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Continuing our series of hints to help you get the most out of managing your Podcasts on the Nokia Podcasting app:

Get your own personalized search result feed.

www.podzinger.com

1. Go to www.podzinger.com. Enter your search topic. (For example “N95″. Or “Veronica+Mars”) and choose if you want results for “Audio”, “Video”, or “Both”.

2. When the results are returned, click on the llittle orange“RSS” icon
in the results page.

3. You will be shown a URL. In the Nokia Podcasting application, go to PODCASTS>OPTIONS>NEW PODCAST and type in that URL to subscribe to episodes which feature your key word.

4. Every time you update that feed, you’ll get the latest episodes which contain your search term.

Me love this long time… This feature lets me know when someone is podcasting an episode about things I am interested in. It also allows me to get individual episodes about the topics I want to hear about without having to subscribe/ unsubscribe to a full show. VERY cool feature from the folks at Podzinger.com.

Try it out and use the COMMENTS section to let us know what you think.

Original post by jan

One of the things heavy users are asking for is a better way to manage their subscribed feeds. Until we get those features into our code, here is the first part of a series about some killer alternatives which should make your mobile podcasting experiences even better.

www.podnova.com

Setup all your favourite podcasts online. Its a little bit of work to get this setup and typing your new RSS or OPML into the Nokia Podcasting client, but once you do it…it rocks.

a. Sign in and Log in.

b. Add the URLs of your favourite RSS feeds. (or import your favourite OPML) The latest episodes of these feeds will now be ready to listen on the PC in one player. Cool! But we’re not done yet.

c. Scroll down and find links to three different feeds:
i. A RSS feed with the newest episode per subscription
ii. A RSS feed with the episodes that you seperately added to ‘PodNova podcast episodes for [your username]’
iii. An OPML feed with all episodes from all your subscriptions

d. Open your Nokia Podcasting app on your device. Open PODCASTING. Choose “OPTIONS”. Choose “NEW PODCAST”.

Type in that monster URL from the first RSS link that you see on your Podnova page. (This is the not so fun part. but its worth it.)

e. Now, you will get an updated Feed called “Podcasts for (Your Name)”. This will put all the latest episodes of your favourtie podcasts into one feed.

One they are there, open the feed and use “OPTIONS” , then “MARK” or “MARK ALL” to manually choose which episodes to download.

Try it out and let us know what you think.

(PodNova is not afflicated with Nokia. The solutions just happens to work pretty great with Nokia Podcasting. Since Valentines Day is coming up, we want to share the love.)

Original post by jan

Remember when we asked you to recommend postcasts?

Well, the majority of your recommendations are now live in the Nokia Podcasting app. (I’m a firm believer that instant gratification still takes too long. So isn’t it nice to see some things can be implemented fairly quickly.)

There is a new subfolder in the Featured directory called “Recommended from Nokia Podcasting Blog” which is now dedicated to podcasts recommended by YOU.

There are a few recommendations which we thought would be best suited to be in our international directories because they were in a language other than english. So placing them within the appropriate country folder seemed the most logical place.

We’re experimenting here… so the podcasts listed may rotate or be taken off. But let’s see what the feedback is. Like I said before, feel free to self-hype for your 15 minutes of fame. You might be a breakout star.

We will continue to take submissions from the COMMENTS section. As a reminder:

Please list:
1. Name of Podcast
2. URL of RSS feed
3. Format (Audio or Video)
4. Why you think its a great podcast

Many shows were previously suggested with either no link or only a link to the website. Don’t make us work too hard to find you.

Also, feel free to leave feedback on the categorizations. We put a few shows in “Comedy” which probably should be under “Talk Shows” or “Talk Radio”. The idea is that the categories can help people find what they want quickly. So we’re open to suggestions.

So help us continue to help connect people to cool content they might not otherwise find. Your voice is heard.

Original post by jan