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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="Happy 5th Birthday! And you get the gifts, 20% off at smileonmymac.com/maccast until August 15th." MediaLinks="smileonmymac.com/maccast &lt;http://www.smileonmymac.com/maccast/&gt;"/>
        <outline text="5 lucky listeners will get the Smile on My Mac app of their choice. Send an email to maccast@gmail.com &lt;mailto:maccast@gmail.com&gt; with the subject line 'Smile'."/>
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    <outline text="News">
      <outline text="iPhone 3G is cheaper, has complaints, and is in short supply">
        <outline text="iPhone 3G continues to be scarce. Best bet in the states is you check the availability of your local Apple store at apple.com/retail after 9:00 PM the night before and then get there early. Things are reportedly even worse internationally."/>
        <outline text="According to Electronista AT&amp;T claims to have sold almost twice as many iPhone 3Gs in the first 12 days as it did in the same period with the 1st gen iPhone.">
          <outline text="AT&amp;T Stores are claiming delivery times of anywhere from 48 hours to 21 days to 14 days."/>
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        <outline text="Battery life, report are that it meets Apple's 5 hours of 3G talk time, but ends up at 3 to 4.5 hours of Internet use (not 5 as Apple claims).">
          <outline text="Can improve things by not enabling push, auto email checking, bluetooth, wi-fi, etc."/>
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        <outline text="Interface lag,  Location Services will stop working, i get that I am in Oakland."/>
        <outline text="iPhone tear-down shows $174.33 component cost according to iSuppli. About $53 cheaper then the 8GB 1st gen.">
          <outline text="Using Apple's own 1st weekend 1 million sold numbers and the tear-down, plus guesstimates Fortune magazine estimates Apple netted approx. $330 million in the opening weekend."/>
          <outline text="Of course all these numbers don't account for all costs, like marketing, packaging, logistics, etc."/>
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      <outline text="iPhone 2.0 feeling a little more like public beta for some">
        <outline text="Reports of instability have Developers and Apple pointing fingers (well Apple is keeping quiet really)."/>
        <outline text="Rumors that an iPhone 2.0.1 update may already be in the works."/>
        <outline text="Also Beta seems to be AT&amp;T free iPhone Wi-fi access which appeared on again until it was pulled from the companies site (again). Spokesman, Seth Bloom, said the webpage was posted in error"/>
        <outline text="Gear live is saying Apple is seeding 2.1 builds to developers with additional directional and speed data for the GPS added to Core Location services. Turn by Tune may be possible. Apple's Greg Joswiak disputed claims that the iPhone 3G's GPS antenna wasn't powerful enough to handle navigation. The new beta also includes an early version of push notification support."/>
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      <outline text="Update for older iPod Touches">
        <outline text="Last Tuesday Apple released an iPod Touch 1.1.5 Update"/>
        <outline text="The update is amazingly a 165.5 megabyte download which Apple says simply offers generic bug fixes. There are also reports that it may make the Touches a little zippier."/>
        <outline text="To get the update connect to iTunes and decline the paid 2.0 update"/>
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      <outline text="iPhone 3G unlocks and Jailbreaks">
        <outline text="Earlier in the week there were reports of a Brazilian iPhone 3G user who used SIM card adapter to SIM unlock the phone"/>
        <outline text="This week the iPhone Dev team released it's Pownage 2.0 tool">
          <outline text="Tool lets you create and restore the iPhone using a patched IPSW file."/>
          <outline text="The unlock currently only works on 1st Gen iPhone with 2.0 software."/>
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        <outline text="Jailbreak community is still pretty vibrant as that is the only place where you can still develop non-apple sanctioned apps, like Qik."/>
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      <outline text="Apple apologizes for Mobile Me, offers penance">
        <outline text="Apple sent out an email to .Me subscribers acknowledging that the .Mac to .Me transition was, &quot;rockier&quot; than they had hoped."/>
        <outline text="They claim Core services like Mail, iDisk, Sync, Back to My Mac and Gallery went smoothly (anyone care to disagree), but confessed to issues with the new .Me web apps."/>
        <outline text="They also explained the lack of Computer to cloud &quot;push&quot; by claiming they should have not used that term so loosely, saying it can take up to 15 minutes for data from the Mac or PC to sync to the cloud."/>
        <outline text="As a gesture of good faith they are giving all .Me subscribers an extra 30-days on their existing agreements for free."/>
        <outline text="UK customers using a trial 30 day Mobile Me account received a 30 day extension also. This time Apple accidentally place an authorization hold of £121 instead of £1."/>
        <outline text="An Apple Insider piece says there was  &quot;an inadvertent fiber-optic cable cut&quot; that caused an outage. Also in the past few days a Mail outage effecting 1% of Mobile Me customer has been reported by Apple on their support site. As far as I know this is still out for some customers almost 6 days later."/>
        <outline text="This is a mess, David Pouge describes on reader who lost all her Email. Apple technicians recovered 34, but the rest gone."/>
        <outline text="The worst part is Apple's non-information. They are also doing their typical behavior of removing discussion board posts."/>
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      <outline text="Apple's second quarter growth takes it to #3 in the US">
        <outline text="According to a Gartner Research report, Apple is now the #3 computer maker in the US by sales, grabbing the #3 position with approx. 8.5% market share just behind Dell and HP."/>
        <outline text="Apple experienced 38.1% growth year-over-year blowing away the industry rate of just 4.2%."/>
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      <outline text="Apple 3rd Quarter earnings call">
        <outline text="Apple posted revenue of $7.46 billion and net quarterly profit of $1.07 billion for it's 3rd fiscal quarter of 2008"/>
        <outline text="There was a 41% increase in Macs sales from a year ago with 2.5 million Macs sold. Apple sold 11 million iPods in the quarter and just over 700,000 iPhones."/>
        <outline text="42% of revenue came from International sales.">
          <outline text="COO Tim Cook also said that he felt Apple could deliver iPhone' into 20 more countries by August 22nd. Surprising given the current iPhone shortages."/>
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        <outline text="Gross margins were down almost 2% dropping from 36.9% to 34.8%  compared to last year."/>
        <outline text="During the call Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer said they will be, “delivering state-of-the-art new products at prices our competitors can’t match.” Which kicked off rumors for price cuts, new Macbooks and Macbook Pros, and speculation of a Macbook Touch (tablet)."/>
        <outline text="The lower pricing was further supported by Oppenheimer's statement that, &quot;We've got a future product transition that I can't discuss with you today,&quot;. He gave no details on the &quot;transition&quot; but early speculation is a move to new Intel architectures and chip designs with a some rumors predicting Apple adding new AMD chips to the Mac mix."/>
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      <outline text="New Macbooks soon?">
        <outline text="A couple reports are citing a Commercial Times report out of Taiwan that says Apple has increased orders for notebook components."/>
        <outline text="The piece claims Apple has increased orders for &quot;notebook-use printed circuit boards&quot; by 20% this quarter as well as increased orders for Macbook displays."/>
        <outline text="There has been talk for some time now in the rumor community of a Macbook pro rev and of a possible Aluminum update to the Macbooks. Possibly using the new Intel Montevina platform. Will we be seeing a new model making it's way back to school in the fall?"/>
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      <outline text="Quad core iLife updates">
        <outline text="iPhoto 7.1.4, This update contains new holiday greeting card and postcard themes for use with Apple print products. It also addresses general compatibility issues, improves overall stability, and addresses a number of other minor issues."/>
        <outline text="iLife Support 8.3, iLife Support provides system software components shared by all iLife ’08 applications. This update improves overall stability and addresses a number of other minor issues. It is recommended for all users for iLife ’08."/>
        <outline text="iWeb 2.0.4, This update addresses general compatibility issues."/>
        <outline text="iMovie 7.1.4, This update addresses general compatibility issues, improves overall stability, and addresses a number of other minor issues."/>
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      <outline text="3 New iPhone Ads posted">
        <outline text="Apple has added 3 new iPhone 3G ads to it's US web site."/>
        <outline text="Titled Everyone, Unslow, and Work Friendly. The first 2 focus on the faster 3G networking and the second on the enterprise work features (Mail, Calendar, and contact sync)."/>
        <outline text="Interesting that in the US they say it downloads &quot;twice as fast&quot;, but in Austrailian versions of the same ads they say &quot;really fast&quot;. I prefer the latter."/>
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      <outline text="Microsoft and Ubuntu look for more Mac like experiences">
        <outline text="In an Electronistia piece they say Ubuntu chief architect Mark Shuttleworth called on developers at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention to push Linux &quot;beyond the Mac'. Saying that the open source operating system should be at least as &quot;crisp and clean&quot; as Mac OS X while still offering the community benefits that come with fully opened code."/>
        <outline text="Kara Swisher of All Things Digital acquired an internal Microsoft memo from Steve Ballmer. In it he note Microsoft's goal to focus on fixing Vista reputation, but also says:">
          <outline text="&quot;In the competition between PCs and Macs, we outsell Apple 30-to-1,&quot; he says. &quot;But there is no doubt that Apple is thriving. Why? Because they are good at providing an experience that is narrow but complete, while our commitment to choice often comes with some compromises to the end-to-end experience. Today, we’re changing the way we work with hardware vendors to ensure that we can provide complete experiences with absolutely no compromises. We’ll do the same with phones—providing choice as we work to create great end-to-end experiences.&quot;"/>
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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/&gt;"/>
        <outline text="Great for to-do lists. You can add to-do's with checkboxes and due dates and you don't even have to keep them together. Place them anywhere in the Notebook and the built-in indexing system will bring them all together in one place."/>
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    <outline text="Feedback, Comments and Commentary">
      <outline text="Why isn't TimeMachine talked about more?">
        <outline text="Byron wants to know why SuperDuper and other apps get the backup spotlight and what's the difference vs. TimeMachine?"/>
        <outline text="Cloned vs. snapshot+incremental backup."/>
        <outline text="Time Machine backs up the changes from the last 24 hours, 30/31 days, weeks"/>
        <outline text="Also, is it safe to swap out an internal drive for a newer one and restore back from Time Machine?">
          <outline text="The restore needs to be done by booting off your system CD"/>
          <outline text="Caches, the Spotlight index, Mail accounts, etc. will be rebuilt after you are running the restored system. iTunes will also need to re-authorize, so de-auth before starting."/>
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      <outline text="Fixing Time Capsule Backup Kernel Panics">
        <outline text="Steven alerted me to an issue that can occur with Time Capsule backups where the host Machine Kernel panics when initiating backups"/>
        <outline text="The trouble seems to be corruption in the sparseimagebundle for the host machine"/>
        <outline text="Deleting that sparseimage bundle seems to resolve the crashing."/>
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      <outline text="iPhone 3G Calendar Color fix">
        <outline text="Play tip from Jan"/>
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      <outline text="Auto open disk images on mount">
        <outline text="Simone use encrypted disk images to store private and sensitive data and often"/>
        <outline text="Wanted a way to auto open the image in the Finder when it mounts. Like many CDs/DVDs do."/>
        <outline text="Turns out there is a preference in the Disk Utility for 'Automatically open read-only images&quot; and 'Automatically open read-write images&quot;."/>
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      <outline text="Dusting off your Mac">
        <outline text="My iMac G5 started acting up going to sleep and shutting down."/>
        <outline text="A look at the logs in Console showed it was overheating."/>
        <outline text="Opened it up and vacuumed out the dust and it has been working fine since."/>
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      <outline text="Hack your way to .Me almost Push">
        <outline text="Listener Doug discovered a hack to adjust the .Me Sync setting to run more often then every 15 minutes."/>
        <outline text="In System Preferences--&gt; Mobile Me, click the sync tab and make sure it is set to &quot;Automatically&quot;"/>
        <outline text="In the Finder go to ~/Library/Preferences/ByHost/ and look for the file com.apple.DotMacSync.&lt;your MAC Address&gt;.plist"/>
        <outline text="Make a backup of this file, I make a copy to my Desktop."/>
        <outline text="If you have Developer tools installed open the file using Property List Editor or open it in a plain text editor. Be careful that it is in pure text only mode."/>
        <outline text="Find the &quot;AutoSyncInterval&quot; parameter and change it's value from 15 to 1 (or whatever interval in minutes you want)."/>
        <outline text="Save the file, quit and your done. Now changes will be &quot;pushed&quot; out every minute or so."/>
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      <outline text="Should we give our Mac preventative medicine?">
        <outline text="Brad makes a good point in wondering if by not using anti-virus and anti-spyware apps are we setting ourselves up for disaster"/>
        <outline text="Why having anti-virus won't protect you from impending doom"/>
        <outline text="What can we do?">
          <outline text="Don't panic. Have a plan. Backups."/>
          <outline text="Stay up to date with news and information. Read blogs, listen to podcasts, talk to friends, etc."/>
          <outline text="Don't click on links, open email, or download apps from sources we don't trust."/>
          <outline text="Pay attention"/>
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      <outline text="Be careful with App Store purchases">
        <outline text="Share story about syncing purchased content to non-sync Mac"/>
        <outline text="Control + Click or right+ Click the iPhone or iPOd icon from the devices list and choose transfer purchases."/>
        <outline text="Can re-download app store apps for free">
          <outline text="Make sure you are logged into the account you made the original purchase with. Go to the App Store and click the buy button again. It will begin the download and then a dialog will ask, &quot;You have already purchased this item. To download it again for free select OK&quot;."/>
          <outline text="If you have an issue or are double billed you can report the problem from your iPod/iPhone">
            <outline text="1. Tap Review on the application's information page to open the Reviews section."/>
            <outline text="2. Tap on the composition button in the upper right to load the composition choices."/>
            <outline text="3. Tap &quot;Report a Problem&quot; to load the &quot;Report a problem&quot; screen."/>
            <outline text="5. Select the appropriate symptom."/>
            <outline text="4. Tap the &quot;Comments?&quot; box to add comments after you choose your issue."/>
            <outline text="6. Tap the Report button in the upper right corner to submit your issue."/>
            <outline text="7. A confirmation screen appears. Tap Cancel to cancel the report and return to Reviews screen, or tap OK to submit the report to the application developer."/>
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      <outline text="iPhone 2.0 Screenshots">
        <outline text="Feature built in to the 2.0 software, but not highly advertised"/>
        <outline text="Hold the home button and press the reset/power button."/>
        <outline text="Images are saved to the Camera app and can be synced back to your Mac/PC or emailed from the iPhone."/>
        <outline text="Bonus tip: Using the new Remote app with the iPhone and your Apple TV. When accessing search in YouTube, iTunes and the like the iPhone keyboard will appear and you can use it to type. Credit to John Gruber."/>
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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;"/>
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          <outline text="Smile on my Mac, Textexpander" MediaLinks="smileonmymac.com &lt;http://www.smileonmymac.com/&gt;"/>
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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;With My Freeze Ray&quot; by Dr. Horrible">
        <outline text="From Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, by Joss Whedon. Starring Neil Patrick Harris, Nathan Fillion, and Felicia Day"/>
        <outline text="Artists website" MediaLinks="drhorrible.com &lt;http://www.drhorrible.com/&gt;"/>
        <outline text="Buy on iTunes" MediaLinks="Buy on iTunes &lt;http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewTVSeason?id=284353399&amp;s=143441&gt;"/>
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      <outline text="EOL: A PhD in Horribleness">
        <outline text="Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, by Joss Whedon" MediaLinks="drhorrible.com &lt;http://www.drhorrible.com/&gt;"/>
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