About time. And product. And being more deliberate.
Remember to re-open the firewall on Port 80 after disabling Apple’s Personal Web Sharing.
Apple toggles it automatically with PWS. I needed to create a custom entry in the firewall listings for Apache2 to be accessible from another machine on the network.
Big thanks to McClain Looney for the reminder.
I’ve subscribed to the Daily Giz Wiz for quite a while now – the combination of goofy banter, unloved gadgets, generally silliness, and it’s brevity makes for great podcasting. It’s the only TWIT-family podcast I was still subscribed.
Unfortunately, in today’s – #166 – the new TWIT intro calls it a ‘netcast’.
Lame. What’s a ‘netcast’? Do I need a boat and a body of water?
I heard Laporte’s rational for attempting to change the name at the recent 2006 PodcastExpo – he wants Apple to claim trademark of ‘podcast’. A term and media form developed by the podcast community – not Apple.
Double Lame. Rather than standing up to Apple, supporting the podcast community, simplifying the explanation for new listeners, keeping things simple for existing listeners – Laporte gives up.
Like Dave Winer said about RSS vs Atom: Two is more than twice as bad.
This thing – a multimedia file distributed via an RSS feed – is a podcast.
I’m unsubbing from DGW until it’s called a ‘podcast’ or at least a ‘clambake‘. I can’t support a name change and the software I’m using only understands ‘podcasts’.
RELATED 06 APRIL 2007
I completely agree with Tony @ Deep Jive Interests when he says:
“I just don’t see what [leaving Twitter] is going to solve.”
This is another silly publicity stunt from the big twit.
RELATED 09 NOV 2007
Jen and I talked about Baby Tivo recently. It’s a paltry 40gig, single-tuner. But, sans-cable, it serves us well.
Today, Apple announced their iTV, shipping sometime next year. Priced at $300, plays HD video, HDMI ports, wifi, Front Row (or something like it), everything you’d expect (maybe a DVD drive?).
Then later today, I received an email from TiVo announcing their HD Tivo Series3. 300 hours, dual tuner, THX-certified, all the TiVo goodness – $800+ monthly service plan.
Uhhhh. Hmmmmm.
I agree with Kottke. It doesn’t add up. Especially since I know some early adopters who were less than thrilled.
TiVo’s great – but only because there’s no alternative worth talking about. Apple just might make this interesting. For a difference of $500 bucks, I’m cool with watching this play out.
Based on the “Promote Your Podcast and Make Money on iTunes” email I just received from the iTunes Podcasting team, Apple’s podcast directory revenue-generation strategy is two-fold:
As with the iTunes Podcast Directory thus far, the big loser is the podcaster. The smaller loser is the listener.
Spent a few moments over lunch refining my wireless network, while making sure everything worked as expected, I noticed a ‘Multiple Speakers’ option in my iTunes v6.0.5 (20).
About Frigging Time!
When we first set up the Airport Express, I was baffled why I couldn’t have the same music playing in the room with the laptop as the room with the Tivoli.
Thankfully that bug has been fixed – and with enough Airport Expresses, I can fill the neighborhood with podcasts just like the crappy music blaring from Silver Lake Village.
Seriously, it’s a horrid place to make phone calls – despite being outside and away from traffic.
Nathan Stohlmann says this is part of the AirPort Express Firmware 6.3 Update.
After living with a 17″ MacBook Pro for a couple weeks, there’s a couple things I’ve been pleasantly surprised with:
This post means my new 17″ MacBook Pro is up and running.
The keyboard is just a hair stiffer than the PowerBook, and feels a little more tacky. Perfect.
It’s fast. Boot time is easily cut in half.
There are 5 MacBook Pros and 2 PowerBooks in the meeting I’m in right now.
Oddest thing. I pulled the PowerBook out the laptop bag and a handful of keys stopped responding.
I’ve opened up the Keyboard Viewer to confirm. Here’s the list thus far:
I plugged in the USB keyboard from the eMac and that brought everything back. Weird.
Update 14 January 2006
Problem came back today – lost ‘Q’ through ‘P’. Seems to happen when waking from sleep. This time plugging in the external keyboard didn’t fix it, nor did restarting. Waiting did. Maybe 10 minutes and all the keys came back.
Update 15 January 2006
‘Q’ through ‘P’ is gone again. I’m typing this from the keyboard viewer. Annoying. Apple says I need to replace the keyboard. Blah.
Ok. After a couple hours sleeping. The top row is back, but and all those other keys are gone. Oddly, this is less annoying. Let’s see what happens on restart.
Everything was going great until I plugged the PowerBook in after running down the battery for 2 hours. Then, I lost the keys again. Not all at once. First delete and the arrows, then a couple minutes later – the top row.
Top row is back. Space, delete, and arrows are still gone.
Update 16 January 2006
Stopped by the Apple Store – Roseville this afternoon, got the keyboard diagnosis confirmed and put one on order. Thankfully, they can handle the repair locally.
Update 21 January 2006
Took in the PowerBook for the repair this afternoon. I got a call as soon as I left the Apple Store saying the keyboard’s connecting cable was loose. They firmly plugged it in and everything’s back to normal. No repair necessary. Definitely a downside of locking the PowerBook down so tightly – not even the Geniuses could correctly diagnose the problem.
I predict in 2 years, Apple will start shipping computers lacking CD/DVD drives.
Why Apple? They were the first to drop 3.5″ floppy drives, Zip drives, and modems.
So, how will big, heavy software installs (like OS’s) be shipped? I’m thinking USB flash drives or network connections. What else is the .Mac storage and a NetBoot good for?
Maybe they’ll get real crazy and ship an OS X install on all iPods by default.
No, I’ve got nothing more than a hunch on this. A hunch and a more discs than I’ll ever need.
UPDATE, 22 months later: