Podcasts
Now that we've fully launched Propeller Video, you can subscribe to the feed for the Propeller At The Movies tag, using your favorite podcasting program, to automatically download each new video podcast from Karina in an iPod video compatible format.
Step 1
First, you need to find the page where all the videos you want to subscribe to live. For this example, that page is http://movies.netscape.com/tag/propeller+at+the+movies
Figure 1: The Propeller At The Movies tag page.
This page displays all the stories that Karina has submitted with the tag "propeller at the movies." Using these same instructions, you can choose any page that has videos on it and subscribe to all those videos as a podcast too. For example, if you wanted to subscribe to every video ever submitted to Propeller, you could use this page: http://netscape.com/video/
Step 2
Notice the RSS icon circled in red and pointed to in Figure 1 above. If you click on that icon, you will see a page like the one shown in Figure 2.
Figure 2: The RSS feed for all videos submitted to Propeller (http://netscape.com/video/rss/
)
Instead of clicking on the RSS feed, you can right-click (ctrl+click if you are on a Mac) on the link and select Copy to copy the link. Alternately, you can open the RSS feed page, as in Figure 2 and copy the URL for the feed from the address bar in your browser.
Step 3
The next step is to open iTunes (or whatever program you use for podcasting) and manually subscribe to this feed. To do this in iTunes, select the Advanced menu in your menu bar and choose Subscribe to Podcast... (Figure 3).
Figure 3: iTunes' Advanced menu on OS X. On Windows it will look slightly different.
This will open a Subscribe to Podcast dialogue box. Paste the URL that you had previously copied in step 2 into the text field of the dialogue and click OK (Figure 4).
Figure 4: The Subscribe to Podcast dialogue box.
Step 4
Now you are basically finished. After completing step 3, the latest video will begin to autodownload. You can click the Get button next to any older podcasts that you want to download. From now on, whenever you launch iTunes (depending on how often you have the program set to check for new podcast), it will automatically check this feed for updates and autodownload the video for easy syncing with your video-capable iPod or viewing on your computer in iTunes.
Figure 5: Now that you've subscribed to the Propeller At The Movies feed you can see the downloaded videos in iTunes and play each one in the program or sync the files onto
your video-capable iPod for later mobile viewing.
It follows that since you can tag all of your own video posts with a tag of your choosing, if you tagged all your vlogs / video podcasts with "my amazingly wonderful podcast," you could find all the episodes at this URL:
http://www.netscape.com/tag/my+amazingly+wonderful+podcast/
...and you could subscribe to the RSS feed by adding /rss/ to the end of this URL:
http://www.netscape.com/tag/my+amazingly+wonderful+podcast/rss/