The iPodder Lemon team has released iPodder Version 2.0. The application has evolved from its basic beginnings as the world’s first podcasting software to a mature, fully featured application.

iPodder lets users to capture and listen to Internet audio programs anytime, anywhere. It allows users to select and download shows and music and to play whenever they want on their iPods, portable digital media players, or computers automatically, after specifying which music or shows they want to listen to.

iPodder has been downloaded over 125,000 times since it was introduced last August, letting users tap into the growing popularity of podcasts. iPodder continues to be free and cross-platform, available on Windows, Macintosh and Linux platforms.

Changes in Version 2.0:
- Total redefined, fully-featured GUI (user interface)
- New streamlined subscription process with an ability to check and uncheck items for download
- New cleanup section allowing quick cleanup
- History of downloads and click to play abilities
- Proxy support
- Threaded scans/downloads and resumable downloads
- Import and Export functionalities (OPML) to enable easy transport of data between other applications
- Many new smaller features including small add-ons like spotlight search, catch-up functionality, coralizing, and shortcuts enabled.

iPodder Features:
- It’s Free
- Cross-Platform
- Multi-language supported
- GPL’ed — it operates under a public license for the public good
- Fast (even with a lot of subscriptions)

To Download
iPodder 2.0 is available at the iPodder SourceForge site.

Senator John Edwards has announced that he is joining the ranks of podcasters.

He made the announcement via his site, JohnEdwards.com, where interested listeners can submit questions for the likely 2008 presidential candidate.

Senator Edwards plans to use the podcast to answer questions and provide an update on his family and projects.

Details on the podcast will be announced next week.

About Podcasting

Podcasts are audio shows that can be automatically downloaded to a computer or digital audio player. There are many software tools for subscribing to podcasts, most of which are free.

Podcasting News has a directory of podcasting software, and a tutorial on Getting Started with Podcasts.

Tiki Bar TV is a new weekly video cast that features barflies, lounge lizards and swingers that meet in a Tiki Bar. Each episode is themed around a new beverage, qualifying the show as edutainment.

Characters include Lala, the cocktail babe; Johnny Johnny, mixer of ‘forbidden drinks’; and Doctor Tiki, who is a PhD and MD in Tiki.

The video podcast is part bartending show with loosely ad libbed sketches, but mostly just a party. As Johnny Johnny puts it in the first episode, “It turns out we’re all raging alcoholics, and this is a justified excuse for drinking.” (more…)