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title: "Podcasting FAQs"
date: 2006-10-09
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# Podcasting FAQs
### How can I listen to these podcasts?

Podcasts are intended to be listened to while you're driving in your car, exercising, walking, or doing some other task. Podcasts are audio content from the Internet that you take with you, not that you listen to while staring at your computer (although you can certainly do this if it's your preference). You can listen in several ways:

- Download the files by right-clicking the **Download MP3** link and selecting **Save Target As**. Plug your MP3 player into your computer, double-click the **My Computer** icon, and then drag the audio files you downloaded onto the MP3 player.

- Use the built-in player on each podcast post to listen to the audio on your computer.

- To sync the podcasts to your iPod, open iTunes, go to Advanced and search for Tech Writer Voices. Subscribe to it. The store page isn't updating correctly, but the feed works fine.

- Subscribe to the RSS feed using Google Reader, FeedDemon, Odeo, Juice, iPodder, or some other podcast catcher.

To listen to you MP3 player in your car, you'll need a wireless FM transmitter. This is a little device you buy at any electronic store (e.g., Radio Shack, Best Buy). You plug your MP3 player into it, and then plays music over an FM radio station.

### How can I submit my own chapter's presentations?** **

You can easily record your presenters with a digital recorder (Olympus, for example), and a lapel mic that plugs into the digital recorder. Make sure the recorder has a clip that you can use to attach to your presenter's belt or other pocket. Then use Audacity, a free program, to edit the audio. Ask the presenter to repeat the audience's questions.