Audiofile Engineering has updated its field recording iOS app, FIRe, to version 2. FIRe is designed to turn an iPhone or iPod touch into a professional-level portable audio recorder. Here’s what’s new in FIRe 2: Advanced editing suite with SmartEdits, Bezier fades, change gain, normalize, looping playback, regions and more Improved Transport screen with faster […]

Cinegenix has released FiLMiC Pro (App Store link), a dedicated video camera app that lets you shoot better video on your iPhone by ‘asserting as much manual control over camera functions as possible.’ It offers three focus/exposure systems: Double Reticle Mode: two separate adjustable reticles for spot sampling focus and exposure. Single Reticle Mode: a center fixed […]

Fostex has announced the AR-4i – an audio interface for iPhone 4 dock connector. The device offers stereo microphone inputs with AD converter that improve the audio quality of iPhone 4’s video recording, video streaming and audio recordings. Features: 3 microphone inputs with plug-in power for vertical or horizontal use. 2 x cardioid plug-in microphones […]

Guinness World Records has confirmed that The Adam Carolla Show has officially broken the record for the Most Downloaded Podcast, receiving 59,574,843 unique downloads from March 2009 to March 16, 2011. Carolla made the announcement on the Jimmy Kimmel show. This breaks the previous record held by The Ricky Gervais Show, set in February 2006. The Ricky Gervais Show […]

Back when the iPad was introduced, we asked “Where is the PageMaker of iBooks?” Tablets are fantastic new platform, with incredible potential for revolutionizing publishing. But there have not been, so far, tools that bring multimedia publishing for tablets to everyone. Wired has a post today about Push Pop Press – a new digital publishing platform […]

Twitter Co-founder Biz Stone has some interesting comments about his earlier podcasting company, Odeo, podcasting and how it led to the creation of Twitter, in this month’s Wired. Odeo was a startup that offered podcast directory and search services. Though well-funded, it was effectively dead shortly after launching, because Apple added podcasting support in iTunes. […]

Retailer UniqueSquared.com put together this first look at the new Samson Meteor Mic – a USB mic that was introduced at the 2011 NAMM Show. While it’s not really an impartial review, it does a good job of demonstrating the features of the Meteor – which could be a good match for podcasters. The Meteor […]

YouTube has announced a new live streaming video service, YouTube Live, which they plan to make available to ‘Partners’: Today we’re announcing the initial roll out of YouTube Live, which will integrate live streaming capabilities and discovery tools directly into the YouTube platform for the first time. This begins with a new YouTube Live browse page, […]

Apple has released an update to Garageband for Mac, version 6.02, that improves overall stability and addresses a number of minor issues. Though Apple isn’t hyping this update, it’ could be an important one for Mac-based iPad users. The release brings support for opening projects imported from GarageBand for iPad – so you can start […]

Wizzard Software has announced 2010 financial results, recording a $4.1 million net loss, on revenues of $5,5 million in 2010, a drop from their $6.5 million net loss in 2009.. Wizzard notes that, in terms of net loss, this was Wizzard’s best annual performance in over 8 years. They also note that “We have a […]