iPod Buffet

An interesting collection of video, podcasts, trailers and more for the hotly-anticipated movie version of classic graphic novel, ‘Watchmen’, has been made available through iTunes. The collection includes unique features about the film, along with an iPhone/iPod touch application designed to deliver these assets to users of those Apple mobile devices. It includes exclusive “Watchmen” film sequence, [...]

We’re faced with a new challenge: .flv files won’t play on iPods or in iTunes. And with the popularity of video podcasting growing, it seems that the only solution is to create two versions of every video—one to embed and another to podcast. But that’s not the case. In this article I’ll show you how to build a simple Flash video player that streams

For all of you not in the know… Cubbiebear is this cat from Baltimore, MD. Back in the day, he opened for Cage, that’s how I first saw him perform. He dropped his debut LP, The Rape recently. You can find it on iTunes, and after the break is a video for the song “Contra”, [...]

Music purchased from Napster is under DRM protection, which stops customers from playing the downloaded music with other incompatible devices like Apple iPod and Microsoft Zune. If you don’t continue to pay, you won’t keep the music when the subscription expires. As we all know, iPod is one of the most popular and successful MP3 players. iPod owners can purchase various music songs from iTunes Store and listen to them with their iPods. However, if you prefer Napster and find some songs in Napst

Read complete transcript of the discussion. Find it on iTunes/iPod. Learn more. Sponsor: Hewlett-Packard. As enterprises scale up of their use of service oriented architecture (SOA), proper governance is providing an insurance effect. By deploying governance alongside and in sync with SOA development and deployment capabilities, enterprises are growing the use of SOA without stumbling — allowing companies to “crawl, walk, and run” to SOA without losing control. SOA governance heightens the bu

Apple’s finally delivered the ability to download and enjoy podcasts on the iPhone and iPod touch without first connecting to a Mac… Back in September, Apple refused to sell Podcaster via the iPhone AppStore because it competed with a feature in iTunes. Never mind that the feature wasn’t available yet. At the [...]

iPhone homebrew: dTunes v2.5 now with Torrent support There’s a new version of dTunes out, bringing the homebrew iTunes replacement up to version 2.5. The big news about this release is the introduction of Torrent support. The app’s Torrent support feature comes via iTorrentRelay, the only Torrent client for firmware 2.0 and higher iPhones so far. What’s even cooler is that it also converts any media file to a format suitable for the iPhone and iPod Touch upon downloading. The catch here

The ability to download podcasts directly with the new iPhone firmware is very very cool. However there are a few problems that seem to have gone by mostly unnoticed; Over the air downloads via 3G (and Edge) are limited to 10MB Not only does the mobile iTunes store lack the ability to filter larger podcasts, but nowhere is the size of a podcast shown! I can kind-of-sort-of-perhaps see the rationale behind limiting download sizes, both to alleviate strain on the AT&T network and preserve

Report: Apple, Studios In Talks Over Expanding DRM-Free iTunes 7:39 am, November 20th, 2008, Ed Sutherland Apple is in talks with three major music studios that have held out selling songs on iTunes free of copy protection, according to a report Thursday. If successful, Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group and Sony BMG titles could be part of Apple’s iTunes Plus. Although CNET described discussions as “still preliminary,” an agreement would expand Apple’s iTunes Plus option to inclu

iPhone homebrew: dTunes v2.5 now with Torrent support There’s a new version of dTunes out, bringing the homebrew iTunes replacement up to version 2.5. The big news about this release is the introduction of Torrent support. The app’s Torrent support feature comes via iTorrentRelay, the only Torrent client for firmware 2.0 and higher iPhones so far. What’s even cooler is that it also converts any media file to a format suitable for the iPhone and iPod Touch upon downloading. The catch here