Blog posts
This blog contains mostly posts from before 2010.
Learning zapping again
Dec 17, 2009
Zapping, channel surfing, channel hopping or whatever you would like to call it; I am learning it again.
There are about 90 video and audio podcasts in my subscription list in iTun...
Article Inspired by "The Real Time Web" LeWeb
Dec 17, 2009
Mammut video edited with iMovie '09
Mar 20, 2009
Here is a video I shot and edited for the Mammut testevent 2009:
In iMovie ‘09 you can sync edit p...
Why I am a TEDster: Content, Community, Cause
Feb 10, 2009
Another great speech about Music and the Future of New Media on IT Conversations
Dec 9, 2008
Insightful look at developments in (new) media: Peter Hirshberg: The Web and TV, a sibling rivalry
Sep 6, 2008
Here is a great video from the eg 2007 conference of Read more
WebTuesday 2008-07-08: Lightning Talk by Vasile Cotovanu about Google Maps
Jul 10, 2008
Lightning Talk by Vasile Cotovanu about Google Maps
WebTuesday 2008-07-08: Lightning Talk by Toni Birrer about Splunk
Jul 10, 2008
WebTuesday 2008-07-08: Lightning Talk by Axel Beckert about IkiWiki
Jul 10, 2008
WebTuesday 2008-07-08: Lightning Talk by Cédric Hüsler about perceived performance
Jul 10, 2008
Lightning Talk by Cédric Hüsler about perceived performance
WebTuesday 2008-07-08: Lightning Talk by Tristan Woerth about types of databases
Jul 10, 2008
Lightning Talk by Tristan Woerth: a discussion about types of databases
WebTuesday 2008-07-08: Lightning Talk by Harry Fuecks about RESTful Thumbnailing
Jul 10, 2008
Lightning Talk by Harry Fuecks about RESTful Thumbnailing
WebTuesday 2008-07-08: Lightning Talk by Patrice Neff about SOA
Jul 10, 2008
Lightning Talk by Patrice Neff about the benefits of Service Oriented Architectures (SOA)
Dipity profile created
Jun 29, 2008
Overview of some of my online activities:
...WebTuesday 2008-05-13: Apache sling by David Nuescheler
Jun 27, 2008
Google video has been giving me problems and I cannot get it to make videos downloadable. The video quality is also pretty low.
Enter Read more
Currently in my 'Vidcasts' playlist...
Jun 27, 2008
I don’t watch TV anymore. That is, I have put away my TV tuner. I still watch a lot of video content, including shows that are available on TV. One of the legal ways to get TV shows...
Benjamin Zander's TED Talk now online
Jun 26, 2008
Tips for startups from Maya Elhalal
Jun 23, 2008
Graphic design museum opened in The Netherlands
Jun 11, 2008
Typepad layout problem solved
Jun 9, 2008
It was caused by an extra </div> tag that creeped in through autoformatting in the web-based editor of Typepad.
...Typepad layout problem
Jun 6, 2008
The layout of my main weblog page breaks a bit at the moment.
It may have something to do with the embedded videos I posted using the new visual editor from from typepad. I’l...
Ultimate guide for Podcast recording with Skype from the Conversations network
Jun 5, 2008
Zeix user experience
Jun 4, 2008
St. Anton am Arlberg in High-Res on Google Maps
Jun 3, 2008
St. Anton am Arlberg in Austria was a big smudge on Google Maps until not too long ago.
Now you can actua...Mahalo daily viral videos
Jun 3, 2008
Andrea Rene and Read more
1st runner up for an Air!
May 29, 2008
Watch this episode of Mahalo Daily:http://www.mahalodaily.com/2008/05/29/md...
PHP Training with video: Lynda.com
May 27, 2008
Videos on Flickr: good for short clips
May 26, 2008
Trying out the Flickr Video capabilities.
The 90 second limit allows for nice little snapshots like these:
These videos were shot near Read more
Leah gets it too
May 25, 2008
Leah D’Emilio tracked me down on Facebook to say...
Gary Vaynerchuk's inbox, or: how to gracefully deal with potential email bankruptcy
May 25, 2008
Amazon MP3 widget
May 15, 2008
Mo’Jones -> Nicolle -> Adam Curry
...Inspiration for entrepreneurs
May 10, 2008
Pangea day: I'll be watching
May 7, 2008
...
CNN special on innovation -> Benjamin Zander
May 6, 2008
It’s great to see orchestra conductor Read more
Swisscom Labs project profiled
Apr 25, 2008
Podcast advertising: more effective
Apr 24, 2008
A Bizreport article showed up in my Google alerts with some numbers t...
Amazon Webservices on WebTuesday video
Apr 22, 2008
The video of the WebTuesday hosted presentation about A...
iPhone UI critique
Feb 5, 2008
Some day this year I’ll be able to comment on this more. (The iPhone is not out in Switzerland yet and I am waiting for version 2 before I buy one, yadda, yadda, etc.)
For no...
Flickr + tags + creative commons + maps + geotagging = mashup
Feb 4, 2008
Schmap Guides richly annotates online maps to create guides for a big number of travel destinations. They make a nice m...
A User Experience workshop experience
Feb 2, 2008
Working on the Swisscom Labs project was an interesting experience.
My colleague Bryce wrote a short su...
Vint Cerf's Zurich talk on YouTube
Dec 12, 2007
Vint Cerf gave a talk in Zurich last month with the title “Tracking the Internet into the 21st Century”.
Well worth watching for some perspective on internet related de...
Advanced ski instructor training experience
Dec 7, 2007
Simon writes an (to me very recognizable) account of his first advanced ski instructor ...
The B Series: Brainstorm's how-to on doing an awareness campaign... but wait, there's more!
Dec 6, 2007
Here’s a nice set of articles by Brainstorm that chronicles their awareness campaign called Read more
If you're asking "what is important right now?"...
Dec 6, 2007
There is a good answer in this talk by Philippe Starck:
I hope I’ve given enough of a tease to make you watch.
Don’t worry, as soon as you have seen 2 minutes yo...
Leopard print bathrobe
Nov 27, 2007
Looks like every Kimpton hotel ‘features’ the creepy Leopard print bathrobes…<...
Finding one's passion
Nov 26, 2007
Recently I got in touch with Onno Hamburger again by accident. Several years ago he was leading a communic...
Lefsetz on Licensing, copyright, Creative commons & Larry Lessig
Nov 21, 2007
Bob Lefsetz has an excellent Read more
Luckily, Leopard recovers well from a crash :-/
Nov 20, 2007
[Update: The problem was finally resolved with a logic board replacement. Apparently the on board graphics card just broke. Leopard’s graphics is driver apparently less forgiving to...
Good overview of TED
Nov 12, 2007
Vaarwel, Au revoir, KLM Airfrance
Nov 10, 2007
20000 of my last Flying blue airmiles have just been spent. I only have a few left.
Good. Now I will probably not have to deal with KLM/ Airfrance and it’s horrible online se...
Microsoft says Canadians think Pirated software stings, eh
Oct 4, 2007
Service interruption: moving to Godaddy
Oct 3, 2007
My domains are being moved so there will be some interruptions.
...You'll feel like you're in a little club
Sep 23, 2007
In my company that club is about to become bigger.
We are talking about how to introduce Macs as standard laptop option (next to the current choice of Dells).
Feeling tense?
Sep 23, 2007
If you have the feeling that your body is tense a likely cause is stress.
However some of that stress may be physical: an incorrect seating position or height settings for a chair ...
TEDGlobal pictures: handing out Lapdesks
Jun 6, 2007
Before the kick-off of the TEDGlobal conference in Arusha, Tanzania I had the opportunity to participate in a tour with the Read more
The 'proper way' for website development
May 27, 2007
http://www.thinkvitamin.com/features/css/make-your-site-mobile-friendly
Bad public space design in the USA explained by James Howard Kunstler
May 20, 2007
Every time I travel to the USA I dread going to a badly designed country. The last city where I spent a considerable amount of time is Boston. Very close to my office and the hotel where ...
The Encyclopedia of Life
May 9, 2007
The website for The Encyclopedia of Life launched today.
Next to it being a great initiative overall to me it looks...
Podcastconsultant.net : Excellent podcasting resource
May 8, 2007
Weisse Rausch (White Rush) ski race video
May 4, 2007
SmartPlaylist
Apr 22, 2007
Excellent SXSW panel discussion on CSS: must listen for UI people
Apr 5, 2007
There is an excellent podcast of one of the sessions at this year’s South by South West conference called:
Open Source: when it makes sense (And: how Apple behaves)
Mar 24, 2007
My current company’s tagline is: “Realize the benefits of Open Source”. In practice that means: Of e...
BarCamp 2 Boston video collage
Mar 22, 2007
An interesting video collage has been posted of the sessions at
BRTC Today
Mar 22, 2007
One way to make you understand TED
Mar 14, 2007
Explaining what the TED conference is is not easy.
David Pogue blogs about it and links to a CBS News report he did on the conference Read moreBarCamp 2 Boston this weekend
Mar 13, 2007
Change copyright and licensing!
Mar 12, 2007
Attention for Podsafe music, or: freeing music
Mar 2, 2007
The current system(s) of licensing music are not compatible with Podcasting and other ’new’ ways of promoting music.
To get things moving a bit, one initiative is sure ...
Mac vs. PC for web builders
Mar 1, 2007
Skiing on 2 continents: pretty crappy winter!
Feb 16, 2007
Not that it’s crappy that I get to ski on 2 continents… (Due to a big, secret web project in Boston I get to stay over there a lot.)…
But the conditions are pretty...Opportunities at Optaros
Feb 16, 2007
new job @ Optaros!
Jan 8, 2007
A few months ago already, i started a new job at a company focussed on open source, open standards and next generation internet applications.
It’s called Read moreTED Podcast : Jimmy Wales on how and why Wikipedia works
Aug 24, 2006
There is a recurring discussion about the value and trustworthiness of Wikipedia.
Watch this video podcast of the founder of Wikipedia - Jimmy Wales - and you’ll probably be ...
TED Podcasts : Extremely high value
Aug 24, 2006
Update on the ol' Skype recording issue from Geekbrief
Jul 12, 2006
Cali from Geekbrief.tv and Rob from Podcas...
Petition for 'Podcasters' Rights and the WIPO Broadcast Treaty'
Jun 19, 2006
Lesson for snow instructors
Jun 7, 2006
An Austrian news site has an article about the aftermath of a severe Avalanche accident that took place Ja...
New snowsports site
May 28, 2006
ultimate-ski.com is a website launched in January with a wealth of snowsports information.
Judging by the ...
Bye Bye Edit, Hello Mate
May 24, 2006
When I started with Ruby On Rails I came across Te...
White crash!
Apr 25, 2006
A false start, some frantic skiing and then a big crash!
The Weisse Rausch (White rush)
Apr 18, 2006
This year I will finally participate in the “Weisse R...
Second FirstTuesday podcast on IT Conversations: Music, Innovation & Convergence
Feb 27, 2006
The second FirstTuesday podcast is out on Read more
Snowfix video podcast
Feb 7, 2006
Negative Gravity from the UK have started a video podcast about snowsports: Read more
Squeezed geek chick: wide screen fix
Feb 1, 2006
The first episode of Geek Brief TV I saw after subscribing today was episode #0007. It immediately occurred to m...
First FirstTuesday podcast on IT Conversations: Music, Innovation & Convergence
Jan 27, 2006
Here it is: the keynote presentation of the Read more
Blackberry patents
Jan 24, 2006
World Economic Forum Podcasts
Jan 24, 2006
Do not leave the subject line of emails empty
Jan 22, 2006
Emails that arrive in my inbox without a subject line will be marked as SPAM and then they are deleted. I do not read them.
If you want to ask me a question, (post a comment on thi...
Back in Zürich for a few days
Jan 10, 2006
Back in Zürich to take care of some admin, etc. It’s gray and cold here unlike St. Anton where it is sunny and cold. At least I have a fat internet pipe in my apartment here, good f...
Reconnected
Jan 8, 2006
Syncing separately recorded multi-track audio to video from a camcorder
Dec 14, 2005
When I was recording an event for IT Conversations recently, I decided to put a camera in the room for the following reasons: 1. To record a backup soundtrack (in case the audio recording...
As predicted: 'Podcast' word of the year
Dec 7, 2005
Blink; you're in an avalanche!
Oct 24, 2005
Malcolm Gladwell was in Zürich last week, talking about his book Read more
Leaving...
Oct 23, 2005
...A podcast for my friends in Finance
Oct 20, 2005
Having been living in Zürich for a while, I have met quite a few people who work in Financial institutions.
For those finance and accounting geeks, the Read more
Turning the tables
Oct 20, 2005
Right now traditional record companies, labels and artists are somewhere between trying protect their traditional way of doing business and developing or embracing new ways to get paid.
PlayLouder Music Service Provider (MSP)
Oct 20, 2005
PlayLouder MSP is an Internet Service Provider in the UK (about to launch) that allows and encourage...
Cringely: Must see TV... ehh... PBS program
Oct 16, 2005
Robert Cringely is creating a series of interviews with people known for their accomplishments in IT/ internet like Andy Hertzfeld, Bill Joy and Tim O’reilly.
The latest inte...
Another post about the Valfagehrbahn
Oct 16, 2005
On the St. Anton weblog… (German)
...New and improved Valfagehrbahn
Oct 15, 2005
...Logic Express update 7.1.1: problems with M-audio FireWire 1814 fixed?
Oct 7, 2005
After a quick test with the Logic Express update 7.1.1 it seems that it won&...
FirstTuesday forum: The road to convergence
Oct 5, 2005
Yesterday, FirstTuesday Zürich held a forum called ‘The road to convergence’.
I recorded most o...
M-Audio Firewire 1814 + Logic Express = crash ! One solution...
Sep 26, 2005
Logic Express seems to be the only program that crashes when I try to use it with my recently bought
One year of podcasting...
Sep 20, 2005
Podcastcon UK 2005: success!
Sep 20, 2005
Podcastcon UK 2005 was great! I’m really glad I went at the last moment.
I met a lot of nice people:...
Isolating Skype audio for recording on the Mac with extra Soundflower channels
Sep 16, 2005
Recently I tried to use Skype again in a podcasting studio setup that I have described a while ago. It seems that through a couple of upgr...
Off to Podcastcon UK
Sep 16, 2005
Old hardware
Aug 31, 2005
...Moving sale
Aug 21, 2005
Gearing up to sell some stuff before I move in ~ 2 months.
Looks like I will just be moving inside the same city (Zürich, Switzerland) but I just want to &l...
Back from vacation in Alaska
Aug 13, 2005
Just back from 3 weeks of vacation to Valdez, Alaska and Long-Island, NY.
I went on a Read more
Go for the skiing Dave!
Jul 25, 2005
Dave contemplates becoming a Read more
Podcasting license & Pricing announced by Dutch collection agency
Jul 21, 2005
BBC TEDGlobal coverage
Jul 19, 2005
The BBC has a collection of articles covering last week’s TEDGlobal 2005 conference. There is no specific starting page but Read more
More PIX from TEDglobal 2005
Jul 19, 2005
Even more pictures from TEDGlobal 2005.
TEDGlobal - 7/7 Wikipedia illustration
Jul 19, 2005
At the TEDGlobal conference, Chris Anderson introduced Wikipedia founder Read more
TED Global 2005
Jul 19, 2005
TED Global 2005 was really great on many levels! A treat for the mind, meetin...
iTunes Podcast playlists: 'Podcast' track property is read-only
Jul 11, 2005
Podcast tracks in iTunes 4.9 do not seem to be easily manageable in regular playlists or smart playlists. The AppleScript dictionary for iTunes has been extended with a track property tha...
Rocketboom extra: How to subscribe to a podcast with iTunes
Jul 5, 2005
Rocketboom has an excellent video ...
Layout temporarily fixed
Jul 4, 2005
I changed the layout of this blog because I noticed that it broke for individual archive pages.
...Correction (Amazon link broke layout)
Jul 4, 2005
Update: that turned out not to be the cause…
(I noticed that the Amazon link to Read more
Creating Podcasts with Quicktime 7 Pro
Jul 4, 2005
Drag a PDF into iTunes...
Jul 4, 2005
It works.
It won’t do anything but just show up at first but if you double click it, it opens in Preview.
eBooks?
(Pressing play doesn’t work.)
iTunes is dead, long live iXxx
Jul 4, 2005
iTunes and iPhoto are two applications that catalog and organize… eh, well.. files?
You can put pictures into iTunes and you can put audio/ video into iPhoto.
iTunes ...
iTunes is broken
Jul 4, 2005
I like iTunes. However, version 4.9 is broken in some ways. I am already looking forward to the next generation application.
What happened is that features were crammed into the ex...
How to get a winter- / ski- / snowboard job in St. Anton
Jul 3, 2005
About.com article on where to put your RSS files
Jul 3, 2005
About.com has an article called “How to Upload the .MP3 File, RSS File, and Validate ...
St. Anton has a blog
Jun 30, 2005
The PDF Enclosure in iTunes
Jun 30, 2005
This is what Feedburner did with a PDF file in my weblog feed:
<enclosure url="/studiosetup/ZLVoIPStudio-SysDiag.pdf" length=“23210” t...
Test 2
Jun 30, 2005
TEST Post -> ignore
Jun 30, 2005
Accused of fraud
Jun 29, 2005
iTunes 4.9 supports PDF enclosures!
Jun 29, 2005
OK, So using Garageband for Podcast recording is also an option...
Jun 29, 2005
Doug's AppleScript for iTunes: AppleScript changes in iTunes 4.9
Jun 29, 2005
OPML2iTunes : AppleScript to import OPML podcast subscriptions into iTunes
Jun 29, 2005
RSS feed howto 'Pubdate' question
Jun 16, 2005
Hello Kerry,
Yes, you should really add another entry for each episode of your podcast. This is what the whole system relies on.
I don’t know the exact inner workings ...
Good overview on how to name your files and use ID3 tags
May 30, 2005
The people of Podcast 411 have some great articles about all things Podcast. Here is their article on Naming conventions and so called ID3 tagging. (Putting information about the podcast ...
"Recording A Podcast" from the creators of Audio Hijack Pro
May 27, 2005
The creators of Audio Hijack Pro for the Mac have posted a tutorial on how to record podcasts with their tool:
eWeek: Apple's Jobs Announces iTunes Podcast Support
May 25, 2005
More on the EU Constitution: "[Comment] Constitution fails fundamental tests"
May 21, 2005
[[Comment] Constitution fails fundamental tests](http://www.euobserver.com/?aid=19115&sid=9)...
Podcasting Features In Audio Hijack Pro 2.5
May 17, 2005
Celebrity culture
May 16, 2005
Credit vs. Fame
May 16, 2005
Credit = recognition by your peers and people who know you.
Fame = The role you play and/or your public character is known to the man on the stree...
Money, Job, Fame, Recognition or Satisfaction
May 16, 2005
“What do you want to get out of this: Money, Job, Fame, Recognition or Satisfaction? Choose only one!”
This is what somebody asked me who can help me with my idea shoul...
Sorry to keep you waiting
May 15, 2005
It took a while to get to posting the previous post. Sorry for keeping you in suspension.
I’m just swamped with my regular job and new opportunities that I am working on in m...
Zero Latency Studio Setup
May 15, 2005
NOTE: This description is an addition to the Advanced Podcast studio setup with Skype and Audio Hijack Pro.
(This ...
Soundflower problem after upgrading to 10.3.9
Apr 26, 2005
Hi Aron,
Actually, I upgraded to 10.3.9 as soon as it came out.
Afterwards I only had to fix the java problem by re-installing the last Java update. (Now Apple put it in a s...
RSS Feeds about European constitution
Apr 25, 2005
My Father is heavily opposed to the current version of the European constitution that ...
How to add or change a Soundflower device
Apr 24, 2005
If Soundflower (2ch) and Soundflower (16ch) are not enough for you or you want a different ...
Skype rings all over the house!
Apr 21, 2005
What to do if you’re not in the same room as your Mac with Skype and you’re expecting a call?
Here’s a recipe for wireless bells.
Ingredients
Advanced Podcast studio setup with Skype and Audio Hijack Pro
Apr 17, 2005
GRR!! smtp doesn't work on wireless hotspot!
Mar 15, 2005
Very frustrating! I don’t have time to figure out how to break through this stupid block from swisscom-eur...
Guess the graphic...
Mar 12, 2005
It’s a diagram of a setup to record a podcast that includes an audio chat whereby the person(s)...
QOTD - Nicholas Chamfort
Mar 10, 2005
Nicholas Chamfort: ‘In great affairs men show themselves as they wish to be seen;...
Soundflowerbed & Skype don't seem to like each other
Mar 10, 2005
Soundflowerbed is great for monitoring Soundflower… in theory.
In practice it often gives problems in complex setups with Audio Hijack Pro and Skype for example.
I&rs...
Double-Ender: making it sound like you're both in the same studio
Mar 6, 2005
If you can’t record two sides of a phone conversation or audio chat session or it doesn’t sound good enough, consider a Double-Ender:
Tod Maffin: Read more
Night snow
Feb 28, 2005
<...iMac gets a new harddisk
Feb 26, 2005
Dynamic outline needs Fixin' !
Feb 25, 2005
It seems that the nice dynamic outline in the previous post doesn’t work in Firefox! Arghh!
...Basic studio setup using Audio Hijack Pro (v2.0)
Feb 25, 2005
2005-04-17 NOTE: Updated advanced setup with Skype integration: </hugo/2005/04/advanced_podcas.html>
Here it is… The first draft of the new studio set...
Avalanche beacon recall
Feb 21, 2005
Just by accident I discovered that the avalanche beacon I use - the Mammut Barryvox - has to be replaced:
Blogging 101 - Podcasting
Feb 21, 2005
To dos
Feb 21, 2005
It’s nice to have many different kinds of things to do…
but too many can be too much! A lot gets half done but nothing gets finished.
This past weekend I starte...
Senseo-no
Feb 16, 2005
My Mom gave me a senseo a while ago. The pads (pods) are not for sale in Switzerland so I thought i’d try to order them from Amazon. No such luck!
Read more
Plodcasting
Feb 16, 2005
So it’s not so easy to set up a podcasting studio yet…
I’ve gotten it to work but I’ve also run into some weird system behaviour. (Description due this wee...
Happy valentines
Feb 14, 2005
Helpdesk
Feb 14, 2005
A question came in over email:
*On Feb 14, 2005, at 20:35, Joseph Rose wrote:
Please help… want i...
Preview new studio setup
Feb 11, 2005
The details still have to be written out. Here is a preview of a new studio setup with Audio Hijack Pro, Soundflower and Skype. I’m working on detailed configuration descriptions fo...
Answers from Rogue Amoeba about Audio Hijack Pro
Feb 11, 2005
In response to my questions to Rogue Amoeba, they’ve answered:
Work...
Feb 8, 2005
…is getting in the way again :(
A nice set of diagrams of Podcasting studio setups are coming. I just need to polish them and test some last bits…
Later this w...
Message to Rogue Amoeba about Audio Hijack Pro
Feb 4, 2005
In response to How to Record a Podcast
The value of Read more
Audio Hijack setup: multiple effects chains
Feb 3, 2005
In your Podcasting studio setup you naturally want to add some effects to your microphone signal. A compressor and reverb for example. What if you want to apply different audio filters/ e...
Enclosure for the Feedburner feed (2)
Feb 3, 2005
Feedburner: taking the last file in a post?
Feb 3, 2005
It seems that feedburner took the last mp3 file it found in my earlier post and made an enclosure out of it instead of the ‘first el...
Low Latency with Audio Hijack Pro: the test recordings
Feb 3, 2005
Here are two test recordings made for the low latency Podcasting studio setup. They contain a description of the setup and take you on an auditory tour through the settings.
Up...
More people working on studio setups
Feb 2, 2005
The Rogue Amoeba site has a post about
Low latency podcasting studio setup: the results
Feb 2, 2005
Mixed results…
Good: found a pretty stable setup that keeps recording even if the system’s under stress.
Bad: with enough stre...
A Podcasting How-to video by Staccato's Matt May
Jan 31, 2005
While looking for the link to Promiscuous bullet’s Read more
Bad day... low latency setup coming tomorrow
Jan 31, 2005
Today was bad. Can happen sometimes. A bad cold is coming up and at work I got some surprises that had to be dealt with immediately, keeping me there longer than planned.
I wanted ...
Podcasting 101 by Promiscuous bullet
Jan 31, 2005
The guys at Promiscuous bullet made a
Winter view from the studio
Jan 30, 2005
Back in the studio
Jan 30, 2005
After a rather long pause I got back to the studio for some setup experiments. This time the focus is latency. The picture is of my studio. Gee, I wonder why I had problems with Electroma...
Wireless microphone: receiver DOA
Jan 30, 2005
Hmmpf!…
Have to wait a couple of days longer. The receiver of the Sennheiser set I ordered doesn’t work. Waiting for a replacement now.
...Ordered: Sennheiser portable wireless mirophone set
Jan 20, 2005
Switch from snowboard to ski: leg trouble
Jan 18, 2005
A snowboard trainer warned me that switching from board back to ski sometimes causes trouble. On a board you’re constantly shifting your weight from the front to the middle of the b...
Back from vacation: more Podcasting
Jan 18, 2005
Sooo… it was a long vacation and busy!
The past week I spent most free time on a DVD conversion project, converting 6 DVDs’ video format from NTSC (American) to PAL (E...
On vacation
Dec 29, 2004
I have been on vacation for almost two weeks now and have had no opportunity to post. On the to-do list: more Podcasting related posts and some snowsports posts. Maybe next year…
AppleInsider about upcoming Mac OS X Tiger: Audio recording in QuickTime player!
Dec 16, 2004
Inside Mac OS X Tiger build 8A323: “…Meanwhile, Pro users now have access to recor...
QOTD "Standards" - Andrew S. Tanenbaum
Dec 16, 2004
Andrew S. Tanenbaum: “The nice thing about standards is that there are so many ...
Jimmy Jett on "IPods, Podcasting and Radio?"
Dec 14, 2004
In his Podcast for December 13 titled “IPods, Podcasting and Radio?” at 5 minute...
Griffin Earjams' pads great for fitting Apple In-Ear headphones too!
Dec 9, 2004
Apple’s In-Ear headphones are supposed to be bette...
QOTD about prejudices of your social environment
Dec 9, 2004
Albert Einstein: “Few people are capable of expressing with Read more
Skype beta 0.12.0.8 now has selectable audio in/ out!
Dec 9, 2004
Yes!
It has arrived. Unfortunately so has bedtime. Playtime soon.
Comments
Author: Tim G Germer
Date: 2004-12-18 05:36:20Test podcast feed created
Dec 3, 2004
Here is the URL for my testfeed for RSS with enclosures:
Podcasting with Typepad - Feedburner test: result
Dec 3, 2004
Snowsports plans December: St. Anton, Austria
Dec 3, 2004
CNN: 'Blog' No. 1 word of the year.
Dec 1, 2004
Feedburner test
Nov 29, 2004
A test post that should be converted to a post with an enclosure on a separate RSS feed generated by Feedburner.
Ski or Snowboard: Why choose?
Nov 24, 2004
Should I ski or should I board?
As I’m a ski instructor and working on getting my snowboard instructor license I am exploring the differences and similarities between skiing ...
Crunch time
Nov 23, 2004
It’s crunch time at work. Three of my projects all have deadlines coming up and another one just had a major system upgrade with plenty of backend interface changes.
Long hou...
Podcasting from Mac OS X - A Recipe
Nov 12, 2004
2005-04-17 NOTE: Updated advanced setup with Skype integration: </hugo/2005/04/advanced_podcas.html>
Here’s another Howto for Podcasting on the Mac fro...
Using iSight as a Microphone for Podcasting
Nov 12, 2004
The iSight camera has a (decent) microphone. (Two, in fact, but the resulting signal in your mac is mono.) To use...
Embedding Creative Commons licenses/ references into MP3
Nov 4, 2004
Podcasting for Education
Oct 31, 2004
Credit: the term "Podcasting"
Oct 31, 2004
Apparently, the term Podcasting was first coined by Dannie Gregoire
The inventors of RSS with enclosures and Podcasting
Oct 31, 2004
Dave Winer and Read more
Countdown now really started
Oct 31, 2004
My father is on a waiting-list for a heart transplant. He just went for a regular checkup and besides the outcome of the checkup (slowly declining condition but overall OK) he also heard ...
Snowboarding: not an instructor yet
Oct 27, 2004
As a ski instructor I did have quite an advantage on the snowboard instructor course last week. I passed all the technical exams but failed the ‘Go fast and show your skills’ ...
Minimal latency to headphones with Soundflowerbed
Oct 27, 2004
Don’t think I wrote this down explicitly before so here goes.
Some experiments I did showed very good results for monitoring Podcast recording using Read more
iTunes Smart playlists: How to combine AND's & OR's
Oct 26, 2004
Smart playlists are great for qeueueing up your podcasts in iTunes.
You can construct smart playlists with multiple conditions. Unfortunately, you can only choose to ‘Match <...
Back from vacation: iChatting with my niece
Oct 26, 2004
Just back from vacation in Austria.
My sister, niece and brother in law are visiting my mother in The Netherlands. They are over from Long Island, New York where they live. Unfortu...
Podcast recording on Mac OS X: avoid recording system sounds
Oct 12, 2004
You can avoid recording system sounds by routing them to a specific audio output that is not picked-up by your recording application.
Do this by selecting the desired output in the...
Right before a vacation...
Oct 12, 2004
… Is a special time. A time when very many things have to get done all of a sudden.
And it’s a good time for a cable internet outage.
That happened to me yester...
What R.A.D.I.O. Can Teach Podcasting
Oct 12, 2004
How to set up QuickTime broadcaster for audio recording
Oct 11, 2004
NOTE: I would now recommend not to use Quicktime Broadcaster because of a nasty bug. For an alternative, see: </hugo/2005/04/advanced_podcas.html>
I...
A challenge for Studio builders
Oct 11, 2004
Podcasting is RSS' killer app
Oct 11, 2004
(NOTE: This is a draft, open for comments. Revision 2: 2004-10-11.)
In his post Read more
Rock solid recording with Quicktime Broadcaster!
Oct 10, 2004
NOTE: I would now recommend not to use Quicktime Broadcaster because of a nasty bug. For an alternative, see: </hugo/2005/04/advanced_podcas.html>
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Podcasting Howto: the importance of (MP3) tags
Oct 10, 2004
[Housekeeping] This blog now offers full article rss feeds
Oct 9, 2004
The feed setting has changed from ‘short exerpt’ to ‘full feed’.
...Nested feeds
Oct 9, 2004
What if an enclosure contains the URL to a static rss file with enclosures?
...A feed doesn't have to be dynamic!
Oct 9, 2004
Sure nice to get new shows automatically isn’t it?
But what if you want to download only a season archive of shows (long) after the show has stopped?
An RSS fe...
WiFi in the hotel
Oct 7, 2004
Podcasting howto: the non-technical stuff
Oct 7, 2004
The title of Tod Maffin’s post ‘How Podcasting Will Save Radio&rsqu...
Apple's iChat to gain tabs, integration with iTunes
Oct 7, 2004
Podcasting howto: creation, delivery, feeds and more on engadget
Oct 6, 2004
How-To: Podcasting (aka How to get Podcasts and also make your own):
This post describe...
How to Look Great on iChat AV
Oct 5, 2004
iChat connection tips
Oct 5, 2004
Nicecast part 2
Oct 5, 2004
Stephen Chanasyk - Nicecast part 2: “I have continued playing around with Nicecast a...
Guest on the Daily Source Code
Oct 5, 2004
Yesterday evening I had the pleasure to chat with Adam Curry on the Read more
Podcasting in 1 year...
Oct 5, 2004
In 1 year, Podcasting will:
- Deliver standard radio shows.
- Deliver (short) messages to groups of friends, colleagues, family, members of a club, etc.
- Distribute ...
The Lab
Oct 4, 2004
The Studio Lab
Nicecast as a possible way around latency in the headphones
Oct 4, 2004
Nicecast as a possible way around latency in the headphones: “Been thinking about ab...
Podcasting directory
Oct 4, 2004
A directory of Podcasting shows can be found at www.podcasting.net
...Share your experience!
Oct 4, 2004
What is your experience with podcasting Studio setups?
Please share all the gory details with the world.
You can send me your setup details at: Read more
A new tool: Logic Express
Oct 2, 2004
Logic Express looks promising. Could it replace Read more
Places for Podcasting discussions
Oct 2, 2004
Jean Scholtes started a blog about Podcasting. He points to a Read more
AudioBlog studio software coming?
Oct 2, 2004
Rogue Amoeba say they’ll play ‘Read more
Sampling theory
Oct 2, 2004
BLIP: Checking in
Oct 2, 2004
Studio setup: equal Sampling frequency and sample sizes
Sep 30, 2004
If you have a look in the ‘Audio MIDI setup’ utility you see that it is possible to set the sampling rate (example 44100.0 Hz) and sample size (example 16bit). It is probably ...
.Mac upgraded: cause of yesterday's email glitch?
Sep 30, 2004
The .mac email glitch only briefly hit me yesterday. 5 Minutes or so I couldn’t log-in. Probable cause: upgrade activity for .Mac’s Read more
Correction/ addition to Studio setup - technology part 4
Sep 29, 2004
The Nido car: smarter
Sep 28, 2004
[Housekeeping] created a Podcasting category
Sep 28, 2004
Busy week! Little time for studio solution
Sep 28, 2004
A two-day intensive session for a project in The Netherlands, preparation for that session, work on some other projects and visiting family over the weekend: It leaves little time to play...
Headphone latency (delays)
Sep 28, 2004
Dave Slusher said something in his Evil Genius Chronicles Read more
Software studio: first stress tests
Sep 27, 2004
Before recording the proof of concept that I published I did some stress tests on the Studio setup.
Test 1
4 inputs, 2 outputs + recording to disk:
Audio Blog software studio setup - Technology part 4
Sep 27, 2004
Soundflowerbed: monitoring what's going on
Sep 27, 2004
Just discovered that there is an accompanying app to Soundflower called Soundflowerbed whic...
Audio Blog software studio setup - Technology part 3
Sep 26, 2004
Here is the first version of the system diagram.
Next post will cover the individual applications’ settings.
Studio diagram
Audio Blog software studio setup - Technology part 2
Sep 26, 2004
Here is a screenshot of my recording session. I will address the individual elements of this setup later. The next post will be a diagram of the setup.
Update: bigger scree...
Audio Blog software studio setup - Technology part 1
Sep 26, 2004
2005-04-17 NOTE: Updated advanced setup with Skype integration: </hugo/2005/04/advanced_podcas.html>
2005-02-28 NOTE: Updated setup starts here: <...
Mac Os X Multi user audio routing
Sep 26, 2004
Interesting tidbit about Mac Os X’s audio setup: it is possible to have one audio mapping setup for one user (input and output setting in the System Preferences) and a completely ot...
Audio Blog software studio setup
Sep 26, 2004
Here is my proof of concept for a software-only studio setup for shows like Trade Secrets or Read more
Time for ideas
Sep 23, 2004
Selling the message
Sep 23, 2004
Good VoIP intro
Sep 22, 2004
The Voice over IP Insurrection is a nice introduction to VoIP which includes a bit of histo...
VoIP Forum: The forum format
Sep 21, 2004
First Tuesday Forums are better than many of the other conferences I’ve visited. One obvious reason why the attendees don’t fall asleep is that the quality of content and spea...
Trying Snowboarding
Sep 21, 2004
First VoIP Forum notes
Sep 16, 2004
Here are my first quick notes after the Voice over IP (VoIP) thought leadership forum from
BBEdit 8: Still doesn't suck
Sep 15, 2004
Version 8.0 is the biggest update to BBEdit since 6.0, four years ago.
[Daring Fireball]I still have to get ...
VoIP Forum: signed up!
Sep 10, 2004
Yay! Signed up for the conference.
...[limited] drive time
Sep 9, 2004
Listening to audio blog posts has replaced my reading on the way to work in the train. Unfortunately I can’t read and listen well at the same time yet.
Limited time forces me to...Links for Erik
Sep 8, 2004
Voice over IP forum program
Sep 7, 2004
First Tuesday Zürich is hosting a Read more
Quicken quickly
Sep 7, 2004
Trying Skype
Sep 7, 2004
No roam!
Sep 7, 2004
ipodder debugging
Aug 22, 2004
While working on a way to use iPodderb03 through a Read more
iPodder through proxy server
Aug 22, 2004
Update 041027: Note, this does NOT work with iPodderX!
I’ve brought the proxy issue to the attention of the Read more
Airport Express: as advertised
Aug 22, 2004
Almost immediately after it was announced I ordered 3 AirPort Express thingies.
They work as adver...
Tracking back, log back, I'm back
Aug 22, 2004
Yep, after several months of inactivity…
Old posts copied. Configuration updated.
Several of the posts of my old (Radio Userland) weblog have been copied to this new ...
Family connection
Dec 15, 2003
Snow sports plans
Oct 14, 2003
Should we Laugh or should we Cry?
Oct 12, 2003
Here is a good example of a reason to create browser independent, gracefully degrading websites! I have frequently told people ‘Even future versions of Internet Explorer will not pr...
Teddy Bear Picnic the movie
Oct 12, 2003
'The Rubbing' forwarded
Oct 3, 2003
Fear and statistics
Sep 29, 2003
Interesting post about how people perceive risks. (See below.)
Here is another example: Most skiing accidents happen on sunny days on easy slopes. Under those conditions, people do...
CyberInsecurity
Sep 29, 2003
Started to read CyberInsecurity: The Cost of Monopoly (Large PDF) which aroused my ...
No inline hockey
Sep 29, 2003
An invitation for something much nicer made me cancel my inline hockey plans: a ski-test weekend in Saas-Fee
Inline hockey
Sep 23, 2003
(Shooting) incident in Zürich ?
Sep 18, 2003
It sounded like firecrackers, nothing like the soundeffects of gunfire you’d hear in an action movie. So maybe it wasn’t gunfire. Read more
And hapiness...
Sep 16, 2003
Luck
Sep 16, 2003
This post reminds me of the discussions I had with friends about luck and the ability to find it or rather: maximizing the chance to find luck and recognizing that you’re seizing op...
Where is that email? Ask ZOË!
Sep 11, 2003
Read this if you're a geek
Sep 11, 2003
Slow start
Sep 9, 2003
First Monday Night Skate in Luzern
Sep 2, 2003
It started raining as soon as we took off but it wasn’t raining hard enough to make us soaking wet. (Just the streets slippery.) There was a nice little group of about 720 participa...
Interesting article about my favorite company
Sep 1, 2003
Everyone Wants a Bite of Apple. Why is Apple so tempting? Creative culture, killer pro...
Fire!
Aug 31, 2003
Editing now
Aug 31, 2003
Several video edits lined up
Aug 27, 2003
Certified!
Aug 27, 2003
Hello World
Aug 27, 2003
After using weblogs at work for about a year now I have finally set up a private weblog.
I wil...
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