Re: [NTLK] What's a Podcast? (was Re: Older versions of GPS Map)

From: RAParker (RAParker_at_Quadzilla.NET)
Date: Sat Feb 12 2005 - 09:46:23 PST


On Saturday, February 12, 2005, at 12:04 AM, Martin Joseph wrote:

> On Feb 11, 2005, at 11:52 PM, Robert Benschop wrote:
>
>> On 11-feb-05, at 22:29, Mike R. Manzano wrote:
>>> A podcast is an audio newscast that is distributed via RSS. Software
>>> that sits on your PC or Mac subscribes to this RSS feed, downloads
>>> the
>>> audio newscast file, and transfers it to you iPod. You can then
>>> listen
>>> to the newscast on your iPod.
>>
>> Which I haven't done yet, because I don't have an iPod. But it sounds
>> possible to change this into a NewtCast...
>> Is it?
>>
> There is also a link you can click on and listen to it in a regular
> old desktop browser. That is how I listen to it...
>

Oh...now I get it. It's that whole automated RSS thing, only to your
iPod. Definitely cutting edge...I'm not quite there yet. But, no sooner
did I ask, there's a really good article about it in the Seattle Times.

Podcasting power By Michael Bazeley Knight Ridder Newspapers
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/personaltechnology/
2002178411_podcastingmine12.html

Ron

--
---
--------------------------------------------- ThinkApple
low|    If God didn't invent the Macintosh,        |\/|\
end|                                               |/-|/
mac|      then why is Windows such HELL!?          |\ | @ Quadzilla.net
-------------------------------------------------- A LEM Bumper Snicker
---
--
-- 
This is the NewtonTalk list - http://www.newtontalk.net/ for all inquiries
Official Newton FAQ: http://www.chuma.org/newton/faq/
WikiWikiNewt for all kinds of articles: http://tools.unna.org/wikiwikinewt/


This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5 : Sat Feb 12 2005 - 10:30:01 PST