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Talkcast #17: December Decisions
Soup's on! The weekly talkcast is ready and available for your audio delectations. Christina and I talked about the Amazon Kindle, running IE on your Mac, gift ideas and more. You can download the 44 minute, 25 MB show right here directly, pick it up in our RSS or iTunes feeds, or stream it direct from Talkshoe.We've heard from some Leopard users who are having difficulty with the RSS feed in Mail.app when we have a podcast enclosure; please do let us know in the comments if you're one of the affected. We are testing on our end, and if we can nail down the issue we'll let you know. Update: Per our commenters below, it's not just us -- any feed with audio enclosures seems to give Mail the marbles of doom.
Join us again Sunday night at 10 for the next installment of our funfest. As for future listening opportunities -- week after next, Sunday 12/16, I'm scheduled to cohost the Typical Mac User podcast with Victor Cajiao. It comes on right before our show (8-9 pm ET), so you can plan your whole evening.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Greg said 3:34PM on 12-07-2007
Mail hangs for a good 15 - 20 seconds everytime I check TUAW and a new talkcast is posted.
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zadig said 4:03PM on 12-07-2007
Count me in as someone who had trouble with the RSS feed + attachment. This happens on other weblogs, too, so I don't think it's something you're doing.
Whenever Mail encounters an RSS feed with a large attachment, it hangs for however long it takes the attachment to download. No other activity (within Mail) is allowed until that download is done. Just the spinning pizza of doom.
I've already submitted the bug to Apple, along with a link to an RSS feed that exhibits the problem. Hopefully they'll fix it soon. The rest of you should, of course, report it as well.
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Tony Carreon said 4:21PM on 12-07-2007
here here! i thought it was being fixed...
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garrett.moon+tuaw said 4:34PM on 12-07-2007
Hi - lareous
Me: hmmm, mail seems to be hanging, well I'll just read the article that's up... which is about how a post like this will hang mail. Smart.
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Michael Rose said 4:35PM on 12-07-2007
Well, we do try. :-)
John said 6:10PM on 12-07-2007
Whenever I subscribe in iTunes, sometimes it downloads all shows without me telling it to. Anyone else have this problem?
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bneyman said 7:56PM on 12-07-2007
Same problem here. Locks up every time I open this feed in Mail.
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Perceval McElhearn said 10:16AM on 12-08-2007
Mail freezes while downloading the file, but once it's done, it works OK.
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