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I recently had the opportunity to become part of a podcast which I’m sure you’ll hear about soon enough - and it's all fairly new ground for me. As the only one with enough bandwidth to host, and clearly the most experienced of the group in Wordpress ninja-ship, I also took it upon myself to setup the necessary protocols that make an actual podcast, as opposed to being just audio files posted on a blog.
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Do you ever wish you could read your tweets no matter where you are or what you’re doing? Or maybe you’re just so addicted to Twitter that you need to get your hit even while driving or folding your laundry? If one of these is true, you should give Tweet Speaker ($1.99 for a limited time, usually $2.99) a spin. Tweet Speaker for iOS turns your Twitter timeline into your own, personal news podcast.
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Is radio listening back in vogue? I think it has been for quite some time. One only needs to follow the trail of advertisers, or for us who live in the online world – the number of internet radio stations that are crowding the ‘airwaves’. Perhaps, that explains my search for the next big thing in internet radio. Perhaps that also explains why I am going to talk about a new one called TuneIn here.
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For years now people have been playing games, recording their efforts and posting the resulting videos online (often with a hilarious voice-over) for the entertainment of others. To many, and for the sake of this week's Stuff to Watch, they're known as Let's Play videos (LPs). Here I'll be highlighting a couple of users who have produced some epic LPs over the years, as well as some hand-picked videos to start you off if you're in unfamiliar territory.
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When I listened to podcasts in my browser I would always go to the website hosting the podcast and play it from there. This was a major pain, but no longer. Podcast Player Pro is a convenient app available from the Google App Store that rescued me from having to seek podcasts the hard way.
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Podcasts are great entertainment while on the go, be it running across town for exercising or driving across town for work. That makes an Android smartphone an excellent place to store and play them, since your phone will always be with you. There is just one problem. Android’s audio player isn’t great for organizing multiple [...]
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As other manly men know, it can be a difficult lifestyle. Chopping down trees with your bare hands sounds awesome, but after doing it for an hour or two it can become a bit dull. That goes double if there are no bears to wrestle nearby. Podcasts have always been a great way to reduce tedium, but a real manly man can’t listen to just any podcast.
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Mixed Martial Arts (or MMA) is considered by many to be the fastest growing sport on the planet. There are MMA gyms springing up in every city and town around the world. Many traditional martial arts gyms are switching over to MMA, and bringing in coaches from the various disciplines to teach. As with anything that gets big, podcasts will come out of the woodwork to cover it.
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For months now I have been well-and-truly hooked on the Stuff You Should Know podcast, and I felt it was time I shared my number one boredom killer, and a smattering of favourite episodes with MakeUseOf. Each week knowledgeable hosts Josh and Charles settle down to tackle anything from nuclear science to Rastafarian hairstyles.
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Have you been finding Apple's podcast listings a little bit similar recently? Maybe you've been looking for another slick way to stream content and follow other users, like yourself? Whatever your preferred flavour of aural entertainment, Mixcloud probably has it. The site indexes and provides on-demand "cloudcasts".
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If you love your podcasts and love your smartphone, you may have noticed that this should be a perfect meeting of technology and that there's just not a lot of great applications out there that can do the trick. Well, there wasn't. Not until recently, anyway. Pocket Casts by Shifty Jelly has now jumped on to the scene with an incredibly feature-filled application.
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There’s few things more unusual than watching someone listen to a comedy podcast in public. First you wonder what they are laughing at. Are they just insane? Is there someone you don’t see that just told a great joke? Are you losing your mind? Then you see the earbuds and realize that no one is crazy. They’re just listening to a great comedy podcast, and having more fun than you.
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A lot of us left history back in the classrooms. For some it made for ponderous reading. Thanks to the many history podcasts available for free on the web, listening to it is both entertaining and educational. Now, with the help of these ten history podcasts we try to combine the best of both worlds.
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There are few better ways to entertain or educate oneself while on the go than a podcast. All you need is an MP3 player or smartphone and a pair of earbuds. It’s no surprise that most podcasts cover topics of particular interest to tech-savvy listeners. The number of podcasts available about gaming is tremendous. Not all are worth your time however, so I’ve rounded up the five podcasts that I turn to.
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Traffic jams and long queues have become easier to bear. It’s all thanks to the ubiquitous MP3 player (or the multimedia cell phone) and freely downloadable podcasts. I bet life on the road is also that much better for the travelling salesman. I should know; I used to be one. For the uninitiated, and I [...]
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