Hi GSPN Fans! Here I am again with the weekly round up for you. Here in upstate NY we are right in the middle of apple picking season. Every year we go to our favorite orchard and ride the hayride, eat hot-from-the-oven apple cider doughnuts, go through a corn maze, and oh yeah, pick apples!
We have lived in this area almost all our lives, so we already know not to get carried away and pick too many apples (which is VERY easy to do). Kept in the fridge, they will actually keep for a few months. That’s the trick to keeping apples – keep them cold. We normally just eat the apples we pick – I might make a pie or some apple crisp, but mostly the apples are just for snacking. However, one year we went apple picking with my whole family and we were invited back to my sister-in-law’s afterward to make a big batch of applesauce we would all split. My sister-in-law claimed she knew how to make applesauce, so no one questioned her instructions. Can you see where this is going? More on that in a minute…
Right now, here’s what rolled out on the GSPN feed in the last week – go get ‘em while they’re hot:
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Almost Daily Devotional 146 – Devote Yourself to Prayer
+Help iGot a Mac 091 – Push Notifications
In This Episode:
*Brad called to tell us about a way to add extensions to phone numbers in the iPhone contact list.
*Jason called to ask if there was a keyboard that he could attach to his iPod Touch.
*Brad called again to share how he was about to get his iTunes Music On iDisk to play on his iPhone.
*Andy called in to ask if we thought he should get a Mac computer. Our answer may surprise you!
Pursuing a Balanced Life 434 – 40 Pounds and Biggest Loser
In this episode, Cliff shared an audio recap of his previous week. It was another amazing week of enjoyable walks with his children. He also spends a great deal of time talking about the launch of their newest “Biggest Loser Fan Podcast.†Even if you never watch the Biggest Loser TV Show, you are strongly encouraged to check out this podcast. Cliff is actually partnering with his great friend, Father Roderick Vonhogen, a Catholic priest from the Netherlands. They use the tv show as a platform for launching conversations related to how to live a more healthy lifestyle.
Family From the Heart 077 – Random Family Thoughts
In this episode, Stephanie and Cliff just share a few updates related to a few things they’ve discussed in previous updates.
Desperate Housewives 024 – Nice is Different than Good
Biggest Loser 001 – Second Chances
In this episode Cliff and Fr. Roderick talk about the first episode of the new season of The Biggest Loser US and share tips and information on losing weight, getting fit, eating right and living a balanced life.
Biggest Loser 002 – A New Beginning
Drama and danger during the first Biggest Loser challenge; the importance of medical consultation; why crash diets won’t help; motivation and accountability; a new beginning.
+Full Time Mom 101 - Forgiveness is a Journey
Greys Anatomy 062 – Season 6 Episodes 1 & 2
About the Church 092 – Is God Real? Part 03
+Social Media Serenity 011 – Take That Twitter Haters
In this episode, Erik Fisher and myself, Cliff Ravenscraft, share a little bit about the following items:
*How Selling something on Twitter gained us a new member to the gspn.tv community.
*Tess wrote in to share how she actually landed a job directly as a result of using Twitter.
Facebook now has over 300 Million users
Myspace is now a Twitter App?
Project Retweet
Real Time Local Twitter Trends:
I am a Twitter user and thought I knew it pretty well, but I am amazed from listening to a few of these podcasts how much I have learned about Twitter and how to USE Twitter in more ways I had never even thought of! If you still haven’t given it a try, what are you waiting for? Cliff and Erik tell you all you need to know. :-)
+Business Tech Weekly 004 – Google Docs
In this episode, Andy Traub and Cliff Ravenscraft discuss the following items:
*Wayne called in to thank us for the information about sending large files.
*Stephen called in to ask if there was an easy solution to backing up your Google Docs.
*We mentioned the following links as examples of easily published Google Docs.
http://gspn.tv/btwnotes
http://gspn.tv/episodeguideCompetition Coming/Existing From Microsoft:
*Andy’s Pick Of The Week: Twitter Bar Plugin For Firefox
*Cliff’s Pick of The Week: Screen Grab Plugin For FireFox
I use Google and a lot of Google’s products all the time, but I really didn’t know anything about Google Docs. Cliff and Andy do such a great job of explaining things in plain English so that you can understand even if you’re not a “Techie”!
Biggest Loser 003 – Calories In, Calories Out
In this episode:
The importance of community support in weight loss efforts; why losing weight comes down to calories in – calories out. How to count calories; reading food labels; how to calculate your BMI.
Podcast Answer Man 128 – Extending Your Brand With Twitter
In this episode:
*Cliff shares a personal story of the power of Twitter in extending your brand.
*He also answered a question from Jerilyn who wrote…. “I know you don’t edit your shows anymore to save time, but my question is when working with a partner, co-host or guest speaker and you, as the producer, think their conversation is a bit dull, or kinda blah, or not very dynamic/funny -do you just go with it, try to re-direct the conversation somehow – or just wait until the recording is over and then maybe not release it? I know with Stephanie you don’t have that problem, but am wondering if it ever has come up – or what you do when you feel a podcast isn’t quite 100% what you want. I’d love to hear your thoughts – thanks!”
And that’s a wrap for last week!
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So, we had all picked a TON of apples to make a big batch of applesauce. My sister-in-law had this HUGE pot we put the apples in to boil them, which took forever. Turns out, what do you know? You don’t boil apples to make applesauce. You do the opposite – you are supposed to cook them down – cook some of the water OUT of them. My sister-in-law must not have even looked at a recipe of how to actually make applesauce (which I did when I got home to figure out what went wrong!). Long story short, despite the sugar and cinnamon we dumped in by the scoopful, we made literally gallons of the most tasteless, watery, awful applesauce you could imagine. Two lessons learned that day: #1 – You don’t boil apples to make applesauce. #2 – Don’t assume the person in charge of a project knows what they are doing! :-)
See you next week! Carole
