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Thursday, December 27th, 2007 at 3:00 PM - by Vern Seward
Just days after Christmas and already your new iPod is begging for new stuff to ingest. Youve plowed through the tons of offerings at the iTunes Store and you just cant decide how best to spend the remaining dollars on your redeemed iTunes Gift Card.
Heres a thought: Why not hold on to your digital ducats and grab stuff thats absolutely free?
For instance, theres a podcast from Fox News thats pretty cool -- Point, Click, Go! episodes are barely over a minute long, but they are choke full of information about interesting Web sites. In one episode, the ever-so-watchable host Liz Stowasky point us to a Web site dedicated to showing us how to make stuff with tampons.
Yes, tampons.
There are 8 episodes so far and all are entertaining. Subscribe now.
While were on the subject of podcasts you might also want to check out Edge Music Videocast, which features music videos from todays popular and up and coming bands.
The podcast is sponsored by Ford who is promoting its new crossover vehicle, The Edge. Remember that silly commercial where the car was shown driving along the ledges of building? Probably the dumbest commercial ever. Thankfully, Ford isnt plastering car commercials all through the videos, so you can watch your favorite bands relatively unscathed by wanton commercialism.
The podcast is well done and shows up well on both your iPod and Apple TV. Check it out.
And while were on the subject of music videos, theres a free download of a music video made for the CW Network show Aliens in America, performed by PJ Osson and Salman Ahmad.
(Whats so funny bout) Peace, Love, and Understanding is actually a decent video (Nick Lowe wrote the song, but if you are familiar with it, its probably Elvis Costellos version youve heard before), and the show isnt bad either. In fact, you can still get the pilot episode as a free download as well.
By the way, Aliens in America is not a remake of Alien Nation, that show with the sour milk swilling slug people from space (which wasnt a bad show, actually). No, this shows about a card carrying conservative family who inadvertently becomes host to a Middle Eastern exchange student. Its actually quite funny once you get around the heavy politically correct hammer the show bludgeons you with.
Download both the pilot and the music video free this week at the iTunes Store.
Next up we have Gossip Girl. Think of Beverly Hills 90201, but with a Manhattan zip code.
This person sleeps with that person which upsets the significant other of the first person while the second persons significant other is oblivious to who is sleeping with whom.
If you like this sort of thing then the iTunes Store is offering a 17 minute Get Acquainted" download that features the cast of Gossip Girl talking about their characters.
I will admit that the show looks good, the photography is slick and stylish and, at least from what Ive gather from the cast interviews and snippets of the show, it looks like a complicated story. Should be fun.
OK, that ties things up for this week and this year. Thanks to those of you who regularly read Free on iTunes (and tell Dad Ill stop by later). Those of you who are new to the column, welcome. See you all next week and next year.
Happy New Year!
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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.
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