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iTunes 101: How to prevent podcasts from spoiling

by Sang Tang (Jul 8th, 2009)

Like milk, podcasts will spoil if left unused for a period period of time -- at least in the mind of iTunes. iTunes will automatically unsubscribe from a podcast that hasn't been listened to within the last 5 updates, and more than 5 days have passed since an episode was played. The rationale, as ...

The Dangers of Updating: Don't Do Anything While Optimizing

by Mat Lu (Mar 17th, 2007)

Gruber points to this post by Rosyna at Unsanity regarding a bug in Apple's Software Updater. According to Rosyna, "when you see the 'Optimizing System Performance' phase of a software update, Mac OS X is really updating prebinding. Updating prebinding has a very, very nasty bug in it... If multiple ...

NetNewsWire 2.1b36 fixes server/network, news updating issues

by David Chartier (May 2nd, 2006)

As if Ranchero employed hundreds of little coder gnomes who work around the clock, the company has cranked out yet another beta release of NetNewsWire 2.1 to fix news updating issues. Turns out NNW's ability to grab news might experience some quirks if NewsGator syncing became flaky, so this release ...

Download BitTorrent podcasts in iTunes with iTorrent

by David Chartier (Apr 17th, 2006)

A lot of people are clamoring for Apple to build support for BitTorrent into iTunes. Setting aside the greater implications and the major industry bridges Apple would burn if they were to do this, a man by the name of Michael Hobbs has developed a solution that might suffice for some of you who just ...

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