Kill The Desktop

We taped KTD 32 last week but haven’t gotten it ready for download yet. Matt is on vacation this week in California. So, we’ll get the episode online as soon as possible. Sorry for the delay!

April 18, 2008 - 42.9MB - 46:48

In this week’s episode we discuss our top 10 Mac applications. As requested during the show, we’ve put together a list of links to the applications so you all can check them out! Let us know what you think of this episode by posting a comment below or sending us an email at fans@killthedesktop.com.

Show Notes
Chris’ List
1. Spaces - http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/spaces.html
2. Safari - http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/safari.html
3. Quicksilver - http://www.blacktree.com/
4. Expose - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exposé_(Mac_OS_X)
5. Terminal - http://www.apple.com/macosx/technology/unix.html
6. Mail.app - http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/mail.html
7. Adium - http://www.adiumx.com/
8. Things - http://www.culturedcode.com/things/
9. TextMate - http://macromates.com/
10. CoRD - http://cord.sourceforge.net/

Matt’s List
1. Quicksilver - http://www.blacktree.com/
2. Expose/Spaces - http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/spaces.html
3. Mail.app - http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/mail.html
4. CoRD - http://cord.sourceforge.net/
5. Safari - http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/safari.html
6. Things - http://www.culturedcode.com/things/
7. Parallels - http://www.parallels.com/en/products/desktop/
8. Transmit - http://www.panic.com/transmit/
9. iChat - http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/ichat.html
10. Screenflow - http://www.varasoftware.com/products/screenflow/

Honorable Mention
Cyberduck - http://cyberduck.ch/
iShowU - http://www.shinywhitebox.com/home/home.html
iTunes - http://www.apple.com/itunes/
Time Machine - http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/timemachine.html

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Network Administrators get all kinds of shwag from vendors around the world, to convince us to use their products. Our listeners get tons of Microsoft crap like towels, glow balls (for when you’re up in the club), light sabers, guns, knives, whores, etc. But better than any of these, what has officially convinced me to never use Microsoft Vista (at least for the year of 2008), is this rad 1980-something RED CORVETTE that reads “Test Drive Vista Today!” on the side of the packaging. It’s not a real car though. If it was, I’d buy a copy of Vista. It’s something I can roll around on my desk when I feel a sudden urge to return to my womb. See the picture below. I mean what the F, Microsoft? Why me? I’m a big boy now.

I was thinking it would be cool to shoot a video of the equipment and technology we use each week to bring you new episodes of Kill The Desktop. Would you all be interested in such a video?

Well well well… in previous podcasts, we talked about the availability of Twitter in a very demanding 21st century! We talked about it being down during a very important Apple keynote. And now, tonight, it was down at an even more crucial time - when I was going to twitter that I was “Listening to Joni Mitchell LIVE on vynil and drinking tea”. I won’t waste your time though - here’s the screenshot:

I don’t know about this one guys! Where is the Facebook of the twitter generation?

April 14, 2008 - 40.5MB - 44:11

This week’s episode is a discussion of Google’s newest service; Google App Engine. Like last week, we broadcasted the show live using our Ustream.tv channel. Let us know what you think in the comments or send us an email at fans@killthedesktop.com.

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Am I the only person that thinks this logo looks cool? We need to know - because I think it’s amazing. I also think Chris has no sense of contemporary style! So look at it and be honest… who is right?

Matt and I have been doing Kill The Desktop for quite awhile now. Our first episode was published on July 9, 2007. We’ve come a long way since that time. The audio has gotten so much better, it’s hard to describe. You just have to go back and listen to it. It was awful! We’re so comfortable with being in front of the microphone now. In the beginning we probably spent more time doing takes than taping actual content. These days, it’s rare that we have to do any editing of the show in post-production.

Something we don’t talk a lot about on the show is our numbers. Currently, we see about 1,500 unique downloads of Kill The Desktop on a monthly basis. That’s amazing! We started with nothing. We had a few friends follow the show and that was about it. We’ve never paid to advertise, or have ever really had formal advertising. Word of mouth is what has helped us grow. So over the last 9 months we’ve gone from a handful of unique downloads to 1,500 every month. We couldn’t be happier with the progression we’ve seen over these last 9 months.

We’re loving the interaction ustream.tv has provided and will definitely continue to use it moving forward. We want to ask you, our listeners, how we can improve the show. What should we continue to do? What should we change? Our feedback from you is what makes the show what it is today. We want to continue that.

We also want to continue to grow. If you like the show, tell your friends about it! If you have a blog, post about us! We’d greatly appreciate the “spreading of the word” about Kill The Desktop. So please, if you promote us, tell us about it! After all, that’s how we’ve grown since day 1.

Thanks for listening.

April 7, 2008 - 31.1MB - 33:56

This week’s episode is a discussion of RSS. We broadcasted the show live using our Ustream.tv channel. This was a great success and I imagine we’ll be doing this for all of the episodes moving forward. Let us know what you think in the comments or send us an email at fans@killthedesktop.com.

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I’ve been using Twitter pretty regularly over the last week or so. Matt has been a hater but I’m hoping to convert him as well. By the way, our next episode of Kill The Desktop will be taped tomorrow at lunch. Any topic suggestions?

http://twitter.com/chrisstewart