 |
To get the podcast audio MP3 files, you can of course download them from our web site as they become You can "tune in" to our broadcast in many convenient ways using your favorite software. This page describes each way and shows you how you can set it up, often with a single click of the mouse. Once you set it up, your software will tell you when a new lesson is ready to download. Tuning in with Apple iTunes One of the most common ways of tuning to a podcast is using Apple iTunes. You don’t have to own an iPod. iTunes is a software program that’s installed on your personal computer. You can use iTunes to subscribe to our podcast in one of two ways. The first is to click on the following link. You can then see our podcast in iTunes and download new lessons. You can use iTunes to listen to each lesson on your computer, or you can move the lesson to your iPod, burn it to a CD, or simply take the MP3 file and use it with any device that plays MP3 files. The second way is to use iTunes to visit the iTunes Store. You’ll find a great selection of podcasts. You’ll find our podcast in the Education / Language Courses section. Don’t worry about it being called a "store". You don’t need to pay to get our podcast and many other podcasts that are available at the iTunes store.
My Yahoo is a customizable web page with news, stock quotes, weather, and many other features. When they say "customizable", they mean that you choose the news sources, for example, that show on your page. Using RSS, you can now include on your page "feeds" from many sources including our Hebrew Podcasts. The page will show a short list of the most-recent lessons and the list will be updated automatically so you can see when a new lesson is published. To add Hebrew Podcasts to your "My Yahoo!" page, simply click the following link:
I’ll focus on Internet Explorer, but the same is true for Firefox and other browsers that support RSS. With Internet Explorer you should be running version 7 or higher. When you click on the following link, Internet Explorer will offer you to subscribe to Hebrew Podcasts. After you subscribe, Internet Explorer will add Hebrew Podcasts to your "Feeds" and highlight it on the list when new lessons are available.
Tuning in with other RSS Client Software The key to RSS is a small file that lists the published items (lessons in our case). This file resides on our web site. Your client software simply checks this file periodically to see if there are new lessons. You can simply copy the following link to your RSS software. What about the Videos and Lesson Guides? The videos and lesson guides require login to our website. However by tuning in to the audio podcast in one of the methods above you will automatically know when there is a new lesson. |
|
A podcast is a series of audio or video files that are distributed on-line for playback on computers and portable devices. You can listen and watch a podcast on an iPod or any other portable player that is capable of playing MP3 audio files or MPEG-4 video files. Some cell phones and PDAs now offer this capability. You can also burn the audio to a CD and listen using a CD player such as the one in your car.
available. You could check the web site from time to time to see if there’s a new lesson, but there’s a much better way. Podcasts use a method called RSS (Really Simple Syndication) to "broadcast" their new episodes (or lessons in our case). 
