Griffin Technology

It was Jim Henson‘s birthday on Friday. We knew this when we spotted Woogie featured in the iTunes app store!

I grew up on Jim Henson, like most of you (all of you?). I was a big Cookie Monster fan, perhaps it accounts for my constant cravings for cookies. Yum!

I came across a great post on Legacy.com which lists 20 facts about Jim Henson. One of the most interesting facts is that “The Muppet Show” was initially rejected by American networks, who feared it would not attract an adult audience. Eventually, it would be produced and syndicated, airing 120 episodes over a five year period.

Who is your favorite Sesame Street or Muppet Show character? Why?

Happy belated birthday Jim. Rest in peace.

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I subscribe to 141 podcasts. I’m a huge fan of both professional and amateur podcasting. Like many of you, iTunes is my podcatcher of choice.

I love the fact that iTunes automatically updates my podcast library with new episodes everyday, but there’s one little thing that drives me nuts.

I’m not sure why it is that every five days iTunes questions whether I would like to stay subscribed to a podcast, but it’s annoying. What’s annoying is that I must manually click on each exclamation point (next to the podcast title) to tell iTunes that, yes, I do indeed still want to receive new episodes.

I am so thankful for Doug Adams and his ingenious Update Expired Podcasts v2.0. The script adds an icon to the top of iTunes. You click it and it updates all “expired” podcasts in one click. Thanks Doug!

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My iPhone is cluttered with stuff, I’m the first to admit it, so is my machine. If I could find a few extra hours in a day I would take the steps to start cleaning unused files, but I don’t have the time.

Syncing my iPhone now takes way too long and it slows my machine down while it’s syncing. The process seems to take forever.

Enter DigiDNA‘s BackOff. This handy, free software will disable backups, so that you can quickly sync your iPhone with iTunes. Use at your discretion, because it STOPS backing up.

It works great in my case, because I sync and backup my phone every night. During the day I like to sync it to charge it and to update new podcast episodes. This is the perfect way to speed up those syncs.

Just don’t forget to back up your device regularly. The one time you don’t will be the one time you wish you had.

BackOff supports iPhone V1, 3G, 3G S & iPod Touch V1, V2 and V3. Get it here.

Hat tip to Lifehacker and MacWorld for drawing our attention to BackOff.

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We were so excited when we noticed our iTalk Recorder app in one of the latest iPhone App Store ads. Did you see it too?

It was just a few weeks ago that iTalk received it’s 1,000,000th download! To celebrate the love that our little app has been getting, I’ve created a Facebook Fan Page. If you enjoy iTalk too, please consider becoming a fan.

If you haven’t tried iTalk yet, you can download the free ad supported version or the paid version from the iTunes App Store.

Let me know what you think.

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tagged: apps, facebook fan, facebook fan page, griffin technology, italk, iTalk Recorder, italk sync, itunes