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Not only do I do a podcast of my own I am an avid podcast listener. I use my iPod all the time at work to pass the time. Having used iTunes under Windows I was looking for something that allowed me to sync the shows I subscribe to on to my iPod.

Seeing how the latest versions of iTunes really cannot be installed under Linux I had searched for native Linux applications that can do what iTunes does. Now I am not looking at the music or video player aspects I am looking at the Podcast capabilities only.

So let’s get into the review of some applications you can use to sync your podcasts to your iPod!

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I’m testing out Drivel as a blog editor right now as I type this in. I loaded it before Blogilo but couldn’t get it going right away for some reason. It actually took me a while to figure out what I had to use for a Journal type to make it actually work. The options are Live Journal, Blogger 1.0, Blogger 2.0, and MovableType.

MovableType apparently is the only method that will work with WordPress based blogs. Even though I swore I saw it say to choose Blogger 2.0 type in a tutorial but whatever.

Drivel is nice and it’s more native, but lacks the features that Blogilo has for posting media (aka images) and formatting is more of a process than the 1 click you can do with Blogilo.
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I am trying out Blogilo to post this article right now. It’s a little like Microsoft Live Writer from what the description boasts. When I loaded it I noticed that it’s a KDE based application and you have to set up KDE Wallet. No big deal, but a little annoying I guess.

I would have used BloGTK orginally however in recent times it seems some of the packages that are required to run it are no longer available under Lucid. the gtkhtml2 package I believe is what is was screaming about. Something that gPodder also uses for show notes but it seems to work fine without it.

One thing that is nifty about this application is that it can pull your style sheet from the server so when you preview it within the application it gives you an idea of what it will look like on the site. Really nifty.

I think I may use this to post things. Testing it out more. I even have added an image to see if it will upload it and post properly.

Note: This post went up fine. Just the time zone difference caused it to be late so I editted the time. And it seems the image was not formatted right. Probably something I missed. I may be using the application more in the future!

I have bit the bullet and removed the operating system known as Windows from my laptop fully. I am back up and running to where I was before when I was dual booting more or less.

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