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.