I bought an ipod touch recently. I used to listen to a podcast with a laptop through wifi in bed before I sleep. Now I can do this with IPT!
Even better, I found MobileCast. I can download a podcast through a wifi at work and listen to it on my way home.
Since I get busy, I have no time to download the podcast on a pc and then to plug the ipod to it to transfer the mp3 files to the ipod. This is especially annoying for a news program.
The next thing is to import a podcast list. Typing the feed address in IPT is not fun. I find a good way.
Edit a simple “opml” file with a list of my favorite podcast and save it to a web server. MobileCast can import it. Here is the opml file.
<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”ISO-8859-1″?>
<opml version=”1.0″>
<head>
<dateCreated>07-Mar-2008</dateCreated>
</head>
<body>
<outline text=”NewsPod” type=”rss” xmlUrl=”http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio/newspod/rss.xml”/>
<outline text=”Business Daily” type=”rss” xmlUrl=”http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/bizdaily/rss.xml”/>
<outline text=”Global News” type=”rss” xmlUrl=”http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/globalnews/rss.xml”/>
<outline text=”World Business” type=”rss” xmlUrl=”http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio/worldbiz/rss.xml”/>
<outline text=”Science in Action” type=”rss” xmlUrl=”http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/scia/rss.xml”/>
<outline text=”Digital Planet” type=”rss” xmlUrl=”http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/digitalp/rss.xml”/>
<outline text=”606 Football Phone-in” type=”rss” xmlUrl=”http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/fivelive/606/rss.xml”/>
<outline text=”From Our Own Correspondent” type=”rss” xmlUrl=”http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/rss.xml”/>
<outline text=”In Our Time With Melvyn Bragg” type=”rss” xmlUrl=”http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/iot/rss.xml”/>
</body>
</opml>
