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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;"/>
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    <outline text="Sponsor">
      <outline text="Faronics">
        <outline text="Deep Freeze" MediaLinks="faronics.com &lt;http://www.faronics.com/&gt;"/>
        <outline text="If your in IT, running an edu lab, library, have a hotel or internet cafe."/>
        <outline text="Snow Leopard compatible and was from day 1."/>
        <outline text="30-day free trial available"/>
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    <outline text="News">
      <outline text="Predictions for Apple 4Q call">
        <outline text="The upcoming call is Oct. 19th at 2:00 PM PT"/>
        <outline text="AppleInsider says according to Oppenheimer's Yair Reiner investors don't yet fully realize the impact that last months accounting rules changes made by the Financial Accounting Standards Board will have on Apple's results">
          <outline text="Under the new rules Apple will get to report and recognizes more iPhone sales at time of sale."/>
          <outline text="Oppenheimer's price target is set to $210 per share."/>
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      <outline text="New mouse to go with new Macs">
        <outline text="AppleInsider claims Apple may be looking to make the Mighty Mouse mightier. A simple feat if you ask me. Just add 2 real buttons and a scrollwheel."/>
        <outline text="iMac and Mac Mini supplies are said to be dwindling with resellers being told to expect long lead times to get new shipments."/>
        <outline text="Now the Mighty Mouse in on 2 week backorder fueling the speculation."/>
        <outline text="No scrollball or wheel, but multitouch surface. Software expected to mimic the iPod touch and iPhone scrolling actions, including acceleration and &quot;bounce&quot; back."/>
        <outline text="The name will likely change since the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office awarded use of the &quot;Mighty Mouse&quot; name for peripherals to maker Man &amp; Machine."/>
        <outline text="Engadget noted a FFC filing by Apple for a new Bluetooth Mouse and Keyboard">
          <outline text="Included images which were pulled and replaced with cropped ones only showing FCC labels and model numbers"/>
          <outline text="new keyboard is smaller than the current AL one, so no number pad"/>
          <outline text="rumor that mouse may be Al as well, but not likely with multitouch."/>
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      <outline text="Rumors on Mac Tablet shift to media device">
        <outline text="TMO has a report that Apple is allegedly in talks with book and magazine publishers to provide content for a new device"/>
        <outline text="iTunes Albums, could be great for syncing to a larger media tablet."/>
        <outline text="Gizmodo sources a Newsarama piece that says Andy Ihnatko believes Apple is poised to start selling eBook content on iTunes, he just doesn't know when">
          <outline text="Says he's hearing over and over Apple is getting large shipments of books delivered to it's campus."/>
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        <outline text="Several blogs noted that AppleInsider recently uncovered a 2009 Apple patent filing for a multitouch gesture and hand-based interface that would be prime for a tablet UI.">
          <outline text="TMO says PC World Blog things the patent may apply to a replacement for the keyboard and mouse combo."/>
          <outline text="One of the patent filing images seems to support that."/>
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        <outline text="TMO and others site the Digitimes which is reporting that Foxconn will manufacture the device">
          <outline text="Will be due in Q1 of 2010"/>
          <outline text="With a 10.4&quot; touchscreen"/>
          <outline text="Apple reported ordered an inital shipment of 300,000 to 400,000 units."/>
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        <outline text="I still feel the device should be able to dock and be used as a 2nd USB display, using DisplayLink like technology">
          <outline text="Actually this would be cool for iPhones and iPod touches as well, for little widgets, monitors, etc. (iStat display)."/>
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      <outline text="Snow Leopard adoption going strong">
        <outline text="ArsTechnica looked at recent numbers released by Net Applications and about 18.5% of Mac users appear to have made the leap to Snow Leopard."/>
        <outline text="Net Applications numbers">
          <outline text="5% of visitors to their member sites running OS X"/>
          <outline text="about 33% running Leopard"/>
          <outline text="about 20% running Tiger"/>
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      <outline text="More iPhone carrier choice in the Great White North">
        <outline text="According to a MacNN piece both cell carriers Bell and Telus in Canada have announced agreement with Apple to sell the iPhone 3G and 3GS starting in November"/>
        <outline text="This is another in a series of announcements where Apple is opening up the iPhone to multiple carriers in various markets outside the US."/>
        <outline text="Interesting in the Bell and Telus situation is that they are both currently CDMA only carriers, but will deploy compatible HSPA (3G) networks until they move to 4G LTE in 2011"/>
        <outline text="Bell says they will launch a 21Mbps HSPA+ network in November"/>
        <outline text="In other, but unrelated international news, AppleInsider notes that Apple launched a regionalized online Apple Store for Brazil." MediaLinks="apple.com/br &lt;http://apple.com/br&gt;"/>
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      <outline text="AT&amp;T will allow Skype and Google Voice VoIP on 3G">
        <outline text="MacRumors says AT&amp;T confirmed it notified Apple and the FCC that it would allow VoIP functionality on the iPhone over it's 3G network"/>
        <outline text="As Electronista notes, AT&amp;T had, in the past, disallowed VoIP on the iPhone."/>
        <outline text="Apple quickly responded to the announcement with good news.">
          <outline text="Apple spokeswoman Natalie Kerris said, &quot;We will be amending our developer agreements to get VOIP apps on the App Store and in customers' hands as soon as possible.&quot;"/>
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        <outline text="The MacObserver note AT&amp;T told the Wall Street Journal that while they will allow VoIP they haven't figured out yet how to open up tethering for iPhone users">
          <outline text="&quot;For tethering, we need to do some additional fine tuning to our systems and networks so that we do deliver a great experience,&quot; an AT&amp;T spokesperson said."/>
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      <outline text="AT&amp;T CEO De la Vega says iPhone owners may need to be &quot;managed&quot;">
        <outline text="Macworld says in a recent speech at the CTIA Conference in San Diego AT&amp;T CEO Ralph de la Vega put a lot of attention on iPhone owners disproportionately heavy use of it's data network.">
          <outline text="The 3% of AT&amp;T customers using iPhones eat up 40% of all smartphone data"/>
          <outline text="They use 13 times the data as an &quot;average&quot; smartphone customer"/>
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        <outline text="De la Vaga hinted that until new spectrum and 4g networks become available that the network would have to be &quot;managed&quot; to avoid shutting out the majority of customer who use less data."/>
        <outline text="Of course he offered no specifics, but I think we have seen things like delayed roll-out of MMS and tethering as examples."/>
        <outline text="At the same CITA event AT&amp;T Chief Technology Officer John Donovan defended the AT&amp;T network which has been under attack by a recent Verzion anti-iPhone ad, &quot;There's a Map for that&quot; (Coverage map).">
          <outline text="Will start upgrading it's 3G network to HSPA 7.2 (iPhone 3GS supported, 7.2Mbps) this year in Chicago, Los Angeles, Dallas, Houston, Miami and Charlotte, North Carolina."/>
          <outline text="In 25 of the top 30 markets by the middle of next year"/>
          <outline text="Will begin deploying their 4G LTE (Long-Term Evolution) network commercially in 2011."/>
          <outline text="AT&amp;T is 90 percent finished deploying 850MHz spectrum which offers better indoor coverage in larger metro areas."/>
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      <outline text="iPhone OS 3.1.2 released">
        <outline text="For iPhone and iPod Touch"/>
        <outline text="Resolves sporadic issue that may cause iPhone to not wake from sleep"/>
        <outline text="Resolves intermittent issue that may interrupt cellular network services until restart"/>
        <outline text="Fixes bug that could cause occasional crash during video streaming"/>
        <outline text="I continue to have horrific battery issues with my 3GS">
          <outline text="Hoping this update may improve things, but seen some tweets to the contrary"/>
        </outline>
        <outline text="Updates AT&amp;T carrier settings file to version 5.6"/>
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    <outline text="Feedback, Comments and Commentary">
      <outline text="Additional ways for viewing dock icon minimized windows">
        <outline text="Play tip from Arun"/>
        <outline text="You can also tab through all the open apps when the Expose view is active to see minimized apps in each app."/>
        <outline text="I should have been clearer. I was wanting an &quot;at a glance&quot; way to look at the dock (without having to activate anything) to know which apps I had minimized windows into. A badge icon with numbers might even be nice."/>
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      <outline text="Possible reason for slow iPhone software/hardware integration">
        <outline text="Andy a grad student has shed some light. He is trying to work on projects that would integrate iPhone hardware and software"/>
        <outline text="The issue is more on the hardware side and Apple opening up the program to more people">
          <outline text="While all of the software APIs exist in the form of the External Accessory Framework in the iPhone SDK it's the hardware that's the sticky bit"/>
          <outline text="To make your hardware you must &quot;Apply&quot; for and pay for the &quot;Made for iPod and Works with iPhone&quot; license"/>
        </outline>
        <outline text="An Apple rep told Andy that Apple is much more selective about who is allowed into the &quot;Made for iPod and Works with iPhone&quot; programs."/>
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      <outline text="Flash sneaks on to the iPhone, but do we want it?">
        <outline text="Adobe announced that Flash CS5 will let developers create iPhone-native applications."/>
        <outline text="Is that a good or bad thing?"/>
        <outline text="I will say up front I despise Flash. I think it's an outdated technology that is bloated and no longer needed with HTML 5 on the horizon."/>
        <outline text="My initial reaction is we will see another flood of &quot;experimental&quot; apps like we did when the SDk first came out."/>
        <outline text="To be fair there are some amazing Flash developers out there, but it does significantly lower the barrier to entry to the App Store.">
          <outline text="Again I think the iPhone has become the Windows application world for Apple fans"/>
          <outline text="Too many choices getting harder to find the gems, but there are great gems."/>
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      <outline text="Parental controls broken in Snow Leopard">
        <outline text="I don't use the feature, but Dan says he does and can't upgrade until the issues in this discussion thread are fixed" MediaLinks="discussions.apple.com &lt;http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2138136&amp;start=0&amp;tstart=0&gt;"/>
        <outline text="Basic issue seems to be it not honoring computer time limits."/>
        <outline text="Wasn't clear if this was only an issue with upgrade installs or if it was an issue with a fresh clean install creating brand new user accounts."/>
        <outline text="For Internet blocking and time limits there is Intego Content Barrier, which says it's Snow Leopard compatible" MediaLinks="intego.com/contentbarrier &lt;http://www.intego.com/contentbarrier/&gt;"/>
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      <outline text="Maccast One Minute Tip #166 - The Dirty Button">
        <outline text="Play Maccast One Minute Tip"/>
        <outline text="The One Minute Tip podcast" MediaLinks="oneminutetip.com &lt;http://www.oneminutetip.com/&gt;"/>
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      <outline text="Duplicate contacts on your iPhone or iPod Touch">
        <outline text="This happened to me after the 3.1 update. You can now sync Mobile Me and Mac contacts."/>
        <outline text="If you do this on the same Mac you use for Mobile Me syncing you end up with the same data in an &quot;On my iPhone&quot; and &quot;Mobile Me&quot; section on the device."/>
        <outline text="Macke sure your contacts and calendars are backed up just in case."/>
        <outline text="To eliminate the duplicates">
          <outline text="1) Make sure you iPhone has been set up for Mobile Me Syncing and that it is sync'd with all your latest data."/>
          <outline text="2) Dock you iPhone and launch iTunes."/>
          <outline text="3) Select your device in iTunes and go to the Info tab. Uncheck the sync option for Calendar and Contacts buttons. The data will still get synced via MobileMe."/>
          <outline text="4) Sync and undoc your iPhone."/>
          <outline text="5) To eliminate the existing dupes go to Settings on the iPhone, then Mail, Contacts, and Calendars, then the Mobile Me account-it. Turn off Contacts and Calendars. It'll ask if you want to delete then. Say &quot;Yes&quot;. This will remove the duplicates."/>
          <outline text="6) Turn the Contacts and Calendars in the iPhone settings back on and say &quot;Yes&quot; to merge, and it will sync without the dupes."/>
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    <outline text="Closing">
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      <outline text="&quot;Happy Ending&quot; by The Atomic Love Bombs">
        <outline text="Bryan Chaffin from the Mac Observer is in the band"/>
        <outline text="Artists web site" MediaLinks="atomiclovebombs.com &lt;http://www.atomiclovebombs.com/&gt;"/>
        <outline text="New CD is called &quot;Let it Burn&quot; and is on iTunes." MediaLinks="Buy on iTunes &lt;http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=322515390&amp;s=143441&gt;"/>
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      <outline text="EOL: Done">
        <outline text="Stick a fork in it."/>
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