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http://playlistmag.com/features/2005/03/linuxipod/index.php?lsrc=mwrss-0305 Imagine recording studio-quality audio using your iPod and a regular-old microphone. Or sitting on the commuter train, playing Othello, Pong, Tetris or Asteroids. All this and more is possible when you install Linux on your 3rd generation or earlier iPod. Best of all, one soft-reset and you?re back in Apple?s iPod operating system, listening to your tunes. There are probably a lot of older iPods out there and with prices falling for new models, here’s a great use for them. Linux on the iPod! he installation process is very straightforward. Plug your iPod in and make sure it?s mounted […]

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Will Richardson spoke about Wikis @ Your Library and it was one of my most anticipated sessions. I am currently working a s a Research assistant for UNT to set up a wiki for the Info Science Doc students to build our own spot of collaborative discusions, entries and data. (I am sorry I haven’t written much about my studies this semester…a lot has been happening!) Will said a Wiki is a difficult thing to define. But he did an excellent job: “Sometimes chaotic, sometimes amazing tool to create collaborative content on the Internet. A wiki is something anyone can […]

Apple is selling these now: http://www.flickr.com/photos/michaelsphotos/sets/185371/

Even as I post this, David King, Chad and Blake and I are co-browsing the Web! We all downloaded and installed JYBE and joined the same session. Suddenly, we were watching as David took us around the KCPL site! There is a built in chat room at the bottom of the page! We were chatting within the browser! WOWZA! Thanks to the fellow who posed the question to Aaron and I at our CIL IM presentation: “Have you tried Jybe?” And thanks to Chris Jowaisis who told me about it when it launched in January. Think of the implications for […]

That shufflecasting is hot right now friends… I am chatting for a minute with Chris (who sent this) and he just told me the coolest thing: Chris: “We want to offer audiobooks on iPod to the public, but along with them we would attach the library’s monthly podcast of library happenings, book reviews, music, movies, etc.” Me: “Chris, that’s HOT HOT HOT!” Chris: “Yeah.”

Hi Michael, We’ve been using iTunes here in the Chelmsford Public Library for over two years, since version 3 of iTunes. We run two iMac kiosks in the main library, one near the CD’s and one for the Young Adult area and then a standalone eMac in our branch library. The main library kiosks tap into an MP3 server in my office. I purchase the CD’s and rip everything I buy to MP3. Since there’s actually only one MP3 around, I think I’m within our legal rights. I’m probably going to expand the iTunes idea to the PC’s in the […]

A user walks into your library with a 40GB iPod intent on downloading all the PDFs needed for a research reprt, can he or she do that in your library?