Podcast and audiobook listeners are used to dealing with large audio files. However, listening through an hour-long file or switching through chapters makes it a clunky experience especially if you want to backtrack or skip a chapter. Fortunately, AudioBook Cutter splits your file into different segments automatically so that you can pass through and navigate [...]
If you are an avid listener of podcasts, then you’d probably ask what the best way is to access your favorite shows on the desktop without going through the clunkiness of iTunes. While there are several possible options online, Flapcast is one of the few web apps that makes podcast listening easy and seamless. This [...]
Do you love reading but don’t get enough time due to your busy schedule and work? If you cannot read, you can listen to news and your favorite blogs on your PC, Android, iPhone and iPad using a service known as Vocalyse. Vocalyse is an excellent online utility which helps you listen to your favorite [...]
Many people tune into the morning news to stay in touch with what is happening around the world. If you do the same, you would surely appreciate it if news automatically played each time you woke up in the morning. Here to make it happen is a tool called BBC News Alarm. BBC News Alarm [...]
The Internet has numerous web applications to offer that act as alarm clocks. These apps usually provide a list of predefined alarm music or sounds. But if you want your favorite podcast to play at a set alarm time, you should check out a podcast alarm clock called PodcastAlarm. Podcast Alarm is a free and [...]
If you are tasked with editing audio clips for a presentation or a podcast, you might need to fire up bloated sound editors that you don’t know how to use. But if you must have some background music on a clip, then you should check out Soundboard. This simple desktop app lets you add multiple [...]
Sometimes recording an audio speech is better than writing it as the former can convey a richer meaning that cannot be captured by written words. Audioboo is a web and mobile platform that allows you to easily share an audio recording over the internet. With this social networking site, you can easily upload or record [...]
Google Listen is a new app launched recently under Google Labs that allows Android phone users to easily subscribe to web podcasts, search them, download them onto their phone and stream them online. By subscribing to programs and search terms, you can create a listen queue so that you can get a continuous flow of [...]
Although each Youtube channel has its own RSS feed and you can subscribe to it easily in any RSS reader, the RSS feed items come as embedded flash players. That means it’s great if you want to view them on the Internet with some online feed reader, but it is not ok for offline viewers [...]
Ever subscribed to a podcast where presenter talked really slow? There are countless of podcasts on the web that would be considerably better if they were presented faster. Same applies to the audio books narrated by a really slow reader. And that’s exactly where PodShifter can help. It can easily make podcasts up to 2 [...]