The Thanksgiving tradition of Arlo Guthrie’s folk standard Alice’s Restaurant puts us in a jovial mood where the discussion tends more towards the music and family, rather than current internet marketing tactics.
However, we do talk about the issue of iTunes crapping out and losing the purchased songs that were in the library on Cameron’s hard drive. Apple now offers a service where you can make backups of the products that you buy, but if you are not diligent you can end up losing them.
There is a service that I used called iPod Access from Findley Designs which allowed me to transfer the files from my iPod back into iTunes to recover music lost in a PC drive crash earlier this year. It is important to prevent an iTunes sync before proceeding or else the missing files will be lost.
The new iPod 2.2 release came through and the greatest feature discovered so far is the ability to download podcasts through wifi without having to go through the sync process with iTunes. In an all out effort to find great podcasts to listen to, this feature makes it easy to seek and find the content you are looking for.
One missing element on the iPhone version however is that you cannot get any episode recaps or summaries about the program itself, so I am still in the process of promoting and expanding two bookmarking locations and encouraging others to contribute to the lists.
A Friendfeed room called Podcast Place has been set up, along with a Ma.gnolia Group where all are welcome to drop by and to put links to their favorite podcasts and give us a taste of why you like it so much. Please send the group URL’s to others so that they can add to the community as well.
For the real Geeks out there .. The end of the mission for the Mars Phoenix Rover happened at the beginning of November and on the 10th transmitted it’s final tweet from Mars “01010100 01110010 01101001 01110101 01101101 01110000 01101000 <3″ … over the weekend I was thinking about the fact that there is some sort of historical aspect to the human race exploration of the nearest planet, the discovery of ice and how it was communicated directly to over 39,000 followers on a daily basis while the mission was taking place. I snagged the RSS feed and have tucked it away for posterity.
The Disqus commenting system has been a great addition to the blogs that we have set up throughout this past year, and really feel strongly about making an effort to interact with others via comments. Having a system that allows you to follow others as they leave comments can have an even larger benefit than following on Twitter, simply because a comment tends to be more thought out and in depth. However, the downside to Disqus is that not every blog has integrated the system, so you can only see a partial picture of the content appearing in the comments across the web.
The commenting system that resolves that dilemma is called BackType where the email address that you use when logging in to leave a comment is what is tracked in the comment stream. So any comment that you have left, no matter what commenting system in use, will appear in the comment stream. We highly recommend setting up a profile and start following.
Check out the comment widget in the left sidebar of this post.
A Fluid Thanksgiving Tradition
by joemagennis on November 25, 2008
The Thanksgiving tradition of Arlo Guthrie’s folk standard Alice’s Restaurant puts us in a jovial mood where the discussion tends more towards the music and family, rather than current internet marketing tactics.
However, we do talk about the issue of iTunes crapping out and losing the purchased songs that were in the library on Cameron’s hard drive. Apple now offers a service where you can make backups of the products that you buy, but if you are not diligent you can end up losing them.
There is a service that I used called iPod Access from Findley Designs which allowed me to transfer the files from my iPod back into iTunes to recover music lost in a PC drive crash earlier this year. It is important to prevent an iTunes sync before proceeding or else the missing files will be lost.
The new iPod 2.2 release came through and the greatest feature discovered so far is the ability to download podcasts through wifi without having to go through the sync process with iTunes. In an all out effort to find great podcasts to listen to, this feature makes it easy to seek and find the content you are looking for.
One missing element on the iPhone version however is that you cannot get any episode recaps or summaries about the program itself, so I am still in the process of promoting and expanding two bookmarking locations and encouraging others to contribute to the lists.
A Friendfeed room called Podcast Place has been set up, along with a Ma.gnolia Group where all are welcome to drop by and to put links to their favorite podcasts and give us a taste of why you like it so much. Please send the group URL’s to others so that they can add to the community as well.
For the real Geeks out there .. The end of the mission for the Mars Phoenix Rover happened at the beginning of November and on the 10th transmitted it’s final tweet from Mars “01010100 01110010 01101001 01110101 01101101 01110000 01101000 <3″ … over the weekend I was thinking about the fact that there is some sort of historical aspect to the human race exploration of the nearest planet, the discovery of ice and how it was communicated directly to over 39,000 followers on a daily basis while the mission was taking place. I snagged the RSS feed and have tucked it away for posterity.
Also, here is a nice short tribute video to Phoenix by JPL.
The Disqus commenting system has been a great addition to the blogs that we have set up throughout this past year, and really feel strongly about making an effort to interact with others via comments. Having a system that allows you to follow others as they leave comments can have an even larger benefit than following on Twitter, simply because a comment tends to be more thought out and in depth. However, the downside to Disqus is that not every blog has integrated the system, so you can only see a partial picture of the content appearing in the comments across the web.
The commenting system that resolves that dilemma is called BackType where the email address that you use when logging in to leave a comment is what is tracked in the comment stream. So any comment that you have left, no matter what commenting system in use, will appear in the comment stream. We highly recommend setting up a profile and start following.
Check out the comment widget in the left sidebar of this post.
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone!
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