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Podcasting advice for the amateur or expert
There's no shortage of podcasting equipment out there for amateurs or professionals. These audio devices can range from a few bucks to a few thousand bucks, which sometimes makes it difficult to figure out exactly what equipment is best for you. Well, lucky for you Dan Benjamin at Hivelogic has written a very thorough article on the best equipment in every price range. It covers all bases, from the person who has never recorded before to the person making the leap into the "pro" category and ready to drop a grand to improve audio quality. As an amateur podcaster myself I was a little surprised that my beloved Ubercaster and Blue Snowball were left out in the cold, but the article is still very helpful to people looking for the best hardware and software at different price points. If you've been considering buying or upgrading your gear, this is the article to read.
Hivelogic Enkoder is back and better than ever
The talented Dan Benjamin brings us Enkoder 4.0, a nifty utility that allows you to create JavaScript links to your email address that scavenging robots have a hard time reading, thus (hopefully) reducing your amount of spam. Of course, as Benjamin notes, there is no perfect way to prevent spam altogether. Even so, using tools like this, especially on behalf of your clients, can make you look like a hero. The code ("kode"?) it generates appears to be more robust than prior versions as well, with every character in the email address very well obfuscated. With the old version, I could pick out three or four characters in a pattern that looked vaguely like the email address, but this one generates code that's practically unreadable. In a good way. One nit-picky problem with this 4.0 release is the tab order of the fields, which I'm sure can be corrected in a snap. Enkoder fields even save your prior entries so you can quickly re-use them later. The technology behind Enkoder is also available as a web form, if you prefer. Enkoder is donationware, and works with Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.5. Update, June 13: Enkoder 4.0.1 is now available, fixing the Tiger crash-on-launch problem, and the field tab order.
