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podcast 10

djmblog.com Podcast 10 | recorded May 2, 2011

[UPDATE June 2011: Now the podcast is moving over from the djm cloud blog here to djmblog.danieljmckeown.com. The feed will still work but make sure to check the new podcasts tag page for new episodes.]

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iOS apps (iPhone/iPod Touch 4)

TweetDeck (Twitter app)

TweetBot (Twitter app)

Monophix (black and white photo effects app)

Adobe Ideas (sketching app)

PictureShow (photo filter app)

Algoriddim djay (music playing DJ app)

miniSynth (old school style synthesizer app)

Podcast clips

Kernel Panic Oggcast #28 discussion about carrot cake

video

pacificpelican.us podcast episode 51 now available: birds, the neighborhood, and me and Jessica talking in a restaurant (and me using the djay app)

Bill Hicks interview on Austin Public Access

Audiobooks (aka books on tape) as an alternative to podcasts

Podiobooks (the free alternative)

Audible (the Amazon-owned publisher) [listen to the podcast to hear my rant about their ads in podcasts]

Note Taking

Evernote for iOS + Evernote for Mac + Evernote for web [pretty good experience across platforms and offline]

Simplenote for iOS + JustNotes for Mac + Simplenote for web [lacking compared to Evernote without offical Mac client]

Google Docs for mobile web + Google Docs for web [easy to use cross-platform [if online]; fairly easy to use]

Mac/Linux desktop apps

gedit (an excellent free cross-platform text editor)

Sketchbook Express (free Mac skectching app)

Text file creation capability added to pacificpelican.us/cms

Simplistic text file creator/reader ability now a feature in the pacificpelican.us cms free and open source downloadable (self-hosted) PHP web app (version 0.0.9.9.2 now available).

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podcast 9

djmblog.com podcast 9

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Threadless says: "Change the lid of your @Dell to match your shirt!" Really? Lame!! I'm Threadless and Windows 7 was my idea!

iOS (iPhone/iPod Touch) apps:

Mercury Web Browser Pro

Atomic Web Browser

WordPress 3.1.1 has memory managment issues

Posterous custom domain blogs now faster

Posterous + Drupal?

Australia: Land of Parrots: an incredibly beautiful one hour movie about cockatoos (black, pink, cockatiel), budgerigars (green "wild-type"), and many other amazing winged creatures (including jumbo-size Aussie pelicans) in their native habitat.

A cat plays with dolphins.

Jim's tutorial: Tired of MLB.TV blackouts? Here's a free way to circumvent some of them.

Will the Mets losing under over-rated general manager Sandy Alderson finally take the stuffing out of the baseball-statistics-obsessed quantitative weasels? Not likely. The Oaklands As never even made the World Series under Billy Beane and Alderson and that didn't shut anyone up even though it should have. (Also release or trade Jason Bay, he's terrible.)

Does the Barry Bonds prosection have racial motives?

Jim, Dan and others start up another year of Fanstasy Baseball--this year at ESPN.com

pacificpelican.us/cms (free URL shortener/file sharing app) is now on GitHub

Nikon D5000: the ultimate prosumer DSLR camera (It can take good pictures of birds in flight!)

Nikon D5100: just-announced successor model adds a few more features

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podcast 8

djmblog.com podcast #8 - April 4, 2011

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The History of Rome podcast #132

The Professional Left podcast #67

Barack Obama rushes into war in Libya; Dennis Kucinich calls for impeachment

Cleveland Indians home openers: 2009, 2010, 2011

Japanese nuclear site dumping radioactive water into ocean

MSC smokestack on Michigan State campus to be removed [see it in this video]

New UI concepts in desktop computing: Mac OS X Lion, GNOME 3, Ubuntu Unity

iOS apps:

HootSuite (for Twitter and other social networks)

Percolator (process photos into clumps of circles)

Angry Birds Rio Free (a few levels, smooth gameplay, parrots)

Amazon.com launches cloud music service

The (biker) gangs of Cleveland

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Cleveland, OH

podcast 7

djmblog.com podcast #7 show notes

3/24/2011

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Clips from podcasts and live recordings

TWiT.tv episode #293

Kevin Rose: "Dutch Telecom"

Rebooting the News #87

Dave Winer: "One word: You're bluffing!"

party in Cleveland a few weeks ago

drunk buzzkill person: "Australia is not a magical land"

ESPNU College Football podcast 3/23/2011

Bret Bielema says "We've won, we've done it the right way" the season after they ran up the score on Indiana 83-20

Linux Outlaws episode 195

Dan Lynch: "Oh Canada, blah blah blah"

Trashcan Sinatras show in Ohio, March 18, 2011

drunk fan outside concert: "I'm 44!"

Caribou Coffee shop in Lakewood, Ohio

two ladies talk about their Mary Kay biz

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Show Notes - 3/19/2011

Hosted by Dan and Jessica

Browsers

Firefox 4 vs. Chrome 10 (vs. Safari 5 vs. IE9?)

Web Apps

pacificpelican.us/cms - my PHP-based URL shortening/file uploading app is now available for free download.

Aviary HTML5 photo editor - lots of cool photo editing features, uses HTML5 instead of Flash like original Aviary.

iOS (iPhone/iPod Touch) apps

MobileRSS Pro - syncs with your Google Reader account; good for iPhone news reading

Camera Genius - sort of fun but needs bugfixes

-takes video also; 2 camera styles; some (average) effects

-library doesn't update reliably; app crashes

-screen stays dark for too long at times

-"menu" button doesn't turn when camera is in in landscape

Pro HDR - works well for making iPhone HDR images, if you can hold still

Adobe PhotoShop Express - photo effects, plus new version (2.0) now includes camera app

"Super Moon"

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Lakewood, OH

podcast 5

djmblog.com podcast #5 (March 2011) show notes

iPhone (and 4th gen. iPod Touch) apps

-photo apps

--Image Blender

--BlendCamp

--uSketch

-RSS reading app [omitted in this podcast; maybe I'll actually mention it next time, it's cool]

--MobileRSS Pro

-games

--Tiny Wings

--Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit by EA

music

-Jessica's and my band Neener has a new album

Neener-poster-2--march2011-bydanieljmckeown

new and announced tablet computers

-iPad 2 running iOS 4 (a review)

-Motorola Xoom running Android 3 (a review)

-HP tablet running webOS

-Blackberry Playbook

news and current events

-San Francisco police corruption scandal

--cases dropped

--federal investigation

-Illinois bans state-sanctioned killing

--"capital punishment" is an Orwellian term

--"death penalty" backers get tripped up on false notions

--When will more states join Illinois and others in abolition?

-Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin & other states with fanatical, far-right, anti-worker Republican governors

sports

-Ohio State's football program under investogation, self-punishment

-Miami Heat players cry in the locker room after loss to Chicago

-New York Mets engulfed by the Madoff scandal

-Opening day in Cleveland: will it rain?

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djmblog.com podcast 4

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show notes for djmblog.com podcast #4
Host: Dan (danieljmckeown.com)
Guests: Jim and Mark
1. iOS apps
    a. games
        i. Tap to Flap
        ii. Cut the Rope Holiday Gift (the one I confusedly tried to reference last time)
        iii. Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2
        iv. FIFA 11
    b. camera
        i. Retro video apps

I. 8mm

II. iSupr8 [still haven't tried this one yet]

ii. “Camera replacement”: apps

I ProCamera: Cool imaging features, also does video

II. Camera+: Includes post processing filters, built-in photo sharing

2. sports talk
    a. Chicago Bears vs. Green Bay Packers and the pursuit of the Halas Trophy
3. URL shortening script
    a. Why have your own URL shortener?
        i. Some sites use one to make their URLs Twitter-friendly
            I. nyti.ms; youtu.be; wp.me, t.co

ii. Still trying to roll my own for my own site; project called pacificpelican.us/cms

I. Doesn’t use a SQL database

II. Requires a password

III. Can do 301 redirects or JavaScript redirects

IV. Allows CSS to work with pre-loaded IDs and classes already there

V. Implemented at r.sf3am.com

b. If you want to use a 3rd party URL shortener, bit.ly is solid; goo.gl is the new name out there

4 New videos
a. Christmas in Chicago (2010)
b. The Treat [starring the parakeets]

5. Google Chrome drops H.264 for webM--is this good for the web?

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djmblog.com podcast 3 - featuring Jessica and Jim

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djmblog.com podcast 3 show notes

guest hosts: Jessica (@JessicaMcKeown) and Jim (@jtmck)

Jessica's yoga posts on her blog are a good read.

iPhone app reviews

0. Foursquare: Jessica has been using this app to check in to places to find friends and get deals from merchants. Jim isn't using it because his friends aren't on it.

1. Hipstamatic: [$8 after getting all the add-on features available as in-app purchases ($2 for basic version)]

Photo app ~~based on a rare 1980s film camera of that name~~ [not really; see podcast #23 for correction]; allows use of different virtual lenses, films and flashes to create a range of different looks including infrared, black and white and retro colors.

2. Retro Camera Plus: [free]

Another vintage camera simulator, this app offers five different cameras, including one based on classic Polaroid instant, and another simulating an old Russian design. You change the whole camera so it's not as flexible as Hipstamatic but it is free and fun.

3. Fruit Ninja: [$1]

An excellent app for casual fun, this game has one goal--swipe your finger across the screen and rip apart fruit! (I heard about this one from Jim.)

4. Cut the Rope [$1]

This game involves moving a candy ball that follows inverted gravity into a hungry frog-like creature's mouth, mainly by, well, cutting ropes and also popping bubbles, all while picking up stars. Maybe it's not totally clear from that description but anyway it's a fun game. You can get the lite version and play some of the game for free, but for all the levels including the new Christmas one, it's worth getting the full app. (I heard about this one from Jessica.)

5. Book (eBook reader) apps [all free for the app, with in-app book purchasing]

Which is the best for the iOS platform? Apple's iBooks? Or is it an third party app like Amazon's Kindle, Barnes and Noble's Nook, or Google Books? Personally I like the Nook app but iBooks is also really good, and Google Books is okay.

Guitar picks!!!

Two kinds of pics [sic] that I just got that I love:

1. Fender thin (cloudy blue), the classic

2. Ultex 0.60 mm (yellow with rhino), with a nice snappy feel

Also I use:

3. Tortex 0.50 mm and 0.60 mm (red and orange with the turtle)

Public Affairs

1. Wikileaks cable releases continue to roil international relations; see the Guardian's coverage for more,

2. President Obama ditches press conference about tax cuts to go party; leaves Bill Clinton to speak to the press.

Technology news and rumors

1. How much does the Samsung Galaxy Tab suck (for that price anyway)?

2. Will the next iPad have both side cameras, improved screen and maybe a slight tweak in the design profile?

3. Are the iOS photo sharing apps (like Instagram and path.com) carving out an important new niche?

4. Looking forward to the upcoming new version (2.8) of the GNU Image Manipulation Program, which will finally feature a "single-window mode."

5. What will happen in tech next year? Mac OS X app store, OS X Lion, iOS 5; Lots of solid state memory in computers (?); Flood of new Android products; Google Chrome OS; Ubuntu 11.04; LibreOffice; HTML5 and CSS3 on the web; Oracle vs. everyone over Java; Novell acquisition by Attachmate, and Microsoft's apparent role; mySQL vs. PostGRESQL; PHP vs. Python vs. Ruby on Rails vs. C; Drupal 7 vs. WordPress 3.1.

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djmblog.com podcast 2 - featuring guest host Jessica

djmblog.com Podcast #2

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-hosted by Dan and Jessica

-Technology

--iPhone 4 apps: Angry Birds Halloween ($0.99), Blendcam (free)

--How important is Android?

--Linux Mint 10 (free and open source operating system)

--Rumored PSP2 with updated design; and will it also evolve into a gaming-oriented Andoid phone?

--Windows Phone 7 and Xbox Kinect: Do people want that stuff?

-Music

--The Neener 0 EP we recorded (download for free)

--New Bob Dylan album: The Witmark Demos, 1962-1964

--New Cornershop song: Soul School (School Dinners Mix)

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djmblog.com podcast 1 - Freedom of Speech (for photographers)

Note to public: photographers and videographers have the right to use their devices in public, and you don't have the right to assault them. Photographers striker back!

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