Kroc Camen meets Thom Holwerda for another attempt at interpreting the stories currently on the OSNews.com homepage. Thom's sound issues have been solved, but as you will find out I had some mic difficulties. GarageBand crashed half way through - again. The show keeps up it's 'unscripted' style! "Read More" for the links and show-notes.
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I was curious why the podcast I just saw last week was podcast #1 and this is number 4, and wondered "did I miss any?" So I looked at
http://www.osnews.com/files/podcast.xml
and found you guys did 2 podcasts a few years back and that #1 last week was actually #3.
Just figured I put this comment out for anyone else who is confused.
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I thought MPX (Multi-Pointer Xsever) did just that. But as i found out it has no "true" touch support yet. More info here:
http://wearables.unisa.edu.au/mpx/?q=node/147
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I have had quite a few crashes myself with GarageBand over the last year or so, but it has always restarted and been able to keep everything intact. Still very annoying and I hope the crashing issues are fixed in iLife '09, which I guess is what we will get with Snow Leopard.
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We gave our answer to this in the show, right at the end. OGG simply is not practical enough right now. We will look into it in the future, but we don’t want to double the space used on the server for each episode when mp3 will be able to reach 99% of the audience. We'll have to work with the server people to see if bandwidth/space-wise we can provide OGGs, and I don’t know that at this moment. Apologies.
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If someone could share a compelling reason to host the podcast in OGG format knowing that iTunes - likely the most popular podcast host app - cannot support it and that it's likely that 99% + of our users already have MP3 codecs installed, I'd like to hear it.
It's an idealist request with little practical value.
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The only thing I would change for next time is the volume of the music at the start, end and between topics. It is a bit too high in contrast to the talking.
Other than the above I'm enjoying the podcasts, keep up the good work.
I would like to hear in the next podcast your thoughts on wine and crossover games:
http://www.winehq.org/
http://www.codeweavers.com/
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And while on the subject of creative new practical implementations of multi-touch interfaces, I suggest you guys check out one of the presentations at nVidia's NVISION '08 conference. You made passing mention of Perspective Pixel, the company that makes of the famous CNN Magic Wall, but the NVISION '08 presentation blows away anything John King did with the wall during the U.S. election.
The demo begins 1 hour and 24 minutes into the day one keynote video available here http://www.nvidia.com/content/nvision2008/keynotes.html.
I hope this sheds new light on the way you think about future computing interfaces. I know it sure did for me.
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To further improve sound quality i suggest using levelator to adjust speaking levels of different persons automatically. It's free and available for mac,win and linux and was specifically designed for podcasts.
If you want a sample with your podcast:
http://blog.serophos.net/wp-data/original.mp3
http://blog.serophos.net/wp-data/output.mp3
More info here:
http://www.conversationsnetwork.org/levelator
You can do this manually of course but it's much more work and doesnt usually give the same quality.
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What I really liked about the Podcast was how Thom came across as much gentler than in some of his comments. I find that, on the website, sometimes he sounds very egocentric or arrogant. (Sorry, Thom! Not meant as an attack.) Not so while listening to him talking. I can't put my finger on it, so whatever is different, I'd like to see more of it in the comments.
The English of both of you also is very easy to understand, for me as a non-native speaker. Very good.
There also were some things I disliked, though.
I, too, didn't like the music. However, that's not an issue for me - to each his own, I'll just fast forward.
But, the amount of talking about Linux wasn't for me. I know, I know, it's OSNews. Still, checking the article after listening, I was surprised that it said the topic was "Bump Top" from 12:26 on. While listening, I didn't even notice the introduction of the topic change (must have not been paying attention or something for a minute, not sure) and it was "Linux this, Linux that" all the time to me until the discussion about Firefox.
Furthermore, I didn't like that you discussed almost nothing new, asides from the e-mail responses, of course. I constantly had the feeling of "yeah, read that in a comment. yep, that too.". I see that it's hard to come up with new points on OSNews' stories, considering that most stuff gets discussed extensively. Perhaps "interpreting the stories currently on the OSNews.com homepage" is the wrong concept in the first place. I think you should talk more about background information not currently written here.
So, well, that's my (hopefully) constructive criticism, hth.