Posts Tagged ‘ Windows ’

Making A Podcast With Free Podcasting Software

Feb 11th, 2010 | By | Category: How to Podcast, Podcasting Software

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.



Rain Computers’ LiveBook Studio Puts Quad-Core Performance In A Windows Laptop

Jan 10th, 2010 | By | Category: Audio Podcasting, General, Podcasting Hardware

Rain Computers will debut its LiveBook Studio, a high performance quad-core notebook based on Intel’s “Nehalem” Core i7 architecture, at the Winter NAMM Show. LiveBook Studio will be available for sale starting in early February 2010 with a trio of quad-core processors, drives up to 500GB and up to 8GB of 1333MHz DDR3 memory. It [...]



Finally – A Cheap Handicam With A Mic Jack

Aug 19th, 2009 | By | Category: Digital Video Recorder, Video

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 [...]



Miro 2.5 Gets Audio Podcast Support

Aug 11th, 2009 | By | Category: Podcast Distribution, Podcasting Software

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 [...]



New Remix Workstation Designed For Windows Audio, Video Production

Jan 30th, 2009 | By | Category: Computer Hardware, Podcasting Hardware

Maingear Computers has announced the availability of a new PC targeting Photoshop, graphic design, video production, pro audio creators, the Remix Workstation. Starting at $2,000, the Remix Workstation features high-end audio and graphics features, liquid cooling and sound insulation to minimize noise.



Windows Users At Risk From MP3s, Multimedia Files

Jul 18th, 2008 | By | Category: General

Security firm TrustedSource reports that a new trojan has been identified that infects multi-media files on Windows computers. The malware embeds malicious content into multimedia files based on the Advanced Systems Format (ASF), a widely used format for video and audio content such as MP3 and WMA music files, WMV video files and others. When [...]



Skype 4.0 Beta For Windows

Jun 18th, 2008 | By | Category: General, Podcasting Software

Internet telephony service Skype has announced a new version, Skype 4.0 Beta for Windows. The new version focuses on improving video telephony features and offering better usability. Here are a couple of videos that explain the Skype 4.0: Skype 4.0 Beta – Introductory Demoby SkypeConversations Mike Bartlett introduces Skype, and demos the new Skype 4.0 [...]



Microsoft Makes Multi-Touch Interfaces Look Boring

May 28th, 2008 | By | Category: General

Microsoft today released a video, above, showcasing multi-touch apps developed for future versions of Windows. According to Microsoft: Touch is quickly becoming a common way of directly interacting with software and devices. Touch-enabled surfaces are popping up everywhere including laptop touch pads, cell phones, remote controls, GPS devices, and more. What becomes even more compelling [...]



Tascam Updates Audio Interface Drivers, USB Products To Support Windows Vista

Nov 2nd, 2007 | By | Category: Podcasting Hardware, Podcasting Software

Tascam has posted updated drivers for the FW-1082, FW-1804 and FW-1884 audio interfaces to support Windows Vista 32 and Vista 64, Microsoft’s latest operating systems. In addition, drivers for Tascam’s legacy USB products US-122, US-224 and US-428 have been updated. Nearly all of Tascam’s interfaces have been now been updated to support Windows Vista. “Windows [...]



PCAudioLabs Intros New Windows Audio Workstations

Sep 24th, 2007 | By | Category: Computer Hardware, Podcasting Hardware

PCAudioLabs has introduced two new digital audio PCs, Solar and Lunar, to their Create product line. Both systems come equipped with dual hard drives, dual video outputs, 8 USB ports, 2 Texas Instruments FireWire ports and 2 Gigabytes of RAM. The systems are “optimized and tweaked” for demanding audio production. Features: Intel Core2 Duo 1.8GHz [...]