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You won’t get great sounding recordings by recording telephone calls with an iPod, but it is possibly. In an ideal telephone recording scenario, you want independent control over each person on the call, so that if the person you call is too quiet, you can turn their volume up or your volume down. You won’t get independent volume control for both sides of the call when recording a telephone conversation on your iPod, but you will get a recording that you can later use as part of a podcast or transcribed interview.

In one window on my computer, I’m strolling down the Embarcadero in San Francisco — but instead of sticking to the sidewalk, I’m somehow occupying the middle of the southbound lanes, where I’ve been passed by a series of sport-utility vehicles.

Techpodcast 153: A high-speed rail puts Spain’s La Sagrada Familia at risk. Our lives under surveillance… because of our cell phones! They’re widening the Panama Canal, and finding fossils from 20 million years ago. Rebuilding Noah’s Ark in Turkey. The latest weaponry to fight war underwater. What would it be like to work in Antarctica? Want to take your car into Manhattan? Pay up.

Not even three years ago, the Treo 650 smart phone looked revolutionary. But its latest successor, the Treo 755p Palm unveiled two weeks ago, feels more like a relic.

Techpodcast 152:
The Chinese government may censor the newspapers and the Web, but they can’t censor the podcast! Cyber attacks in Estonia. The U.S. missile defense strategy. An African satellite heading for space. Tech moguls doing good, giving back. British Prime Minister is departing: What’s his green tech legacy? What about Ruppert Murdoch?

The idea of ditching “digital rights management” for music downloads is rapidly changing from dream to business reality — and faster than anybody might have hoped.

Thanko once again came up with a unique design for an USB hub. Presenting the all new 2007 heavy-duty “Gold Ingot” hub from Thanko. It features 8 USB2.0 ports for faster and better connections to PC or Mac. Thanko’s Gold Ingot Hub is small and compact. It also lights up when the USB is [...]

Wavosaur is a lightweight audio editing application with VST support. All the basics are covered here, including support for multitrack audio files, trimming, adding effects, making loops, and normalization. Most processing settings are also available for batch conversions, making Wavosaur a handy tool for applying the same settings to a bunch of files. I like are the option to remove silence in a batch, which is a convenient way to speed up spoken word audio without altering pitch. A vocal removal preset also scrubs music files of vocals, so you can make your own karaoke tracks in a batch. The vocal removal doesn’t always get chorus sections perfectly scrubbed, but it shouldn’t hurt your ability to sing over the top of the file. The application runs as a completely standalone executable, meaning you could put it on a thumb drive and use Wavosaur anywhere. The user interface is generally more intuitive than the popular freeware app Audacity, but the two make nice companions rather than being replacements for each other. While Wavosaur doesn’t bundle all the features of things like Sound Forge and Audition, it does most of the common audio tasks well at a price neither of those two apps can touch. [Windows 2k/XP/Vista $0.00]

Shooting in HD is so last year. If you really want to take your digital cinematography to the next level of detail, check out the Red One Camera ($17,500; 2007). From the Red Digital Cinema Camera Company, started by Jim Jannard, founder of Oakley, the camera boasts an impressive 4520 x 2540 sensor that can [...]

Sony finally presents the all new 2007 PSP (PlayStationPortable) in Gold(only available in Japan). First, it is all about the high-quality TFT LCD that displays full color (16.77 million colors) on a 480 x 272 pixel high-resolution screen. Sony PSP features a compact size body, built-in stereo speakers, plus a battery pact together [...]