From “Babies by Design” to “San Diego Opera Talk” to “Health Matters,” the University of California Television delivers a wealth of highly informative programming to iTunes U. Explore the hundreds of audio and video podcasts you can enjoy on your Mac or PC or take with you on an iPod or iPhone.

From “Babies by Design” to “San Diego Opera Talk” to “Health Matters,” the University of California Television delivers a wealth of highly informative programming to iTunes U. Explore the hundreds of audio and video podcasts you can enjoy on your Mac or PC or take with you on an iPod or iPhone.

Last year, just three and already competing at the world-class level, DARwin wowed crowds with his strength and on-field acrobatics. The youngster plays soccer for TEAM SPRInt, the first US team to qualify for the RoboCup, a global competition where soccer-playing robots vie for the world title. And, with the help of their Macs, the Virginia Tech team plans to send DARwin back to the 2008 RoboCup in China.

Calling it “one of my favorite wireless gadgets since its introduction,” Bob Levitus (Houston Chronicle) praises the latest version of AirPort Express, which supports fast 802.11n Wi-Fi. “Setting up your AirPort Express to act as a wireless base station or remote audio receiver or to share a printer couldn’t be easier,” he says. “I’ve taken it on the road and all over my house, and it has never failed to perform perfectly.”

When photo journalist John McDermott covers a World Cup Soccer event, he can capture more than 1,000 images a day. And since his editor needs his best shots the very same day, McDermott needs to edit his photos even more quickly than he took them. Watch the video now playing on the Aperture site and find out how Aperture helps McDermott make his final selects quickly, easily, and enjoyably.

Have you ever wanted to mark up a PDF, adding website links, including comments, or identifying copy to revise or delete? If you’re using Mac OS X Leopard, you have all the tools you need to annotate PDFs. You’ll find them in Preview, and the latest Quick Tip of the Week demonstrates how you can take advantage of them.

Apple has won “two highly-coveted black pencils at the prestigious D&AD Awards, for the design of the iMac and the iPhone,” reports Mark Sweney (guardian.co.uk). Though, according to Cheney, “a black pencil is notoriously difficult to achieve,” Apple “has won a total of six black pencils since 1999,” making “the US technology company the most successful in the 45-year history of the event.”

Thanks to a new plug-in filter set from Image Trends, photographers can now quickly and easily correct hemispheric fisheye lens distortion without leaving Aperture. Bullish on the new, Aperture 2.1 image editing SDK, Image Trends plans “to offer PearlyWhites and ShineOff Aperture plug-ins within the next 60 days with additional products to follow,” announced president and CEO Dan Sullivan.

She hadn’t released a new album in five years. But that spell ended dramatically when singer/songwriter Erykah Badu sat down in front of her MacBook and fired up GarageBand. The music surged. “I learned how to use GarageBand by trial and error,” Badu says. “It’s like somebody stuck a plug in the back of my neck and uploaded a program to learn how to use GarageBand. It was automatic. Everything on that Mac was automatic.”

Like many small business owners, RealSimple’s Erin knew that “databases can simplify life and work, but until now, I’ve never been able to design them myself.” Until she began using Bento, that is. “Bento looks, feels and works like other Mac applications. Organizing your information into collections in Bento is much like organizing songs in iTunes,” she writes. It’s “just another reason to consider a Mac.”