No longer buried under menus in the Music app, Apple has created a standalone place to keep your podcasts: In an iOS app called, you guessed it, Podcasts. It’s free and is available now. In addition to all of its previous features as part of the Music app, the new Podcasts has its own top podcasts charts, a sleep timer to turn off a podcast if listening in bed, share sheets for Twitter, iMessage and Mail (perhaps Facebook sharing is coming to the app in iOS 6?), and a Top Stations section to allow better discovery of podcasts by topic, not just by publisher or title. Read the full story at Giga OM.