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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="Announcing winners" MediaLinks="www.smileonmymac.com &lt;http://www.smileonmymac.com/&gt;">
          <outline text="Harrison Wade, Leif Glass, Rosemarie Ferri, Warren Schiffer, and Brian Frobisher"/>
          <outline text="You will each get the Smile on My Mac app of your choice."/>
        </outline>
        <outline text="Will be contacting you via email in the next week with information to get your free software"/>
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    <outline text="News">
      <outline text="iPhone 3g shows strong results">
        <outline text="MacNN is reporting on a Global Equities Research estimate that says 700,000 iPhones were sold just in July."/>
        <outline text="In it's Q3 2007 results Apple reported selling just 1.1. million iPhones for the entire quarter. Now keep in mind the iPhone 3G was announced."/>
        <outline text="TechCruch is citing a source that says Foxconn who manufactures the iPhone for Apple has increased 3G production to 800,000 iPhones a week. That's a rate of 40 million per year, well above Apple's current sale estimates."/>
        <outline text="Apple said they would have the iPhone in 70 counties by the end of the year. They will be adding 20 more countries just this month bringing the total up to 45."/>
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      <outline text="Rumors of iPhone Nano are back">
        <outline text="MacNN reports that sources from the Daily Mail in the UK are reporting that Apple plans to introduce the device exclusively through O2."/>
        <outline text="The device would be a &quot;cut down&quot; version of the iPhone with a &quot;candy bar&quot; shape."/>
        <outline text="Controlled by a touch wheel on the back. Back in May of 2007 patent filings from apple revealed they have designs for such a concept."/>
        <outline text="According to the report the device would be on sale before Christmas this year for a prices of up to £150 and will work with pay-as-you go plans."/>
        <outline text="Lehman Brother analyst Ben Reitzes also believes Apple is working on a lower end iPhone design with a predicted launch date in Spring of 2009."/>
        <outline text="DLO has a published patent iPhone-esqe dock that depicts a Nano sized phone-like device. The patent was originally filled back in 2006."/>
        <outline text="What about apps? Would it be yet another category?"/>
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      <outline text="More apps disappearing from the App Store">
        <outline text="NetShare and Box Office were among the first two. Both are said to be in contact with Apple to determine the reason and are working to get the apps back online. "/>
        <outline text="I Am Rich, the $999.99 app that did nothing but display a static image. The author claimed it was to show a sign of your wealth. Supposedly 8 people purchased the app before it was pulled. The author claims many were satisfied, but at least one commenter on iTunes was mad. Developers are responsible for refund fees."/>
        <outline text="Phone Saber, was pulled because a of license issue from THQ Wireless who owns the Star Wars rights on mobiles. They are working with the PhoneSaber developer on a deal to bring a Star Wars branded version out. My guess is that one won't be free though."/>
        <outline text="Slasher, displayed an image of a knife and used the motion sensors to play horror sounds when making a slashing motion with the iPhone.">
          <outline text="The developer was told the app was pulled because of a part of the SDK that prohibits &quot;objectionable&quot; content."/>
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        <outline text="I have some questions?">
          <outline text="How are these apps getting through in the first place? Too much volume, not as tight screen controls as we first thought?"/>
          <outline text="Isn't much of this &quot;subjective&quot;? Should Apple be allowed so much control over software on the iPhone? We don't allow them to do this on the Mac."/>
          <outline text="Where is the review and appeals process for developers? Why isn't Apple providing more communication and information with developers?"/>
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      <outline text="iPhone phone home, iPhone phone home?">
        <outline text="Much hubub was generated this week when iPhone Atlas reported that Jonathan Zdziarski, author of the book iPhone Open Application Development and an iPhone Forensics, discovered some code in the Core Location Services API that called a URL () that appeared to be a placeholder for a list of &quot;malicious&quot; and blacklisted iPhone apps."/>
        <outline text="The list currently contains no data, but many theorized that the list was a way for Apple to retroactively disable apps on the iPhone and iPod Touch."/>
        <outline text="Later this week John Gruber of Daring Fireball did some more investigating and received details from an &quot;informed source at Apple&quot; that the code is in there, but is to simply disable some apps from using the Core Location Services should Apple determine later that the apps are violating the strict SDK guidelines for the service."/>
        <outline text="Gurber's finding make sense since the code in question is part of the Core Location API and the URL called has &quot;clbl&quot; in the path which his source says stands for &quot;Core Location Black List&quot;."/>
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      <outline text="NPD Group says Macs cost twice as much as PCs">
        <outline text="The study claims the average price of a Windows laptop is now $700 down from $877, while Mac laptop have held an average price of $1,500 over the past 2 year."/>
        <outline text="Desktop PCs have an average price of $550, while Mac desktop average $1,000 according to the study."/>
        <outline text="The study simply looks at average prices and not specs."/>
        <outline text="A piece on Tom's Hardware points out that when you spec for spec Macs are close in price to PCs and in some configurations cheaper."/>
        <outline text="Apple's issue seems to be more a lack of configuration options and offerings at the low end.">
          <outline text="The iMac is Apple's consumer mid-range option, but you are stuck with an integrated display"/>
          <outline text="The Mac mini is a good entry level option, but is neglected by Apple and showing signs of age in it's specs."/>
          <outline text="On the high end there are few options, especially with graphics cards."/>
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        <outline text="A lot of speculation surrounds comments mad by Oppenheimer during Apple's latest quarterly results call.">
          <outline text="I could see Apple lowering prices and going more heavily after the consumer market to capitalize on it's iPhone/iPod halo effect."/>
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      <outline text="Rumors of new Macbooks strengthen">
        <outline text="Gene Munster is predicting a September special event with the launch of a sub $1,000 notebook, and slightly redesigned MacBook Pro, iPod Shuffles and Nanos with more storage, and a redesigned lower priced iPod Touch."/>
        <outline text="AppleInsider published photos from Chinese-language blog claiming to be of the new outer casing for a re-designed 13&quot; Mac Book.">
          <outline text="The images look like they may be fakes, but do fall in line with other reports that the new cases would be aluminum and takes design cues, like more beveled edging, from the MacBook Air."/>
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      <outline text="Apple finally prepping new displays">
        <outline text="It's been since 2004 that Apple has made any major changes to it's line-up Cinema displays."/>
        <outline text="MacRumors is now reporting that Apple might have new displays ready for unveiling at Macrorld 2009 in January."/>
        <outline text="Steve Jobs made statements back in May of 2007 that Apple plans to eliminate the use of flourescent-backlit displays at various sizes as the industry makes the transition to LED backlighting economically possible."/>
        <outline text="The rumored displays would therefore be LED backlight and might only include the 23&quot; and 20&quot; models. 30&quot; LED backlight displays are currently available, but prohibitively expensive. A model from Samsung runs about USD $4735.00"/>
        <outline text="Other than a possible switch to true 16:9 aspect ratio displays, no other design or spec changes were mentioned."/>
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    <outline text="Sponsor">
      <outline text="Faronics">
        <outline text="Power Save Mac. Provides automated energy conservation." MediaLinks="faronics.com &lt;http://www.faronics.com/html/PowerSaveMac.asp&gt;"/>
        <outline text="Average savings of $25 per computer per year"/>
        <outline text="Sophisticated power management and scheduling">
          <outline text="Can configure times for start up, shut down, sleep and wake"/>
          <outline text="Fully customizable scheduling. One-time, every day, on weekdays, on weekends, or a specific day of the week."/>
        </outline>
        <outline text="ROI calculator on the site so you can estimate the cost savings and in some states you can get an energy rebate to cover the cost of the software."/>
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    <outline text="Feedback, Comments and Commentary">
      <outline text="To shutdown or not shutdown that is the question">
        <outline text="Because I mentioned it on the last show many of you are wondering. What is better for your computer? Shutdown or not shutdown?"/>
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      <outline text="Installing apps outside the Applications folder">
        <outline text="Sérgio wanted to know if he could install application on an external drive to free space on his 80GB internal."/>
        <outline text="Technically, it can be done with a little hacking from the Terminal (symbolic links), but I wouldn't recommend it."/>
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      <outline text="iDisk, what is it good for?">
        <outline text="Play comment from Scott"/>
        <outline text="iTunes syncing. Difficult because of the iTunes Music Library file.">
          <outline text="Could move the Library file to iDisk, but permissions issues, access issues, etc."/>
          <outline text="Sync over home network suing a tool like TuneRanger" MediaLinks="TuneRanger &lt;http://www.acertant.com/web/tuneranger/default.htm&gt;"/>
        </outline>
        <outline text="Setting the volumes equal. iTunes--&gt;Preferences--&gt;Playback (tab). Check on 'Sound Check'."/>
        <outline text="Talk about iDisk syncing and it's pitfalls. Other uses for iDisk."/>
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      <outline text="Open and Save dialog box trick">
        <outline text="Brian remembered an old System 7/8 extension that would let you click on any open window in the Finder and that Save dialog would set that as the save location. He was looking for something similar with OS X."/>
        <outline text="Can drag the icon from the titlebar in the Finder window into the open/save dialog box. You will see a &quot;+&quot; icon and when you drop that will now be the save location for the file."/>
        <outline text="Don't forget 'Spotlight' in all Open/Save dialogs."/>
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      <outline text="Has Apple spread itself too thin?">
        <outline text="And are we feeling the pain."/>
        <outline text="All the issues with the Mobile Me launch.">
          <outline text="Jobs admitted they may have taken on too much at once and that Mobile Me was not up to Apple's standards"/>
          <outline text="Eddie Cue, will now also over see the App Store and Mobile Me, as well as iTunes."/>
        </outline>
        <outline text="iPhone 2.0 software issues"/>
        <outline text="What seems like higher quality control issues with it's hardware."/>
        <outline text="Delays in product launches, like with Leopard."/>
        <outline text="Are they still doing a good job responding with software updates and security patches?">
          <outline text="Complaints of DNS patch"/>
          <outline text="10.5.5 Build of Leopard reportedly has another 100 bug fixes and patches."/>
        </outline>
        <outline text="Also are Apple's tight communication and control policies also hurting their rep?">
          <outline text="Apple marketing reportedly removed two members of Apple's security from a public discussion at the Black Hat Security conference.">
            <outline text="Apple's policy is that nobody at Apple is ever allowed to speak publicly about anything without marketing approval."/>
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          <outline text="Slow response and communication on the Mobile Me issues. Still this week we are hearing reports that the chat is the only way to get help and wait times are well over an hour."/>
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      <outline text="Get more WiFi details from Airport menu bar item">
        <outline text="Great Tip from TidBits passed along by Greg" MediaLinks="TidBits &lt;http://db.tidbits.com/article/9339&gt;"/>
        <outline text="Hold down the option key while you click the Airport item in the menu bar and you will get some additional details about your connection.">
          <outline text="MAC (Media Access Control) address of the base station's AirPort interface. Help identify more then one base station with the same SSID (name)."/>
          <outline text="The channel used. Helpful in seeing if another base station in your area may be on the same channel."/>
          <outline text="The receive signal strength indication (RSSI), a measure of how much energy is hitting your antenna. In negative numbers and a smaller number seems to be better."/>
          <outline text="Transmission rate, good to see if your operating at full speed or if the network is at less than capacity."/>
        </outline>
        <outline text="You can also hover other the other non-connected wi-fi hotspots in your area and wait for a tooltip that will display their RSSI data and Security protocol."/>
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    <outline text="Closing">
      <outline text="Podcast Marketplace">
        <outline text="Thanks to my sponsors">
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          <outline text="Faronics, Deep Freeze" MediaLinks="faronics.com/mac &lt;http://www.faronics.com/mac/&gt;"/>
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      <outline text="&quot;North Wind&quot; by The Pharaohs Of Rhythm">
        <outline text="From listener John who is a member of the band"/>
        <outline text="Band's website has tracks available for free, but you can donate." MediaLinks="pharaohsofrhythm.com &lt;http://pharaohsofrhythm.com/&gt;"/>
        <outline text="Also follow them on Myspace and Facebook for upcoming events." MediaLinks="myspace.com/pharaohsofrhythm &lt;http://www.myspace.com/pharaohsofrhythm&gt;"/>
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      <outline text="EOL: Meet the iPhone Nano">
        <outline text="iPhone 3G meets his small sibling in this Geek Culture comic" MediaLinks="Meet the iPhone Nano &lt;http://www.geekculture.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/1136.html&gt;"/>
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