The Wall Street Journal has an article on Sony BMG’s decision to license music for a series of corporate podcasts being produced by Rock River Communications.
Why is this important? Well, the thing is the music industry has been slow to embrace podcasting. While there’s been a relationship in place for decades allowing radio stations to [...]
January 3, 2007
Categories: Internet, Music, Podcasting, iPod . . Author: Vash the Stampede . Comments: No Comments
There are not many people I know that do not have a mp3 player; however, many of the ones I know who do own one primarily use the player for music and probably never heard of the term podcasts before. For the few that are the last of the uneducated regarding podcasts and “podcasting”, the [...]
December 11, 2006
Categories: Podcasting . . Author: Vash the Stampede . Comments: 1 Comment
So Microsoft’s Zune is out, but it’s still a few steps behind the iPod in terms of battery life, ease of installation, and podcast support. Doug Arrison from FireAnt has gone one step further than Microsoft, and released a free program for syncing podcasts to a Zune.
FeedYourZune is an RSS reader/aggregator for audio and video [...]
November 20, 2006
Categories: Freeware, Podcasting, Windows . . Author: Vash the Stampede . Comments: No Comments
Web site Podlinez assigns a phone number to any podcast, meaning that you can listen to the latest episode of your favorite podcast any time you want; you just need to dial your podcast’s number.
The numbers aren’t toll free, so you’ll want to keep an eye on the length of the podcasts you listen to [...]
November 13, 2006
Categories: Multimedia, Phone, Podcasting, iPod . . Author: Vash the Stampede . Comments: No Comments
Do you listen to a few different podcasts, but hate plugging them into your player? Wouldn’t it be nice if you knew about Noisely before this morning?
Noisely has coined the term “intelligent podcast player”. What does this mean? Enter words that describe what you want to listen to and Noisely will automatically generate hours [...]
November 9, 2006
Categories: Multimedia, Podcasting, Web Services . . Author: Vash the Stampede . Comments: No Comments
I know it is incredibly difficult to crack DRM in some cases, but now that DVD Jon has cracked the iPod it doesn’t matter to me all that much. Many times a poorly executed DRM system can be bypassed with almost no effort, but some of the well-coded ones can be hard (i.e. the iPod [...]
October 26, 2006
Categories: Apple, Internet, Macintosh, News, Podcasting, Security, Software, Videos, Windows, iTunes . . Author: Vash the Stampede . Comments: No Comments
Converting video files from one format to another is one of the more frustrating tasks users find as they delve into the capabilities of their system. I know of more than a handful of Windows users that became very frustrated upon discovering that working with video files is a journey into a dark forest of [...]
October 16, 2006
Categories: Freeware, Fun, Open Source, Podcasting, Windows . . Author: Vash the Stampede . Comments: No Comments
Sure, we’ve all heard of some pretty whacky podcasts out there, but this one may take the cake. A Gizmodo reader by the name of Nick sent them this photo of a promotional poster for TransitTrax, the New York City Metropolitan Transit Authority podcast. According to the picture the podcast provides service advisories, MetroCard promos, [...]
August 8, 2006
Categories: Multimedia, NYC, Podcasting . . Author: Vash the Stampede . Comments: No Comments
If you live in the North East of the US, will be in the area, or just want to attend a podcasting Unconference, then Boston is the place to be the weekend after Labor Day. “PodCamp is a FREE BarCamp-style meetup…” is how the PodCamp Site describes the event.
Anybody can attend, and you do not [...]
July 21, 2006
Categories: Blogging, Boston, News, Podcasting . . Author: Vash the Stampede . Comments: 1 Comment
Thanks to Pod2Mob, you can listen to any podcast on your cell phone for free.Simply sign up with Pod2Mob and you can listen to your favorite podcasts through your mobile phone. Pod2Mob is the world’s first application that empowers you to browse and stream podcasts anywhere and everywhere over your wireless connection. The service [...]
April 1, 2006
Categories: Mobile, Podcasting . . Author: Vash the Stampede . Comments: No Comments
NewsForge has a nice how -to on using Audacity to master podcasting.
From the article: IOpen source software makes podcasting easy — too easy. Listening to a playlist of first-timer podcasts can leave your ears ringing from sudden changes in playback volume. The problem is audio mastering. Recording sound is simple, but mastering that sound — [...]
March 29, 2006
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Security Now! #27 How Local Area Networks Work, Part 1 37:09 If you don’t know the difference between DHCP and static IP, then this is the podcast for you! Next week promises to be a little more interesting when they get into the problems with ARP.
SploitCast #006 36:26 probably has the best atmosphere of these [...]
February 23, 2006
Categories: Podcasting . . Author: Vash the Stampede . Comments: No Comments