The podcast recipe

While I was waiting for the Apple announcements yesterday I discovered a pretty compelling podcast tutorial on Apple's website. The Podcast Recipe seminar is a free online tutorial that, while painfully corny in a few spots, actually gives some nice information on microphones, mixers and the scope of Garageband's podcasting capabilities. If you're a beginner, it's not a bad place to start... if you're a more seasoned podcast creator, but haven't used Garageband before, it showed some of its basic capabilities.

Apple's Mac announcement rumors

The last minute rumors floating about regarding today's Apple announcement... brand new iMacs (including a price drop on the high end 24")... new Mac Minis... a revamped iLife 08 and .Mac. All of these are great news for podcasters who are ready to upgrade their equipment. I'm not anti-Windows at all, but I've been using Macs at Nineball for the majority of my work. Depending on what gets announced today, there just might be some new gear on the way.

The announcements begin at 11 AM PDT... I'm not sure if there is any liveblogging of the event, but MacWorld is liveblogging the announcements... I'll post the scoop as soon as I find out.

UPDATE: New iMacs... iLife 08... it's a party. Details here.

Fake Steve Jobs outed

If you read this blog, I hope you've also been reading Fake Steve Jobs. He's been very funny and has a spot on take on what we all think (or wish) el Jobso has going on in his head. For the last year or so, his true identity has been a secret... until the intrepid New York Times figured out the ruse. Fake Steve Jobs has been outed.

We'll see how this impacts FSJ's rants... now that we know he's Daniel Lyons, an editor at Forbes.com, will that put a damper on the content?

KISS on technology

I present to you, your Friday ridiculousness. Cisco hired KISS to come and speak to their khaki clad crowd. Unfortunately, they also thought it would be prudent to get the band's take on technology.

Memo to Cisco: Script... the... aging... rock... stars. I'm with Paul Stanley... we need mini projectors on handhelds.

Huh? Wha? Enjoy the weekend everyone...

RSS feed spiffied up

Since we're getting more readers here (welcome!) I just spiffied up the RSS feed... feel free to grab the feed via the Feedburner icon in the right sidebar, or right here.

Cool free app: Jing

I've just been lead to a great new app called Jing... it's a free application that makes image capturing and screen videos a snap to make. Coolest part? It's cross platform and includes free hosting for all of your images and screencasts. Now if you need to show your mom how to do something on the computer, make a simple 5 minute video on Jing and send her the link. She can play it like any other video. No more typing out instructions! Also, since it's cross platform there are no worries if you're a PC owner sending to a Mac person, or vice versa. There's even a Linux version in the works... very cool.

Check out the overview video here... it explains it better than I can in a paragraph, which is kind of the whole point of Jing, isn't it?

Apple announces something non-iPhone related

Red alert! Looks like Apple is announcing long-awaited upgrades to some part of their hardware line. The rumor mill has been jamming the system with thoughts on new iMacs. If you believe Fake Steve Jobs (and who wouldn't for fake Mac news?) then you know what's coming. My venerable PowerBook has put in to go from full-time to part-time... 3 years and it wants a pension and a gold watch! Still, with the amount of audio and video it's processed, it deserves to let some new beastie to come along and handle the processing load...