Digital Lifestyles

Apple : Podcasting To Do List Items

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Dear Apple,

Please add proper podcasting support to 3rd generation iPod menus.

Plus, when you've done that, please date order the podcast listings. The low-res mono LCD display on 3G and older iPods can only display around 20 chars wide (I'm guessing) which means when you have a bunch of Podcasts with long titles synced - such as "Daily Source Code for July 13th 2005 #207" it can only display "Daily Source Code f.." which is pretty bloody useless if you have more than one DSC podcast stored, they all look identical at first glance, (and they're not in date order) and then you have to wait until each line begins to scroll to see the remainder of the title. Poor show.

Also, please allow Podcasts to show up when you run a shared music library over two macs.

Other than that, I love you.

Yours sincerely
Gary Turner

Pod Harvest

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I'm deeply enamoured of the new inbuilt Podcast capability in iTunes 4.9, and can imagine my iPod is going to fill up pretty quickly. I just hope BBC Radio 4 decides to Podcast more of their programmes soon. I can highly recommend the 8.10 Interview on the Today programme each morning. I love listening to that in the car but don't always catch it. John Humphrys is my hero.

Storage

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At what point did the storage requirements of home users overtake those of 98% of businesses?

I suppose this must have an effect on the next ten years of technological evolution. Rather than utilitarian hand-me-down technology going into homes, how long before home use values like style, art and design being to infiltrate our offices? Might be an idea to buy some stocks in hard disk and storage companies.


  • 5,283 Songs & MP3's, 26GB

  • 6,988 digital photographs, 13GB

  • 15 hours of digital video footage, 165GB

  • Weblog content & archives, 500MB

  • 30 or so ripped DVD movies, 24GB

  • 1 Windows XP Pro and 1 Linux Virtual PC session, 20GB

  • Misc downloaded cruft, 6GB

  • Installed OS & Apps, circa 30GB


    • Subtotal 284.5GB
    +Backup 284.5GB

    TOTAL 569GB