Podcasting to your phone

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If your are like me (and I guess that probably means not very many of you!) then you want to listen to podcasts on your phone. Listening to podcasts on a phone, ipod, iphone or whatever means being able to catch up to your favourite shows in your own time at your own pace.

The downsides for any mobile device user are that downloads tend to be large. This means that podcast downloads can take a long time. It also means, depending on your connection plan that it may cost you. Oh, and it will also drain your battery flat!

If you have a computer connected to the web (and who doesn't have one?) then there is a sensible solution. The strategy is to download podcasts to your computer, and then get these transferred to your phone - all automatically. This also is probably when your mobile device is charging up!

The tool I use to download podcasts is Juice, which is a free tool downloadable from Sourceforge. This tool can automatically download, to a folder of your choice, any podcasts of your choice - as and when they appear on the web.

The remaining challenge is then to get the podcasts onto your phone etc. Well my phone is a Nokia and that has PcSuite which has an automatic synchronisation tool from any folder on your computer to the phone.

So there you go, suddenly whenever you charge your phone and connect it to your computer you will all latest podcasts transferred automatically to your mobile device.

Now all I want to do is to repeat this for videos!