Paul Lockwood

For about two months I have been really looking forward to the 4.9 version of iTunes
- I expected seamless podcast support and most importantly auto conversion to bookmarkable
aac files. When you listen to number of podcasts I do you want a good podcast receiver.
So what did I find:

• Intergration with iTunes is OK – a true GUI directory is sweet although it is
  more basic than corporate GUIs I churned out in 1994 on 16 bit 386 machines
• No bittorrent support – this means podcast providers hosting bills will skyrocket if
  many users move away from iPodder
• We cannot paste custom urls when a podcast is not in Apple’s directory, like My’lanta for
  instance
• There is no Auto conversion to bookmarked files (aac) -aargh, bookmarks
  are why I bought an iPod in the first place
• No playlist per podcast – all podcasts are dumped into the same playlist. Do Apple
  not realize many people use their iPods solely for podcasts and don’t want to be scrolling
  through 100+ files at 90mph on the highway while simultaneously riding the bumper
  of a 911 and flipping off the SUV that they just cut up?

Ok enough of a rant already. I tried the Primetime
Podcast Receiver a month ago which looked promising but turned out to be
a little buggy with no bittorrent support either. Hopefully it will improve or iPodder
will add auto bookmarkable aac conversion. It is quite tempting to write something
myself building on my two week hack of my MP3
Jukebox (it looks rubbish but functionally was better than any commercial
MP3 Jukebox in 2001) .

Paul Lockwood IPTV, Podcasts

Bet you did not expect that! Has Paul given up on technology and turned to the slippery
side? Nah of course not; property is vague hobby of mine and the material is fascinating.
Plus when flipping houses you save almost 3% on each transaction (less MLS + Broker
fees). Recently I worked on Real Estate software and have seed ideas for a company
if anyone out there has a million or two in VC money.

So is anyone interested in hearing about my experience? If so speak up and I’ll post
some summaries of what they teach (to the allowed limits, if there are any – I’ll
ask tomorrow), how hard it is to become a Realtor etc.

Paul Lockwood Other

It
took about five hours all-in to move from .Text to Das Blog. Thanks to
Michael Earls
for his part in dottext2dasblog.
I had to make a change to their codebase so my comments would import (I simply made
the tool drop bad comments rather than stop the entire import), but that was about
the only hiccup in the conversion process. Other issues were just time in setting
up dasBlog + trying to make it run alongside .Text – I gave up on that!

Comments won’t
be working until my hosting provider tweaks the security on a few new folders – this
should happen early on Monday.

Also I have not
finished the blog roll + url list, if you are missing it is nothing personal I just
wanted to wrap up now. Also if you are ATL .Net blogger please let me know and I’ll
add you to the list.

Paul Lockwood Other