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I’ve been waiting for the cell phone and MP3 player (either combined into one gadget, or kept as individual products) that’ll make me drool. Turns out Samsung announced them at CES this year. Disregard the iPhone and the iPods, we all know Apple locks you in to having to stay with their products forever (that’s the evil side of iTunes).
The Cell Phone: Samsung’s Ultra Music is slim and sweet. One side’s got the phone, granted with a small screen, and the other’s got the MP3 player. It’s even sporting a 1 to 2 (reports differ) megapixel camera. The onboard memory is a measly 100mb, but it takes microSD cards, so that’ll give you 2gb. The downer is it will be released on Sprint, a provider which doesn’t have coverage in the uber-boonies I live in.
The MP3 Player: Even though I could just use the above, Samsung’s K3 is too sweet to not get (I’m saving my Christmas gift certs for it). It’s a very slim flash-based player with up to 8gb of memory, just enough for me to consider.

Both the above should be available in March.

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New Samsung products rock!

I want to ride this thing around a big city at night (Tokyo, New York, etc) while listening to Fluke.

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Music Motorcycle

Clearly if you’ve been thinking about podcasting these days, you’ll notice right away that there are a TON of solutions out there on the web to help you begin podcasting. There are lots of companies which offer great solutions for podcasters…so be encouraged�there are many ways to go about doing this, and it’s really all up to you.

Here’s an easy, and free way of podcasting:

1. Set up an account with blogger.com . It’s a really simple step by step process. You’ll see once you get there.
2. Now set up an account with audioblogger.com . It will be connected to your blogger.com account. You will be using AudioBlogger to phone in and leave your recorded posts at your Blogger account. Therefore, you now have what’s called an “audioblog”! And for those of you who are familiar with blogging, this is a really quick and dynamic way of communicating on the web. Add to blogging “audio” and you now have “audioblogging”.
3. The next element in your audioblogging would be converting this to a language understood by podcast “readers” and aggregators. This would be the language “XML”, which, of course, we won’t get into in this tutorial. All you need to do now in order to convert your audio blog posts into a podcast is to open an account with Feedburner.com
4. In Feedburner you’ll be asked to burn a feed…you will enter the website address of your Blogger account, and Feedburner will automatically burn a feed for your blog. Your feed is what podcast displayers, aggregators, and such will use to download your podcast.
5. So now that you have a feed for your podcast, you can announce your Podcast feed to friends, family, and the entire world! Simply give them the feed URL address which Feedburner created for you, and keep on audioblogging!

About The Author:

About the Author: Demetria Zinga is a Navy wife, mother of one preschool age daughter, and a Digital Media Consultant.? She developed the “Create Your Own Internet Radio Podcast” video tutorial series, found at www.publishapodcast.com.? Both her faith and her newly developed niche for podcasting led her to start the The Christian Women Podcasters Network, found at www.christianwomenpodcasters.com.