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Figure 8-3:
Bone up on a movie before buying or renting it.
The boatload of video podcasts and courseware, featured in the free Podcasts and iTunes
U apps, both from Apple:
Podcasts started out as another form of Internet radio, although
instead of listening to live streams, you downloaded files onto your computer or iPod to take
in at your leisure. Lots of audio podcasts are still available, but the focus here is on video. You
can watch free episodes that cover
Sesame Street
videos, sports, investing, political shows,
and much more. And you can take a seminar at Harvard, Stanford, and other prestigious in-
stitutions. Indeed, iTunes U boasts more than 600,000 free lectures and other educational re-
sources from around the world, many of them videos. Better still: no homework, no grades,
