Podcasts


 * Podcasts**

Podcasting is delivering audio content to iPods and other portable media players on demand, so that it can be listened to at the user's convenience. The main benefit of podcasting is that listeners can sync content to their media player and take it with them to listen whenever they want to. Because podcasts are typically saved in MP3 format, they can also be listened to on nearly any computer.

Podcasting began to catch hold with the public in late 2004, though during the 1998–2001 dot-com erathere were multiple "podcasts" done by major companies, such as Real Networks and ESPN.com. Many individuals and groups contributed to the emergence and popularity of podcasts. Adam Curry is credited with coming up with the idea to automate the delivery and syncing of textual content to portable audio players, and the first application to make this process feasible was iPodderX, developed by August Trometer and Ray Slakinski. Since the 1930's there have been radio talk shows and news programs. Today, through the evolution of the internet TCP capabilities, along with cheaper hardware and software, audio podcasts are doing what was historically done through radio broadcast stations.

In June 2005, Apple released iTunes 4.9 with native support for podcasts. While this made receiving podcasts more convenient, it effectively ended advancement of the podcast medium by independent developers. To add to the cooling factor, Apple issued Cease and Desist orders to many podcast application developers and service providers for using the term "iPod" or "Pod" in the name of their product.

Most podcasts, once a person has subscribed to them use an RSS feed to keep them current and up to date. The way to subscribe to a podcast and then manage them is through a podcast reader. I-Tunes is the most popular reader to date. Each time I-Tunes is launched the reader will update the podcasts if needed. If you do not want to use I-Tunes or just want to watch them on the web make sure you have a mutimedia player like Quicktime to play it on.

Threre are some web based podcast readers. unlike client based reader which are confined to one computer a web based reader can be used anywhere. This allow complete freedom for the user. All a person has to do is sign up and enjoy!! some web based reader also make it easy to embed content into a blog so the user can share thoughts on the content.

Some Web Based readers is [|doggy patch]

Some other providers of podcasts are: [|FindPodcasts.com],[|Podcast.com],or [|npr.org]

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