Nice to see articles like this from the NYTimes…Many new multimedia notebooks include built-in television tuner cards and software that let them double as digital video recorders. But you don’t have to buy a whole new laptop just to record your favorite shows… Not bad for $90. Link.
Create Digital Music has a round up of some of the ways you can record audio with a portable device – my fav is still the iPod, running podzilla, but it’s not always the best of course…while Nano is certainly deeply drool-worthy for listening, wouldn’t it be great to have an iPod-like device for recording? Here are some of your options- Link.
Here’s another story about libraries offering audio files and digital files for their patrons, sounds good right? No- as usual, someone sold a DRM solution that doesn’t really work. Each week I get emails from folks all over the USA trying to figure out ways to get the files on their “non-supported device”.Link.
Good HOW TO for Mac and PSP 2.0 firmware owners who use iTunes. “Wouldn’t it be great if I could just delete some songs and and add new songs from my iTunes library, wherever I was using the WiFi internet connection?” It can be done, for a small cost (about $22 U.S.) Here’s how- Link.
Nice little overview of the CVS hack from Alex Beam at the Globe – seems like they don’t mind the hacking…“It restored my faith in American ingenuity to see that electrical engineer/hardware tinkerer John Maushammer had taken the trouble to ”hack,” or modify, the new CVS disposable camcorder. After Maushammer’s intervention, described on the Make magazine website makezine.com, the $30 disposable camera becomes . . . reusable! That’s what I call a bargain”… Link.
Noah Glass from ODEO showed me this amazing USB mic- Blue Microphones is now shipping a USB microphone designed for professional recording applications. Dubbed the Snowball, the mic is an extension of Blue’s line of spherical mics that includes the original Ball, the world’s first phantom-powered dynamic; the 8-Ball condenser mic. Link blog post and photo in action…
Entertaining article on why most of us buy CD players…One of the great puzzles of gadgetry goes thusly: Why are portable CD players outselling digital audio players three-to-one? No, that’s not a misprint—for every American who bought an iPod or Dell Jukebox in 2004, three of their countrymen bought a descendant of the 21-year-old Discman… Link.
