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<p>LOS ANGELES, California -- March 2, 2006 -- Potion Factory is pleased<br />
to announce the release of Podcast Maker version 1.2, a tool that takes the<br />
geekery out of publishing a professional podcast. Designed to be easy to<br />
use, and yet powerful, Podcast Maker is a compelling alternative to the<br />
poorly regarded iWeb when it comes to podcasting.</p>
<p>With an understated Mac simplicity, Podcast Maker handles all the essential<br />
steps of publishing a professional podcast. It creates a fully iTunes and<br />
RSS 2.0 compliant podcast feed; it embeds id3 and atom metadata tags into<br />
media files for such things as album art; it uploads only the necessary<br />
files to an ftp, sftp, or a .Mac account; and then it pings servers such as<br />
those at Apple's iTunes Music Store to publicize the update. All of these<br />
steps, if done separately require at least 5 separate apps and 30 minutes<br />
out of a busy schedule. Podcast Maker cuts that down to 1 app and 3 minutes.</p>
<p>=46urthermore, Podcast Maker creates enhanced podcasts. An enhanced podcast,<br />
introduced by Apple with iTunes 4.9, contains chapters that make navigating<br />
through long podcasts bearable. Additionally chapters can contain images<br />
and links that the audience can interact with, creating a much more<br />
pleasant experience. A good example of an enhanced podcast is Adam<br />
Christianson's MacCast. Podcast Maker is the only program in existence that<br />
can edit existing enhanced podcasts, making it a perfect companion to the<br />
new GarageBand 3.</p>
<p>All of these features are important, but the must-see "feature" of Podcast<br />
Maker, according to many of its users, is its user interface. The<br />
innovative design has all the advantages of an easy to use wizard, but not<br />
its major disadvantage: the blister on your index finger you get from<br />
clicking repeatedly. The interface guides the user what to do next, but<br />
does it in a way that doesn't treat the user as a sea urchin.</p>
<p>Although never previously publicized, Podcast Maker has already received<br />
some honors and high acclaims. Within a day of a quiet launch, Podcast<br />
Maker was featured at Apple's Mac OS X Downloads page as the main item,<br />
beating popular programs such as Mozilla Firefox in the number of<br />
downloads=F3a testament to the people's need for an easy to use podcasting<br />
tool. In October of 2005, it has received a perfect 10 out of 10 rating<br />
from Macsimum News, and most recently, it has repeated this rare feat with<br />
a 5 out of 5 mice rating at Macworld.</p>
<p>According to the research firm eMarketer, podcasting has seen "meteoric<br />
growth" last year, and in just 4 years from now, the size of the podcast<br />
audience is projected to be somewhere between 20 to 80 million people. In<br />
iTunes, there are now so many podcasts that if you try to browse them all,<br />
you crash iTunes. Call it narrowcasting, citizen journalism, or whatever<br />
you like, but it is obvious that podcasting is here to stay in a big way.<br />
Podcast Maker lowers the entry barrier so that regular folks can join the<br />
revolution.</p>
<p>A fully functional 30-day trial is available at the Potion Factory website,<br />
<a href="http://www.potionfactory.com" title="www.potionfactory.com">www.potionfactory.com</a>. Podcast Maker sells for $29.95 and can be purchased<br />
securely at the same website.</p>
<p>A video tutorial that shows how to publish a podcast from start to finish<br />
in less than 3 minutes is also available at the website.</p>
<p>About Potion Factory:</p>
<p>Potion Factory, founded in 2005, is a partnership between Jin Kim and Andy<br />
Kim, two switchers who fell in love with the Mac OS X so much that they<br />
decided to make a business out of writing software for it. Since then<br />
Potion Factory has dedicated itself to developing simple and elegant<br />
software that only %5 of all computer users would understand.</p>
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