April 27, 2006

Susan at Hershey Park

Susan at Hershey Park
Susan at Hershey Park,
originally uploaded by kregger.

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April 02, 2006

Treo 700w Daylight Savings Time Issue: Confirmed

As I mentioned in my last post, there seems to be a problem with the Treo 700w and daylight savings time when using network local time.

This morning being post-lose-an-hour, I was able to test the problem. Sure enough, once my phone picked up the networks' time (I had to turn the radio/cellular portion of the phone off and back on), all appointments I had created on the Treo were an hour off.

So I followed Palm's advice, turned off network time, and edited the appointments that I had created on the Treo.


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April 01, 2006

Treo 700w Daylight Savings Time Issue

It's hard to believe that any software or device would still have daylight savings time issues. Shouldn't that be one of the *first* things qa should check for?

Anyway, here's a post regarding the issue.

I did notice on my phone's Clock & Alarms settings that in addition to the Enable local network time checkbox there is a checkbox labeled
Use network time zone. Not sure if this helps the problem or not, and I did notice that Palm's KB article is dated 3/31/2006 so it's not an "old" issue.


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Testing a New Podcast Receiver

A few months ago I ditched the podcast receivers I was using because they seemed to be hogs at Windows start-up. For a while I didn't miss them, but early last week I picked up on TavernCast, a podcast related to World of Warcraft.

So I decided it was time to check out the latest in receivers. I was about to consider re-installing iPodder and found it was renamed to Juice. Then I stumbled upon Ziepod and really like the look and feel of it.

I downloaded it and started using it to gather up all my old favorite podcasts (Catholic Insider and tWiT for example). I was also able to use its search feature to some new ones as well.

One feature that is missing is the ability to create Windows Media Player playlists. Ziepod does allow you to shell out to an application after a feed is downloaded, though. So, thinking I'd just create some auto-playlists in WMP, I went in search of a command-line tag editor.

My strategy was to set a tag value and then search on that value to create the playlist (I gave up relying on podcast publishers to be consistent with title, artist, and other tags). But then I found Tag.

In addition to being a tag editor, Tag will also create playlist files recognized by WMP. Using a simple command line I was able to automatically create the playlist every time a feed is downloaded.

To set this up:

  1. In Ziepod, right-click a feed in the Folders tab. Select Properties.
  2. Click on the Download tab.
  3. Check the box labeled When download finishes, apply following shell command on downloaded file
  4. Enter the following command line (changing paths as necessary):
    c:\mp3tageditor\tag.exe --playlist --plname TWIT "C:\Documents and Settings\You\My Documents\My Ziepod Downloads\this WEEK in TECH\*.mp3"
  5. Click OK and you're finished!

Enjoy!




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