I use Eudora for Mac as my default e mail program ! Recently I elected to try [gmail] from Google ! I occasionally use filters , and I was very impressed with the gmail filter creation set up ! It creates a filter in seconds effortlessly ! I in addition to like the fact that I can read some of my favorite feeds ! It is a free service a lot if storage and you can set it up to use your cell phone ! The beta is good and I can see a excellent piece of software in the future ! Marshal
Google If you have a google account it ties in with all google services ! I currently get my web site statistics physically I am going to see if I can set up gmail to get them for me on a regular basis ! They have significant resources that can be forwarded to you by e-mail expertly discussing how Use !
It has been up and running for one or two weeks now with out a glitch !
Occasionally I post about real charities ! I just received this email from a retired Nurse ! Below is her e mail and also a letter I wrote to the producer of the Imus In The Morning Show ! I hope someone will forward this mail to: Mr and Mrs Imus !
This is an enquiry e-mail via http://www.all-podcast-secrets.com from: joannemcrgrathx1@netzero.net
joanne mcgrath joannemcgrathx1@netzero.net
Dear Imus and Mrs. Imus,
I’ve been a big fan of your TV/radio show for the last couple of years now. I have Parkinson’s disease and I don’t sleep well at night, so your show has been a godsend. I live in Whitefish Montana, so I’m up by 4am to catch the whole show.
I’m very interested in your ranch in New Mexico and would love to join the staff if you have any openings. I have my own horse and I still enjoy galloping him, so the Parkinson’s hasn’t slowed me down to much. If I take a short nap in the middle of the day, then I can do most anything. I was a nurse (LVN) for almost 30 yrs, so I can be of some help in that department too. I want to be a part of something good and positive with the kids that come to the ranch. I think it’s wonderful what you are doing and I feel that working with these kids would be probably the most rewarding thing I can do in my life. I hope you’ll consider me, I love children, all animals and I feel I’d be an asset to your staff. I have many references if you need to check my history and I’m sure you do that with everyone. Thank you for your time and I will
anxiously wait for your reply. Thank you,
sincerely, Joanne Mcgrath
Imus Ranch
Naomi & Marshal Sandler
606 S Williams Apt 607
Royal Oak Mi 48067
Msandler1@comcast.net
Attention: Mr Bernard Mc Guirk
Producer “ Imus in the Morning!’
MSNBC Studios
MSNBC Plaza
Secaucus NJ 04941
Subject: Imus Ranch
Enclosed is an e mail sent from one of my web sites www.all-podcast-secrets.com
From Joanne McGrath, requesting work at the Imus Ranch! From time to time I post about the show and the Ranch on my site. It seems a legitimate E Mail you might want to forward it to Mr. And Mrs. Imus!
Respectfully
Marshal Sandler The 70-year-old Blogger
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Computers know their A-B-Cs and how to keep up to date. For example, you can throw files into a folder, hit “View as List” and the Macintosh Finder will display them in alphabetical order. Is there an update to the Mac OS? Apple’s Software Update can download it automatically. But someone forgot these tricks when web browsers were developed, and today most web browsers do not do any automatic sorting (alphabetizing) or other maintenance of your bookmarks.
Bookdog, the successor of the popular SafariSorter application, knows these tricks so that organized people like you will no longer have to spend time alphabetizing and maintaining your bookmarks manually. But Bookdog does this and more, with your Camino and Firefox bookmarks too.
After you install Bookdog, you spend a few minutes adjusting how you want your bookmarks sorted, click Sort and within seconds your bookmarks are all in order! Click Analyze to find duplicates and then Fix them. Open the Preferences, activate Bookwatchdog, and your bookmarks be re-sorted after you make changes. Automatically. Do you seem to have alot of bookmarks that don’t work anymore? Tell Bookdog to Verify. He’ll go to all your websites, fetch their data, present a report, give you some options on how he can automatically fix bookmarks that have been “redirected”, and finally present a handy tool which allows you to quickly review and fix the remainder. When you tell him to Migrate your bookmarks between browsers (Safari, Camino, Firefox, Opera and OmniWeb) he finds the right folder and, if you want him to, avoids creating duplicates.
Atta boy! Finally, you see the intelligence you knew your Mac was capable of!
MP3 players have changed the way we organise and enjoy our music: the key is
that many of us
have now integrated our music collections with our home computers - and with
the all important
internet. As a result, the new possibilities are endless and it’s the world
of Podcasting that’s
leading the way forward.
Radio shows, TV, short film clips and personal audio and video blogs are all
instantly accessible at the press of a button, to be downloaded and listened
to whenever you want,
on your computer or on a portable player.And anyone with a computer and the
right software can run
their own podcast, available to listeners all over the world.
The word itself is a combination of ‘iPod’ and ‘broadcast’
although there’s nothing about podcasting
that’s exclusive to Apple or its iconic little portable. So what does this
word actually mean?
Firstly, podcasting refers to something more than just a downloadable radio
show. In fact, a podcast doesn’t
have to be an audio recording at all. In short, the word ‘podcast’ refers to
any ’show’ or ‘clip’ thus audio,
video or both together that is made available on the internet using an RSS
feed. This means that you, the user,
’subscribe’ to a podcast, so that whenever the relevant podcaster posts a
new ‘episode’, it will be
automatically downloaded onto your computer by whatever software you use to
organise your podcasts (for example
iTunes if you’re an iPod user).
The latest version of iTunes includes a comprehensive, smooth-running
Podcast section, with an extensive
directory of podcasts for you to subscribe to, including Virgin Radio and
Disney, as well as a huge
number of comedy podcasts, short films and sport punditry.
In order to start subscribing to and listening to podcasts (incidentally,
the word ’subscribe’ doesn’t
mean you have to pay for it as most podcastings are free), you’ll need to
download
some software like iTunes but there are alternatives. The most popular
softwares are Juice and Doppler,
and there is an increasing number of software applications designed to be
used with specific MP3 players.
Podcasting is a two-way thing, and software such as BlogMatrix Sparks or
EasyPodcast from
www.easypodcast.com enables you to create and publish your own podcasts
easily. An audio-only podcast is,
in effect, a very simple thing to produce. There are three basic stages:
Use some form of audio recording/editing software to create your audio
’show’. For simple-to-use software,
PC users should look at Cool Edit Pro, while Mac users can use GarageBand,
which comes free with Macs as part
of the iLife software package.
Turn your finished audio recording into an MP3 file. Once you’ve
finished editing your podcast, save
it as an MP3 file using your media player such as iTunes or Windows Media
Player.
Use a hosting site to ‘host’ your podcasts. These will store the actual
data, and provide you with
a web address and the RSS feed so anyone around the world can easily
subscribe to your podcast.
And that’s all you need to become a podcaster yourself. For more tips, check
out www.ipodder.org or
the podcasting section of the iTunes music store.
Recording and transcribing podcasts: Skypecasting + NaturallySpeaking
David Pogue just reviewed Dragon NaturallySpeaking 9, and found it had a 98.9% accuracy rate with no training. It seems that Speech Recognition Software has finally reached the point where it is becoming something that most of us can really benefit from. Even if you can type 60wpm, speaking is going to be a lot faster.
The Preferred edition of NaturallySpeaking (about $200) has a feature that lets you provide dictation from recorded audio. The accuracy rate is not quite as high and this does require some training of the program, but this potentially opens a new area: transcribing podcasts.
Being able to transcribe a podcast is going to depend on the quality of the recording and how clearly people speak. You can get a pretty high quality recording using Skype though. Skype has much higher sound quality than a regular telephone recording.
To record Skype calls, check out HotRecorder.
If you go to Google and search for “Record Skype” you’ll find all sorts of complicated suggestions, mostly on old pages. I tried getting calls to record using the freeware program Audacity and a plantronics USB headset. I couldn’t get it to work, but HotRecorder worked immediately with no configuration.
I just tried recording a conference call with Skype where two people were connected directly via Skype and one was on a landline. It worked perfectly.
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One September day when I was in the third grade I got off the school bus and walked up the red dust powdered lane to my house only to find no one there. The smudgy white front door of the old frame house stood open. My footsteps on the unpainted gray porch creaked in the fall stillness. With increasing panic, I went through every room, and then ran around the outside crying and sobbing in the grip of the most horrific loneliness and terror. I believed with all my heart that The Rapture had come and that all my family had been taken up to heaven leaving me alone on earth to face God’s terrible wrath. As it turned out they were at the neighbor’s house scarcely 300 yards down the road, and returned in a few minutes. But it took me hours to
calm down. I dreamed about it for years afterward.
Since then I have spoken to others raised in fundamentalist families who had the same childhood experience of coming home and thinking everyone had been “raptured up.” The Rapture — the time when God takes up all saved Christians before he lets loose slaughter, pestilence and torture upon the earth — is very real to people in whom its glorious and grisly promise was instilled and cultivated from birth. Even those who escape fundamentalism agree its marks are permanent. We may no longer believe in being raptured up, but the grim fundamentalist architecture of the soul stands in the background of our days. There is an apocalyptic starkness that remains somewhere inside us, one that tinges all of our feelings and thoughts of higher matters. Especially about death, oh beautiful and terrible death, for naked eternity is more real to us than to you secular humanists. I get mail from hundreds of folks like me, the different ones who fled and became lawyers and teachers and therapists and car mechanics, dope dealers and stockbrokers and waitresses. And every one of them has felt that thing we understand between us, that skulls piled clear to heaven redemption through absolute self worthlessness and you ain’t shit in the eyes of God so go bleed to death in some dark corner stab in the heart at those very moments when we should have been most proud of ourselves. Self-hate. iPod Gravity global warming [all-podcast -secrets] [www.15minutesite.com] www.15minutesite.com
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Podcasting With Joomla
Many early podcasts were limited to feeds by and for computer gurus, since podcasting required a significant amount of technical expertise. Once iTunes started supporting podcast feeds and opened up a directory, more casual computer users and music lovers started subscribing to podcasts. Today, simple software running on many web hosting servers allows anyone to distribute a podcast.
Joomla is a free, open source content management system that allows people to manage their own websites without requiring a lot of technical knowledge. All you need to maintain a website using Joomla is a web host that supports the software and a web browser. Many web hosts will even install the Joomla software for you as part of your web hosting package.
Joomla includes built-in support for RSS content feeds, the core technology behind podcasts. Once you record and edit your podcast audio file using any of the popular podcasting tools on the market, you can use a variety of tools within Joomla to distribute your podcast to listeners.
The easiest way to start podcasting with Joomla is to use the software’s built-in content management system. If you have posted your audio to a web server, you can add a new article to Joomla’s news feed and link to the audio file with the enclosure tag, like this:
Most podcast players and feed readers will understand that link and pull your audio file into a listener’s playlist. However, you can use some third-party Joomla podcasting modules and plugins to make it even easier to maintain your podcast.
The Joomla podcasting module you use will depend on your level of technical expertise and the amount of money you wish to pay. Many Joomla modules are free of charge, offered under open source licenses. Some more sophisticated modules carry small fees that directly support the programmers. Depending on a programmer’s policies, you may have to pay a fee for each podcast or each domain you maintain.
Joomla podcasting modules reduce the number of steps you have to take to get your podcast into listeners’ players. In many cases, Joomla podcasting modules provide built-in FTP support, so you can post your file to a web server just by adding it like a mail attachment. From the Joomla administration panel, you will be able to control settings, such as the title of your podcast, the name of each individual episode, and the artwork that you want displayed when listeners enjoy your podcast on their iPods.
Additional Resources:
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Joomla Podcasting Modules Directory
MadeYourWeb Podcasting Plugin for Joomla [allpodcastsecrets]
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High Definition Audio Post Production
While you may already be familiar with high definition audio from experiencing surround sound in movie theatres and in your home entertainment center, a new technology is bringing the same experience to your headphones. Dolby’s new surround sound system allows you to experience the feeling of surround sound right in your headphones.
Podcast listeners don’t necessarily have to own special new headsets to appreciate the quality of high definition audio. For the past few years, live music lovers have traded high definition music files online. Usually, these files are high quality field recordings made at live concerts, often sanctioned by musicians. In uncompressed, “lossless” formats, these files can take up huge amounts of space. Therefore, high definition audio post production systems must be equipped with large hard drives and maxed-out memory chips to process these files.
As a result, many podcast producers are introducing themselves to the world of high definition audio post production. While many of the free audio editing software programs on the market handle post production quite well, none of them adequately process the high definition elements required for true surround sound. To achieve true high definition audio post production on a desktop computer, many sound editors may end up purchasing full media production suites.
Windows users accustomed to post production software like Audacity can expect to spend a little more money to achieve high definition podcasts and audio recordings. The Vegas media production suite, while designed primarily for video and film production, contains a sophisticated high definition audio post production module. Using Vegas with the video elements turned off, editors can compose and edit audio in full 5.1 surround sound formats.
Apple users accustomed to using the popular GarageBand tool for podcasting must also invest in some new software for high definition audio post production. The popular Logic Pro software package offers podcasters and other audio producers a powerful set of tools for music creation in full surround sound. While this high definition audio post production tool is one of the most expensive packages on the market, editors using Logic often save significant amounts of money compared to renting advanced equipment at professional recording studios.
Whether you’re building your high definition audio post production system on a PC or on a Mac, prices for hardware and software will continue to drop, offering you the power to create audio just like the pros.
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Podcasting News
Vegas from Sony
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When Free Software is Really A Bargain ! [ Sonic Swap]
I have been a user of Sonic swap since 2005 ! This free service is the best way to catalogue your music buy music trade music etc ! The new update of their software is top of the Music chain !
All tracks are set up for you automatically artist album etc ! The integration with my Itunes is flawless and this 70 year old guy who has Senior Moments , has all his 1400 track in front of his face and it adds my pod-casts like digital flotsam and ritmolatino.org !
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We have recently enhanced SonicSwap to better serve the needs of the growing on-line music market. SonicSwap now features the best playlist search and sharing for iTunes users.
With this new version of SonicSwap.com, we are discontinuing our cataloging and swapping of CDs, DVDs, and video games. If you are looking for your SonicSwap catalogs, we have moved them to a temporary address:
http://catalog.sonicswap.com
To access our previous site, just go to this address and log-in as you normally would. This service will continue to be available for a couple of months to give you some time to download your catalogs to a spreadsheet. (The link to download in spreadsheet format is located at the top of your media catalog pages.)
If you have any questions, please send us an email at: support@sonicswap.com
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