Foodev has updated Caster – its podcasting app for the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad, to support multi-track recording and the iPad. Caster is a $4.99 app designed to let you create and publish podcasts on your mobile device, including podcast recording, audio editing, uploading and RSS publishing. Features: Record chunks of audio at a […]

This is a preview of Ohm Studio – a new Internet music collaboration platform that looks a bit like GarageBand for the Web. The promo video is focused on “cloud-based” collaborative music making, but it’s easy to imagine using the same service for podcast creation.

Matt Akers, host of the Zune Insider Podcast, talks with Nate Muller, a PM from the Zune team, about the awesomeness that is the Zune HD firmware update. Highlights include Smart DJ and using the Zune HD on a TV through a Zune HD dock. We haven’t tried this – because we’re still chafing from […]

Mashable today highlighted a site called iPad Peek, calling it a “nifty tool that lets you see how any website will be rendered on the iPad.” It sounds like a good idea, Unfortunately, iPad Peek doesn’t do much more than put a pretty iPad picture frame around the site you want to test. iPad Peek […]

WordPress.org has released and updated version of WordPress for iPhone – making it compatible with the Apple iPad. The new version, officially WordPress for iPhone OS, isn’t a leap forward in terms of features – but the extra screen real estate available on the iPad makes a huge difference. Where editing blog posts on the […]

Entrackment (App Store link) is a $2.99 app for the Apple iPad that turns it into a wireless control surface for GarageBand. If you create podcasts in GarageBand and you’ve got an iPad, Entrackment is a no-brainer. It’s cheap and it lets you control all the primary recording functions of GarageBand.

The first reviews are coming in for the new Apple iPad and the consensus is that: It’s not just a big iPod touch after all; and It’s actually sort of magical and revolutionary. Here’s a quick roundup of the reviews: USA Today says “Apple has pretty much nailed it with this first iPad, though there’s […]

Automattic’s Matt Mullenweg has announced a new service, VaultPress that is designed to meet the growing need for automated backups and security patches for WordPress self-hosted sites. Here’s how Mullenweg describes the service: The vision of VaultPress is to ensure that blogs and sites under its care are always completely secure, regardless of what happens. […]

Remember the Joojoo? The Crunchpad? That much-hyped $500 tablet computer that’s not the Apple iPad? No? Despite generating a lot of buzz with tech bloggers, Joojoo creators Fusion Garage appears to have had difficulty translating that into orders. Gizmodo reports that there were 90 pre-orders for the JooJoo, and 15 of those were returned. Preorders […]

Seton Hill University, a Catholic liberal-arts university based in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, has announced plans to give an Apple iPad to every full-time student in fall 2010. According to the school: The iPad initiative kicks off the University’s Griffin Technology Advantage Program. This new program provides students with the best in technology and collaborative learning tools, […]