uninteresting :: nerd

here’s a quick tip if you’re like me and:

• you love audio & video podcasts
• you find it annoying/ineffecient to subscribe to download all the episodes, and then have to sync via cable
• you’re usually using wifi when consuming podcasts

for example: I like the ABC/NBC news video podcasts. but I only watch them every few days. I don’t want to subscribe and download an episode every day. also, when I feel like watching, I may not have sync’d my iphone/ipad.

so here’s the tip:

1. using your favorite notes app (one that syncs from desktop to device), copy and paste the iTunes URLs into a document. i use SimpleNote. after it syncs, it looks like this:

2. click the URLs to open iTunes on the device. touch the episode name to stream the episode directly. don’t click the “FREE” button – that’ll just download it for later.

there you go – listen/watch on demand without having to subscribe.

- had a Skype conversation with the ‘rents in shanghai. Call quality was great.
- blown away by the speed, quality of screen, and battery life.
- keyboard is a little hard to type on, but faster than iPhone keyboard. Able to touch type in landscape mode, but the portrait keyboard is hunting and pecking. Typing this on my iPad now, in fact, on the Wordpress app.
- even the pixel doubled classic mode apps and games are more fun to use on the bigger screen.

Can’t help thinking that, like the iPhone, the competition is a good few years behind Apple…even though they now have the opportunity to copy everything.