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PURK - At the end of this project I would like to have a downloadable pdf file that explains podcasting to the masses, what it is, benefits, how to listen, how to download and use podcatchers. Also what to do with the orange RSS button, they just need to know how easy it is set up a podcast of their own. Should begin this process by Friday.

Even if the usage is high we could have a gmail account set up especially for these people to send it to so listeners can log-in and download it. This means they needn’t worry about the storage space issue.

A square unresizable podcast receiver, which proberly is the most popular podcast receiver available at the moment. It’s got 5 taps along the top:

Status: Is the main menu which shows your podcast RSS feeds, an area to add your feed and buttons to select or remove and check for new podcasts.

Sceduler: Where you can select when to check for new podcasts at whatever time you want to.

Preferences: General options appear here, such as do you want to hide iPodder at start up and select which folder to download podcasts to.

Info: Gives details on the programmers and an area to donate money.

Log: gives details when you’re downloading podcasts.

Check out my simple guide which will teach you have to record on a mini, this should be a good resource for people new to podcasting that don’t know an awful lot about recording.

Now you need to test your voice (a) to see what you sound like and (b) to set the volume to the right level. If the rectangles are at around 80% it’s going to be good quality. If the speaker has a quiet voice pump up the volume by pushing the play button upwards to nearer 30 (the maximum).

The Minidisc is a fairly simplistic device but can cause hair loss if you are not fully sure how to use it properly.

Firstly to start recording you need to purchase some recordable minidiscs (you can get 10 for €20 which come in nice coloured coded discs, each one has a max of 80 minutes recording time).

Getting to know your Minidisc

To turn on the device flip it over to its back and slide the switch to the on position. You will also notice a hold switch which is useful when you have it resting in your pocket. The right hand side of the device has the vital slots which will be mostly used when podcasting (recording). The black slot is the line in option commonly used when listening to your recordings, but this slot is also used for when you want to upload tracks to your computer. The red slot is used to connect your microphone or external microphone depending on the circumstances of your usage. (more…)

Having heard of jPodder all those months back I decided to download and give it a test run for myself. It also has a nice tidy website to go along side it. Its very easy to use and is clearly laid out.

The top tabs are:

Directory: which is powered by iPodderX’s. Its a simple menu, just click on the category followed by the podcaster ad click the tab beside the find button to subscribe to it.

Personal Feeds: is where your selected feeds go, you can unsubscribe to them add any time by clicked the square box, it also features the preview and download now button which always comes in handy if you are bored and want to listen to some few podcasts.

Downloads: This is the feedback area with the status bar showing how which it has downloaded to, once download has completed you can easily clear the contents.

Log: Is where you can follow how the downloading is going and if any podcasts were un-able to be downloaded.

Settings: This is a very useful area. you can decide which media played they will play on, where the downloads will take place and you can also import your favourite podcasts from iPodder.

Help: This area is very detailed and offers all the help you need if you come across a problem with the help of diagrams.

Overall this is a very good podcatching, easy for beginners but I’m still sticking with Nimiq.

I would never of thinking to use Nimiq; the first three receivers you think of are iPodder, Doppler and iPodderX. Once downloaded Nimiq seemed to somehow stand out from the others. It looked really good. Unlike iPodder which has a text box to paste the RSS feeds, Nimiq requires you to hit subscription and enter the feed in the pop up box, you can enter how many enclosures to download (may come in handy if you’re on dial-up) and you can also decide where the playlist goes to: either iTunes or Windows Media Player.

The icons are nice, really clear, but the clean up icon is a correct sign, without the text I’d be wondering what it would do. It has a very useful Opml browser added to it, so you can scroll through the iPodder directory and select a feed from any category.

Under tools > options you can change the folder where the podcasts are sent to and schedule when downloads occur.

Have you just discovered Podcasting? Want to Podcatch? Well all you need to do is take a glance at my simple step guide to downloading, installing and using iPodder.

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Visit the iPodder.net homepage and click the link under download now. You will then be directed to Sourceforge, here you can click Podder.NET_0.11.zip and choose a corresponding mirror to download from. Next unzip the file and wait for the installation wizard to guide you through the process by following the instructions.

You should now see an iPodder icon on your desktop. When you double click it a mini icon will appear on your bottom toolbar. Now right-click the icon and choose options.

Application:

You will notice that you are subscribed to The Daily Source Code, Evil Genius Chronicles and The Gilmore Gang. If you want to try them out leave the box ticked, but if they don’t take your fancy just deselect them.

On the top left hand corner you can specify were your podcasts should download to. The default is set to C:\FeedDownload but may be best to change it to Podcasts to avoid any confusion. You can change to Refresh time from 30 minutes to as far as 1000 minutes, this time period may depend on the amount of Podcasts you are subscribed to. If you are only subscribed to one or two it may be best to leave a long refresh time.

Now to the main part of the application, the RSS Feed submission area. This is very simple process indeed, just travel to your favourite Podcaster site and click on their syndication feed and copy/paste it into this area and click “add feed”.

It will appear shortly in the box below along with the Feed name and the RSS location. The last option is to manually check for new podcasts by pressing the retrieve now button.

Just completed a very basic Podcasting: How To Guide for the people arriving wondering how they can Podcast and get a show going.

Podcasting Tutorial

A brand new blog which will deal with Podcasting starting with a How-To segment.

Podcasting with Bittorrent

I wrote up a tutorial/primer for using bittorrent to distribute your podcast. If you’re concerned about bandwidth, this will be the way to go. With this particular method, you will NOT need to run a tracker and you can adjust the bandwidth you use locally by just adjusting the upload speed of the bittorrent client. I tested it out and downloaded a show through ipodder.

Read the tutorial.

The Tipperary Institute Multimedia Group talk about their 3rd level projects. These range from a educational hurling video to a website promoting an Artist’s work. Subscribe | Listen

Want to get Podcasts downloaded automatically to your computer while you sleep, have broadaband? Well you need to join 27.500 and download iPodder.

What is the iPodder application?

iPodder is a media aggregator which automatically downloads podcasts to your computer or portable device based on a RSS feed, leaving you ‘one-click-away’ from latest media feeds. The whole process is done on it’s own, so you don’t have to select files, search for them or click links to download the media. All you do is specify some feeds and wait to get yourself the podcasts. All you have to do is decide what your going to listen.

1.) Create your content (speech, music, etc.) using your microphone or voice recorder. If it’s .wav or another file format convert that file to a MP3 file.

2.) Next you need to upload your .mp3 file using ftp to your (free) host.

3.) If your site doesn’t automatically create a RSS feed, you need to download dircaster, or if you know your way around html why not create and update your own RSS feed. If you decide on this method just add this line:
<enclosure url=”link” length=”size” type=”audio/mpeg”/>.

Podcasting 101 from Tod Maffin. If you’re making your own podcast then read this. From how to interview, to what microphone to use, Tod will set you straight. It’s an extremly handy guide for new users.

JournURL makes podcasting easy, well in three simple steps and also explains how to place it in an enclosure.