Year: 2008

Here’s a quick, free, cross platform way to make iPod ebooks. I’m heading off to Etech next week and since I’ll have my iPod with me most of the time I figured I’d ebookify the conference schedule…Here’s how to do it –

I’m in the process of making and finding cheap ways to develop a podcast appliance as well as Flickr photo frames. For now I use a Tablet PC in my kitchen to listen to many podcasts. Kosso from Blugg.com has created a very cool XML/Macromedia Flash application that really makes the podcast appliance more interesting. It’s all a work in progress but- here are a couple photos of it in action…

Jimmy writes in with a great tip and cool iPod zombie ebook. Hey Phillip – I spotted your link to the ipod ebook creator, and I thought I’d send a link to David Wellington’s Monster Island, which is available as an ipod book (here)…

Last week on “Make this!” I mashed up Microsoft’s SPOT technology with MP3 players. This week I’m thinking that the Flickr API could be used to change the way millions of people play MMORPGs (Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing games). Here’s the scenario, for those of you who play WoW, you’ll really dig this….

We’ve been hard at work on the next issue of Make (issue 02) which has a lot of home entertainment projects. This gave me a chance to revisit my Media Center PC a bit and try some new things with it. One cool thing that just hit- MSN TV Remote Record. This allows you to use any web browser to tell your Media Center PC what to record. Lots of other recorders have this feature, but this is new for the MCE. Click here to see a ton of screenshots and photos I took. With this feature, along with Orb Networks (one of the services I use for the MCE) I can set a recording and watch it later, all through my Mac, PC, phone or other device while away from home. It’s not perfect, but we’re getting closer!

And a remimder– If you haven’t already, be sure to subscribe! You’ll get issue 01 along with the rest of the issues for the year. You can also pick up the first issue from Amazon too.

I was just writing up an overview on the latest Google toolbar and why I like these types of user added edge-o-vations when I saw a post over on BoingBoing by Cory Doctorow which pretty much sums it all up. If you haven’t seen what the beta Google Toolbar does, here are my screenshots of it in action. I think a lot of folks will add this to their arsenal to make the web more useful for them, on their own screens, along with a dozen or so add-ons many of us mix into our browsers.