Archive for June, 2005



Recording Your Podcast

Apple Shows you how to record a podcast with Garageband.
[Scripting News]

iTunes 4.9 VBlogging

I subscribed to the Make podcast through iTunes 4.9 and when I fired it up this morning there was short video demo of Google Earth that Phil Torrone of Make did. It’s very nice that iTunes 4.9 can handle Quicktime video when you subscribe to a podcast if the subscription offers it.

New iPods

Apple has gone with only color screens on the iPods and dropped the iPod Photo name. You can no longer get the 30GB model and then came in a 20GB (299.00) and a 60GB (399.00) model. The iPod mini has stayed the same, as well as the iPod shuffle though they did drop the price [...]

New Ball Game

iTunes 4.9 was released today with podcasting support. I just downloaded it and subscribed to my first podcast the Daily Source Code. Right now having only played with it for a few minutes it’s the best podcatching client out there. Believe me I’ve tried them all on the Mac side. I’ll need to play with [...]

Dave Winer … Tuesday is a big day for iTunes and podcasting. The client ships with RSS 2.0-with-enclosures support, and Apple will announce a big corporate content partnership.
There indications out there a iTunes and podcasting announcement will be part of a July 7th media event that Apple is holding. I hope Dave is right I’m [...]

SL Tribune

My local paper the Salt Lake City Tribune is FINALLY offering RSS feeds.

Chris Breen of Playlist on the possible effect on some podcaster’s bandwidth bill with the upcoming iTunes 4.9 and it’s support for podcasting. Be careful what you wish for.

The Mac Observer Apple Computer has sold more than 50 million songs on its European iTunes Music Store (iTMS) in their first year, the company announced Thursday.
Apple is on a roll right now …..

Can HD rescue radio?

CNN/Money
Terrestrial radio is under assault. The attacks are coming from all sides — satellite radio, iPods, subscription music services, broadband radio, and podcasting. Given all that, the $20 billion a year radio industry has to reinvent itself. Fast.
So what’s a radio executive to do? Industry insiders are excited about high-definition radio, which marries analog and [...]

Macworld has a review of one of my favorite programs OmniOutliner Professional 3.0.

IHT The days of stringing a wire across the room to hear a shortwave radio broadcast from the other side of world ended long ago.
Podcasting, the creation of audio recordings that can be easily downloaded from the Internet, has made it possible for just about anyone with a computer to reach a global audience with [...]

Mobiles as iPod-killer?

Netimperative There’s only one thing truly holding mobile phones back from trampling the iPod shuffle. The trouble is, they might never overcome it.

Erotic Podcasts

MarketWatch While 40% of the Internet-delivered audio shows focus on music, science, technology and comedy, the most popular category for users is erotica, according to Alex Nesbitt, president of Bella Ventures Inc. “The supply is not yet meeting market demands,” he wrote in a just-released analysis titled, “The Podcast Value Chain Report.”
Here we go a [...]

Mobile Pipeline has a sneak peak on the Nokia’s 770 Internet Tablet. Looks like it has some bugs that need to be addressed before it’s ready for prime time.

MacMinute News Apple and the Sundance Channel have signed a deal to make content from the channel available via iTunes, reports AdAge (free subscription required). “One of the first iTunes podcast features scheduled from the Sundance Channel and Air America will be talk show host Al Franken. For the budding Sundance network, the iTunes deal [...]

The Register Although it’s still four to five months away from release, the N91 is shaping up as Nokia’s first serious challenge to the booming iPod business: a hard-disk based phone optimized for music playback. We took it through its paces.
Unless this phone is subsidize by the carriers it will be a niche product at [...]

Podcasting News PodcastAwards.com has announced that it is taking nominations for the first annual People’s Choice Podcast Awards.
Categories for the awards include, People’s Choice, Best Produced, Top Rated, Sound Seeing, Business, Comedy, Religion/Inspiration and others. Nominations will be accepted through June 30, 2005.
Why should television be the only media that have idiotic award shows that [...]

Make The next version of iTunes, 4.9 is out grabbing podcasts from site around the web, likely from testers at Apple. Logs are showing a new user agents “Agent: iTunes/4.9 (Macintosh; N; PPC)” and then the podcasts are being downloaded. ….

Ericsson, Napster Partner

Mac Observer
Ericsson AB, the world’s largestmaker of mobile-phone networks, will start an online music service with Napster in the next year, the two companies announced late Tuesday. The move could put the Napster brand inside mobile phones to compete against a similar venture currently being developed by Apple Computer and Motorola
The service, which provides both [...]

Playlist Recently, ABC began podcasting some of its more popular news programs. Following quickly on its heels, NBC announced that it would do the same. The BBC is podcasting, as is the Canadian CBC Radio, and some NPR shows such as On The Media are practically long in the tooth when it comes to podcasting. [...]