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New Podcast Features Native American Music

Jul 1st, 2007 | By | Category: Audio Podcasting, Digital Music

¬† PowWows.com has introduced a new podcast that features Native American music and interviews, IndigiTunes. The first episode featureed Pow Wow music. More recent episodes have featured 49 songs, Fiddle music and music from Kenny Merrick Jr. You can preview the podcast below, or subscribe by adding this feed URL to your podcast client software: […]



Inside The iPhone

Jul 1st, 2007 | By | Category: iPods & Portable Media Players, Strange

The folks at iFixit, a site that specializes in upgrades for Apple gear, has posted a detailed, high-res, step-by-step dissection of the iPhone. On the other hand, ThatNimrod managed to get his iPhone open and into pieces in under a minute: iPhone Destruction



Free The iPhone!

Jun 30th, 2007 | By | Category: General

Act for Change, the online activism program of Working Assets, is petitioning Steve Jobs and Apple to unlock the iPhone: “The iPhone uses technology (known as GSM) that should allow it to work on other wireless networks, including overseas. But Apple has configured the iPhone so you’re forced to use it on AT&T. An iPhone […]



Social Networking Penetration With Teens Close To 100%

Jun 30th, 2007 | By | Category: Digital Video Downloads, Internet TV, Making Money with Podcasts, Streaming Video, Video

AdAge reports that social networking sites now reach an amazing 96% of online tweens and teens.¬†¬†71% of online tweens and teens connect to a social network at least once a week, making them some of the most popular sites on the Internet. For companies that want to reach teens, the study suggests that social networking […]



Neuros OSD Gets YouTube Support

Jun 30th, 2007 | By | Category: Computer Hardware, Internet TV, Streaming Video, Video

Neuros has announced that their open source set top box, Neuros OSD, now supports YouTube. Unlike the Apple TV, the Neuros OSD supports YouTube directly and can view any video in YouTube’s library. “The fact that the Neuros OSD allows YouTube playback is even more significant when considering the way this milestone was achieved,” said […]



Free MP3 to iPod Audio Book Converter

Jun 29th, 2007 | By | Category: Digital Music, General, iPods & Portable Media Players

freeiPodsoftware.com has a free MP3 to iPod Audio Book Converter that turns any number of MP3 files into one iPod Audio Book File. The advantage of doing this is that you can make use of the advanced audio book functionality of your iPod. For example, your iPod remembers where you were listening in your audio […]



iTunes 7.3 Released

Jun 29th, 2007 | By | Category: Digital Music, General, iPods & Portable Media Players

Apple has released iTunes 7.3. It adds two main features: the ability to wirelessly share digital photos from any computer with iTunes to AppleTV, and support for the iPhone: About iTunes 7.3 for Windows With iTunes, import CDs or download songs and videos from the iTunes Store. Make playlists perfect for any occasion. Burn playlists […]



Free iPhone Simulator For Site Design

Jun 29th, 2007 | By | Category: iPods & Portable Media Players

Marketcircle has a free, open-source Mac application, iPhony, that provides a pixel-accurate web browsing environment, powered by Safari, for developing web sites for the iPhone. Here’s an example screen shot from iPhony browsing the New York Times. Note that the image shows up larger than life on your computer, because the iPhone’s display packs pixels […]



What If Internet Radio Held A Day Of Silence, And Nobody Listened?

Jun 29th, 2007 | By | Category: Digital Music, General

Thousands of U.S. commercial webcasters went silent this Tuesday, June 26, to draw attention to an impending royalty rate increase that could threaten the viability of stations that broadcast mainstream music. Unfortunately for the broadcasters, it looks like the day of silence fell on deaf ears. Tuesday’s Day of Silence was observed by Yahoo!, Live365, […]



Apple Intros RSS Reader For iPhone

Jun 29th, 2007 | By | Category: General

Apple has appears to be quietly introducing an RSS reader for the iPhone at reader.mac.com. If you visit the site with a standard Web browser, though, you get a warning message: Change Firefox’s user agent to something like “Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/420+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Mobile/1A542a Safari/419.3” – […]