Ahoy, mateys! Gather 'round the poopdeck for an important message from yer captains. 
mySay lets friends stay in touch with friends by recording voice updates and dispatching them to friends.
GBPVR is a free PC PVR software package including media-center-like functionality, free for download. Unfortunately, it didn't support the PVR card I have in my PC, so I couldn't tell you how well it works. The interface looks nice, and it seems that the setup isn't too hard, so you'll have to let me know what you think of it if you install it on one of the supported cards listed. The currently supported TV tuner cards (as listed on the GBPVR website) are:
Good day Linux fans! As of yesterday, the new version (0.20) of MythTV is ready for your downloading and PVR pleasure. This release is new, (obviously) and features some new stuff: better DVD playback, DVB radio channel support, mouse support, and MythArchive (a new plug-in), which allows your recordings to be burned to DVD. For a while now MythTV has been a great and cheap way to get yourself a nice and moderately full-featured PVR. If you don't want to pay tons of money to get a manufactured PVR, MythTV (for Linux) makes a nice PVR box. I still haven't set up a PVR using MythTV, but I keep meaning to. I have a PC I have my eye on for this purpose, an older one, so maybe I will get with it and install MythTV someday soon. Any suggestions as to what Linux distro is best for MythTV? How about for general desktop consumption? Any that you recommend?
Looking for an easy way to record a podcast? Check out Gabcast. It's a service that makes podcasting (almost) as simple as making a phone call. You just dial one of Gabcast's access numbers (there are local and/or toll-free numbers for the U.S., U.K., Canada, Holland, and elsewhere) or connect via VoIP and record your podcast, and Gabcast does the rest. You can also do conference calls for multi-person podcasts. Gabcast comes in three flavors: Free, Pro, and Premium. The Free account gives you 200MB disk space, RSS feeds, and blog integration via a Gabcast-branded Flash widget. Pro costs $6 per month and gives you 400MB of storage and lets you upload episodes and create "hidden" episodes and channels. Premium costs $12 per month, gives you 1GB, adds password protection, and lets you customize the Flash player's branding. Though I'm somewhat skeptical of the audio quality possible with Gabcast, if your primary concern is just getting it done, Gabcast might be a good option.
Podcasting portal Odeo recently added a feature that lets people record messages for you on your Odeo page, kind
of like voicemail for the web. What's cooler, though, is that the message recorder can be embedded in any web page, so you can stick it in
a blog post and anyone with a microphone can come along and leave a voice message for you. To use it you'll need an
Odeo account, but people don't need one to leave you a message.
It's a piece of cake to record streaming audio from the web and save it to your hard drive, but I had no idea that it could be this easy to rip Internet radio into individual tracks with full tags. That's what Windows app StationRipper does, which causes me some surprise that, after two years in existence, it still hasn't been somehow bludgeoned to death by the RIAA. Anyhow, it has a laundry list of great features: The basic (free) version of StationRipper lets you rip two streams at once and intregrates with iTunes. The versions you pay for add a bunch of features you may or may not want, like ripping up to 600 streams at once (bandwidth and processor notwithstanding) and filtering tracks by length. Cool tool.
[Via Waxy.org]
Blogger Jake Ludington wrote in to tell us about his "semi-exclusive" screenshot of a Gadget (read:
widget) in the works for Windows Live that recommends TV shows and then lets you
remotely (read: from anywhere in the world) set your Windows Media Center Edition PC to record them. Jake
describes it as "the only useful Gadget I've seen so far," and, though I'm not sure I'd call it the
only useful Gadget in the wild, it's definitely high on the list. No word on when this Gadget's going to see the light
of day, but while you wait, head over to Jake's blog for the full screenshot and some more details.
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