iTunes podcast smart playlist

I listen to podcasts on a regular basis, and found that iTunes is missing an easy way to collect all my new / unlistened podcasts in one place. That is why I made this smart playlist.

Update your podcasts as you would regularly. For me I have turned off automatic update, leaving it on manual as I don't always want iTunes downloading all the podcasts if I'm not going to listen to them. Some I have set to keep all and some like news podcasts only keep the latest.

I have my iPod touch set to sync the smart playlist which I call PODCASTS. I select all podcasts and select update, then when all are downloaded I sync my iPod touch. This leaves all the new podcasts in their own playlist sorted by length (shortest first). That way I get through the news first as they are usually 5-10 min max.

If I am working around the house I will sync my iPod shuffle by dragging all the podcasts into the shuffle library for the same effect.

I have found that I had to separate the video / audio podcasts so made another smart playlist exactly the same that has 'video' instead of 'audio' as final criteria.

Hope this is useful... I know it has saved me allot of time, especially when I just want to go outside and work on a project... I don't seem to have much patience at that point :)

HACK Panasonic DEH-1400 for ipod input

The things we do for entertainment... we have a Panasonic DEH-1400 car stereo installed in the control room at work, which doesn't have any aux input... so if you want to play CD's or listen to our one radio station your in luck, anything else (like listen to an ipod) your SOL.

Well... we have a 36" HD TV that is good but not very loud, so the project was to install an aux input in the DEH-1400.

This involved ripping the player apart and soldering directly on the circuit board... it went well.. radio still works and now we have a sweet AUX input...

So now using my iPod touch with HD component out and aux input to the radio we have a very nice movie playing setup... the original how to is here

Solitaire City is evil

I am addicted to this stupid game, and since it's on the iPod I can play it anywhere. Translation waste time anywhere :)


-- Post From My iPhone

LIVESTRONG together with Fitness Builder would RULE THE WORLD

I have been using Fitness Builder for iPhone/iPod for awhile, and recently they have added some interesting metrics like blood pressure, heart rate etc... up till now it has been the best app for fitness in the iphone now it's even better... but they a lack an online way of tracking this data.


This is where Livestrong myPlate would come in... using the livestrong app to track calories/weight and exercise (from amount of calories used). Livestrong uses a very basic app as a way to collect information for their website (your own personal information) broken down very specifically.

My proposal is to have fitness builder send the metric information to the livestrong website and track this using their interface... that way you get the best of both worlds.. a stand alone iphone app that rocks and access to the metrics on livestrong that also rocks.... what do you think?