There is such thing as a stupid question.

Stopping trying not to make people feel bad.

If I didn’t live Instacast so much, and WANT to send them more money to support them, I’d be made that the 2.0 update put features previously available in the app behind an in app purchase.

People who say they don’t have time to cook at home are clearly not into listening to podcasts!

My favorite part of the day!

I’ll be putting on a troubleshooting session at PodCamp Toronto this year. The title that I came up with, then promptly forgot is “Help! I Have This Mic and I Don’t Know How To Use It!” Hope a few people will bring their gear and we can figure out how to give tips on getting better sound out of it. If you’ll be at pcto ping me and we’ll chat!

This is a great video that does a good job covering almost all the points I’ve had argued against going Paleo.

(Via /r/Paleo)

It doesn’t explicitly state that it’s probably a good way to help spread the wealth to the “little guy”. Buying food to match a Paleo lifestyle means you’ll be buying from local independent farmers who save their own seeds and don’t spend money on toxic crap to spread on what you are going to eat.

That is becoming more and more important, especially here in London!

For a post all about community why are the comments off and the people/business that are talked about are not linked?

Glen seams like an up to speed guy. He’s doing a good (aside from these issues) job blogging, tweeting and putting videos on YouTube.

Maybe I’m just an idiot with my head up my butt but, I don’t even know who he’s talking about with, ”Our best known economist is using his blog and Facebook entries”, and I’d like to.

Hope it’s just an oversight.

I dislike living in a world where a publisher, who wants to leave a blank page in the middle, has to print on it “This Page Intentionally Left Blank” to avoid getting emails about a blank page.

Please stop this nonsense.

Thanks

I have a list of Apps the I keep an eye on, watching for updates or polish that will make me switch. I actually have a small Twitter List to follow some of them.

Anyways, an update to Instacast came down the tubes recently and it fInally plays nice with CastRoller feeds. There was some weird error that would never show episodes. In dealing with these things we see, all to often, some small error in a feed or in the aggregator software that messes things up pretty bad. It’s also usually fairly hard to track down.

Well, things are fixed now so I have a few things to share. Some general notes about moving from my current “old school” CastRoller -> iTunes -> iPhone Music App having to sync all the time to CastRoller -> Instacast. Yes, even with wireless sync it’s still a bit of a pain. Easier but, I have to have my Mac to get episodes, they have to be on the same network while it syncs, etc. Being able to just get stuff on the phone is awesome, especially when I travel.

I’ve talked about Instacast here before and they’ve done some great work in making the app better. Most of my concerns from before have been addressed. These notes are new based on more experience using the app both before this last update by importing my OPML from CastRoller and now using it by subscribing to my CastRoller feeds (My Collection, Starred Items, Shared and a couple channels).

Before when I filled the app with the actual direct feeds I noticed that the app is great for people who listen to a small number of podcasts. I’d say twenty or so is easily manageable. Not the 89 like I’m currently subscribed to. And that’s just my main collection, I have a few other channels I casually keep up with. When you give it that many feeds updating them alone is cumbersome. Trying to get everything sorted out so it’s easy to use is also a chore. Like you’d likely want the shows that release shows more often up near the top, say Tech News Today, a new show everyday is a nicer to have at the top of the list. Add a bunch of shows after that and you have to start moving things. Yeah you can have it sort based on new stuff but I personally don’t like things moving on me. This wasn’t the deal breaker. Long refresh times were.

Truthfully other then that the app is damn near perfect for me. My love for the features is CastRoller we’re the only real conflict to living in a world oblivious to waiting 20 minutes to update all my shows!

So after the updating moving back to the app with CastRoller I noticed that I REALLY liked having my content on my computer as well as my phone and using Seamless to jump back and forth. At home I could jump form my phone to my computer and push to all my AirPlay devices in the house (which there are many) so as I worked around the house my podcasts came with me. No headphones needed! From the phone you can only play to one device, not a downside for most but something I miss. I wonder if they can use their new iCloud features to build a desktop app, or some weird integration with iTunes to allow playback on a computer and get AirPlay in the mix too!

Take 5 changed how I listen at work great deal. On both the desktop and the phone, I constantly pause playback and never get back to it. If they can build that functionality into the app I’d be one happy podcast listener. Also now being able to star episodes and get them on my phone in no time flat is the best. I hated having to subscribe to a show just to try it out.

Don’t know how things will fall out and how I’ll continue to manage things going forward. Probably switch back and forth a lot anyways, seams that’s my history!

Thought this has something to do with the update in progress but it didn’t go away. It shifted my apps, WeightBot is supposed to be on that screen and its gone, though i can launch the app via spotlight and in iTunes it shows on the last screen. The icon is a magazine i downloaded as a test in newsstand, I just hate newsstand, I have it hidden via this trick. Upon removing the Magazine in iTunes, manually putting everything back in pace and hitting sync WeightBot is moved onto it’s own page (second) and newsstand is put in the last place on the first screen with the magazine back in there. Probably all something to do with the hiding newsstand.