Although we got off to a rough start with some technical difficulties, our Skype interview with Kate was a rousing success. For those who want a little more technical behind-the-scenes for how to record a video Skype call, we use Ecamm's excellent Call Recorder for Skype to record both streams to a single file.

We use an all-Apple Intermediate Codec workflow when editing our shows. We could keep the recorded Skype call in the same H.264-compressed MPEG-4 container, but two problems arise:

1) You can't watch the file in Safe RT; you have to roll with Unlimited RT. 2) The audio doesn't even render, making the whole thing useless anyway.

In order to just save headaches, I convert our MPEG-4 file to AIC with the infinitely-useful MPEG Streamclip. If you're a professional video editor using a Mac and don't have this as part of your tool chain, you're nuts.

Like I said before, Call Recorder for Skype places both streams side-by-side in a single file. That's pretty much what you see when both Carrie and Kate are on screen at the same time:

For those curious as to how we turn that into a single-clip, we just crop the video to the full width and height of Kate and drop it on a second track. In order to do the multi-track switching, I just cut the parts of Track 2 where I want to see both of them:

Thanks to the help of our stellar Android developer, the Jed Mahonis Group is happy to announce its first app on Google Play! The Android version of the Random Celebrity Generator comes in two flavors: Free and Pro. The free one comes with ads, naturally.

In addition, we updated the iOS version to 1.1 and added 300 celebrities to the mix. Get it today at randomcelebritygenerator.com!

Apparently, I am a terrible judge of determining which episodes will be successful and which will be total flops. I thought that an episode where we shot zero b-roll, failed to mic one of the participants and lasted for more than 8 minutes would surely be a flop. Fortunately, this is one of the most successful episodes we've aired this year based on social interaction. People have gone out of their way to tell us how helpful this episode was. While I'm sincerely proud of my work and glad I can help people out, I'm still just unable to see why this episode did so well, while other episodes I would assume would be popular just aren't.

Anyway, we've been hoping to have Katie as a featured guest since day one, and I'm really glad we were able to talk her into walking us through her post-workout routine. We actually had to cut a few good parts of the show because we only have two lav mics. We make do with what we have, but it's times like these I wish we had another lav mic and a field mixer. And a quad-copter.

Sometimes, the best episodes are the ones that get cut together in 10 minutes. When an episode comes together that quickly, that means all of us were on our game. Julie had a great script in place, Carrie was top-notch with her delivery and I was able to luck out with the lighting in the room. I laughed out loud several times while editing this one, and it's only a couple minutes long, so definitely check it out.

Andrew is a really fun guy to interview, and he and Carrie have a great chat about the cancellation of the NYC Marathon and his unreal performances at the Olympic Trials and the Houston Marathon.

But just in case you're not all that interested in elite athlete recovery, feel free to jump to 4:25, where Carrie says she wants to take a tour of Andrew's apartment. This was, perhaps, one of my favorite spots I've cut for C Tolle Run so far.

Another cooking episode. I didn't have time to grab our normal tripod, so I had to shoot this with the tripod Dale "found" at the middle school he works at. No wonder they were throwing that thing out.

Also, our wireless lav mics were giving me a lot of problems. I'm almost certain it's interference, which means I need to start getting good at setting the frequencies on those puppies.

On a lighter note, my favorite part of this episode was getting to sample some Midnight Ryder from Indeed Brewing. Some seriously great beer.

It took me about 3 hours of research and pulling my hair out to try and implement a UIScrollView that just scrolls a bunch of text vertically.

Turns out UIScrollView is for images, and UITextView is for text.

Talk about your ultimate face palm.

A new year calls for new opening credits. We tried to do something different this year, so we garnered inspiration from The Mindy Project and tried to make things a little more funky. Since it can be overplayed, I was a little worried about doing an episode on New Year's Resolutions. I think that we executed quite well, thanks in no small part to Carrie's personality and the good people who recorded resolutions for us.

Because the host of our show is pregnant, we thought it would be a perfect opportunity to do a series of episodes that would help mothers-to-be to stay fit and healthy during their pregnancies.

Even if you're not a pregnant woman, you will still really enjoy this episode.

Reason 1: this episode features show-favorite Bill Welle of Welle Fast. Carrie and Bill have a fantastic rapport that absolutely shines on film. The episode actually gets more funny as it goes, so be sure to watch through the end.

Reason 2: even though the exercises are modified to account for her condition, anyone can apply the principles preached in this segment to their own routines.

I really like Bill's approach of throwing additional stabilization moves in with "regular" lifts (e.g. Single-Legged Bicep Curls or Stability Ball Bench Press).

As someone with enough tech savvy to run an iOS development company, you'd think installing an Xfinity cable box wouldn't be an issue for me, right?

Well, after 2 days of pain, frustration and brainstorming, I finally was able to activate my own cable box without needing to pay the extra $60 to have someone come out to my house to show me how to plug in a coaxial cable.

And, in an effort to save you, the intrepid Googler, some time and energy, I figured I could provide a quick tip for getting your box to work as well.

Here's the problem I was facing: I plugged the box in, hooked in the cables and powered it up. What would happen is the following sequence:

• The data light would hold solid for a few seconds
• The remote light would hold solid for a few secounds
• The power light would hold solid for a few seconds
• The power light would then blink off and on, roughly 14 times
• The power light would then shut off, with apparently no action being taken by the box

Because the physical coaxial cable that runs into our living room is simply awful[1. The cable goes out the window from the basement and through the window in our living room. Yes, the windows are both shut. Yes, the cable looks like a flattened pancake. No, I don't understand why our landlord doesn't just drill a hole through the ceiling and run the cable through that.], I tried plugging the box directly into the line that connects to our cable drop. This resulted in a similar sequence of events.

Frustrated, I started smashing buttons on the remote control provided by Xfinity. I ended up getting into the diagnostic/settings menu, which showed that I wasn't getting any connection to the cable company.

Before giving up and dropping TV from Xfinity, I decided to see what would happen if I utilized the ethernet port provided on the back.

And what do you know? It worked!

So, if you're having problems receiving a signal to your Cisco RNG 100, try running an ethernet cable between your box and your router. After 2 minutes of waiting, the box showed the "Not Authorized" message and I was on my way.

Now, I can finally enjoy standard definition cable on my 46" Sony XBR6[2. Yeah, I should probably upgrade my box to HD. But since I'm probably not going to be watching much cable, and my girlfriend doesn't care, I think I'd be happer with the $10/m]. Horray!

Update (12/18/12): I've noticed that if you disconnect the power to this box and plug it back in, it takes a very long time to boot. It makes no sense to me why Cisco couldn't implement some sort of "loading" screen during boot, but regardless: if your box appears unresponsive, you really should give it a good 10 minutes before freaking out and punching a hole in your drywall.