Paul McCartney was recently quoted telling Billboard.com that a deal to make the Beatles catalog available on iTunes was “virtually settled.” For many months now there have been rumors of the Beatles catalog coming to iTunes, but this is the first time the news has come directly from a Beatles member.

You may be wondering why this is such big news. Well, besides the fact that the Beatles music isn’t currently available anywhere online to purchase legally, Apple, Inc. and the Beatles music publisher, Apple Corps, had a long legal battle over the use of the name Apple. The dispute was recently settled and the two are now working together to make this deal possible.

Some of you may not be familiar with the term Podcast. What is a podcast? A podcast is a radio show broadcast over the internet and offered in a streaming, or downloadable format, so you can take it with you and listen to it on your iPod. Podcasts are often exclusive to the internet, meaning that you will not hear their content broadcoast on TV or on the regular radio. Podcasts started out as audio only, but now you can find more and more video podcasts out there.

If you’ve never heard a podcast before, Apple makes it easy to find them by having their own dedicated category in the iTunes music store. But if your like us, your addicted to podcasts. We love ‘em. Especialy the technology related one! So, we present to you the 20 top tech podcasts as of May 12, 2007. We’re sure you’ll find something you’ll love in this list.

1. Downloadable Content, The Penny Arcade Podcast
2. This Week In Tech (T.W.I.T)
3. Diggnation
4. NAPP TV
5. Make Magazine
6. Leo Laporte - The Tech Guy
7. MacBreak Weekly
8. GeekBrief.TV
9. CNET TV
10. Buzz Out Loud From CNET
11. Photoshop Killer Tips
12. Today In iPhone Podcast
13. Security Now!
14. dl.tv iPod Video
15. lynda.com Video Traning
16. Webnation w/Amber Mac
17. Adobe Creative Suite Video Podcast
18. Windows Weekly With Paul Thurrott
19. MacCast
20. The Merlin Show