A Reader Writes: 'Instructions on how to send an mp3?'
Hello Friends! Thanks so much for stopping by and visiting my blog, Stock Picks Bob's Advice. As always, please remember I am an amateur investor, so please remember to consult with your professional investment advisors prior to making any investment decisions based on information on this website.

Keith from Melbourne, Florida, was kind enough earlier this week to let me know that my latest podcast was missing the final ten minutes. I corrected the problem, although I did overlap about 30 seconds...I shall work on my Audacity skills....I promise!

I encouraged Keith, as I did all of you, to consider sending me an mp3, or an audio clip that I would be happy to include in my podcast website. He wrote:

"Bob

It is repaired. I was able to download it but it went right into Qucktime so I was not able to download it to my IPOD or even save it to my HD. I was hoping to be able to do it so I could save it and listen to again.

Also thank you for the shout out. I will check out the microphone to send you an MP3. Could you put the instructions or site on your Blog?

Thanks
Keith

Let me try to answer your question Keith. First of all, the easiest thing to do, imho, is to pick up an inexpensive headphone/microphone combination at Best Buy, Circuit City, or your local electronics/business store. (I don't have any stock in those two, it is just I have access to Best Buy).

If you go to my main podomatic page..you should see a place to leave comments along the right side of the page. You can either directly record these comments on Podomatic or you can create an mp3 file with freeware like Audacity or Garage Band if you have a Mac...this is a little harder because as I understand it you need to export it into iTunes then export it back to your desktop as an mp3...I prefer Audacity.

You can find Audacity by going to http://audacity.soundforge.net and download it for free. If that link doesn't work just search under "Audacity recording software" on Google.

Let me know how this works and looking forward to including my first guest mp3 into the podcast. Let me know how your club is doing and what you all think of my process....Thanks again Keith!

Bob