Apple’s iOS app review process has long been the source of criticism: It’s too slow, it’s too arbitrary or it’s biased. Unfortunate news about the Android platform, though, suggests that maybe Apple’s app review process may not be so heinous after all. Android Police reports that 21 popular free apps for Android phones, apps that […]

Apple will introduce a new podcasting application, Podcast Publisher, in Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, according to a report at 9to5mac: Podcast Publisher allows users to create as many shows as they want and within each show they can have episodes. Podcast Publisher lets you capture video and/or audio for your show, and you can […]

Tascam has introduced the DR-05, a $99 portable stereo recorder with high-resolution audio. Features: The stereo recorder features a pair of condenser microphones with sensitivity up to 125dB SPL and low noise. The design of the DR-05 is optimized for sound quality, from the dedicated power supply for the codec to bring out the full […]

Rain Computers has released Venturi, a high performance computer designed for media editng and production. Performance features include: a quad-core or optional 6-core Intel Xeon processor DDR3 triple channel memory a Serial ATA drives capable of streaming up to 6 gigabits per second. Window 7 Pro 64-bit, tuned by Rain for peformance. Venturi is available […]

Macgasm’s Joshua Schnell has posted his thoughts on using an iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad as an iOS podcasting rig. Count him as converted: Today my system consisted of Mic > Mixer > iRig > iPod touch. It worked out a lot better than I thought it would. So well in fact that I might […]

Tech news aggregator Techmeme has notified a short list of new media heavyweights that it has ‘whitelisted” their twitter accounts and will be reposting their tweets as headline news: If you tweet something and include a Techmeme permalink, your tweet *will* appear in “Discussion” under the headline you’ve linked, because your Twitter account is on […]

Publishers of The Daily – the major new new app for the Apple iPad – have published a mea culpa at their blog, admitting that their app is buggy and saying that they are working on improving it: We’ve had massive uptake since Wednesday’s launch, and with that kind of audience scale in such a short […]

Electronica artist Moby has announced more free music at mobygratis.com – his free music site for indie, student & non-profit film-makers: today we put up my last album, ‘wait for me’ (which features prominently in academy award nominated ‘waste land’, as well as paul haggis’ last movie ‘the next 3 days’) on mobygratis. so if you’re […]

Zurich-based photographer Micro Wilhelm discovered the dark side of the cloud today when he tried to log into his Flickr account and found that his account, and 5 years of his photos, no longer existed: He contacted Flickr about the issue, and their response added little to the “Oops!” message above: Unfortunately, I have mixed […]

Splice is an alternative video editor for the iPhone 4 that comes in a free, ad-supported version and a $1.99 ad-free version. Splice lets you create and edit videos from start to finish via your iPhone or iPod Touch. Features Include: Simple, easy-to-use ‘drop-and-drag’ features for assembling video clips and photos Splice Store with hundreds […]