Wonder why I've been gone so long? I've been watching/listening to a bunch of tech programs that you can get free off the web.
PodcastPodcasts are great because they are very portable. Just download 'em, sync your favorite mp3 player, and listen. Really, you can listen to them any way you want (computer, cd, etc.)
My favorite podcasts are
TWiT (This Week in Tech) and
Diggnation. TWiT is made up of the old TechTV crew like Leo Laporte, Kevin Rose, Patrick Norton, Robert Heron and others. If you want hardcore tech check out TWiT. Diggnation is a new podcast put out by Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht. They review the most dug stories from Digg.com and throw in some of their favorites along the way. Diggnation also puts out a video version of the podcast which is hilarious. Watching Kevin and Alex again is really cool.
Apple is getting on the podcast bandwagon with the new version of
iTunes. They now have podcasting service built right into the music store. Its really easy to use, and its free.
iPodderX still reigns supreme on the Mac, but for everyone else,
go get iTunes.
Video
With the fall of TechTV its been hard to find good tech video programs, but now the internet tech shows are becoming alot better. I like
Systm,
theBroken, and
FTS (From the Shadows)
Systm and theBroken are put out by Kevin Rose and Dan Huard. Now that they are working on the shows full time there starting to get better. FTS is another great tech show that Yoshi has been working really hard with.
get your geek on
+MacMan