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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>
    </outline>
    <outline text="Sponsor">
      <outline text="Smile on My Mac">
        <outline text="TextExpander and TextExpander Touch" MediaLinks="smileonmymac.com &lt;http://smileonmymac.com/&gt;"/>
        <outline text="Latest versions of all their apps are Snow Leopard compatible"/>
        <outline text="Free trial available"/>
      </outline>
    </outline>
    <outline text="News">
      <outline text="Mac fans ready to buy rumors">
        <outline text="MacNN says RBC Capital Markets' has surveyed Mac fans and analyst Mike Abramsky says they are more than ready to buy a Mac Tablet">
          <outline text="The study says of the 3,100 people interviewed 21% are ready to buy"/>
          <outline text="Assumes a price of between $500 and $700, much lower than the $700 to $900 in recent rumors"/>
          <outline text="To compare only 9% were looking to buy an iPhone in April 2007"/>
          <outline text="iLounge says the &quot;5th Gen nano source&quot; says the Mac tablet will be announced on or before January 19th, 2010 for release in May or June of 2010. Running the iPhone OS, not full OS X. 10.7&quot; screen with 720p resolution"/>
        </outline>
        <outline text="Microsoft Courier">
          <outline text="Concept in &quot;late-stage&quot; development."/>
          <outline text="dual 7&quot; screen, booklet format, pen and multitouch based."/>
          <outline text="3MP camera, &quot;touchstone&quot; inductive charging."/>
        </outline>
      </outline>
      <outline text="iTunes 9.0.1">
        <outline text="Resolves issues browsing the iTunes Store. "/>
        <outline text="Addresses a performance issue where iTunes may become unresponsive. "/>
        <outline text="Fixes a problem where iTunes may unexpectedly quit. "/>
        <outline text="Fixes a problem syncing Podcasts in playlists to iPod or iPhone. "/>
        <outline text="Fixes a problem sorting albums with multiple discs. "/>
        <outline text="Addresses an issue with the Zoom button not switching to Mini Player. ">
          <outline text="Terminal command will switch it back: 'defaults write com.apple.iTunes zoom-to-window -bool YES'" MediaLinks="via macworld.com &lt;http://www.macworld.com/article/142987/2009/09/itunes9green.html?lsrc=rss_main&gt;"/>
          <outline text="To switch back to Zoom to Mini Player: 'defaults delete com.apple.iTunes zoom-to-window'"/>
        </outline>
        <outline text="Improves application syncing for iPod touch and iPhone. "/>
        <outline text="Genius is now automatically updated to show Genius Mixes."/>
      </outline>
      <outline text="Apple got their accounting rule changes">
        <outline text="Apple lobbied the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB)"/>
        <outline text="Prior to the change had to use subscription rules of accounting to offer free updates to Apple TV and iPhone"/>
        <outline text="Delayed when they could record revenue on their books. Spread over 2 years."/>
        <outline text="So will we now see free iPod Touch updates?"/>
      </outline>
      <outline text="Rumors of iMac redesign">
        <outline text="AppleInsider and others are predicting that Apple may be set to refresh their iMac lineup"/>
        <outline text="Thinner design? No back bulge? Lower price points. Possibly have Blu-ray."/>
        <outline text="October release?"/>
        <outline text="Also possibly a Macbook refresh at the same time. Lower pricing? Design with smoothed or rounded edges."/>
        <outline text="Electronista reports that direct resellers were told by Apple that they would take no new orders for the existing iMac configurations or for the low end Mac Mini."/>
      </outline>
      <outline text="Apple comes clean on green">
        <outline text="Apple set up a new site to disclose details of it's environmental impact including details of it's &quot;environmental footprint&quot;" MediaLinks="apple.com/environment &lt;http://www.apple.com/environment/&gt;"/>
        <outline text="They list 10.2 million metric tons of greenhouse gas emission per year.">
          <outline text="Broken out by lifecycle"/>
          <outline text="38% manufacturing, 5% transportation, 53% product use, 1% recycling, 3% facilities"/>
          <outline text="Product usage is further broken out and detailed"/>
          <outline text="The site also has specific Product Environmental Reports."/>
        </outline>
        <outline text="Should help boost Apple's rank in the next Greenpeace report."/>
        <outline text="Also a new updated &quot;Apps for Everything&quot; section." MediaLinks="apple.com/apps-for-everything &lt;http://www.apple.com/iphone/apps-for-everything/&gt;">
          <outline text="Highlights iPhone apps in a variety of categories."/>
          <outline text="Staff picks."/>
        </outline>
      </outline>
      <outline text="Is Apple collaborating with Intel on Lightpeak?">
        <outline text="TUAW points out a Engadget report that says they have an 'extremely reliable source,' who says Apple is behind a push to bring Lightpeak to market "/>
        <outline text="Lightpeak is a new new fiber optic cable technology they how would replace almost every cable and connector on your Mac today">
          <outline text="Data at 10GBps in lengths up to 100 meters. Hope to reach 100Gbps in the next decade."/>
          <outline text="Combine with copper to deliver power to low power devices."/>
          <outline text="handles a variety of communications protocols, so one cable standard could drive monitors, external drives, scanners, etc."/>
        </outline>
      </outline>
      <outline text="Apple sends out unwanted Windows update">
        <outline text="IT World blogger Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols posted to his blog saying Apple's Software update for Windows recommended he install the iPhone Configuration Utility 2.1."/>
        <outline text="Chances are you don't need it as it's a tool for IT administrators to manage multiple iPhones"/>
        <outline text="Also include Apache Server, which Steven says can be a security risk?">
          <outline text="Hold on, I don't think the app actually install Apache and kick off the daemon or anything. I bit of an over reaction"/>
        </outline>
        <outline text="A few hours after the report Apple had removed the app from software update."/>
      </outline>
      <outline text="App store hits 2 billion">
        <outline text="Increased by 1 billion in just 158 days which, Mac NN says is about 6.33 million app downloads per day."/>
        <outline text="According to Apple number is new app download, not including updates"/>
        <outline text="Store has huge choices, 85,000 apps with over 125,000 registered developers."/>
      </outline>
      <outline text="How was your MMS experience?">
        <outline text="According to Macworld AT&amp;T says they were happy with the launch"/>
        <outline text="I had heard of many people having issues or long delays in sending even through Monday morning."/>
      </outline>
      <outline text="Former Newton developer back at Apple">
        <outline text="AppleInsider reports that the New Your Times confirmed that Apple has re-hired Michael Tchao to be their senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing."/>
        <outline text="Tchao has been at Nike working as a general manager for for Nike Techlab and Nike+"/>
        <outline text="From  June 1990 to August 1994 he was at apple working on among other things the original Newton."/>
        <outline text="Apparently he is also given some credit in convincing John Scully to do a consumer devices that used Apple's handwriting recognition technology."/>
        <outline text="Speculation is that Tchao is being hired to bring his experience to help market the rumored upcoming Mac tablet device."/>
      </outline>
      <outline text="Apple adds 2nd &quot;O&quot; carrier in the UK">
        <outline text="O2's iPhone exclusivity in the UK is at an end and France's Orange has announced plans to sell the iPhone 3G and 3GS in the UK before the end of the year. No hard date given."/>
        <outline text="No pricing details either, but there is an interest sign-up form on the Orange UK website"/>
        <outline text="Vodaphone also announced plans to carry the iPhone in Ireland and the UK starting in early 2010. Again little to no specific were available, but interested parties can sign up for notifications on the Vodaphone website."/>
        <outline text="Apple insider also reported the the iPhone would go on sales in China via China Unicom on October 1st. Pricing is reported set at the equivalent of $732.50 USD, but no specifics on the model."/>
      </outline>
      <outline text="Recent software updates">
        <outline text="iWork 9.0.3">
          <outline text="bug fixes and compatibility updates"/>
          <outline text="Reducing file size of images that have Instant Alpha applied"/>
          <outline text="Managing file size when inserting some movies"/>
          <outline text="Working with dates and durations in the Chart Data Editor in Keynote and Pages"/>
          <outline text="Exporting to CSV from Numbers when using table categories"/>
          <outline text="Updates to iWork.com">
            <outline text="Password protected shared documents"/>
            <outline text="Improved comments"/>
            <outline text="Simpler invites to shared documents"/>
          </outline>
        </outline>
        <outline text="iPod classic 2.0.3 firmware">
          <outline text="Support for Genius mixes"/>
        </outline>
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    <outline text="Sponsor">
      <outline text="Circus Ponies">
        <outline text="Notebook" MediaLinks="www.circusponies.com &lt;http://www.circusponies.com/&gt;"/>
        <outline text="Snow Leopard compatible"/>
        <outline text="Something that if you have in your app arsenal you'll find you use more and more.">
          <outline text="Beyond notes and outlines"/>
          <outline text="Flow charts and diagrams, organizing PDF content and research, Lists and to do's"/>
        </outline>
        <outline text="Free trial available"/>
      </outline>
    </outline>
    <outline text="Feedback, Comments and Commentary">
      <outline text="More option tricks in Snow Leopard">
        <outline text="Arun points out if you hold option while clicking the Apple menu the &quot;about this mac&quot; changes to 'System Profiler'"/>
        <outline text="Also the ellipses on Restart, Shut Down, and Log out go away so you can use those options without a confirmation dialog popping up."/>
      </outline>
      <outline text="De-icing Snow Leopard">
        <outline text="Play tip from Jason"/>
      </outline>
      <outline text="Dealing with the loss of creator codes in Snow Leopard">
        <outline text="Explain creator codes"/>
        <outline text="In Snow Leopard uses the Launch Services DB settings, which are controlled by the Get Info dialog.">
          <outline text="Will not always be the app that created the file."/>
          <outline text="Issue if you use multiple apps for the same type of file (html, css, txt, etc.)"/>
        </outline>
        <outline text="To change globally">
          <outline text="Select a file of the type you want to change"/>
          <outline text="Choose Get Info..."/>
          <outline text="From the &quot;Open with&quot; section select the default app for that file type and click the &quot;Change all...&quot; button"/>
        </outline>
        <outline text="To change for a specific file">
          <outline text="Same as above, but don't click the &quot;Change all...&quot; button"/>
          <outline text="You can also hold down the option key after control+clicking the file. This with change the 'Open with...' option to 'Always open with..&quot;"/>
          <outline text="If you want to open with a different app for just that one time, control+click the file and choose 'Open with...&quot;"/>
        </outline>
      </outline>
      <outline text="Snow Leopard's 32-bit spawns">
        <outline text="Ashok pointed out the awesome 23-page in depth technical review by John Siracusa over at Ars Technica" MediaLinks="arstechnica.com &lt;http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2009/08/mac-os-x-10-6.ars&gt;"/>
        <outline text="In it he explains how Apple uses a trick of spawning 32-bit process from their 64-bit apps like the new Quicktime X and Safari to run the 32-bit, like older 32-bit codecs and 32-bit plug-ins."/>
        <outline text="You can see these spawn if you watch the Activity monitor"/>
      </outline>
      <outline text="The unrepairable permissions">
        <outline text="Apple has a tech support article with a long list of OS X permissions that will should up as not being repaired, but can be safely ignored" MediaLinks="support.apple.com/TS1448 &lt;http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1448&gt;"/>
        <outline text="You can also usually ignore any &quot;ACL found but not expected...&quot; message.">
          <outline text="These occur when you deliberately change the permissions on a file or folder, so are correct, but you don't want the system changing them back."/>
        </outline>
      </outline>
      <outline text="Where are our iPhone hardware devices?">
        <outline text="Remember back when the iPhone 3.0 software was announced and Apple said there was this great hardware integration with apps">
          <outline text="Via dock connector and Bluetooth"/>
          <outline text="Showed an equalizer for a stereo dock, and as a blood glucose monitor with a blood-testing device for diabetics."/>
        </outline>
        <outline text="Where are those apps and devices?"/>
        <outline text="Even the Tom Tom hardware is MIA (October launch)."/>
        <outline text="Griffin, just announced there new iTrip FM transmitter with app integration" MediaLinks="griffintechnology.com &lt;http://www.griffintechnology.com/products/itrip&gt;"/>
        <outline text="Is that it?? An FM transmitter?"/>
      </outline>
      <outline text="Review: EyeFi Geo">
        <outline text="2GB SD card with WiFi and Geotagging using Skyhook Wireless"/>
        <outline text="Sold exclusively at Apple Retail stores for $59.99"/>
        <outline text="Add geotagging and wi-fi support to older cameras"/>
        <outline text="Comes with a USB reader. Installs Eye-Fi Manager app in menubar, links to web-based configuration tools."/>
        <outline text="Have to set up each hotspot you will use the card with the card plugged into the USB adapter."/>
        <outline text="If you are out of wi-fi images will be pushed when you get in range.">
          <outline text="Images flow through the EyeFi service. Option to have them queued there if your receiving Mac is not online. After they are delivered only a history and thumbnail is stored."/>
        </outline>
        <outline text="Worked good for me, but because Geotagging relies on wi-fi if you are out of WiFi range, no geo-tags"/>
        <outline text="Go right into iPhoto, folder, or other app you designate."/>
      </outline>
      <outline text="Minimize to Dock cool, but how would you know?">
        <outline text="Andy points out that Snow Leopard's new &quot;Minimize Windows into application icon&quot; option in the Dock preferences is cool, but once windows are minimized why is there no visual clue to indicate which apps icons have minimized windows behind them?"/>
        <outline text="You can use the click and hold Dock Expose trick of course, but you would still need to remember which apps you minimized windows to."/>
        <outline text="How about changing the little blue beacon spot to a different color?"/>
        <outline text="Any 3rd party utilities to deal with this dilemma?"/>
      </outline>
      <outline text="Ignore Trackpad when mouse is present, not present?">
        <outline text="Wyane pointed out that this option has been moved in Snow Leopard"/>
        <outline text="Was in the Mouse and Keyboard settings, can now be found in Universal Access under Mouse&amp;Trackpad tab."/>
      </outline>
    </outline>
    <outline text="Closing">
      <outline text="Podcast Marketplace">
        <outline text="Thanks to my sponsors">
          <outline text="Circus Ponies" MediaLinks="circusponies.com &lt;http://www.circusponies.com/&gt;"/>
          <outline text="Smile on my Mac" MediaLinks="smileonmymac.com &lt;http://www.smileonmymac.com/&gt;"/>
          <outline text="Faronics, Deep Freeze" MediaLinks="faronics.com/mac &lt;http://www.faronics.com/mac/&gt;"/>
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      </outline>
      <outline text="Guest Appearances">
        <outline text="This Saturday 10/3 I plan to drop in on the Mac Computer Expo put on by the North Coast Mac Users Group in Petaluma California" MediaLinks="maccomputerexpo.com &lt;http://www.maccomputerexpo.com/&gt;"/>
        <outline text="Jeff Gamet from the Mac Observer and co-host on the Phone Alley Podcast will be there too"/>
      </outline>
      <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"/>
        </outline>
        <outline text="MacCast Forum" MediaLinks="forum.maccast.com &lt;http://forum.maccast.com/&gt;"/>
        <outline text="Follow me on Twitter" MediaLinks="twitter.com/maccast &lt;http://www.twitter.com/maccast&gt;"/>
      </outline>
      <outline text="&quot;Her Thoughts to Me&quot; by Weather Pending">
        <outline text="Podsafe music from Music Alley on Mevio" MediaLinks="musicalley.com &lt;http://www.musicalley.com/music/listeners/artistdetails.php?BandHash=7a81e2644b7662e95991f2b87bae12b4&gt;"/>
        <outline text="Artists web site" MediaLinks="weatherpending.net &lt;http://www.weatherpending.net/&gt;"/>
      </outline>
      <outline text="EOL: iPhone Origami">
        <outline text="Fold paper to create a simple and zen-like iPhone stand. (via Cult of Mac)" MediaLinks="cultofmac.com &lt;http://www.cultofmac.com/do-some-office-origami-for-this-cool-iphone-dock/16422&gt;"/>
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