It is Talkr who made my blog able to talk. Using Talkr service, you can transform your text-only blog (or any other blog you want) into a podcast. You only need to register yourself (free), and add your blog feed. You’ll then receive a code that you can add on your blog, which will let your visitor to hear your blog’s entry.

What is podcast anyway? Podcast, or podcasting, is a method of publishing audio broadcasts via the Internet, allowing users to subscribe to a feed of new files (usually MP3s). It became popular in late 2004, largely due to automatic downloading of audio onto portable players or personal computers.

Back to Talkr. Talkr works by reading your blog’s entry, then convert this text input into audio, using their text-to-speech engine. The result is a MP3-format audio file which contain an audio version of your blog’s entry. You (or your visitor) can either download and play it using iPod, the most popular MP3 player in the world, or any (portable) MP3 player you have.

Want to give it a try?

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A community directory of freely available music. You can upload and download music as BitTorrent files and create an RSS podcast feed.

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If your waiting for Itunes 4.9 which will support podcasts you might want to try out this program. It grabs the IPodder directory and shows all podcasts available for download.

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Podcast support for iTunes is here! Download the free BadApple plug-in which expands the functionality and interoperability of iTunes software.

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Bubbler is a unique cross between a blogging tool and traditional (and less approachable) Web site creation software. Its tabbed interface lets you easily post blog- style text entries, plus richer content. Also, easily manage podcasting, video blogging,RSS feeds, file sharing and instant messaging with this application.

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Ladies pay attention, as well as you gentelman out their, this is one of the few podcast produced by a women! We hope it as a sign of change in that we hope more women start podcasting on Technology. She states in here Bio: “I had to wonder why no women were taking the helm when it came to this area. Gals know just as much as the boys do, maybe a little bit more! Plus, with my background in education and training, I found that by explaining complex computer terminology to the end user in plain English and using a little bit of humor into the mix, they have a lot more fun with a computer and come away knowing a lot more than they did when they started”

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How to get Podcasts and also make your own

This week’s How-To is a three part special complete with our first Engadget “Podcast” MP3. The first part is how to get “Podcasts” on your iPod. So what’s a Podcast? To put it simply, a Podcast is an audio file, a MP3, most likely, in talk show format, along with a way to subscribe to the show and have it automatically delivered to your iPod when you plug in to iTunes. The show isn’t live, so you can listen to it whenever you want.

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Podracer is a podcast downloader. It takes a file with the URLs to all your podcast RSS feeds and retrieves the MP3s and stores them in a specified location. It includes an internal BitTorrent downloader. It has a catchup feature which updates the log without downloading all podcasts. It can be run as a cron job to automatically receive podcasts.

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