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A PODCASTING GUIDE

As podcasting can be technically challenging to some of us, there is no reason why it cannot be made simple for everyone whether technically challenged or not to try and create their own podcast.

You can pick and choose your favourite shows to watch or listen and best of all you can listen or watch them whenever and wherever you like. Listen or watch at home on your Personal Computer or use an MP3 player such as an Ipod. You can save them for later or watch them right away, the choice is ultimately yours and yours alone. That is the beauty of podcasting.

To make it simple, all a podcast is, is an MP3 file that you can listen to on your computer, using certain technology you can subscribe to whichever show it is you are wanting. Then this technology will search the internet for new samples of your chosen show and download them to your computer automatically, clever isn't it! Better still the majority of podcasts available to watch or to listen to are totally free.

Before you do decide to subscribe to a particular podcast on the internet, you will need to find some software that is available on the internet that will manage and automatically sort out your podcasts on your computer. When you connect via broadband to the internet, this particular software will look for the latest installment of the programme that you have subscribed to.

This of course takes away the frustration and time consuming act of manually looking on the internet for the podcast that you are requiring. Of course you can unsubscribe to the service at any time, so you are not under any obligation to keep acquiring that particular podcast.
The only things you will need to successfully download a podcast are the following few things: A computer that has good, fast connection to the internet. Downloads will take forever unless you have broadband of a good quality.

You will need something like windows media player on your computer to either watch or listen to the podcasts. If you are wanting to listen or watch on the go, then you will need some form of portable MP3 player, such as the Ipod. Then you will need some podcasting software which can be found for free on the internet which will look after your podcasts for you.

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