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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 releases Airport Extreme update">
        <outline text="AirPort Extreme Update 2007-02 improves compatibility with AirPort Extreme base stations and networks."/>
        <outline text="Also fixes WEP issues on MacBook and MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo systems using some 3rd party routers."/>
        <outline text="Addresses a security issue on Mac mini, MacBook, and MacBook Pro systems where an attacker could cause system crashes."/>
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      <outline text="Apple releases 10.4.9 update">
        <outline text="The update offers fixes, improvements, and patches for .Mac, Bluetooth, iChat, iCal, and iSync, Networking and modem support, Aperture, Third-party software, and more. A complete list of all updated items can be found in the support documentation on Apple's support web site." MediaLinks="10.4.9 Update (delta) &lt;http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304821&gt;"/>
        <outline text="The update also addresses 30 security issues." MediaLinks="10.4.9 Security fixes &lt;http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305214&gt;"/>
        <outline text="For those still on 10.3.9 Apple has released Security Update 2007-003, which offers the security fixes and updates in the 10.4.9 update"/>
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      <outline text="Apple releases iTunes 7.1.1 update">
        <outline text="7.1.1 a stability issue and minor compatibility problems in the iTunes 7.1 that came out just 2 weeks ago."/>
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      <outline text="Apple issues iPhoto 6.0.6 update">
        <outline text="Fixes problems associated with Exchangeable Image File (EXIF) data compatibility and Photocasting."/>
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      <outline text="Updating tip, don't mess with optimization">
        <outline text="John Gruber has a nice warning about OS X updates based on a post over at Unsanity (makes of APE)." MediaLinks="www.daringfireball.com &lt;http://www.daringfireball.com/&gt;"/>
        <outline text="Optimizing really is a step where the OS is updating the prebindings and according to the Unsanity piece this process in OS X has a &quot;nasty bug&quot;."/>
        <outline text="If multiple processes are updating prebinding at the same time, then it is possible for a system file to be completely zero'd out. Basically, all data in the file is deleted and it is replaced with nothing."/>
        <outline text="Most machines that incur issues after software update have probably been bit by this bug."/>
        <outline text="Gruber recommends, waiting a full day until after the update is released (check sites like Mac Fixit to see if there are any major bug reports), then installing the update clean (with no other applications running), letting it finish, and then rebooting." MediaLinks="www.macfixit.com &lt;http://www.macfixit.com/&gt;"/>
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      <outline text="Are you the next Trent Reznor?">
        <outline text="The single “Survivalism” from the new NIN album &quot;Year Zero&quot; is of course on iTunes, but you can also get the track for free in GarageBand format from the NIN site" MediaLinks="NIN Year Zero &lt;http://yearzero.nin.com/&gt;"/>
        <outline text="Fans are encouraged to grab the multitrack file and remix, blend, puree, and generally explore and experiment."/>
        <outline text="Reznor has done the same thing with past projects, “The Hand that Feeds” and “Only.”"/>
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      <outline text="Apple options recipients may opt for tax relief">
        <outline text="In an SEC filing Apple admitted that 114,695 options, issued between 1997 and 2002, were backdated"/>
        <outline text="That means that employees who exercised those option after 2005 are subject to federal income tax plus a 20 percent penalty and interest charges."/>
        <outline text="Apple is offering to let employees (other than directors and top executives) avoid the penalty by having their options re-priced at the higher price. Apple will then issue employees a cash payment to make up for the difference between the original and the new price."/>
        <outline text="Disney cleared Jobs of any wrongdoing of options backdating at Pixar and is using IRS and California programs to make payments on behalf of employees who received backdated grants for their additional income tax liability."/>
        <outline text="The feds will still have the final say on Jobs and other Pixar/Apple execs as their investigation into backdating at both companies is on-going."/>
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      <outline text="Apple TVs might be shipping">
        <outline text="Customers reporting that their cards are being charged which is generally do when the item ships."/>
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      <outline text="Cringley says H.264 for all!">
        <outline text="Robert X. Cringley (cringe-ly) is saying that he believes Apple will soon incorporate hardware H.264 decoding and encoding chips across the Mac line."/>
        <outline text="He says Apple is doing this to support iTunes video distribution efforts and real support 1080p (HDTV) decoding."/>
        <outline text="But the bigger deal here for me is encoding, could also allow for DVR capabilities."/>
        <outline text="Cringley is historically inaccurate with his predictions, but I hope this one is right."/>
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      <outline text="Apple is America's top retailer">
        <outline text="So all those who said Apple was crazy to open their own retail stores can now officially eat Crow"/>
        <outline text="Fortune is reporting that Apple's retail stores perform at and amazingly high sales to square footage ratio of $4,032. For comparison the offer Tiffany's number of $2,666/sq. ft.  and Best Buy which only has a ratio of $930/sq. ft."/>
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    <outline text="Feedback, Comments and Commentary">
      <outline text="iTunes has fixed &quot;blue dot&quot; syncing issues">
        <outline text="I am not sure when it changed, but in helping listener Jeff with an iPod Podcast syncing issue, I discovered a subtle change to the &quot;blue dots&quot; in iTunes."/>
        <outline text="When they originally appeared the blue dots meant that a podcast had not been played. The problem was listening to just a few seconds registered the track as &quot;played&quot; which never made sense to me."/>
        <outline text="Now it means it's a &quot;new&quot; show. You can Control+Click (Right+Click) and change the status. If you set it to &quot;new&quot; it will reset the playhead (bookmark) to the beginning."/>
        <outline text="In the iPod Device settings iPod preferences tab, your sync options are now 'recent', 'recent unplayed', 'recent new'">
          <outline text="recent = the most recent shows regardless of playcount or new status"/>
          <outline text="recent unplayed = most recent shows with no play count"/>
          <outline text="recent new = most recent shows where no portion of the show has been played (&quot;blue dot&quot;)"/>
        </outline>
        <outline text="For TV shows and movies your only options are 'recent' and 'recent unwatched'. Where 'unwatched means no play count."/>
        <outline text="In my mind this makes sense and is the right way for it to work."/>
        <outline text="Reminder that play count will not be increased unless the file sis allowed to play all the way to the end."/>
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      <outline text="Tip for browsing photos outside of iPhoto">
        <outline text="Lukas adds keywords and comments on his photos. That way they are searchable in spotlight (iPhoto 5+). You can then also click the &quot;slide show&quot; button."/>
        <outline text="Get an iPhoto browser anywhere with an Automator action">
          <outline text="1. Open Automator, and click iPhoto.&#10;2. From the list of actions, select Ask for Photos, and drag it to the right-hand pane.&#10;3. Save this as a plug-in, and select Script Menu or Finder (the script menu that displays in the menu bar, the Finder adds it to the Automator contextual menu in the Finder) so it is accessible anywhere. (If the menu is not visible, launch the AppleScript Utility in /Applications/Applescript, and check 'Show Script Menu in menu bar.')"/>
          <outline text="Now when you launch this it will bring up the iPhoto browser and you can search, browse, and find photos. Drag them out to copy them where you need them"/>
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      <outline text="Review: Marware USB Travel Dock for iPod Shuffle">
        <outline text="Designed for 2G Shuffle" MediaLinks="www.marware.com &lt;http://www.marware.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/Marware.woa/4/wa/selectedCategory?catalogCatID=254&gt;"/>
        <outline text="Likes">
          <outline text="Very cool design, looks great connected to your Mac"/>
          <outline text="Blue power on light."/>
          <outline text="Doesn't have extra cable that Apple dock has, but base is just slightly larger than Apple's"/>
          <outline text="Doesn't block adjacent ports"/>
        </outline>
        <outline text="Dislikes">
          <outline text="Literature advertises &quot;rubberized base&quot; as a feature, yet when plugged to a MacBook and iBook it &quot;floats&quot;."/>
          <outline text="1/8&quot; mini plug sticks up. Seems very sturdy but I still have concerns about breakage. Would be nice if it could somehow fold down for storage and transportation."/>
          <outline text="Plastic covers for 1/8&quot; and USB plug are nice, but could get easily lost."/>
          <outline text="Not really any more compact than Apple's Dock. Kinda defeats the &quot;Travel&quot; aspect. Other more compact products on the market"/>
        </outline>
        <outline text="Price and more info: USB$19.95 and available at Dr. Bott." MediaLinks="iPod Shuffle Travel Dock &lt;http://www.drbott.com/prod/db.lasso?code=7657-SUTD&gt;"/>
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      <outline text="Exploring the Print PDF dropdown options">
        <outline text="This came about because of something Chris noticed recently in OS X Tiger's Print... PDF options. There is a pretty large list of options now available"/>
        <outline text="'Save as PDF...', 'Save as PDF Postscript...', 'Fax PDF...'. Then under that these options which are actually Automator workflows which can be found in '/Library/PDF Services/'.">
          <outline text="Compress PDF, Encrypt PDF, Mail PDF, Save as PDF-X, Save PDF to iPhoto, PDF to Web Receipts"/>
        </outline>
        <outline text="PDF-X is an ISO defined subset of the PDF standard designed to facilitate graphics exchange. For printing and must have embedded fonts, use CMYK graphics, etc."/>
        <outline text="Save to iPhoto might be a nice option for managing PDF using iPhoto"/>
        <outline text="DPF to Web Receipts, creates a 'Web Receipts' folder in your '~/Documents' folder and places the PDF in there. Great for going paperless with your on-line printouts."/>
        <outline text="Great tools for managing paperless documents.">
          <outline text="K.I.T. (Keep it Together) from Reinvented Software" MediaLinks="reinventedsoftware.com &lt;http://reinventedsoftware.com/kit/&gt;"/>
          <outline text="Yojimbo from Bare Bones" MediaLinks="barebones.com &lt;http://www.barebones.com/products/yojimbo/&gt;"/>
          <outline text="DEVON Think from Devon Technologies" MediaLinks="devon-technologies.com &lt;http://www.devon-technologies.com/products/devonthink/index.html&gt;"/>
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      <outline text="Latest Stuffit Expander may crash Finder on Intel">
        <outline text="Listener Jose discovered this."/>
        <outline text="Stuffit Expander 11.0.2 seems to be crashing the Finder on Intel based Macs after about 5 right-click. Crash reporter logs show an issue with the contextual menus as the cause"/>
        <outline text="Reverting back to 11.0.1 corrects the issue."/>
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      <outline text="'Right' delete on the Mac">
        <outline text="Many Windows users, most recently David, and Steve Webb from Lifespring Podcast, want to know how to do the delete where it erases character to the right of the cursor on the Mac."/>
        <outline text="On the delete item. It is 'Delete' on the Mac, but you need to use the delete key, NOT the backspace key (extended keyboard). On a laptop you need to use the 'fn'+delete key. If you press Option+delete it will left delete to the end of the word."/>
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      <outline text="New Quicktime updates provides Apple TV HD clues?">
        <outline text="Listener Jeff works in video production and noticed something interesting about the new &quot;Movie to Apple TV&quot; option that was added in the latest Quicktime update."/>
        <outline text="Exporting a 1080p video he was working on yielded a file in 960 x 540 resolution and a 4mps bit-rate. 540p basically equates to 1080i"/>
        <outline text="A converted 480p video clip yielded a 480p video, but with w 3mps bit rate. Current iTunes Store 480p videos are offered in a 1.6 mbs bit rate."/>
        <outline text="Could it mean that Apple is looking at distributing iTunes video at that resolution?"/>
        <outline text="Jeff sent me the sample video and I have to say it look very nice. In some side by side still comparison with the 1080p original there was only slight detail loss. Jeff did say the 480p converted clip appeared to hold more detail in the conversion."/>
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      <outline text="Providing &quot;proof&quot; can get you better AppleCare results">
        <outline text="Play comment from Dave"/>
        <outline text="Apple+Shift+4 and spacebar trick to capture single elements"/>
        <outline text="May also want to try capturing movies with a tool like iShowU." MediaLinks="iShowU &lt;http://shinywhitebox.com/home/home.html&gt;">
          <outline text="Make sure to enable the 'Use high quality video settings when available' option in the General tab of the Quicktime Player preferences to get best quality with iShowU."/>
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      <outline text="Adding International characters to your text.">
        <outline text="A couple people have asked recently about typing international characters on the Mac."/>
        <outline text="Use the International System Preferences, access the Input Menu tab and turn on the Character Palette. This is now available in the menubar items (flag icon). You can bring it up and then brows and insert character with accents, etc. Also greek characters, symbols, etc."/>
        <outline text="Use keyboard shortcuts">
          <outline text="Option+e then character for accent. Option+n then character for tilde n. Option+u then character for umlaut."/>
        </outline>
        <outline text="Penn state page with International keyboard shortcuts for Mac" MediaLinks="Mac Accent Shortcuts &lt;http://tlt.psu.edu/suggestions/international/accents/codemac.html#accent&gt;"/>
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      <outline text="Coverflow is &quot;fuzzy&quot; and not like the warm and kind">
        <outline text="Myself and listener Curtis have noticed that since the iTunes update, when you first load iTunes CoverFlow view (at least on an intel Mac) the scroll bars are blurry."/>
        <outline text="Resizing the iTunes window brings things into focus."/>
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    <outline text="Closing">
      <outline text="Maccast Loop">
        <outline text="On Talkshoe this Sunday at 1:00 PM EST/ 10:00 AM PST" MediaLinks="www.talkshoe.com &lt;http://www.talkshoe.com/talkshoe/web/talkCast.jsp?masterId=17436&gt;"/>
        <outline text="Maccast Loop is being produced by Victor Cajiao from Typical Mac User Podcast" MediaLinks="Typical Mac User Podcast &lt;http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=112578302&amp;s=143441&amp;i=1587338&gt;"/>
        <outline text="Subscribe in ITunes or on Maccast.com/loop" MediaLinks="Maccast Loop Subscribe &lt;http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=217412343&gt;"/>
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      <outline text="Keep emails coming. Audio comments.">
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        <outline text="MacCast Forum" MediaLinks="forum.maccast.com &lt;http://forum.maccast.com/&gt;"/>
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      <outline text="New music,&quot;Weila Walia&quot; by The Young Dubliners">
        <outline text="Great band who just released an all Irish covers album"/>
        <outline text="Available on iTunes" MediaLinks="Buy on iTunes &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%252FviewAlbum%253Fi%253D215631309%2526id%253D215630858%2526s%253D143441%2526partnerId%253D30&gt;"/>
        <outline text="Bands site" MediaLinks="youngdubliners.com &lt;http://youngdubliners.com/&gt;"/>
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