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December 18, 2006

Take Control of Syncing Update and Podcast

Take Control books has released an updated edition of Michael Cohen's Take Control of Syncing in Tiger, covering some of the new issues and abilities related to syncing an iPod with iTunes 7. The update deals with questions like "How does iTunes decide how to categorize a video file?" and "Why was my half-played podcast deleted from my iPod when I synced? Those who already own the ebook can access the free update by clicking the Check for Updates button on the ebook's cover.

Chuck Joiner of MacVoices has an interview with Michael Cohen on syncing in general, and the new update here.

December 4, 2006

On Building a User Community

Kathy Sierra, one of the Head First authors, has an extremely useful and thoughtful post on Building a User Community. This is a post from someone who gets community, and the importance of sharing with, rather than feeding from, a community. I'm going to wait until I've read the sequel before I post, but you really ought to go read Kathy Sierra right now.