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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Perceval McElhearn

Mail freezes while downloading the file, but once it's done, it works OK.

December 08 2007 at 10:16 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

bneyman

Same problem here. Locks up every time I open this feed in Mail.

December 07 2007 at 7:50 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

John

Whenever I subscribe in iTunes, sometimes it downloads all shows without me telling it to. Anyone else have this problem?

December 07 2007 at 6:10 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

garrett.moon+tuaw

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.

December 07 2007 at 4:32 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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Michael Rose

Well, we do try. :-)

December 07 2007 at 4:35 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Tony Carreon

here here! i thought it was being fixed...

December 07 2007 at 4:20 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

zadig

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.

December 07 2007 at 4:02 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Greg

Mail hangs for a good 15 - 20 seconds everytime I check TUAW and a new talkcast is posted.

December 07 2007 at 3:34 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply