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TPN’s Re-boot Completed!

Thursday, May 1st, 2008

Well FINALLY the new servers are up and running! Massive thanks for Jagadeesh, Ram and Jimy, the team at X-Minds who got us back up. You’ll be hearing a lot more about them from me over the coming months. If you are looking for a great technical team to work with in India, these guys […]

TPN update 29/04/08

Monday, April 28th, 2008

Hey folks, just a quick update about the state of TPN’s servers. Those brand new servers we’ve been building have taken a bit longer to get up and running than we had hoped. The techs are working their asses off and at the moment we expect the new servers to be running in the next […]

TPN - Expect A Little Turbulence

Monday, April 14th, 2008

I just informed the TPN hosts that the techs and I have decided to re-build the TPN servers from scratch over the course of the next week.
Why would we do this?? Have we gone craaaazy?
Over the last week, it’s become evident that the TPN servers are completely frakked. Every time we fix something, it […]

TPN troubles

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

As some of you may have noticed, over the last couple of weeks, TPN has been having some significant technical troubles. Our servers were hacked and a bunch of things were broken. This has resulted in delays in publishing shows, RSS isn’t working (so iTunes isn’t picked up new shows), formatting errors, comments errors, email […]

Recent TPN downtime

Thursday, October 4th, 2007

You may have noticed that TPN has had a lot of downtime recently. My sincere apologies. It’s been a couple of weeks in hell. One of the joys of running a fast growth start-up on the smell of an oily rag is that you never seem to have enough people or infrastructure. Over the last […]

Don’t Panic

Thursday, September 29th, 2005

Hi TPN listeners and fans,
Between the 29th of September and the 3rd of October, The Podcast Network web site will be undergoing some major server work that will increase (fingers crossed) both the speed and the reliability of the service you have come to love and cherish ;)
Access to the web site and the functionality […]

Listen to The Podcast Network on your Media Center PC

Wednesday, June 15th, 2005

Ian Dixon, the host of The Media Center Show, has created a great little app that will allow you to listen to (and when we…ummm…launch video…watch) any and all of The Podcast Network channels on a Windows Media Center Editon PC.
Way to go Ian… :)
From Ian over at The Media Center Show site:
Today The Podcast […]

How To Listen To Podcasts On Your Mobile Phone

Friday, June 3rd, 2005

Eirik has written a great guide on how to listen to podcasts on your mobile phone. We all know there are lots of iPods out there but there a lot more mobile phones. An increasing percentage of them have the ability to take memory cards and play audio files. So this should be a useful […]

OPML feed take 2…

Friday, May 27th, 2005

OK…time to try this again.
Below is an OPML feed for you all to use that will give you all of the feeds for all of the channels available at The Podcast Network.
I have tested it in quite a few aggregators, and it appears to work fine. If you think it doesn’t, please leave me a […]

TPN OPML file available for test

Friday, March 18th, 2005

Once again…something a few of you have been asking for…an OPML file for all of the TPN feeds.
Below are three buttons (and names) for the same feed that i would like to test, so if some of you could help out here and use the OPML to subscribe to the feeds list in whatever OPML […]