Apple has quietly released updates to several of its podcasting-related applications:

GarageBand 4 has been updated to 4.1.1. The update incorporates changes in the September 4.1 update, includes exporting to the iPhone, as well as overall stability fixes.
QuickTime and QuickTime Broadcaster have also been updated. The latest version of QuickTime, 7.3.1, is a minor update incorporating [...]

Apple today introduced an updated version of Garageband as part of the iLife ‘08 personal media suite.
Here’s our pick for the top seven new features or improvements for podcasters:

Multi-take recording - this new feature should make it easier for anyone that has a perfectionist side to get the perfect take without a lot of extra [...]

Apple today introduced iLife ‚Äô08, featuring a major new version of iPhoto and a “completely reinvented” iMovie.
iPhoto ’08 automatically organizes photo libraries into Events that let users more easily manage their growing photo collections, and iMovie ’08 introduces a new way for users to quickly make movies and share them online. Both iPhoto and iMovie [...]

macProVideo.com has released GarageBand 103: Podcasting In GarageBand, a new Garageband training tutorial.
This tutorial teaches valuable podcasting skills including recording and editing podcasts, using GarageBand’s built-in DSP effects to compress and EQ your voice to give it that big podcast sound, making enhanced podcasts with images and URL links listeners can click, and publishing your [...]

GigaVox Media has introduced a new free tool for enhancing podcast audio files prior to posting them online.
The Levelator is a Java application that automatically adjusts the audio levels within your podcast, compressing and normalizing the file to provide more even sound levels. The tool is designed to take audio files and even out the [...]

Apple today introduced a new $899 configuration of the 17-inch iMac designed specifically for education customers, featuring a 1.83 GHz Intel Core Duo processor, a built-in iSight video camera and iLife ‘06. The 17-inch iMac for education is available immediately and will replace the eMac, Apple’s last CRT based computer.
Featuring a 17-inch widescreen LCD display, [...]

Lynda.com, the multimedia training site of Lynda Weinman, has introduced a new series of tutorials on podcast creation, Podcasting with GarageBand 3.The tutorials, by photographer and digital media guru Scott Bourne, guide students through the process of creating a podcast, including: setting up the software, recording voices, selecting music, adding sound effects, enhancing a podcast [...]

Apple has introduced a free program to let kids learn podcasting with GarageBand this summer, Apple Camp.
The day “camps” at Apple stores promise to let kids geek out, making music, movies, podcasts or websites using Mac computers and iLife software.Workshops are geared towards kids with intermediate computer skills. The camps are free, but require registration.

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ClickCaster, a podcasting host and directory currently in public beta testing, has updated the podcasting services it offers, adding direct iPod synchronization, ecommerce services, enhanced stats for podcasters, GarageBand support, and an embeddable podcast player.

The Podcast & Portable Media Expo, being held September 29-30 in Ontario, California, has announced the schedule for this years sessions.
Speaker/instructors will include Michael Geoghegan of Podcast Solutions, Paul Colligan, Rick Klau of Feedburner, a panel of podcast advertising experts, podcast law experts Colette Vogele and Denise Howell, Evo Terra - author of Podcasting for [...]