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Apr 27 2009

From the Garage to the Billboard

Amplify your GarageBand with these free downloads.

mu From the Garage to the BillboardDhos_garage

If your pro audio setup has more than one drive, you can use this utility to install Garage Band on a volume other than your startup disk.

mu From the Garage to the BillboardDent du Midi

Pack midi files into AIFF wrappers to use in Garage Band as loops. This opens up a whole slew of free music sources.

mu From the Garage to the BillboardSoundflower

This app creates a “virtual” audio device that allows you to record to applications, from other apps. For example, this app would allow you to record from iTunes to Garage Band, without the degradation of recording it externally.

mu From the Garage to the BillboardAccess Virus Loop Collection for GarageBand and GarageBand Loops by Bitshift Audio

Loops! Now there’s no excuse for a lack of creativity.

mu From the Garage to the BillboardTuneTime

This app makes it easy to add your music to the TuneYard.com music sharing site. Everyone’s got to start somewhere, right?

There’s something great about making your own music. With the power of GarageBand, your Mac could become a musicians best friend. Well, that is after your axe.

Brian

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Apr 27 2009

Instant Podcasting

Between Audacity and Garage Band, you can do a lot in recording and editing podcasts. However, if quick and spontaneous is your thing you’ll get tired of editing and exporting (and uploading and posting to RSS). Why not skip some of that and get it out sooner? While we’re at it, lets let someone else host the file?

Odeo

From the beginning I’ve thought Odeo was going to be good for something. Now that’s clear. Odeo has a podcasting studio that lets you record right from the browser and host the recording at Odeo. The tool is easy to use, and its easy to subscribe to your “inbox” in iTunes.

PodBasket

PodBasket will turn an online sound file into a podcast in seconds. PodBasket will create and maintain your XML. Its a great service if you record your audio locally (and host it yourself) and don’t want to mess with the XML. If you’ve got the opposite problem (XML but no enclosures) head over to FeedBurner to add your sound file to your feed.

ClickCaster

This free online service records in-browser, hosts and manages your feed. ClickCaster allows you to set advanced properties on your feed, like adding an image. If for some reason you feel entitled to sell your podcast (rather than offer it for FREE) you can do that too.

Poderator and Podomatic

Poderator supports still more advanced iTunes tagging and supports audio in other formats like AAC. Podomatic hosts and records podcasts with images and builds a front-end site to go with your podcast.

With a great selection of online podcastng tools, there’s nothing stopping you from broadcasting yourself to the pod listening world.

Brian

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Apr 27 2009

Catch and Release– Screen Capture and Sharing Utilities

Skitch

I must apologize for the fact that this app is still in invite-only beta. For those lucky enough to get in on the beta, its become the application for shooting and sharing their desktop. Skitch takes screenshots, allows you to edit the image and then share it via your MySkitch account.

skitch Catch and Release Screen Capture and Sharing Utilities

Skitch includes many image-enhancing tools adding circles, arrows and text to images. There are other useful features like capture from iSight, iPhoto integration and a very slick interface. This is a beta application, and I have to say 3 of my first 5 screen caps crashed the app.

Jing

Jing is another shoot-and-share application. This one is cross platform and aims to integrate into the OS. Jing allows not only still image capture, but video capture as well.

jing Catch and Release Screen Capture and Sharing Utilities

I didn’t have the most success with Jing, I also experienced crashes on capture, but your experience may be better. The promise of recording real-time video of your desktop is worth the shot.

ImageWell

My long-time favorite capture-and-share application has recently been updated. Among the new features is the ability to upload to Flickr, ImageShack and SmugMug. ImageWell is the only one of this week’s picks that is Panther compatible.

LogMeIn

This isn’t a screen cap utility, but it does allow you to share your screen. A preview version of this remote desktop tool is available now for Mac. It runs as a menu extra and allows you to share your desktop with others (and vice versa) via the ‘net.

That wraps our look at screen sharing. Time to tidy that desktop and get social.

Brian

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