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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="Photoprinto" MediaLinks="www.smileonmymac.com &lt;http://www.smileonmymac.com/&gt;">
          <outline text="Print photo albums using great built-in templates"/>
          <outline text="Do layouts of photo and tiles"/>
          <outline text="Great tool for digital scrapbooking"/>
        </outline>
      </outline>
    </outline>
    <outline text="News">
      <outline text="Adobe position on Flash for iPhone clarifies">
        <outline text="Media interpretation of Adobe CEO statements made it sound like they would bring Flash to the iPhone independent of Apple."/>
        <outline text="He actually said they will work with Apple."/>
        <outline text="So while the SDK may make development possible Adobe and Apple still have more than technical issues to overcome."/>
      </outline>
      <outline text="Airport Updates">
        <outline text="New Airport Express with 802.11n"/>
        <outline text="Time Machine and AirPort Updates 1.0">
          <outline text="Improvements to TimeCapsule/TimeMachine reliability"/>
          <outline text="AirPort wireless driver fixes"/>
        </outline>
        <outline text="Time Capsule and AirPort Base Station (802.11n) Firmware 7.3.1">
          <outline text="Airport Extreme Update brings TimeMachine AirDisk support."/>
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      <outline text="Safari 3.1 released">
        <outline text="Speed increases in page loads thanks to new WebKit."/>
        <outline text="Apple also says Javascript has been given a speed boost."/>
        <outline text="First browser to support for new web standards like:">
          <outline text="new video and audio tags in HTML 5"/>
          <outline text="CSS Animations"/>
          <outline text="CSS Web Fonts"/>
        </outline>
        <outline text="Designers are going to like this update."/>
        <outline text="I wonder if we will see a new rash of &quot;this browser best viewed with...&quot; or &quot;This site requires...&quot; sites."/>
        <outline text="Update also addresses 13 security issues"/>
        <outline text="Controversy on Windows, since 3.1 came up as a software update even if you didn't have Safari installed.">
          <outline text="Office 2008 update installs the Silverlight plug-in."/>
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      <outline text="Other Apple updates">
        <outline text="Security Update 2008-002, patches over over 40 OS X security flaws including issues with Preview, Apache, PHP, AppKit, CoreServices, CUPS and curl."/>
        <outline text="Digital Camera Raw Compatibility Update 2.0, add more RAW camera support to Aperture 2 and iPhoto ‘08 and contains a security update."/>
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      <outline text="Rumors of a pending iTunes subscription model">
        <outline text="This was all over the Mac-o-sphere"/>
        <outline text="Basically that Apple is trying to negotiate with the label to offer &quot;premium&quot; iPods that would include &quot;all-you-can-eat&quot; music for the life of the device."/>
        <outline text="Like the Nokia &quot;Comes with Music&quot; phones where Nokia gives the labels $80 per device. Apple has rumored to offer $20 per device. "/>
        <outline text="Would you pay a premium for unlimited music?"/>
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      <outline text="Mac Mini ready for rebirth?">
        <outline text="Apple Insider has a piece that says the Mac Mini is soon to get a refresh"/>
        <outline text="They don't give a date"/>
        <outline text="45-nanometer Core 2 Duo mobile chips starting at 2.1GHz with 3MB of shared L2 cache&#10;800MHz front-side bus (up from 667MHz)"/>
        <outline text="Intel GMA X3100 integrated graphics processor"/>
        <outline text="The piece also claims that the iMacs may get a jump up to the Penryn boosting them up to a max of 2.8GHz Core 2 Extreme processors."/>
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    <outline text="Sponsor">
      <outline text="Audible.com">
        <outline text="The Big Listen" MediaLinks="audible.com/biglisten &lt;http://audible.com/biglisten&gt;"/>
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        <outline text="Starts at 11:00 AM March 27 to 11 AM March 28"/>
        <outline text="Over 50 titles available across a number of categories including some classics like:">
          <outline text="Robinson Crusoe, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and Little Women"/>
        </outline>
        <outline text="Visit: www.audible.com—biglisten &lt;http://www.audible.com/biglisten&gt;"/>
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    </outline>
    <outline text="Feedback, Comments and Commentary">
      <outline text="One more step for admin to user account conversion">
        <outline text="Bob reminds us that is probably a good idea to run repair permissions on your new &quot;user&quot; only account."/>
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      <outline text="Apologies to Growl">
        <outline text="Jacob pointed out that Growl is simply a System Preference apps and not a &quot;deep hack&quot;."/>
        <outline text="I had not used Growl because of some issues I had with it back in the OS 10.2 days, so I should have checked."/>
        <outline text="People tell me recent versions are fairly robust and there doesn't seem to be reports of conflicts recently with Growl."/>
        <outline text="Still a valid point to check 3rd party apps that may interact with other parts of the OS when troubleshooting issues. Check their websites and support areas for information.">
          <outline text="Example, printing and ssh issues caused by Rogue Amoeba's instant hijack feature (a patch is now out)."/>
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      <outline text="Wi-fi issues? Check your channels">
        <outline text="Play comment from Stephen"/>
        <outline text="iStumbler" MediaLinks="www.istumbler.net &lt;http://www.istumbler.net/&gt;"/>
        <outline text="Use channels 5 apart, typically 1, 6, or 11 if you can."/>
      </outline>
      <outline text="More info on iPhone audio interference">
        <outline text="Common to GSM devices"/>
        <outline text="Caused by power bursts that carry the TDMA signal. Basically, the RF transmitter is turned on/off at a fast rate. CDMA phones transmitters are on most of the time so you don't get the same effect."/>
        <outline text="The sound is picked up by devices that don't have really good RF shielding."/>
        <outline text="Several solutions on-line that involve wrapping aluminum foil over the antenna area of the iPhone."/>
        <outline text="Thanks to Mike for sending additional info"/>
      </outline>
      <outline text="Apple missed some things with the iPhone user experience">
        <outline text="Nick pointed out some missteps the iPhone engineers made when considering how the iPhone would work in a horizontal orientation for video"/>
        <outline text="Volume buttons are on the left side, so why does Apple have you rotate it left to put it into &quot;widescreen&quot; orientation for video?"/>
        <outline text="This places the button controls on the bottom left">
          <outline text="Volume up is the left button and volume down is the right one. Backwards."/>
          <outline text="Also natural to have your thumb on the bottom and fingers on top when holding it in this orientation. Have to use thumb instead of finger to control buttons. Awkward."/>
        </outline>
        <outline text="Apple would likely argue that you should use the touchscreen for control."/>
        <outline text="Bottom line is this doesn't feel like Apple's usual attention to the user experience."/>
        <outline text="If it simply rotated to the right to go &quot;widescreen&quot; the issues would be resolved."/>
      </outline>
      <outline text="New photo enhancing app for keyboard jockeys">
        <outline text="Iguania" MediaLinks="iguania.net &lt;http://iguania.net/&gt;"/>
        <outline text="Listener Matt has a friend who was a colorist on The Lord of the Rings and has developed a new and VERY different image enhancing app."/>
        <outline text="Enables you to move through the entire workflow without ever moving a slider."/>
        <outline text="You use keyboard commands and mouse gestures."/>
        <outline text="Make sure you read the help file or you will be lost. Helpful tips like Caps Lock to pause mouse control."/>
        <outline text="It is currently in public BETA and he is looking for feedback."/>
      </outline>
      <outline text="Review: Newsfire">
        <outline text="Play review from Paul" MediaLinks="Newsfire &lt;http://www.newsfirerss.com/&gt;"/>
        <outline text="NetNewsWire" MediaLinks="NetNewsWire &lt;http://www.newsgator.com/Individuals/NetNewsWire/&gt;"/>
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      <outline text="iCopy, the solution for iPhone copy/paste?">
        <outline text="Several people pointed me to iCopy as a solution for copy/paste on the iphone" MediaLinks="iCopy &lt;http://www.biocow.com/iCopy/index.php&gt;"/>
        <outline text="Despite the cool YouTube video demo, it left me still screaming at Apple for this feature"/>
        <outline text="iCopy uses javascript, URLs, and cookies to copy data."/>
        <outline text="Only works in Safari, so can't copy to the iPhone Mail app."/>
        <outline text="The process is very cumbersome."/>
        <outline text="Actually didn't work for me at all."/>
      </outline>
      <outline text="Mac Maintenance">
        <outline text="Listener Kasim asks the age old switcher question... How do I maintain my Mac?"/>
        <outline text="The answer, you do very little."/>
        <outline text="The rubber chicken steps:">
          <outline text="1) Repair permissions"/>
          <outline text="2) Clear the caches"/>
          <outline text="3) Zap the PRAM"/>
          <outline text="4) Run a tool (run scheduled maint.). Cocktail, Onyx, etc."/>
          <outline text="5) Run a bigger tool (defrag, disk and hardware checks), Drive Genius, iDefrag, TechTool Pro"/>
        </outline>
        <outline text="Things to consider:">
          <outline text="Reboot. Clear VM and swap disks."/>
          <outline text="3rd party app conflicts. Identify and remove or disable."/>
          <outline text="Reset your network. Reboot modems, routers, and Macs."/>
          <outline text="Get more RAM"/>
          <outline text="Spring clean your hard drive. Make sure you have enough free space."/>
          <outline text="Clean install OS X and apps."/>
        </outline>
      </outline>
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    <outline text="Closing">
      <outline text="Podcast Marketplace">
        <outline text="Thanks to my sponsors">
          <outline text="Audible.com" MediaLinks="audible.com/biglisten &lt;http://www.audible.com/biglisten&gt;"/>
          <outline text="Circus Ponies, Notebook" MediaLinks="circusponies.com &lt;http://www.circusponies.com/&gt;"/>
          <outline text="Smile on my Mac, Photoprinto, browseback, PDFPen" MediaLinks="smileonmymac.com &lt;http://www.smileonmymac.com/&gt;"/>
          <outline text="Certified Training Alliance, Final Cut or Leopard certification." MediaLinks="certifiedtraining.com &lt;http://www.certifiedtraining.com/&gt;"/>
          <outline text="Faronics, Deep Freeze" MediaLinks="faronics.com/mac &lt;http://www.faronics.com/mac/&gt;"/>
        </outline>
      </outline>
      <outline text="Keep emails coming. Audio comments.">
        <outline text="maccast@gmail.com &lt;mailto:maccast@gmail.com&gt;"/>
        <outline text="281-622-4269 or 281-Mac-I-Am-9">
          <outline text="PLEASE LEAVE YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS"/>
        </outline>
        <outline text="MacCast Forum" MediaLinks="forum.maccast.com &lt;http://forum.maccast.com/&gt;"/>
      </outline>
      <outline text="New music, &quot;Sparkle Nice Too&quot; by MayBTed">
        <outline text="You will likely only ever here this on Maccast"/>
        <outline text="Found these guys on EhMac.ca" MediaLinks="www.ehmac.ca &lt;http://www.ehmac.ca/&gt;"/>
        <outline text="Can't buy anywhere and no band web site"/>
      </outline>
      <outline text="EOL: Macintosh Developer Video">
        <outline text="Macintosh Developers Video from introduction movie" MediaLinks="Mac Developer Video &lt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdW4WbvJZ94&gt;"/>
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