I submitted the Unadopted Podcast Widget to Apple for inclusion in their software directory. After they approved it, they posted it here for anyone and everyone browsing their software directory to download. Neat, huh?

Well it just got a bit neater. I didn’t submit it to Softpedia, but I guess they must scan for new additions to Apple’s site, because I just received an email notifying me that…

Your product “Unadopted Podcast Widget 1.0″ has been tested by the Softpedia labs and found to be completely clean of adware/spyware components.

We are impressed with the quality of your product and encourage you to keep this high standards in the future.

To assure our visitors that “Unadopted Podcast Widget 1.0″ is clean, we have granted it with the “100% CLEAN” Softpedia award. Moreover, to let your users know about this certification, you may display this award on your website, on software boxes or inside your product.

Having gone to the Softpedia page for my widget, I’ve noticed they’ve taken their own screenshots of my widget so I guess that it really has been tested. I knew it was clean already, now you can have the same peace of mind.

So, without further ado, I guess I’ll post this:

I’m bored of sending comments about this to posts in LiveJournal’s macosx community, so I’ll make a full post about it.

Did you try the defaults write com.apple.systempreferences TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1 hack to backup to a network drive?

If so, you’re going to hit a brick wall and your backup will be useless very soon (if not already)!

Simple explanation: Once your backup disk fills, Time Machine accidentally corrupts the backup.

Technical explanation: Volumes that are otherwise hidden unless you run the above command in a Terminal aren’t guaranteed to be formatted with HFS+. To get around this, Time Machine creates a sparse bundle disk image on the target drive, and formats it HFS+. It’ll then mount that disk image whenever it runs a backup. The problem occurs when the disk fills up. When OS X deletes files from a sparse bundle disk image, it tries to free the space that was previously allocated to these files. There is a bug in the code that does this that destroys the disk image completely, making your entire Time Machine backup useless. Use SuperDuper until they fix it, it can backup to sparse images (as opposed to sparse bundle images).

So that’s why you can’t back up to SMB / AFP / NFS shares with Time Machine for now. You can let Time Machine try, but it DOES NOT WORK (yet).

Fingers crossed this gets fixed soon.

If you’re using Mac OS X 10.4.3 or above, you can now get the Unadopted Podcast delivered right to your Dashboard, with my new widget!

If you’ve got Safari, just click the download link and it’ll automatically unzip and install into your dashboard, without any work from you — how cool is that?

Oh, and for those that are interested, it took me a grand total of about 5 minutes to build the widget, upload it, and create this page. Impressive.

Download v1.0: http://unadopted.co.uk/podcast/widget/widget.zip

A really fun mix this week, my favourite so far!

1. Matt & Kim – Yeah Yeah (Flosstradamus Remix)
2. Simian Mobile Disco – Hustler
3. Kelis – Bossy (Switch Remix)
4. Jay-Z vs Missy Elliot vs The Chemical Brothers – Everybody Do It Again (DJ Lobsterdust Mashup)
5. The White Stripes – 7 Nation Army (DJ Klutch’s The Freaks The Creeps Remix)
6. Riot In Belgium – La Musique
7. DJ Mehdi – Signatune (Thomas Bangalter’s More Kick Edit)
8. Digitalism – Pogo (Shinichi Osawa Remix)
9. The Shoes – Knock Out (Tom Deluxx Remix)
10. Thomas Bangalter – Spinal Scratch
11. Chromeo – Fancy Footwork (Strip Steve You & I Remix)
12. Death From Above 1979 – Sexy Results (MSTRKRFT Edition)
13. Wolfmother – Woman (MSTRKRFT Remix)
14. Klaxons – Magick (Simian Mobile Disco Remix)
15. Kylie Minogue – 2 Hearts (Alan Braxe Remix)

Listen now over at http://unadopted.co.uk/podcast/. If you haven’t already set it up, click the “Subscribe” link on the right-hand-side when you get there to get the podcast automatically delivered right into your iTunes or RSS reader whenever I release a new session!

(thanks BoingBoing!)

A pretty mainstream mix today, so if you’ve been put off by all the electro nonsense lately, give this one a try! For those of you who’ve been listening for a while now, thanks for keeping me motivated to do these. Enjoy, and keep your eyes peeled for even more hot podcast action!

1. Markus Nikolai – Bushes (Norman Cook Remix)
2. Röyksopp – Remind Me (Someone Else’s Radio Remix)
3. Mel Merio – Domino Dancing (Extended Club Mix)
4. Hot Chip – Ready For The Floor
5. Keane – Is It Any Wonder (Tall Paul Remix)
6. Bonde Do Role – Funk Da Esfiha
7. Bloc Party vs Ian Brown – F.E.A.R. of Witches (10000 Spoons Mashup)

Listen now over at http://unadopted.co.uk/podcast/. If you haven’t already set it up, click the “Subscribe” link on the right-hand-side when you get there to get the podcast automatically delivered right into your iTunes or RSS reader whenever I release a new session!

Brand loyalty is a very strange concept. It’s almost as if we subconsciously treat brands like people that we don’t want to upset the feelings of.

Discuss.

Apparently last time I posted this it didn’t work because I’d disabled my public search listing. I’ve turned it back on now, so if you want to try and find me on Facebook and couldn’t before, try clicking this:

At around 7pm tonight a pretty huge fire broke out in Camden. According to BBC News, there’s currently 20 fire engines and about 100 firefighters onsite trying to get the fire under control…

Links: BBC News | ITN News | Wikinews