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Over the next few months, I'll have a large Cocoa project with which I'll need some help. In fact, I may need someone to do a good bit of the work.

This is a paying gig - $25 to $30k for six months of work (that's padded from what it should take - about four). If you know me, and if I'm at least reasonably aware of who you are, send me an IM. Info is in the sidebar.

Knowledge of CoreData, WebKit (minimal), and application-Web server communication (method not yet decided, possibly POST, maybe a bit XML-RPC) required.

I found all the Freeplay music on my hard drive (once someone reminded me what it was called), and man is it going to be hard to choose the appropriate sounds for the different show segments! There are so many good choices. 1.77 GB of choices!

Of course, the Finder didn't help me out very much. I wanted to display all of the full-length songs (those that didn't include "10" or "30" but I can't show things that don't include things in the name. How dumb (picture is below the fold).

Update: Duh, I probably can't use Freeplay music because the podcast could be seen as a commercial endeavor. Hrm.

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Question: I'm not sure what a video podcast is named (vcast? vidcast? video podcast), but do you subscribe to or watch any?

My Answer: I surmised in an upcoming MacZealots podcast that one of the biggest things the new video iPod may be used for is video podcasts. I currently subscribe to two: the Photoshop one and Rocketboom.

You are encouraged to answer the Question of the Day for yourself in the comments or on your blog.

I took a few minutes to update the snapshots that appear in the right-hand column on this site. They're random, so… reload a bunch or look at the include file.

As I posted in a Touareg forum, the guy I bought my Touareg from had this to say:

I am on the phone with the parts dept now. I will not have the adapters here until late December because of the insanely high demand for the parts right now. Basically, the demand is several times the supply right now. You may try other parts depts in your area, but I won't get them for several more weeks.

I've been bugging him about the adapter since it was announced, and I was the first to do so. I'm at the top of the waiting list, numero uno, and I'm waiting now until November. For something that was announced at the beginning of September, this is pretty absurd.

I'm hoping, too, though it can't be confirmed or denied yet, that the "official" adapter provides support for playlists or at least displaying ID3 tags on the damn radio, seeing as how it's meant to keep the iPod in the glove box.

My first day as a video iPod owner and I've got problems. I've spent about as much time investigating them as I can, and I've solved a few. Here, then, are the unresolved issues:

Problem One: Why Not?
For whatever reason, a few of the photos I have in iPhoto (JPEGs) won't synchronize to the iPod. There's nothing wrong with the files - I've checked them in every way imaginable, reverted them to the original, and done more troubleshooting. Nothing works. I think the problem may have to do with images that are automatically rotated by my camera, but that just seems too stupid to be worth checking out.

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And lots of people are complaining. In related news, the icon for The Sand Trap's Podcast now appears properly.

Until I read this, I wasn't aware of the fact that RAW support for the Canon EOS Digital Rebel XT had been added. Nifty!

I had been using DSL Reports for 'net speed tests, but this speakeasy test is quite nice.

You know what would be nice in iTunes? Labels. That's right, I may want to color some of my songs blue and others red. Mostly for sorting things I have processed against those I haven't, but there could be other reasons.

Yes, I could use one of the "extra" fields in the ID3 tags to do this, but doing so with a text label really doesn't provide the full benefit of a color label.

I suppose it's fitting that the day Star Wars III comes out, I get my black iPod. I'm not the largest (or even the "mediumest") SW fan out there, not by a long stretch, but I've christened the new 60 GB black video iPod "VaderPod." Seeing the animation as it synchronized the first time, I was also moved to rename my iPod Shuffle.

Question: Did you think Apple would sell 1 million videos in less than three weeks?

My Answer: I did not. It just shows how many people have begun using the iTunes Music Store, I suppose. I've yet to buy a video (though I have been converting many of the videos I already have to iPod format). I still wish I could get trailers on my iPod, though.

In fact, I'd pay $19.95/year for a service that, given a listing of three theaters of my choosing, automatically synchronized my iPod with show times, phone numbers, and the movie trailers for the currently playing movies.

You are encouraged to answer the Question of the Day for yourself in the comments or on your blog.

Here's a loud, loud vote in favor of Saft adding an "unsupported" mode - and the option to invoke it following a software update that bumps Safari.

I'm tired of waiting up to 24 hours just to get a new version of Saft that more than likely does nothing new but support a slightly newer Safari. Why can't the Saft author have one ready to go? Does he get Safari seeds? If he doesn't, can't he get in with some Safari types like Hyatt to get the darn seeds? Cuz really, as Tom Petty says, "the waiting is the hardest part." It's also the most ridiculous.

From iodine, I found the NetFlix History Analyzer. I'll update this post when NetFlix sends me my history.

I wonder if it will be tainted by the few months when I had unsubscribed… My previous run wasn't too spectacular. I quit when I realized the pricing had gone up to $21.95. It's now back down to $17.99.

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Some 31 pages of information. No doubt the digital models can use just about all of the advice.