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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="WWDC Summary">
        <outline text="Games Coming back to the Mac"/>
        <outline text="10 Key Features of Leopard"/>
        <outline text="Safari 3 Beta for Mac OS X Tiger, Windows XP, and Windows Vista"/>
        <outline text="iPhone web app development"/>
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      <outline text="MacBook Pro Updates">
        <outline text="New Intel Core 2 Duo 'Santa Rosa&quot; processors running at 2.2 or 2.4 GHz"/>
        <outline text="Up to 4GB of of 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM."/>
        <outline text="15-inch has new LED backlit display. Mercury-free. Less power"/>
        <outline text="17-in optional 1920-by-1200 high-resolution display."/>
        <outline text="NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT graphics cards (up to 50% faster)"/>
        <outline text="Every model includes an Intel Core 2 Duo processor with 4MB of shared L2 cache, an 800 MHz frontside bus and 2GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM memory,slot loading 8x SuperDrive with double-layer support, NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT graphics cards, Gigabit Ethernet, Enhanced Data Rate Bluetooth, 802.11n Wi-Fi, Firewire 400 and 800, 3 x USB 2, built-in iSight, backlight keyboard, ExpressCard/34 slot, DVi video output"/>
        <outline text="15.4&quot; 2.2Ghz USD$1,999.00, 15.4&quot; 2.4 GHz USD$2,499.00, and 17&quot; 2.4 GHz USD$2,799.00"/>
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      <outline text="iPhone gets a birth-date">
        <outline text="4 new TV ads. Never Been an iPod, How-to, Calamari, and Watered Down">
          <outline text="date on NYTimes is October 2nd, 2006"/>
          <outline text="12th icon conspiracy. Close-up shots in the &quot;Never Been an iPod&quot; ad shows four icons across the bottom."/>
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        <outline text="Does require 2-year contract"/>
        <outline text="June 29th. Lots of speculation on availability. AT&amp;T stores 20, 40, 80 units per store?"/>
        <outline text="AT&amp;T Getting ready, Fine EDGE?"/>
        <outline text="Leaked AT&amp;T support document for sales agents">
          <outline text="can use cellular and wi-fi at the same time"/>
          <outline text="sync with Outlook and Outlook express. Bookmark sync on Mac and PC"/>
          <outline text="What's missing">
            <outline text="GPS"/>
            <outline text="direct cellular Internet media download and streaming (why would you need it?)"/>
            <outline text="No instant messaging. (SMS of course). Was iChat the 12th icon?"/>
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      <outline text="Movie rentals on iTunes?">
        <outline text="Reported on Financial Times reporting Apple in &quot;advanced&quot; talks with studios"/>
        <outline text="$2.99 for 30 days, sync to at least one device (iPod)"/>
        <outline text="Studios prefer rental services because it doesn't compete with DVD sales"/>
        <outline text="Targeting a fall launch date"/>
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      <outline text="BootCamp 1.3 Beta released">
        <outline text="Support for keyboard backlighting (MacBook Pro only)"/>
        <outline text="Apple Remote pairing"/>
        <outline text="Updated graphics drivers"/>
        <outline text="Improved Boot Camp driver installer"/>
        <outline text="Improved international keyboard support"/>
        <outline text="Localization fixes"/>
        <outline text="Updated Windows Help for Boot Camp"/>
        <outline text="Victor reported inability to launch BootCamp 1.3 after installing the new Parallels 3.0"/>
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    <outline text="Sponsor">
      <outline text="Audible.com">
        <outline text="Free audiobook if you sign up and try out Audible Listener Gold" MediaLinks="Audible Offer &lt;http://http300.edge.ru4.com/smartserve/textlink?placement=pt-2322-031&gt;"/>
        <outline text="With over 35,000 titles to choose from it's easy to find something that would interest you. Work like podcasts when synced with your iPod, remember playback position, chapters, etc."/>
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    <outline text="Feedback, Comments and Commentary">
      <outline text="Doh! Zune does AAC">
        <outline text="Listener Ole points out that the Zune will play AAC files. It's in the tech specs"/>
        <outline text="I saw welcome and bring it on!"/>
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      <outline text="Extract audio from Quicktime and put on your iPod">
        <outline text="Jeff wanted to put just the audio from a MOV file onto his iPod using Quicktime Pro. There are of course many other tools for this.">
          <outline text="Open the movie in Quicktime Pro"/>
          <outline text="Choose File-&gt;Export"/>
          <outline text="Under Export choose Sound to AIFF and pick your quality. I always start with 44.kHz 16-bit Stereo.&#10;Take the exported file and add it to iTunes. The AIFF will play on the iPod,but be large. You can convert it to AAC or MP3 in iTunes if you want.">
            <outline text="1) In iTunes, go to Preferences, Click on the Advanced tab, and click on the Importing tab"/>
            <outline text="2) Select your format settings (MP3, AAC, etc) under 'Import Using...'"/>
            <outline text="3) Choose the desired settings, sample rate, bit rate, etc. and click OK"/>
            <outline text="4) Find the AIFF track you just imported in the iTunes library and select it."/>
            <outline text="5) Go to Advanced--&gt;Convert Selection To [format]...&quot;"/>
            <outline text="6) Once the conversion finished you can remove the AIFF file from iTunes."/>
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      <outline text="Preference Panes Crashing">
        <outline text="Listener Andrew is having troubles that are reminiscent of my issues. Mine was the dock, but his is the system preferences randomly quitting."/>
        <outline text="I recommend taking a look inside the /Library/PreferencePanes and ~/Library/PreferencePanes directories for 3rd party preference panes that might be causing the crash. Take them out and then replace them one by one, launching the system preferences in between."/>
        <outline text="For my issue, many pointed out the StuffIt expander contextual menu bug.">
          <outline text="Check /Library/Contextual Menu Items and ~/Library/Contextual Menu Items"/>
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        <outline text="So other types of &quot;crashes&quot; and places to look for culprits">
          <outline text="Finder and Dock crashes (with Control+Click)">
            <outline text="/Library/Contextual Menu Items"/>
            <outline text="/Library/CFMSupport"/>
            <outline text="Also check and maybe disable 3rd party menu-bar items. Usually enabled from the application or via a system preference."/>
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          <outline text="Finder and Dashboard">
            <outline text="Check running widgets"/>
            <outline text="Close widgets you don't use on a regular basis"/>
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          <outline text="Quicktime">
            <outline text="/Library/Quicktime"/>
            <outline text="These can also cause issues with any app that uses Quicktime, (Finder, iTunes, Imovie, Safari)"/>
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          <outline text="Safari, other browsers">
            <outline text="/Library/Internet-plugins"/>
          </outline>
          <outline text="iTunes">
            <outline text="/Library/iTunes/iTunes Plug-ins"/>
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          <outline text="Log-in items">
            <outline text="General slowdowns, crashes, etc."/>
            <outline text="Monitors for scanner, printer buttons, etc."/>
            <outline text="Lots of stuff ends up here over time.">
              <outline text="1) System Preferences --&gt; Accounts"/>
              <outline text="2) May need to click lock and enter admin password to unlock."/>
              <outline text="3) Click the Login Items tab for your account. Use the +- to add or remove items."/>
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    <outline text="Closing">
      <outline text="Podcast Marketplace">
        <outline text="Thanks to my sponsors">
          <outline text="Audible.com" MediaLinks="Audible Offer &lt;http://http300.edge.ru4.com/smartserve/textlink?placement=pt-2322-031&gt;"/>
          <outline text="The Gadget Locker" MediaLinks="The Gadget Locker &lt;http://www.thegadgetlocker.com/&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="New music, &quot;Creepy&quot; by John Hoskinson">
        <outline text="John is a listener and friend of the show"/>
        <outline text="His new CD, &quot;Pancho Fantastico&quot; will come out on June 12th, but he is giving us a sneak listen."/>
        <outline text="Artists Web Site" MediaLinks="johnhoskinson.com &lt;http://www.johnhoskinson.com/&gt;"/>
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      <outline text="MacBooks on Fire, Really">
        <outline text="Macs and fire don't mix" MediaLinks="Mac on Fire &lt;http://gwen.zaadz.com/blog/2007/5/get_the_macs_and_get_out&gt;"/>
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