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In advance of tomorrow’s release of the new 3G iPhone, Apple has launched its new App Store on iTunes, which features new tools that will immediately make the iPhone (and iPod Touch) a more versatile — and, in some cases, enlightening — device. Below, we have highlighted ten apps worth exploring if you’re hungry for [...]
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In case you haven’t been watching … Apple’s iTunesU has started striking out in new directions. When it launched a little more than a year ago, iTunesU served up free educational content exclusively from universities. Now, it has gone “beyond the campus.”
With this move, Apple is now featuring edifying material from such institutions as The [...]
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Things got a little nerdgasmic yesterday when Steve Jobs unveiled the new iPhone at WWDC. Although the pitch lasted 107 minutes, the highlights have been boiled down to a neat 60 seconds. In watching the clip, here’s my simple take away: When I bought an iPhone earlier this spring, I apparently paid two times too [...]
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Earlier this week, Travel Hacker posted this collection of tutorials explaining how to maximize the use of your iPod. And it happens to include one of our earlier posts: Turn Your iPod into a Travel Guide: 20 Travel Podcasts.
Travel Hacker could have just as easily included some of our other popular pieces. Take for example:
10 [...]
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Across the pond, Apple is running a series of ads fashioned after the “Mac v. PC” commercials that have run so successfully in the States. Although the vocabulary and accent are naturally different, the gist of the British ads is essentially the same. Yes, Apple’s schtick translates well, and I’m declaring the third one [...]
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The folks at Apple have rolled out an intriguing new podcast that takes you inside the world of moviemaking. The Set to Screen Series (get it on iTunes here) follows Baz Luhrmann, the Oscar-nominated director (Moulin Rouge! and William Shakespeare’s Romeo+Juliet) as he works on a new film. And every three weeks, from now through October, [...]
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Next fall, all new freshmen attending ACU (Abilene Christian University) will receive an iPhone (or iPod Touch) when they get to campus. And, from there, the Apple gadget will figure centrally to students’ campus experience. The iPhone is the latest and greatest “converged mobile media device,” which combines in one gadget numerous functionalities — internet [...]
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The iPod can supercharge your learning. But it’s often a matter of finding the right software and content. Below, we’ve listed several new pieces of software that will let you suck more educational media (DVDs, web videos, audio files, etc.) into your iPod. And we’ve also listed some important pieces of content that will make [...]
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For those who use their iPod to take advantage of our copious podcast collections:
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Want the quick overview of what Apple has in the pipeline for ‘08? Here it is:
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Today, the Chronicle of Higher Education has a good article on an emerging trend — universities bringing their lectures to YouTube. As you’ll see, we get a mention in the article.
We first began discussing this trend about a year ago. In this public radio interview aired last March, we talked about the sheer dearth of [...]
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The Ipod Radio Remote — Here’s a small gadget worth checking out. Simply attach it to your iPod and you can start listening to the radio (something that always seemed missing). I just got one, and it works really well. So I figured that I’d give it a quick plug. In case you’re interested, Amazon [...]
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Fake Steve Jobs, a wildly popular blog written by Daniel Lyons, an editor at Forbes, has been goofing on the real Steve Jobs all year. And now things have taken an odd turn. During the same week that Apple apparently shut down ThinkSecret.com (an Apple rumor site) in exchange for cash, Apple may be applying [...]
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How many days, weeks or months before your iPod goes kaput? This web site will give you an estimate. Perhaps a handy tool for anyone who consumes all of the podcasts that we throw your way.
Check out our collection of Ideas & Culture Podcasts
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The digital music market is big, and so far Apple has owned it. But now Amazon may be quickly emerging as a viable competitor.
Tuesday, Amazon launched Amazon MP3, which gives you access to 2 million songs and more soon to come. Amazon’s product has several nice advantages over iTunes. Let’s list them briefly:
It delivers songs [...]
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Apple took the world of digital entertainment by storm when it started offering new television shows on iTunes in 2005. The big networks signed on (eventually) and it was suddenly possible to catch an episode of The Office or Lost for $1.99 on a video iPod or a PC.
NBC was one of the early adopters, [...]
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Robert X. Cringley’s weekly article/podcast (iTunes - Feed - Web Site) may make you think twice about buying an iPod Classic … at least for now. Despite the name, the guts of the iPod Classic are actually new, and the bugs haven’t been fully worked out. The list of problems experienced by users includes [...]
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Since we talk a lot here about podcasts and mp3 files, it seems worth flagging this Yahoo gadget review that pits the new iPod lineup against its rivals. Here, we’ve got the new iPod Touch v. the Samsung Yepp YP-P2; the new Nano (with video) v. the Sansa View, and the iPod Classic v. Microsoft’s [...]
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(Continued from Part II)
The most recent major foray into the world of cultureboxes comes in an entirely different size and market niche: the Apple iPhone. It may look different, but it has all the hallmarks of a culturebox. The iPhone wants to deliver video, audio and the best of the Web; it hopes to revolutionize [...]
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Watch video here.
Need smart podcasts for your iPhone? Load up here.
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Here’s a logical follow up to our last post — 10 Free University Courses on iTunes.
It turns out that yesterday Apple nicely integrated iTunes U into iTunes. Now, you’ll probably ask what is iTunes U, and why should I care about this integration? So here is the simple answer:
iTunes U is essentially a non-commercial version [...]
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We haven’t talked about the universe of university podcasts in some time. So let’s get back to it.Below, we have highlighted ten full-fledged courses from top flight universities. All of these courses can be downloaded to your iPod for free. That’s a price that you can’t beat. (You can see our complete collection of free [...]
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New technologies often have unintended uses. Take the Ipod as a case in point. It was developed with the intention of playing music (and later videos), but its applications now go well beyond that. Here are 10 rather unforeseen, even surprising, uses:
1. Train Doctors to Save Lives: A new study presented at the annual [...]
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Here’s a quick heads up: TUAW.com (The Unofficial Apple Weblog) posted a nice feature that offers a new slant on what we often do here at Open Culture. They scanned the different international iTunes stores and identified free music, video, and audio books available to users in the US, Australia, Canada, France, Britain and New [...]
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Steve Jobs, the CEO of Apple Computer, delivered this speech at Stanford’s commencement ceremony in June 2005. I’ve watched it a couple times now, with about 6 months in between viewings, and each time it has struck me as worth watching every now and again to keep focused on what matters. I somehow doubt that [...]
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Here’s a tip courtesy of The Unofficial Apple Weblog.
Apple TV just hit the market, as we mentioned last week. And while the product has a lot of promise, the immediate downside is that there’s a dearth of content ready for you to watch. But here’s a promising option: HungryFlix lets you download independent films that [...]
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Earlier this week, we discussed the recent release of Apple TV, the new gadget that lets you wirelessly download videos from iTunes to your cushy widescreen TV. For many consumers, the logical question to ask is whether there’s much to watch if they plunk down the $299 for the hardware. (Check it out in our [...]
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When Steve Jobs announced Apple’s new lineup of gadgets at Macworld in January (listen on iTunes or stream it), all eyes were focused on the planned release of the iPhone. Relatively lost in the commotion, however, was Apple TV, which started shipping this week. (Check it out in our Amazon store.) Despite [...]
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Most of the outside world didn’t care. They didn’t even know what Steve Jobs was talking about. But within tech circles it was a big deal, a landmark moment. Jobs’ s anti-DRM manifesto, Thoughts on Music, moved us all closer to the day when music would be set free. (DRM = Digital Rights Management. [...]
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Here’s a quick warning for our readers who enjoy listening to podcasts on iPods.
From CNET:
“Apple has warned Windows users running its iTunes software that they should wait for its next update before upgrading their PCs to Microsoft’s new Windows Vista operating system.
The Cupertino, Calif.-based company cited a variety of compatibility issues that may cause friction [...]
