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Finally upgraded to Mac OS X "Tiger"
One of my last acts before I finished my MSc back in May was to go on a buying binge, getting the academic package or student rate of any application or hardware I thought I would want in the coming year. One of these acquisitions was Mac OS X (10.4), AKA "Tiger".
I had wanted to install it immediately but just as I was about to plunk the DVD onto the tray, I got an e-mail noting that my Cisco VPN client wouldn't work under 10.4 and a newer version was not yet ready. Since I find my iMac to be a more convenient way to work remotely over DSL, I opted to stay at 10.3 for a while longer. This past week, our corporate folks announced that any use of any system except an official company laptop for remote working was strictly prohibited so the last barrier was removed.
The upgrade was relatively painless, just time consuming. Pop in the DVD, agree to various click-thru licenses and watch it spin for 90 minutes. Not too bad.
I like the updated Mail client: it looks a little better and has made some tasks easier although I don't need the fancier features. The Dashboard is kinda neat... I spent an hour grabbing other widgets off the official Apple site to add to it, including online status reports for local traffic and local subway system.
The podcasting support added to iTunes is kinda intriguing. I don't have enough time in a day to listen to all of the things I want to already, and I strongly crave my daily NPR "Morning Edition," "Fresh Air," "All Things Considered" and "Marketplace" fix daily, as well as the CBC's "Canada at 5" and "The World at Six." How can I possibly fit in even more audio? I really need an audio skimming feature, something that lets me to skim audio segments at double-speed with a panic button that lets me slow it to normal when something particularly interesting catches my attention.
There's a fast number of postcasts out there but finding something interesting enough to keep subscribing regularly is going to take a lot of up-front listening time I don't already have. The New York Times' description of tartanpodcast was enough to make me listen to one show but I don't think I'll keep that subscription. Likewise CBC's Radio3 postcast. What I'd really like are news podcasts of the programs I'm already listening to, so I can flip on yesterday's missed CBC "Sunday Morning" when NPR's report on Walter Reed Medical Center's rehab unit fails to hold my interest.
Any recommendations of podcasts to which I should give a test listen?
I had wanted to install it immediately but just as I was about to plunk the DVD onto the tray, I got an e-mail noting that my Cisco VPN client wouldn't work under 10.4 and a newer version was not yet ready. Since I find my iMac to be a more convenient way to work remotely over DSL, I opted to stay at 10.3 for a while longer. This past week, our corporate folks announced that any use of any system except an official company laptop for remote working was strictly prohibited so the last barrier was removed.
The upgrade was relatively painless, just time consuming. Pop in the DVD, agree to various click-thru licenses and watch it spin for 90 minutes. Not too bad.
I like the updated Mail client: it looks a little better and has made some tasks easier although I don't need the fancier features. The Dashboard is kinda neat... I spent an hour grabbing other widgets off the official Apple site to add to it, including online status reports for local traffic and local subway system.
The podcasting support added to iTunes is kinda intriguing. I don't have enough time in a day to listen to all of the things I want to already, and I strongly crave my daily NPR "Morning Edition," "Fresh Air," "All Things Considered" and "Marketplace" fix daily, as well as the CBC's "Canada at 5" and "The World at Six." How can I possibly fit in even more audio? I really need an audio skimming feature, something that lets me to skim audio segments at double-speed with a panic button that lets me slow it to normal when something particularly interesting catches my attention.
There's a fast number of postcasts out there but finding something interesting enough to keep subscribing regularly is going to take a lot of up-front listening time I don't already have. The New York Times' description of tartanpodcast was enough to make me listen to one show but I don't think I'll keep that subscription. Likewise CBC's Radio3 postcast. What I'd really like are news podcasts of the programs I'm already listening to, so I can flip on yesterday's missed CBC "Sunday Morning" when NPR's report on Walter Reed Medical Center's rehab unit fails to hold my interest.
Any recommendations of podcasts to which I should give a test listen?