Just some links and pointers on Podcasting stuff

Podnova top 40 -- podcasts ranked by popularity

So far I'm liking iPodder client the best for Windows. Can manually download any previous posts, as well as setup schedule, etc.

Doppler was another choice, but don't like how you can't easily manually download previous posts.

Some recommendations from the GrokTalks site:

• DrizzleCast uses MS BITS to download podcasts using available idle bandwidth
• FeedDemon looks like a really killer news aggregator + podcast (enclosures) scheduled download support, etc. Unfortunately, they want $30 for it. :(

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Still screwing around with my new Dell Inspiron laptop. Apparently the PC restore functionality is crushed if/when you repartition, reinstall Windows, etc. where it wipes out the master boot record (MBR).

Inside the Dell PC Restore Partition

This guy has a site that has incredible details about the MBR that comes on the system from Dell, and how he hacked around to get it back. A bit too gnarly for me to try...so I guess I'll never have my factory installed OS again... :(

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I'm screwing around with the partitions on my new Dell Inspiron laptop. Apparently when I reinstalled Windows XP, it nukes the factory master boot record, so you lose ability to use Dell PC restore (where it restores from the hidden partition)

I'm tempted to try to boot into that partition by tweaking boot.ini, but not sure what directory to point it to. ... and worse, screwing up boot.ini bad enough so it won't boot Windows.

Here are some thoughts on boot.ini.

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I was uploading something to MS yesterday at work, and was looking at their HTML upload progress page.

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="2,progressbar.aspx?ProgressID=85244142">

I didn't know there can be more to the content attribute than just the interval (2 seconds here). It seems that the rest of the data is just the URL.

It's fairly obvious what they're doing, just hitting a URL that will lookup the "progress" for a given ID.

(wonder *how* they find progress -- looking at the uploading file on disk, and seeing how much of the file they have, or the code that's doing the transfering is updating DB or other state somewhere...)

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Funny URL name... Saw this guy's blog while poking around on another developer site.

Cheat Sheets - ILoveJackDaniels.com

The two cheat sheets I like the most:
CSS - cascading style sheet syntax

RGB Hex Color Chart
Color list / Color Wheel for HTML pages

MSDN article about "The Wheel of Color"

updated 08/01/05, with a few more cheat sheets

JavaScript
XMLHttpRequest
JavaScript in HTML
Regular Expressions
Event Handlers

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Another game companion communication software product.

GameComm.com

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Discussed on Leo's TWIT.tv, another choice for VoIP communications via computer.

Ventrilo - Scalable Voice Communication Software


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Thanks to Stace for the link -- remote access / control for free. XP has this built in with Remote Desktop, but wonder if this has remote control where the local user is not blocked from seeing what's happening?

LogMeIn - Remote Access Software and Remote Control Software


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From MSDN's new Coding4Fun section, just a good place to get feet wet with game dev. Gomez already knows all this, so I need to read up on it to talk the same language as him.

Coding4Fun: Beginning Game Development

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OpenOffice is the open source project for office type products (word processor, spreadsheet, presentations, soon to be DB app). Free!!

Definitely worth a look as MS Office replacement.

OpenOffice.org: Home

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The DotNetRocks guys have this "video" talking about using Azureus BitTorrent client to download their mp3 podcasting feeds.

They've decided that they will only offer their feeds via BitTorrent, so they walk you through what you have to do...

How to install / use Azureus

Here is the actual video download page.

keywords: torrent bittorrent download

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Some places to start:

• Torrent Spy
• Torrent Reactor
• Mini Nova
• Bi-Torrent

Torrent Scrape combines TorrentSpy, IsoHunt, PirateBay, and MiniNova

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Pretty extensive help on port forwarding for all kinds of home routers. Complete with screenshots, etc.

PortForward.com - Free Help Setting up Your Router or Firewall

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