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    <outline text="Opening">
      <outline text="Opening Music">
        <outline text="Music is &quot;Say Anything&quot; by Manda and the Marbles"/>
        <outline text="Band's MySpace page" MediaLinks="myspace.com/mandathemarbles &lt;http://www.myspace.com/mandathemarbles&gt;"/>
        <outline text="Their limited edition 7&quot; is back up on Interpunk.com. There you'll also find &quot;Angels with Dirty Faces&quot; which has the full &quot;Say Anything&quot; track." MediaLinks="interpunk.com &lt;http://interpunk.com/item.cfm?Item=56311&amp;&gt;"/>
      </outline>
    </outline>
    <outline text="Sponsor">
      <outline text="Circus Ponies">
        <outline text="Notebook" MediaLinks="circusponies.com &lt;http://www.circusponies.com/&gt;"/>
        <outline text="Back to school. Students or teachers."/>
        <outline text="Great for storing notes, doing research, tracking lessons etc."/>
        <outline text="Free 30-day trial"/>
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    <outline text="News">
      <outline text="Safari 4.0.3 update">
        <outline text="Includes improvements to stability, compatibility and security."/>
        <outline text="Improvements for webpages that use the HTML 5 video tag"/>
        <outline text="Fixes an issue that prevented some users from logging into iWork.com"/>
        <outline text="Fixes an issue that could cause web content to be displayed in greyscale instead of color."/>
        <outline text="Ars Technica reports there are also several security fixes including tweaks to ImageIO, CoreGraphics, WebKit, and more."/>
      </outline>
      <outline text="AirPort Client Update for MacBook and MacBook Pro">
        <outline text="For some owners to address an Airport connectivity issue when running on battery power."/>
        <outline text="After installing the 10.5.8 update some users would get significant network slowdowns."/>
        <outline text="Effected late 2007, early and late 2008 MacBooks, early 2008 15&quot; MacBook Pros, and early and late 2008 17&quot; MacBook Pros"/>
      </outline>
      <outline text="Security Update 2009-004">
        <outline text="Fixes an issue with OS X'x BIND DNS server."/>
        <outline text="Using the hole an attacker may be able to interrupt the BIND service."/>
        <outline text="BIND is included with Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server but it is not enabled by default."/>
      </outline>
      <outline text="Apple &quot;media&quot; announcement soon">
        <outline text="Rumors heat up that Apple will have its yearly iPod/iTunes media announcement in early September. Around the week of the 7th. D, All things Digital is pinning it on the 9th. Makes sense since the Monday 7th is Labour Day and Tuesday would be a travel day."/>
        <outline text="Possibly marking Steve Jobs return to keynoting an event since his leave of absence."/>
        <outline text="New iPod Touch">
          <outline text="Added camera and video support"/>
          <outline text="16GB, 32GB and 64GB at the same prices."/>
        </outline>
        <outline text="New Nano">
          <outline text="With camera, not sure about video recording."/>
        </outline>
        <outline text="&quot;Cocktail&quot; digital media bundles and support"/>
        <outline text="iTunes 9">
          <outline text="Rumor via AppleInsider and Boy Genius Report"/>
          <outline text="Blu-ray support, organize iPhone and iPod touch applications, Twitter/Facebook/Last.fm integration">
            <outline text="Jason O'Grady has a good piece de-bunking the &quot;leaked&quot; iTunes 9 screenshots highlighting the &quot;social&quot; features."/>
          </outline>
          <outline text="BGR says, Apple will tie iTunes 9 into a “Social” application that they plan to release in the future."/>
          <outline text="AppleInsider has had recent report of Apple adding Blu-ray to next gen iMacs."/>
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        <outline text="8 GB iPhone 3GS">
          <outline text="This is an on again off again rumor based on something that showed up on Rogers Canada site."/>
          <outline text="Gizmodo, claims to have reports of the phone still on Rogers internal site."/>
        </outline>
        <outline text="iPad, Mac tablety thingy">
          <outline text="Cult of Mac says Apple was shooting a secret commercial for an unnamed product at the Jax Truckee Diner."/>
          <outline text="10&quot; screen tabled using an &quot;extended&quot; version of the iPhone OS, according to Jason Calacanis (in a tweet)."/>
          <outline text="New rumors reported by Ars Technica have it in 2 editions. One with a web cam and one without for the education market."/>
          <outline text="Borders book recently sent out a survey where the asked about customers familiarity with a Digital Reading Device called an Apple iPAD. Better not be the actual name."/>
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      <outline text="iPhone coming to China or not">
        <outline text="I have tried avoiding this story, but can no longer"/>
        <outline text="China Unicom seems conflicted over the iPhone if you believe the rumors"/>
        <outline text="iLounge had a report that the Chinese mobile carrier had agreed to buy 5 million WCDMA iPhones, in both 8GB and 16GB capacities from Apple"/>
        <outline text="They also had a Unicom official saying the device would be available in China"/>
        <outline text="Then Mac Observer reported that the New York Times had a Unicom spokesman denying the claims, only admitting that Apple and China Unicom are in talks."/>
      </outline>
      <outline text="Matte is back in 15&quot; Macbook Pro">
        <outline text="Apple slipped the option for a 15&quot; anti-glare screen on the Macbook Pro back into it's online BTO system. "/>
        <outline text="The USD $50 option will also add back the silver bezel."/>
        <outline text="Also adds 2-4 days to the shipping time according to Electronista."/>
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      <outline text="Snow Leopard due soon, maybe sooner">
        <outline text="MacRumors.com has word via Mac4ever that the latest Snow Leopard builds (10A432) are labeled &quot;Gold Master&quot;. The rumor later denied by other sources."/>
        <outline text="Supposed leaked photos of the retail packaging, mostly white with an actual image of a snow leopard."/>
        <outline text="Mac Rumors cites Daring Fireball's John Gruber and MacDailyNews as having reports of a possible Friday, August 28th release date."/>
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    <outline text="Feedback, Comments and Commentary">
      <outline text="Might be time for Mac Anti-virus, a scan or two at least">
        <outline text="My friend and fellow Mac Roundtable colleague Bart Busschots points out that there HAVE been a few Mac trojans to hit the wild. I have even covered them on this show (iWork, Photoshop, etc.)"/>
        <outline text="A new trojan, OSX_JAHLAV.D, is disguised as a Quicktime update and in the wild. Hijacks DNS requests and allows hackers to send you to web sites they pick. Often phishing sites designed to look like the site you are trying to visit."/>
        <outline text="Picked up by visiting a site, usually when you try to play a video, will prompt you to update Quicktime and download the trojan DMG."/>
        <outline text="As Bart points out, these days hackers want their viruses to go undetected. Using your machine for a botnet or to steal personal data."/>
        <outline text="Several listeners reported current scanning tools, like Clam X AV, Mac Scan, and others finding spyware and malware on Macs. Sometimes it's PC stuff in attachments in emails, but why pass that along?"/>
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      <outline text="Getting close to Snow Leopard, install time.">
        <outline text="Carlos and some other listeners are asking for a review of my new OS install ritual."/>
        <outline text="Since Snow Leopard will be a pure upgrade, how will I do a clean install?">
          <outline text="I am hearing that the installer will default to an &quot;Upgrade&quot; and that the options for &quot;Erase and Install&quot; and &quot;Archive and Install&quot; have apparently been removed.">
            <outline text="Need to use Disk Utility to do the erase and install."/>
          </outline>
          <outline text="If I buy the $29 upgrade only disk, how to clean install?">
            <outline text="I can only speculate at this point, but..."/>
            <outline text="Maybe it will ask during install to insert your original Leopard install or DVD that came with your Mac"/>
            <outline text="You will use the OS X Leopard disk to do your erase and install and then &quot;upgrade&quot; with your Snow Leopard disk. Would end up being similar "/>
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        </outline>
        <outline text="After running Snow Leopard future installs default to archive and install and will bring along patched files. If you have 10.6.1 it will re-install to that version"/>
        <outline text="Rosetta and Quicktime 7 are optional installs. If you have Quicktime 7 Pro it will install automatically."/>
        <outline text="Other Snow Leopard install ticks (hat tip to Ars Techinica)">
          <outline text="Won't install on a drive with SMART failures"/>
          <outline text="Scans for &quot;haxies&quot; and incompatible software and moves it to a &quot;&quot;Incompatible Software&quot; folder."/>
          <outline text="Copies portions of the installer to the hard drive during install for faster install performance."/>
          <outline text="If power fails during install it can pick up where it left off."/>
        </outline>
        <outline text="Re-install apps">
          <outline text="Do an inventory of your apps, get latest installers, disks, keys, serial numbers, etc."/>
          <outline text="What I love about this is you will clean out all those apps to tried, but don't really use. Spring cleaning."/>
        </outline>
        <outline text="Bringing data back">
          <outline text="Use migration assistant with your Time Machine or cloned backup as a source"/>
          <outline text="Restore user data. iTunes, iPhoto, documents, network settings, etc."/>
        </outline>
        <outline text="Snow Leopard is Intel only, so if you have a G4, G5, or older Mac and want the latest and greatest part of your upgrade strategy may include getting a new Mac.">
          <outline text="And don't forget, Leopard isn't broken and will continue to be supported"/>
          <outline text="Not a ton of new features in Snow Leopard, so you shouldn't feel that left out."/>
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      <outline text="1.7 SATA II Firmware update bug">
        <outline text="Michael alerted me to several threads on Apple's discussion boards where some users are having issues with SATA drives after installing the EFI 1.7 update." MediaLinks="discussions.apple.com &lt;http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2054387&amp;tstart=15&gt;"/>
        <outline text="Users report beachballing, stutters under high load, total unresponsiveness, to drives not at all recognized.">
          <outline text="Apple did acknowledge an issue 7200rpm, 500GB drives in Macbook Pros"/>
          <outline text="Theory here according to MacNN and OWC is that  Seagate's Momentus 7200.4 drives have G-shock which duplicates Apple's built-in HD shock protection technology and is causing the drives to rapidly spin-up and spin-down."/>
        </outline>
        <outline text="Oddly the 1.7 update was meant to fix and restore an issue Apple created with an OS update that created an issue for SATA II drives running faster than 1.5Gbps."/>
        <outline text="Now some users with SATA drives are reporting drives becoming incompatible while these drives were fine prior to the update."/>
        <outline text="The drives are different ones, from different manufactures. Even stranger some of the same drives from the same manufacturer may work and not work in different Macs."/>
        <outline text="Michael was having a particular issue with some 128GB SSD drives from Crucial."/>
        <outline text="There doesn't seem to be a common thread, so I am not sure what advice to offer. Also there has been no comment from Apple."/>
        <outline text="If you have any insights, thoughts, or fixes/ work around please send email or comments."/>
      </outline>
      <outline text="Apple's customer service experience">
        <outline text="Dealing with Apple on customer service and be a mixed bag, but more often than not I hear stories like Tom's."/>
        <outline text="Play comment from Tom."/>
        <outline text="Johnathan had a similar experience with Apple in Glasgow. Had a repair done at the end of his 3 year AppleCare and then 2 weeks after it expired ran into another issue. Apple covered the repairs (new motherboard and 2 gigs of RAM) for free."/>
        <outline text="Some tips when dealing with Apple and customer support">
          <outline text="Honesty is the best policy. I admit to not always following this rule. It can be embarrassing sometimes to admit you damages your favorite Apple product."/>
          <outline text="Don't always expect a replacement or freebie on an out of warranty repair or user caused damage, but also don't be afraid to ask."/>
          <outline text="Don't act like you know more than the Genius (even if you do). You can still offer and share information, but don't be arrogant about it. Remember they likely know about common issues reported on-line, but likely can't say they do."/>
          <outline text="Have your backups done (if you can) before you go to the store and have a backup plan if you need to be without your Mac or device for a few days."/>
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      </outline>
      <outline text="Converting video files for Mac">
        <outline text="I have had a few people ask about this recently. Things like how to convert WMV to a format for iMovie say."/>
        <outline text="Back in the day, my answer was Visual Hub. A Swiss Army knife of video converters."/>
        <outline text="Well, it's back (or the engine is) as Video Monkey. " MediaLinks="videomonkey.org &lt;http://videomonkey.org/Video_Monkey/News/News.html&gt;"/>
        <outline text="Another useful video tool for playback is Perian. A Quicktime component that adds native playback support for a number of non-natively supported formats. (AVI, DIVX, etc.)" MediaLinks="perian.org &lt;http://perian.org/&gt;"/>
        <outline text="And while we are at it, Flip for Mac. Free player version from Microsoft. Needed for Windows Media support." MediaLinks="Flip for Mac (free) &lt;http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/wmcomponents.mspx&gt;"/>
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      <outline text="Gettin' Geeky with GeekTool">
        <outline text="Listener Oliver and some others have told me about the geek chic of Geek Tool" MediaLinks="Geek Tool &lt;http://projects.tynsoe.org/en/geektool/&gt;"/>
        <outline text="A system preference pane to allow you to display files (like log files) or results of Shell command on your desktop."/>
        <outline text="Useful for doing monitoring you your system. Display system.log file or results of the 'ps ax', 'top' or 'uptime' commands."/>
        <outline text="A site with some cool beginner (and not so beginner) scripts" MediaLinks="Geek Tool Starters &lt;http://thememymac.com/2009/geektool/geektool-all-the-scripts-i-could-find-explained-for-beginners/&gt;"/>
      </outline>
      <outline text="Maximize like on Windows">
        <outline text="Jon ran into a common frustration in switching from PC to Mac and that is the concept of Zoom vs. maximize"/>
        <outline text="When you click the green &quot;+&quot; zoom button on a window in OS X, it doesn't always necessarily zoom (or maximize) to the full size of your screen. On windows the similar button toggles between a user size and a maximum size for the display."/>
        <outline text="Apple takes a different approach">
          <outline text="standard state (set by the developer) and the user state, the one you set."/>
          <outline text="iTunes for example will toggle between the &quot;mini player&quot; and the user state. Hold option and click the green icon to toggle between user state and maximum."/>
        </outline>
        <outline text="LifeHacker and Switching to Mac.com point to RightZoom. This &quot;fixes&quot; the issue, and I tried the software briefly. I worry a bit about it, since it runs &quot;without any UI&quot; (have to kill the process with Disk Utility or a terminal command) and they make key logger and other monitoring software."/>
        <outline text="Size-up does the maximize thing, plus supports &quot;tiling&quot; and more. Uses keystrokes or command from the menu item. minimum USD$4.99, or you can &quot;name your price&quot;." MediaLinks="SizeUp &lt;http://www.irradiatedsoftware.com/sizeup/&gt;"/>
      </outline>
      <outline text="Adjusting settings based on location">
        <outline text="Andreas wants to tweak iPhone settings for better battery life and performance based on profiles. Play comment."/>
        <outline text="Don't know if it can be done on the iPhone. Use Apple's feedback page to suggest it." MediaLinks="apple.com/feedback &lt;http://www.apple.com/feedback/&gt;"/>
        <outline text="On the Mac there is a cool looking app called NetworkLocation" MediaLinks="NetworkLocation &lt;http://centrix.ca/NetworkLocation/&gt;">
          <outline text="USD $29 from Centrix.ca"/>
          <outline text="Will change settings on your Mac automatically based on your location.">
            <outline text="Uses Skyhook wireless data to auto detect your location"/>
            <outline text="Default Printer, Desktop Picture, Brightness, Screensaver Settings, System Location, Timezone, Volume, Connect to Servers, Airport on or off, Bluetooth on or off, change the SMTP Servers (Apple Mail), Open an Application or Run Script..., etc."/>
          </outline>
        </outline>
      </outline>
      <outline text="Move iPhoto '08 library to another drive">
        <outline text="We have covered moving your iTunes library to an external, but Marc wanted to know about iPhoto."/>
        <outline text="Before doing any of this, backup and confirm your backup."/>
        <outline text="Under iPhoto '08....">
          <outline text="Quit iPhoto."/>
          <outline text="Copy the iPhoto Library file from it's current location to your desired location (make a copy at first)."/>
          <outline text="Launch iPhoto holding down the option key, a dialog will come up asking you which library you want to use. You can also create a new one, but in this case choose the &quot;Other library...&quot; option."/>
          <outline text="Select the library file on the external volume and click OK."/>
          <outline text="Now iPhoto should be using this Library location."/>
        </outline>
        <outline text="This tip can be used to jump between multiple libraries. Useful if you have a notebook and want a smaller local library for on the road. Also useful for temporarily looking at iPhoto Library files on backup DVDs."/>
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    <outline text="Closing">
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        <outline text="Thanks to my sponsors">
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      <outline text="&quot;Open Road&quot; by Nathan Lee">
        <outline text="From the Podsafe Music Network, now MusicAlley from Mevio" MediaLinks="music.podshow.com &lt;http://music.podshow.com/music/listeners/artistdetails.php?BandHash=6b2fccdd12aaeb7e3fd40fc37d5cda29&gt;"/>
        <outline text="Artist's web site" MediaLinks="nathanleemusic.com &lt;http://nathanleemusic.com/&gt;"/>
      </outline>
      <outline text="EOL: Sometimes it just ends">
        <outline text="Yes, it really does."/>
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