Do-It-Yourself iPod Stand

Awesome idea: Do-It-Yourself iPod Stand, based on a printable PDF template.

August 28, 2005 · 1 min · 11 words · DigitalHobbit

iPod deserted me when I needed it most

Yesterday afternoon we drove back from San Diego to San Francisco. Overall, the trip was pretty smooth - except for one major annoyance. I had brought my laptop along, and the day before the trip back I had downloaded some podcasts for myself as well as my kids. However, when I synced those to my iPod using iTunes, something went wrong, resulting in a corrupted iPod. The iPod still showed that it was half full, but none of the music showed up....

August 21, 2005 · 2 min · 335 words · DigitalHobbit

Odeo

While looking for some quality examples of applications built using the Ruby on Rails framework, I came across Odeo. This San Francisco based company organizes, synchronizes, and publishes podcasts (although it it still in beta and the publishing part isn’t live yet). I’ve only briefly looked at it so far, but it looks very promising. Individual podcasts are tagged, similar to the way bookmarks are tagged at del.icio.us. I have not tried this, but apparently signing up allows users to assign their own tags to podcasts....

August 18, 2005 · 2 min · 333 words · DigitalHobbit

iPod and collections 2

Maybe I should have checked Apple’s website before posting my previous blog entry. It turns out that the iPod update that came out a few days ago does in fact address the problem with compilations that I mentioned. This makes a huge difference browsing music on the iPod!

July 5, 2005 · 1 min · 48 words · DigitalHobbit

iTunes 4.9 / Podcasts

In addition to a new iPod update, Apple also released an updated version of iTunes (4.9). The main feature that this version adds is built-in support for podcasts. This is awesome! Podcasts can be selected and subscribed to using the Music Store interface (don’t worry, they’re all free). Once subscribed, podcasts can be configured to automatically be synchronized with the iPod. When a new edition of a podcast comes out, iTunes automatically downloads it and syncs it to the iPod the next time it is connected....

July 5, 2005 · 1 min · 184 words · DigitalHobbit