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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="Circus Ponies">
        <outline text="Notebook, free 30 day trial" MediaLinks="circusponies.com &lt;http://www.circusponies.com/notebook/&gt;"/>
        <outline text="Quote from Jim, &quot;This thing goes way beyond a simple notebook. I had no Idea that it was so powerful a tool.&#10;Thanks for turning me on to it. I love it.&quot;"/>
        <outline text="Screencasts Online #0096" MediaLinks="Notebook Screencast &lt;http://www.screencastsonline.com/sco/files/SCO0096-cpnotebook.html&gt;"/>
        <outline text="3.0 will be out in Q2 of 2008 (so soon) and if you buy now (after 1/1/08) you get a free upgrade."/>
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    <outline text="News">
      <outline text="Case of the missing iPhones">
        <outline text="Reports all over the Applesphere of Apple stores sold out of iPhones"/>
        <outline text="Listener reports of outrages in NYC, Washington DC, and Michigan"/>
        <outline text="Rumors from &quot;Asian&quot; sources that Apple has placed orders 10 million 3G phones. OLED display to conserve power."/>
        <outline text="Reports Kevin Rose said there would be a front facing video cam for chat and June release date."/>
        <outline text="Some reports that Apple has stepped up orders for high-capacity Flash (4GB) modules from Hynix and Samsung."/>
        <outline text="Gene Munster predicts sales of 45 million iPhones in 2009">
          <outline text="Lower prices, 3G"/>
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      <outline text="Apple sales up in down market">
        <outline text="A Changewave report covered by ArsTechnica"/>
        <outline text="Apple on track to sell 2 million Macs this quarter, better than the 1.5 milion for the same period last year"/>
        <outline text="About 30% surveyed said they are considering a Mac notebook purchase"/>
        <outline text="Another Changewave survey of 2,200 corporate users shows Leopard users are the most satisfied.">
          <outline text="3% of those using Leopard reported they were very satisfied with their operating system, compared to only 40% of Windows XP and just 8% of Vista users."/>
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      <outline text="Safari 3.1 and Webkit rocked the ACID test">
        <outline text="Webikit has scored a 100 and Safari 3.1 scores 75"/>
        <outline text="ACID3 measures web standards compliance and performance  "/>
        <outline text="Webkit is the underlying technology that drives Apple's Safari and Mail web engine"/>
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      <outline text="Macbook Air hacked">
        <outline text="At the CanSecWest hacking PWN2OWN competition"/>
        <outline text="Macbook Air was hacked and P0wned by Dr. Charlie Miller who also got $10,000 grand to boot"/>
        <outline text="Happened vis a Safari exploit on the 2nd day when they allowed browser access"/>
        <outline text="Dr. Charlie Miller was also the security researched who uncovered iPhone vulnerabilities in mobile Safari back in July."/>
        <outline text="Apple has been informed of the exploit and details were not revealed"/>
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      <outline text="Apple releases v2 of iPhone SDK">
        <outline text="Biggest change is that they have now included Interface Builder"/>
        <outline text="Also beta 2 of Xcode 3.1"/>
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      <outline text="Apple TV Update 2.0.1">
        <outline text="Update includes bug-fixes"/>
        <outline text="Menu performance snappier"/>
        <outline text="Browse movies by genre under “My Movies” "/>
        <outline text="Podcasts now sync back to iTunes"/>
        <outline text="Some reports of Wi-fi issues on N. According to iLounge, problem seems to be related to some 5GHz 802.11n networks; switching to a 2.4GHz network or simply turning off the “Use wide channels” option of Apple’s Airport Extreme Base Station appears to alleviate the problem."/>
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    <outline text="Feedback, Comments and Commentary">
      <outline text="Some followup on music sharing">
        <outline text="Play comment from Matt"/>
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      <outline text="Google Map Hack for older iPods">
        <outline text="If you don't have an iPod Touch or iPhone, listener Jimmy had this trick for Google Maps."/>
        <outline text="Go to Google Maps and get your directions."/>
        <outline text="Zoom in and take Screenshots"/>
        <outline text="Load those into iPhoto (create a Maps album)"/>
        <outline text="Sync with iTunes."/>
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      <outline text="CDs with labels are unreliable">
        <outline text="Play comment from David."/>
        <outline text="I would remove the labels with time, patience, and elbow grease">
          <outline text="I would avoid any kind of solvents recommended on may sites, like mineral spirits, alcohol, WD-40, GoofOff, lighter fluid, etc."/>
          <outline text="Even water may be an issue if it spots, or get in the layers."/>
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        <outline text="I would recommend using a direct to CD/DVD printer or a technology like Lightscribe.">
          <outline text="Can get direct inkjet label printers for under $100.00"/>
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      <outline text="Automator and iCal, the perfect auto scheduling pair.">
        <outline text="Steven has to rely on satellite for his connectivity (expensive) and wanted to automate getting his podcasts from between 12:00 AM and 3:00 AM."/>
        <outline text="In Leopard Automator can be used to create iCal plug-ins.">
          <outline text="Save as plug-in for iCal Alarm"/>
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        <outline text="In iCal you can schedule events to run the Automator plug-in.">
          <outline text="Plug-ins also work for Finder, Script Menu, folder actions, etc."/>
          <outline text="In previous versions of iCal (Tiger) you could launch apps, including Automator apps."/>
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        <outline text="A great Automator site, Automator World" MediaLinks="automatorworld.com &lt;http://automatorworld.com/&gt;"/>
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      <outline text="Mac log file maintenance">
        <outline text="I thought Since Tiger you really don't need to run these scripts manually. Switched to launchd (Tiger)."/>
        <outline text="Looks like the issue persisted under Tiger, thus Anacron was developed." MediaLinks="Anacron &lt;http://members.cox.net/18james/anacron-tiger.html&gt;"/>
        <outline text="Now fixed in Leopard. If missed they should pickup and run the next time your Mac is on."/>
        <outline text="You can still run them manually from the Terminal using 'periodic' (Tiger) or 'newsyslog' (Leopard) commands."/>
        <outline text="Or use a tool like Onyx or Cocktail."/>
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      <outline text="My experience hacking the AppleTV">
        <outline text="Thanks to some thought seeds from Tim Verpoorten I hacked my Apple TV">
          <outline text="Applecore LLC aTV Flash - Take 2.0 ($59.95)" MediaLinks="aTV Flash &lt;http://www.applecorellc.com/product_info.php?cPath=22&amp;products_id=27&gt;"/>
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        <outline text="I created my own patchstick using the iClarified instructions" MediaLinks="Make an ATV Patchstick &lt;http://www.iclarified.com/entry/index.php?enid=791&gt;"/>
        <outline text="Hacks to add...">
          <outline text="Divx, Xvid, Windows Media and other support"/>
          <outline text="Browser with Flesh support"/>
          <outline text="File browsing"/>
          <outline text="SSH"/>
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        <outline text="Looks like the 2.0.1 updated will undo my handywork."/>
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      <outline text="My thoughts on Apple refurbished products">
        <outline text="I generally like them"/>
        <outline text="Some warnings">
          <outline text="Brent had model that was non-standard. iBook G4 933MHz with 80 GB drive (normally had 40GB). May have been upgraded post purchase. Had to have it serviced and Apple replaced his drive back with a 40GB factory drive."/>
          <outline text="Also heard stories of non-wiped drives making it back out into the wild."/>
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    <outline text="Closing">
      <outline text="Podcast Marketplace">
        <outline text="Thanks to my sponsors">
          <outline text="Audible.com" MediaLinks="audiblepodcast.com/maccast &lt;http://www.audiblepodcast.com/maccast/&gt;"/>
          <outline text="Circus Ponies, Notebook" MediaLinks="circusponies.com &lt;http://www.circusponies.com/&gt;"/>
          <outline text="Smile on my Mac, Textexpander" 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;"/>
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      <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"/>
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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;Routine and Dollar Signs&quot; by Goodnight Sunrise">
        <outline text="From the Podsafe Music Network" MediaLinks="music.podshow.com &lt;http://music.podshow.com/&gt;"/>
        <outline text="Artist's MySpace page" MediaLinks="myspace.com/goodnightsunrise &lt;http://www.myspace.com/goodnightsunrise&gt;"/>
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      <outline text="EOL: Macbook Air Parody">
        <outline text="Now that's one big envelope." MediaLinks="Macbook Air Parody &lt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAyBaNwDX8c&gt;"/>
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