Dogear Nation » Podcast

Andy and Michael enjoy a non-controversial show, with Michael R not able to make the record. While podcasts enable you to build your own radio station, and only find things you agree with, both Michael and Andy agree that it makes you smarter (thank you new tagger rabiakiva). We also get to hear Andy laugh over mouse overs on the twategy site, and then we hear him gush over the wonderfulness of Twitter Lists. He loves it so much he’s created one list. (While editing the show, Michael R. does learn about Google Reader bundles, and agrees this is cool).

What’s Cool
Andy — Dr. Horrible Update
Michael R — It’s a man, made from gir-ders! / flame on!
Michael M — basketball season!

Obligatory 3-D Internet
Linden’s behind the firewall product & apps marketplace – epredator
Babel fish augmented reality glasses – epredator
Break on through to the other side – epredator
Augmented Reality for Hursley

Social Networkin’
Listening to podcasts make you smarter – rabiakiva
Bespoke tweets for the elite – uncommonman
Who moved my blackberry
Twitter lists show social media misunderstandings – heidigoseek
Twitter lists illustrated
Jobs’ 5 presentation secrets – rickmans
Has Google gone to the dark side – rickmans

Google privacy dashboard explained – lx5

Final thoughts
Andy — pondering when the presentation secrets of Michael M…
Michael M — unique identifiers on election ballots

#Fail
Andy can’t believe that the Michaels forgot to mention Sky-net in our discussion of robots on last week’s show.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 38:11 — 8.8MB)

I’ve been fiddling around with the latest version of Apple’s Dashcode, and I’ve updated the Dogear Nation Dashboard widget for OS X. The widget allows you to listen to recent episodes, check out show notes (on the back), and now has links to our Facebook page, Twitter stream, and the latest tags on delicious.

Get your copy right here. As before, it requires a minimum OS X 10.4.3. Look out for some other widgety things in the near future

A little while ago… actually… wow… nearly a year ago… I hacked up a little Mac Dashboard widget for the podcast. It was my first experience with Dashcode.

Since I’m cleaning and enhancing the site I thought I’d refresh the widget, and host it here on the blog.

I’ll be adding a page of tools, icons, badges and goodies soon, and the widget will eventually live there. For now, you can go ahead and download it directly here. It’s for Mac OS X 10.4.3 and upwards only. If you’ve got the old version installed then this one should offer to replace the existing version.

So what’s the point of the widget? Well, if you don’t subscribe to our podcast feed, or you just want to be able to pull up the Dashboard and get a list of the episodes and choose one to play, you can do so using the widget. By the way, you don’t have to leave the Dashboard open while the episode plays, you can just start it playing and go back to whatever you were doing before. The widget also has a quick link to the website in case you ever forget the URL