[A/S] theVAP: podcasts explained

[safari_tim@xxxxxxxxxxx]

It has come to my attention that many people are not familiar 
with what a podcast is. I hope this explaination will help.

Our podcast is a talk show about airstreams. You can download 
the file as an mp3, and play it back at your convience. You can 
play it on your computer, or if you have a portable player you 
can listen to it that way. The files are usually large because 
they are not streamed. They are downloaded complete so that you 
can put them on a portable player. The amount of time they take 
to download depends on your internet connection. If you have a 
high-speed connection such as cable or dsl, it should be 
downloaded in a minute or so. It will take much longer over dial-up.

What makes the show a podcast is the ability to subscribe to it. 
Much like a newspaper, it will be delivered to you each time a 
new episode is released. Subscription is free. You subscribe to 
podcasts using software. The most popular software for subscribing 
and playing podcasts is Apple's iTunes program, which is also free. 
See apple.com. Each time you run the software, for example iTunes, 
the program will check for new episodes in the background and get 
them for you. 

If you don't wish to use subscription software, you can go to 
http://www.podnova.com and put in theVAP in the search box. Their 
site will let you play each episode from their webpage. Again, all 
free.

One final way to get it is to go to www.theVAP.com and use the 
direct download link. This will download the show directly to your 
hard drive to play back at your convience.

In short, a podcast is a mp3 that you *can* subscribe to. You can 
listen on your PC, MAC, iPod, or any other MP3 player you have.

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-Tim 
theVAP.com