Thanks for the great info.

JB

I just got off the phone with Griffin Tech Support.

They have heard about this issue. They said that from everyone they’ve talked to, simply deleting the software and reinstalling it has cleared this up for them.

This does not sound like a fix to me. Especially since it’s happening on two different iPhones that we have.

However, I’ll play along. I’m deleting the iTalk Application off both our iPhones and off iTunes.

I’ll download it via iTunes this time, instead of via the 3G connection over the iPhone.

I’ll keep you posted!

I hope they can track down the root cause of the glitches, because this App’s potential is very exciting!

Wayne

Although I have been using Google Analytics, a bit, for about six months now, I wasn’t using it to it’s fullest. Thanks for highlighting all of the great info a blogger, podcaster, or any website owner, could learn from this free application from Google!

Wayne
Wayne’s Take on FRiNGE podcast

Basically, you dial into the number. You have the other person dial into the number, you press the commands to start recording and their software records the audio of the call.

Don’t want to make your interviewee call in? If you have three way calling, you can call the conference bridge, have it start recording. Put that call on hold, dial the person you’ll be talking to and then conference those calls using three way calling.

Hope this helps!

Podcasting is going strong but one downfall is trying to find the right podcasts to (listen to/watch) in a sea of clutter. There could potentially be some great podcasts out there that I will never find. That’s the only part that bothers me about new media.

Cliff

I’m not sure I understand… As far as I know, the new Revolution Themes ARE FREE! As far as I can tell, you can download any or all of the new themes for free. However, there is simply no “support” available for learning how to get the theme to do what it is supposed to do with “your” content without either 1 year or lifetime support membership. The support “IS OPTIONAL.”

Have a look at this screen capture from the website. Look at the area I highlighted.

Oh well, your blog entry here helped clarify it (especially after I looked all over the RevolutionTwo site for Download links. Their new themes still look cool, but it will be after Christmas before I can look to using them.

I’m glad your blog post spelled things out more clearly than what I was understanding at RevolutionTwo. I’ll have you in mind Cliff, for when I am able to make the jump. Please keep us posted on the Podcast Answer Man podcast when you, or someone you know of, starts using one of these new themes.

Wayne

If I run into troubles, and my budget allows, I will definitely be contacting you to set up one-on-one consulting Cliff!

Wayne

I can’t wait to hear other thoughts on your article Cliff.

Wayne
The “Tuning In With Wayne Henderson” podcasts at http://whpodcast.com

Anne

I’m not saying that no such problem exists. Is it possible that this is occurring with high capacity sd cards? I’ve noticed a few slight issues with those types of cards in many different devices.

Overall, the Marantz PMD 620 is a great unit. However, since the Edirol R-09HR came out, I can not imagine recommending anything but the Edirol in this price range. It is simply amazing!

Some technical information:
http://newsgroups.derkeiler.com/Archive/Rec/rec.arts.movies.production.sound/2008-03/msg00862.html

RR

Post was helpful though.

http://next.yahoo.net/archives/32/easylistener

“Easylistener is a Flash music player which can literally play any page on the web. Simply point it at your favorite music blog, RSS feed or playlist document and it will crawl that URL and start playing back any mp3s it finds.”

Also I think the example player is showing the last generated, so be ready for an autoplay.

Cliff, thanks for posting this. Very helpful.

odeo has a darker option. I found searching the web: If you don’t like pink, there is a darker version. You just have to replace _gray with _black in the second line of the code.

http://www.varal.org/media/niftyplayer/ simple player

these are a few of the different ones I’ve seen while searching.

I did this as research for consulting clients. I leave the decision up to them based upon the benefits and drawbacks mentioned.

So, which one did you decide to use based on your original Twitter question?

Peace to your weekend!

-BarbaraKB

Memeo has saved my bacon numerous times. Even a complete hard drive failure on my wife’s machine (although a nuisance) was uneventful data-wise — nothing was lost. Once all of the software and drivers were reinstalled, Memeo restored everything in a matter of 75 minutes. (That sounds like a lot of time, but my wife’s machine has boatloads of music and family photos.)

We have legit copies of Memeo on all our machines — except for my Ubuntu laptop. Rachel, put in a good word with your bosses about coming up with a Linux/Debian/Ubuntu equivalent.

Thanks,

Wayne

Thanks,
Rob Greenlee
Zune Podcast Lead

Too funny!

Thanks
Martin

One is to combine the storage of all the devices so that they show up as one large drive on your Operating System. This option is what I believe Leo was using, but I may be wrong. I do know that on this setting if your RAID card goes down you lose all your data on all the drives.

Another is where you have at least 2 drives (or more) with the exact same storage capacity and they show up on your Operating System as 1 drive with the size of one of the single drives. The reason it only has the space of one of the drives is because it mirrors all the data onto all the drives attached so if one of them goes down or your RAID card goes down you do not lose any data. This is the backup (maybe there are more) setting of RAID. It is basically to keep you safe if one of the drive’s die.

That’s my knowledge of RAID. I’m sure there are other ways that RAID works but those are the 2 I know about. I have an uncle who was using the first setting and lost a bunch of data so now he is using the second one for backup’s.

A true and critical backup should always off site via physically. transporting it or backing up online. The “backups” I have at home or more for opps moments as if my primary hardware goes bad but if my house caught on fire, etc. it wouldn’t make a difference.

I haven’t noticed any of those Jungle Disk issues someone else mentioned. Of course I don’t backup everything via Jungle disk that would take forever and cost more but I do backup about 2-3 gigs worth of stuff. The cost is very minimal but I have always said if you lost your primary copy almost all backup solutions will be a bargain.

Having said this, you can use Drobo’s to achieve data security: you would have to buy two of them, plus two of their Ethernet addons; equip them with roughly equivalent disk space; store them in physically separate locations (so that one disaster cannot destroy both of them) that both have high-speed Internet access (and I do mean high-speed); and then use their web update model to keep both boxes in sync. Expensive, but it is safe.

At home, I am running a server (Windows 2003, but you could use any technology for that). All 3 machines on our network are backed up to that server every night. I keep backup copies of “static” material (e.g. older pictures, the bulk of the mp3 library, etc.) on two sets of DVD’s, one set is kept out of house. The server uses Mozy to run a backup of frequently changing data every night into “the cloud”. I regard this combination as reasonably safe.

RAID systems with redundancy continue working without interruption when one, or sometimes more, disks of the array fail, although they are vulnerable to further failures. When the bad disk is replaced by a new one the array is rebuilt while the system continues to operate normally. Some systems have to be shut down when removing or adding a drive; others support hot swapping, allowing drives to be replaced without powering down. RAID with hot-swap drives is often used in high availability systems, where it is important that the system keeps running as much of the time as possible.
RAID is not a good alternative to backing up data. Data may become damaged or destroyed without harm to the drive(s) on which it is stored. For example, part of the data may be overwritten by a system malfunction; a file may be damaged or deleted by user error or malice and not noticed for days or weeks; and of course the entire array is at risk of catastrophes such as theft, flood, and fire.

RAID was never meant to be a backup solution. It is a solution for redundancy/high availability. RAID (not the same thing as a drobo) keeps things running. Drives are more likely to fail than the data sub-system, IDE, SCSI, SATA. So RAIDs, just keep your data available, not as backup/archives. A drobo is just a way to have lots of room for data. Anyone that things their data is “safe” on a drobo by itself has been mislead. I use JungleDisk, but you can use anything that can be located off site. Tapes, external drives, Iomega Jazz drives (or whatever) are just a part of a smart solution. RAID keeps your data available, backups keep your data secure.

Make copies. Put them somewhere else. Data safe.
Use RAID. Data available.

Also, browsing your files is not all that simple. It uses whacky naming conventions, whereas a piece of software like S3 Bucket Explorer will let you name the fulders/buckets whatever you want.

The problem with S3 Bucket Explorer — as slick as it is — is that it does not provide a drive letter for you to integrate with your backup solution(s). All operations have to be manual…at least for the time being (even though they promised the backup/sync feature back in early 08 and it never happened).

I also have tried Carbonite. It has the flat annual rate going for it, though I suspect that’s a ruse to get new customers and then jack up the price — after all, who’s going to want to back up all their data again once it’s off-site? I have yet to find a software bundle that is not ugly and slow when it comes to recovering your files.

As for JungleDisk, getting that monthly bill from Amazon Web Services can hurt a little bit, but you have to view it as a security investment. I also use SyncBack locally. It sounds like we have pretty much the same setup, Cliff.

Even given all that, I prefer S3 Bucket Explorer since i can just drag a folder and tell it to overwrite all similar files. It works like Windows Explorer, so there’s no learning curve. There’s no whacky 24-character hashes before my folder name.

Good luck!
Jeremy

For the other machines in the house, I’m thinking about getting a time capsule and just letting them use that.

I’m a Mac.

was that really bill gates’ email at the bottom of the screen? Or will some poor secretary get killed with spam?

I’m a PC…. I study genes…. Major laboratories run use PC’s…. Windows servers are powerful…

I’m a PC… I broadcast…. I have affordable and professional sound engineering software programs that are rival that of the MAC equivalent.

I’m a PC… I turn Doooo into energy…. Windows servers are pretty powerful…

I’m a PC… I’m connected to a billion others world-wide… Okay… so are macs, but a strong suit of Windows has been it’s widespread adoption.. I still watch all the tech gadget shows… “There is no mac version available” is still the most used phrase when reviewing new products.

I’m a PC… I’m more affordable!!!!!

I think this is the first step in the right direction for them.

HOWEVER VISTA STILL SUCKS!

Now that I have used both a Mac and a PC, I think the user experience is probably better on a Mac, while the Windows “run on any PC” strategy is its greatest strength and weakness. I did have a horrible experience with Vista installed on a new laptop with the vendor’s added software. When I reinstalled with “plain” Vista Home Premium and just the applications I need, Vista runs like a champ. Too bad the average user doesn’t know how to do that, or want to go through the hassle.

http://gizmodo.com/5051273/how-apple-picks-which-apps-make-it-to-the-app-store

I’m a PC and I run Linux instead of Windows, though.

I just don’t understand this latest rash of horrible decisions made by Apple regarding this type of application - and I wish they would stop making the decision for me if something is useless or not.

I think that the major issue will be what Apple decided to do with what they will do with the Digg and Mobility Today applications. If they decided to keep them, then they are really being hypocritical about the whole process (and we know that they don’t have a problem getting rid of apps that were already in the store). However, if they take those two apps out of the store, then there is less of a case to be made about the GSPN app.

This isn’t to say that I think that Apple is in the right here because I don’t. A pretty big Mac developer, Rogue Amoeba, has had major problems getting into the store as well. The whole situation is quickly becoming a farce.

For the second time in under a week Apple has rejected a Podcasting Application from The Apple App Store. Earlier in the week Cliff Ravencraft of GSPN had his Podcasting Application Rejected from the App Store. Then today the folks over …

I think that Apple wants to release their own app for people to subscribe to podcasts…

But really what apple should have done is listed what applications they would put up on the apps store and the apps they would reject..

Cliff has wasted a lot of money if Apple doesn’t take up the app…

Its enough to make your blood boil

As for being able to side-step, the only way to do it is to push it out on the Jail Broken Community. I’m not comfortable with suggesting people void their warranty just to be able to stream my podcasts.

Beyond podcasters, I imagine there are a TON of applications out there that we are not getting because Apple doesn’t like them.

Just publish some darn guidelines so we can make sure not to throw hundreds and thousands out the window to have the stuff developed. That’s my other main beef.

But I can also see their side. Redundancy can cause some problems in their world. (As it has shown in many many issues with PC). So they may be either trying to avert a future problem, or they have tested things like this and found problems.

But then again, I am just playing devils advocate. You should be able to publish your apps…can you do it any other way? Kinda side step them?

God’s blessings on your future!
Vickie

p.s. I would become a plus member if I could, but right now all of my expenses are going towards school. Keep up the great work & don’t quit because I hope to become a plus member eventually.

Congrats,
Sharon

I bet that you don’t I remember how we found each other.

I started watching the first season of LOST in Octoboer 2005. Around November, I was so intringued with the show that I googled LOST. Your blog showed up and I made a comment to your entry. The rest is history.

My friend, if you need to toot your horns, go for it. You certainly deserve it. You don’t know how proud I am of you. And you know that I am spreding the word out there for you.

Apple folks, if you are reading these comments, please reverse this decision. Cliff co-hosts a Mac user podcast (among the many he produces), and he is a great evangelist for the podcasting movement, which sells iPods and generates traffic to iTunes. Good for Apple’s bottom line!

On the archive page you’ll find even more tutorials all the way to the very basic use of Pixelmator. You can also subscribe to the tutorials on iTunes.

Cliff