http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=15224E8026F36F8E This series of videos demonstrates how to make a podcast with Garageband. The videos are very Apple-centric, but cover a lot of territory if you’re thinking about making podcasts on Macs.

Earlier in the year, we reported on Apple’s banning of the Podcaster iPhone app from the App Store. At the time, Apple explained its decision like this: Since Podcaster assists in the distribution of podcasts, it duplicates the functionality of the Podcast section of iTunes. We called this a bad decision on Apple’s part, because […]

Royal Pingdom has released stats that show the free blogging platform WordPress is the most popular platform for blogs and new media.  They ranked the Technorati top 100 blogs, investigated what blog platforms they are using and found that WordPress has more than twice as many blogs in the top 100 as Movable Type, the blog platform […]

Apple wrapped up its last MacWorld Expo keynote today, delivering a fairly ho-hum collection of incremental updates: iTunes Store - Beginning today, all four major music labels — Universal Music Group, Sony BMG, Warner Music Group and EMI — and thousands of independent labels, will offer their music in the DRM-free iTunes Plus format with higher-quality […]

Pleasant Software has released a major update for Ubercaster, its all-in-one podcasting solution for the Mac. The new version sports native Skype support, Amazon S3 (TM) uploads and other requests from its current user base. Here’s what’s new in Version 1.6: German localization: Ubercaster is finally localized in German; including the build-in Help system. Native Skype support: - It’s […]

Gunp Media Productions’ Podstreamer (App Store link) is a native iPhone application designed to complement the iTunes-iPhone system for listening to podcasts. As the name suggests, Podstreamer is designed to stream podcasts, rather than download them.  It’s great to see a new iPhone podcast client – but Podstreamer doesn’t offer a true alternative to Apple’s […]

The WordPress team created this video to highlight the new features of WordPress 2.7. Much of the focus in WordPress 2.7 has been on usability, which should make it faster than ever to work with WordPress. Here’s a list of what’s new: XMLRPC Comments API (Ticket 7446) Keyboard shortcuts for comment moderation (Ticket 7643) Sticky […]

Wizzard Media announced today that video embedded on internet websites using the Wizzard Player can now be viewed on the iPhone and iPod Touch. In the past, Apple devices, due to their lack of Flash support, have not been able to access most embedded Web video. When visiting a video website using the iPhone, the […]

Blubrry has announced that they’ve released version .5.0 of their Powerpress podcasting plugin for Wordpress.

The latest version incorporates a number of bug fixes as well as some minor enhancements.

Podcast Channels is a new WordPress plugin designed to fill in some of the gaps in WordPress’s native podcasting support: What do you need to podcast with WordPress? Nothing — WordPress puts enclosures in the feed for you. That’s the bare bones and it works well enough. But iTunes metadata would be nice. And, how […]