TUAW Podcast, the First

Get ready to flame me, everybody! Laurie asked everyone yesterday if TUAW should have a podcast, and I decided that I didn't care what any of you said, we shouldn't.

To prove that we shouldn't, I went ahead and made one sans Laurie and Scott, but with some nice little sound effects here and there, some Smashing Pumpkins playing in the background, a few news clips, and me stumbling over words and saying 'um' and 'uh' much too frequently. The main topics are Tiger, Spotlight, Dashboard, and Automator and Quicktime 7, and I briefly touch on setting up an Automator workflow for creating your own podcast.

Check it out: TUAW Podcast, the First (14.4MBs / 15 minutes 46 seconds long).

One slight correction: In the middle of my unrehearsed ranting about Dashboard, I say that Widgets are made of HTML and Java. This is incorrect. They are made of HTML and JavaScript. Scott caught my mistake in his first listen through and ridiculed me at length for it. Feel free to join him, but I just thought I'd put it out there that this ground has already been covered.

Also, here's a direct link (28kb) to the Automator workflow that I mentioned in the podcast. Basically it launches Quicktime Pro 7, starts a new audio recording using the audio-in device you have set up in your System Preferences, waits for you to click "Continue" to stop the recording, and then automatically imports the file into iTunes, converts it into an mp3, and changes its name to "podcast." Have fun with it. I'll post a more detailed discussion of it later tonight, or tomorrow.