Download to Computer, iPhone, or iPod If you are curious to know whether the video industry is at the threshold of “Napsterization� much like the record label business was ten years ago, this video is for you. It is hard to believe that it was fully ten years ago that Shawn Fanning unleashed Nap...

The latest episode of the Association for Downloadable Media (ADM)’s “Get The Download” podcast series is worth taking time to listen. The program covers much of the nuts and bolts of finding advertisers or sponsorships to monetize your Internet video creations. Interviewer Cathy B...

Suppose the iPod Touch had a fully functioning browser along with Bluetooth connectivity. Such a device could connect to a flat-panel TV and display HD video on the TV screen. The on-board WiFi of the Touch would connect to the home network and thence to the Internet. Thus users could watch any Inte...

Windows only: If you've wanted to put the subtitles for a video directly into its own file for maximum compatibility across players and platforms, VirtualDub and VobSub will help you merge the two. Photo by WorldIslandInfo. Why would you want to embed your subtitles, when almost all popular media pl...

UK film buffs will be able to access a bespoke online search tool from today that will give cinema and TV listings, DVD, Blu-ray and download options for 34,000 films. The £1m FindAnyFilm project has been developed by the UK Film Council over the past seven months and claims to be the first service...

I'm back using my temperature probes and I am more committed to using them as often as possible.  I am amazed at how free my students feel to form their own inquiry questions and how they automatically begin to cite evidence gathered in the investigation.  Try as hard as I can in many other kinds ...

Just a few years ago most people were content watching their videos on a TV in the living room. But even though we now watch television over our computers, on high definition flatscreens or even on our iPods, we have still only seen the tip of the iceberg. That's according to Japanese electronics gi...

Image attribution;  AlexMuse under this CC licence The perennial debate on filtering and blocking of web sites, in education, has been lively on several fronts recently, including Twitter, ETR (Ed Tech Round -a group of teachers and others who meet online weekly), and the Naace advisory list o...

For many it may be the only way of participating in the anniversary of a story that shaped the world. The likes of Tony Blair and George Bush, who were banned for life by Greek Orthodox monks over the Iraq war, or Palestinians unable to get past Israel's checkpoints to the holy Palestinian city, can...

Jerome Lemelson invented the very first camcorder in 1980. This analog video camcorder was very heavy and bulky. Through the years, it has evolved into today’s digital video camera, which is extremely lightweight and can fit into the palm of your hand. These digital video camcorders of today a...