O’Reilly is running a nice, in-depth review of all three popular iPod microphones: the Belkin TuneTalk Stereo, Griffin iTalk Pro, and the XtremeMac MicroMemo. If you’ve ever looked into recording music or speeches to your iPod, you’ll want to check out this review.

If you want to skip the review and just find out which one the reviewer thinks is the best, then the answer is the Belkin TuneTalk Stereo For iPod Videos.

Read the iPod Mic Shootout review at O’Reilly.

Have you ever thought of all the cool stuff that you can do with an iPod Shuffle because of it’s small size? This is one of our favorites so far. Monster Cable, notorious for their high quality cables and accessories, recently released the iFreePlay cordless headphones, where you slide your iPod Shuffle right into a dock built into the left headphone.

What’s the damage for a pair of headphones like this? Just $50. Not bad if you ask us. Just try and get a matching grey iPod Shuffle, so it’s not so obvious that you have an iPod sticking out of your ear.

We spent hours going through Flickr and organizing this post on, what we think, are 100 of the best iPod related photos. We hope this post shows off the real beauty of Flickr - what you can come up with when you share user generated content! Enjoy!

Paul McCartney was recently quoted telling Billboard.com that a deal to make the Beatles catalog available on iTunes was “virtually settled.” For many months now there have been rumors of the Beatles catalog coming to iTunes, but this is the first time the news has come directly from a Beatles member.

You may be wondering why this is such big news. Well, besides the fact that the Beatles music isn’t currently available anywhere online to purchase legally, Apple, Inc. and the Beatles music publisher, Apple Corps, had a long legal battle over the use of the name Apple. The dispute was recently settled and the two are now working together to make this deal possible.

Is it really worth the time and effort to sell a broken iPod? We recently ran across BuyMyBrokeniPod.com, a service that buys broken iPods directly from users, and we we’re surprised by the amounts offered for broken iPods. While older generation iPods go for as little as $3, you can fetch between $44 to $55 for a broken 5th generation video iPod. Not bad for something that most people may consider worthless.

BuyMyBrokeniPod.com wants to buy your broken iPod today! We pay you top dollar for your damaged Apple iPod MP3 Player. We don’t care if the iPod has a cracked screen, the hard drive busted or shows a sad face, buttons don’t work, is acting weird, is old and creepy, has water damage, or if the battery is dead. Click below to get a price quote, and in 3 easy steps turn your broken iPod into CASH!

The service seems to be pretty straightforward - fill out their form detailing your iPod model and issues, ship them the broken iPod, and then get paid through PayPal. This means that your mailing out your iPod before you get paid, but if you get a tracking number to document the shipment, then you should be OK. And if your iPod is otherwise worthless, why not give it a shot?

Some of you may not be familiar with the term Podcast. What is a podcast? A podcast is a radio show broadcast over the internet and offered in a streaming, or downloadable format, so you can take it with you and listen to it on your iPod. Podcasts are often exclusive to the internet, meaning that you will not hear their content broadcoast on TV or on the regular radio. Podcasts started out as audio only, but now you can find more and more video podcasts out there.

If you’ve never heard a podcast before, Apple makes it easy to find them by having their own dedicated category in the iTunes music store. But if your like us, your addicted to podcasts. We love ‘em. Especialy the technology related one! So, we present to you the 20 top tech podcasts as of May 12, 2007. We’re sure you’ll find something you’ll love in this list.

1. Downloadable Content, The Penny Arcade Podcast
2. This Week In Tech (T.W.I.T)
3. Diggnation
4. NAPP TV
5. Make Magazine
6. Leo Laporte - The Tech Guy
7. MacBreak Weekly
8. GeekBrief.TV
9. CNET TV
10. Buzz Out Loud From CNET
11. Photoshop Killer Tips
12. Today In iPhone Podcast
13. Security Now!
14. dl.tv iPod Video
15. lynda.com Video Traning
16. Webnation w/Amber Mac
17. Adobe Creative Suite Video Podcast
18. Windows Weekly With Paul Thurrott
19. MacCast
20. The Merlin Show