I’m really enjoying Leonard. Nice loud stuff with some good guitar work.
Month: May 2005
The New York Times on podcasting
Here’s an article from The NY Times today on podcasting.
podcasting stuff
I’ve been listening to a number of podcasts lately on a fairly regular basis, and I decided to take the next step today, and actually start listening to them on my iPod. I’d been simply pressing them to audio CDs and listening to them in my car via the CD changer. This works fine, but I usually don’t want to listen to a given podcast more than once or twice, so it’s kind of a waste of a CD.
I decided to use my old first-gen 5GB iPod for this, rather than clutter up my newer iPod with podcasts. Getting this set up turned out to be quite a production. The old iPod was Mac-formatted, so, at first, I set it up to sync with my “received podcasts” directory via XPlay. That worked OK, but I thought I could do better by switching to iTunes. So I reformatted the iPod and set it up to sync with iTunes. I didn’t get very far. I started getting disk errors, so I reformatted again and set everything up again. I did a little better this time. I got one disk error at one point, but it’s been good since. I’ve been playing around a bit, trying to stress it and see if it’s going to keep working or not. So far, so good.
I also decided to upgrade to iTunes 4.8, just for yuks. That worked fine, except that it broke iPodder. I upgraded to iPodder 2.0.3, and everything seems fine now.
So, after all that work, I now have an iPod full of podcasts that I can plug into my car stereo via an old casette adapter. It sounds OK, but not great. I also ordered a car charger from XtremeMac, so I can keep the thing going, since the battery life ain’t what it used to be.
this WEEK in TECH
twit.tv — an interesting podcast from Leo Laporte and a bunch of other guys who used to be involved with TechTV.
Tiger
Mac OS X Keyboard Shortcuts
Mac OS X Keyboard Shortcuts — something I’ve been looking for: a simple list of the Emacs key bindings for text editing in Mac OS X. And a bunch of other keyboard shortcuts.
Tapestry Comics
Tapestry — A list of RSS feeds for various comic strips. Useful.
Flying Meat: VoodooPad
VoodooPad is another Mac application that looks a bit like OneNote. These guys are going with a Wiki-like structure, which is kind of interesting.
iTunes silliness
The new Ryan Adams CD is $10.99 at Amazon.com, but $17.99 at iTunes.