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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">
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    <outline text="News">
      <outline text="Apple Q1 numbers are in">
        <outline text="Revenue of $9.6 billion and net quarterly profit of $1.58 billion."/>
        <outline text="iPod sales have slowed showing just 5% growth over last year. In the quarter Apple sold just over 22 million iPods for sales of around 4 million. Last year Apple sold about 21 million ipods for a total of $3.43 million in sales.">
          <outline text="The higher dollar amounts are likely due to strong iPod Classic, iPod Touch and Nano sales."/>
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        <outline text="2.3 million iPhones sold, a 107% increase over the same quarter last year."/>
        <outline text="Music sales were up $808 million vs. $601 million last year"/>
        <outline text="Strong Leopard sales helped boost Software, Service and Other Sales. Apple earned $628 million in the quarter a 81% increase."/>
        <outline text="Peripherals and other hardware sales generated $382 million, up 29%."/>
        <outline text="Good numbers, but Wallstreet was tough. Apple shares dropped 11% in after hours trading on Tuesday."/>
      </outline>
      <outline text="Focus on iPhone Sales and Unlocked phones">
        <outline text="iPhones accounted for 20% of all smartphone sales in Q3 of 2007 (Gartner)"/>
        <outline text="Apple sold 4 million iPhones in the first 200 days it was on sale which averages about 20,000 per day"/>
        <outline text="There are various reports out there, but estimates are that between 22-27% of iPhones are SIM unlocked."/>
        <outline text="A Reuters report quotes Bernstein Research analyst Toni Sacconaghi as saying that, &quot;if Apple hit its sales goal of 10 million iPhones by the end of fiscal 2008 but 30 percent of those don't result in any carrier payments, its revenue and profit would be $500 million and 37 cents per share lower than expected.&quot;"/>
        <outline text="The same report alludes that Apple is in trouble because it not only effects their revenue sharing deals, and effects their ability to do deals with other carriers, but there is also not much they can do to protect the phone without risk of alienating iPhone purchasers."/>
        <outline text="I think they are overstating the financial downsides for Apple">
          <outline text="Yes the revenue sharing agreements are lucrative for Apple, but they are only one part of the model"/>
          <outline text="Apple makes a profit on every iPhone sold. iSuppli guesses as high as 50%, so that's about USD$200 per phone up front."/>
          <outline text="Every iPhone has the Music Store and requires you use iTunes. That means more music, TV show, Movie and Movie rentals sales with each iPhone sold."/>
          <outline text="The SDK hits next month and it is assumed software will be sold via iTunes and Apple will likely take a small licensing or service fee on each sale"/>
          <outline text="iPhone halo effect is likely to help continue the trend of rising Mac and OS sales"/>
          <outline text="Benefits from being the dominante mobile Internet device. Google, Yahoo, and other web service enabled apps on the phone could include other revenue sharing agreements. Ala, Firefox Google search model."/>
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      <outline text="iTunes more popular than RealPlayer, duh?!">
        <outline text="The site Website Optimization is reporting on some Nielsen Online data that showed iTunes passed Realplayer in unique users near mid-2007."/>
        <outline text="The study was of the top 4-streaming media players. Windows Media Player, RealPlayer,iTunes and Quicktime."/>
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      <outline text="Lots of random Mac stuff">
        <outline text="Pink iPod Nano"/>
        <outline text="Fraggles and Farscape on iTunes"/>
        <outline text="Quicktime 7.4 appears to break Premiere and After Effects"/>
        <outline text="Microsoft Office 2008 Security issue and fix." MediaLinks="Office 2008 Security fix. &lt;http://www.officeformac.com/blog/Security-issue-in-Mac-Office-2008-Installer&gt;"/>
        <outline text="UK pulls get a Mac Ads featuring Mitchell and Webb"/>
        <outline text="O2 increases minutes and SMS for UK iPhone owners."/>
        <outline text="Apple posts updates to Keynote, Pages, Numbers, and iWeb. Apple apparently has fired most of their technical writers, &quot;Addresses compatibility with Mac OS X&quot;. b">
          <outline text="Keynote 4.0.2"/>
          <outline text="Pages 3.0.2"/>
          <outline text="Numbers 1.02"/>
          <outline text="iWeb 2.0.3"/>
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      <outline text="Macbook Air shipping Apple TV Take 2 Delayed">
        <outline text="Apple announced Wednesday that the MacBook Air has started shipping and will be available throughout resellers, Apple on-line, and Apple Retail stores.">
          <outline text="Email me with your stories and reviews as you get them and see them in the wild."/>
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        <outline text="Air has a special install of OS X that is designed for only the Air and you need that version to restore according to technical docs included with the Air"/>
        <outline text="Some third-party headphones may not plug into the MacBook Air headphone jack because part of the connector does not fit within the port hatch. Need an adapter in these cases."/>
        <outline text="Apple TV® software update is not quite finished and will be available sometime ein the next two weeks.">
          <outline text="Deja vu? Isn't that what you said two weeks ago?"/>
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      <outline text="Wireless issues take Air out of unboxing">
        <outline text="Apple has posted a technote saying the new MacBook Air may have WiFi issues with some older 802.11n routers."/>
        <outline text="Suggest upgrading the router firmware if possible."/>
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        <outline text="You don't have to take my word for it, play comment from James"/>
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    <outline text="Feedback, Comments and Commentary">
      <outline text="iTunes 7.6 Firewall Permissions issue">
        <outline text="Grant said after upgrading iTunes kept asking him to allow incoming connections for iTunes through the Firewall in Leopard"/>
        <outline text="Re-install iTunes 7.6 "/>
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      <outline text="What to know when buying external drives">
        <outline text="Annette asked:">
          <outline text="I have a question (two actually) and I know you have help. With so much downloading of movies and all these big files today, as well as Time Machine, external drives are a necessity. But what should I look out for when buying one. Drives are so cheap right but I don't want one that's going to fail on me in two yrs times."/>
          <outline text="What is RAID?"/>
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        <outline text="What to look for:">
          <outline text="Brand and Warranty">
            <outline text="In general warranty is set by mean time between failure">
              <outline text="Self-monitoring, analysis and reporting technology (S.M.A.R.T.)"/>
            </outline>
            <outline text="Do your research on brands. Personally I like Seagate for desktop drives and Hitachi for portables. Other brands you'll see are Western Digital, Maxtor (now owned by Seagate), Samsung, Fujitsu, and Toshiba"/>
            <outline text="Cases and enclosures are made by many companies. La Cie, OWC, G-Technology, Netgear, Iomega, SimpleTech, NewerTech, etc."/>
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          <outline text="Size">
            <outline text="Both in storage capacity and physical size"/>
            <outline text="1.8&quot;, 2.5&quot; or 3.5&quot;"/>
            <outline text="Also flash based SSD"/>
          </outline>
          <outline text="Speed">
            <outline text="4200, 5400, 7200 RPM"/>
            <outline text="Buffer, an amount of RAM on the drive to store frequently accessed data from the drive."/>
            <outline text="Your use for the drive will largely effect what speed and interface you might want."/>
          </outline>
          <outline text="Interface, how you connect">
            <outline text="USB2, Firewire 400 or 800, eSATA"/>
            <outline text="Does it allow bus power"/>
            <outline text="Network Attached Storage using Ethernet or Wireless."/>
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        <outline text="What is RAID?">
          <outline text="Redundant Array of Inexpensive Drives, Random Array of Independent Drives, etc."/>
          <outline text="Typically, multiple drives in one enclosure that use hardware or software to combine them together into a single logical unit. Your Mac will see them as one drive."/>
          <outline text="3 main ideas behind RAID">
            <outline text="Mirroring, the copying of data to more than one disk;"/>
            <outline text="Striping, the splitting of data across more than one disk;"/>
            <outline text="Error correction (Parity), where redundant data is stored to allow problems to be detected and possibly fixed (known as fault tolerance)."/>
          </outline>
          <outline text="Basically 5 types of RAID, but many sub-variations">
            <outline text="The 3 most common are:">
              <outline text="RAID 0 - Striped set without parity. Larger size and improved performance"/>
              <outline text="RAID 1 - Mirrored, everything duplicated between drives. 1/2 storage and slower write times."/>
              <outline text="RAID 5 - Striped set with distributed parity. Requires at least 3 drives (usually of the same size) and size is 2-1, so 3 x 500GB in RAID 5 = 1 TB"/>
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            <outline text="Hot-swapable: you can replace a drive while it attached and running."/>
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    <outline text="Closing">
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      <outline text="New music, &quot;Because You Are&quot; by Derek Clegg">
        <outline text="A listener to the show and I love his music"/>
        <outline text="Just added 3rd CD. First two are on iTunes"/>
        <outline text="Artists web site" MediaLinks="derekclegg.com &lt;http://www.derekclegg.com/&gt;"/>
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      <outline text="EOL: Macbook Paper">
        <outline text="Get your Paper version of the Macbook Air" MediaLinks="MacBook Paper &lt;http://apcommunity.blogspot.com/2008/01/print-your-own-macbook-air-paper.html&gt;"/>
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