Podcast_Catching

=Capturing Podcasts.=

Why would you want to capture podcasts? Well, you can capture your own to see how they are sounding, or you can capture podcasts about topics you are interested in, For Example, I love the sport of Archery and Hunting. I subscribe to a podcast called [|Bowcast] and listen to it fairly regularly.

There are ton's of Podcatcher's out there. Just do a [|Google search for Podcatcher] and spend hours reading about it (I did). There are 2 services/software that I have personal experience with and I will cover these here.

The first is [|Google Reader.] Google reader is really an RSS reader (aggregator) that you can use to subscribe to different blogs, news agencies, etc. You can also subscribe to podcasts in Google Reader. It won't sync them to your mp3 player, but you will be able to listen to them from any computer with an Internet connection. To use Google Reader, you have to create a Google account and then log in. Go to the site of the podcast you like and click the subscribe button. Your browser will ask you what you want to use to subscribe with and you select Google and voila, you have a podcast subscription.

The second is [|iTunes]. You can use iTunes to subscribe to Podcasts and have them sync to your iPod. The drawback is that it won't sync to other mp3 players but you can still use iTunes to listen to your podcasts. Here is a [|quick look at using iTunes to subscribe to podcasts].