Is there iPhone URL Standard?

September 29, 2008 — Keith DG

Ok two things:

1. I have updated our URL for the iPhone and the iPod Touch to:

http://iphone.DGPodcast.com

 

2. Is there a standard URL for iPhone formatted web pages?  Such as “iphone.x.com”, if so please share?  

 

Thanks,

-Keith

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Genius or MixView

September 26, 2008 — dgchris

I’m sitting here in the waiting room …waiting and thinking about the differences between Zune’s 3.0 mixview and iTunes 8.0 Genius. Though they have similarities I really feel the two features to be quite different, though most people are comparing them to be like features.

Zune’s mixview to me is more of a music discovery mechanism mixed with a dash of social goodness. If you go to mix view you can see bands that have some simularities to the band or artist you are listening to. By branching out to these other bands you get a chance to listen to the sample of that artist songs that are on the Zune Market. You can even view other Zune users that listen to the groups you are exploring and see other groups they are listening to. The interface is slick but all in all I the music discovery piece is not very appealing.

The iTunes genius is named correctly. With a song selected or playing you can engage Genius to create you a play list based on the seed song you have select. By default it create a list of 25 songs. Everytime I have used it it had created an awesome play list. Since it uses the songs in my library it’s obviously groups I like. One neat thing is that 90% of the play list I know very well. The other songs are not as familar to me, so they are intoducing me to my own music. On the right side of iTunes you have the Genius side bar which recommends songs on iTunes that you don’t have by the artist you have select. That is very clever and sneaky. I have a large music collect and now instead of it taking me 20 minutes to create a play list it takes me 2 seconds.

Both Zune and iTunes do a great job, I just think iTunes is a little more practical

-Chris

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Get the DG directly on your iPhone or iPod Touch

September 24, 2008 — Keith DG

  <- Click this from your iThing

OR, surf directly to the following url from you iPhone or Touch:

http://i.venuem.net/dgpodcast

And yes – I will make the show notes pretty for the iPhone / Touch feed in the future shows. 

 

-Keith :)

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Podcast: Deliciously Geeky – Episode 77 – Jaunty G1

September 24, 2008 — Keith DG

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Show Notes:

 

WordPress

http://theideasblog.com/2008/09/19/wordpress-ransom/

-WordPress.com announced that it will deliver Google AdWord adverts into the posts and tags of its users blogs 

unless they pay WordPress.com $30 a year NOT TO!

 

Comcast Bandwidth Cap

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2329170,00.asp

-Comcast has confirmed that all residential customers will be subject to a 250 gigabyte per month data limit -

starting October 1.

 

Jaunty Jackalope

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080908-ubuntu-9-04-to-be-called-jaunty-jackalope.html

The Next Ubuntu

 

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Freeware

 

Input Director

http://www.inputdirector.com/

Input Director is a Windows application that lets you control multiple Windows systems using the keyboard/mouse attached to one computer.

 

CN Levelator

http://www.conversationsnetwork.org/levelator

-So what is The Levelator? It’s software that runs on Windows, OS X (universal binary), or Linux (Ubuntu) that

adjusts the audio levels within your podcast or other audio file for variations from one speaker to the next,

for example.

 

UpdateStar

http://www.updatestar.com/

Automated software updating

 

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Not Free But Good-Ware

 

Script Cryptor (US$54.95)

http://www.abyssmedia.com/scriptcryptor/index.shtml

-ScriptCryptor lets you quickly produce standalone, royalty free applications from your VBS or JS files.

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Podcast: Deliciously Geeky -Episode 76 – Sword in the Chrome

September 17, 2008 — Keith DG

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Keith and Chris talk Tech, Chrome, Apples, Windows, Macs, Hacks, and more…

Links from Chris:

AppleTV – http://www.apple.com/appletv/

iPod Touch update 2.1 – http://www.apple.com/iphone/softwareupdate/

New iPod Touch – http://www.apple.com/ipodtouch/

New Nano-chromatic – http://www.apple.com/ipodnano/

Zune Update 3.0 – http://www.zune.net/en-US/

MU.Lab – http://www.mutools.com/products.html

Chrome – http://www.google.com/chrome

 

Links from Keith:

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Podcast: Deliciously Geeky – Episode 75 – Space Worms

September 11, 2008 — Keith DG

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This week Keith runs some security items, software, web sites, and more…

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The Levelator

September 1, 2008 — dgchris

Finding the optimal levels for a podcast or a song can be tricky. During my Zen search for the best tricks to make podcasts sound great, I ran across this utility that takes the guess work out of it all. And when it comes to UI (User Interface) I don’t think there could be a simpler one. Once you have your Wave or AIFF file ready, just drag and drop onto the programs interface. Levelator then processes the file and gives you the best output it can. It leaves the original file and creates a new one with the same name as the original but it adds “.output” to the file name. I mainly work with wave files and it has been extremely helpful.

The programs runs on Windows, Linux and OS/X, so on the O/S side it has all its bases covered.

Please check it out, a very useful tool. – http://www.conversationsnetwork.org/levelator

Below I have included a before and after picture of a song I processed to give you an indication of what it is doing.

-Chris

 

 


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