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During the lazy days of summer, we quietly launched a new, free iPhone app. Now summer is fading, people are getting back to work, students back to school, and it’s time to get the word out. This app takes our intelligent media collections and let’s you listen to them on the go. Once you download [...]
≡ Category: Amazon Kindle, Apple, Books, e-books | ≅ Comments
If you’re wondering where the book/publishing market is heading, then you’ll want to give this insightful article a read. Fast forward five years, here’s what you’ll likely find: Amazon, using the Kindle and on-demand publishing, starts working directly with authors and cutting traditional publishers out of the loop. It will dominate the book/e-book market, much as [...]
≡ Category: Apple, Online Courses, Yale | ≅ Comments
Over the past two years, Yale has released fifteen free “open courses.” Initially, these courses were only available through Yale’s web site and later YouTube. Now, they’re also accessible through iTunesU — which means that you can put these courses on your iPod with relative ease. Just click here and scroll down, and you’ll find well-produced courses that [...]
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A quick heads up. We’ve now started rolling out our new iPhone app. It will let you listen to audiobooks, university courses, foreign language lessons, and other intelligent content on the iPhone. The app is free. And so is the content. So there’s nothing to lose by checking it out.
We’ve designed it so that all media [...]
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Apple announced a new line of products this morning. Most will focus on the new, speedier iPhone. But what caught my eye is the Iceberg e-book reader that will bring 1,000,000 books to the iPhone. This will include, according to Engadget, 500 bestsellers, 50 major magazines and about 170 daily papers, plus textbooks by Houghton Mifflin, Harcourt and [...]
≡ Category: Apple, Audio Books, iPhone | ≅ Comments
The iPhone just got a bit smarter. Thanks to this new, free app, you can listen to 1800 free audio books on your Apple device. The app lets you listen to public domain audio books from the great Librivox (whose works, read by volunteers, also appear in our Free Audio Books collection). The ad-supported software is straightforward [...]
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As we mentioned earlier this week, Amazon unveiled its new Kindle this morning in NYC. The Kindle DX ($489) features a large screen (9.7 inches measured diagonally) and it’s intended to make reading newspapers, college textbooks and PDFs a more user-friendly experience. Plenty of news outlets have provided coverage of the unveiling: Engadget, Gizmodo, Ars Technica, [...]
≡ Category: Apple, Stanford, iPhone | ≅ Comments
A quick heads up: Stanford has just launched a free software development course for the iPhone and iPod Touch. The lectures will be rolled out on iTunes first, and eventually they will be posted on YouTube as well. You can get the first lecture on iTunes here. This 10 week computer science course is officially [...]
≡ Category: Apple | ≅ Comments
This is a guest post by John, who writes about online education at UniversitiesAndColleges.org. Take it away John and make sure you download Open Culture’s Free iPhone App. It will let you listen to free audio books, free university courses, free foreign language lessons & much more on the go. Get it here…
Since the release of [...]
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Steve Jobs is legendary for his live performances, for his ability to present new products and capture the imagination. But did he have that knack all along? You be the judge. Above, Jobs lifts the veil on the first Macintosh in 1984.
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How can the iPhone become your handy travel companion? The NYTimes explains. Also, as a bonus, travelers should see our earlier piece. Turn Your iPod into a Travel Guide: 20 Travel Podcasts.
PS One of our readers raised a good point that deserves some highlighting (Thanks Sebastien):
“Turning your iphone into a foreign travel companion could cost [...]
≡ Category: Apple, Foreign Language | ≅ Comments
There’s a curious little piece over at TUAW.com. Apparently American soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan are being supplied (on a limited basis) with iPods equipped with special software that will help them communicate in Iraqi Arabic, Kurdish, Dari and Pushto. The software will handily “display a phonetic translation, speak a phrase through an attached speaker, [...]
≡ Category: Apple, Most Popular, Web/Tech | ≅ Comments
In advance of tomorrow’s release of the new 3G iPhone, Apple has launched its new App Store on iTunes, which features new tools that will immediately make the iPhone (and iPod Touch) a more versatile — and, in some cases, enlightening — device. Below, we have highlighted ten apps worth exploring if you’re hungry for [...]
≡ Category: Apple, Podcast Articles and Resources | ≅ Comments
In case you haven’t been watching … Apple’s iTunesU has started striking out in new directions. When it launched a little more than a year ago, iTunesU served up free educational content exclusively from universities. Now, it has gone “beyond the campus.”
With this move, Apple is now featuring edifying material from such institutions as The [...]
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Things got a little nerdgasmic yesterday when Steve Jobs unveiled the new iPhone at WWDC. Although the pitch lasted 107 minutes, the highlights have been boiled down to a neat 60 seconds. In watching the clip, here’s my simple take away: When I bought an iPhone earlier this spring, I apparently paid two times too [...]
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Earlier this week, Travel Hacker posted this collection of tutorials explaining how to maximize the use of your iPod. And it happens to include one of our earlier posts: Turn Your iPod into a Travel Guide: 20 Travel Podcasts.
Travel Hacker could have just as easily included some of our other popular pieces. Take for example:
10 [...]
≡ Category: Apple, Television | ≅ Comments
Across the pond, Apple is running a series of ads fashioned after the “Mac v. PC” commercials that have run so successfully in the States. Although the vocabulary and accent are naturally different, the gist of the British ads is essentially the same. Yes, Apple’s schtick translates well, and I’m declaring the third one [...]
≡ Category: Apple, Film | ≅ Comments
The folks at Apple have rolled out an intriguing new podcast that takes you inside the world of moviemaking. The Set to Screen Series (get it on iTunes here) follows Baz Luhrmann, the Oscar-nominated director (Moulin Rouge! and William Shakespeare’s Romeo+Juliet) as he works on a new film. And every three weeks, from now through October, [...]
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Next fall, all new freshmen attending ACU (Abilene Christian University) will receive an iPhone (or iPod Touch) when they get to campus. And, from there, the Apple gadget will figure centrally to students’ campus experience. The iPhone is the latest and greatest “converged mobile media device,” which combines in one gadget numerous functionalities — internet [...]
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The iPod can supercharge your learning. But it’s often a matter of finding the right software and content. Below, we’ve listed several new pieces of software that will let you suck more educational media (DVDs, web videos, audio files, etc.) into your iPod. And we’ve also listed some important pieces of content that will make [...]
≡ Category: Apple, Podcast Articles and Resources | ≅ Comments
For those who use their iPod to take advantage of our copious podcast collections:
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Want the quick overview of what Apple has in the pipeline for ‘08? Here it is:
≡ Category: Apple, Google, Media | ≅ Comments
Today, the Chronicle of Higher Education has a good article on an emerging trend — universities bringing their lectures to YouTube. As you’ll see, we get a mention in the article.
We first began discussing this trend about a year ago. In this public radio interview aired last March, we talked about the sheer dearth of [...]
≡ Category: Apple | ≅ Comments
The Ipod Radio Remote — Here’s a small gadget worth checking out. Simply attach it to your iPod and you can start listening to the radio (something that always seemed missing). I just got one, and it works really well. So I figured that I’d give it a quick plug. In case you’re interested, Amazon [...]
≡ Category: Apple, Comedy | ≅ Comments
Fake Steve Jobs, a wildly popular blog written by Daniel Lyons, an editor at Forbes, has been goofing on the real Steve Jobs all year. And now things have taken an odd turn. During the same week that Apple apparently shut down ThinkSecret.com (an Apple rumor site) in exchange for cash, Apple may be applying [...]
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How many days, weeks or months before your iPod goes kaput? This web site will give you an estimate. Perhaps a handy tool for anyone who consumes all of the podcasts that we throw your way.
Check out our collection of Ideas & Culture Podcasts
≡ Category: Apple, Web/Tech | ≅ Comments
The digital music market is big, and so far Apple has owned it. But now Amazon may be quickly emerging as a viable competitor.
Tuesday, Amazon launched Amazon MP3, which gives you access to 2 million songs and more soon to come. Amazon’s product has several nice advantages over iTunes. Let’s list them briefly:
It delivers songs [...]
≡ Category: Apple, Television | ≅ Comments
Apple took the world of digital entertainment by storm when it started offering new television shows on iTunes in 2005. The big networks signed on (eventually) and it was suddenly possible to catch an episode of The Office or Lost for $1.99 on a video iPod or a PC.
NBC was one of the early adopters, [...]
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Robert X. Cringley’s weekly article/podcast (iTunes – Feed – Web Site) may make you think twice about buying an iPod Classic … at least for now. Despite the name, the guts of the iPod Classic are actually new, and the bugs haven’t been fully worked out. The list of problems experienced by users includes [...]
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Since we talk a lot here about podcasts and mp3 files, it seems worth flagging this Yahoo gadget review that pits the new iPod lineup against its rivals. Here, we’ve got the new iPod Touch v. the Samsung Yepp YP-P2; the new Nano (with video) v. the Sansa View, and the iPod Classic v. Microsoft’s [...]
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