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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="Audible.com">
        <outline text="14-day trial of Audible Listener Gold" MediaLinks="audible.com/maccast &lt;http://www.audible.com/maccast/&gt;"/>
        <outline text="Recommend &quot;Chronicles of Narnia&quot; Unabridged Audiobook version performed by stars like Patrick Stewart and Kenneth Branagh."/>
        <outline text="Just make sure you don't stop listening to podcasts, an audio mix is a good thing. ;)"/>
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    </outline>
    <outline text="News">
      <outline text="Mac marketshare hits 8%">
        <outline text="According to web firm Net Applications (survey of traffic from 160 million visits to network's web sites), the Mac's market share jumped from 6.8% in November to 7.3% in December. But that's not all: in the last two days of that month, the Mac's share rose even higher, to 8.01%."/>
        <outline text="iPhone went from 0.09% to 0.12%."/>
        <outline text="A 7.% increase for Mac and a 33% increase in a single month for iPhone."/>
        <outline text="Apple's retails store may be playing a big role in growth (AppleInsider)">
          <outline text="A Bernstein Research study reports that a typical Apple retail location sells about 21.4 Macs every day versus &quot;less than 2&quot; for many less specialized electronics shops."/>
          <outline text="The same report concludes that about two-thirds of Apple store revenue comes from the computers"/>
          <outline text="Most Stores Mac sales grew 26% year over year"/>
          <outline text="Stores are highly efficient earning $4,500 per square foot vs. big box stores like Best Buy that typically earn about $930/sq. ft."/>
          <outline text="Support for growing user base may eat up much of the retail stores profit margin."/>
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      <outline text="Apple sued over iTunes &quot;monopoly&quot;">
        <outline text="A lawsuit filed in San Diego"/>
        <outline text="Alleges that Apple dominance in the market constitutes a violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act"/>
        <outline text="Claims Apple controls 75% of the online video market, 83% of the online music market, more than 90% of the hard-drive based music player market, and 70% of the Flash-based music player market."/>
        <outline text="Claims Apple could afford to, but chooses not to support Windows Media Audio format. Keeping it's close iPod/iTunes eco system."/>
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      <outline text="Apple granted display docking patent">
        <outline text="A patent for “a docking area configured to receive a portable computer”."/>
        <outline text="Filed July 3, 2006 and granted last Thursday"/>
        <outline text="Possible announcement along with the ultra-portable Mac?"/>
        <outline text="Other rumor round-up">
          <outline text="OLED Mac keyboards"/>
          <outline text="Macs with Blu-ray."/>
        </outline>
      </outline>
      <outline text="iPhone sales drop-off in France, up in UK">
        <outline text="Orange reports they sold 70,000 iPhones in the first month.">
          <outline text="Sold 30,000 in the first 5 days"/>
          <outline text="48% to existing customers"/>
          <outline text="3,500 unlocked phones"/>
          <outline text="According to iLounge, iPhones are &quot;not&quot; country locked" MediaLinks="ilounge.com &lt;http://ilounge.com/index.php/news/comments/unlocked-iphones-sold-by-orange-not-country-locked/&gt;"/>
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        <outline text="O2’s Matthew Key told Steve Jobs that O2 should move around 200,000 iPhones by the end of January."/>
      </outline>
      <outline text="Radiohead goes iTunes anyway">
        <outline text="Radiohead made headlines when they announced they wouldn't be selling their new album &quot;In Rainbows&quot; on iTunes."/>
        <outline text="Said they did not want to allow per track sales."/>
        <outline text="The band released the album digitally and DRM free using a name your own price model."/>
        <outline text="Last week the new album was added to iTunes (with heavy marketing), $9.99 10 tracks in iTunes Plus DRM-free format, and yes available as single tracks."/>
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      <outline text="iTunes Rentals looking imminent">
        <outline text="Businessweek is reporting that Apple may be working deals with of the major studios including Fox, Disney, Warner Bros., Paramount, Lionsgate, and even Sony. Universal (surprise) seems to be the lone holdout."/>
        <outline text="Apple may be making pricing concessions on sales to seal the deals. With Apple potentially paying a $17.00 wholesale price similar to DVD retailers like WalMart."/>
        <outline text="Sources say Apple plans to charge $3.99 for 24-hour rentals."/>
        <outline text="On Tuesday images were posted of a copy of the &quot;Family Guy (Blue Harvest)&quot; DVD that allegedly shipped early to a customer (release date is Jan. 15)."/>
        <outline text="On it there is a pre-endoded iPod version and when attempting to load it the customer was alerted that it required iTunes 7.6"/>
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      <outline text="Avon calling, Andrea Jung joins Apple Board">
        <outline text="Avon Products CEO and chairman, Andrea Jung, has joined its board of directors"/>
        <outline text="She also serves on the board of directors of GE.">
          <outline text="Ken Ray astutely pointed out that GE owns NBC... hmmmm..."/>
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        <outline text="Forget Apple Store within a Store, how about Apple door to door?"/>
      </outline>
      <outline text="8-Core Macs revealed pre-Macworld">
        <outline text="MacPros">
          <outline text="starting at USD $2,799.00"/>
          <outline text="Two 2.8 GHz Quad-Core 45 nanometer &quot;Harpertown&quot; Intel Xeon processors with dual-independent 1600 MHz front side buses;"/>
          <outline text="2GB of 800 MHz DDR2 ECC fully-buffered DIMM memory, expandable up to 32GB;"/>
          <outline text="ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT with 256MB of GDDR3 memory;"/>
          <outline text="320GB Serial ATA 3Gb/s hard drive running at 7200 rpm;"/>
          <outline text="16x SuperDrive[TM] with double-layer support (DVD±R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW);"/>
          <outline text="two PCI Express 2.0 slots and two PCI Express slots;"/>
          <outline text="Bluetooth 2.0+EDR; and"/>
          <outline text="ships with Apple Keyboard and Mighty Mouse."/>
          <outline text="BTO options for up to 3.2GHz processors and 2 additional GFX options, a 512MB NVIDIA GeForce 8800GT or a 1.5GB Quadro FX 5600."/>
        </outline>
        <outline text="XServe">
          <outline text="a single 64-bit 2.8 GHz Quad-Core Xeon processor with 12MB of L2 cache and a 1600 Mhz front side bus;"/>
          <outline text="2GB of 800 MHz DDR2 ECC FB-DIMM RAM, expandable up to 32GB;"/>
          <outline text="a single 80GB SATA Apple Drive Module;"/>
          <outline text="dual Gigabit Ethernet on-board;"/>
          <outline text="internal graphics;"/>
          <outline text="two FireWire(R) 800 and three USB 2.0 ports; and"/>
          <outline text="an unlimited client license for Mac OS X Server version 10.5 Leopard."/>
          <outline text="Basic configuration USD$2,999.00"/>
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      </outline>
      <outline text="First iPhone Trojan Horse">
        <outline text="In the form of a fake &quot;iPhone 1.1.3 prep&quot; installer."/>
        <outline text="Released on iPhone installer sites by an 11-year old."/>
        <outline text="Once installed, said &quot;shoes&quot;, but removing it damages some other 3rd party iPhone apps"/>
        <outline text="Poor kid, someone called his Dad and his site went offline."/>
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    <outline text="Feedback, Comments and Commentary">
      <outline text="MacBook Pro Trackpad wake from sleep issue">
        <outline text="Listener Fred noticed he had the issue when Remote Buddy was installed."/>
        <outline text="Contacted the developer and they uncovered a bug in the Leopard 10.5.1 IOKit and the IOUSB*UserClient."/>
        <outline text="On &quot;Santa Rosa&quot; Macbooks all the USB devices internal and external share same bus and the bug causes the controller to become deadlocked."/>
        <outline text="Explanation from IOSpirit">
          <outline text="1) after a (deep) sleep, the USB devices all have to be re-enumerated, which means that IOKit will look for available drivers and user space apps that have registered for notifications (including Remote Buddy)  will try to connect to the device through the respective IOUSB*UserClient."/>
          <outline text="2) Apple's HID drivers (IOUSBHIDDriver and subclasses) schedule an async read on all HID devices (including the IR Receiver, which, too, is just a HID device)"/>
          <outline text="3) Right after, Remote Buddy receives notice from IOKit in userspace that a matching device (here: the built-in IR receiver) is available"/>
          <outline text="4) To start from a clean basis, Remote Buddy's current release will make a ResetDevice() call via the user client for the respective IOUSBDevice."/>
          <outline text="5) In Kernel space, Apple's HID drivers still have their async reads scheduled. As the device is reset, they receive an error (errorcode kIOReturnUnderrun). Their standard reaction is to make a synchronous call to reset the interrupt pipe they are listening on."/>
          <outline text="6) The IOUSBController instance responsible for the device deadlocks."/>
          <outline text="7) As the IOUSBController instance has deadlocked, but is responsible for handling the communication for all other devices connected to the same port, all other devices connected to the same port will no longer appear to work, as data is neither handed to them nor polled from them."/>
          <outline text="8) As Santa Rosa MacBook Pros internally connect keyboard, trackpad and built-in IR receiver to the same USB port, unfortunate timing can lead to the ResetDevice() (in user space) and ClearStall() (on IOUSBPipe, in kernel space) calls to deadlock the IOUSBController instance handling all three devices. That's also, why all other USB ports will continue to work."/>
          <outline text="Said simply, any application that uses the quite common and widely used approach of accessing a USB device from user space and that makes a call to ResetDevice() on the IOUSBDevice can potentially deadlock the IOUSBController handling the port of the USB device - consequently disabling all I/O handling for all other devices connected to the same USB port."/>
        </outline>
        <outline text="So this bug can occur with almost any 3rd part app that interfaces with the USB and takes this common programming approach"/>
        <outline text="The workaround of now is to disable sleep mode or remove the 3rd party apps until Apple issues and update."/>
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      <outline text="How to export iMovie Project to iDVD">
        <outline text="Play question from Ezra"/>
        <outline text="For iLife '08 You just need to make sure you go under the &quot;Share&quot; Menu and choose the &quot;Media Browser&quot; option. Then select the quality you want. I would recommend going with Medium or Large."/>
        <outline text="Then launch iDVD and the project should be available from the &quot;Movies&quot; tab of the &quot;Media&quot; browser."/>
      </outline>
      <outline text="Setting up a kids Mac station">
        <outline text="Listener David was looking for advice and tips for setting up a Kids gaming Mac like the ones in the Apple store"/>
        <outline text="Specifically wanted the &quot;Flash&quot; launcher app."/>
        <outline text="I couldn't find that, but found and old but good article on AllForces.com" MediaLinks="Kids Computer-part1 &lt;http://allforces.com/2005/06/15/kids-computer-part1/&gt;"/>
        <outline text="Cool launcher called &quot;Docktop&quot; that has some nice ways to lock it down. Creates little &quot;wells&quot; to add selected application icons, website hyperlinks, etc." MediaLinks="Docktop &lt;http://www.jonn8.com/docktop/&gt;"/>
        <outline text="Combine with a limited user account using a simplified Finder and parental controls."/>
        <outline text="Bumpercar Browser from Freeverse." MediaLinks="Bumpercar Kids Browser &lt;http://www.freeverse.com/apps/app/?id=5003&gt;"/>
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      <outline text="What's the best format/bitrate for importing in iTunes">
        <outline text="The $10 million dollar question from Richard."/>
        <outline text="There is a lot of debate on this topic, but depending on what you are going for.">
          <outline text="Personal preference and your ears will guide you. Try it out on different sound files and listen."/>
          <outline text="MP3 for the most compatibility, find a good balance between size and bit rate. I like at least 160 or 192Kbps."/>
          <outline text="AAC for iTunes, iPod and iPhone compatibility"/>
          <outline text="Apple Lossless or AIFF for best quality. Limited to iPods with Dock Connector or 1st Gen and newer iPod Mini."/>
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      <outline text="Leopard, .Mac, and iCal syncing woes for some">
        <outline text="Listener Bruce and others have emailed me describing all kinds of issues with .Mac syncing after updating to Leopard."/>
        <outline text="There are whole threads on Apple's support forums."/>
        <outline text="Complaints of loss of quick view edit/info pane. Command+E is the quickest way to get to edit mode in Leopard iCal."/>
        <outline text="Backup, log out and back in to .Mac account from the .Mac preferences, and reset .Mac syncing. In .Mac Sync tab, go to Advanced... --&gt; Reset Sync Data. Make sure .Mac has a good clean copy of all the latest data first, can check from the .Mac website. "/>
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      <outline text="Switcher asks about Photoshop Elements for the Mac">
        <outline text="Robin is a recent switcher and son uses PE on Windows. Wanted to get it for their new Mac, but discovered Mac version is still on v. 4."/>
        <outline text="Spend less (~USD $70.00) and get Parallels or VM Ware. Use your old copy of Windows and Photoshop Elements"/>
        <outline text="Try one of the many emerging Photoshop alternatives">
          <outline text="Pixelmator: www.pixelmator.com &lt;http://www.pixelmator.com/&gt;" MediaLinks="Pixelmator &lt;http://www.pixelmator.com/&gt;"/>
          <outline text="Acorn: flyingmeat.com—acorn &lt;http://flyingmeat.com/acorn/&gt;" MediaLinks="Acorn &lt;http://flyingmeat.com/acorn/&gt;"/>
          <outline text="Graphic Converter: www.lemkesoft.com &lt;http://www.lemkesoft.com/&gt;" MediaLinks="Graphic Converter &lt;http://www.lemkesoft.com/&gt;"/>
          <outline text="Open source Mac GIMP (free)"/>
        </outline>
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      <outline text="Listener Questions">
        <outline text="Jamie wants to know about running Leopard on a G4.">
          <outline text="Minimum requirements are an 867MHz G4"/>
          <outline text="Mac OS X Hints has way to hack together and install image to bypass the checks" MediaLinks="Hack Leopard on older G4s &lt;http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20071026083746346&gt;"/>
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        <outline text="Steven is having issues with Keynote '08 and Quicktime on a G4">
          <outline text="ALready did this, but this is the fix for the issue he is describing:">
            <outline text="Open Keynote's Preferences, then click on the Slideshow section."/>
            <outline text="Check (enable) the 'Allow Exposé, Dashboard and others to use screen' preference. Ignore the warning below the option about affecting animation performance."/>
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          <outline text="Reinstall Quicktime, make sure you are up to date."/>
          <outline text="Quicktime preferences and click &quot;Use high quality video settings when available&quot;?"/>
          <outline text="More memory?"/>
          <outline text="Run maintenance, clear caches, etc."/>
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      <outline text="PC viruses can use a Mac">
        <outline text="Listener Jim wanted to share an experience and offers some sound advice"/>
        <outline text="A Mac user opened a Word attachment from an emil in Office 2004 for Mac"/>
        <outline text="It then asked to run an included macro, which they also agreed to. The macro was a W97m virus."/>
        <outline text="It modifed the Normal template in Word to replicate itself on to new documents."/>
        <outline text="There are many kinds of W97m macro viruses, but Jim says this one on a PC looks for the C: drive and then the command  This virus is aimed at PC users as the code looks for the C: drive and then the command &quot;Kill.FoundFiles(i) A VB command to delete files. Harmless on the Mac."/>
        <outline text="Jim was able to use the free tool Clam X AV to remove the infected files on his Macs."/>
        <outline text="Never run Macros in Office or switch to iWork." MediaLinks="www.clamxav.com &lt;http://www.clamxav.com/&gt;"/>
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    <outline text="Closing">
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      <outline text="Mac Meet and Mingle">
        <outline text="Coming up durning MacWorld"/>
        <outline text="Thursday January 17th at 6:00 PM. Jillian's at the Metreon"/>
        <outline text="Details and let us know you are coming at Upcoming.org" MediaLinks="macmeetandmingle.com &lt;http://www.macmeetandmingle.com/&gt;"/>
        <outline text="Mac Podcaster Meetup panelists include, Victor Cajiao, Leo Laporte, Scott Bourne, Dav Hamilton, and Ken Ray.">
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        <outline text="Sponsored by Podango and DataRobotics"/>
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      <outline text="Thanks to Russell Brown">
        <outline text="Nice to have listeners in high places"/>
        <outline text="Sr. Creative Director at Adobe Systems Incorporated hooked me up, so we are into the Keynote!"/>
        <outline text="Checkout his site and Podcast, &quot;The Russell Brown Show&quot;. Great Photoshop Tutorials, Tips &amp; Tricks." MediaLinks="www.russellbrown.com &lt;http://www.russellbrown.com/&gt;"/>
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      <outline text="New music, &quot;Save Me&quot; by Tripleswitch">
        <outline text="Chad is in the band and listens to the show. I promised him a play back in July."/>
        <outline text="Artists web site" MediaLinks="www.tripleswitch.com &lt;http://www.tripleswitch.com/&gt;"/>
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      <outline text="EOL: iPod Touch vs. Treadmill">
        <outline text="Treadmill wins and it's not pretty" MediaLinks="Treadmill vs. Touch &lt;http://cultofmac.com/?p=1603&gt;"/>
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