Catch up on latest Lost episodes on your iPhone with VLC media player support

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Playing ill-gotten video files on your jailbroken iPhone or iPod Touch just got easier, with Zottd porting the VLC media player to the devices, allowing easy drag and drop of MPEG/MPG, AVI and MP3 formats.

At the moment, support for the codecs VCD, DivX, WMA, WMV, FLAC and OGG is still being tinkered on, but he thinks he’ll have that figured out soon enough. Don’t all rush towards Bittorrent at once, folks…

Integrated iPod docking speaker system with a difference – Voix's slim MPX set-up

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Voix – no, not the social networking site – has announced an upgrade to their set of glossy black speakers with integrated iPod dock, the MPX 2.1 system, which we first saw early 2007.

With two twiggy speakers measuring a metre tall, they’ll accompany your flat-screen TV perfectly, pumping 72 watts through each unit, which both contain integrated subwoofers within the base delivering 36 watts each. The dock can take most…

Channel 4 embracing old-school "radio" technology and bringing DAB to mobiles

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Here’s a thoroughly educational update packed with things you probably didn’t know. For starters, telly company Channel 4 has a digital radio station license and will be launching “E4 Radio” alongside a stack of new stations later this year.

Channel 4 Radio, in an attempt to broaden its reach, is apparently sounding out manufacturers about making a C4-branded dongle to bring DAB capabilities to mobile phones and iPods. The company wants to charge about £20 for this…

Gordon Brown tries his utmost to convince us iPod is British invention

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Perhaps the Prime Minister thought he’d get away with massaging facts about the iPod during an interview on daytime TV, but a Register reporter (who obviously has more time to watch This Morning than I) has picked up on his faux pas.

Brown confidently proclaimed to viewers that the iPod was a British invention. “If you’ve got really innovative things, people will come to your country to locate,” he continued…