Comments on: TMUP 195: Snow Leopard From Scratch Part 5

By: typicalmacuser

typicalmacuser — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 09:57:52 +0000

No worries you expressed your opinion and I just needed to let you know both sides of the story

By: typicalmacuser

typicalmacuser — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 09:56:23 +0000

Discuss is the commenting system I use ( and many others) probably it sent you email address when you made comments.

By: thehand

thehand — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 20:51:20 +0000

what is this disqus and how did they get my email address. should I sign up?

By: thehand

thehand — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 20:20:59 +0000

you are right. I have no right. I didn't realize how much work podcasting to hundreds of fans entails. I apologize. You and Victor are great.

By: typicalmacuser

typicalmacuser — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 01:46:53 +0000

Let me look into this a bit and get back to you.

By: typicalmacuser

typicalmacuser — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 01:46:05 +0000

You are very kind to say that.

By: geekneck

geekneck — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 16:48:37 +0000

Great show, Victor. I have a question about the dock that has been bugging me for a while. When I minimize a window, some applications get minimized to the dock on the left hand side of the “crosswalk”, while others get minimized to the right. I'm guessing that the difference is whether or not the application allows multiple windows to be open. Does that seem reasonable? If so, it seems very weird that you have to know something about an application's behavior in order to figure out where to go to unminimize it…

On a related topic, it seems that Option Tab behavior is quite different from Windows. In Windows, Alt Tab cycles through all of the open windows and lets you bring to the front any of them, minimized or not. Option Tab in OS X will show you all the open applications (not windows), but is very limited to what window you can bring to the front. For example, if iTunes is running but minimized, I cannot make the iTunes window visible via Option Tab; it's icon is shown, though. Another example is multiple Safari windows. It behaves similarly to the iTunes example when minimized. When all of the Safari windows are not minimized, I can only select the most-recently-visible Safari window.

Both of these issues seemingly show inconsistencies in the UI. Maybe I'm not using them as designed… Any thoughts on why the UI works this way? Thanks and keep up the great work!!!

By: geekneck

geekneck — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 16:28:08 +0000

I think you are doing a great job, Victor. Lots of great info. I'd rather get content than have meticulously documented show notes. Besides, if I hear something I want to know more about, Google is my friend

By: typicalmacuser

typicalmacuser — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 02:44:14 +0000

True that you do these but I think that we do what we can. The tutorial shows I've been doing naturally have less show notes as all of the information I provide during these shows is available to all of us in the HELP section of OS X. Thanks for the support and to the original poster, I have no problem with criticism but as stated by others in these comments my intent is to educate and share my passion, It cost me more than I make to do this show and folks like George and Steve for the most part do it out of the kindness and passion as well. Enough said on this and I will comment no further.

By: Steve Riekeberg

Steve Riekeberg — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 19:00:01 +0000

Apologies to those of you who are looking for show notes, I do show notes for Victor, so it's totally my fault! No excuses… I screwed up!

By: georgestarcher

georgestarcher — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 17:47:33 +0000

Thanks! the general rule of thumb if you do any kind of post production is 3-4x the amount of time of the recorded show. This counts from making your initial notes for show planning to post editing. If you record “live to hard drive” and do little to no post production its more like 2x. But that leaves in a lot of rambling, uhms, pauses etc. Just comes down to the personal preference of the podcaster.

By: CaptMac184

CaptMac184 — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 16:03:26 +0000

My two Cents. The way I see it is that the folks putting together these podcasts (i.e., Victor) are doing this for our benefit !

I look forward to each show, I learn more and more each time. I have yet to say " I didn't Learn S… from that podcast. I have been tinkering around with the idea of starting my own podcast and will not commit until i know i have enough time.

It seems to be a lot of work and their only motivation is to share their passion with others. Keep up the good work Victor! Plenty of us enjoy what you do.

Dennis

By: georgestarcher

georgestarcher — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 13:05:22 +0000

I would like to give some constructive feedback on your post. All podcasters welcome constructive feedback. But it sets a poor tone and lessens credibility when comments are given as orders on content that is freely given by a large time investment by the podcaster. This is true of any show. Particularly those done out of volunteerism rather than as a full time job. There are a few podcasters who make this their full time employment. Most do not. We have day jobs that get us insurance, pay the mortgage, pay for fun things to review or enhance the production value of our content.

You may not be aware but you are referring to an enhanced podcast. That is mac/ipod/iphone only. Granted this is a mac only show but very often shows like this are listened to by windows users prior to deciding to switch. I know I did exactly that years ago with Maccast on his mp3 version prior to enhanced podcasts. Enhanced podcasts also work well for very well defined podcasts. TMU is a bit more free form from episode to episode. It takes quite a bit of work to lay out enhanced podcasts on top of normal production efforts.

One steadfast rule for the non full time self employed podcasters. When it starts feeling like work, stop. Move on. The majority of us do this for fun not work. We have work all day during the day. Let's keep things constructive and recognize the effort put into any podcast that is given to us freely. If we make it work for the podcasters we might find things dry up.

By: typicalmacuser

typicalmacuser — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 10:37:23 +0000

I do what I can, I have someone who does show notes for me, and on these SL from scratch episodes it's much harder to do show notes. Appreciate the feedback but I spend 3 hrs a week putting together the show and its mostly for free. So I draw a line. That's the truth of it.

I won''t take another 2 hrs to add stuff on GB, sorry it's the way it is

By: thehand

thehand — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 04:49:49 +0000

you are not diligent about show notes. you should have show notes with links or you can do an enhanced podcast with links in each chapter to pertinent sites. Just use Garage band. MacReviewCast is a good examples of this. Just use garage band. Just do it