A podcast is an effective method of publishing recorded talk and music through the internet, in a way that will automatically share your material with your listeners.

Podcaster allows you to produce enhanced podcasts.
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Podcast Maker is a tool for Mac OS X that makes podcasting simple.

The tutorial video at www.potionfactory.com/podcastmaker/ shows how fantastically easy it is to create a Podcast from an exisiting mp3 recording. It produces the XML code to go with your recording. What it doesn't do is register the podcast with iTunes. You will need to do that yourself manually.

It allows you to make enhanced podcasts with chapters and integrated graphics.

Visual Hub from Techspansion software allows you to easily convert video from one format to another. At the 'easy' level there are few choices to make before getting the job done.
The Advanced panel of VisualHub allows every aspect of encoding to be modified. Automatically crop, change the size, the framerate, the bitrate, the decoding method, and much more. Helpfully the software warns you before you make advanced changes - "Don't - You'll screw it all up!".

Features:
• Fast conversion from nearly every video format to iPod, PSP, DV, DVD, AVI, MP4, WMV, MPEG and Flash.
• Convert any file in three steps. Click, drag, click.
• Fit up to 18 hours of video on one DVD. Play it in any standalone DVD player.
• Xgrid support. Use the power of every Mac on your network for batch encoding.
• QuickTime Pro or special plugins not required.
• DivX/XviD AVIs, all forms of MPEG video, and many other formats QuickTime struggles with are supported.
• Batch Processing of multiple files. Save in-place, or to a different folder.
• Very comprehensive Advanced panel to modify every aspect of encoding.
• Dynamic Preview - See results before beginning a long encode.
• Stitch multiple files together to combine videos.
• Highly detailed, informative Users Guide.
• Universal Binary for PowerPC and Intel Macs.

Visit www.techspansion.com/visualhub/ for more details and to download & purchase.

Pivot Stick Animator is an excellent way for children to get into animation. Windows XP.
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