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Archive for February, 2005

Great podcasts

Monday, February 21st, 2005

Time for a new edition of our recommended series.
If you’re interested in storytelling or just looking for something else to listen to, you should try The Seanachai. Great entertainment, cause Patrick has the storytelling gift . Explanation of a Seanachai:
In Ireland, in the days before books and printing, there was a class of people […]

Highly recommended: thepodcastnetwork.com

Monday, February 14th, 2005

Today Mick Stanic and Cameron Reilly, known from the excellent G’day World podcast, launched a new platform: the podcastnetwork.com.
The Podcast Network will be the best collection of podcasts available anywhere that are managed and aggregated under one roof.We launched the network with The G’day World Podcast, The Gadget Show and The Mobiles Show and additional […]

Podcasting power!

Saturday, February 12th, 2005

The Seattle Times understands what podcasting is about:
Although it’s new, I’m convinced podcasting will transform the way many people consume media, just as blogging and TiVo have. When you can program your own radio station, carry it with you anywhere and pause and restart it at will, who needs mainstream, advertising-supported broadcast radio?
…It doesn’t […]

Troubles: Apple’s .Mac hosting infrastructure

Friday, February 11th, 2005

Since a few days we receive questions from Doppler users concerning problems they experience while downloading their favorite podcasts. Adam Curry contacted us as he got reported simular user experiences concerning his show.
As nothing significantly changed to our software, we had to review the whole user process. It turns out all podcasts hosted through .Mac are […]

Doppler 2.0.0.3 released

Friday, February 11th, 2005

We released Doppler 2.0.0.3 which contains some bugfixes and a few new features:
New features

“check for update” in help menu
in the feed history, right click, select ‘copy URL to clipboard’ on a history item to copy the url of that download to your clipboard
in the feed history, right click, select ‘open URL in default browser’ on […]

How to: Autosync podcasts in WMP 10

Thursday, February 10th, 2005

Sean Alexander wrote a nice article on how to sync podcasts to your portable media device, using auto playlists in Windows Media Player 10.
One feature I did find lacking was an easy way in Windows Media Player 10 to catch up on all of my feeds in a single, smart, Auto Playlist that organizes […]

Great websites to visit: Asian Edition

Wednesday, February 9th, 2005

Since a few days, Doppler welcomes lots of Asian vistors.
Last week the Japanese Rock’n Roll Band "President Gas" started podcasting. They bring us Japanese and English songs. Their first podcast and one of their most popular songs is called "Bonew" or "Mother’s milk". Other titles are "Pig" or "Daddy and Mammy". Be sure to check […]

Doppler 2.0 it OUT!

Sunday, February 6th, 2005

You’ve been waiting for it. You’ve been running version 1.1.1, you’ve been installing the 2.0 RC1, now it’s time to check out 2.0 Gold.
What has changed compared to 1.1.1?
Doppler 2.0 is a different story. It’s all you where used to in 1.1.1 but we added:

Multi-threaded, simultaneous downloads.
Resuming downloads.
Automatic retry if a download fails […]