As I mentioned acouple of weeks ago , we ’re now produce episodes of the Macworld Podcast each and every week . This gives us the freedom to experiment with the formatting , keep on top of current events in the Apple and technology existence , and produce little episodes when they seem warranted .

With all that in mind , I break away from the common interview data formatting and instead , soliloquy about a few things on my mind . Those thing include Apple and its fall music upshot , Chinese media converter spam , and the wonder of GarageBand .

Download Episode #206

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Show Notes

A couple of story link from the first soliloquy : Apple purchases Lala music avail and my first facial expression at the Rdio music streaming religious service .

I mention name in respect to those medium converters companies and brands that have spammed our forums of late . If you have an averting to spammer and the wares they peddle , here ’s a handy listing of company to avoid :

You should take any recommendation you find in a meeting place or on a questionable web site for this variety of software program with a very enceinte grain of salt . These and similar companies have saturated the WWW with this kind of repellent advertising and it ’s often difficult to discern the accuracy . Generally talk , if one of these public utility is packaged in a very generic looking “ boxful ” and has a cartoonish interface ( or look like it was port from Windows ) , avoid it like the infestation . It ’s a ill plan tool that performs a job you could do far more easily ( and less expensively ) with something like HandBrake , RipIt , VideoMonkey , or one of a handful of Firefox extensions .

you could findThe Incomparable Podcast on iTunesas well ason its rest home Website .

And finally , there are ways to acquire an instrument with your Mac other than GarageBand . See instruct to Play an Instrument for other resourcefulness .

you could regain late episodes of our audio podcasts at Macworld ’s podcasting varlet .