text="The &quot;tab&quot; is actually on a carrier plate attached to the drive.">
          <outline text="Need a Torx-T8 screwdriver to remove"/>
          <outline text="Plate goes on the bottom of the new drive with the tab opposite the ports. Orientation is important so pay attention when you remove the old drive."/>
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        <outline text="Instructional videos at OWC"/>
        <outline text="iFixit Guides"/>
      </outline>
      <outline text="Evangelizing the Mac">
        <outline text="Play question from Brad"/>
        <outline text="Apple's get a Mac site is updated with &quot;Thinking about upgrading to Vista? Even more reasons to get a Mac.&quot;">
          <outline text="Security pop-ups, viruses and spyware still there, need a better PC, no eye candy, driver issues, many versions to get all features."/>
        </outline>
        <outline text="What do they use their PC for?"/>
        <outline text="Focus on Macs strengths, not Windows flaws. Be honest, not smug."/>
        <outline text="Show them what you can do with a Mac. iDVD, iMovie, etc. Let them try the same thing on a PC."/>
        <outline text="Get them to use a Mac for a week."/>
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      <outline text="Tip: Use toolbar title to reveal path">
        <outline text="From listener Erik"/>
        <outline text="If you Command+Click (Apple+click) on the title of a Finder window a drop-down menu appears showing the folders path."/>
        <outline text="You can also drag and drop the folder icon to move it around the Finder."/>
        <outline text="As with any file or folder in the Finder if you hold the option key while dragging you will get a &quot;+&quot; icon and dropping it will copy instead of move. Command+option to create an alias."/>
        <outline text="Finally dragging any file or folder into the Terminal window will copy it's path. Handy for doing issuing command and 'cd's."/>
      </outline>
      <outline text="Review of H2O Audio Products">
        <outline text="Play review from Tee"/>
        <outline text="H2O Audio"/>
        <outline text="Billibub Baddings Podcast"/>
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      <outline text="Followup: Sending email using Quicksilver">
        <outline text="Shannon offers another way (a few more keystrokes) to send email using Quicksilver, but no Automator required and their are more fields populated."/>
        <outline text="Invoke Quicksilver and start typing a contact that is in your address book, then tab to the action panel and start typing compose."/>
        <outline text="You can start by entering &quot;.&quot; (period), entering text in Quicksilver then follow the steps above and your text will be entered in the body and subject of your email."/>
        <outline text="Finally, if you make sure 'recent mail addresses' is checked in the Quicksilver Catalog pane then you will have access to emails that are not in your address book."/>
        <outline text="Quicksilver"/>
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      <outline text="MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo Airport issues">
        <outline text="Listener Jim has been having &quot;dropouts&quot; and other connection issues with his Core 2 Duo Macbook Pro."/>
        <outline text="He appears to not be alone and some report that booting into Windows under Bootcamp solves the issue."/>
        <outline text="Macfixit has an explanation and some fixes:">
          <outline text="Anecdotal evidence suggests that this issue is the result of a mismatch of some sort between the new 802.11 pre-N chipset Apple is using in its MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo (Late 2006) and the chipsets used by some routers -- particularly older models with 802.11b-only transfer capabilities."/>
          <outline text="Try a different router While it's not an ideal solution, some users have reported that they are able to achieve normal signal strength and network throughput by simply switching the wireless router to which the MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo is connecting. In particular, older routers that use 802.11b-only chipsets appear to be causing problems, where newer routers using 802.11g or even pre-802.11n chipsets do not."/>
          <outline text="Moving SystemConfiguration folder Moving the folder SystemConfiguration located in /Library/Preferences, to the Desktop then restarting can resolve some connectivity issues. This workaround appears to be effective because of permissions problems that can affect the SystemConfiguration folder, and the therein contained com.apple.airport.preferences.plist file. Note that this workaround will require you to re-enter network configuration settings and may cause other lapses in functionality."/>
          <outline text="Switching channels In some cases, switching channels on your (non-AirPort) WiFi base station can improve reception weakened by incremental updates."/>
          <outline text="Watch for other device interference Other wireless devices operating on the same spectrum can cause interference with your AirPort connection. In fact, 2.4 GHz wireless phones and even household microwaves can cause lapses in connection or drops in speed."/>
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        <outline text="iStumbler"/>
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      <outline text="Mac Flash Card app">
        <outline text="Listener Tom was looking for a Flash card app for OS X to help him study"/>
        <outline text="I found iFlash from Loopware USD$14.95"/>
        <outline text="Printing, audio support, images, iPod support, 3 different memorization systems built-in"/>
        <outline text="Built-in deck library of over 900 user contributed flash cards to download for free."/>
        <outline text="Versiontracker"/>
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    <outline text="Closing">
      <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"/>
        </outline>
        <outline text="MacCast Forum"/>
        <outline text="Podcasts on DIGG. DIGG the Maccast"/>
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      <outline text="eMaccast and Shuffles">
        <outline text="Several people have noted that the &quot;Skip when Shuffling&quot; option is on by default and you can't change it. I think because it is an AAC?"/>
        <outline text="Problem for the Shuffle is that it won't sync"/>
        <outline text="Use the MP3 edition for the Shuffle and the AAC edition if you also listen in iTunes."/>
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      <outline text="New music: &quot;Graduation Day&quot; by AdriAnne Lenker">
        <outline text="Recommended by listener Todd. Play track."/>
        <outline text="Bonus, AdriAnne is a Mac user too."/>
        <outline text="Buy on iTunes"/>
        <outline text="Artists website"/>
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