hi thank you for this great information. you're right, i did post to the viphone list, but since i'm in digest mode, may have missed your answer. again, thanks. i will try all of these. this started because i did not find main menu, but i did not do it the way you suggested below.
On Feb 23, 2011, at 5:06 PM, Esther wrote: > Hi Denise, > > ACB Main Menu is in the iTunes Store; just go to "Search" in the File menu on > the menu bar to do an iTunes Power Search, navigate to what is normally the > HTML area of the Store and change the pop up button (VO-Space) from "All > Results" to "Podcasts", then VO-Right arrow and type in your search in the > text box. This method of using the power search is also the fastest way to > find something within the iTunes Store, and has a much lower overhead if you > want to avoid the "VoiceOver, busy" messages -- it's much more efficient than > simply pointing to the iTunes Store in your sources table and typing > something in the general search text box for iTunes, since it keeps the HTML > pages with images from loading, it automatically sets you to the iTunes store > in a text-based search page, and it focuses your search to the specific > category you want (Podcasts, Music, Movies, Apps, etc.) with additional > textbox search criteria (e.g., name keywords, artist, author, etc.). Here's > the iTunes Store link to the entry for ACB Radios's Main Menu (which you > could get to by typing "main menu" using the above procedure): > http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/main-menu/id359065719 > > Blind Cool Tech used to be in the iTunes Store, but I think it's unusual feed > structure of having links to all the episodes since it started on a single > web page produced problems, and back around July 2009 the feed started > behaving very oddly in the iTunes Store. I also avoid visiting the main web > site so that VoiceOver does not have to deal with several years worth of > program links on a single page, but instead just visit the RSS feed address: > > http://www.blindcooltech.com/bct.xml > > To add this feed to your iTunes podcast subscriptions, navigate to the > "Advanced" menu on your iTunes Menu Bar (VO-M, then press "a") and arrow down > to "Subscribe to Podcast…". Paste the feed address into the dialog window > and press return. The feed will be added to your subscriptions. > > I think you asked a very similar question a month ago on the viphone list. > I'll paste in the part of my response that gave the feed addresses for the > other Podcasts you asked about (including Main Menu and Accessible World Tek > Talk). Note that the feeds only go back for a certain time, and that you may > have to manually select and download older episodes from within your iTunes > directory: > > <begin quote> > Hi Denise, > > Here are the podcast feeds you asked about, listed on the line following the > name of each program. Type or paste them into the Podcaster iPhone app by > double tapping the "Directory" button (4th of 5 from the left, on the bottom > of the main Podcaster screen), then flick to "Import", which is the last of > the listed "Podcast Directory" options, and double tap. On the resulting > page, these feed entries should be entered into the text field where VO > prompts you to "Enter feed URL or OPML URL". Note that all the feed entries > should be typed as a continuous string with no spaces, on a single line. If > mail wraps these to a second line and introduces a break or space between > characters on the long entries (e.g. for Mac-cessibility or Accessible World > Tek Talk), make sure that you copy the entire feed entry URL and remove any > spaces or line breaks. > > • Main Menu: > feed://www.mainmenu.acbradio.org/rss.php > • Mac-cessibility: > http://www.lioncourt.com/podcast/mac-cessibility.xml > • Accessible World Tek Talk: > feed://www.accessibleworld.org/category/site-categories/tek-talk-archives/feed > > Here are another few feed URLs for podcast subscriptions that I added by > hand. I'll add these because some of these feeds were hard to find: > > • All with my iPhone: > feed://allwithmyiphone.com/feed/podcast/ > • Serotalk: > http://serotalk.com/feed/ > • Tech Doctor Blog and Podcast: > http://www.dr-carter.com/?feed=podcast > • App Store Pundit: > http://www.appstorepundit.com/feed/podcast/ > > In general, the easiest way I've found to add podcast subscriptions to > Podcaster is to search for the podcasts and subscribe to them in iTunes by > using the power search menu of the iTunes Store. Navigate (VO-M, then press > "s" or "s t") to the "Store" menu on your iTunes menu bar, arrow down and > press "s" again to go to the "Search…" menu option. This will simultaneously > select the "iTunes Store" in your source list, and take you to the Power > Search page in the store. Navigate to the Power Search area and press > (VO-Space) the "All Results" pop up button and change this to "Podcasts". > Then type in your search terms for the title and/or author of the podcast. > VO-Space on the "Subscribe Free" button to subscribe. > <end quote> > > HTH. Cheers, > > Esther > > > On Feb 23, 2011, at 02:49, Denise Avant wrote: > >> hello all, >> i want to subscribe to some podcasts using itunes. i'm wanting to subscribe >> to blindcooltech, accessibleworld tech talk archives, and ACB main menu. >> these do not appear to be available when i subscribe to them. if this is not >> true, and someone has subscribed to these podcasts, please let me know. even >> if they are unavailable, i think i read that you can type in the feed in the >> search box in itunes. >> thanks. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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