In case you didn't get the reminder email from Apple, all grammy winners are on sale at the iTunes Music Store. I decided to pick up both U2 and Green Day's new albums.

I also noticed the Cure's entire discography is now available, along with the new (to the US) compilation "Join the Dots". I picked up Seventeen Seconds, since I never bought it originally. Listening to old Cure albums really brings out the fact that Disintegration was the last great album the Cure made.

Every time I listen to The Killers, I can't help thinking "Ooohhh. THAT's what Robert Smith was trying to sound like on every album for the past 10 years..."

Cross posted at Jason Ball's TechBytes

Whant to Automatically update your RSS feed whenever you create new audio?

If you are like me, and have tons of productions and projects filling up every available minute of your time, you would probably love a script that could automate the process of updating your RSS FEED whenever you create new audio for your Podcast.

I have found such a script. It's FREE and it works great!

It's called DirCaster, and the new version is v0.4.

Drop this script in a directory and it will generate an RSS feed suitable for iPodder, etc based off the MP3 files in that directory. To 'cast a new file, simply upload it to the directory containing this script. It's really that easy.

I've been using this script since day one and it has been a very welcome addition to the whole process.

This script does require that your server supports PHP4 or greater.
You will need to edit some of the text in the file to make it reflect your feed.
That's it.

While this script does work great if your using a PHP website, perhaps on a Unix box, it is a little tricky to get working if you are using NT, especially with FrontPage.

My main website uses the FrontPage extensions. We do this so that the crew that updates the website can do so very easily. It has it's pluses and it's downsides. In fact, probably more downsides than upsides. We will be leaving this to a straight PHP website in the near future, but for now, we wrestle that monster known as Microsoft.

I have been able to get the script to work. I had to adjust some variables, especially the ones that determine root URL, but once it was done, it has worked great.

Give it a try.

DirCaster v0.4 by The Shady Dentist Click Here


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Just thought the criminals among you might like to know that someone has made a convenient map for you:

Invasion of the iPod listeners—tuaw: Khoi Winh, a resident of New York City, has noticed the same phenomenon in his fair city and unlike me he did something about it. He printed out a map of his walk from his home to work and marked the map with a red dot each time he saw an iPod listener. A little over 13 blocks later he saw 32 iPods. Not too shabby.

32 opportunities to swipe an iPod conveniently on your way home! And two of the largest clusters are right around Union Square and Madison Square Park, so you can easily get bonus points for rolling one of the rummies passed out on the park benches!

(For some reason, this was the first thing that popped in my head when I read this story. Thought I'd share...)

Check it out:

iPod shuffle Tips and Tricks by Scott Knaster -- The iPod shuffle is the easiest-to-use iPod to date. But that doesn't mean you can't customize how you listen and upload music. Scott Knaster shows you some very handy tips and tricks for the shuffle and iTunes 4.7.1.

This article is a good introduction to the features of the iPod Shuffle for all you Shuffle n00bs out there...