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OK, so where do I find some cool podcasts to listen to?
Podcasts are generally “resident” as URLs – uniform resource locators – which means effectively they simply live on (or arguably “are”) Web pages.
But there is nothing to obviously distinguish a Webpage that is (or contains) a podcast from one that doesn’t, any more than a URL will tell whether a page is a store, a photo gallery, or only text.
Since podcasts are not yet “everywhere,” you may wonder how to get started listening to them, where to find them, what hardware and software you might need (or want) and so forth.
The short answer is that to listen you don’t need any special software other than a program capable of playing mp3 formats – such as Windows Media Player on your computer. You do need special software to find, download and organize your subscription feeds.
A whole class of podcast-oriented software has been developed, and if you are not planning to use an iPod and limit yourself to the one-click options available for synchronized download from iTunes itself, you may want to look into this.
The category of software is sometimes called a “podcatcher” but increasingly the more generic “receiver” is in use and often the software is called a “retriever,” and like the dog, it does just what it sounds like!
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