ITunes & Disney Partner Up Once Again

Yesterday saw the launch of the much anticipated iTunes 7 along with new hardware including a new iPod video that will hold up to a 100 hours of video. So what makes iTunes 7 so special? Well, for Disney fans, Miramax, Touchstone, Pixar and Walt Disney films, including several classics, will not be available for purchase and download. The resolution is considered nearly DVD quality and the starting number is about 75 films. Among the selection you can purchase are: The Princess Diaries Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl Cinderella The Incredibles Toy Story Gone in … Continue reading

Disney Channel.com, iTunes & More

Disney is more than just Mickey Mouse, though most of us associate it with Mickey and the gang or the animated feature films. Disney is also the parent company that owns the ABC Network and features shows such as Lost, Grey’s Anatomy and more. Disney, like many other networks are utilizing the Internet to extend their programming options. Their efforts have not gone unrewarded as their free, but ad-supported shows are featured on the Disney Channel Web site. News reports indicate there have been more than 37 million downloads and an average of 1 million visitors a day since they … Continue reading

Disney iTunes For You

iTunes subscribers can now enjoy live broadcasts through streaming of Radio Disney. They just have to search in the iTunes Radio Tuner in the Top 40/Pop section. Radio Disney can be a great deal of fun to listen to and from time to time, we’ll listen to it over the satellite. Available and open to customers 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 52 weeks a year, the iTunes Music Store is a great resource for finding musical tunes of all types as well as programming from many of the major networks and my daughter and I even purchased … Continue reading

iTunes News – Maybe Movies by the end of ’06!

If you enjoy the ease and convenience of being able to download your media, music, television shows, even movies, this news is going to make you happy. Apple Computers Inc. is in talks with the major movie studios in Hollywood to have available for download the latest and greatest movies as well as some of your favorite classics. Variety reported, citing unrevealed sources that you may see movies on the Apple iTunes Music Store by the end of 2006. The big sticking point right now is the cost the movie downloads will cost you. It’s been reported that Apple’s Chief … Continue reading

Interview with Whit, Amy and Julie of MormonMomcast.com

After reading Miriam’s interview with the founder of www.MormonMomCast.com I found myself wanting to know more, so I sent Whit, the founder, an email and all three responded to my questions. I’m really liking these ladies and what they are doing. Brilliant idea! I wanted to give them a little more time to delve a little deeper into who and what they are. 1. Who came up with the idea for MormonMomCast and how? Amy – Whitney, she’s the enthusiast of the group. She’s always coming up with fun and exciting things for all of us. 2. What is the … Continue reading

Podcasting – Using iTunes to find and listen

Now that we have gone into the basics of what a podcast is and what some of the terminology means in my first article. We can now look at how you can find a podcast and then listen to it. In preparing this article I looked at what is out there for podcatching software and there is quite a lot, let me tell you. I have used one or two in the past but when Apple released a version of iTunes that already had a very large directory of podcasts that played right there in the media player you already … Continue reading