Year: 2008

Here’s the simple, non-techy way of tagging photos with the location of where you took them on planet Earth. There are lots of ways to do this, and I’ll write about those later- but this is fun thing to do over the holiday weekend. As an added bonus, I’ll show you how to see your photos on a cool Mapping application called Mappr, as well as Google Earth…

Last week while I was at Gnomedex Audible announced that they’re supporting the podcast way of delivering some of their content, in other words you can add a url (RSS feed) to a podcasting application and the stuff you buy on Audible will get sent to your computer/music player just like all the free podcasts you subscribe to. The press covered this, but no one ever actually tries all this out, but I do! I like Audible, I’ve been a customer forever it seems. So here’s how it all works, the good, the bad and the how to for some other things…

Google video is out now, you can upload your videos (and even charge $ for them). To view the videos Google asks you install the open source VNC player. The application (Windows) shows up as “Google Video Viewer 1.0 (based on VLC 0.8.2 Player” [via] Here are some screenshots-

I just ran the system update on my Mac and iTunes 4.9 showed up, wow- that’s quick! With iTunes 4.9, you can now browse and subscribe to podcasts from within the iTunes Music Store. Podcasts are frequently updated radio-style shows downloadable over the Internet. You can also transfer podcasts to iPod, for listening on the go.You can drag and drop feeds. The podcast directory is working now too. Any way, here are my first impressions and screenshots….

At Gnomedex in-between my hack/how-to sessions I got a chance to chat with the folks who made a Podocast robot that was controlled via Ink on a Tablet PC. They might publish the information on how to make your own in MAKE! Here are the specs, some more info and a lot of photos…