Listening to Podcasts Without a Computer
Monday, July 09, 2007
I came across a review of a device that promises exactly that. Its a neat concept: plug in your MP3 player at night and wake up with it full of podcasts. Its called CastGrabber and its a hardware device that interacts with a web directory to collect all of your subscription content and place it onto your MP3 player.
Sounds cool... sounds familiar. But the concept falls a little short. There is no way of getting around using your computer to manage your subscriptions, albeit through a web site rather than an installed application. But you still have to return your device to this special dock in order to load up again.I started to write a comment on the page about myPodder and how it accomplishes the same thing (for free) but also allows the user to connect to any internet-enabled machine rather than a specific computer or in this case dock (which is really a computer without a monitor or keyboard).
The funny thing was though, the page was surrounded by advertisements for MP3 devices that already ship with myPodder pre-loaded from the factory today. I know ads rotate a lot so I captured some screen shots.
The Cowon, iRiver, and MobiBLU devices all advertised here come from the factory pre-loaded with myPodder and ready to receive podcasts the moment you plug them in.
Labels: myPodder
posted by Russell @ 9:14 PM,
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