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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">
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    <outline text="News">
      <outline text="Wrap-up of Apple's &quot;Ready to Rock&quot; event">
        <outline text="Speculation is high around new iPods for the Sept. 9th &quot;Let's Rock&quot; event."/>
        <outline text="Jobs keynoted the &quot;Let's Rock&quot; event at the  Yerba Buena center in San Francisco">
          <outline text="&quot;The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated&quot;."/>
          <outline text="Jobs still seemed thin, but gave an incredible keynote with as much energy and enthusiasm as ever."/>
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        <outline text="By the numbers">
          <outline text="Customers have downloaded 100 million applications from the App Store since July 11th with more then 3,000 now available, 600 or so of those being free"/>
          <outline text="The iPod accounts 73.4 percent of the music player market share"/>
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        <outline text="iPod Classic">
          <outline text="Reduced to a single model. 120GB for $249."/>
        </outline>
        <outline text="New iPod Nanos">
          <outline text="Curved aluminum, extruded oval design with curved glass. Thinnest iPod ever?"/>
          <outline text="Accelerometer with Shake to Shuffle. Landscape for Cover flow."/>
          <outline text="New Ui design and new voice menu accessibility feature"/>
          <outline text="Genius playlist creation for on-the-go."/>
          <outline text="Available in 9 colors. silver, Purple, blue, green, yellow, orange, red, black and pink."/>
          <outline text="8 GB for $149 and 16 GB for $199. 8GB models are shipping now with 16GB shipping ???"/>
        </outline>
        <outline text="New earbuds">
          <outline text="Standard earbuds for $29 will have inline play, pause, track skip, and volume control, plus a mic that will work with the iPod recording app."/>
          <outline text="And a higher end in-ear 2-driver set for $79."/>
          <outline text="New buds will be out in October."/>
        </outline>
        <outline text="iPod Touch">
          <outline text="Redesigned with iPhone 3G like tapered edges, slightly thicker, but back is in polished steel."/>
          <outline text="External volume controls and built in speaker"/>
          <outline text="Tweaked user interface with Genius playlist creation"/>
          <outline text="built in support Nike + iPod, no receiver required."/>
          <outline text="New models come with new 2.1 software and are shipping now. Current 2.0 owners can upgrade for free and an upgrade from the 1.x software will run $10."/>
          <outline text="3 models are available with reduced pricing, $229 for the 8GB model, $299 for the 16GB model, and $399 for the 32GB model"/>
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        <outline text="New iPod Shuffle colors">
          <outline text="Bright blue, green, red, and pink"/>
          <outline text="Pricing, storage sizes, design and other features remain the same."/>
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        <outline text="iTunes 8">
          <outline text="&quot;Genius&quot; playlists and sidebar.">
            <outline text="Selecting a song from your library and clicking the &quot;genius&quot; icon will generate an on-the-fly playlist of compatible songs from your library. These can be saved off as standard playlists."/>
            <outline text="Uses data from the &quot;cloud&quot; (other users) and will supposedly get smarter over time."/>
            <outline text="The sidebar ties into the store and makes recommendations as well as offers other music you may like based on your currently library.">
              <outline text="Is opt-in and once you do it send your play counts, track names, album, artists and other non-personally identifiable data to Apple's iTunes cloud."/>
              <outline text="This data could give Apple a competitive edge in negotiations with labels."/>
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          <outline text="New &quot;grid&quot; view. with Albums, artists, genre and composer views. Play the album or double-click to get a listing of album tracks. The old album view is now part of the standard list view. At the top of the first column, expand the &quot;album&quot; triangle to get the album list view.">
            <outline text="Skimming in Artist, genre, and composer modes"/>
            <outline text="Podcast grid view shows badges with unplayed episode counts and you can now set &quot;keep&quot; settings for each show individually."/>
          </outline>
          <outline text="HD TV shows, why not movies too (HD movies are still available on Apple TV). Purchases deliver a standard def version also for syncing to iPods/iPhones.">
            <outline text="HD playback requires an Intel Core 2 Duo Mac or better running at at least 2.0 GHz"/>
          </outline>
          <outline text="NBC is back on iTunes. Apple may have given some concessions on pricing and bundles. There are already some &quot;deals&quot; with some NBC shows at $0.99"/>
          <outline text="New default visualizer looks like the Magnetosphere one that was rumored"/>
          <outline text="Now supports screen readers on Windows and had VoiceOver support built-in on the Mac"/>
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        <outline text="iPhone/iPod touch 2.1 software update">
          <outline text="Available now for Touch owners and on Friday for iPhone"/>
          <outline text="Jobs promised “significantly improved” battery life, fewer crashes, “dramatically faster” backups, and other new performance enhancements."/>
          <outline text="No work on push notification support, copy paste, or directional GPS support"/>
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        <outline text="Other Stuff">
          <outline text="QuickTime update. QuickTime 7.5.5, &quot; includes changes that increase reliability, improve application compatibility and enhance security&quot;"/>
          <outline text="FrontRow 2.1.6 Update, This Front Row update provides improved iTunes 8.0 compatibility and bug fixes."/>
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      <outline text="iPhone Security Flaw Confirmed. Fix coming.">
        <outline text="Security issue was discovered that allows a user to bypass the code-lock feature when enabled."/>
        <outline text="The trick uses a combo of the 'Emergency call' button + the Home button double tap when set to go to 'Phone Favorites'."/>
        <outline text="Once in Phone Favorites you can access individual records, make calls, send emails, access web sites."/>
        <outline text="Apple acknowledged it is a known issue and plans a fix."/>
        <outline text="Temporary work around is to set the &quot;Home Button&quot; double-click preference to &quot;Home&quot; or &quot;iPod&quot;."/>
      </outline>
      <outline text="First Vista Seinfeld ad airs">
        <outline text="Ad featured Bill Gates in a shoe store and Seinfeld spots him and helps him purchase shoes."/>
        <outline text="The ads have some funny comedic moments and are somewhat reminiscent of the old Seinfeld TV shows, but left me scratching my head."/>
        <outline text="In a somewhat disturbing sequence the end of the spot Jerry asks for a sign if Microsoft will someday enable technology to make computers &quot;moist and chewy&quot; and edible like cake. Gates wiggle's his posterior to adjust his shorts as a signal."/>
        <outline text="The spot ends with just a Windows logo, but no mention of Vista at all."/>
        <outline text="Microsoft claims they are opening up a conversation. Analysts say the spots do put a more likable human face on Microsoft."/>
      </outline>
      <outline text="Apple finally acknowledges father of the media player.">
        <outline text="iPod NN reports Apple has called forth Kane Kramer, a British man, who's work is said to be the inspiration behind the iPod."/>
        <outline text="In 1979 Kramer designed a player called the IXI that could storing 3.5 minutes of music on a chip. The design included a concept drawing that is not far off from today's iPods."/>
        <outline text="Unable to gather funds for the worldwide patent renewals Kramers patent for the device lapsed in 1988."/>
        <outline text="Recently Apple asked Kramer to help and paid him a consulting fee to be an expert witness in their Burst.com lawsuit. He is also said to be in negotiations with the Cupertino company for compensation relating to copyright on his drawings."/>
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    <outline text="Feedback, Comments and Commentary">
      <outline text="Can Pystar win against Apple?">
        <outline text="I asked for feedback and I got a great response"/>
        <outline text="Comes down to how a &quot;market&quot; is defined."/>
        <outline text="Apple does not monopolize the market for micro-computers, but does for MacIntosh OS X computers.">
          <outline text="Would be like trying to argue that McDonald's owns and monopolizes the market for Big Macs, or Ford for Ford automobiles."/>
        </outline>
        <outline text="Psystar will have an uphill battle and the current Supreme court (if it goes that far) would likely side with big business (in this case Apple)."/>
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      <outline text="Non-apple iPhone apps don't launch, what's up?">
        <outline text="Play comment from Andrew"/>
        <outline text="According to iPhone Atlas many users report that this issue occurs if you have too many apps installed (like 6 pages or more)."/>
        <outline text="Apps don't launch or the iPhone/iPod Touch crashes. They don't mention about music not playing."/>
        <outline text="Reduce the number of apps installed. They do also claim that Apple is aware of the bug in the 2.0.2 software and have made a fix a top priority."/>
        <outline text="Andrew was too modest to admit it, but he may have hit the ceiling on apps installed because he is doing an iPhone app review site at iphoneappaday.wordpress.com " MediaLinks="iphoneappaday.wordpress.com &lt;http://iphoneappaday.wordpress.com/&gt;"/>
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      <outline text="The 9:41 vs. 9:42 iPhone discrepancy">
        <outline text="Voicemail from Josh likely indicates the difference. Jobs pre-plans the keynotes to the minute and only the 1st images on the site and used during the keynote reflected the 9:41 AM time. After that all images reflect 9:42, so Steve had just gotten off by a minute."/>
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      <outline text="Use Mail &quot;Stationary&quot; to spruce up emails">
        <outline text="Many .Mac users are mourning the loss of iCards. Apple this week on it's Mobile Me blog recommended using Apple Mail.app stationary as a replacement."/>
        <outline text="These are basically HTML mail templates that have &quot;drop zones&quot; for images and that you then add your own content to."/>
        <outline text="Just be aware that due to security issues many modern mail clients have HTML images turned off by default. Also not all mail clients display HTML email in the same way. OS X Mail works well because it uses the Safari (WebKit) engine. iCards were nice because it generated a JPG attachment.">
          <outline text="You can also use Mail templates and print to PDF, or use iPhoto cards and print to PDF then attach for compatibility."/>
        </outline>
        <outline text="If you feel limited by Apple's designs there are free and paid mail template add ons">
          <outline text="Jumsoft Mail Stationary, 100 themes for $39.00" MediaLinks="jumsoft.com &lt;http://www.jumsoft.com/stationery&gt;"/>
          <outline text="Equinux Stationary Pack 111 themes for $29.95" MediaLinks="equinux.com &lt;http://www.equinux.com/us/products/stationery/index.html&gt;"/>
          <outline text="Novocon Design, free templates" MediaLinks="design.novcon.net &lt;http://design.novcon.net/mac/mail_templates.php&gt;"/>
        </outline>
        <outline text="Design your own if you know HTML, CSS and aren't afraid to get your hands dirty you can even design your own templates. Apple Blog has a pretty good how-to." MediaLinks="theappleblog.com &lt;http://theappleblog.com/2007/10/31/how-to-create-edit-your-own-mail-stationery/&gt;"/>
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      <outline text="Reset iPod warnings">
        <outline text="Rick wanted to know how to undo the &quot;Don't ask again&quot; checkbox that comes up in some warning dialog boxes in iTunes when connecting and syncing a device."/>
        <outline text="Connect the device and in iTunes Control+Click (right+click) the device icon and choose reset warnings."/>
        <outline text="For other apps, you might check the preferences to see if there is a reset, or remove the preferences file (typically found in ~/Library/Preferences), just know that will reset all preferences for that app."/>
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      <outline text="Review: Koi Pond for iPhone/iPod Touch">
        <outline text="Play review from Kevin" MediaLinks="uselessproductivity.com &lt;http://www.uselessproductivity.com/&gt;"/>
        <outline text="Koi Pond" MediaLinks="theblimppilots.com &lt;http://www.theblimppilots.com/The_Blimp_Pilots/Koi_Pond.html&gt;"/>
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      <outline text="Mac making unusual chimes at start up">
        <outline text="Carmen has a one year old Mac Mini that has begun to chime 3 times at startup and was wondering what that means"/>
        <outline text="Any tones beyond the typical boot up chime are typically generated by the Power On Self Test sequence (POST)."/>
        <outline text="These chimes are generally related to the RAM issues"/>
        <outline text="Intel Macs">
          <outline text="No SDRAM (Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory) or the RAM installed does not meet specs, the screen will remain black but the power LED on the front of the computer will blink once per second to signal the error. Error may be due to damaged RAM, incorrect type of RAM, or not having RAM installed."/>
          <outline text="RAM passes the Power-On-Self-Test (POST) but still cannot be used. Gray screen, sound three tones and blink the power LED three times, pause, and repeat the blinking until the computer is turned off."/>
        </outline>
        <outline text="Newer iMacs (mid-2007)">
          <outline text="1 tone, a 5-second pause, repeat - No RAM installed"/>
          <outline text="3 successive tones, a 5-second pause, 3 successive tones - RAM does not pass data integrity check"/>
          <outline text="1 long tone when holding down the power button - Firmware upgrade in process."/>
          <outline text="3 long tones, 3 short tones, 3 long tones - Firmware restoration from CD in process."/>
        </outline>
        <outline text="Older Macs (non-Intel)">
          <outline text="1 beep = no RAM installed"/>
          <outline text="2 beeps = incompatible RAM types"/>
          <outline text="3 beeps = no good banks"/>
          <outline text="4 beeps = no good boot images in the boot ROM (and/or bad sys config block)"/>
          <outline text="5 beeps = processor is not usable"/>
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      <outline text="Speeds on the Macs USB buses">
        <outline text="In looking at the System Profiler (Apple-&gt;Get Info... --&gt; More info...), David noticed that it listed a couple USB buses and &quot;High Speed&quot; USB buses. He also noticed that the devices on the &quot;High Speed&quot; bus were not all at the same speed. Was wondering what the differences were. Did his Mac have some 1.0 and not 2.0 jacks."/>
        <outline text="In looking at my Mac there does seem to be a &quot;USB 1.0&quot; bus that is internal and contains the Bluetooth controller and IR receiver."/>
        <outline text="The &quot;High Speed&quot; bus is all the external jacks, but different devices seem to be running at different speeds."/>
        <outline text="Turns out the current USB spec defines 3 different data rates (up to 480 Kbps):">
          <outline text="Low Speed (1.1, 2.0) rate of 1.5 Mbit/s (187.5 kB/s) that is mostly used for Human Interface Devices (HID) such as keyboards, mice, and joysticks."/>
          <outline text="Full Speed (1.1, 2.0) rate of 12 Mbit/s (1.5 MB/s). Full Speed was the fastest rate before the USB 2.0 specification and many devices&#10;fall back to Full Speed. Full Speed devices divide the USB bandwidth between them in a first-come first-served basis and it is not uncommon to run out of bandwidth with several isochronous devices. All USB hubs support Full Speed."/>
          <outline text="High-Speed (2.0) rate of 480 Mbit/s (60 MB/s)."/>
        </outline>
        <outline text="The device can set the speed. So my iPod, iPhone, hard drives are all running at 480 Mbps, but my keyboard, Wacom are running at 1.5 Mbps, and an older scanner is connected at 12 Mbps."/>
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      <outline text="External drives, bus powered or not?">
        <outline text="J was wondering a couple things about external hard drives."/>
        <outline text="What is your opinion on bus-powered vs. outlet powered external drives?"/>
        <outline text="Also, will daily on/off cycles of a drive that is plugged into an AC adapter damage it?  Or should it be left on all the time?"/>
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    <outline text="Closing">
      <outline text="Podcast Marketplace">
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      <outline text="Keep emails coming. Audio comments.">
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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;You Don't Need and iPod&quot; by Uncle Seth">
        <outline text="Off the Podsafe Music Network" MediaLinks="music.podshow.com &lt;http://music.podshow.com/music/listeners/artistdetails.php?BandHash=1af351f49dff459ca7145da99285d1b2&gt;"/>
        <outline text="Band's site" MediaLinks="musicface.com/uncleseth &lt;http://musicface.com/uncleseth/&gt;"/>
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      <outline text="EOL: Mac Vader Pro">
        <outline text="Mac Vader Pro returns to Dragoncon" MediaLinks="Mac Vader Pro &lt;http://www.macuser.com/huh/mac_pro_vader_strikes_fear_in.php?lsrc=murss&gt;"/>
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