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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="Sponsor">
      <outline text="Smile on My Mac">
        <outline text="Textexpander"/>
        <outline text="If you find yourself typing the same things over and over this can save you loads of time. Common greetings or salutations and signatures."/>
        <outline text="Set up code snippet shortcuts for programmers. Great if you have common commenting styles."/>
        <outline text="20% off for Maccast listeners until the end of the month. SmileOnMyMac.com/Maccast" MediaLinks="Smile on My Mac/Maccast &lt;http://www.smileonmymac.com/maccast/&gt;"/>
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    <outline text="News">
      <outline text="Next gen Intel Xeons on the way">
        <outline text="A new chip may make it's way to the MacPro by Christmas."/>
        <outline text="The Register out of the UK is reporting that Intel's next gen quad core Xeon chips will ship in November"/>
        <outline text="The chips use a 45nm design and have two Thermal Designee Power levels. E designated at 80W and X designated at 120W"/>
        <outline text="7 speeds ranging from 2.0GHz to 3.16GHz, all with 1333MHz front side buses"/>
        <outline text="All designs also contain 12MB of L2 cache. 6MB of L2 cache shared between each pair of cores."/>
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      <outline text="Apple retires Appleworks, or have they?">
        <outline text="Many sites are reporting that apple.com/appleworks now redirects to the iWork '08 page which is true."/>
        <outline text="They are also claiming the product has been given &quot;End of Life&quot; status by Apple. EOL means the product is no longer sold or updated."/>
        <outline text="I doubt AppleWorks will ever be supported or updated again"/>
        <outline text="BUT... AppleWorks 6.2.9 (Mac) is still available for purchase on Apple's on-line store for USD $79.00"/>
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      <outline text="Jobs ups share count">
        <outline text="A Bloomberg report says that Job exercised his stock options last Thursday picking up 120,000 share for the bargain basement price of $5.75 a share."/>
        <outline text="Thursday Apple stock was trading at around $114/share making the deal potentially worth around $13.7 million in pure profit. Way to go Stevie!"/>
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      <outline text="iPhone Europe just weeks away?">
        <outline text="MacNN is siting a source and article from Unstrung that says Apple and Vodaphone are just weeks away from announcing a deal to bring the iPhone to Europe"/>
        <outline text="Vodafone seems to be in line to cover most of Western Europe, with T-Mobile International AG in Germany , and rumors of Vodafone or O2 getting the UK nod."/>
        <outline text="The terms of the deal and some &quot;bugs&quot; are cited as the hold up. Most carriers don't want to give Apple as much control as AT&amp;T did in the states."/>
        <outline text="Bug fixes mentioned include">
          <outline text="Support for Outlook and Exchange syncing (Apple currently doesn't license Microsoft's Activesync technology)."/>
          <outline text="Better VPN support, like MSCHP1 and support for Cisco PIX"/>
          <outline text="Easier connectivity to WEP and WPA access points. Currently not obvious that you need to place a $ before the security keys for any access point that is not an Apple Airport. (can't confirm this bug)."/>
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      <outline text="iPhone battery lawsuits, please.">
        <outline text="A second class-action suit was filed in California, with similar claims to complaints made by an Illinois man."/>
        <outline text="Claims over $100/yr iPhone battery maintainence &quot;fee&quot;. $79.00+$30 loner phone, was not disclosed up front."/>
        <outline text="Added cost and no user replaceable battery"/>
        <outline text="400 charge cycles, not 300 times. Use 1/4 and charge back up 1/4 is 1/4 of a cycle. After 400 it is at 80% capacity."/>
        <outline text="My iPod is used everyday sine I got it and I have had no battery issues."/>
        <outline text="Already 3rd party, cheaper, battery replacement solutions."/>
        <outline text="Tip: Take it out of the case when charging. Excess heat can degrade battery capacity."/>
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      <outline text="Lennon 3rd Beatle on iTunes">
        <outline text="Following Ringo and Paul, John made his iTunes debut this week"/>
        <outline text="The offering includes 16 solo albums from EMI."/>
        <outline text="Many of the albums have recently been digitally re-mastered and 2 collections, &quot;Lennon Legend&quot; and &quot;Acoustic&quot; are available for the first time in digital format."/>
        <outline text="The albums are available in the DRM-free iTunes plus format and for the first 30-days several of the albums include exclusive video content"/>
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      <outline text="iWeb 2.0.1 Update">
        <outline text="Not much here, but Apple says it does fix issues with upgrading and publishing iWeb 1.x websites."/>
        <outline text="Weeee!"/>
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      <outline text="Woz linked with Kathy Griffin">
        <outline text="And now this podcast has degraded to a cheap prime time entertainment show, but this rumor is too strange/interesting not to mention."/>
        <outline text="Steve Wozniak is rumored to have meet D-list comedienne Kathy Griffin after seeing her do stand-up and they hit it off."/>
        <outline text="I checked the source which is contactmusic.com ( i never heard of them either), and Kathy has done fake dating stunts on her show before, so this one could be a hoax."/>
        <outline text="Strange and cool all at once. Woz himself is a know practical joker, so I guess it makes sense."/>
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    <outline text="Sponsor">
      <outline text="Audible.com">
        <outline text="Book pick, The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo"/>
        <outline text="A fantasy that starts with a Mouse who falls in love with a princess. There are multiple characters and story-lines that weave together. Newberry award winner, so technically a children's book, but writing in a way that appeals to adults too."/>
        <outline text="Making a movie that is due for release in 2008, with Justin Long (our favorite Mac) as the voice of Desperaux."/>
        <outline text="Free book at Audible.com/maccast" MediaLinks="Audible.com/maccast &lt;http://www.audible.com/maccast/&gt;"/>
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    <outline text="Feedback, Comments and Commentary">
      <outline text="iLife font issues">
        <outline text="My iPhoto event renaming problem was a font issue (HelveticaNeue.dfont).">
          <outline text="Needs to be in /Library/Fonts"/>
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        <outline text="Listener Chris had same problem">
          <outline text="Open Numbers templates to confirm problems, it will warn you about missing fonts"/>
          <outline text="Re-install the fonts, in our case Helvetica Neue"/>
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        <outline text="Restoring fonts">
          <outline text="I couldn't find a good recommended way"/>
          <outline text="The recommended way is to re-install OS X. Archive and install."/>
          <outline text="I was able to restore from Suitcase &quot;Moved System Fonts&quot;."/>
          <outline text="Could restore from another Mac at the same upgrade level."/>
          <outline text="If you need to restore just the fonts from the install DVD, you can use a tool like Pacifist" MediaLinks="Pacifist &lt;http://www.charlessoft.com/&gt;"/>
          <outline text="List of Tiger Essential fonts on Apple.com" MediaLinks="OS X Essential Fonts &lt;http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301332&gt;"/>
        </outline>
        <outline text="Morale of story... Don't mess with fonts in the /System/Library/Fonts or /Library/Fonts folders"/>
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      <outline text="Vintage and obsolete products">
        <outline text="Scott noticed the &quot;Support Status&quot; in Mactracker and wondered what vintage vs obsolete meant."/>
        <outline text="Apple has discontinued support for certain technologically obsolete and vintage products.">
          <outline text="Vintage products are those that were discontinued more than five and less than seven years ago. Apple has discontinued hardware service for vintage products with the following exception:">
            <outline text="Products purchased in the state of California, United States, as required by statute. Owners of these products may obtain service and parts from Apple Service Providers within the state of California, United States."/>
          </outline>
          <outline text="Obsolete products are those that were discontinued more than seven years ago. Apple has discontinued all hardware service for obsolete products with no exceptions. Service providers cannot order parts for obsolete products."/>
          <outline text="All retail Apple Stores and the Canadian, European, Latin American and Asia-Pacific operating regions follow the U.S. product list, but make no distinction between vintage and obsolete. When applied to the retail Apple Stores and these operating regions, all products on the U.S. Vintage list are considered obsolete."/>
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        <outline text="Mactracker has technical details of ALL Apple products. Get it.">
          <outline text="Donationware. Please donate if you like it."/>
          <outline text="Image, history, startup chime, sync to iPod" MediaLinks="mactracker.ca &lt;http://www.mactracker.ca/&gt;"/>
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      <outline text="802.11 in Airport">
        <outline text="Drop in speed to lowest common denominator"/>
        <outline text="Recommendation for other routers">
          <outline text="Linksys, " MediaLinks="www.linksys.com &lt;http://www.linksys.com/&gt;"/>
          <outline text="Belkin, N1 Vision" MediaLinks="Belkin N1 Vision &lt;http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatProductPage.process?Product_Id=377018&gt;"/>
          <outline text="Apple Airport Extreme" MediaLinks="Airport Extreme &lt;http://www.apple.com/airportextreme/&gt;"/>
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      <outline text="Getting Audio from difficult sources">
        <outline text="Question from Neo "/>
        <outline text="Analog hole for iTunes purchases"/>
        <outline text="Flash video, internet streams (Real, Windows Media, etc), DRM sources"/>
        <outline text="Analog formats vis line in on your Mac.">
          <outline text="need cable to convert your source output to 1/8&quot; mini jack"/>
          <outline text="need an amplified source"/>
        </outline>
        <outline text="Software">
          <outline text="Audio Hijack (USD $16) and Audio HiJack Pro (USD $32)" MediaLinks="Audio Hijack Pro &lt;http://rogueamoeba.com/audiohijackpro/&gt;"/>
          <outline text="Toast Titanium 8 (USD $79.99)" MediaLinks="Toast Titanium &lt;http://www.roxio.com/enu/products/toast/titanium/overview.html&gt;"/>
          <outline text="A tool like Bias Sound Soap 2 (USD $129.00) to clean up the audio." MediaLinks="Sound Soap &lt;http://www.bias-inc.com/products/soundSoap2/&gt;"/>
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      <outline text="Cleaning up your caches">
        <outline text="Evan's Mac Book is slowing down and wanted to know some tools for cleaning caches"/>
        <outline text="Cleaning the System and User caches should not be part of routine maintenance"/>
        <outline text="Caches are used to improve the performance of both the operating system and applications."/>
        <outline text="Can become corrupt and need to be cleaned. They will be rebuilt as you restart the system and apps, slowing them down on first launch."/>
        <outline text="Software">
          <outline text="Cocktail OS X" MediaLinks="Cocktail OS X &lt;http://www.maintain.se/cocktail/index.php&gt;"/>
          <outline text="Tiger Cache Cleaner" MediaLinks="Tiger Cache Cleaner &lt;http://www.northernsoftworks.com/tigercachecleaner.html&gt;"/>
          <outline text="Onyx" MediaLinks="Onyx &lt;http://www.titanium.free.fr/pgs/english.html&gt;"/>
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    <outline text="Closing">
      <outline text="Podcast Marketplace">
        <outline text="Thanks to my sponsors">
          <outline text="The Gadget Locker" MediaLinks="The Gadget Locker &lt;http://www.thegadgetlocker.com/maccast/&gt;"/>
          <outline text="Audible.com" MediaLinks="www.audible.com—maccast &lt;http://www.audible.com/maccast&gt;"/>
          <outline text="Circus Ponies, Notebook" MediaLinks="www.circusponies.com &lt;http://www.circusponies.com/&gt;"/>
          <outline text="Smile on my Mac, textexpander, PDFpen" MediaLinks="www.smileonmymac.com &lt;http://www.smileonmymac.com/maccast/&gt;"/>
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      <outline text="20th show coming, I giving gifts.">
        <outline text="Maccast Blue 4GB iPod Nano, and whatever else I can scrounge up."/>
        <outline text="Send a card or postcard via snailmail with your name and address to:">
          <outline text="Maccast 200"/>
          <outline text="6965 El Camino Real, Suite 105-442, Carlsbad CA 92009"/>
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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="MacCast Forum" MediaLinks="forum.maccast.com &lt;http://forum.maccast.com/&gt;"/>
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      <outline text="New music, &quot;Go&quot; by Loveless">
        <outline text="Courtesy of the Podsafe Music Network" MediaLinks="music.podshow.com &lt;http://music.podshow.com/music/listeners/artistdetails.php?BandHash=8bf6b7ca351631717d2f6e12717fd54a&gt;"/>
        <outline text="Band site" MediaLinks="www.lvls.com &lt;http://www.lvls.com/&gt;"/>
        <outline text="Get EP 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%253D13761983%2526id%253D13762013%2526s%253D143441%2526partnerId%253D30&gt;"/>
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