http://www.podfeet.com/wordpress Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:15:57 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Nosillacast no http://www.podfeet.com/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/powerpress/rss_default.jpg http://www.podfeet.com/wordpress http://www.podfeet.com/wordpress/2009/03/22/196-search-on-podfeet-more-pedias-moral-dilemma-vhs-to-dvds/ http://www.podfeet.com/wordpress/2009/03/22/196-search-on-podfeet-more-pedias-moral-dilemma-vhs-to-dvds/#comments Mon, 23 Mar 2009 02:24:06 +0000 podfeet http://www.podfeet.com/wordpress/?p=826 I go without power till 15 minutes before showtime, GOOD search comes to podfeet.com, DVDpedia and all the other pedias starts a wave of emails from bruji.com. I struggle with a moral dilemma. In Chit Chat Across the Pond Bart and I are joined by Steve to talk about how he moves [...]]]> http://www.podfeet.com/wordpress/2009/03/22/196-search-on-podfeet-more-pedias-moral-dilemma-vhs-to-dvds/feed/ 1 conversion,DVD,morals,organization,search,vhs,video I go without power till 15 minutes before showtime, GOOD search comes to podfeet.com, DVDpedia and all the other pedias starts a wave of emails from bruji.com. I struggle with a moral dilemma. In Chit Chat Across the Pond Bart and I are joined by Ste... I go without power till 15 minutes before showtime, GOOD search comes to podfeet.com, DVDpedia and all the other pedias starts a wave of emails from bruji.com. I struggle with a moral dilemma. In Chit Chat Across the Pond Bart and I are joined by Steve to talk about how he moves videos from VHS tape to beautiful DVDs, and we talk about the future in this process. Listen to the Podcast Once (55 min) Today is Sunday March 22nd, 2009, and this is show number 196. Have you guys thought up anything clever for the 200th show? I think Steve is working on an idea but I have no idea what he's up to - has me intrigued! Emergency power Search on podfeet.com I want to thank all of you for never once yelling at me for how AWFUL search is on podfeet.com. For crying out loud guys, it's dreadful and nobody ever pointed that out. It's not that I didn't know it was dreadful, I just couldn't figure out how to fix it. I tried to put in google search but for some reason it just wouldn't work. then research assistant Niraj suggested I try out the Wordpress plugin Search Unleashed. Sounded like the answer to my problems, but I installed it and it didn't work! I mean, it didn't work at ALL. I couldn't even find Honda Bob with it! I complained to Niraj that his plugin was dumb and then he asked me I'd configured it. Now of course I TRIED to configure it but I couldn't find the configuration settings! Here's one of the problems - Wordpress has been updated a bunch lately, and the version I was used to using had a section called Manage and that's where plugins configuration options are shown. The latest version though, 2.7, doesn't have a manage section. Niraj helped me dig around till we found it in Settings, and sure enough there's a button you have to click that says "index". Um, duh, I guess if it hasn't indexed it, no search engine could ever find Honda Bob, even on MY site! I clicked on index and sure enough, we now have REAL search on podfeet.com! Go give it a try, and thanks again for never pointing out how lame it was. DVDpedia and more I don't think any application I've ever reviewed has gotten more response from users than the one I did last week on DVDpedia. One of my favorites was the comment on the blog from Conor - (a different Conor) when he wrote that he was listening away to the show when he suddenly realized that I was reviewing the product that HE wrote! What fun for him - especially since I liked it! About 126 people sent in emails after the review about the free iPhone app called PocketPedia, but I have to give first dibs credit to Jena because she told me about it AGES ago and I forgot all about it! Pocketpedia allows you to sync your DVD collection from DVDpedia over to the iPhone. I downloaded & installed it from iTunes onto my iPhone, and sadly it was empty. Well I guess that makes sense, have to get it to talk to my collection first, right? Well luckily it wasn't without entertainment though, because you can search Amazon for movies which is pretty fun. When I got home I synced up my iPhone to my mac, and then in Pocketpedia there was a sync button all of it's own. I clicked sync and in about 2 minutes, my DVd library was in my phone. It's beautiful. It looks just like Address Book, except all of the entries have nice album art next to them. click on an entry and you get the full info about the movie, and click on the tiny album art and it flips around and you get a full screen picture of the album art. It all works exactly like you would hope it would work! But that's not all! I got an email (or I should say several emails) about the plugin for Front Row that allows you to view your DVDpedia library, which is really cool if you have an Apple TV or Mac Mini hooked up to your TV. Scott told me about that, and while that sounded nifty to me, I told him I thought it would be a big ol' tease though because while you could see the images of your DVD collection, Nosillacast no http://www.podfeet.com/wordpress/2009/03/15/195-slau-dvdpedia-cha-ching-encrypted-disk-images/ http://www.podfeet.com/wordpress/2009/03/15/195-slau-dvdpedia-cha-ching-encrypted-disk-images/#comments Mon, 16 Mar 2009 02:10:55 +0000 podfeet http://www.podfeet.com/wordpress/?p=817 Sessions from Slau at sessionswithslau.com, Dumb Question Corner reveals laser-specific search in Spotlight from usingmac.com. DVDpedia from bruji.com/dvdpedia goes up against Delicious Library and wins for only $18 from bruji.com/dvdpedia. In Chit Chat Across the Pond, Bart explains that Adobe has patched their services and he does a review fo the $40 [...]]]> http://www.podfeet.com/wordpress/2009/03/15/195-slau-dvdpedia-cha-ching-encrypted-disk-images/feed/ 5 apple,cha-ching,DVD,finance,mac,Macintosh,money,organization,podcast,search,security,web Sessions from Slau at sessionswithslau.com, Dumb Question Corner reveals laser-specific search in Spotlight from usingmac.com. DVDpedia from bruji.com/dvdpedia goes up against Delicious Library and wins for only $18 from bruji.com/dvdpedia. Sessions from Slau at sessionswithslau.com, Dumb Question Corner reveals laser-specific search in Spotlight from usingmac.com. DVDpedia from bruji.com/dvdpedia goes up against Delicious Library and wins for only $18 from bruji.com/dvdpedia. In Chit Chat Across the Pond, Bart explains that Adobe has patched their services and he does a review fo the $40 personal finance management software from Midnight Apps at midnightapps.com. Then Bart and I discuss how to get offsite backups without taking forever but still being secure, and he walks me through how to make an encrypted disk image to protect my offsite backup. I created a ScreenSteps tutorial on podfeet.com in the right sidebar on how to make an encrypted disk image too. Listen to the Podcast Once (52 min) Today is Sunday March 15th, 2009, and this is show number 195. Do you realize we're getting pretty darn close to 200 episodes? What shall we do to celebrate? You guys are ever so much more clever than I am, think up something that requires no work on my part, ok? It seems like we should be able to pull something off here! Slau At the podcast expo a few years back I had the great pleasure of getting to know Slau. It was one of the high points of the show for me, and I didn't even realize at the time that he was the one who wrote the fantastic podsafe Christmas carol "If Every Day Were Christmas" over at podsafeforpeace.org. Anyway, Slau has a recording studio and has been promising to do a podcast for ages, and he's finally done it. I listened to the episode where he works with Jordan Potter and Matthew Conrad and I was entranced. He mixes in the music he's recording with his behind the scenes description of what goes into recording a record. He's so gifted at story telling, it's fantastic. I know, you're all thinking "but Allison doesn't even LIKE music". You got me there - but consider if I liked it, it must be REALLY good! Check it out at sessionswithslau.com Dumb Question Corner =======queue the music======================= Spotlight Laser-specific Search Hi, Allison, it's Kate from SouthEastern Michigan again - great answer the last time - even if it wasn't what I wanted to hear, c'est la vie. Here's another - Apple's Quick Tip of the week (on "Advanced Find") said in rss: "Mac OS X Leopard has a great search tool. Accessible in the menu bar or from any Finder window, Spotlight lets you search any Mac on your network, perform calculations, look up definitions, launch applications, search recently visited websites, and much more. Using Spotlight, you can also define laser-specific search criteria simply by pointing and clicking." apple.com Well, their video didn't address _any_ of those items their blurb referred to - so - how do I search any Mac in my network? (I can calculate, define, and launch already) - and what do you think "Using Spotlight, you can also define laser-specific search criteria simply by pointing and clicking" means? Doesn't that sound like fun? You know I love your show although Bart's "Security Life" bits give me the heebie-jeebies. And tell Honda-Bob I wish I had a Honda and lived in Orange county! I think you'll like the answer better this time. you're absolutely right - that laser focus thing always gets me excited! I did a couple of searches and found a link on Life Hacker to usingmac.com where they actually explain how to get that laser search! the basic idea is that you type in your search term followed by "kind:" and the kind of thing you're looking for. I typed in "podcast kind: text" and it found a whole bunch of text documents with the word podcast imbedded in them - in 1/10th the time that Windows would never even find the word podcast if it were the name of my hard drive! How about after Spotlight finds a file, what if you just want to see where it is, not open it? turns out hitting command-return will show you the file in the finder. Nosillacast no