August 2005
Beginner
464 pages
12h 36m
English
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Listen to Podcasts on Your PDA
Use a PDA to listen to podcasts on the go.
Why restrict yourself to MP3 players or your PC when you want to listen to podcasts? Your PDA makes for a very capable podcatcher. Web-enabled PDAs can grab podcasts for you without having to sync to a computer.
This hack covers podcatching clients for both Pocket PC and Palm-powered PDAs.
Podcatching with Your Pocket PC PDA
With a Pocket PC device, you can use an application such as FeederReader to download podcasts from a wireless network and listen to or view them wherever you are. You can view any show notes included in the RSS feed, and with integrated file management, you can automatically delete podcasts after you’ve listened to them.
The integrated feel of the Pocket PC, with the optional ability to view notes from the podcast, makes for a great experience.
Sneakernet or direct connect.
You can treat a Pocket PC as a simple MP3 player to listen to podcasts: either downloading songs over ActiveSync or using a card reader. However, to really take advantage of podcasts, you’ll want to consider installing an aggregator on the device.
To listen to podcasts you will need a decent amount of memory. I recommend at least 256 MB for a small number (5–10) of stored shows, with up to 2 GB to hold a large number of podcasts to listen to over a long weekend.
A walk-through using FeederReader.
First, download and install FeederReader (http://FeederReader.com/). You can install it into RAM or on a memory card. Installing it ...
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I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.Addison B.
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I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.