I like to use my iPhone for view­ing pod­casts. How­ever, man­ag­ing them through iTunes leaves much to be desired because some pod­casts I like to view and then trash them, while oth­ers I like to archive and have synced at all times. iTunes does not have an obvi­ous way to set this up.

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The last cou­ple of week­ends I tin­kered with the gOS 2.0 beta. It def­i­nitely looks bet­ter than the pre­vi­ous iter­a­tion. The gianor­mous icons were just way too big for a res­o­lu­tion of 1024×768. This will def­i­nitely make a more appeal­ing inter­net appli­ance for my guests than my pre­vi­ous box. To make it login auto­mat­i­cally as a guest user took a bit of work, though, since this capa­bil­ity was not part of the ini­tial install. 

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I stum­bled upon Meetup.com while look­ing for some local groups that matched my inter­ests. I noticed that each group has its own cal­en­dar. Since I hack Google Cal­en­dar, I was won­der­ing how to get a Meetup cal­en­dar on Google Cal­en­dar, rather than man­u­ally adding events by hand. Here’s how…

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My DeLi Linux computer’s main appli­ca­tion is an inter­net access “kiosk” for guests who stay at my house. To this end I needed the machine to auto­mat­i­cally login the guest user and launch Firefox. 

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