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 […]

If you still have any doubt about whether podcasting is becoming a mainstream phenomenon, Oprah and Apple have announced that her series of podcasts is available through iTunes.

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 […]

Apple has published an article looking at how the Orange County Sheriff’s Department (OCSD) is using podcasting for communciations and training: The Orange County Sheriff’s Department (OCSD), much like any organization with a critical mission, requires lightning-fast communications between senior staff and troops. The department also needs to deliver in-depth training, especially for situations that involve a […]

Apple has announced that 2009 would be the last year it participated in MacWorld.

It also announced that Steve Job’s wouldn’t be attending for the keynote – effectively killing off the company’s participation immediately.

Today there were a lot of big tech stories that, on the surface, seem unrelated: Verizon is rolling out a Blackberry Storm OS update; S&P Cuts Motorola’s rating to junk; AT&T hopes to have their own uber-phone OS; Dell is charging a $150 premium for Windows XP; The Kindle may be getting pwned by the […]

iPhone application review site 148Apps reports that Apple’s App Store has hit a milestone, now offering more than 10,000 iPhone apps.  Other interesting facts: Most iPhone apps sell for less than $2.00 Games and Entertainment are the most popular categories for iPhone apps If you purchased every iPhone app, it would cost you over $31,000. […]

The Electronic Frontier Foundation reports that Apple appears to be using the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) to limit what iPod owners can do with their portable media players: At the heart of this is the iTunesDB file, the index that the iPod operating system uses to keep track of what playable media is on […]

Apple today introduced iPhone update 2.2. It’s a free update that adds a variety of new features, the most notable of which are adding street views to Google Maps and support for podcast downloads.  The updated podcasting features are welcome, but unfortunately Apple’s implementation of podcast downloads on the iPhone is a usability disaster.  Here’s […]