iOS: You have a ton of voice recording apps for iPhone, but a lot of them don't work super well. Cassette manages to offer up a good organisation scheme, solid recording features, and a handy, yet pricey transcription feature if you need it.

Recording quality audio all comes down to preventing major problems from the start. This guide, from NPR's Rob Byers and NPR audio engineers, will help you avoid recording problems, as well as fix editing and mixing problems.

In the digital age of smartphones and instant messaging, it has never been easier to record and send videos and conversations involving other people. App features such as Instastory and Snapchat’s instantaneous video messaging abilities allow users to share real-time events and conversations to their friends and the public.

In many cases these secret videos spark significant public interest by providing a fly-on-the-wall perspective to an unusual event or crime. But is any of this legal? Let's find out.

For whatever reason, the iPhone has tons of different voice recording apps, but very few of them do anything more than Apple's free Voice Memos app. We like Just Press Record because it manages to make itself worth its asking price by offering a different experience and feature set than Apple's offering.

Video: If you're looking to create a quiet recording environment without breaking the budget, a stack of old towels might be all you need.

Video: When you're a one-person film crew, you don't have an extra pair of hands to hold your shotgun mic. But if you have an extra tripod, this DIY clamp will be your extra hands, and it only costs around $20 to make.

Starting your own podcast goes beyond having a topic idea and knowing how to use your equipment. Take your podcast or blog to the next level with this in-depth collection of training materials from the team at NPR.

iOS/Mac: For whatever reason, Apple's Voice Memos app doesn't sync up with any software on the Mac, which means you have to email recordings to yourself or drop them into a note. If you want something that just automatically syncs, Just Press Record does the job.

Recording your own podcast is a pretty complicated affair, but Zencastr is a web app currently in beta that allows you to record audio on multiple computers, then upload that all to Dropbox.

Mac: Handoff in iOS 8 allows you to take a phone call on your Mac computer running Yosemite. With Call Recorder for FaceTime, you can record that call.

VLC is easily one of our favourite media players (and yours too). However, it's not just a one-trick pony. Under the surface, there's a wide range of features that you might not have known it offers.

If you want good quality audio in an interview recorded on an iPhone or need to add a voiceover for the video you're editing on your iPad, it's best to connect an external microphone. Here's how to do it.

Hi Lifehacker, There have been a lot of stories recently from the US about customers recording calls to demonstrate how bad customer service can be. I'm wondering if it's legal to do that in Australia.

Recording audio streaming through your computer -- whether that's an internet radio station, video game music or an online presentation -- is always a pain to do. Digital Inspiration shows off a way to do it easily with Audacity and a couple of cables.

If you take a lot of video calls over Skype or Hangouts, record podcasts, make music, or you're a burgeoning YouTube celebrity, you'll need a decent microphone for your desktop -- one better than whatever's already built-in. This week we're looking at five of the best, based on your nominations.

Voice recorders were one of the earliest apps to land on Android and the category is crowded, but Recorder With Tags does it with style. The app allows you to record audio in the background and add time-coded notes while you record.

Livescribe's latest addition to its smart pen range, the Livescribe 3, ties in tightly to the iOS platform. Here's what we like and what we don't like about it.

iOS: Your phone is a very capable voice recorder, but you might miss an important moment in the few seconds it takes to find and open an audio recording app. Heard attempts to solve this problem by recording in the background, and saving a buffer of audio at all times.

iOS: Recordium is an audio recorder and editor all rolled into one simple, powerful tool. The app also lets you annotate, mark up, highlight and share your recordings, and back them up to DropBox, Evernote or a range of other storage services.