PodcastUser Magazine has published its first issue, which is available as a free PDF download. New issues of the monthly magazine can be delivered automatically via enclosures in the magazine’s RSS feed. The first issue includes news, equipment and podcast reviews and other thoughtful articles.

PodcastUser Magazine is edited by Paul Nicholls (aka Podcast Paul), and features contributions from a number of well known British podcasters, including Mark Hunter of the tartanpodcast.

The magazine looks very well put together and is produced on an iMac with the very cool Writely used for online collaboration.

(Via Podcasting News).

Transistr is the new name for iPodderX, which had to be changed following Apple Legal’s intervention.

That’s pretty good, considering Thunderstone Media‘s own requirement not to have “pod” in the name, even if it does remind one of Flickr. They don’t even need to change the Bryan Bell-designed icon.

Maybe I should rename Feeder to Feedr, so I can have Technorati tags that don’t bring me hundreds of posts on bird feeders.

(It’s OK, I’m not going to do that!)

Via TUAW.

This could be old news but I just noticed that the latest version of Safari (2.0.3) supports enclosures, which is something that used to bring me a lot of feedback (i.e. the enclosure doesn’t show up in Safari, must be Feeder’s fault).

While Safari doesn’t have any way to automatically download enclosures, this feature will help make more sense of podcast feeds and is very useful for appcasting feeds, as seen above (from my main site’s news feed).

Often on this blog or on my news pages I plug interesting and different podcasts whose feeds are created by Feeder, but since Feeder can create any RSS feed it’s nice to see it being used for the purpose that made me come up with the idea in the first place: to create a product news RSS feed on a web site (i.e. mine!).

Gaucho Software is now using Feeder to create news feeds and Seasonality, created by Mike Piatek-Jimenez, definitely counts as something interesting and different.

Seasonality is a very impressive weather monitoring app that shows comprehensive summaries, forecasts, maps with satellite imagery and radar, graphs for temperature, wind speed and direction, atmospheric pressure, daylight hours and local time. The best part is that it wraps all this information in a slick interface that is easy on the eye and has lots of neat tricks to keep everything manageable. Kudos!

If you keep an eye on Adam Curry’s Weblog, this won’t be news.

PodShow are launching a number of new web services, and have set up a developer-oriented blog and podcast at developer.podshow.com where developers can find out more about PodShow’s upcoming technology initiatives including developer APIs, a mailing list and more.

In the inaugural podcast, Andrew Grumet and Scott Johnson discuss PodShow’s plans to create podcasting-related software and services and how PodShow will open these up to other developers.

It’s great to see PodShow getting off to a good start in being open about their services and getting developers involved from the beginning.