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You will be easily amazed at the variety of podcasts available for any Net user. Whether it is related to politics, or sports, or music, or health, or Information Technology, or finance, there is something for everyone from podcast creators.

For politics updates, look up the Guardian’s Weekly Podcast, just to name one of the available sources.

Access this podcast on latest advances in the IT-related field of cloud computing – Cloudcast: Benefits and challenges of cloud security for your data

With this foreign exchange outlook podcast, you can get the latest currency trends and forecasts at your fingertips.

Music fanatics can keep up with the weekly chart watch UK to check out their favourite icon’s placement.

Heard of ‘Staycations’? Learn how you can make the most of your  own country in this travel-related podcast.

Bookworms in the UK are quite likely to find The Guardian’s book podcasts of some use.

Every week, The Guardian’s literary editor presents a podcast that covers a trendy literary topic. So you can catch author interviews, relevant book readings and discussions, and also access complete recordings of The Guardian’s monthly book club.

Look up the entire series of book podcasts and subscribe to them, free.

There are a few tried and trusted methods to make your podcasts reach the target audience effectively. You can promote your podcast and get satisfactory results if you diligently follow these steps.

• Make a transcript available along with the audio file.
• Use SEO to make your podcast better available in Internet searches.
• Ensure that you subscribe to your own podcasts in as many online services as you can.
• Submit the podcast to directories and get listed, the more the better.
• Use your expert knowledge to contribute useful comments in related forums, podcasts and blogs.
• Use a press release to ‘announce’ your podcast.
• Create and build on an email list – people prefer to know about the contents before they commit hard disk space for audio files.
• Include interviews with other knowledgeable professionals on the subject, and use inbound links from their websites.
• Use credible network affiliations to supply the podcast to niche groups of audience.
• Ensure that you engage your listeners by answering any e-mailed queries, and actively soliciting feedback by mail or phone.

Where would you go to check out reviews and comparisons of a gadget you would love to possess? One place you could use is CNET’s gadget blog ‘Crave’, which offers latest and updated technology news on new gizmos (not yet) in the market.

While there, you might want to access the weekly CNET UK podcasts on plenty of technology-related news under the sun. Since they are numbered sequentially, you can easily keep track and ensure that you do not miss out on any of the Crave podcasts, which are lively and informative discussions. on such things as “What’s the future of mobile gaming?”

What’s the best way of keeping in touch with key issues in local government? One way is to watch Podcasts and Webcasts on employment law, workforce strategies, pay issues, and much more. Usefully, podcasts transcripts are also made available.

Here’s a glimpse of what you’ll hear on accessing the latest podcast dated December 2010.

• You will hear about ways in which employers can make changes to terms and conditions of employment
• You can get an overview of managing the transition period to remove the default retirement age from 6 April 2011
• You will be able to listen to top tips to prepare for the Agency Workers Regulations coming into force on 1 October 2011.

Helpfully, each module displays the duration of the podcast letting you better plan your time.

Once a week, on Mondays BBC Radio 1Xtra lets you download a new 20-min UK music mix in an MP3 format. This friendly site has been a leader in its field since it began in 2002 (1Xtra was first aired at 6pm on August 16 that year. Rampage and KC were the first DJs, and Dangerous by Rodney P & Skitz was the first record played).

In keeping with the times, the site now provides, among plenty of other downloads, the Homegrown podcast of unsigned UK music. Access BBC Radio 1Xtra podcasts, and choose from a number of ways to listen to fresh music – listening online, or after downloading the podcast, or by scheduling automatic downloads every week.

Is podcasting meant only for music sharing? Of course not. This relatively new method of audio file distribution has opened whole new doors to mass communication and internet / mobile marketing opportunities for businesses large and small.
At one end of the technology – the source – you can use podcasting technology for all kids of purposes ranging from educational training (tutorials, debates, foreign language teaching, walking guides, etc.) to entertainment (audio books, talk shows, music demos, stories, comedy clips and the like).
At the other end – the receiver or the subscriber has the power of choice – “what?”, “how?” and “when?”. The subscriber decides on what content is relevant, the medium on which the information is downloaded, and a convenient time for listening to the sound bytes.
Try it out – podcasting is here to stay, evolve and deliver.

Utterly brilliant medical teaching podcasts to help trainee doctors revise for professional medical exams.

Dr Podcast provides podcasts of questions and model answers for the whole UK syllabus. Students have the model answer presented to them in just the way the examiners expect to hear it.

Using Dr Podcast students can listen to the perfect exam answer, experience the format of the questions they are likely to be asked and hear tips on how to excel in their exam. Read the rest of this entry »

Audacity is a really impressive free, easy-to-use audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux and other operating systems. You can use Audacity to:

Audacity has a huge list of impressive features: Read the rest of this entry »