There are getting to be a good number of sites offering free audio books now. Here are a few: LibriVox ManyBooks (This is also a good site for regular text ebooks.) Spoken Alexandria Project Telltale Weekly Gutenberg: Audio Books Project
Michigan Handheld Conference
The 6th Annual Michigan Handheld Computers in Education Conference is coming up soon. It will be held Nov. 9-11 at Washtenaw Intermediate School District in Ann Arbor.
Ebooks
A just-released study by The Survey of Academic Libraries, a benchmarking report published by Primary Research Group Inc. says that “Spending on electronic books by academic libraries has reached a cumulative total of 11% of their spending on print books,
SD cards and Tungsten E2s
Now that larger SD cards are now available (and relatively expensive), it may be worth noting that the Tungsten E2s do not support SD cards larger than 1 GB. Hope this helps some of you.
Sad news
I just heard that Audioblogger, one of my favorite services for posting audio directly from a phone (and which I just blogged about earlier today) is going away. 🙁 They have suggested several other similar services. I’ll check them out
Mobipocket Creator now free
I’ve been raving about Mobipocket as an ebook platform for a while now, and now the tool to create Mobipocket ebooks is free! If you want to see an example of some of things you can do with Mobipocket, check
Podcasts to your cell phone
Here’s an interesting article in Wired about getting podcasts right on a cell phone. There aren’t a lot of phones that are set up for this now (and they are expensive), but this is something that I think will get
AvantGo and RSS
From when I first started using handhelds years ago, one of my favorite applications has always been AvantGo. It lets me download the newspaper every morning and subscribe to numerous other publications and web sites, all free of change. Now
NASA Podcast Contest
NASA is sponsoring the 21st Century Explorer Podcast Competition for kids aged 11-18. The deadline for entries is oct. 10, so get them in soon!
Portable Media Expo – Installment 3 (final one)
This is my last post about the Podcast and Portable Media Expo. A great little trick that was shared at a session called “Podcasting the Written Word” was the “clicker trick.” We all make flubs when we’re recording audio. Generally,