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PODigy: The simple and effective Podcast aggregator for Windows XP and Windows Vista.

I have taken the time to try a few of the available solutions for podcast aggregation that include functionality to periodically check and download new episodes from your podcast feeds.

Unfortunately they all suck. A few of them look pretty good, but generally they dont perform, or are super buggy in Vista.

Features

• Minimalistic User Interface
• Vista Aero Support
• Easy and quick to add new podcast feeds
• Schedule periodic episode checks and downloads to folders of your choosing
• Resumable downloads

Where can I get it?

I am sorry, but you can’t yet! This is still in active development by the excellent software development team consisting of, well, just me.

When it’s finished I will post C#/.NET source code as well as the compiled binary.

I have attached a nice screenshot of the current building downloading the latest episode of InDigital from Revision3.com, Enjoy!

Finally MS taking care of the 3 Red Ring Circus of a Console.

To our Xbox Community:

You’ve spoken, and we’ve heard you. Good service and a good customer experience are areas of the business that we care deeply about. And frankly, we’ve not been doing a good enough job.
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So the newest iteration of everyones favorite Police Cowboy has hit the box office, Live Free or Die Hard.  I went with two friends to see it last night, and although they cut a lot of the Diehardness to make it fit a PG-13 rating it was still an awesome movie.

The movie clocks in at about 2 hours, but is so filled with witty lines from Bruce and ridiculous explosions that you don’t even have time to finish the large popcorn you foolishly ordered.

There’s been some debate about the inclusion of Justin Long as John McClane’s sorta-side-kick, Justin Long of course being the infamous “mac-boy” of Apple’s latest advertisement campaign.   But he actually isn’t half bad in this movie, and is on the receiving end of some particularly funny lines from Bruce, my favorite being:

Bruce:  RELAX Hack-boy!

.. which sounded surprisingly like “mac-boy”.

 John McClane: You must be just about out of bad guys by now.
Greg: You must be very satisfied with yourself.
John McClane: I have my moments.

How much do I hate Facebook today?

Five words: I hate it a lot.  Especially when you receive emails from ungrateful users like the following:

 Hi,

A Facebook user reported that your application Xbox Live violates out Terms of Use. The user reporting it selected Application does not work as the violation. This person also said:

“It is always broken.  Also, it doesn’t not do what the intended xbox live community would want in a social-network application. ”

Please investigate this issue.

Thanks,
The Facebook Team

And then another one this morning:

Hi,

A Facebook user reported that your application Xbox Live violates out Terms of Use. The user reporting it selected Application does not work as the violation. This person also said:

“Facebook cannot run this application.  The application is constantly broken and has never been stable enough to work.  I am blocking this application as well as the developers of it.  They have promised numerous times to get the application up and running but have failed on every occasion.  ”

Please investigate this issue.

Thanks,
The Facebook Team

Well you know what kids?  I do this for free.  Your gran-daddy was right, you get what you pay for.  All of these TOS Reports are now automatically filed to my Junk mail.

I have one message for you,