The Vloggies, a video blogging award presented by PodTech, were held Saturday, November 4th, in a ceremony in San Francisco. The ceremony was hosted by PodTech’s Irina Slutsky, and soap-opera star turned vlogger Daniel McVicar. Winners included Rocketboom, Ryanne Hodson, Ask a Ninja, Diggnation and Galacticast. Josh Wolf, who is currently in jail for refusing […]

The percent of computers accessing the Internet that are running Macintosh OS X is up by 35% since last year, according to figures from Market Share. 5.21% of the computers accessing the Internet were Macs in October, compared to 3.87% a year ago. While these numbers are good news for OS X fans, Macs still […]

Apple’s Steve Jobs has been voted the Greatest Person in Information Technology. To mark its 40 anniversary, UK technology magazine Computer Weekly asked its readers to vote for who they consider the greatest people of the past 40 years of IT. Jobs topped the list, Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the Internet, and Linus Torvalds, creator […]

Butterball’s Turkey Talk podcast is an interesting example of a corporate edutainment podcast. The podcast series focuses on holiday traditions, planning and food preperation ideas, which frequently involve Butterball turkeys. The first episode (MP3) covers Preparation 101. It’s hosted by turkey experts Mary Clingman, director of the Butterball Turkey Talk-Line, and Sherleen Clausen, director of […]

iFixit, a site that sells Mac and iPod parts and upgrades, has published a guide to disassembling the latest iPod shuffle. The dissection reveals the density of the electronics in the new shuffle:

Microsoft’s Zune.net site is now live, along with zune-arts.net, a site that Microsoft describes as “a place for creative expression around the idea of sharing from some of today’s most progressive artists, animators and designers”. Though the Zune sites are live, content is still sparse. Microsoft is launching the Zune November 14th, 2006. Windows has […]

Microsoft announced today that it was ending sales of music from MSN Music, its 2-year old attempt to create an iTunes killer. While Microsoft officially plans to continue to support the PlaysForSure format, the company is eliminating Windows Media Format music downloads from its site and introducing a new format with the Zune media player. […]

Apple today announced a new 8GB model of the iPod nano (PRODUCT) RED Special Edition. The new 8GB iPod nano (PRODUCT) RED Special Edition holds up to 2,000 songs and is available for $249, joining the 4GB model priced at $199. Both models come in a red aluminum enclosure and feature 24 hours of battery […]

FeedCycle has introduced a new web service that manages cyclic web feeds – feeds that let subscribers receive, on a scheduled basis, sequential episodes from within a series of episodes. For example, if you have a 10 part training course in a cyclid web feed, on day 1 you would receive the first topic, on […]

Behringer has announced Podcastudio FireWire, described as a complete podcast studio with FireWire interface. The podcasting kit comes with a studio-grade FireWire audio interface which includes the Behringer Edition of Ableton Live Lite 4 music production software for PC and Mac computers. The package also includes an 8-input mixer, high-quality headphones and a studio microphone […]