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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="News">
      <outline text="Euro iPhone news abounds">
        <outline text="Low sales. A Businessweek report sites data from Strategy Analytics that suggest the big three Euro iPhone sellers (O2 in UK, Orange in France, and T-Mobile in Germany) sold just 350,000 iPhones combined in the 4th quarter of last year. ">
          <outline text="UK on November 6th, Germany on November 9th, and France November 28th"/>
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        <outline text="Slashed prices driving sell outs">
          <outline text="T-Mobile, 8GB for T-Mobile at €99 with Complete XL plan that for €89 per month. Can also get if for €249 with a €29 monthly plan"/>
          <outline text="O2 lowered the 8GB iPhone’s price by £100 with any O2 tariff"/>
          <outline text="Orange may be next. According to iLounge Apple is encouraging them to adopt the subsidized model."/>
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        <outline text="Lower prices seem to be working as 8GB have become scarce throughout Germany and UK."/>
        <outline text="At least rumor suggest 8GB iPhone stock may not be replenished and O2 has sent out a Memo calming the 8GB iPhone was &quot;end-of-life&quot;"/>
        <outline text="Repubblica.it reports that Telecom Italia will be launching the iPhone (3G) in Italy in the next few weeks for sale by the summer.">
          <outline text="Similar rumors cropping up for unlocked 3G iPhones in India, Australia and Belgium"/>
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      <outline text="Apple has best 2nd quarter ever">
        <outline text="The Company posted revenue of $7.51 billion and net quarterly profit of $1.05 billion, or $1.16 per diluted share."/>
        <outline text="International sales accounted for 44 percent of the quarter’s revenue. Interesting since Apple has typically struggled internationally."/>
        <outline text="Macs sales saw huge growth with 2,289,000 Macs sold. A 51%  increase in unit sales and 54% in revenue over a year ago.">
          <outline text="1.43 million portables shipped during the quarter, an increase of 61 percent over 2007"/>
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        <outline text="iPods were not as strong with 10,644,000 units sold. A 1% growth over a year ago and a 9% increase in revenue."/>
        <outline text="Quarterly iPhone sales were 1,703,000 bringing the total to 5.7 million since the iPhone launched last June."/>
        <outline text="Apple’s CFO Peter Oppenheimer said, “We’re thrilled to have generated $4 billion in cash flow from operations in the first half of fiscal 2008, yielding an ending cash balance of $19.4 billion&quot;."/>
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      <outline text="Apple acquires chip designing prowess">
        <outline text="According to Gizmodo, Apple has purchased P.A. Semi, a chip maker, for $278 million."/>
        <outline text="Info on the company's website says they are, &quot;headed by Dan Dobberpuhl, the acclaimed lead designer of the DEC Alpha series of microprocessors, the ultra-power-efficient StrongARM microprocessors, and the first multicore systems on chip with the SiByte 1250&quot;."/>
        <outline text="PA Semi designs energy efficient processors based on the Power architecture"/>
        <outline text="Jobs said Apple acquired P.A. Semi mainly for its chip designers and suggested it will rely on P.A. Semi’s expertise primarily for portable electronics devices like the iPod and iPhone for which Intel doesn’t currently supply chips."/>
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      <outline text="Changes made to Apple Software update for Windows">
        <outline text="After complains of the latest version of Safari 3.1 being pushed to Windows users via Software update even when it wasn't installed"/>
        <outline text="Apple changes to UI to separate new applications from updates."/>
        <outline text="Still defaults all updates and new apps to install."/>
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      <outline text="iPhone SDK Beta 4 Released">
        <outline text="Beta build 5A258f"/>
        <outline text="Adds OpenGL ES Support to iPhone simulator"/>
        <outline text="Enforces code signing"/>
        <outline text="Some indications that background apps or at least some functionality might be opening up."/>
        <outline text="Engadget suggests that Apple may be licensing haptic (or force-feedback) technology for the iPhone from a company called Immersion.">
          <outline text="Clent Richardson, a former Apple exec, recently became president and CEO at Immersion."/>
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      <outline text="Bootcamp update adds SP3 support">
        <outline text="Bootcamp for Leopard was updated to 2.1"/>
        <outline text="Actually three updaters - one for Windows XP, one for 32-bit Vista operating systems and one for 64-bit Vista operating systems."/>
        <outline text="“Addresses issues and improves compatibility” and is required before installing Microsoft's Windows XP Service Pack 3 update."/>
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      <outline text="AT&amp;T wi-fi making it's Starbuck appearance">
        <outline text="Lot of confusion about free wi-fi access"/>
        <outline text="Interface is the same as what you see at any AT&amp;T hot spot, McDonalds, Barnes&amp;Noble, etc."/>
        <outline text="2 hours of free access for anyone? With Starbucks card? What's the deal?"/>
        <outline text="AT&amp;T broadband customers get access starting at $5/mo. Anyone can buy AT&amp;T Wi-Fi Hotspot service for $19.95/mo."/>
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    <outline text="Sponsor">
      <outline text="Audible">
        <outline text="Free book with 14-day trial of Audible listener gold" MediaLinks="www.audiblepodcast.com/maccast &lt;http://www.audiblepodcast.com/maccast/&gt;"/>
        <outline text="Book recommend. Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (Dramatised) By Douglas Adams"/>
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    <outline text="Feedback, Comments and Commentary">
      <outline text="My thoughts on OS X Security">
        <outline text="Listener Andrew wanted to know about my thoughts on Anti-virus, anti-spyware, and general security practices on OS X"/>
        <outline text="He uses Intego products, which I have heard are OK"/>
        <outline text="Did notice port scans and port flood attacks when using p2p.">
          <outline text="That's like going to the bad part of town wearing a $500 suit and a Rolex and then being surprised when you get mugged."/>
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        <outline text="I believe security through common sense for moderate to advanced users.">
          <outline text="Pay attention to URLs. Turn on the status bars an look at tool tip roll overs."/>
          <outline text="Don't open unknown file attachments or run installers from untrusted sources."/>
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        <outline text="Use NAT and firewalls and be aware of what ports you open."/>
        <outline text="If you are concerned about Spyware use a tool like Little Snitch" MediaLinks="Little Snitch &lt;http://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.html&gt;"/>
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      <outline text="What's the deal with &quot;Open with...&quot;">
        <outline text="Play question from Eric"/>
        <outline text="In the Finder in Leopard, it places the default and suggested apps at the top and then other apps that may support that file format below alphabetically."/>
        <outline text="I have no idea what it is doing in Mail, which is completely jumbled."/>
        <outline text="In the Finder it is controlled by the Launch Services database which can be rebuilt with a tool like Onyx or Cocktail.">
          <outline text="Also cleans up duplicates which you will see especially if you do cloned backups to external drives."/>
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      <outline text="Roll your own Intel Mac Mini Upgrades">
        <outline text="Tired of waiting on Apple to upgrade the Mini. Stephen points out an awesome Arizona Mac User Group (AMUG) article that discusses upgrade options." MediaLinks="Upgrade your Mini &lt;http://www.amug.org/amug-web/html/amug/reviews/articles/intel/macmini/&gt;"/>
        <outline text="Tool to open up a Mini, Putty Knife, OWC has a nice video of the procedure." MediaLinks="OWC Memory Replacement. &lt;http://media.macsales.com/videos/mini/intel/highres.html&gt;"/>
        <outline text="RAM, up to 2 GB of 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM. Remove the 2x512s."/>
        <outline text="Processor">
          <outline text="upgraded with a Core 2 Duo processor using the Intel Mobile Processor mPGA479M socket. &quot;M&quot; socket."/>
          <outline text="Prices for processor range from about USD$200 to $650"/>
          <outline text="Intel Core 2 Duo T5500 Merom 1.66GHz 2M shared L2 cache&#10;Intel Core 2 Duo T5600 Merom 1.83GHz 2M shared L2 cache&#10;Intel Core 2 Duo T7200 Merom 2.0GHz 4M shared L2 cache&#10;Intel Core 2 Duo T7400 Merom 2.16GHz 4M shared L2 cache&#10;Intel Core 2 Duo T7600 Merom 2.33GHz 4M shared L2 cache"/>
          <outline text="Heat and cooling is a concern"/>
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        <outline text="Hard Drive">
          <outline text="2.5&quot; SATA Drive"/>
          <outline text="Now with sizes up to 250GB and speeds from 4,200 to 7,200 RPM."/>
          <outline text="External HD options. MiniStacks, from NewerTech, LaCie and others."/>
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        <outline text="Can upgrade the GMA 950 integrated graphics."/>
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      <outline text="Speech to text from audio file">
        <outline text="Play question from Jason"/>
        <outline text="Can't really do it very well from an audio file, because accuracy is way down do to know punctuation."/>
        <outline text="Possibly use an app like Mac Speech Dictate" MediaLinks="www.macspeech.com &lt;http://www.macspeech.com/&gt;"/>
        <outline text="Play Macworld MacSpeech interview."/>
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      <outline text="Exploring the mysteries of MAMP">
        <outline text="Chris wanted to know about getting a local MAMP (Mac OS X, Apache, MySQL, PHP) environment up and running on a Mac"/>
        <outline text="Read up">
          <outline text="For Tiger and earlier PHP4 and MySQl 4 stuff checkout Entropy.ch" MediaLinks="www.entropy.ch &lt;http://www.entropy.ch/&gt;"/>
          <outline text="O'Reilly's Mac Devcenter and OnLAMP sites" MediaLinks="www.macdevcenter.com &lt;http://www.macdevcenter.com/&gt;&#10;www.onlamp.com &lt;http://www.onlamp.com/&gt;"/>
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        <outline text="Turning on Apache in Leopard">
          <outline text="/HD/Library/Documents/WebServer and ~/Sites"/>
          <outline text="Use Virtual Hosts to change or add additional sites"/>
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        <outline text="Installing MySQL and starting + Stopping">
          <outline text="I built myself using the instructions on HiveLogic, including setting up auto-satrt launch daemon" MediaLinks="Build MySQL &lt;http://hivelogic.com/articles/2007/11/installing-mysql-on-mac-os-x&gt;"/>
          <outline text="Can now get a Leopard binary from MySQL, includes Control Panel to stop and start MySQL." MediaLinks="MySQL Binary Install &lt;http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/5.0.html#downloads&gt;"/>
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        <outline text="Enabling PHP">
          <outline text="Need to edit the Apache 2 config files. /etc/apache2/httpd.conf, also in the extras and users directories."/>
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        <outline text="Setting up Virtual Host">
          <outline text="/etc/apache2/extras/httpd-vhosts.conf"/>
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        <outline text="Editing your hosts file for local browsing">
          <outline text="/etc/hosts"/>
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        <outline text="Useful apps:">
          <outline text="Textmate"/>
          <outline text="MAMP"/>
          <outline text="NaviCat"/>
          <outline text="Cocoa MySQL"/>
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      <outline text="Mac fans blazing with high CPU? Blame Windows.">
        <outline text="Todd from Simplistik Software says he has seen lot of reports of people with high fan speeds and CPU usage and often the culprit is Windows under Parallels"/>
        <outline text="In Windows, hit the CTRL+Shift+ESC combo to bring up Task Manager and look for CPU hoggin' apps to force quit."/>
        <outline text="WinWord.exe (Microsoft Word) and Spoolsv.exe (print spooler-Check your printers you have a document that didn't print, delete it) are the most common windows failures to cause this."/>
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      <outline text="Get rid of Nagging System Updates">
        <outline text="Play comment from Gregg"/>
        <outline text="With Firmware updates you need to restart the Mac and follow the instructions"/>
        <outline text="Can find the installer at /Applications/Utilities/MacBook Pro EFI Firmware Update.app if you need to re-run."/>
        <outline text="If you have verified and you are sure you updated you can turn off the Software Update notification by selecting the item in the list and choosing Update--&gt;Ignore Update (Delete) from the menubar."/>
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    <outline text="Closing">
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        <outline text="Thanks to my sponsors">
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      <outline text="&quot;Weapon of Choice&quot; by Black Rebel Motorcycle Club">
        <outline text="From the Podsafe Music Network" MediaLinks="music.podshow.com &lt;http://music.podshow.com/&gt;"/>
        <outline text="Artists web site" MediaLinks="blackrebelmotorcycleclub &lt;http://www.myspace.com/blackrebelmotorcycleclub&gt;"/>
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      <outline text="EOL: Porta-Party">
        <outline text="An iPod inspired LA art installation" MediaLinks="Porta-Party &lt;http://laist.com/2008/04/24/an_ipod_disco_m.php?gallery2076Pic=1#gallery&gt;"/>
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