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  Opening Music
    Music is Say Anything by Manda and the Marbles
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News
  Case of the missing iPhones
    Reports all over the Applesphere of Apple stores sold out of iPhones
    Listener reports of outrages in NYC, Washington DC, and Michigan
    Rumors from "Asian" sources that Apple has placed orders 10 million 3G phones. OLED display to conserve power.
    Reports Kevin Rose said there would be a front facing video cam for chat and June release date.
    Some reports that Apple has stepped up orders for high-capacity Flash (4GB) modules from Hynix and Samsung.
    Gene Munster predicts sales of 45 million iPhones in 2009
      Lower prices, 3G
  Apple sales up in down market
    A Changewave report covered by ArsTechnica
    Apple on track to sell 2 million Macs this quarter, better than the 1.5 milion for the same period last year
    About 30% surveyed said they are considering a Mac notebook purchase
    Another Changewave survey of 2,200 corporate users shows Leopard users are the most satisfied.
      3% of those using Leopard reported they were very satisfied with their operating system, compared to only 40% of Windows XP and just 8% of Vista users.
  Safari 3.1 and Webkit rocked the ACID test
    Webikit has scored a 100 and Safari 3.1 scores 75
    ACID3 measures web standards compliance and performance
    Webkit is the underlying technology that drives Apple's Safari and Mail web engine
  Macbook Air hacked
    At the CanSecWest hacking PWN2OWN competition
    Macbook Air was hacked and P0wned by Dr. Charlie Miller who also got $10,000 grand to boot
    Happened vis a Safari exploit on the 2nd day when they allowed browser access
    Dr. Charlie Miller was also the security researched who uncovered iPhone vulnerabilities in mobile Safari back in July.
    Apple has been informed of the exploit and details were not revealed
  Apple releases v2 of iPhone SDK
    Biggest change is that they have now included Interface Builder
    Also beta 2 of Xcode 3.1
  Apple TV Update 2.0.1
    Update includes bug-fixes
    Menu performance snappier
    Browse movies by genre under “My Movies”
    Podcasts now sync back to iTunes
    Some reports of Wi-fi issues on N. According to iLounge, problem seems to be related to some 5GHz 802.11n networks; switching to a 2.4GHz network or simply turning off the “Use wide channels” option of Apple’s Airport Extreme Base Station appears to alleviate the problem.
Feedback, Comments and Commentary
  Some followup on music sharing
    Play comment from Matt
  Google Map Hack for older iPods
    If you don't have an iPod Touch or iPhone, listener Jimmy had this trick for Google Maps.
    Go to Google Maps and get your directions.
    Zoom in and take Screenshots
    Load those into iPhoto (create a Maps album)
    Sync with iTunes.
  CDs with labels are unreliable
    Play comment from David.
    I would remove the labels with time, patience, and elbow grease
      I would avoid any kind of solvents recommended on may sites, like mineral spirits, alcohol, WD-40, GoofOff, lighter fluid, etc.
      Even water may be an issue if it spots, or get in the layers.
    I would recommend using a direct to CD/DVD printer or a technology like Lightscribe.
      Can get direct inkjet label printers for under $100.00
  Automator and iCal, the perfect auto scheduling pair.
    Steven has to rely on satellite for his connectivity (expensive) and wanted to automate getting his podcasts from between 12:00 AM and 3:00 AM.
    In Leopard Automator can be used to create iCal plug-ins.
      Save as plug-in for iCal Alarm
    In iCal you can schedule events to run the Automator plug-in.
      Plug-ins also work for Finder, Script Menu, folder actions, etc.
      In previous versions of iCal (Tiger) you could launch apps, including Automator apps.
    A great Automator site, Automator World
  Mac log file maintenance
    I thought Since Tiger you really don't need to run these scripts manually. Switched to launchd (Tiger).
    Looks like the issue persisted under Tiger, thus Anacron was developed.
    Now fixed in Leopard. If missed they should pickup and run the next time your Mac is on.
    You can still run them manually from the Terminal using 'periodic' (Tiger) or 'newsyslog' (Leopard) commands.
    Or use a tool like Onyx or Cocktail.
  My experience hacking the AppleTV
    Thanks to some thought seeds from Tim Verpoorten I hacked my Apple TV
      Applecore LLC aTV Flash - Take 2.0 ($59.95)
    I created my own patchstick using the iClarified instructions
    Hacks to add...
      Divx, Xvid, Windows Media and other support
      Browser with Flesh support
      File browsing
      SSH
    Looks like the 2.0.1 updated will undo my handywork.
  My thoughts on Apple refurbished products
    I generally like them
    Some warnings
      Brent had model that was non-standard. iBook G4 933MHz with 80 GB drive (normally had 40GB). May have been upgraded post purchase. Had to have it serviced and Apple replaced his drive back with a 40GB factory drive.
      Also heard stories of non-wiped drives making it back out into the wild.
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  New music, "Routine and Dollar Signs" by Goodnight Sunrise
    From the Podsafe Music Network
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  EOL: Macbook Air Parody
    Now that's one big envelope.