Comments on: MacCast Interview: iSwitch Podcast

By: Nathan Brinbaum

Nathan Brinbaum — Mon, 22 May 2006 22:53:24 +0000

Nathan Brinbaum

For instance, I typed “cat” in my Terminal, and dragged three files from my iTunes Music folder in to the Terminal window, and followed with the > pipe and specified ~/Desktop (“~/” is Unix shorthand for your “Home folder”) and the file went to t…

By: Downing

Downing — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 05:26:38 +0000

Er, make that “young man,” not “kid.” Sorry, Noah. No disrespect intended.

By: Downing

Downing — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 05:25:00 +0000

Good job on the podcast. Noah’s a kid who’s going to do well in life.

By: Ryan Gray

Ryan Gray — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 07:19:11 +0000

I think you hit on something when you talked about your iPod and how it surprised you how you used it, that you were a skeptic of the video version until you used one, and that you do watch video on it and not just through the TV because you always have it on you.

I have loved my PDAs mainly because I nearly always had them with me, so that whenever I had some time, I could pull it out and jot down some thoughts, play a short game, or read some news. I now have a Treo, which is nice since it combines the phone and PDA I used to carry, and I don’t use quite the number of Palm apps I used to back when I was experimenting with what I really would use it for.

I also have an iPod shuffle, and I love that in much the same way in that it’s small, and easy to have with me, even if it’s not integrated with my phone yet. It easily syncs my podcasts back and forth, so I can easily be listening to those when I get a chance. Even though I watch a lot of video podcasts that would be well-suited for a video iPod, I hesitate because I wonder if I might not keep it with me as much. If only someone made an adapter that allowed my shuffle to plug into my Treo’s SD card slot…or if Apple finally made that phone…

By: Noah Wood

Noah Wood — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 00:43:20 +0000

I will work on this right away, sorry about the confusion. Please send me suggestions to the design to noah[at]iswitch.us I’m just uplodaed the site design on Sunday so I still ahev bugs to work out.

By: Marc

Marc — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 00:05:17 +0000

should be able to option click the image to download

By: rick

rick — Mon, 06 Feb 2006 23:51:41 +0000

stitzu,
thank you for your reply. Last night I did not see the podcast image next to the player. Maybe I did not pay attention. However, while I am on that page, the player starts loading the file automatically. How do I stop the player from doing that? I would just want to download the MP3 for listening later. But I do not want to activate the player at all. Maybe the podcast image (the link to download the mp3 file) should be in the previous page?

By: Appleologist

Appleologist — Mon, 06 Feb 2006 22:06:11 +0000

Rick, just click on “Listen…” on the first page you go to, then click on the play button in the Quicktime plugin window.

By: Stitzu

Stitzu — Mon, 06 Feb 2006 21:43:20 +0000

Rick, the podcast image to the left of the player is a link to download the mp3 file. ;)

By: Noah Wood

Noah Wood — Mon, 06 Feb 2006 21:37:25 +0000

Thanks for the note, I have a “Podcast” button which links to the MP3 file.

By: Craig

Craig — Mon, 06 Feb 2006 21:15:21 +0000

They’ve got to be kidding — no mp3download? Please. Adam, you need to talk with them about that.

Why didn’t you warn us?

By: rick

rick — Mon, 06 Feb 2006 20:39:59 +0000

I liked the interview and all the questions were interesting. However, I could not download the MP3 file and had to stay online for 45 min. Is this because the website was designed using iWeb (which probably does not allow downloads yet)?