How Do I Find and Download Podcasts?

I wrote about podcasts recently in an article I did for a local club magazine here in Hamburg. Since then many friends have asked for more information on the technical aspects of using podcasts and podcatcher software. I decided to post those answers here.  (If you don’t know what a podcast is, you might first want to have a look at this.)

You may already be familiar with searching for and downloading music and/or video from the Internet to your computer.  This is essentially what happens when you identify a podcast you want to listen to — you download it and then either listen to it directly on your computer, or copy it onto an iPod or other MP3 player to listen to on the go.  But what makes podcasts special is that you can subscribe to them, just like you would a print magazine or email newsletter, and have your computer automatically download new episodes of your podcasts as soon as they become available.  The tricky bit is, how do you do that?  That’s what this article is all about.

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