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(or, Initial Thoughts on the iPod Touch) Weeeee... new toys from Apple! iPods iPods iPods, including shuffles in drab new colors (gimme orange), a new iPod NanoVideo (aka iPod Squat), an all-metal iPod Classic (the form we all know and love––now up to 160GB!) and a phoneless iPhone (aka iPod Touch). Upon the availing of the line up this afternoon, I was immediately torn. In my mind, the iPod brand is ...

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Seis de Mayo edition. Yeah, What They Said, pointers to interesting stories. Some people call it “link sharing.” :: Debunking the Myths of Peer to Peer in Regards to CD sales From the horse's mouth, the effect of file-sharing, peer to peer, downloading, and copying on a small indie label unaffiliated with any of the majors. Kurt Cobain: the man, not the myth Very nice write up of Kurt Cobain: About a Son, a ...

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This instructional is nearly two months late. Sorry folks. I know you've been dying to find out the quick and dirty way to add acceleration to your podcast listening. Onward, then. A note before we begin, these instructions are for Mac users only, as they require the use of an AppleScript to modify audio files from within iTunes. Windows folks, however, can try a variation on this method. So without further ...

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I established in the previous article that with all the interesting content out there, it can be quite daunting to listen to all those great podcasts. The ease with which iTunes lets you discover, subscribe to and manage podcasts can quickly lead to an overwhelming number of episodes and timespan to get through. "Podcast Overload" is a very real possibility. I also noted in that article that Apple's Quicktime Player ...

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The first in a multi-part series dealing with speeding up the play rate of podcasts so you can listen to them faster and fit more subscriptions into your schedule. Part One: The problem at hand and a simple computer-based solution. UPDATE: Toward the end of this article, I point to some scripting techniques to automate the acceleration of podcasts with QuickTime. Well, Mac users, it's your lucky day because I ...

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