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Making your Production Computer Quiet

by Ben Straw on March 2, 2010

Making your Production Computer Quiet

A few manufactures make quiet computers, but if you cant afford them you might need to do the work yourself. Weather your PC has just a little noise or like an F-16 while sitting at idle, eliminating the noise is easy and rated from beginner to advanced, but all can be accomplished by you.
99.5% of [...]

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    Buying a Podcasting PC

    by Ben Straw on January 25, 2010

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    Finding the right PC for podcasting is a big task, you have to think about what you are going to be doing with that PC weather it is Video or Audio. Both can tax a system and cause some headaches. CPU, Ram, Hard Drive, Video Card, Sound Card, and even cooling all falls on the [...]

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      Battling Planes, trains, auto mobile, and all around noise

      Battling noises might just be the hardest thing a podcaster deals with, I my self live about a mile from a private Airport and am inline with the planes that love to play touch and go (A fake landing).
      Among the noise coming from TV’s, fans and surprise guests, they like to play a key roll [...]

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        10 Ways to get listeners/audience back to your site.

        by Ben Straw on January 21, 2010

        10 Ways to get listeners/audience back to your site.

        Alot of have people asked me how to do I get my listeners/audience back to my site?
        Getting people to come back to a site, can be one of the hardiest things to do, what I like to do is drive my listeners back to the Web site so they can see Ads and affiliate links [...]

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          Media hosting for your Podcast

          by Ben Straw on December 21, 2009

          Media hosting for your Podcast

          When it comes to media hosting it all depends on your needs, Some podcasters host their media on web hosting servers to cut the cost to a minimum, others use free hosting, and then you have the people who have money to pay for hosting.
          The average podcast brings in between 300-500 downloads per episode the [...]

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            The End of Podcasting for Wordpress

            by Ben Straw on December 21, 2009

            The End of Podcasting for Wordpress

            And then there was one.
            It all started with Podpress, what was a great plugin that a lot of podcasters had used including my self, back in the day. The development this plugin has been halted since Dec of 2007 and from rumors around the Internet, development has stopped. Now FAST FORWARD to this month (Dec [...]

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              Why not to use FeedBurner For Podcasting

              by Ben Straw on December 20, 2009

              Feedburner

              About a month ago I published a new podcast for one of my shows, At the time I thought nothing of it, until I checked the stats of the podcast. Now mind you this podcast has a small but growing audience, But when one episode grows to over 300% of what it was in under [...]

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                Review: Blubrry PowerPress Plugin 1.0.2

                by Ben Straw on October 14, 2009

                Blubrry PowerPress

                A new version of Blubrry’s PowerPress Plugin version 1.0.2 just came out about 2 days ago and I am stocked about this version. Writing about it can not describe how great this new version is. So I made a video I hope you enjoy.
                (10/15/09) Update: I uploaded the video to more video servers.
                Watch On Vimeo, [...]

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                  Money Mic

                  Sponsorship/Advertising for New Podcasts, Podcast advertising terminology, Adverting Resources, and Talking to sponsors or advertisers

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                    Record Skype Using Hardware – Mixer Mix Minus

                    by Ben Straw on September 7, 2009

                    Record Skype Using Hardware - Mixer Mix Minus

                    A Mix Minus is one of the best sounding and I think the easiest way to record skype, Most software available cuts the guest off when the host starts talking, this can make for a bad mix withing the recording, especially if you argue a lot with your co host. I’ve listened to a lot of podcasts and believe me its bad.

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