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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">
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    <outline text="News">
      <outline text="iPhone 3G Speed debate">
        <outline text="Much brew-ha-ha has been raised over a little bit of text on Apple's web site and in AT&amp;T PR that listed iPhone 3G's network data speeds at 1.4Mbps."/>
        <outline text="Speeds touted by most other 3G phones, even ones on the same AT&amp;T network are 3.6Mbps with some HSDPA cards claiming speeds as high as 7.2Mbps. "/>
        <outline text="So is the iPhone crippled? A report in MacNN says likely not. It's just &quot;the observed speed over AT&amp;T's 3G network&quot; in theory speeds of up to 3.6Mbs are possible, but Apple and AT&amp;T are just being conservative using &quot;real world&quot; speeds in marketing the device."/>
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      <outline text="It's mostly about the iPhone, well the news any way">
        <outline text="Just when we thought it was over"/>
        <outline text="To settle a patent lawsuit over Visual Voicemail, Apple and AT&amp;T have agreed to pay licensing to Klausner Technologies. Kalusner, which hold several voicemail related patents, has already successfully sued Vonage over VoIP voicemail and now plans to go after Comcast and Cablevision for similar alleged violations."/>
        <outline text="Even licensed, not all countries (or carriers) will be created equal when it comes to the Visual Voicemail feature. iLounge did some digging and discovered that Visual Voicemail seems to be up in air on carries like TeliaSonera (Denmark, Finland, Norway, &amp; Sweden), Globe Telecom (Philippines), and Vodafone (Australia, Italy, New Zealand, &amp; Portugal) among others."/>
        <outline text="That new $199 iPhone price tag keeps becoming less and less of a bargain, at least in the US. Several sites reported last week that the AT&amp;T's plans for the 3G Superphone may not include the 200 free SMS messages enjoyed by current iPhone 1.0 customers. That may mean 3G owners will have to pony up another $5/mo to get SMS back on their plans. If true, that will raise iPhone 3G TCO over the life of a 2 year contract to $160 more than with the current generation 8GB model."/>
        <outline text="If you are an existing non-iPhone AT&amp;T customer you may need to pay even more to upgrade.  iLounge reports that while new customers and 1st gen iPhone owners on AT&amp;T who cancel and re-sign a new 2 year deal get the $199 price, not all non-iPhone AT&amp;T customers get the deal.">
          <outline text="Only AT&amp;T customers who have had their current phones and plans for at least two years, customers who have had a plan costing between $68.99 and $98.99 for at least 21 months, and customers who have had a plan costing over $99 for at least 12 months are all eligible. If you don't fall in that category, prepare to wait or pony up early termination fees to make the switch."/>
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        <outline text="Seems like the iPhone may turn out to be the first Apple device not to suffer from the International Apple tax.">
          <outline text="O2 announced they will have some &quot;free&quot; iPhone 3G plans and this week expanded Wi-fi hotspots to include ones provided by BT OpenZone. Brings the total number of iPhone accessible free Wifi hotspots on the UK to 9,500 locations. Not too shabby."/>
          <outline text="The iPhone 3G will be a little higher in Germany. An 8GB iPhone 3G with a 69 euro, 2-year contract from T-Mobile will cost just 1 euro. 19.95 euros for 16GB model with an 89 euro/mo.plan."/>
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        <outline text="Looks like the iPhone may also be cheaper for Apple to make. EETimes reports that Portelligent estimates the component costs of the new iPhone 3G to be about $100 bucks. Now as Chris Foresman of Ars Technica points out components don't a whole iPhone 3g make. Design costs, assembly labor, logistics, distribution, marketing, and service all factor in total costs of the device."/>
        <outline text="All that said, the iPhone 3G is gonna be huge. Analyst Mike Abramsky of RBC Capital Market is going so far as to predict  Apple may sell as many as 14 million iPhones this year."/>
        <outline text="Looks like not everyone is clamoring for the iPhone 3G. Tech site TechOn reports on a iShare Web survey with 402 Japanese respondents 91% of whom said they don't plan to purchase an iPhone in July. The number one reason for the low demand, seems to be unwillingness to switch carriers (NTT DoCoMo is the largest carrier in Japan). At the moment SoftBank is the sole carrier announced in Japan. 77% of respondents also said that a replaceable batter was important to them when selecting a phone. That may also be hindering the iPhones Japanese appeal."/>
        <outline text="So are you getting one? New user or upgrading? What will happen to your old iPhone?"/>
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      <outline text="Macs sales also doing well">
        <outline text="A piece on Ars Technica cites reports from NPD group that say Mac sales were up 50% year over year in May."/>
        <outline text="Apple sold 2.289 million Macs last quarter and could be on track this quarter to break their 2.319 million sales record from the Holiday 2007 quarter and this year mac sales could top 10 million."/>
        <outline text="Add those 14 million iPhones, plus who knows how many iPods and Apple will be sitting pretty as it move into Macworld mode."/>
        <outline text="In a separate piece data from Display Search ranks Mac notebook sales in 7th place for Q1 2008 unit sales with 1.43 million units sold a 61% year over year increase. in 7th Apple garners a 4.6% share of the notebook market."/>
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      <outline text="Snow Leopard to be Intel only?">
        <outline text="Well at least the Developer seeds appear to be."/>
        <outline text="Details were leaked with the current system requirements for the next big cat calling for 9GB of disk space – 12GB for developer tools – 512MB of RAM, and an internal, external, or shared DVD drive."/>
        <outline text="They also state the need for an internal display or one connected to an &quot;Apple supplied&quot; video card? Bu-by clones or just an Open-Cl support thing?"/>
        <outline text="The current specs also state Intel processor required. Not surprising considering the focus is on multi-core and performance tweaks."/>
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      <outline text="Mobile Me's secret sauce revealed">
        <outline text="Apple Insider has a great piece on Apple's new tools for building web based apps."/>
        <outline text="SproutCore is an open source, platform-independent, Cocoa-inspired JavaScript framework for creating web applications that look and feel like Desktop applications." MediaLinks="www.sproutcore.com &lt;http://www.sproutcore.com/&gt;"/>
        <outline text="Like Ruby on Rails or Zend Framework"/>
        <outline text=".Mac Web Gallery was built using SproutCore and was developed by Charles Jolley of SproutIt"/>
        <outline text="Uses classic MVC methodology on top of Javascript to build &quot;thick client&quot; apps. Most work is done on the browser with AJAX calls back to server to store an retrieve data."/>
        <outline text="Apple has contributed to SproutCore"/>
        <outline text="WebKit's new SquirrelFish JavaScript interpreter shows Apple is putting it's weight behind Javascript. Could be the end run around some Flash/Air Apps."/>
        <outline text="Is it Apple's answer to Flash and Silverlight? Adobe said this week it has made significant progress getting Flash to run in the iPhone simulator, question is will Apple let them play on the real thing?"/>
        <outline text="If you have Developer Tools installed here is how to build your first Sprout Core &quot;Hello World&quot; app">
          <outline text="Launch Terminal and type, 'sudo gem install sproutcore' and enter your admin password. Wait while it installs."/>
          <outline text="Next type, 'sproutcore hello_world'"/>
          <outline text="Type 'cd hello_world' and then 'sc-server' to start the web server."/>
          <outline text="Now point Safari at, http://localhost:4020/hello_world &lt;http://localhost:4020/hello_world&gt;"/>
          <outline text="If all has gone well you should see a &quot;Hello World&quot; page that looks a lot like Apple's post-it note style &quot;Apple Store is down&quot; page."/>
          <outline text="Type Control+C in the Terminal to stop the web server and return to the Terminal prompt."/>
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      <outline text="Return of the iSight in HD?">
        <outline text="A piece on Mac rumors points to an entry in the QuickTime Localizable strings file that clearly says"/>
        <outline text="/* Next Generation USB iSight */&#10;&quot;iSight HD&quot; = &quot;iSight HD&quot;;"/>
        <outline text="You can see for your self by opening up the file at /System/Library/QuickTime/QuickTimeUSBVDCDigitizer.component/Contents/Resources/English.lproj in your text editor of choice."/>
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      <outline text="Apple thunder down under">
        <outline text="Apple is set to launch their Sydney Australia store this Thursday, June 19th, 2008 from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m."/>
        <outline text="They took the blue wrapper off the storefront at 77 King Street earlier this week and it is gorgeous in it's 3-story glass enclosed glory."/>
        <outline text="With an estimated 1335 square meters of floor space it will be Apple's 2nd largest store. The layout looks like other 3-story designs with the top floor devoted to Apple Genius Bar and to professional services like workshops."/>
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    <outline text="Sponsor">
      <outline text="Circus Ponies Notebook">
        <outline text="Notebook" MediaLinks="www.circusponies.com &lt;http://www.circusponies.com/&gt;"/>
        <outline text="Great for writers, organize drafts, do research, take notes, etc."/>
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    <outline text="Feedback, Comments and Commentary">
      <outline text="Corrections on GPS">
        <outline text="Many people have pointed out you only need one receiver, but links with at least 3 satellites."/>
        <outline text="Can take some time to acquire signal."/>
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      <outline text="Push vs. IMAP vs. POP">
        <outline text="Conner wanted to know how push is different than IMAP"/>
        <outline text="In traditional email (POP) systems the Mail User Agent (e-mail reader) polls the Mail Delivery Agent (server) to see if there are new messages and then retrieves them, often removing the messages from the server, although it can leave them."/>
        <outline text="IMAP works off the server. Messages can be requested from the server and retrieved, but are left on and managed on the server until you implicitly remove them.">
          <outline text="IMAP also supports polling and notifications. Small message to say you have email, but then you initiate the connection to retrieve messages."/>
        </outline>
        <outline text="With Push messages are automatically transfered from the Mail Delivery Agent (server) to the client as they arrive. The reason this is possible with the phone is you have an always on connection and the network always knows how to find you. Contact's and calendars work the same way."/>
        <outline text="With MobileMe you .Mac devices are all registered with the central Mobile Me (.Mac) server which will track devices (computer, iPhone, etc.) so it can push out updates."/>
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      <outline text="How to get started Podcasting on the Mac">
        <outline text="I typically don't cover this, but have had several emails."/>
        <outline text="Getting started... Have a concept and a simple plan. Why are you doing a podcast?"/>
        <outline text="Equipment. Start small. You don't need much to begin and you can always add (and you will). Good mic and good place to record."/>
        <outline text="Phone interviews. Skype + Audio HiJack or Call Recorder. Also Levelator.">
          <outline text="Skype" MediaLinks="www.skype.com &lt;http://www.skype.com/&gt;"/>
          <outline text="Audio Hijack Pro" MediaLinks="rogueamoeba.com &lt;http://www.rogueamoeba.com/audiohijackpro/&gt;"/>
          <outline text="Call Recorder" MediaLinks="ecamm.com/callrecorder &lt;http://www.ecamm.com/mac/callrecorder/&gt;"/>
          <outline text="Levelator" MediaLinks="Levelator &lt;http://www.conversationsnetwork.org/levelator&gt;"/>
        </outline>
        <outline text="Mixing and editing. Garageband, Audacity, UberCaster.">
          <outline text="Wiretap Studio" MediaLinks="ambrosiasw.com/wiretap &lt;http://www.ambrosiasw.com/utilities/wiretap/&gt;"/>
          <outline text="Audacity" MediaLinks="audacity.sourceforge.net &lt;http://audacity.sourceforge.net/&gt;"/>
          <outline text="Ubercaster" MediaLinks="ubercaster.com &lt;http://www.ubercaster.com/&gt;"/>
        </outline>
        <outline text="Hosting and publishing">
          <outline text="iWeb and .Mac, good to start or for &quot;family &amp; friends&quot;, but will likely outgrow"/>
          <outline text="Libsyn" MediaLinks="libsyn.com &lt;http://www.libsyn.com/&gt;"/>
          <outline text="Wordpress with Podpress" MediaLinks="mightyseek.com/podpress &lt;http://www.mightyseek.com/podpress/&gt;"/>
          <outline text="Add to iTunes, apple.com/itunes/store/podcasts.html &lt;http://www.apple.com/itunes/store/podcasts.html&gt;" MediaLinks="www.apple.com/podcasts &lt;http://www.apple.com/itunes/store/podcasts.html&gt;"/>
          <outline text="Feeder" MediaLinks="reinventedsoftware.com &lt;http://www.reinventedsoftware.com/&gt;"/>
        </outline>
        <outline text="Additional resources">
          <outline text="Books: Podcast Solutions" MediaLinks="podcastsolutions.com &lt;http://podcastsolutions.com/&gt;"/>
          <outline text="Online?"/>
          <outline text="Community. Join a Podcasting Meet-up" MediaLinks="www.meetup.com &lt;http://www.meetup.com/&gt;"/>
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      <outline text="Scripting in iTunes is a good thing">
        <outline text="Matt had a bunch of tracks with &quot;01&quot; at the beginning of their names he wanted to remove . Play comment."/>
        <outline text="iTunes is scriptable and Doug's Applescripts for iTunes is the key"/>
        <outline text="Remove Characters from front or back 3.0" MediaLinks="dougscripts.com &lt;http://dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/ss.php?sp=removenchars&gt;"/>
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      <outline text="History of Themes on the Mac">
        <outline text="Arron was wondering about how to add new &quot;appearances&quot; in OS X.">
          <outline text="In the System Preferences--&gt;Appearance you see 2, &quot;Blue&quot; and &quot;Graphite&quot;. Not very exciting."/>
          <outline text="Apple first introduced appearance themes in Mac OS 8.5, but never supported their use. The OS shipped with the &quot;Platinum&quot; theme, but 3 others existed and slipped out (Hi-Tech, Gizmo, and Drawing Board)"/>
          <outline text="3rd party developers also stepped up. Kalediscope."/>
          <outline text="In OS X there have been few tools.">
            <outline text="Shapeshifter (not Leopard compatible). Haxie that requires APE." MediaLinks="unsanity.com/shapeshifter &lt;http://unsanity.com/haxies/shapeshifter/&gt;"/>
            <outline text="CandyBar, change icons and dock." MediaLinks="www.panic.com/candybar &lt;http://www.panic.com/candybar/&gt;"/>
            <outline text="Small terminal hacks and tool to tweak some UI."/>
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      <outline text="Attach a PDF to an email from any app">
        <outline text="Dean wanted to know why iWork apps don't have a menu or toolbar item to email the documents like Word or Acrobat have."/>
        <outline text="You can email a PDF of a Document from any OS X Cocoa app by using the File--&gt;Print options and then choosing 'Mail PDF...' from the PDF menu in the print dialog box."/>
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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;"/>
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      <outline text="iPhone Alley Podcast">
        <outline text="I am on the last few episodes"/>
        <outline text="Giving away a free 16GB iPhone 3G, details on the site, but basically post in their forum to enter." MediaLinks="iphonealley.com &lt;http://www.iphonealley.com/news/post-and-win-free-16gb-iphone-3g-contest&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="&quot;Follow Me Up to Carlow&quot; by Young Dubliners">
        <outline text="I had a great time meeting Brendan and Keith at their Belly-up show."/>
        <outline text="This is off their current album and they are on tour right not head up the cost to the Northwest, so catch them in Oregon or Washington."/>
        <outline text="Check the band site for tour dates details and pick up the album on iTunes." MediaLinks="www.youngdubliners.com &lt;http://www.youngdubliners.com/&gt;"/>
      </outline>
      <outline text="EOL:  iPhone 3G Videoconferencing Kit">
        <outline text="Simple kit brings video chat to the 3G iPhone" MediaLinks="iPhone 3G Videoconferencing &lt;http://gizmodo.com/5015395/apple-introduces-iphone-3g-videoconferencing-kit-zomg&gt;"/>
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