Opening Music

Music is Say Anything by Manda and the Marbles

Mandaandthemarbles.com

www.mandaandthemarbles.com

HP adds Shuffle to the Mix

HP is now selling the iPod Shuffle.

Same prices as Apple. 512MB for $99.99 (USD) and a 1GB version for $129.99 (USD)

Firefox up an running on Intel Macs

Mozilla developer Josh Aas reports on his blog that he has successfully built and run Firefox on an Intel based Mac

Camino and Thunderbird are next.

Winer critical of Apples addition to RSS

Dave Winer and others upset at Apple for using a trademarked name "iTunes" to extend the RSS DTD namespace.

Winer on Reallysimplesyndication.com

Alleging Apple is trying to make use of the tags proprietary and exclusive to iTunes.

Apple duplicates existing RSS tags like author and category. Image as well, although there they are allowing for a larger graphic.

Apple countdown to half a billion songs

Contest for iTunes Music Store

Giving away an iPod mini and an a 50-song iTunes gift card to the iTunes customer who purchases the winning song at each 100,000 interval.

The customer who purchases the 500 millionth song will win 10 iPods of their choice, an iTunes gift card for 10,000 songs and an all-expenses paid trip for four to see Coldplay on their world tour.

Some Motorola phones syncing with iTunes

AppleInsider reports that some flashed based Motorola phones are being recognized by the new iTunes 4.9

Supposedly you can sync music to the phones. No reports on anyone actually getting the music to play.

Brooklyn teen killed for iPod

A 15-year old was stabbed twice by two suspects when the attempted to steal his friend's iPod.

The "real" OS X for Intel leaked. Maybe

Reports that OS X for Intel from the developer preview boxes is up on Bittorrent.

This is supposedly the real deal this time, and some have reported getting it to run by modifying the incorrect instructions from the leaker.

As always, if this turns out to be true i am sure it is illegal to have a copy so you are on your own.

I now know how to update my iPod now, Thanks.

Apparently Command+Clicking (Right+Clicking) the iPod in iTunes gives you the ability to update it without having to unmount and mount.

Who knew? I guess everyone but me. Please stop emailing me. ;)

Keychain has deleted all passwords

Listener Rick reports that after running Onyx the other day to do a system optimization Keychain has deleted all his password

Doing a keychain repair was unable to recover them.

I had no idea and asked him to post to the forum. So far the only advice is to deleted the Keychain and start over. Any other options?

Thread on forum.maccast.com

An audio journal for the Mac

Listener steve is looking for a way to record date stamped journal entries with audio. Mix text, pictures and sound.

Found MacJournal and ViJournal, but neither do audio

I recommended Audioblogger, but I think he wants a stand alone app, not a service.

www.audioblogger.com

Sorting iTunes 4.9 Podcasts by Date

This only works within each Podcast and not for all podcasts. The don't mix.

Files opening in the wrong application

Select a file in the finder. Choose get info... and then look for the open with section. You can change it for just the one file or all files of that type by picking the Change all... option.

Reindexing Spotlight

Play tip from Scott

Can also do it from command line in terminal

Reindex tips on macosxhints.com

Adobe PDF Plugin with Tiger and IPod replacement batteries

Play questions from Ken

Adobe PDF Plugin works in Safari. When I launched Acrobat Reader after installing it asked me if I wanted to use Adobe Reader for viewing in Safari.

Other World Computing. Warning of battery explosion (rumor)

iPod Batteries at OWC

Follow up on hooking Mac to a TV

Listener Robert from UK says to checkout ElGato

Eye-Home ($199 USD)

ElGato - EyeHome

ATI Eye-Wonder USB ($99 USD)

ElGato - ATI eyeWonder USB

Classic won't boot after upgrading to Tiger

Play question from Jay

Free Alarm Clock Pro offer from Koingo

First 100 MacCast listeners will get a copy of Alarm Clock Pro

Alarm Clock Pro Product info

Can run task and do work on a schedule. Like play an iTunes track at a scheduled time. Like Cron, but not Cron.

If anyone would like to do a review that would be great too. (2-3 mins).

Use this link to get your copy

Free Alarm Clock Pro

MacCast as "enhanced" Podcast

I don't have the time, but I am working on possibly outsourcing it.

Will most likely be a new feed and will be delayed behind the original release by a day or two due to production time.

Chapter Tool from Apple

Download Apple Podcasts Chapter Tool

My podcast set up and how to

Many people have asked me for a how to. There are many resources out there better thank what I could put together.

Podcast Expert.com

www.podcastexpert.com

Behind the Scenes Podcast. Craig taught me everything I know.

www.btscast.com

iPodder.org documentation area

www.ipodder.org

Numerous books now arriving on the scene

Todd's "Podcasting a Do-It-Your-Self Guide"

Todd's Book on Amazon.com

Dan's book, "Podcast Solutions"

Dan's Book on Amzon.com

My setup

MXL 990 Condenser Mic ($59.99 USD)

MXL 990 on Amazon.com

Behringer Eurorack UB802 Mixer ($49.99 USD)

UB802 Mixer on Amazon.com

dbx 286A Microphone preamp Processor ($199.00 USD)

DBX Processor on Amazon.com

Griffin iMic ($29.99)

iMic on Amazon.com

GarageBand 2 from iLife '05

I can try to answer specific questions via email, but my time is limited these days.

Email and audio becoming overwhelming

I will try to keep responding to as many emails as possible.

Will be more "selective" about audio and email responded to on the show.

If you use the voice line, please leave an email at the very end. Spell it out. I will edit them out if i use the comment in the show.

Keep comments and questions as short as possible.

I may paraphrase your audio if it is too long or has bad audio.

Please use the forum for help and how to questions. I respond there too and you will get faster responses from others in the MacCast community.

Visit the website

maccast.com

Show notes.

Keep emails coming. More audio comments

maccast@gmail.com

206-222-2788 (20-MACCAST-8)

MacCast Forum

forum.maccast.com

"Marmalade Maggie" by The Merediths

Sent in from listener Jesse who is in the band.

Band Web Site

www.merediths.org