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 […]

Ambrosia Software has announced the release of WireTap Anywhere 2.0, a major update to the audio routing and mixing software – a popular tool for Mac-based podcasters. WireTap Anywhere can take the audio output from any combination of Mac applications or hardware input devices, and route it into your favorite audio processing applications. The new 2.0 […]

Microsoft has announced that the Windows Phone 7 Connector for the Mac is now available as a beta version. Windows Phone 7 Connector is designed to let you synchronize your music, videos, photos and podcasts from iTunes and iPhoto to your Windows Phone 7, so you can take your media with you wherever you go. […]

Podcasting Software: Reinvented Software released Feeder 2.1 today, an update to its Mac RSS newsfeed and podcast feed editor. Version 2.1 adds support for WebDAV publishing, an updated iTunes Store preview and customizable colors for iTunes U page previews. This release also adds drag and drop Sparkle appcasts, improves MP3 tagging, working with Twitter accounts, […]

This video tutorial, by Brent Powell, looks at how to use free software – Audacity – to record, edit and export a podcast. Audacity is available for Mac, Windows and Linux.

Orb Networks today announced the availability of Orb for Macintosh, a free application that lets you stream your iTunes library over the Internet. Orb lets anything from iTunes be accessed on any internet-connected device, without downloading titles beforehand or uploading anything to the cloud. The free Orb application and service enable the streaming of any […]

Microsoft is considering porting its Zune software and services to other platforms, including Apple Mac OS X.

There’s no guarantee that Microsoft is going to pursue this strategy.

If they do, though, they may actually be starting to think different about the Zune.

Kodak has released the Kodak Zi8 Pocket Video Camera, a $179 HD handicam which features – finally – an external mic jack. There are a lot of cheap portable video cameras, but almost all of them suffer from horrible sound and no support for better mics. Let’s hope that other companies will follow Kodak’s lead […]

The Participatory Culture Foundation, a Massachusetts based non-profit, has announced an update to the open source Miro internet TV platform that features faster performance and audio podcasts. Changes in Miro 2.5 include: Miro 2.5 launches 2 – 4 times faster (especially for users with lots of videos and feeds) New audio podcast section of the […]

Apple today announced an update to Final Cut Studio, with more than 100 new features and new versions of Final Cut Pro, Motion, Soundtrack Pro, Color and Compressor. Here’s what’s new: Final Cut Studio features Final Cut Pro 7 which expands Apple’s ProRes codec family to support virtually any workflow and includes Easy Export for […]