This week, Felix and I are joined by special guest Jen - our fabulously talented sound engineer - for a discussion on professional-level audio tools and software. Check below for links to products we mentioned … enjoy!

Skype Call Recorder ($14.95)
Conference Recorder ($14.95)
Quicktime Pro ($29.99)
Audio Hijack Pro ($32)
Hot Recorder ($14.95)
Pamela ($12.95 - $36.95)
Nicecast ($40)
Pro Tools ($295 […]

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Making my way through the dozens of emails I get in a day (GeekyMom you win…I think if I got as many emails as you do I think I would just cry), I found this wee gem from a language textbook publishing company:
Dear Professor:
We at (name of publisher) are very excited to extend to […]

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Last summer, the Google Summer of Code 2005 debuted as a project designed “to introduce students to the world of open source software development.” Programmers from dozens of open-source software projects signed up as mentors, and students from all over the world turned out a really impressive depth and breadth of projects. The project was […]

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Yesterday, one of my favorite tech / gadget blogs featured a blurb reporting that “a team of Chinese engineers” (read: hackers) have “reverse-engineered” (read: cracked) Skype. I won’t re-hash the legal, moral, and economic implications of such a development; the author of the blog post to which Gizmodo refers has done a fine job of […]

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Over the next month or so, we’ll be rolling out several new tools in the Lab for small-scale testing, including self-hosted blogging using 10.4 Server and Wordpress Multiuser, class wikis using MediaWiki (the wiki software behind Wikipedia), and Skype. We’ve been using Skype for a while from our respective homes (see the last few EdTechTalk […]

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