How to Podcast with Garageband and Publish on iTunes

How to Podcast with Garageband and Publish on iTunes by Steinar Knutsen

In this course, I show you exactly How to Podcast with Garageband and Publish on iTunes. This is great because listeners may now listen to your podcast on your WordPress blog and subscribe to your podcast on iTunes. The lectures are recorded with professional video screen capture software, so it feels like you’re sitting right [...] Read more »

First Impressions of Apple iBooks Author

apple ibooks author software

Apple launched iBooks Author this week and it’s pretty amazing.  Basically, it’s free software that allows you to create media-rich, interactive ebooks.  It’s available for download on the Mac App Store. Typically, this has been a pretty difficult task, but iBooks Author is so simple because it plays nice with Pages, Keynote and several other [...] Read more »

Grasshopper: #11 Essential Online Marketing Tool for 2012

Grasshopper Virtual Phone System

What is Grasshopper? The Grasshopper virtual phone system helps entrepreneurs sound more professional and stay connected from anywhere. Features include toll free and local numbers, custom greetings, multiple extensions for employees, call forwarding to any phone anywhere in the world, voicemail to email and more! Get a Toll Free or Local Number With Multiple Extensions [...] Read more »

My New Video Introduction for New Site Media

keynote build for custom video introduction

I do a lot of video – some for this blog and some for my company at New Site Media.  I’ve tried a variety of video introductions using some of the preconfigured transitions in iMovie but thought it was time to get a little creative and make my own from scratch.  I considered using Fiverr [...] Read more »

iPhone 4S and Siri Impact on Productivity

Apple 4S Siri scheduling calendar item

Last week Apple launched their latest phone, the iPhone 4S. Included with this phone came some amazing software called Siri. I’m using Siri right now to write this blog. The technology behind Siri is nothing new. The system is powered by a popular dictation software company called new Nuance. Nuance produces great software for the [...] Read more »

A few cool finger swipe features in OSX Lion

Apple released OSX Lion for the Mac this week. Here are a few of the cool new finger swipe features that should help improve user experience and efficiency. OSX Lion iCal Navigation with 2-Finger Swipe OSX Lion introduced a new version of iCal which allows you to navigate through days, weeks, months and years by [...] Read more »

Podcasting 101: Realities of Creating and Editing your First Podcast Episode

editing your podcast

This is the second in a series of podcast episodes I’m doing with Mike Bisceglia from Cvillepodcast.com to help educate businesses on the realities and benefits of podcasting.  In our first episode we talked about the basics of podcasting, including recording, editing, publishing and promotion. In this episode Mike and I discuss a few applications [...] Read more »

How to Attract Customers to Your Storefront with Foursquare

Foursquare is one of the leading geo-location check-in mobile applications available to the millions of smart phone users around the world.  It basically allows people to indicate they are at or nearby a given location based on GPS enabled services bundled with their phone.  If you think this sounds silly, consider the fact that Foursquare [...] Read more »

Podcasting Equipment and Tools

In this video we’ll discuss podcasting equipment and tools, including microphones, headphones, devices and software to record, edit, publish and promote your podcast. What’s most exciting is the variety of tools that are available – you can go simple with just a smart phone and publish without editing or high-end with professional sound equipment and [...] Read more »