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• Aussie UFOs, StrangeThings, Hometown Tales and More

  • This week Vern delves into the paranormal side of the iTunes Store to explore UFO encounters, creepy stories, and generally odd adventures. His findings may make the hair stand up on the back of your neck, but they won't make a dent in your bank account.

• Rich Man, Poor man, Everyman, Art & More

  • Vern Seward offers a tour of several art-related free offerings available on iTunes, including Sotheby's Private View, KQED's Gallery Crawl, and the National Gallery of Art. He also has a roundup of the mainstream free music and videos available at the iTunes Store

• 3 Sheets, Nimitz Under A Microscope, Lunchbox and More

  • This week, Vern Seward shows us someone who drinks for a living, lives on a really big boat, an has a lot of time on his hand. They are not all the same people.

• News, News, More News, And More

  • Vern Seward rounds up several free news podcasts available at the iTunes Store, including Eye to Eye with with Katie Couric, World News from the New York Times, and Discovery News.

• Classic Movies, Classic Watches, Classic Gadgets and More

  • If it's old, it probably has value to someone, and if it's at the iTunes Store, even better. This week Vern shows us the classics: Classic movies, classic watches, and classic gadgets -- all free, and all waiting for you to download.

• Gamers, Hackers, Cultural Smackers and More

  • How's the weather? Seen any cool tech stuff lately? What's up with politics? This week Vern helps you answer all of these questions with the free content he's found at the iTunes Store.

• Chinese Culture, Dog's Life, Fast Draw and More

  • Politics, Chinese culture, dogs, the environment, and animation. This week Vern mixes up an interesting concoction of free content at the iTunes Store.

• Adult Humor, Geeky Pastimes, Bar Jokes and More

  • Put on your grown-up hat today because Vern Seward points us to some of the more adult podcast fair in this edition of Free on iTunes.

• Getting The Ax, Immortals, Lawyers and More

  • This week Vern takes us on an exciting ride through the lives of lumberjacks, an immortal, and a lawyer. All three share a common thread: They are free this week at the iTunes Store.

• Unhitched, Sprout, Stunt Kitty, and More

  • Life after divorce, expanding your kid's minds, and kitten stunts. What better mix to wrap up your week with? Vern fills us in on all of these free gems at the iTunes Store.

• Faith, Loaded, Door Number 2 and More

  • In this week's installment of Free on iTunes, Vern Seward looks at Eli Stone, a tech podcast from CNet called Loaded, Crackle: Shorts, and some audiobooks. Plus, we have all of this week's free offerings from iTunes, with direct links to all of them.

• The Animation Show, B&B Comedy, Free TV and more

  • The good and the bad: Vern can find it all at the iTunes Store, and this week he uncovers videos that expand your mind, grow your smile, and he takes one for the team when he finds one that's, well, not so good. All are free, and sometimes you get what you pay for.

• Valentines Day Prep Special: Looks, Cooks, And Foots

  • Sorting out your pre-Valentine's Day world in preparation of the big day can be pretty stressful if you aren't sure what will commemorate the special occasion in just the right way. Lucky for you Vern found some pointers at the iTunes Store -- and they are all free, saving you a little extra cash to spend on your special someone's special gift.

• In Treatment, Discovery News, Mortified Shoebox and More

  • This week Vern takes a manly romp through the iTunes Store to get in touch with his inner feelings and childhood pain, and then moves on to some cool science. All podcasts, and as always, all free.

• Model Fitness and Yoga, Mile High Airlines and More

  • This week Vern takes to the gym and then to the skies as he traverses the hidden corners of the iTunes Store. Climb aboard for this week's free ride.

• Termination, Artists, Exquisite Corpse and More

  • If you're looking for free stuff that has nothing to do with Macworld then you've come to the right place. Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, The Artist Den, Exquisite Corpse...Oh, OK, and Steve Jobs' keynote as a free download, too!

• College Daze, Woo-Hoo Rabbits, Seal Gas And More

  • From the laugh track to the outback, Vern's iTunes Store safari this week found free videos to make you laugh and teach you a little more about the world around us.

• Belly-Buttonless, Cheap Eats, Political Yuks, And More

  • Healthy chromosomes, healthy food, and healthy politics. This week Vern takes a post-holiday tour through the iTunes Store and finds a healthy dose of shows all with an appropriate post-holiday price: free.

• PGC, On The Edge, More Aliens, And More

  • Just days after Christmas and already your new iPod is begging for new stuff to ingest. You've plowed through the tons of offerings at the iTunes Store and you just can't decide how best to spend the remaining dollars on your redeemed iTunes Gift Card. Here's a thought: Why not hold on to your digital ducats and grab stuff that's absolutely free?

• New Voyages, The Guild, IT Room, and More

  • This week, Vern travels from deep space to cyberspace, stolls through an IT center, and finds some holiday tunes. All free, and just in time for your holiday festivities.

• Paranormal, Quasi-normal, Abbey-normal, and More

  • Vern used his own clairvoyant powers to deduce that you want to find free downloads at the iTunes Store. This week, he divined shows for paranormal researchers, night time drama lovers, and the hidden scientist inside all of us.

• Space, Murder, News and More

  • Travel through the universe, into a killer's world, and on to see what what's hot in techno-nerd land. Vern Seward gets you there this week, all without a passport, and without breaking out your wallet.

• Style, Photos, Yuk-Yuks, And More

  • When I browse the iTunes Store looking for free stuff to write about I usually wind up talking about stuff that, in general, appeals to guys. I am a guy after all, so it's easy to understand why that's so. This week, however, I've made a concerted effort to find things that may appeal to women as well as men. You might say that I'm attempting to get in touch with my feminine side.

• Next NYers, BoYT And More

  • This week, I decided to take a look at shows or podcasts available at the iTunes Stores that are leading the way to making multimedia on the Internet something anybody would use. My first offering is The Best of YouTube, a podcast that puts some of the most popular YouTube videos in one place for easy access.

• News, RocketBoom, Abigail, & More

  • News is where you find it, and I’ve found some excellent places for news and information that you can enjoy anytime by simply downloading an episode from the iTunes Store and watching on your iPod or AppleTV, including Abigail’s X-Rated Teen Diary, RocketBoom, and The Smart Show.

• Hot Words, Zombies, Art and More

  • Welcome once again to another thrilling installment of Free on iTunes. This week I'm going to take a look at some video podcasts that I probably should have looked at last week, while we were still in October. It's still close enough to Halloween to count, I suppose, so lets get to it.

• Free Gotti, Little Lake, Kinder-Climbing, And More

  • Recovery from breast cancer, rebuilding a recording label, and kindergarten on the roof. This week, Vern takes us on an eclectic tour of free offerings at the iTunes Store.

• Galacticast, Ghetto Ghosts, Most Smartest Models and More

  • It's still October, and that means there's still more spooky stuff haunting the iTunes Store, and I'm just the guy to stake it out, bring them out into the sunlight. So, let's see what we got this week. First up, we have Galacticast, Ghetto Ghost Getta, America's Most Smartest Model, and more

• Ghouls and Wizards and Psychics! Oh My!

  • When it's fall, Halloween can't be far behind, so this week Vern uses his paranormal divining rod to track down a street psychic, kid wizards, and the Mistress of the Dark at the iTunes Store. All free, of course.

• Alien Americans, Vampire-Americans And More

  • Vern Seward gives us a tour of this week's free offerings at iTunes, including "Aliens in America," "Moonlight," and a host of free music downloads

• Chill, Beautiful Places, Long Island Acoustics and More

  • Apple TV is pretty cool at showing off hi-def videos, so this week Vern highlights some offerings at the iTunes Store that make the pint-sized media player shine. Go mountain climbing, enjoy some concert venues, or sit back and chill with relaxing videos, all for free.

• K-Ville

  • Devastated, broken, and on the brink of collapse: That's the setting for a post-Katrina New Orleans. It's also the setting for the new Fox TV show K-Ville, which is available this week for free at the iTunes Store.

• Always Sunny, Eh?, Yogamazing

  • Since you've broken your piggy bank to buy a new iPod you'll likely have less money to spend on content. That's OK, there's plenty of free stuff on the iTunes Store to help keep you wallet from overheating. So, let's see what's up.

• Absurd News, Trying That At Home, Elements Skateboard and More

  • This week I'd like to direct your attention to several podcasts that should keep you and your iPod happy. I have some news of the absurd, surprisingly useful tips on aluminum foil, skateboard shenanigans, and a bunch of people nodding their heads.

• GeekBrief, Geek Pick-up, Geek News, And More

  • This week I'd like to direct your attention to several podcasts that should keep you and your iPod happy. First up is Like News, a weirdly animated podcast hosted by Skeeter DuBois. Next up is the Chris Pirillo Show, a very strange podcast that centers on confessed techie. And while we are in the tech realm; geek-boys, listen up. Take a peak at GeekBrief TV hosted by the cute-as-a-button Cali Lewis.

• Meeting The GIMP, Photoshop UserTV, Martial Arts And More

  • Meet The GIMP is a video podcast series created by German teacher, Rolf Steinort, that starts us off by jumping right into editing photos for use on the Internet, so we learn by example, while Photoshop User TV is a new series of podcasts created by Dave Cross, Matt Kloskowski, and Scott Kelby. I also have some martial arts, hot reality show people, and some music for you free on iTunes this week.

• Stand-up, Short Stories, Solitary, And More

  • Ready to try your hand as a stand-up comic, or maybe you are looking for some great short stories? Vern Seward went digging through the iTunes Store and found all that and more. Even better, it's all free.

• Damages, Rockers, Wolves, Salsa

  • Vern Seward shows us this week's free offerings at iTunes, including Damages (Ted Danson and Glen Close), The Rock Life, a free chapter from "Wolf Brother: Chronicles of Ancient Darkness," free salsa dancing lessons, and a free tune called Algeria.

• Ma France, Fake Crab Cakes, Tricked Trucks

  • Learn to speak French, check out some tricked-out trucks, and find out how to cook sans meat at the iTunes Store -- and all for free. If you like Anita Baker, take Carol Reddick's I Don't Wanna for a spin. It's available for free, too.

• Chachi Without Joanie, Madmen, Monkey-Pirate-Zombie, and More

  • Not getting enough reality in your life? Try taking Scott Baio is 45 and Single for a spin. If the reality thing isn't your style, the iTunes Store has some other freebies for you to try out this week including A&E's Madmen, the Monkey Pirate Zombie podcast, and the free single of the week: Bubble by Colbie Caillat.

• Jericho Resurrected, Latino Laughs, Spawn

  • In case you'd like to know what the commotion over Jericho is all about, you can find the pilot episode free at the iTunes Store. You'll also find Latino Laugh Festival, which features a variety of Latino comics doing stand-up and sketches. If you are fan of Todd McFarlane's Spawn then you're going to love this: There's a video Podcast featuring some clips, and commentary on the upcoming DVD release of the series that aired on HBO ten years back.

• Interview With Martin, Rushing To College, And the Weird

  • First up this week on my iTunes freebie review is an audiobook interview with George R. R. Martin, author of the acclaimed fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire. Next up we have the pilot episode of a new ABC Family show, Greek, a Paula Abdul reality show, and, you guessed it, another reality show, this one called Weird America

• Best Years, Top Chef, Cool Hunting

  • Vern Seward gives us a tour of current free iTunes offerings, including The Best Years, Top Chef, Cool Hunting, and many more.

• Traveling North, South, East, And West

  • It seems that Samantha Brown has a new travel series that centers on Latin America called, interestingly enough, 'Samantha Brown: Passport to Latin America', and you can pick up four clips from the show in the Video Podcast section of the iTunes Store. You'll also find trailers for Ratatouille, Ice Road Truckers, and more!

• NYT Science, Wine-Oh, Cheeky Chicks

  • Any nerd worth his life-size poster of Gillian Anderson will happily confess to a more than passing interest in science. Be a geek, like science. Whatever your scientific interest, you'll be happy to know that you can get your geek on while commuting to and from your 9 to 5 by subscribing to the New York Times Science Times podcasts.

• Yo Momma, The Starter Wife, Star Wars, Steve and Bill

  • I had thought yo momma jokes was a thing of the past. I thought wrong. Apparently The Dozens are alive and well and is the center of a new MTV comedy series called, appropriately enough, Yo Momma, and it's available free on iTunes this week. You'll also find the Bill Gates and Steve Jobs interviews from D5

• Tony Blair, Kayne West, And More

  • This week, you'll find lots of free content on iTunes, including a Kanye West video, an interview with Tony Blair, free photo podcasts, iTunes U, and much more.

• The Onion, Food Stories, And More

  • I have some good stuff for you this week, and all of it is from the video podcast section of the iTunes Store. The free section on the main page of the iTunes Store really hasn't changed much, except for songs, in about 2 weeks now. (Wassup wit dat, Apple?)

• NASA, Raving

  • We iPod users are a lucky bunch because much of the videos that NASA has offered on its varied missions and accomplishments can be found as free downloads at the iTunes Store in the Video Podcast section. Raving, a free short movie is also available at the iTunes Store, along with much more.

• Ninjas, Dancing Dirty, and Ghost Gobbling

  • You know what? I've been doing this all wrong. For weeks now I've been telling you all about the free videos that appear weekly on the iTunes Store. That was OK and all, but the freebies I've been looking at is hardly all there is. It's like looking at the tip of an iceberg and saying, "gee, it's kinda small, ain't it?"

• Go Healthy Challenge, Pooh and Tigger, Too

  • According to The American Obesity Association a bit over one third of all American kids between the ages of 6 and 11 are overweight, and 15% of our kids are considered to be obese. What can we do? The folks at Nickelodeon have come up with a series to address just this particular problem, the Go Healthy Challenge.

• Pimped, Primped, Jeffed, And Skimped

  • Wassup Dawgz? I got some new stuff fo ya and comin' at ya this week from the iTunes Store. Peep dis Dawg: I got ma boy XZBit doin' his thang pimpin peeps ridz in his MTV show Pimp My Ride. In this episode X rolls up on Tenita's '65 T-Bird, and that bird is, as Tenita puts it, "a dirty bird!'"

• Stargate SG-1, Shear Genius, Happy Tree Friends

  • I never got into Stargate SG-1 for some reason. Well, I guess it was my loss because SG-1 is in its final season. Whether you are a fan or someone, like me, with a cursory interest in SG-1, you'll likely enjoy Behind The Mythology of Stargate SG-1, one of this week's free download on the iTunes Store.

• Big Ideas, NG Shorts, & More

  • OK, playing your iPod video won't magically suck greenhouse gases from the air or reforest jungles, but you can watch an episode of Big Ideas For A Small Planet, available as a free download on the iTunes Store.

• Human Giants, The Naked Brothers Band, And More

  • Imagine a show that is part Jackass up to the point where the stunts are done, then at that point we get the nod and wink so we know that that car did really send that guy fifty feet into the air. Human Giants: Mind Explosion is kind of like what I just described, but it's actually funny.

• Spotlight 25 and Acceptable.tv

  • I found the Lifetime special Spotlight 25 one of this week's free iTunes offerings, to be interesting. While its audience will primarily be women, I think twenty-something guys could learn a lot by watching the show. Acceptable.tv, another one of this week's free iTunes downloads, brings a different question to mind: "Why would anyone find Acceptable.tv funny?"

• Raines and Andy Milonakis

  • It seems you can't spit without hitting a TV cop, and if you did you'd likely get a ticket. So what do the folks at NBC do? They create yet another cop show...

• Andy Barker, Yellowstone and More

  • What do a bumbling middle-aged private eye, U.S. National Parks, and Stephen King all have in common? You can find them all at the iTunes Store.

• El Tigre, Blood Ties

  • Fat Albert and The Cosby Kids aired for 12 years before being syndicated, and you can still hear that "Hey, hey, HEY!" on Saturday mornings if you check around. There have been many cartoons since Fat Albert that featured racially diverse characters, but the new Nickelodeon cartoon, El Tigre, is, in some respect, like Fat Albert.

• The Black Donnelys and Lost

  • The Black Donnellys premiered this week on NBC. The pilot episode, which is a free download on The iTunes Store, is a lot of fun once you can get pass the Mies (JimMie, TomMie, Lou..., well, you get the idea).

• Jericho and Ugly Betty

  • Imagine, if you will, an updated version of Alas, Babylon, where the nuclear attack is by terrorists, and the town, Jericho instead of Fort Repose, is in Kansas, not Florida. Keep all of the suspicion, intrigue, relationships, and tragedies, but kick it up a notch by adding secret organizations, some gun-play, and a hidden government agenda. Sounds like fun, no?

• Sesame Street and More

  • The iTunes Store is offering the Learn Along With Sesame Street Series as free downloads. The series includes four episodes (Happy, Healthy, Ready For School, Music Works Wonders, You Can Ask, and Lead Away) that cover a variety of topics, from dealing with bullies, to learning about music.

• Friday Night Lights, ESPNU Clippings, More

  • Now that the football season is over, if you still find that you have a hankering for the game, you can download the pilot episode of Friday Night Lights (FNL), the new TV series patterned after the fairly decent movie of the same name.

• Little Black Dress, More

  • Little Black Dress is the latest addition to the Reel Moments offerings and in it a newly hired executive, Kristy, played by Rosario Dawson, is faced with a decision that many women have runs up against at some time in life; dealing with perceptions.

• The Dresden Files

  • Few people can make anti-stereotypes and the shows about them into cult icons, though many have tried. One of the latest attempts can be witnessed in the new SciFi Channel series, The Dresden Files.

• Starveillance & Macworld iPhone Keynote

  • When we were in a particularly weird mood my daughter and I use to watch Celebrity Death Match on MTV. If you like your clay animation a bit less violent you might take a look at the new show, Starveillance. On a different note: Apple is also offering the Macworld iPhone keynote for download.

Vern Seward is a writer who currently lives in Orlando, FL. He's been a Mac fan since Atari Computers folded, but has worked with computers of nearly every type for 20 years.