Podcasting – Using iTunes to find and listen

Now that we have gone into the basics of what a podcast is and what some of the terminology means in my first article. We can now look at how you can find a podcast and then listen to it. In preparing this article I looked at what is out there for podcatching software and there is quite a lot, let me tell you. I have used one or two in the past but when Apple released a version of iTunes that already had a very large directory of podcasts that played right there in the media player you already … Continue reading

Podcasts – The Basics

Podcasting. It’s one of those internet buzz words. Everybody talks about it. But what is Podcasting? Podcasting is a way to distribute over the internet audio or video files using RSS or Atom Syndication. The file could be a professional radio program, a music video, or your own internet radio show. Just like you can listen to the “radio” on the “radio” with podcasting you have a “podcast” of a “podcast”. It means both the delivery method as well as the content. The underlying syndication technology was available in the early 2000’s but started to become extremely popular around 2004. … Continue reading