WordPress has announced that a new release of its popular blogging and podcasting platform, WordPress 2.8.
2.8 is more of an incremental update than 2.7. Here are the highlights:
New drag-and-drop widgets admin interface and new widgets API
Syntax highlighting and function lookup built into plugin and theme editors
Browse the theme directory and install themes from the [...]
Apple today introduced Podcast Producer 2, part of Snow Leopard Server. Podcast Producer 2 is designed to be an end-to-end solution for encoding, publishing, and distributing podcasts.
Snow Leopard Server adds two new video capture features:
dual-source capture, enabling you to create picture-in-picture podcasts using Apple-designed templates or your own layout; and
web capture, which lets you capture [...]
Calabarock (App Store link) is a free internet-enabled multi-track audio recorder for the iPhone.
When you create a track in Calabarock, it’s available almost instantly in MP3 format on calabarock.com for others to hear.
The new track is also available instantly for other musicians to play on top of, just as if you were in the studio [...]
Mac software developers Reinvented Software released an updated version of their RSS editor application Feeder on Tuesday.
Feeder 2.0 is an RSS editor for creating a variety of news feeds, including podcasts. This latest version adds weblog integration, announcements, editing and preview improvements, live validation, Amazon S3 uploading, iTunes U support, and an improved user interface.
Reinvented [...]
Wavosaur is a free sound editor, audio editor, wav editor software for editing and recording sounds, wav and mp3 files.
Wavosaur supports basic audio editing (cut, copy, paste, etc.), plus has features for creating audio loops, analyzing audio and doing batch processing.Wavosaur supports VST plugins, ASIO driver, multichannel wav files, real time effect processing.
The program has [...]
Panopto has announced the availability of the latest version of its free lecture publishing platform, CourseCast 2.1, and several new features including live broadcasting and usage analytics.
CourseCast is a client-server application designed to make it easy to capture and publish lectures and presentations as podcasts and streaming media.
CourseCast 2.1 includes a simplified user interface, the [...]
The Blubrry PowerPress plugin for Wordpress version 0.7.1 is now available.
The latest version includes a large number of new features as well as bug fixes.
New Features:
Simple/Advanced Modes
Simple Mode is perfect for podcasters just starting out
Advanced Mode includes additional settings, tools and features.
Enhanced iTunes Summary option (learn more)
Create Unlimited Custom Podcast Feeds
Each Feed includes the same [...]
VersatileMonkey.com has released PodTrapper for the popular Blackberry phone/portable media device. The PodTrapper is a podcatcher, or download manager and player of podcasts.
The $9.99 application allows users to consolidate podcasts a single device, rather than schlepping a Blackberry for phone and texting, and a separate portable media player for podcasts.
Simon Sage of IntoMobile has been [...]
Royal Pingdom has released stats that show the free blogging platform WordPress is the most popular platform for blogs and new media.
They ranked the Technorati top 100 blogs, investigated what blog platforms they are using and found that WordPress has more than twice as many blogs in the top 100 as Movable Type, the blog platform that [...]
Pleasant Software has released a major update for Ubercaster, its all-in-one podcasting solution for the Mac. The new version sports native Skype support, Amazon S3 (TM) uploads and other requests from its current user base.
Here’s what’s new in Version 1.6:
German localization: Ubercaster is finally localized in German; including the build-in Help system.
Native Skype support: - It’s now incredibly easy [...]