While I don’t have a video podcast, I watch a whole bunch of them. Over the weekend, a major uproar has brewed up, namely between Robert Scoble and the rest of the tech blogs on the web. Scoble interviewed Intel senior fellow Mark Bohr and scooped the gadget blogs about the 45 nanometer processor breakthroughs.

When the gadget blogs finally broke the stories, Scoble divulged that he had an video interview and when the gadget blogs didn’t really pay any attention, Scoble got pissed. He ranted, which I would have done too, but when you are essentially blogger #1, you really have to watch what you say.

TDavid at MakeYouGoHmm.com makes a very accurate not about the entire problem that Scoble has: He needs to edit!

I’m probably echoing what TDavid’s intent was, if Scoble would edit his shows, change camera angles, or just make them more interesting, I would still be a subscriber. When Scoble announced that he was making a video podcast, I signed up right away, but after episode 2, I started watching them on a very, very casual basis. Finally when my hard drive was filling up with the high def video podcasts, I had to make a decision. I watched two episodes, trying to see if I could get back in the swing, but after watching 30 minutes of Vassil Mladjov, CEO of Blogtronix, I had to pick myself up off the desk, wipe the drool away, unsubscribe from the podcast and then promptly deleting all of the accrued files.

I doubt Scoble will read this, but if he does: Edit your shows. I can’t spare 45 minutes. Give me a 10 minute bite and then the option of getting the raw stream. That would be fabulous.

During lunch we got an over view of iLife 06, much of which I already knew. We were next treated to the huge 24″ iMac booting via bootcamp into XP, it was a wretched sight to see. After it finished booting we were treated to a working demo of parallels. Demo is a misnomer, it booted and we got to see it. I wish I had a larger hard drive. Some questions about cut and paste and file visibility, a lot the problems are solved in the newest version.

Change in presenter, going to server and storage technologies.

Dave Wapada (Wapata?) is presenting on Apple in Enterprise. Not just a mac backend, very different from a few years ago, so client agnostic. Also heterogeneity in the backend is important.

Whoa! Tons of details about server management and hardware, most of the stuff that I’m not really super up to speed on.

Software

A little preview of some of the things coming in Leopard, Time Machine, which I will be looking forward to. Combine Time Machine with the Airport Extreme and some external drives, that kind of creates a network attached storage, with auto backup. There was a question about security. The answer was “It’s still in dev and there might be authentication, or you could wrap file vault around it, nice.

Spaces

Virtual desktop, yadda, yadda, yadda. VitueDesktop does it now.

Mail

Stationary (ARGH!) I hate stationary! Although, this is a better implementation. Notes! that’s what I’m looking for, that can revolutionize my personal productivity, especially with the ToDos, with the tighter iCal integration, wonderful!

iChat

iChat theatre!!! Can’t wait for that. That’s going to be so much fun. Imagine the video podcast possibilities. Screen sharing, now I can show my mom how to do things! iChat presentation. Nice! That will be perfect for helping the mother.

Dashboard

I created a Widget with DashCode Beta this morning, so this creates some new interesting possibilities.

Boot Camp

I asked about the boot camp costing, the answer was a great one. Like with iChat AV, if you are running the previous OS (Panther in iChats case, Tiger in bootcamps case) you will be charged. Whew!

More questions about bootcamp, compatibility and viruses and such.

People milling around. I find Michelle and Michael and a place to plug in

Introductions, Jack Burns, Account Exec for DC to Richmond.

Jason Bevins, the technical guy, Dave Wapada (?) Server guy.

Jason is giving an overview, a lot of financials, some stuff about the company, Apple is a debt free company, who knew.

Apple is becoming a recommended at more schools. They are also becoming really big in government and enterprise

Showing off about the Apple Stores (Michelle brags about the New York mothership). Apple is a $3.5 billion company in retail alone!

Showing off the product line.

Prosumer apps, more of the pro stuff coming into the consumer apps. “Is there a digital photo lab on campus?” Not here, apparently in the works.

OS, why the changes, who know, but they are saying Leopard in 2007 Spring.

Intel migration, no more powerPC (yup, my macbook). With the intel architecture, Mac is compatible with Windows natively, but they have always been able to connect and do the windows thing.

Bootcamp – Dual boot solution, who knows it (most of the group raises a hand. Parallels – Virtualization, mmmm. It comes from Apple that it’s fact, if you are doing graphics, Bootcamp. Back up Windows with Parallels very quickly. Crossover – Based on WINE, run windows apps without windows. VMware – Mac is now here, virtualization, just like the others.

Enough about windows

Mac Mini, small footprint, great for a small footprint. Taking a look around it, very nice as usual. (Look into for a home PC).

iLife 06, All the usuals, iphoto, iTunes, Front Row. – Small hiccup – Back up and running

Bonjour sharing, through itunes sharing, solution for pushing media around the house

BYODKM – I know the answer! ha ha

Most of yesterday, I was working on setting up a MySQL (My squirrels, ha ha!) database on my Macbook. It was a very long and slightly painful experience. OS X has a build in MySQL database, but getting to access was very very difficult, something about socket errors. Finally this morning, 5 minutes before walking out the door, it worked. I was using CocoaMySQL as a gui front end and it was being very janky. Finally I used the official MySQL gui front end and it worked like a champ. I think it just needed some time to think about it.

So what is all this MySQL talk about? I have found the wonders of Ruby on Rails. I am exploring using it to create some small web apps both personally and professionally. To be honest the professional one is a lot more involved, and I’m currently in the process of roadmapping it out. I’m not going to say much more about it until I have some more pieces in place.

For those who don’t know, Ruby on Rails is essentially a rapid prototyping computer programming language. It’s super slick, yet very robust. Look for some progress reports on that in the future.

About 4 or 5 months ago, I had some issues with my ipod shuffle. I was working in the garden, and it just wouldn’t play. The amber and green lights would flash back and forth. I had a good idea that it wasn’t going to be good. After trying to do the traditional apple “five Rs”. But it wasn’t working. Esther and I found the apple contact information to have them send me a replacement and a few days later I got a replacement shuffle in the mail. All in all it was a good experience.

Today, however, Apple released the “iPod Shuffle Reset Utility“. Why, oh why could they not release this when they first released the shuffles. It would have made my experience that much better. Darn you apple!

Esther and I have recorded our first audiocast, but since I forgot my powercord at work, I’m stuck waiting until tomorrow to upload it. Bummer.

After recording, getting it edited together and saving, we made a Walmart run, usually what Esther likes to do when she’s bored. While wondering through the electronics isles, I found a great deal on an ipod attachment from Belkin.

Belkin creates a voice recorder for the iPod, specifically for a 3rd generation one, which is great, because that’s what Esther has. The idea behind us buying it was that we can now create mobile audiocasts. (It’s weird that we are planning on doing mobile audiocasts with interviews before we have gotten our first one published … ambition?)

Tomorrow we should have a audiocast posted. Over the weekend we might also be transitioning both of our blogs to a Wordpress.org install. This should get us ready for blogging, audiocasting, and videocasting.