shownotes_20051116

Opening
  Opening Music
    Music is Say Anything by Manda and the Marbles
    Mandaandthemarbles.com
Expo Report
  The Podcasting and Portable Media Expo
    What an awesome event. A Podstock with all the major Podcasters on hand. A who's who of podcasting
      PodShow Crew
        Adam Curry, Dawn and Drew, CC Chapman, Chris MacIntyre (PodcastAlley), Madge
        Brother Love and Chance (PodSafe Music Network Concert)
      L.A. and Orange County Podcasters
        Dan Klass, Lance Anderson, Michael Geoghegan, Craig Patchett, John Chambers
      The Tech Podcasters
        Todd Cochrane, Adrian Bacon, Ken Crockett, Tim Verpoorten, Lance Heath
      The Friends In Tech (FIT) Crew, Special thanks to Victor
        Chuck Tomasi, Douglas Welch, Steve Holden, Kevin Devin, George Starcher
      IT Coversations
        Doug Kaye and Paul Figgiani
      PodioBooks
        Scott Sigler, Mark Jefferey, Evo Terra
      Developers
        Steve Harris (Reinvented Software), August (iPodderX), Paul Kafasis (Rogue Amoeba), Mike Talmadge, Dave Chekan (Libsyn)
      Others
        Phillip Torrone (Make), Soccer Girl, Mark Hunter (Tartan Podcast), Dave Slusher(Evil Genius Chronicles), Robert Walch (Podcast 411)
    Had an audience with the PodFather
    Made appearances on TWiT and was live on KFI. Thanks Leo!
    Great sessions. Kudos to the Podcast Brothers for a great show.
    Thanks to all the fans who took a moment to say hi.
    Look forward to next year.
News
  iPod Nanos now shipping with sleeves
    Reports first started showing up on message boards over at iLounge
    Looks like Apple silently slipped in new cases for Nanos, similar to those for the 5th Gen iPods
  Macs not immune to Sonys DRM tricks
    At least some Sony CDs contained installers for a couple of kernel extensions
    Unlike Windows, the system would have prompted you for a password prior to installation
    The Installer is on the CDs, but would need to have been run manually, since there is no "auto-run"
  Jobs offers OS X free to $100 laptop project
    Project announced in January by Nicholas Negroponte, the founding chairman of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab
    A nonprofit organization called One Laptop Per Child that was set up to oversee the project.
    Aims to get laptops in the hands of school children in developing countries. Has a screen that can be run in color or b&w to save power. features a handcrank for power
    The Wall Street Journal said Jobs was turned down because One Laptop Per Child wanted the OS to be open source and able to be tinkered with. The devices will use RedHat
    In a clarification to CNet Negroponte said Jobs' offer applied only to China and that officials in China actually rejected it last year because they preferred Open Source and Linux.
    One Laptop Per Child never discussed OS X but agrees with China's position.
    Listener Jason wants you to sign his petition
  Cell phones may interfere with 5th gen iPods
    An unconfirmed story on Engadget says, " certain amounts of radio interference emitted by cellphones can drive an iPod with video freaky crazy wild"
    Does the new iPod have less RFI shielding?
  iPodder Lemon latest victim in Apple's iPod name protection assault
    Lawyers from Apple requested the name change because they say it suggested a connection to the company's flagship iPod device.
    The new name is Juice. Developers girlfriend gets credit for the name.
    iPodder X must be next, although I forgot to ask August about it. Ray just had a baby so he didn't make the conference
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  Apple G5 Firmware Update released
    Finally maybe some relief for the single processor G5 issues
    For the 1.8 GHz, (600 MHz bus), single-processor Power Mac G5 (Late 2004) computer.
  First seed of OS 10.4.4 is released to developers
    Build 8G7 delivers about 30 fixes and improvements
    Addresses bugs in Quartz Composer, DVD Playback and issues with GarageBand and USB/Firewire audio
  Three new Apple Store opening this weekend
    The Beverly Center in Los Angeles, CA
    Westfield Fashion Square Mall in Sherman Oaks, CA
    The Gateway in Salt Lake City, UT
    All stores open at 10:00 AM Saturday and feature Apple Studios
    MacCast Gallery
Feedback, Comments and Commentary
  My iPod impressions
    So thin, screen seems massive compared to my old Photo.
    Video's look awesome, but can sometimes skip at the start
    Clicks seem a little less responsive
    I love that when you switch to full album art view it stays there.
    Carries over iTunes interface elements. Blue dots (unheard), Video icon.
    TV out video quality is much better than expected. All depend on the quality of the original video, but TV shows from iTunes are almost DVD quality.
  Quad Cores look to deliver on expectations
    BareFeats posts some results from benchmarks on a stock Quad system
    The MacsOnly review confirms the fast benchmark times, but doesn't see much of a jump in real world numbers.
  When will you be getting your iPod Settlement
    Play question from August
    Apple iPod Settlement Page has details and a copy of the Proposed settlement
    A Fairness hearing was supposed to have been held, Thursday, August 25, 2005, at 1:30 p.m.
    The case has to go through appeals, who knows how long that may take?
  Origin of the "sosumi" system sound
    Play comment from Wayne
  Moving your "Libraries" doesn't always work out
    Greg moved his iPhoto Library and now Keynote's media browser doesn't display thumbnails.
    While you can move these, I personally have found it is not a good idea.
Closing
  The iTunes Experiment follow-up
    Dropped out of iTunes 100 which I think is based only on recent subscribers
      Let's see what happens if we all unsubscribe and re-subscribe
    Didn't seem to make a difference. Oh well, worth a shot eh?
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  "Sun Lotion" by Steadman
    Meet him while doing TWiT at the Expo
    Over 150 free tracks on the band web site
  Promos
    The Pocket and the Pendant
    Real Gamerz
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