iPods & Portable Media Players

Replace Your iPod’s Hard Drive With Compact Flash Media

May 13th, 2008 | By | Category: iPod Accessories, iPods & Portable Media Players

Addonics has introduced a 1.8″ ZIF – CF Adapter kit that you can use to make your iPod faster and more shock resistant. The adapter (ADZIFCF) supports several types of Compact Flash media including PIO, DMA, UDMA4 for up to a 40MB/s transfer rate. In addition to iPods, the adapter supports any laptop computer or […]



iPhone Apps Going Mainstream Fast

May 13th, 2008 | By | Category: iPhone, iPods & Portable Media Players

iPhone apps are quickly going mainstream. Payless Car Rental has announced an iPhone-formatted version of its site for the iPhone and iPod touch: We recently launched a slimmed-down version of the Payless website for iPhone and iPod Touch users. Simply point your iPhone or iPod Touch to PaylessCarRental.com (or PaylessCar.com). The iPhone and iPod Touch […]



Record Video With Your iPhone

May 12th, 2008 | By | Category: iPhone, Video

DreamCatcher has announced the release of iPhone Video Recorder, an iPhone video recorder. iPhone Video Recorder records audio and video at a frame rate of up to 15fps to the compressed mpeg4 format. Because of the CPU overhead, iPhone Video Recorder encodes at the end of a recording session, and the encoding can be paused […]



Use Flytunes To Get Streaming Internet Radio On Your iPhone

May 11th, 2008 | By | Category: iPhone, iPods & Portable Media Players

This is a demo video of the new FlyTunes Internet radio tuner service. FlyTunes delivers music, talk, weather, and traffic to the Apple iPhone and iPod touch. The video shows the installation process and demos a few stations.



Zune Sales Flat

May 9th, 2008 | By | Category: iPods & Portable Media Players

Microsoft is still struggling to come up with a Zune platform that competes with Apple’s iPod/iTunes juggernaut, reports Electronista: Microsoft has revealed that it has sold two million of the music players since their launch in November 2006, revealing relatively flat growth for the device lineup. The results leave Microsoft with just a fraction of […]



Orb Delivers Live TV on iPhone

May 8th, 2008 | By | Category: iPhone, iPods & Portable Media Players, Streaming Video

Orb Networks today announced a new service that streams live TV to the iPhone and iPod touch. “TV on the iPhone is now real,” said Joe Costello, CEO of Orb Networks. “Steve Jobs may think that buying shows from iTunes is the same as watching TV, but iPhone users know better. When the NBA playoffs […]



AT&T Site Spills Secrets On 3G iPhone, Free WiFi Access

May 8th, 2008 | By | Category: iPhone

Though we haven’t seen any official announcement from AT&T, its site is already touting 3G iPhone coverage and free wireless access at the company’s 17,000 hotspots. The AT&T site now touts 3G support for the iPhone: Data Access In order to use data such as email, Google Maps, YouTube videos and web browsing, AT&T recommends […]



Canadians Get $45 Credit For Older iPods

May 8th, 2008 | By | Category: iPods & Portable Media Players

Following two class-action lawsuits, Apple Canada is offering $45 credits to Canadian residents who purchased first-, second- or third-generation iPods before June 24, 2004. The proposed settlement is the result of two iPod owners suing because rechargeable batteries in the second year of use conked out after just three hours, contrary to the advertised claim […]



Microsoft Denies Plan To Censor Zune Content

May 7th, 2008 | By | Category: Internet TV, iPods & Portable Media Players

Speculation is running wild on the Web about Microsoft possibly building a content censor into the Zune software. It comes as a result of a New York Times article that looked at why NBC pulled its TV content from Apple’s iTunes store and is now distributing it for the Zune. NYT’s Saul Hansell writes: Late […]



Zune Spring Update Version 2.5

May 6th, 2008 | By | Category: iPods & Portable Media Players

Microsoft today announced new Zune software and online features. Here’s the official info an the updates: Zune Software Updates Responding directly to customer feedback, Zune has updated and added features and functionality to address better integration between the software, the online music community and the store. In addition, the updates include frequently requested features such […]