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TECH TIP

You can reduce popping and hissing sounds in recorded speech by using a Pop Filter. It catches the bursts of air that hit the unprotected microphone and can cause overload and distortion. A pop filter can be purchased for between $15 and $20 or you can make one. Below are links to instructions on making a filter.

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iTunes
The 800 pound gorilla in podcatchers iTunes is not only a great podcatcher it is a great MP3 tags tool. It's a must have for the podcaster.

@Podder	A free client designed for the visually impaired. Download files into your MP3 Player or Ipod.
BitsCast	freeware RSS/ reader that supports both iPods and Microsoft Media PlaysForSure devices.
BlogMatrix Sparks!	BlogMatrix provides an easy-to-use web-based solution for audio and video podcasting.
Doppler	Doppler is a aggregator. It’s a tool to subscribe to RSS feeds which supply downloadable files. Download files into your MP3 Player or Ipod.
iTunes	Apple's heavily commercialized tuner. Works well with ipod shuffle, ipod nano, and regular ipod or ipod video.
Happy Fish	Requires Itunes.  HappyFish is an RSS reader that can also download RSS enclosures (podcasts, mp3's, videos, pics, apps, whatever) to your computer while you watch - or better still - while you play with the kids, read a book, eat sushi, ponder the meaing of life, sleep...
Juice	(formerly iPodder) Lets users select and download shows and music and to play whenever they want [awesome]
MadCat	MadCat is a multipurpose application that allows you to browse the web, while enjoying quality video content from around the world. MadCat can download you're favorite Rss feeds, Democracy channels, or sniff media links out the webpages you browse. This is mainly for video podcasts, but audio works fine.
NewzCrawler	NewzCrawler is a rss/atom reader, news aggregator, browser and blog client for Windows which provides access to news content from various sources
nimiq	Nimiq is Windows  client.
Podcast Amp	A simple, free tool that lets you listen to podcasts directly.
Podspider	Podspider is the only solution that offers podcast listeners a directory containing more than 13,000 podcasts organized into 25 subjects and sorted into over 300 categories, supplemented by software that makes the podcast experience effortless and fun.
Replay Radio	Replay Radio 7.0 makes it easy to automatically record your favorite radio shows, so you can listen wherever and whenever you like. Recordings can be automatically transferred to your iPod or other MP3 Player, burned to a CD, or you can just listen on your PC. It's incredibly convenient.
RSSRadio	RSSRadio is an easy to use tool to download and listen to your favourite Podcasts
Synclosure	Synclosure is a RSS aggregator to flexibly download files in enclosures. It supports filter keywords, custom actions and a caching mechanism.  Kinda geeky, but powerful.
Transistr	Coming Soon.  Was iPodderX
Yamipod	Freeware application to efficiently manage your iPod under Mac OS X, Windows and Linux.
Ziepod	Ziepod+ is your next-generation media player. It is designed to keep you alive with audio and video content automatically retrieved from all over the Internet.

Macintosh Podcatching Software

iPodderX	currently unavailable - in a trademark dispute!
iTunes	Apple's heavily commercialized tuner. Works well with ipod Nano, Ipod, and Shuffle
Juice	(formerly iPodder) Lets users select and download shows and music and to play whenever they want [awesome]
NewsMacPro	OS X newsreader that supports  & Palm and iPod sync.
Playpod	designed exclusively for Mac OS X.
Poddumfeeder	Applescript based client.
Yamipod	freeware application to efficiently manage your iPod under Mac OS X, Windows and Linux.

Linux Podcatching Software

BPConf	BPConf is a simple KDE configuration front end for BashPodder by Linc Fessenden. BPConf contains BashPodder so you don't require anything else.
CastPodder	CastPodder®™ is a media aggregator that automatically downloads podcast's to your  computer or portable device, leaving you 'one-click-away' from latest media feeds.
gPodder	gPodder is a Podcast receiver/catcher written in Python, using GTK. It manages podcast feeds for you and automatically downloads all podcasts from as many feeds as you like.
Juice	(formerly iPodder) Lets users select and download shows and music and to play whenever they want [awesome]
Liferea	Liferea is an aggregator for online news feeds. There are many other news readers available, but these others are not available for Linux or require many extra libraries to be installed. Liferea tries to fill this gap by creating a fast, easy to use, easy to install news aggregator for GTK/GNOME.
Peapod	Peapod is a powerful and easy to use command-line tool for downloading podcasts. It’s written in Python and uses Mark Pilgrim’s excellent feedparser library to understand atom and RSS feeds. While Peapod has primarily been developed on linux it should work on any unix-like operating system.
PenguinTV	PenguinTV is not just another RSS feed reader. It is designed from the ground up to work seamlessly with podcasts and video blogs, allowing you to easily enjoy the audio, music, and video published around the web in RSS format.
PodGrid	personal internet radio news receiver, receiver.
Podracer	Podracer is a podcast downloader. It takes a file with the URLs to all your podcast rss feeds and goes and gets the mp3s and stores them in a specified location. It is a BASH script with an internal BitTorrent downloader written in Python.
Rhythmbox	Rhythmbox is an integrated music management application, originally inspired by Apple's iTunes. It is free software, designed to work well under the GNOME Desktop, and based on the powerful GStreamer media framework.
StreamTuned	StreamTuned plays and records audio and video streams using mplayer as backend. It also reads stream url's and related information from playlists, webpages or XML/RSS feeds. Streamtuned can act as Podcast client and allows for local and remote (webservice) access to the repositories containing your stream url's.
Yamipod	YamiPod is a freeware application to efficiently manage your iPod under Mac OS X, Windows and Linux. It can be run directly from your iPod and needs no installation. Take a look at the feature list to find out what it can do and feel free to suggest anything that might be missing .