The Sound Of Young America‘s Jesse Thorn explains how to create a podcast with public-radio quality, with relatively inexpensive gear, out of your bedroom: I use Shure SM7 microphones. These are famous for being the mics that Michael Jackson used to record his vocals for Thriller, but they’re really a great all-purpose microphone. They’re also […]

The Register reports that Firefox 4 is going flash free: Mozilla vice president of products Jay Sullivan says that unlike Google, the open source outfit has no intention of bundling Firefox with Adobe Flash – or with a plug-in that runs native code inside the browser. Mozilla believes that the future of online applications lies […]

The iPhone 4 is out, it’s selling like hotcakes and, if you’re like me, you’re wondering how good the iPhone 4’s HD video capture is.  Is it going to be good enough to take the place of a dedicated camera for making videos for your video blog, video podcast or YouTube channel? Fortunately, people are […]

YouTube has officially announced their online video editor, and they spared no expense on the introduction. The YouTube Video Editor lets you: Combine multiple videos you’ve uploaded to create a new longer video; Trim the beginning and/or ending of your videos; Add soundtracks from our AudioSwap library of tens of thousands of songs, including hits […]

YouTube has added a new cloud-based Video Editor that brings basic video editing everyone. The YouTube Video Editor lets you do basic clip editing and also lets you swap the audio for a selection of music tracks. Unfortunately, it’s also painfully limited and slow – to the point that it’s hard to imagine doing much […]

Google today published this YouTube video that explains “What is Google TV?” It doesn’t offer new info, but the video does help position the Google TV solution. With Google TV, it looks like Google is trying to fork the Web, like the Apple iPad forks the Web – creating a new platform for Interacting with […]

Beta News’ Joe Wilcox is eating his words today, saying “I was wrong about Apple iPad”. He was a vocal critic of the iPad when it was announced, like most tech analysts, arguing that the world doesn’t need the iPad or any other tablet. After using it though, he’s come to a different conclusion: The […]

Apple today announced an updated Mac mini that offers: up to twice the graphics performance of previous models HDMI port SD card slot User-upgradeable memory Better connectivity A new compact aluminum enclosure. User-upgradeable memory is especially welcome – but it’s hard to call this a “feature”.  And the updated line starts at a $699 – […]

When Steve Jobs introduced the new iPhone 4, one of the most interesting announcements was that iMovie was coming to the iPhone. As popular as the iPhone platform is, adding HD video capture and iMovie to it could create a new vlogging & video podcasting explosion. Now new details are starting to come out on […]

As if Adobe needed another nail in the Flash is dead tombstone – a zero-day Flash vulnerability has been identified and announced by Adobe: A critical vulnerability exists in Adobe Flash Player 10.0.45.2 and earlier versions for Windows, Macintosh, Linux and Solaris operating systems, and the authplay.dll component that ships with Adobe Reader and Acrobat […]