Portable Audio & Video

PEZ MP3 is on sale!

PEZ MP3 is on sale!

Pez-1 We’ve covered the PEZ MP3 story for many months, and today (iPod day it seems) comes news of Patrick’s PEZ MP3 player! This may be stating the obvious, but this player has one feature that no other MP3 player can claim. It looks like a PEZ dispenser. In fact, it looks a lot like a PEZ dispenser. But, look a little closer and you will see where the headphones plug in, you will see a small play button. Pull on the toes and you will open up a battery door. I wanted the PEZ MP3 player to be as true to the PEZ dispenser as possible and still be an easy to use, inexpensive MP3 player. Link.

iTunes 6.0 and videocasts / videoblogs?

iTunes 6.0 and videocasts / videoblogs?

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I downloaded the new iTunes and as far as I can tell it will be able to put videos from a podcast feed (RSS 2.0, video blogs, vlogs…) on an iPod. While I don’t have a new iPod yet, it does list movies I’ve sent via MAKE’s podcast feed, so it looks like we might be able to deliver our own TV-like content without paying the $1.99 per video. Oh, exporting a video for iPod in Quicktime 7 worked fine. Link.

HOW TO – Creating Video for iPod

HOW TO – Creating Video for iPod

Screenshot Exportmovie Apple posted a HOW TO on getting videos on a new video iPod – With QuickTime 7 Pro, you can create your own videos that will play on the new iPod. Already have great home movies you want to play on your iPod? No problem. QuickTime 7 Pro helps you easily convert them to a format that iPod understands. Just follow these easy instructions and you’ll be watching your own video on your iPod in no time. Link.

Video iPod

Video iPod

Promoipod20051012 Rumors were correct, a video playing iPod is here. While you could do this with iPod Linux (see our HOW TO) – Apple will provide videos in iTunes for fee/free. I’m curious if people will be able to convert their DVDs through iTunes, Apple could just add the iTunes DRM on the files. But for now, I think we can look forward to a couple HOW TOs on getting the content you already own or have recorded on these new iPods when they come out. Link. Apple also released new iMacs with built in sight and a remote too.

Video with sound on iPods with Linux

Video with sound on iPods with Linux

Wiki-1-1-1 I finally got around to checking this out…“we’re going to do something pretty bold… we’re going to release the iPod Video.” Finally, I got sound and video to work together on the iPod Photo (thanks to a new audio driver by Bernard). It should show up in CVS soon (within the next few hours). It’ll be in the next nightly kernel+podzilla.” [via] Link. HOW TO and downloads here. I’ll post a video soon, so far it worked great.

Cease and desist for NYC iPod Subway Maps

Cease and desist for NYC iPod Subway Maps

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The site plans to get permission and/or make custom versions, but for now no more NYC maps for the iPod – the New York MTA has ordered me to remove the official maps from the site. I am hoping to acquire a license from their marketing department to offer the maps here. In the meantime, I hope you can all wait. Thanks. If worse comes to worse, I’ll make up a custom set of maps and offer them here. . Link.