Pocketcasting Information

January 18, 2005

Basically Pocketcasting is podcasting from where ever you are as long as you have GPRS access in your area. For example you can podcast a sight seeing tour while on holiday back to your friends without accessing the Internet.

Take my Sony Ericsoon T630 mobile, a podcast device? With a bit of work it can be your ‘on the move recording device’. Firstly enter the main menu, navigate to ‘pictures and sounds’ and scroll down to record sound, once you click it records so be ready. It records a maximum of ten minutes and stops, if you’re recording is less than that just click stop. The recording will stop and be saved in my sounds. It will be a default value of ‘Recording’. Now hit more > send > as picture msg > (click edit if you want to add text - could be show notes or links to websites). Finally hit more > send > followed by where your sending it to e.g. e-mail address and enter your e-mail followed by send.

At this point your podcast isn’t much use in your inbox unless your parent/friends have your password. What you need to do before you leave is to set up a gmail account or any other mail service with POP. If you have a blog such as Wordpress you can login > options > writing and enter your details such as your login name and password. Now you can enter your gmail in the recipients list on your mobile as you send the podcast.

This means you can podcast from any special event or any location right there and then allowing your listeners to be kept up to date. This makes your podcast so much closer to ‘Almost Live’.

Podmedia Podcast

Our Podmedia Podcast will soon be under way will the following themes. But we have already recorded two mini podcasts which are about two minutes in length (to listen to one of these click the logo to the left). These were great for testing and finding problems and overall user testing is what makes improvements in sound quality and sound production. Stay tuned for the Podmedia Podast launch date.

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