Archives for July 2005
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After a few weeks in Austin and a couple of days at home, I’m back in Oslo. I had some friends over last night and it turned into a raucous good time!
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This is my Austin. Where you can head out for an afternoon of rambling and come across not one, but two free live concerts. It’s going to be hard to leave Oslo, but I have to admit that I’ve missed this place.
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Shillington’s got a Posse
Originally uploaded by Shad Reynolds.
Check out the kid on the end. Awesome! Check out the whole set.
Stuck in Newark
Originally uploaded by Shad Reynolds.
It smells like trash here. Going vn long island to see Steve and Sam.
If you want to destroy my sweater…
Originally uploaded by Shad Reynolds.
Earlier this week, I was working along on my computer, when I get a message from my friend Lee (who works over at Fast).
2:44:03 PM fastmrlee: hiya
4:05:11 PM calosa: yo
5:20:40 PM fastmrlee: so whats up there
5:20:56 PM calosa: not much. just workin'. how about you?
5:21:05 PM fastmrlee: new itunes 4.9
5:21:11 PM calosa: yeah, how is it?
5:21:20 PM fastmrlee: includes podcast stuff
5:21:23 PM calosa: cool
Not sure if everyone knows what Podcasting is, so allow me to explain (there’s also a great article over on Wikipedia).
Podcasting is, quite simply, someone digitally recording themselves speaking/singing/mixing music/etc and putting it up on the internet each day/week/month/etc. That may not at first seem very revolutionary, but imagine that lots of people are doing this and there are tools that allow you to “subscribe” to all your favorites. Now, add an iPod to the mix. Now you have a portable music player containing perfect recordings of your favorite shows. It’s timely, personalized and entertaining. It’s like listening to the radio except you can control it. Your content, you pause it, you fast forward through the crappy parts.
What’s more, the content is basically all free.
Here’s a step by step guide:
Now I know most of you already have a computer. Unless someone printed this out and passed it to you on the street, then you’re probably reading this over the internet as we speak. For those of you have been waiting for something like this to convince you to get one of those “infarnal machines”, I would suggest getting yourself the 12″ iBook from Apple. Don’t be afraid. Tell ‘em that Shad said it was all good.
The shuffle is quite nice, but the others can hold a lot more data.
Mac users will already have iTunes, but Windows users will need to download it.
Click the box that says “We now have Podcasts!”. Select the podcast(s) that you’re interested in and click on them (iTunes will do the rest)
This will copy all of the podcasts over to your player automatically. If you’re still using a modem, then you’ll have to connect up and click the “synch” button before you plug in your iPod.
That’s it. Now your ready to enjoy the freedom of listening to whatever you want, whenever you want it.
For those of you that are interested in the total package, here’s the price breakdown:
12″ iBook: $999
iPod Shuffle: $129 (about 240 songs)
Internet Connection: $14/month
We released our product today. We were on time and I think we’ve done a pretty decent job all things considered. To celebrate, we headed for the mountains with grills, hotdogs & beer. Bill even gott in a little fishing. Check out the full set.
