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October 8, 2006

Regarding Mr. Laporte’s push for renaming podcasts

This particular “move” has already been known for a while, but I thought I would comment on it today because I had nothing else better to do. For those who don’t know what I’m talking about

Leo Laporte wants to rebrand podcasts as ‘netcasts’

If you’re a TWiT fan (or a listener of almost any of Leo’s other 200 podcasts), you might have heard in the past couple of weeks that he’s pushing to change the term ‘podcast’ to ‘netcast.’ He’s even gone so far as to start using it in his lingo on the shows (at least on the few of his shows I can keep up with), and is looking to trademark the term. Now before you run off and flame TWiT’s forums, just hear the man out – because I think he has a good idea.

via TUAW

September 13, 2006February 10, 2017

iTunes 7 – looking good!

I finally had the time to upgrade iTunes to version 7, I must say that the improvements in this build are pretty impressive.

The Good

Tasks View

What I particularly like is how they separated the “current performing tasks” into it’s own page rather than having to click and cycle through the main display. This can get very irritating if you’re downloading a lot of podcasts, then are listening to something. Say you want to change the playhead position on that song – you’ll have to cycling though the different tasks until you see the “task” for the current playing song.

Apple has solved that by putting it on a separate page view:

September 22, 2005

NPR’s Science Friday

I’ve subscribed to this podcast recently. It’s really good! Kinda like Skepticality, but more in depth on a single particular topic set for that session.

And the range of topics being discussed is pretty broad. From discussing Einstein’s relativity paper (which had tons of trivia on it), to truth in Vitamins, to Religion vs. Evolution vs. Intelligent Design.

One of my favorite topics so far was the Physics of Superheroes, which is actually an introductory to physics book created to put a positive spin on an otherwise boring subject.