iPods & Portable Media Players

World’s First Music Video Shot On An iPhone

Dec 10th, 2008 | By | Category: iPhone, iPods & Portable Media Players, Podcasting Hardware

GOSHone claims that his video forNewteknowledge is the first music video shot entirely on an iPhone. It was filmed using a jailbroken iPhone 3G using Cycorder. Edited using After Effects, since Final Cut didn’t like the resolution from Cycorder. The video itself isn’t especially notable, but the fact that it was shot an an iPhone is.  The […]



Barron’s: The Future Of The Zune In Danger

Dec 8th, 2008 | By | Category: iPhone, iPod Accessories, iPods & Portable Media Players

Barron’s reports that the future of Microsoft’s Zune media player is in Danger: The company will unveil (at the Consumer Electronics Show January 7) a new device combining the features of the company’s Zune music player and its Danger Sidekick handhelds, combined with…. “some motion enhancement features” using an accelerometer. That would be consistent with […]



New High End Wireless Adapter For iPods, iPhones

Dec 7th, 2008 | By | Category: iPhone, iPod Accessories, iPods & Portable Media Players

Audioengine has introduced a high-end wireless adapter for iPods and iPhones, the Audioengine W2.  The AW2 uses uncompressed CD-quality transmission technology with no network setup, software, or computer required. The system lets you wirelessly send you music, at up to CD-quality, to a hi-fi system. The Audioengine W2 (AW2) Premium Wireless Adapter for iPod is priced at […]



Is Everybody Trying To Beat Apple At Their Own Game, And Failing?

Dec 5th, 2008 | By | Category: iPhone, iPods & Portable Media Players

Today there were a lot of big tech stories that, on the surface, seem unrelated: Verizon is rolling out a Blackberry Storm OS update; S&P Cuts Motorola’s rating to junk; AT&T hopes to have their own uber-phone OS; Dell is charging a $150 premium for Windows XP; The Kindle may be getting pwned by the […]



ZuneGate Update: Obama Uses An iPod

Dec 5th, 2008 | By | Category: iPods & Portable Media Players

Turns out the Zunegate hype about Obama being a Zune fan may have been unwarranted. The Wall Street Journal reports that Obama’s officially an iPod fan: Yesterday the Philadelphia City Paper ignited a controversy over the question, with a blog entry that included the innocuous detail that the President-elect was working out while listening to […]



Flickr Expands Mobile Support

Dec 5th, 2008 | By | Category: Internet TV, iPhone, iPods & Portable Media Players, Streaming Video, Video

Flickr has announced expanded mobile support, including mobile viewing of Flickr videos: Today we’re releasing several upgrades to m.flickr.com. If you’ve got a smartphone with one of the fancier new mobile browsers, you’ll experience a completely new version of our mobile site, one that’s built around the things that are most important to you when […]



Obama’s Zunegate

Dec 4th, 2008 | By | Category: iPods & Portable Media Players

Zune fans may have some fun with this: Barack Obama was apparently seen using a portable media player that appeared to be a Zune! OMG!!! In what has already been termed Zunegate, Philadelphia’s City Paper writer Neal Santos reports that Obama was seen listening to a Zune while working out.  Maybe: I want to correct what I […]



UPDATE: Wizzard Media Player Adds iPhone Audio, Video Support

Dec 3rd, 2008 | By | Category: Audio Podcasting, iPods & Portable Media Players, Podcast Distribution, Podcasting, Podcasting Software, Streaming Video, Video

Wizzard Media announced today that video embedded on internet websites using the Wizzard Player can now be viewed on the iPhone and iPod Touch. In the past, Apple devices, due to their lack of Flash support, have not been able to access most embedded Web video. When visiting a video website using the iPhone, the […]



iPhone Hits 10,000 App Milestone; 50,000 Apps Next Year

Nov 30th, 2008 | By | Category: iPhone

iPhone application review site 148Apps reports that Apple’s App Store has hit a milestone, now offering more than 10,000 iPhone apps.  Other interesting facts: Most iPhone apps sell for less than $2.00 Games and Entertainment are the most popular categories for iPhone apps If you purchased every iPhone app, it would cost you over $31,000. […]



Apple Using DMCA To Limit What iPod Users Can Do

Nov 27th, 2008 | By | Category: iPods & Portable Media Players

The Electronic Frontier Foundation reports that Apple appears to be using the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) to limit what iPod owners can do with their portable media players: At the heart of this is the iTunesDB file, the index that the iPod operating system uses to keep track of what playable media is on […]