5: Episode 5
2006-08-06
Download MP3 For Geekons Episode 5
Pop-Up: Thunderbird 1.5
- Download Thunderbird 1.5 for free!
- Open Source Email Client
- Simple, yet full featured
- Easy to import and export account settings, even between Linux
- Simple and powerful address book
- Ability to add extensions
- Enigmail (PGP Encryption)
- Signature Switch
- Always changing and getting faster and more flexible
- Actually just Firefox with a different interface and with different scripts running in the background... more to come in future episodes! (hint: XUL Development)
Geek-Tweak:
- First, you'll have to upload your files to either a web host, or a file host. If you want a website to go along with your podcast, I would reccomend PowWeb.com, great service, and great features, on a family-friendly network! Or, to just host your audio files for free, OurMedia.org.
- A Podcast is simply an XML file that points to the recent audio files for a show.
- XML? XML is a plain text file that you can edit with text editors like notepad. For more technical details on using XML for podcasting, check out the technical specifications from Apple's podcasting site.
- Check out a sample of the Geekons XML feed: sample.txt
- Open the sample with a plain text editor, change it around, and save it as a .xml file, such as mp3.xml, or feed.xml
- There are two main sections for every podcast, the Show Details, and Episode Details.
- Show details
- Title (Geekons Podcast)
- Link (http://www.geekons.com)
- Language (en-us)
- Copyright (© 2006 Woven Thorns Productions)
- itunes:subtitle (Equipping Ministries Through Technology)
- itunes:summary (short summary of the show)
- description (same as itunes:summary, just duplicate it)
- itunes:explicit (clean)
- itunes:owner
- itunes:name (Chris Adams)
- itunes:email (chris@geekons.com)
- itunes:image (http://www.geekons.com/images/coverArt3.png)
- image title/url/link/width/height/description (same as above, but more detailed, and with a smaller image, max size 144x144)
- itunes:category (Religion & Spirituality)
- itunes:category (Christianity)
- There will also be free services available in the next month or so to manage podcasts without touching XML, simply by using the ChurchForge.net Forums and filling in some fields in their upcoming feed manager.
- I think you can also use the upcoming SermonCast.com site, powered by Christian.com, to host your MP3's and manage your feeds, also without touching XML. This service will be provided for a fee, from what I understand, but will include the hosting of your MP3's. (I'm not positive on the details of this, but I'll be sure and update this if I'm wrong!)
View-Source: Acts 16:16-40
- Paul and Silas are sent to prison because they were disrupting the lifestyles of non-believers in Macedonia, specifically by casting out fortune-telling demons from a slave girl, who made money for her master.
- Instead of becoming irate and arguing their side, they worshiped the Lord by praying and singing hymns. (And this was after being stripped and beaten!)
- A sudden violent earthquake shook the prison and opened the doors wide for everyone to escape, but they didn't. Their focus was not on their own situation, but on the direction God was leading them.
- Because of their faithfulness in the Lord, and not in Human nature, the jailer and his family became believers.
- Once the magistrates discovered that Paul and Silas were Roman citizens, they were worried because they had not given Paul and Silas the fair trial every Roman citizen was promised. They asked them to leave, hoping they would not have attention brought to them for their wrongdoing.
- Paul and Silas did leave, but first went to a woman's house that they had met and witnessed to before being Jailed, and encouraged her and her brothers in their walk with the Lord, then left. Once again showing where their priorities lie.
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