<![CDATA[BrianPattison.com]]> 2012-01-03T15:00:50-06:00 http://www.brianpattison.com/ Octopress <![CDATA[Sync with iTunes While You Sleep]]> 2012-01-03T13:55:00-06:00 http://www.brianpattison.com/blog/2012/01/03/sync-with-itunes-while-you-sleep Wi-Fi syncing in iOS 5 is great when you have iPhone docks everywhere and rarely connect your iPhone to your Mac. iOS 5 almost removes the need to sync at all, but iCloud is missing one feature: it doesn’t sync downloaded podcasts.

This hack is great for daily syncing of your downloaded podcasts, played status, and listening progress. It will also back up your iOS devices, so I suppose that’s good too!

1. Save this AppleScript to a file.

2. Set up a cron job to run the AppleScript.

I used CronniX to set up the cron job to run the command osascript /path/to/file.scpt every day at 7:00 AM.

CronniX Screen Shot

3. Done.

That’s it! Now all of your iOS devices will sync automatically each day as long as they’re connected to Wi-Fi.

New year’s resolution to write at least one blog post in 2012 complete. See you next year.

]]> <![CDATA[The Problem With 140 Characters]]> 2011-10-13T00:45:00-05:00 http://www.brianpattison.com/blog/2011/10/13/the-problem-with-140-characters The problem with Twitter’s 140 character limitation is that it’s so limiting. Well, duh.

Anyways, my Gists over at https://gist.github.com/brianpattison started piling up, and it almost looks like a collection of blog posts. I figured I might as well post them to a blog, so here we go!

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