Podcasting

Why Podcasts might not auto-erase

iTunes autodelete.

iTunes doesn’t honour autodelete settings for podcasts if you manually download episodes. That explains why episodes hung around when they shouldn’t have.

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How to automatically delete podcast episodes in iTunes

iTunes per-podcast settings.

iTunes is able to automatically delete podcast episodes you’ve heard or viewed. Here’s how to set it up differently for each podcast.

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Podcasts lure me away from the telly

I grew up with books, TV and radio. I recall listening to radio shows such as The Archers and The Goon Show. Childhood TV favourites included Star Trek, Dr Who, Bonanza and many others. I was an avid reader from the time when I learned to read until, I guess, 10 or 15 years ago [...]

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Cassini drama via podcast

There’s a great, short video among the latest episodes of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Video and Audio Podcasts: Video: Cassini – Four Years of Discovery. It’s roughly 50 Mb and two and a half minutes long in the format I subscribe to, but it’s also available in larger or smaller formats. Dramatic music underscores collaged [...]

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iPod touch – view video podcasts more easily

Yesterday I installed the iPhone 2.0 Software on my iPod touch. Today I was able to watch video podcasts from within the Podcasts section. So? What’s the big deal? Well, before this software upgrade you couldn’t: Video Podcasts on the iPod touch.

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Otago wildlife and science movies on iTunes

The University of Otago now has a Centre for Science Communication — what a cool thing! — that puts up movies on iTunes. The Wild Flicks videos are around 25 minutes long. This morning I watched one that I almost turned off in the first couple of minutes: “Porker Stalker”. I’m very glad I stayed [...]

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