By John Gruber
Upgraded — Get a new MacBook every two years. From $36.06/month with AppleCare+ included.
Neato:
Textcast turns any text — documents, web pages and entire blog feeds — into personal podcasts you can listen to right on your iPod and iPhone.
The text-to-speech technology is built into Leopard; what Textcast adds is the automation framework for generating personal podcast feeds you can sync to iPods and iPhones. From Bit Maki Software, a new joint effort from Dave Dribin and Wolf Rentzsch.
★ Tuesday, 23 December 2008