My good friend Dustin Wax over at The Writer’s Technology Companion has recently completed an informative 5-part series on Podcasting. It’s worth checking out: podcasting can be a useful approach to sharing and marketing your writing.
Dustin points to the freeware Audacity as a principal tool. I agree wholeheartedly. The software deserves to be on your computer, even if you do not contemplate podcasting. In the current issue of PC Utilities [issue #100], which features the 100 Best Freeware downloads, Audacity was one of the few that showed up on almost everyone’s Top Ten list. It’s a remarkable tool — and free. It can be downloaded at SnapFiles, which also provides more information about the software.
I’ve just uncovered a remarkable resource to help anyone to understand how the software works and just what you can do with it. There’s a new website called WonderHowTo, which offers a catalog of links to how-to videos. And there’s a whole bunch of them, twenty-one in fact, showing how to use Audacity.
Have fun. AND if you do put together a podcast, be sure to let us know.
ADDENDUM:
At the same site, you will find lots of how-to videos covering other software of interest to writers, including:
- Acrobat
- Dreamweaver
- Illustrator
- In Design
- iWork
- MS Office
- Quark
To find them most conveniently, click on the Categories tab at the WonderHowTo website and look under Software.
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Comment by
Roger
5 Jun 2008
Mr. Colvin,
Audacity is a great program for putting together a podcast. It’s incredibly simple to use, even for a not-so-tech-savvy guy like me. My friend and I use it when we record our very irregular beer review podcast. I recommend the program highly.
Thanks for your tips on writing, by the way. I enjoy your blog very much.