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Just when iPod users thought it was safe to buy the new, sleek iPod Nano, Apple announced last week that it will introduce the Video iPod. In addition to holding songs and photos, the device will allow users to watch video content like the popular ABC show Desperate Housewives. But iPods are good for more than just music and video. One example is Podcasting, a method of publishing audio programs on the Internet that users can download. Elizabeth Lewin, publisher of PodCastingNews.com, says the programs are learning tools.:
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I like to think of Podcasts as being a lot like newspapers or magazines // People are able to find, oh gosh, religion and politics and how-to information on really arcane subjects that might not readily be available in the physical world right around where they live.
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iPod users are also finding ways to store written information on the devices. New Yorkers who crave a pizza-fix can download piPod on-line. It is an iPod-based field guide to selected New York City pizzerias . The creator of piPod, Adam Cuban, says he always has his iPod handy so it made sense to connect it with his love of pizza:
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A lot of times I'd be searching for a pizzeria in a neighborhood and I wouldn't quite know the cross street, the address or phone number and I always had the iPod handy so that information is always there.
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Information stored on iPods also comes in handy in the world of academia, says Duke University senior Seema Kakad. Last year, Duke partnered with Apple to provide students with iPods to use in class. Kakad, a Public Policy major, uses her iPod in her Information Systems and Science course where students listen to Podcasts. Outside of the classroom the iPod has been extremely useful she says:
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Even now I store photos on it there for photography classes and I also record things. // I think what it's been most useful for, as a senior, I've been doing research for my senior thesis so I can see how it's useful for research purposes.
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Kakad says she stores files and interviews on her iPod so that she can view and listen to them on-the-go. Now with the introduction of the Video iPod that can hold 75 hours of video, she might watch lectures too. I'm Antonio Neves, Columbia Radio News.