January 4th, 2009
Brent shares credit with Connor for Soundflower, Al on International Mac Podcast at impodcast.tv. On Dumb Question Corner Jim asks why Quicksilver if we have Spotlight, and Jane asks how to make a text file of the list of files in a folder on OSX. Ron David launches his podcast at The Sounds of Wings at thesoundsofwings.com. Maccraic’s Justin G Byrne and David Shortle join me for some fun with Honda Bob maccraic.com. I try and try and try to put Ubuntu on my OLPC but don’t succeed, yet. Connor writes two automator scripts to help me turn network time syncing on and off before using Skype. In Chit Chat Across the Pond Bart and I talk about how he found Pages useful, and we talk about bad journalism on the net. If you’re at MacWorld next week, check out the live Mac Roundtable at 4pm on Wednesday in the Macworld Learning Center Booth (# 3036) in North Hall.
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January 4th, 2009
This short tutorial is intended to teach you how to take your existing podcast feed and get it listed in iTunes. You will need to know the url of your podcast feed in order to execute this maneuver, so find it before you start. Frequently the form of the feed will be rss.xml but that isn’t always the case. You will also need to have an Apple ID - this is the free ID you use in order to buy music, movies and TV shows through the iTunes store. If you don’t have an Apple ID you can also use an AOL login.
Select Podcasts in iTunes
First launch iTunes and select Podcasts in the top left corner of the iTunes window
Go to the Podcast Directory
Now in the bottom right corner of the iTunes window, click on Podcast Directory.
Submit a Podcast
When the iTunes store opens to podcasts, it is very long. You’ll have to scroll all the way to the bottom, and find the very bottom left area titled “Learn More”. Under that heading you should find Submit a Podcast link.
Enter your RSS feed URL
Enter your Podcast Feed URL in the window and click Continue.
Enter your Apple ID and password
In the fields shown, enter your Apple ID or AOL ID and enter the associated password, and hit Continue.
Wait
The final step is simply to wait until Apple enters your Podcast into their database. In my experience it only takes about a day or two. I don’t actually remember whether they send you a notification or whether you just have to keep searching in the iTunes store to see if it’s listed.
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December 28th, 2008
In Dumb Question Corner we talk about how to get the shownotes to show up on an iPod Touch or iPhone, and TWO people ask about whether it’s safe to get rid of .dmg files. Soundflower from cycling74.com allows me to pipe Garageband AND my mic into ustream, with the help of Audio Hijack Pro from rogueamoeba.com thanks to the instructions on bwana.org. PictureSync from picturesync.net to help you upload photos to online sites. On Chit Chat Across the Pond Bart and I talk through the 3rd Party Applications that have stood the test of time. Both of us still use: DropBox, CaffineSoundSource, Transmit, FireFox, Twhirl, MagiCal, RapidoWrite, Adium, Skype. Bart also uses: EverNoteNetNewsWire, Teleport, JellyFiSSH, Fluid, ImageWell, Thunderbird, arRsync, Password Vault. Allison also uses: Skitch, Feeder, Firefox 3, Rapido Serial, Camtwist, Quicksilver, AppDelete, Wiretap Studio, SuperDuper, DiskInventoryX, LXVII, Screensteps.
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December 21st, 2008
In Dumb Question Corner we answer Peter’s question about the difference between DVD+R and DVD-R and I explain how to use mactracker.ca to figure out what kind of burner you have. Then David Sparks from macsparky.com joins us with a review of the Richard Solo 1800 from richardsolo.com. Doug from alwaysapples.com.au explains that there are MALE Australian listeners with his lovely Christmas message, and then Scott who is ALSO an Australian listeners reviews Syncopation from sonzea.com for syncing up to 5 Macs to one iTunes library. Robert Lachman of photographyandthemac.com talks about his use of pbwiki and reviews several great photography books. In Chit Chat Across the Pond Bart and i discuss the woes Microsoft went through in the last few weeks with a terrible vulernability that affected all versions of Internet Explorer AND Word. Read the US Cert on the exploit at http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/493881.
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December 14th, 2008
The Mega episode at an hour and sixteen minutes! Run your backups and watch Elf. Jane reviews Dockspaces from nscoding.co.uk, read the whole review at Galacticstrings.com. In Dumb Question Corner BJ asks about how to help his mom move playlists to her iPhone. I do an EXTENSIVE review of the Blackberry Storm, and I interview Sean Lindo of Box.net. In Chit Chat Across the Pond Bart and I talk about our very different paths to the Mac and we dig into all the ways we use wikis, and in particular how much we like PBWiki at pbwiki.com.
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December 7th, 2008
Mom on Buzz Out Loud, Mona doesn’t know she’s joined a cult, InterfaceLIFT.com for beautiful wallpapers, Stanza for iPhone/iPod Touch and Mac desktop from lexcycle.com (iTunes direct link to Stanza). Pan Macmillan from panmacmillan.com and O’Reilly’s Safari books at safari.oreilly.com for DRM free books Stanza can read. Make your iPhone into an Ocarina from ocarina.smule.com (iTunes direct link to Ocarina) In Chit Chat Across the Pond Steve challenges Bart about HDCP plugging the analog hole, Bart reviews Photomatix from www.hdrsoft.com and Bart describes his glee at his Christmas cards from Apple.
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November 30th, 2008
Sheridan Christmas Card Photo Shoot, Mom is foiled by technology, Robert Lachman gets his car waxed link to Flickr photos of the waxing. In Dumb Question Corner we try to figure out how those phantom PCs keep showing up in our sharing sidebar, and we talk about flinging our Mac laptops around. More on Aperture 2 adjustments, screencasing application Screenium review from www.synium.de. Honda Bob replaces Kyle’s EGR sensor with photos at my flickr account. In Chit Chat Across the Pond Bart and I talk about HDCP, taking photos of the canteen burning down using the iPhone and yet another positive Apple Care experience for Bart.
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November 23rd, 2008
Al & Steve’s excellent adventure to see Blue Man Group, DebbieT’s tutorial on adjustment bricks in Aperture at splashofstyle.com. Wordpress plugins: Akismet, IWPhone, Subscribe to Comments, Ultimate Google Analytics, Wordpress Database Backup, wp-cache and WP-PayPalDonate. Google Talk gets video, Yum 3.0 released at yum-mac.com/. In Dumb Question Corner Suzanne asks how to move playlists of iTunes paid music from one mac to another and Sebastian asks how to get his router to let him to use a usb pen drive for storage. Best Buy gives me great service with a knowledgeable salesperson. In Chit Chat Across the Pond Bart and I talk about disabling auto-run on Windows, we have the Twitter poll results on whether you like iPhone talk on Mac podcasts, and we go through the new features in iPhone 2.2. Help Bart get attention on the missing proxies in VPN for the Mac by writing at apple.com/feedback/iphone.html. check out the MacRoundtable too at macroundtable.com.
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November 16th, 2008
NosillaCast 30% off for the next 3 months, adventures moving MX records for my email from GoDaddy to google, message from James - a deaf-blind listener. IN Dumb Question Corner we answer how to make enhanced podcasts with Windows, and whether you SHOULD, and how to open .pps files without Microsoft Powerpoint. I’m finally liking Aperture and I tell you why, three ways Twitter helped me this week. In Chit Chat Across the Pond we do an update on how to protect yourself from the hack on Wi-fi Protected Access or WPA, and then we buckle down and cover the important issue of how to choose your flashlight app for your iPhone/iPod Touch.
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November 9th, 2008
Jonathan Cost of the MacTips Daily podcast over at thinkmac.net helps me move my email, Victor was right, ICY DOCK repairs my hard drive enclosure, perspctv.com to compare web traffic on different topics. In Dumb Question Corner we answer how to reset your password on a Mac when you’ve lost it, when to use a portable vs. non-portable hard drive, why there are 4 radios in an iPhone and what you should do to manage them, and finally how to share iTunes and iPods across multiple computers and family members. Nillan talks to us about ScreenFlow from Flip4Mac and check out his first effort at Youtube. In CCATP in the security light section we talk about how to deal with the WPA hack, why you can separate your email from your hosting company and whether logarithmic and exponential are the same thing (http://www.sosmath.com/algebra/logs/log4/log4.html and Pogson’s ratio here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apparent_magnitude.
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