Archive - Sep 16, 2005

Inventive today has pre-announced the upcoming iClip 4, which features a new, stylish user interface by veteran UI designer, Piotr Gajos (Pe8er). To celebrate the forthcoming release, Inventive also announced the "iClip 4 'Re-gift' Giveaway" where a Mac mini, an iPod nano, or an iTunes Music Card will be given away to three lucky winners. Inventive recently won the Mac mini in the DashboardWidgets.com "Favorite Widget" Contest for their iClip lite widget and decided to "re-gift" it for this promotion. iClip 4 will be priced at $29 US and anyone who purchases the current version of iClip for $19.95 will receive a free upgrade to iClip 4 when it's released. Details of the giveaway are at http://inventive.us/RegiftGiveaway/

This application creates podcasts and enhanced podcasts quickly and easily. Podcasts can be uploaded to either a local disk, an iDisk .Mac account. It manages your podcasts by publishing and removing them when they are no longer required. It supports specific iTunes Music Store information such as images, copyright notices, categories and links to web sites. Podcaster publishes podcasts that can be listened to on any iPod, MP3 player or computer.

Podcaster will also create 'enhanced podcasts', these are audio files which contain chapter markers where you can include titles, images and web links.The images in these files can be viewed on an iPod with photo capabilities.