I distinctly remember hearing Steve Job’s last MacWorld keynote, where he boldly exclaimed that this year would be the year of HD!

How funny is it then, that the latest release of iTunes 4.9 has extensive and great support for podcasts! If you haven’t checked it out yet, iTunes 4.9’s podcasting features are fantastic and just the thing you would expect from Apple. Not only can you already browse and subscribe to thousands of podcasts, but you can easily add your own content to Apple’s podcast directory.

Apple rounds out it’s offering with a tutorial on how to Create your own podcasts with GarageBand in iLife ‘05.

I’m not much of a gamer, but this app has me considering purchasing a Sony PSP. PSP Video 9 is a free PSP video conversion and management application. It can convert regular PC video files (avi, mpeg, etc) into PSP video files, as well as manage/copy these PSP video files between your PC and PSP.

When combined with another application, Videora, they form the first PSPcasting solution, allowing you to download, convert and copy video to your PSP, automatically using BitTorrent and RSS technology. How cool is that!

Behaviour : Using CSS selectors to apply Javascript behaviours is an excellent article and tutorial that suggests using CSS selectors to apply JavaScript DOM events to your elements.

UserJS.org has some excellent tips for creating Efficient JavaScript Code -. In his article he speaks specifically to the Opera web browser, but his tips are still extremely useful and should apply to most browsers.

Here is how the traditional media are responding to news that IE7 and Longhorn will have extensive support for RSS technology:

• BBC NEWS – Microsoft makes web feeds easier
• e-Week – RSS: It’s Not Just for Bloggers Anymore
• Business Week: Microsoft Crashes the RSS Party

BetaNews reports that Microsoft to Embed RSS in IE, Windows

Microsoft is attempting to bring RSS to the masses by making the emerging technology even simpler and closely tying it Windows and Internet Explorer.

More will be announced later today when Microsoft takes the stage at Gnomedex.

Dave Winer has given a quick preview of what Microsoft will be presenting at Gnomedex on Friday. He reports eludes to how deeply integrated RSS is in the architecture of the browser. Dave says:

But that’s just the tip of what may turn out to be a very big iceberg. The people at Microsoft noticed something that I had seen, only peripherally—that there were applications of RSS that aren’t about news. Like Audible’s NY Times Best Seller list, or an iTunes music playlist, or lists of Sharepoint documents, or browser bookmarks. Lists are all over the place, and people are starting to move them around via RSS, and they are not the usual kind of data that has been carried by RSS in the past.

Google has released an open-source javascript library called Google AJAXSLT that provides cross-platform/browser client-side XSLT support. Because XSL-T uses XPath, it is also an implementation of XPath that can be used independently of XSL-T.

This is the same code that they use in their applications like Gmail and Google Maps.

Thanks to reader Roland Collins for pointing out this cool tool. IIS Admin is a simple and free utility that will let you create multiple websites under Windows XP Pro. It also lets you quickly start and stop the different virtual servers from an icon in your system tray. Much better than the solution I posted yesterday!

It’s been reported that Firefox and Thunderbird for OSX are now using CFRunLoop. What does this mean for OSX users? From Apple’s Website, the claim that CFRunLoop will:

• It makes your program more responsive to the user.
• It reduces your application’s CPU usage.
• It minimizes your application’s working set—the number of code pages loaded in memory at any given time.
• It allows the system to manage power aggressively.