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The ways of connecting Skype to your podcast are many and varied, so today we’ll start with the basic principles and a few services that are available for PC.  We plan to have a Mac/Skype episode soon, but because neither Dave or James use a Mac regularly we wanted to wait until we had a specialist lined up to tackle those options.

In this show you can expect to get a good run down of Skype and how to connect, as well as a few tips and tricks to help fast-track you towards your first Skype podcast.

What we talked about in today’s show:

• Skype
• MX Skype Recorder
• Pamela
• Audio Hijack Pro (Mac)

Our new Podcasters’ Emporium 30 second bumper

We’d love for you to play our 30 second Podcasters’ Emporium bumper in your show.  Let us know when you do, so we can mention you and your podcast on Podcasters’ Emporium

Download (mp3)

Be a Part of the Podcasters’ Emporium Community!

• Please send us your feedback via Email
• Follow the hosts on twittter: Follow James and Dave
• Leave a comment here on the blog
• Follow show on Twitter (news and new shows only) Send us a Direct Message when you add us to twitter and let us know that you listen to the show.
• Send us Audio Feedback by email recorded at: 128kps at 44.100 khz

Podcasters’ Emporium is produced in conjunction with the Lifestyle PodNetwork. You’ll find more great podcasts like this one at LifestylePodNetwork.com.  If you’d like to join the Lifestyle PodNetwork please contact us at talent@lifestylepodnetwork.com

We also answer your questions on the show, so if you have something you’d like to know about then drop us a comment on the blog, or send an email to podcastersemporium@gmail.com and we will be happy to cover your question in a future show.

Thanks to everyone who contribued to the blog and sent us audio comments since the last show, we love getting your questions, feedback and thoughts on how to podcast better.

Tim Noonan has prepared a full set of show notes that you’ll find on the Vocal Branding Australia website.

Here’s what we mentioned in today’s show:

• Scott Hertzog and the Sci Fi Diner podcast
• Vocal Branding Australia and Tim Noonan

Our new Podcasters’ Emporium 30 second bumper

We’d love for you to play our 30 second Podcasters’ Emporium bumper in your show.  Let us know when you do, so we can mention you and your podcast on Podcasters’ Emporium

Download (mp3)

Be a Part of the Podcasters’ Emporium Community!

• Please send us your feedback via Email
• Follow the hosts on twittter: Follow James and Dave
• Leave a comment here on the blog
• Follow show on Twitter (news and new shows only) Send us a Direct Message when you add us to twitter and let us know that you listen to the show.
• Send us Audio Feedback by email recorded at: 128kps at 44.100 khz

Podcasters’ Emporium is produced in conjunction with the Lifestyle PodNetwork. You’ll find more great podcasts like this one at LifestylePodNetwork.com.  If you’d like to join the Lifestyle PodNetwork please contact us at talent@lifestylepodnetwork.com

I told the story of my fourth birthday when my grandfather bought me a heavy, old, used typewriter from a police auction and gave it to me as my birthday gift.  One might be mistaken for thinking it a strange present to give a four-year old, but for me it was perfect.

I couldn’t even lift the typewriter for the first few years, it was that heavy!  But I remember it being my constant companion as I played all sorts of ‘make believes’ like hotels, airlines and radio studios. I wasn’t ever sure that my typewriter had a place in a 70’s radio station – but I didn’t really care.

I reckon I must have nearly worn out that old typewriter, but over the years it gave me hours and hours of fun as I busily created and retyped documents, and without knowing it, developing the fine motor skills required to touch type.

Today I work in an information technology and communications role, and the words flow out of my fingers at 80 words per minute.  The legacy of that early typewriter carried with me every day I use my computer.

I don’t know where the typewriter ended up – I’m sure it got thrown out in a move of house somewhere in my teens – but the skill I learned and the memories of my highly astute grandfather will never leave me.

So now, this is my opportunity to say thank you Poppa – for your insight, your awareness and that perfect doorstop Typewriter that gave me a gift I use every day.

I don’t know whether you realised it at the time, but that one gift has had the single biggest impact on my life.

What a gift! Thank you

James

Just check out some of the words that stop the mail from getting through:

http://office.microsoft.com/en-au/help/HA010450051033.aspx

This problem can be resolved proactively by using a redirection service like feedburner to manage your RSS feed, allowing you to change your URL as you wish.  This however is no good if you aren’t using feedburner from the start when you submitted your show.

So how do you resolve this problem?  There are two steps in fixing it actually – one is to tell your existing podcast subscribers that the URL has moved, the second is to point your old feed to the new location.  Both of these solutions assume that your domain names are still current and you still have hosting in both places.

Telling your existing subscribers

There is a small line of code you need to add to your existing (old) RSS feed, to let your subscribers know that the show has moved.  You should leave this code in place for at least two episodes of your show after it has been moved to the new location.  The code is:

<itunes:new-feed-url>http://newlocation.com/example.rss</itunes:new-feed-url>

Where http://newlocation.com/example.rss is the location of your new feed.

Telling new visitors to your old feed

This part is the trickier part, and it involves modifying your .htaccess file.  The good news is that if you follow the instructions then it’s only as hard as editing a text file.  In technical terms what we are doing is setting up a 301 redirect, which is an instruction to the web server to redirect all traffic to this particular file, to the new location.

What you need are: the address of your old feed, and the address of your new feed.  You will also need FTP access to your web hosting space.

The first step is to download your exising .htaccess file which you will locate in the root (or top level folder) of your hosting directory.

Once downloaded, open the .htaccess file using a basic text editor like notepad.

On a blank line you need to add the following code:

Redirect 301 /podcast/oldfeed/rss.xml http://newdomain.com/feed/newfeed.xml

Notice in the example the first section only shows the path from the existing top level folder, so you exclude everything from http:// to the first /

You’ll also see that the second part of the redirect shows the full path of the new web address including http://

Once done, save the file and upload the file to the same location as you downloaded it from.

You can test that everything has worked, by typing your old feed URL, and what you should see is that it automatically redirects you to the new location.

If it doesn’t do this, check your code for errors.

Drop me a comment on the blog post if you hit any challenges, or have questions and I’ll see what I can do to help.

Artists: contact me on MySpace and let me know about your tracks – if you’d like me to play them on the show.

I’m also on Twitter, so connect with me personally, and on the show twitter account (so you can stay in touch with show releases, when they happen).

Here’s what we played on today’s show.

1) The Hope Is Here (Freedom mix) by Moshang

2) Skylines by Karmacoda

3) Home by Love Spirals (a brand new track)

4) Samsara by Sine

5) In the Sunshine (Big Wheel remix) by Sunburn in Cyprus

6) Love is a Mantra by Astronauts of Antiquity

7) Phat Ambience by Groove Generator

8) Waiting (Sea of Tranquility Remix) by Rhian Sheehan

9) Bird of Paradise by Nmarie

10) Close Connection by Sambodhi Prem

11) Sunshine Briefly by All India Radio

12) Superspectral by Tao of Groove

13) Mulatica Mia (Cuba remix) by Tao of Groove

Thanks for all the people who wrote to me over the break with their well wishes, and enquring about the show – the absence was because I started a new role, and needed to focus some attention to that task. I’m pleased to say though that Lifestyle Chill will continue on a more regular basis in 2010.

We’ve got over 50 minutes of music on today’s show, so it’s time to sit back relax and enjoy.

Please write a review on iTunes if you like the Lifestyle Chill podcast.

Here are some other shows you may enjoy, on the Lifestyle PodNetwork:

• Aussie Geek Podcast
• Podcasters’ Emporium
• The Dental Health Podcast

Deva Premal
“Gate Gate” (mp3)
from “DevaSonic Vol. 1: Buddha Beats EP”
(White Swan Records)

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Kitaro
“Spirit Of The West Lake” (mp3)
from “Grammy Nominated”
(Domo Records)

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Joan Jackson
“No More” (mp3)
from “Hollywood Boulevard Cafe”
(Billo Music)

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Steve Mackay
“Private Sky” (mp3)
from “Hollywood Boulevard Cafe”
(Billo Music)

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Elysium Mind
“Lay It Down” (mp3)
from “Late – Night Party Vol. 4″
(Billo Music)

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Chris Wilson
“Do You Want It” (mp3)
from “Late-Night Party Vol. 10″
(Billo Music)

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Barclay Saylor
“First Day” (mp3)
from “Chill House In Paris”
(Billo Music)

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Zircaplanet
“Evening” (mp3)
from “Museum”
(OPTICAL)

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Under
“Under” (mp3)
from “Below Zero – Minus 1″
(Below Zero LLC)

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Kaya Project
“65 Percent” (mp3)
from “Elixir”
(Interchill Records)

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Have you ever seen this error in your Wordpress console and wondered what it’s all about?  It’s because Wordpress doesn’t have enough memory allocated to it, and it’s really easy to fix.

What you need to do is go to your config.php file and add a single line of code just below your PHP statement:

So look for:

<?php

It’s at the top of the config.php file, you can’t miss it!

Then, drop down a line and add the following:

define('WP_MEMORY_LIMIT', '64M');

Save your config.php file and upload it again to your server, and you should find the problem is fixed.

What causes the error?  Well it’s simply that the server doesn’t have enough memory allocated to perform all the tasks required by wordpress.  It gets overloaded. 

Where can I find the config.php file? You can find the config.php file in the root of your Wordpress directory