A.P. Lawrence

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Thu Nov 3 02:50:25 2005   BruceGarlock

I have been thinking about doing a podcast myself. I am just trying to
come up with a somewhat original topic. I have to admit - I am starting
to get a little addicted to podcasts. I am starting to listen to them more
than my music.



I also purchased the new video capable iPod. It is a real nice unit. I
mostly use it for the HD ability, but I also really, really enjoy the TV
show "Lost". I did not start watching Lost, until halfway into the first
season, so I was able the see all the past episodes courtesy of iTunes.
Apple is doing real well selling the TV shows, so hopefully they will add
many more. I also like Alias, and the start time conflicts with my daughters
bed time routine, so I am missing this seasons episodes. It would be great
to be able to d/l those too. I really do not watch any more shows than that,
but I would enjoy some Discovery channel shows, and also some PBS shows.
iTunes is a gold mine waiting to be tapped. It won't be long until iPods
get a satellite tuner, and we can pick up live feeds.



I really would like to hear Tony each week, speaking on a subject. Heck,
I'd even spend a few bucks to hear his episodes :-)



- Bruce Garlock






Thu Nov 3 18:11:33 2005   TonyLawrence

No need to toss money my way - it's cheap enough to produce this stuff,
and saves me wearing out my keyboard. I do need to go pick up a real mike..
maybe I'll check out the new Apple store opening in Burlington this Saturday
and kill two birds with one stone..


Fri Nov 4 01:33:28 2005   bruceg2004

Where is the store going to be located? Do you have a link?



- Bruce


Fri Nov 4 08:39:09 2005 New Apple store  TonyLawrence

Burlington Mall, near Filene's



http://www.apple.com/retail/burlington


I'll probably check it out Monday or Tuesday.


Sat Nov 5 03:38:53 2005   Gantry

Good to hear the man behind all the articles I read! Wasn't expecting the
Boston accent, but it works...



Dumb question about RSS since I haven't used it much - do you folks use
something other than the "RSS Bookmark" feature of firefox for RSS feeds
of sites you like? Anything combine a bunch of RSS feeds into one page/bookmark?
I ask because going to the RSS bookmark is sometimes a longer process than
going to the page itself. Firefox quick searches means typing "ap" in the
location bar for this site is less work than going to my nested bookmarks...




Anyway, thumbs up with the podcasts, I'll be listening regularly...


Sat Nov 5 09:40:48 2005   TonyLawrence

My family roots are very deep in Massachusetts. But our oldest daughter
has been living in VA for 20 years ; she says we all talk funny now.. />


I tend toward separate RSS readers. Right now I'm using Thunderbird, but
am not completely happy with it.



Certainly you can get to an often visited page with just a keystroke tap
or two, but for the many, many sites where I mkight be interested in only
one or two articles, RSS is faster - I scan the list, click on what I like,
and then "Mark all as read" and move on.




Thu Nov 10 21:17:42 2005   bruceg2004

So how can I get this easily into iTunes?


Fri Nov 11 11:29:44 2005 iTunes  TonyLawrence

I forget to make these iTunes ready. I'll do that later today.


Fri Nov 11 15:21:42 2005   TonyLawrence

I added iTunes data to the podcast RSS feed

http://pcunix.audioblog.com/rss/aplawrence_podcasts.xml




I don't have an ipod to test with. I did mark these for syndication, so
that probably means you can find them somewhere through Apple also though
I haven't a clue how that works.


Sat Nov 12 11:38:45 2005   bruceg

Great! For other iTunes users, to subscribe to this podcast, I simply clicked
on Advanced, and chose subscribe to podcast, and pasted in the URL in Tony's
previous post. Seems to work fine. I will let you know how it sounds on
my ipod. I have been doing nothing but listening to different podcasts on
my ipod in the car lately, trying to find the ones I really like.



- Bruce


Tue Jan 3 15:37:44 2006 Podcasts...  Roland

Nice to hear your voice again Tones! I found your pod re: ptr records
very helpful... I'll be coming back for more, keep up the excellent work
: )



I've recently set up a podcast page for my tunes http://www.theroland.com/podcast/




-Roland


Tue Jan 3 19:27:17 2006   TonyLawrence

I still haven't got around to buying a decent microphone - I don't like
doing these over the telephone and being unable to edit them.. I guess I
need to do that soon :-)


Wed Jan 4 00:59:59 2006 decent usb mic for podcasting -mac/windows  Roland

Samson makes a nice warm sounding microphone very reasonbly priced... />


here's a usb condensor mic for mac or windows:

http://www.samsontech.com/products/productpage.cfm?prodID=1810&brandID=2


at sam ash for $79 {list is $234}:

http://www.samash.com/catalog/showitem.asp?ItemID=38508&SourceType=BestSeller




-Roland


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