Posts Tagged ‘ free software ’

Free App CellSpin Brings Podcasting, Photo Blogging To iPhone

Jul 29th, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: Podcasting Software, iPhone

CellSpin Soft has announced it has added support for Apple’s iPhone to its mobile blogging software platform.
CellSpin is designed to let you capture audio, photos and text on the iPhone and publish it to your blog or favorite social media sites. Supported sites include

MySpace
Facebook
Twitter
Pownce,
Blogger
Picasa
Flickr
Live Journal
Live Spaces
TypePad
eBay

CellSpin’s free iPhone application supports:

Voice blogging
Photo blogging
Text blogging
Posting pre-existing media [...]



Plug-In Fixes PodPress Problem With WordPress 2.6

Jul 26th, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: Podcasting Services

A lot of people are reporting incompatibilities between Mighty Seek’s PodPress, the popular free podcasting add-on for WordPress, and the recently-announced WordPress 2.6.
Earlier in the week, we reported a simple hack you could use to get things working again. 
A reader, John Leavitt, sends word of an even easier fix - the No Revisions plug-in. It disables the new Revisions feature, [...]



Control Your Music Player From Firefox

Jun 17th, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: General

FoxyTunes 3.0 for Firefox is a browser plug-in that turns any webpage with media files into a playlist that you can play right there on the page, without needing to launch a separate player. It also adds controls to the browser window for the most commonly used features in iTunes and other media players.
The latest [...]



Apple WWDC Update

Jun 11th, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: General, iPhone, iPods & Portable Media Players

While the Steve Jobs keynote at the WWDC was underwhelming to many, there’s been a lot of interesting related news that’s come out in the last two days:

Most iPhone apps are going to be free - Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster, took some time Monday following Steve Jobs’s opening keynote to chat with 20 Apple developers. He [...]



Copy Songs From Any iPod To Your Mac With Senuti

May 29th, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: Digital Music, iPod Accessories, iPods & Portable Media Players

Senuti is a simple app that lets you copy songs from an iPod back to your Mac. 
Got multiple Macs? This could be an easy way to put your music onto your extra machine. 
To copy songs back to your computer, all you have to do is select the songs and click the transfer button in the [...]



Instant Handbrake Makes Ripping DVDs A No-Brainer

Apr 11th, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: Podcasting Software, Video, iPod Accessories, iPods & Portable Media Players

If you want to rip DVDs to use on your iPod or iPhone, the free OS X app Instant HandBrake makes it a no-brainer.
Instant Handbrake is a stripped down version of HandBrake, a general video ripping tool. Stripping away the extra options makes the app a lot less confusing for casual users.
Here’s how you can [...]



NewsGator Feed Readers Now Free

Jan 9th, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: Podcasting Software

NewsGator announced that all of its client RSS reader products are now available free of charge, including NetNewsWire 3.1, FeedDemon 2.6, and NewsGator Go! for Windows Mobile 2.0. The public beta of NewsGator Inbox 3.0 also began today.
“It‚Äôs all about ubiquity,” said Greg Reinacker, NewsGator CTO and founder. “We found that the more people that [...]



Free Audio Editor Available for PC & Mac

Nov 19th, 2007 | By James Lewin | Category: Podcasting Software

NCH Swift Sound’s free WavePad audio editing software is now available for Mac OSX as well as for Windows. It’s a wav and mp3 editor, but also supports vox, gsm, real audio, au, aif, flac, ogg and other formats.
WavePad is designed to let you make and edit music, voice and other audio recordings. When [...]



New DJ Software Is Cool, It’s Free And It Works With Your iPod

Nov 16th, 2007 | By James Lewin | Category: Podcasting Software, iPods & Portable Media Players

What’s better than free dj software for Mac and PC that works with your iPod?
Free dj software for Mac and PC that works with your iPod that doesn’t suck - which is what you get with Beatport Sync.
Native Instruments, which makes the leading DJ software Traktor, and Beatport, an online music service for DJs, have [...]



Free MP3 to iPod Audio Book Converter

Jun 29th, 2007 | By James Lewin | Category: Digital Music, General, iPods & Portable Media Players

freeiPodsoftware.com has a free MP3 to iPod Audio Book Converter that turns any number of MP3 files into one iPod Audio Book File. The advantage of doing this is that you can make use of the advanced audio book functionality of your iPod.
For example, your iPod remembers where you were listening in your audio book, [...]