Editing The Pen Addict 9/transcript (section)

== Instacast ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' So our second sponsor this week is Instacast by Vermedio. So Instacast for iPhone is, in my opinion, the only way that you should be listening to this show. Of course, you can choose whatever way you like because, you know, we love you however you listen. But if you're listening to podcasts on your iPhone, Instacast is the best option to do that. It just feels like, I've said this on all the other shows pretty much this week, it feels like the natural way. It feels like the inbuilt way to listen to podcasts. You know, it's so much more full-featured than the iTunes functionality. You know, you don't have to plug in to your computer to sync your podcasts every day. All you do is just you open Instacast, pull to refresh, and it starts to download them all. You know, it starts to refresh all your subscriptions. And you can, even if you like, choose a setting to automatically download. So, you know, you will do your refresh, go about, you know, get yourself ready, go brush your teeth in the morning, come back, and all of your shows are ready for when you're ready to walk out the door, all downloaded and waited for you. You know, if you are switching from using podcasts in the built-in music player app, when you want to add your podcast initially, so you just press the little plus button on the bottom left-hand corner of the app, and one of the tabs there, because they have, like, their own charts, and you can search or paste in the RSS feed manually, but one of the tabs says music on it, and what it does is Instacast will search your music app on your iPhone or iPod Touch and will be able to replicate the existing subscriptions that you have. So you can, if you have, like, all, you know, you've got, like, the pen addict in there, the bro show in there, you know, twit and stuff like that, you've got those in there, it will automatically see them, and you can just subscribe right from in the app. So you won't be able to miss a beat, and you'll just be able to carry your subscriptions over without having to search for each one individually. It's an absolutely fantastic app. We love it. I've been using it since it came out, which was in, like, February of 2011, and I've not even considered switching to anything else. It is, in my opinion, the best and really the only way to listen to podcasts on iOS, and it completely changed the way that I listen to podcasts. You know, I'm much quicker to add a new one to my download queue because it's so easy to get them in, so easy to sync them and get them out. And, you know, if I'm on the road and there's a new episode, like if I'm on my way home from work and there's a new episode of a podcast I want to listen to, like, say, Dave and Aaron have released the latest episode of Homework, which is another show on the 70 Decibells Network, and, you know, I'm at work, and I want to have it for my commute home. I can just refresh and download over 3G if I want so I can have it right there ready to listen. So there you go.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, I have one comment to make on Instacast, and the best praise I can give it is home screen. That's where it lives, on my phone. It lives in my dock. Yeah, I mean, I'm a Patrick Rohn-style iPhone layout where I don't use the bottom row, so I'm even more limited on my home screen. So I only have three rows, and Instacast is, I think I got it probably last spring or so, and it's far and away one of the best apps I've ever used. It's super easy to use. You know, I just went on vacation. I made sure all my podcasts were synced before I went in the car because, you know, I wanted to shut out the wife and kids, you know, as much as possible. So I listened to my own music. Just kidding. And my own podcasts. And, you know, I put things on there that I thought my wife would like to listen to and things like that. So, you know, we just plug it into the car, let it rip on Instacast on, you know, on our trip, and I don't know, it's one of those apps I don't think I could live without because I listen to so many podcasts. Like, I don't listen to a lot of radio or a lot of music, and I certainly don't watch a lot of TV. So in my downtime, I'm listening to a lot of podcasts, and Instacast is the only thing I use. It's fantastic.

'''Myke Hurley:''' A real great driving feature is you can have it just automatically play through. So when it finishes one show, it will just go on to the next show in your download queue. So, like, you could be listening to a 70 decibel show, then a 5x5 show, then a Twitch show, like just whatever it is chronologically in order. It will just continue to play through. So you haven't even got to bother changing anything over. It's $1.99 in the App Store. If you're currently using the music app and iTunes for your podcasts, just trust me, try it out. I assure you, you will find a much better experience by using Instacast. In my opinion, the iTunes method has no benefit over the Instacast method at all. There's no benefit.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, and something Myke won't tell you, it works well on sports podcasts, too.

'''Myke Hurley:''' What? I specifically asked the developer to exclude sports podcasts. I think that's... I need to get back on that.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, I think that's... I think that's... I'm about half sports and about half tech and almost nothing else. So I just like to bust your chops because I know you're not a big sports guy.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Not at all. So anything else you want to add this week before we wrap up?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Man, we've gone long. This might be our longest episode ever.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, it could be.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So that's good. It's easy to talk about fun stuff. So no, I really don't have anything else except, you know, if y'all want to reach out to me, you can... The blog is at penaddict.com. And I'm on Twitter at dowdyism, D-O-W-D-Y-I-S-M. And you can also email me at thepenaddict at gmail.com. And where else can they get us, Myke?

'''Myke Hurley:''' You can go to 70decibels.com forward slash contact and select The Pen Addict from the drop down there and you can send us a message that way. And you can get me on Twitter. I'm imike, which is I-M-Y-K-E. Thank you, as always, for downloading, listening, and getting in touch. We love being able to talk to you about all of the pens that you find. And we don't mind if you need to call us names for making you spend a lot of money. We are enablers on The Pen Addict and you are all pen addicts with us.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' That's true.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Until next time, thank you very much, sir.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' All right, I will talk to you later. Thank you.

'''Myke Hurley:''' We will. Cheers.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' All right, bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye.

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