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9to5Mac Podcast Network

9to5Mac has been involved in podcasting since 2013. What started as a weekly Google Hangouts on YouTube evolved into the 9to5Mac Happy Hour podcast. The show now has years of episodes with more released every week.

9to5Mac Daily takes a different approach from the hour long analysis of the news. This podcast gives listeners a brief rundown of the daily headlines in the world of Apple — perfect for short commutes, daily workouts, or getting the news from your Apple HomePod or Amazon Echo.

An hour long weekly Apple news podcast called 9to5Mac Happy Hour released on Fridays
A brief news podcast called 9to5Mac Daily with episodes released Monday through Friday
A bi-weekly podcast about Apple in the enterprise called Apple @ Work

Other podcasts on the network:

9to5Mac Happy Hour

A weekly podcast discussing the latest in Apple and technology.

Subscribe to 9to5Mac Happy Hour on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify, Stitcher, TuneIn, Google Play Music, or through our dedicated RSS feed for and other podcast players including Castro and Pocket Casts.

New episodes of Happy Hour are available every Friday.

Hosts:

9to5Mac Daily

9to5Mac Daily is available on Apple Podcasts app, Stitcher, TuneIn, Google Play, or through our dedicated RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players.

New episodes of 9to5Mac Daily are released Monday through Friday.

Hosts:

Chance Miller & Guests

Electrek

Subscribe to the Electrek podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn, and more apps including Stitcher and Overcast.

Quick Charge

Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from Electrek. Quick Charge is available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn and our RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players.

9to5Toys Daily

Listen to a recap of the best deals and news from 9to5Toys each day at noon. 9to5Toys Daily is available on Apple Podcasts, Google Play or through our dedicated RSS feed.

Overcast 1.1 adds CarPlay, iPad layout and landscape mode on iPhone

Benjamin Mayo Nov 11 2014 - 3:40 pm PT

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Overcast 1.1 is out now, bringing several big improvements to the podcast client. The update adds rotation support for the iPhone, which is particularly helpful for people with car docks that enforce landscape device orientation. Arment tastefully uses popovers for the playback settings, a UI element that is generally underused on the iPhone.

For iPad, the app is now truly optimized for the larger canvas, making liberal use of split views and modal sheets. Given that Overcast prides itself on a clean appearance, a native iPad UI for navigation is very welcome indeed. Like the stock Mail app, a list view sits side-by-side with episode details like artwork and show notes. 9to5Mac reviewed Overcast when it originally launched, so check that out if you are looking for more details about the app’s functionality.

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Ending today! Get SnagIt, Flux 4, Tunes Cleaner, Boom, Mariner Write, Elite Keylogger Pro and more for $10

9to5 Staff Feb 18 2014 - 4:51 am PT

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From 9to5toys.com:

Stack Social’s ‘Name your own price bundle’ with some solid offerings starting at $10.31 and an email address ends today.

The bundle includes:

Snagit For Mac ($50) – The #1 Rated Screen Capture tool for Mac
Flux 4 ($140) – Powerful Mac Web Design Made Easy
Jump Desktop ($30) – Connect and Share With Any Computer in the World
Boom For Mac ($7) – System-Wide Volume Booster
MacX Video Converter Pro ($50) – Convert Any Video Format (including YouTube) for
Playback Across All Apple Devices
Tunes Cleaner ($30) – Easily Delete Duplicate Songs to Revitalize Your iTunes
Mariner Write ($50) – A Streamlined, Simple Editor for your Mac
CameraBag 2 ($20) – Ultimate Desktop Photo Editing
Chronicle 5 ($15) – Never Worry About Your Bills Again
Folx Pro ($20) – An Easier and Faster Way to Download Files & Torrents
Elite Keylogger Pro ($49) – The Undetectable Keystroke Logger for Mac

If you are feeling generous, 10% of all sales go to a charity of your choice, and get on the leaderboard (which qualifies you to enter a drawing for a MacBook Air).

Review: Castro for iPhone is a modern approach to an iOS 7 podcast client

Benjamin Mayo Dec 10 2013 - 8:00 am PT

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Castro is a brand new podcasting app for the iPhone (available in the App Store for $2.99). It’s not an update to an existing podcast client. It’s a new app. It doesn’t have any legacy to anchor it down because it really is a fresh start.

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Apple patents more sophisticated enhanced podcast ‘Audio Hyperlinking’ system, possibly for iTunes Radio

Ben Lovejoy Aug 8 2013 - 7:00 am PT

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PatentlyApple spotted an interesting-looking patent that could have both editorial and advertising applications in podcasts and iTunes Radio broadcasts. It’s of course written in the usual dense patent language:

Hyperlinks within an audio stream provide a way for a listener to access linked resources. An audio hyperlink encoded in an audio stream indicates the presence of an audio hyperlink in the audio stream, as well as providing information for traversing the hyperlink to the linked resource. The hyperlink may be conditionally traversed upon a user interaction or automatically upon detection in the audio stream, possibly pausing the audio stream containing the hyperlink during the traversal of the hyperlink and resuming the audio stream if the audio stream is returned to from the linked material. The linked material may be other audio content, but may also be any other type of desired content that may be accessible by the system processing the audio stream.

Or, in plain English, a simple audio signal can be included in a podcast that can do various funky stuff. It could, for example, allow a spoken-word podcast to display photos to illustrate points being made, or include a link to an optional video which the user could activate with a spoken command. In that example, the podcast would automatically pause while the video is playing and resume again when it ends.

While existing Enhanced Podcasts can do some of this, the new system would be significantly more powerful and flexible. It could launch any form of media, from a webpage to a movie, and would be available in any audio format, not just AAC.

While we’d hope to see some of the editorial applications I’ve described, it’s also likely to be used to activate advertising on iTunes Radio.

Vemedio releases Instacast for Mac public beta (Updated 2x: early bird pricing, Instacast Mac 1.0 available)

Zac Hall May 1 2013 - 6:25 am PT

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Instacast for iOS is a hugely popular podcast catcher for podcast fans, but aside from iTunes, there hasn’t been much activity in this space on the desktop.

Last year, Vemedio, maker of Instacast, launched version 3.0 of their iOS podcast client, which moved from using iCloud sync to their own more reliable solution.

Today, Vemedio released its first public beta of Instacast for Mac for free, but I’m sure we can expect Vemedio to be a paid app when it launches.

Download the beta here.

Instacast for Mac public beta available for download. Have fun! http://t.co/pvBEqoGclZ

— Vemedio (@vemedio) May 1, 2013

Shameless plug: We just launched our own Happy Hour podcast on iTunes over the weekend. Subscribe here!

Update: Vemedio has announced early bird pricing for Instacast for Mac is now available at $14.99 and has no immediate plans for a Mac App Store version due to its robust feature set.

Update 2: Vemedio has taken Instacast out of beta after just 28 days with early bird pricing around until May 31st.

Patent troll Personal Audio LLC sues iTunes’ top podcaster Adam Carolla’s Ace Broadcasting

Jordan Kahn Jan 10 2013 - 8:43 am PT

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In July 2011, a federal jury in Texas awarded “patent licensing company” Personal Audio LLC $8 million in its patent infringement lawsuit against Apple. The jury found Apple infringed two valid patents related to downloadable playlists with its iOS devices as far back as the original iPod. One covered an “audio program player including a dynamic program selection controller,” while the other covered an “audio program distribution and playback system.” 9to5Mac has now learned Personal Audio LLC is attempting to target content creators directly, starting with a new patent infringement case in Texas against one of iTunes biggest podcasters, Adam Carolla’s Ace Broadcasting.

If the outcome of the case is anything like Personal Audio’s previous cases, it could have a major impact on podcasters and other content creators on iTunes and elsewhere. Personal Audio also sued and entered licensing agreements with Sirius XM Radio, Archos, Coby, RIM, Samsung, Amazon, and Motorola related to its downloadable playlist patents and others.

The new patent, issued just last year on Feb. 7, 2012, is quite broad and describes a “System for Disseminating Media Content Representing Episodes in a Serialized Sequence.” Personal Audio is also suing the popular Howstuffworks.com series, which like Ace Broadcasting, is a large podcasting presence on iTunes and across the web…

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Apple really wants you to download its own Podcast App

9to5 Staff Aug 16 2012 - 6:32 am PT

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As noted by Twitter user @shahruz_, Apple does not seem to want to show any other Podcast apps besides its own when you search for “Podcasts”. Twelve hours after it was first reported, iTunes still appears to only show Apple’s Podcast app.

We are fairly certain that Apple is not doing this on purpose, but it does not seem to be jumping to fix the error either.

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Apple launching Podcast app with iOS 6 and working on podcast-producing technology

Jordan Kahn Jun 15 2012 - 12:43 pm PT

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Much like Apple did when introducing its standalone iTunes U app at its education event last January, it is also planning to launch a standalone app for podcasts. A report from AllThingsD first mentioned Apple’s plans to include the app in iOS 6 this fall. We also heard that the app is in the works for a release with the final version of iOS 6.

People familiar with Apple’s plans tell me that when its new iOS 6 software becomes widely available this fall, podcasts will have their own app, where users will be able to discover, download and play them on mobile devices. Users who access iTunes via laptop and desktop machines will still find them in that version of iTunes, though.

Apart from the podcast app that AllThingsD noted would allow users to “discover, download and play” on iOS devices, we heard separately that Apple is working on podcast-producing technology, perhaps for inclusion into this app.

As part of its process of breaking the different content categories into standalone apps, many noticed with iOS 6 that Apple removed the Podcasts, Audiobooks, and iTunes U sections from the iTunes app.

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