Installation of home theatre components is getting more and more complicated. Gone are the days of needing only to worry about 1 or 2 types of connections between components. Not to mention, the components themselves are getting more and more varied. Certainly one of the easiest ways to deal with this is to hire […]

Remember that Photosynth tech preview that drew quite a bit of attention? Well, now the BBC has released a collection of Photosynth virtual tours to go along with their ‘How We Built Britain’ TV show. The portal to a variety of Photosynth virtual tours is available here. The screen shot above is me checking out […]

Google Maps has released the new “Street View” feature to the wild. With this, you can access a street level view of certain areas within the US. Apparently the Silicon Valley, Las Vegas, Miami, Denver and New York are available with this new feature. It appears to be a series of still images that are […]

Microsoft has managed to sell 1 million Zune media players. Microsoft had announced at the end of last year that they expected to ship more than 1 million of the Zune players by the end of June of 2007. This recent announcement puts them ahead of their projections by a month. Apparently, the Zune now […]

The speculation surrounding the iPhone continues. Now, thanks to bodog.com, you can try you luck at winning some money while speculating about the release of an iPhone. As of this time, the odds are that there will be an announcement of an iPhone at the Macworld Expo in January, 2007. The odds are slightly lower, […]

According to a very recent Nielson study, the usage of video by consumers on mobile devices may be lower than many think. The study was conducted just last month in October. It concluded that only 15.8 percent of those studied had ever played a video on their iPod or iTunes. Also approximately one third of […]

From the same person who brought us DeCSS, which allows circumventing DVD copy-protection, now comes software that will allow other devices to play copy-protected iPod and iTunes media. The software will “trick” iTunes into thinking that a non-iPod is in fact an iPod, and allow the transfer and use of the copy-protected media. It is […]

Are you a fan of YouTube, with its collections of community made, and other videos? Have you ever wished you could have access to the latest videos while on the go? Well, Modivity may have what you are after. They will soon be launching movy.tv, which is billed as a YouTube like site for mobile […]

NBC has announced that it will begin offering free video podcasts of NBC Nightly News and Meet The Press. The downloads will be made available in iTunes after the nightly showings on the west coast. These are not excerpts or a special shortened versions, the entire show will be made available for download. It is […]

If you have a large number of miscellaneous audio files and would like a good piece of freeware for tag editing and cataloging, have a look at TagScanner. There is a new beta version of the 5.0 release.

TagScanner is the work of Sergey Serkov, and offers a great deal of tools for maintaining your collection […]