Update on TalkShoe Live Show Tomorrow

I'm loving Leopard, and I can't wait to talk to many of you about it in the Live Talkshoe chat that I'm co-hosting with Victor Cajiao of the Typical Mac User Podcast tomorrow, Sunday, October 28th at 5pm Pacific/8pm Eastern time. While I may love Leopard, unfortunately, TalkShoe does not. There is some kind of incompatibility with the TalkShoe chat client and Leopard. In my experience, the client will not properly render, then will quickly eat up system resources and will have to be force quit. This is a problem, because I know many of you who were planning to join the chat will most likely have already upgraded to Mac OS 10.5 Leopard. Victor has put a video blog posting on his website talking about this issue in more detail.

Both Victor and I have contacted TalkShoe about this issue, though as of the time I post this message, we do not have a fix other than using a non-Leopard mahchine. I am hopeful that an updated TalksShoe client will be released in time for the podcast, but with it being a Sunday, I'm not all that confident that it will be. I'll, of course, post any updates I get throughout the day. You do have some options though. If you still have Tiger or a previous version of the OS installed, you should run TalkShoe from that machine in order to use the chat interface. If you don't have access to a computer with a non-Leopard OS, you can still participate via phone. Simply call 724-444-7444 and enter Talkcast ID 3097. Victor knows that many people will be on the phones but not on the chat, so we'll make a point to allow for your input on the show.

While I'll admit this is a disappointment, I want to reiterate to you all that the show will go on, and it will be great. This just gives us another topic to discuss. Overall, I've been thrilled with Leopard and this has been the only program I've come across thus far that has had a problem. I can't wait to talk with Victor and our listeners about their thoughts and first impressions of the operating system. If you're unable to join us in the chat, the show will be posted sometime on Monday to our feed as a regular podcast. Please come if you can...