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All you iPod owners out there who happen to be college students, there is something good coming up. In fact, anyone with an Apple product and with a love for learning would find Apple’s iTunesU initiative combining the best of both worlds—personal technology with education.

iTunesU uses Apple’s iTunes music store to distribute free content any time of the day, any time of the year. This service is used by hundreds of universities and schools in North America to distribute their educational content which can be then viewed over iPods, iPhones, iPod Touches and computers. In total, there are more than 30,000 audio and video files from different topics to choose from. You can even burn optical media and listen to it later at your convenience.

However, you need the freely downloadable iTunes to access media from iTunesU. The educational institutions that are featured on the iTunesU include Stanford, MIT, Duke, Carnegie Mellon, Lehigh, UC Berkeley and Yale, among others. It also has educational contents from other non-educational institutions
like the Smithsonian Institute, The Museum of Modern Art and The New York Public Library. The content offered by these institutions vary widely in scope and depth: from a UC Berkeley philosophy course “Existentialism in Literature and Film” to “Electricity and Magnetism” by rock star Professor Walter Lewin
from MIT, iTunesU has them all. They even have a series of videos on dental anatomy from
University of Michigan which were recorded back in the 70s and 80s. The USP of iTunesU is undoubtedly the ease of delivery. You can download the desired audio or video on your iPod, and listen to it
whenever you want to, thus getting educated the cool way. Besides, there are no cost restrictions and you can play the media on multiple devices. In case you don’t want to keep looking at iTunes every time you look for a good pod cast, you can always go to sites like Openculture , where a list of such resources
are regularly maintained.

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You thought you had the browser face-off signed and sealed until Google introduced its fleet-footed Chrome browser. Has it been enough to change the game?

With help from CNET Download.com’s Seth Rosenblatt and Webware.com’s Josh Lowensohn, CNET’s Brian Tong takes

Given that TuneWiki was one of the 10 top winners in Google’s Android Challenge, it’s no surprise we’re taken by its originality and ambition.

The free music application for Google Android not only plays your media, but it also helps build your library with songs and Youtube music videos. An additional search for streaming lyrics attempts to get you singing the right words at the right time.

TuneWiki doesn’t ace everything it sets out to do, but if you’re willing to give it some leeway, you won’t be disappointed. Check out the tunewiki here in action.

AirRadar is a free utility that can help you scan for, track information on, and join wireless networks. Like similar apps, AirRadar provides much more information than you’d otherwise get through the Mac OS Airport status menu.

Whether you’re testing your signal strength at home or trying to find free Wi-Fi on the road, AirRadar will list all open and closed networks in range, along with information such as signal strength (current, average, and max), type of encryption, MAC address, and channel. AirRadar can keep scanning at any interval you set, automatically join the best open network (or a network of a specified minimum strength), and notify you of new networks in a variety of ways, including through Growl messages and by speaking network names out loud–perhaps a bit dorky, but useful for the visually impaired.

The basic functionality should be more than enough for most users, but you can also have AirRadar provide more than two dozen pieces of live data for a given network, and even track noise and signal strength in graphs. More Mac freeware should be as useful and well-rounded as AirRadar.

In tough economic times like these, good freeware becomes worth its weight in gold. Professionals who squeeze every feature out of their top-shelf software will likely appreciate the investment, but those of us with more modest goals can still do just about anything for free.

Assuming you can put up with a homlier appearance and a few minor character flaws, we’ve got some tools to help you save your hard-earned dough.  This list is by no means exhaustive, so feel free to chime in with your own favorite cash-saving apps.

A few days ago we featured gMote, an excellent utility for creating mouse gestures. Some people aren’t into them, and would prefer to keep their hands on their keyboards as much as possible. Heck, I’m one of them. HotKeyz does for those essential multikey combinations what gMote does for mouse gestures: it’s a powerful utility that makes it easy to create and manage hot keys that open programs, shut down your computer, and control media applications.

HotKeyz’s intuitive interface divides hot keys into nine preset categories, including Control Panel, Desktop, and Internet. A simple table lists the 11 preconfigured hot keys that perform basic tasks like launching Internet Explorer, accessing the Control Panel, and adjusting volume. Novices will appreciate the step-by-step guide to creating their own hot keys, especially for more complex operations such as opening your Internet Explorer home page or automatically filling in online log-in information. A reliable help guide also eases the learning curve.

Hotkeyz sits in the system tray when not in use, but of course, it has its own hot key combination. This effective freeware application makes it easy for anyone to create customized keyboard shortcuts.

This low-cost graphics app makes creating Web buttons, banners, and stylized text easy. With tons of premade templates and samples to get you started, Art Text lets you spend your time fine-tuning your work instead of starting from scratch. When you’re done, you can export your work in several formats, letting you put the final touches on your design in your favorite graphics or image-editing program.

Still not convinced? Then check out this First Look video of Art Text for Mac to get a quick overview.

Americans won’t be the only ones able to test drive the newly opened beta for Skyfire’s mobile browser.

Now Canadians can, too, after one or two tweaks to Skyfire’s registration process gives northern numbers the green light.

While Canada may be the first country outside of the U.S. with a chance to download the mobile browsing alternative, it won’t be the only one for long–Skyfire won’t announce particulars, but did say that it expects to expand its service to other countries soon. This is the official word, of course. Some users tell us they unofficially downloaded Skyfire months ago using random U.S. phone numbers to register.

Skyfire’s claim to fame is its zoomed-out browsing mode that replicates desktop browsing on a much smaller screen. A mouse lets you navigate around the page. You click as you would on a desktop browser to zoom in for a closer look.

By using a proxy server to help serve and render Web pages, Skyfire can also stream Flash video and support Ajax and Quicktime.

However, it’s far from the only one of its kind. Skyfire mobile browser, which updated to version 0.8 just over a month ago, currently poses the most substantial competition to Opera mobile 9.5 beta. Both Opera Mobile and Skyfire are available for Windows Mobile and Symbian phones. Opera Mobile slightly edges Skyfire in the model count with its additional support for Symbian UIQ handsets and its more toned feature set, but young Skyfire is quickly catching up and raising the stakes with a simplified interface that still packs the links in and decent video support.

As Skyfire Fans its flame to Canada and other countries after that, Mozilla continues to develop its own mobile Firefox Mobile code-named Fennec . We previewed the alpha installation for two Nokia models, and so far it looks great. But we’ll really know where each stands on speed, video support, and navigability when the alpha code for Windows Mobile is released and we can compare Opera Mobile, Skyfire, and Firefox Mobile side by side.

The are good programs and bad programs, and then there are the horror shows. Every three months or so, we take a playful look at some of the least impressive software programs to come down the pike.

From Canadian Rock Radio to telepathic communication with aliens, there’s a lot not to like about this oddball crew. Just in time for Halloween, CNET TV’s Tom Merritt counts down the five scariest downloads of fall 2008.