Feed Problems Fixed

I would like to aplagise for the feed for this last week, I use a a service called FeedBurner to take care of some stats and make the feed look all pretty. But over the last week I have seen the downloads jump from what they where, to an amount that just didn’t seem correct. Most of the traffic for this podcast comes from iTunes and after searching the iTunes store things just didn’t add up.
When looking at the stats with RawVoice and FeedBurner, I determined something was wrong with the feed. So I looked at my logs within my wordpress install and found that the URL’s for all the MP3′s where getting a 404 error (page/file not found).
After finding this out I determined that feedburner was messing up the feed, and disabled everything feedburner did to the feed. I found that the tracking system for feedburner was causing the 404 problem, and now have fixed the problem.
Even though the feed is now fixed, I have told iTunes to look at the wordpress feed so this would not happen again.

Again I aplagise for the inconvenience.
Thanks for listening, Benjamin Straw

Mac Tip Podcast – #030 – Crash Logs in Mac OS X

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In this episode of Mac Tip Podcast;
Crash Logs in Mac OS X

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Show Notes:
Recently I had a problem with a game crashing. After I hit the OK button when trying to register the game the game would just disappear, not a thing in the dock or any tasks running JUST GONE.
In trying to find out what was making the Game repeatedly crash, I wanted to find out what was going on.
There are 2 ways to find this out The first is Console This is found in Applications > Utilities.
The Console tells you a just a little about what happened when the App crashed. It will tell you the time and date, The PID, and the Crash message. Like it said not much.

There is a full crash log that tells you EVERYTHING in which happened when the app crashed.
You can find the log by Opening Finder.
Click “Go” in the menu, then select “Go to Folder”.
Type this path into the Finder dialog:
~/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/
All one word.
Now click the Go button.

The Finder will open the folder containing all the crash logs for you mac. Look for a the crash file with the name of the app and the date field that looks like the most recent.
On opening, it will show you the name of an app, path, version, date, time, Bunch of gobble gook, and a bunch of other stuff. Most of which that is in the file, maybe junk to you. But to some one like developers or programmers, they my want to look at this file to find out why their app is misbehaving on your mac.
This file is gold to these guys and gals, so don’t feel bad if you cant read it.

You also want to Make an archive of the log before sending it to to the developer of the app, It makes their lives a little bit easier if they loose the log. This can be done by right-clicking (or Ctrl+clicking) the crash log file and selecting duplicate. Copy that duplicate to another folder or hard disk and your done.

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Mac Tip Podcast – #029 – Stop the Dock Icons from Bouncing

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Stop the Dock Icons from Bouncing

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Show Notes:
The bouncing of an dock Icon is to notify you of an event, like some ones is trying to get a hold of you via Instant massage or a proses that is done,
But it can be annoying at times.
You can make the Dock icons stop bouncing off the walls, even when an application is trying to notify you of something, by entering the following command in the terminal. But first you may need to know where terminal is located at! This is found in Applications > Utilities.
Now you can type the following:
defaults write com.apple.dock no-bouncing -bool TRUE
Then you’ll want to restart the Dock by killing it for the changes to take effect:
killall Dock
You can get the bouncy Dock icons back by changing the command to FALSE rather than TRUE, and of course kill the Dock again.
It makes you wonder why didn’t apple call the DOCK a PLANK it sure looks like a plank to me!

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Mac Tip Podcast – #028 – Automatically Play Videos In QuickTime X

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Automatically Play Videos In QuickTime X

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One of the worst things about Quicktime (in my opinion) is that when I want to play a video it doesn’t play automatically play.

In older versions you have an option with in QuickTime’s preference pane to automatically play videos at first opening, but as of QuickTime X the option no-longer exists

This next trick only works in Snow Leopard in where the new QuickTime X app is found.

To run this trick open Terminal. This is found in Applications > Utilities.
With in Terminal type the following.

defaults write com.apple.QuickTimePlayerX MGPlayMovieOnOpen 1

This will turn the autoplay option on. Now restart your QuickTime Player, if it is open. Now when you play a video you should see that the movie plays on open.
If you want to reverse the process repeat the prosses but this time you want to replace the 1 with a 0

Although we all hope that Apple adds this option back to QuickTime X’s preference pane in an future update but who knows it is Apple after all.

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