Greenflame

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Category: iPod

  • New Zealand Short Films on iPod

    A year ago I posted a link to the New Zealand Short Films web site where, strangely enough, you could watch NZ short films online. Now you can download some of them as MPEG-4 files for your iPod. The MPEG-4 files should play in Quicktime on PC and Mac too.

  • iGenre – iTunes and Biblical Studies

    I’ve taught at various times on the different genres present within the biblical texts and there are some students who find the whole concept of genre really hard to grasp. So several times I’ve set up a game show in class with student participants called “Name that Genre!” I’ve taken a variety of different pieces…

  • Underwater MP3 player

    Another example of human beings being colonized by technology – an MP3 player/swimming goggles combination. See SwiMP3.

  • Technotranscendence

    Fitting right into today’s writing efforts is this older (Jan 2005!) article about Markus Giesler who works in the area of high-tech consumer research. The article picks up on some of the themes from my own research, albeit from a business perspective. “IPod and user form a cybernetic unit,” said Giesler. “We’re always talking about…

  • Senuti is really cool

    Was skimming through Playlist.com: The best iPod-related products of 2005 and saw a link to Senuti. This is a really excellent little (free) Mac OS X application that allows you to look at and retrieve the content from your iPod through an iTunes-like interface. So if you iTunes hard disk goes belly-up you should be…

  • Community at the intersection of paradigms

    I read this interview with DJ and music producer Peter Tong because I was following an iPod/Apple thread (see Wired News: Pete Tong: Apple’s Gone Wrong?) and the following quote about DJ-ing stood out The thing about technology — the same as I learned with the advent of CD — if you stop using old…

  • Podcasting raises church attendance

    iPodNN | Podcasting raises church attendance. I guess that it depends on the quality of the content delivered. If some of the services and sermons I’ve heard were podcast I’m sure it’d have the opposite effect.

  • Free IPod Content

    Wired News: Beyond Porno: Free IPod Content has a list of various podcasts (audio and video) as well as other material for your video iPod/iTunes.