It's the annual Apple amour a thon .. I.e  Macworld 2006 in San Francisco.  Once more those fiends from Cupertino have provided a pretext to pay up for that which is shiny and new.   It's not the case that's exciting though it's more the innards and the software  that has me all a teeter and it looks like I am not the only one

Garage band gets a podcsating make over, while there's not much you couldn't do with version 2, it just took more time ,   they've given the budding podcaster   jingles, beds, autoducking  coupled with "black box" audio processing which  ( and I've not used it yet) sounds like the dynamics ( compression and limiting) will be a one button solution for most people.  Eager to hear this thing going: 

I'm pretty lazy when it comes to podcasting unless I have a specific task/ message then I don't engage,  there's a difference between loving the sound of my own voice and  extending that to web. :D

The irony of writing the above does not escape me.