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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="Gadget Locker">
        <outline text="Maccast specials at up to 20% off" MediaLinks="Gadget Locker &lt;http://www.thegadgetlocker.com/maccast/&gt;"/>
        <outline text="Maccast pick: Sendstation PocketDock Lineout USB. Great for connecting to a car cassette adapter or 1/8&quot; line in." MediaLinks="PocketDock Lineout USB &lt;http://www.thegadgetlocker.com/product_info.php/cPath/218_170_164/products_id/1198&gt;"/>
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    <outline text="News">
      <outline text="Apple launches iPhone Web Apps directory">
        <outline text="Apple added an official iPhone web app directory to it's site last week." MediaLinks="iPhone WebApps &lt;http://www.apple.com/webapps/&gt;"/>
        <outline text="Similar to the widget directory for Dashboard."/>
        <outline text="Currently has 216 apps listed in categories like Entertainment, Games, News and Social Networking."/>
        <outline text="Oddly not an iPhone formatted site."/>
        <outline text="The site also includes helpful links for developers."/>
        <outline text="Rumors that Apple may support Dashboard widget on the iPhone?"/>
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      <outline text="Apple recognizes Al Gore Peace Prize win">
        <outline text="Friday Apple paid Tribute to Gore with a post on it's homepage">
          <outline text="&quot;Al has put his heart and soul, and much of his life during the past several years, into alerting and educating us all on the climate crisis. We are bursting with pride for Al and this historic recognition of his global contributions.&quot;"/>
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        <outline text="Al Gore joined the Apple Board of Directors in 2003"/>
        <outline text="The Peace Prize was shared with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change."/>
        <outline text="If you saw &quot;An Inconvenient Truth,&quot; a lot of the film featured Apple technology an Gore used Keynote for the visuals seen in his presentation in the film."/>
        <outline text="Meanwhile, the Center for Environmental Health's lawsuit against Apple based on a Greenpeace report">
          <outline text="The Greenpeace report alleges that PVCs and brominated flame retardants (BFRs) are present in the iPhone."/>
          <outline text="The CEH suit claims that iPhones headphone cables contain DEHP (Di-ethylhexyl Phthalate) and DBP (Di-n-butyl Phthalate)."/>
          <outline text="Phthalates are a key ingredient in polyvinyl chloride (PVC) and have been potentially linked to adverse effects on reproduction."/>
          <outline text="Under California law products that contain phthalates must carry a warning label."/>
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      <outline text="Leopard nearing gold master?">
        <outline text="Ars Technica and Mac Rumors are both reporting that Apple has internal gold master candidate builds of Leopard."/>
        <outline text="Despite a UK hoax October 20th special event launch, most feel the 26th is the likely drop date for Leopard.">
          <outline text="ifoAppleStore claims to have confirmed the 26th date, but cites no source for the info. They are generally a good source for Apple Store info."/>
          <outline text="They say stores will close and then re-open at 6;00 PM with some stores open until midnight."/>
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        <outline text="Reports from AppleInsider and others that Apple has begun Leopard training for AppleCare technical support staff."/>
        <outline text="It's now less then 2 weeks away from the 26th and still no official GM? Can Apple make it in October?"/>
        <outline text="OS 10.4.11 is also nearing completion and expected to be out around the time of the Leopard release">
          <outline text="Approx. 20 bug fixes. Including fixes for CoreAudio, the BSD kernel, Apple Software Restore, CoreText Layout, ImageCapture, iPhone photo importing, WebCore, VPN networking, and more."/>
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      <outline text="iPod Touch Breaks Free">
        <outline text="Earlier in the week a team hackers hacker Niacin and Dre released a BETA process for jailbreaking the iPod Touch (and iPhone)" MediaLinks="www.touchdev.net &lt;http://www.touchdev.net/&gt;">
          <outline text="As expected it relied on the Safari TIFF exploit for initial code execution"/>
          <outline text="It's a pretty nasty hack and not for the faint at heart."/>
        </outline>
        <outline text="The iPhone Dev Team also released a procedure for Jailbraking 1.1.1 iPhones, but not ones with modded basebands."/>
        <outline text="Allows 3rd party apps via Nullriver's Installer.app"/>
        <outline text="Following the crack there are now a couple of installers to make the process easier">
          <outline text="iJailbreak Applescript for Intel Macs (PPC is not tested)">
            <outline text="iJailbreak works on 1.1.1 iPod Touch firmware, written by 2 13-year olds, AriX and  Ben Feldman. Open Source donationware on Google Code." MediaLinks="www.ijailbreak.com &lt;http://www.ijailbreak.com/&gt;"/>
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          <outline text="TouchFree, for Windows. Details on Mac Rumors forum" MediaLinks="TouchFree &lt;http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=367947&gt;"/>
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        <outline text="iPhone SIM Free also announced an update to it's commercial Jailbreak and unlocking app."/>
        <outline text="Since there is no baseband wireless stuff going on the risks of bricking your iPod are less, but there is always a chance."/>
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      <outline text="iTunes Plus price drop">
        <outline text="Ars Technica is reporting a rumor that Apple plans to drop the price of iTunes Plus DRM free tracks to $0.99 this week"/>
        <outline text="Possibly a response to Amazon MP3?"/>
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    <outline text="Sponsor">
      <outline text="Circus Ponies">
        <outline text="Circus Ponies Notebook" MediaLinks="www.circusponies.com &lt;http://www.circusponies.com/&gt;"/>
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    <outline text="Feedback, Comments and Commentary">
      <outline text="RSS Readers for Mac">
        <outline text="Listener Andrew was looking for some recommendations"/>
        <outline text="NetNewsWire" MediaLinks="NetNewsWire &lt;http://www.newsgator.com/Individuals/NetNewsWire/Default.aspx&gt;"/>
        <outline text="NewsFire" MediaLinks="NewsFireRSS &lt;http://www.newsfirerss.com/&gt;">
          <outline text="David Watanabe who also does XTorrent"/>
          <outline text="Great UI"/>
        </outline>
        <outline text="Vienna, Free and OpenSource" MediaLinks="Vienna &lt;http://www.opencommunity.co.uk/vienna2.php&gt;"/>
        <outline text="GoogleReader" MediaLinks="Google Reader &lt;http://www.google.com/reader/view/&gt;"/>
        <outline text="Safari"/>
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      <outline text="Remove iTunes DRM with iMovie">
        <outline text="Listener Seth reminded me of this tip">
          <outline text="Using iMovie HD, create a new iMovie project."/>
          <outline text="Drag the song into the timeline from the Media tab."/>
          <outline text="Drag a photo to the timeline. (It doesn't mater what photo it is because you will never see it in the final product.)"/>
          <outline text="In the Share menu, click Share and select QuickTime. In the popup menu, choose Expert Settings.  Then click Share.  In the resulting dialog, pick Sound to AIFF for the popup menu titled Export.  Next, pick Default Settings for the popup menu titled Use.  Change the title and save location to your choice.  Then click Save."/>
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        <outline text="Can also use iMove 7 ('08), but in there you will need to add multiple images and set their duration to total the entire length of the track you want to export."/>
        <outline text="Not sure this saves much time over the burn CD analog hole."/>
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      <outline text="Subtitles in Quicktime Movies">
        <outline text="Anders who is Swedish told me about .srt or .sub files"/>
        <outline text="You can find them online, just google subtitles+download. need to match up &quot;release&quot;"/>
        <outline text="Common for Divix files."/>
        <outline text="Place the .srt or .sub file in a folder with your movie. If the movie file and the subtitle file have the same name then the movie will display the subtitle track"/>
        <outline text="I couldn't get it to work in Quicktime, but it did work for me using VLC" MediaLinks="www.videolan.org &lt;http://www.videolan.org/&gt;">
          <outline text="Apparently this works if you have Perian loaded" MediaLinks="perian.org &lt;http://perian.org/&gt;"/>
        </outline>
        <outline text="Appear to be simple TXT files and you could likely edit text and timecode."/>
      </outline>
      <outline text="Sharing iTunes Between Accounts">
        <outline text="Play question from Felicia"/>
        <outline text="Sharing the iTunes Library from Macworld's Chris Breen" MediaLinks="Sharing iTunes &lt;http://www.macworld.com/weblogs/mac911/2007/06/sharingituneslibrary/index.php&gt;">
          <outline text="1) Move the iTunes Music folder from ~/Music/iTunes/ and place it in the Shared user folder."/>
          <outline text="2) Launch iTunes and in the Advanced tab of the Preferences, click the Change button point to the shared iTunes Music folder (again, /Users/Shared)."/>
          <outline text="3) Enable the Copy Files To iTunes Music Folder When Adding To Library option. Close the preferences.">
            <outline text="If iTunes asks if you want to move and rename files in the new library, click on No. Quit iTunes."/>
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          <outline text="4) Move the iTunes Music Library file from your iTunes folder to Users/Shared"/>
          <outline text="5) Make an alias of the file, and copy it to your user folder/Music/iTunes."/>
          <outline text="6) Launch iTunes and you Music should appear as normal."/>
          <outline text="7) Repeat these steps for other accounts so they all point to the same files in the shared folder."/>
          <outline text="8) If iTunes complains about permissions, log in as yourself, select the shared library, press Command-I, and change Ownership &amp; Permissions for Others to Read &amp; Write."/>
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    <outline text="Closing">
      <outline text="Podcast Marketplace">
        <outline text="Thanks to my sponsors">
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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;Overboard&quot; by Shannon Hurley">
        <outline text="From the Podsafe Music Network" MediaLinks="music.podshow.com &lt;http://music.podshow.com/music/listeners/artistdetails.php?BandHash=a41bb7a6aa58005d5468c4e6699d3f72&gt;"/>
        <outline text="Artist site" MediaLinks="myspace.com-shannonhurley &lt;http://www.myspace.com/shannonhurley&gt;"/>
      </outline>
      <outline text="EOL: Forget it">
        <outline text="Nada"/>
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