Audio-Video

Awesome idea: Do-It-Yourself iPod Stand, based on a printable PDF template.

Yesterday afternoon we drove back from San Diego to San Francisco. Overall, the trip was pretty smooth - except for one major annoyance. I had brought my laptop along, and the day before the trip back I had downloaded some podcasts for myself as well as my kids. However, when I synced those to my iPod using iTunes, something went wrong, resulting in a corrupted iPod....

While looking for some quality examples of applications built using the Ruby on Rails framework, I came across Odeo. This San Francisco based company organizes, synchronizes, and publishes podcasts (although it it still in beta and the publishing part isn't live yet). I've only briefly looked at it so far, but it looks very promising. Individual podcasts are tagged, similar to the way bookmarks are tagged at del.icio.us....

Maybe I should have checked Apple's website before posting my previous blog entry. It turns out that the iPod update that came out a few days ago does in fact address the problem with compilations that I mentioned. This makes a huge difference browsing music on the iPod!

In addition to a new iPod update, Apple also released an updated version of iTunes (4.9). The main feature that this version adds is built-in support for podcasts. This is awesome! Podcasts can be selected and subscribed to using the Music Store interface (don't worry, they're all free). Once subscribed, podcasts can be configured to automatically be synchronized with the iPod....