How I listen to podcasts.
- Find the RSS feed eg http://www.democracynow.org/democracynow.rss
- Subscribe in Google Reader. http://www.google.com/reader/view/#overview-page
- Have a filter in Google Reader to get all the podcasts subscriptions into a Podcast folder, easy to review!
- Slide *episodes* over into the Firefox Download Box (I have it configured to be in the sidebar) if I think I’ll like them, or will have time to listen.
- From the Download Folder slide all those mp3s into iTunes as music. Give them the My Podcast Genre (or similar). Make a smart playlist, and have that ticked to go to the iPhone upon a sync.
- Walk! Listen. Rate. Once they are rated they leave the Podcast playlist (that how I set up the smart playlist). I use one star meaning delete. Soft reboot to clear the list.
That’s my Podcast System. Cumbersome? Tell me a better way.
I get exactly what I want. They stay in the Playlist till I’m done & then they go.
I can’t get that control with the built in Podcast folder, or the iTunes subscription system.
I see I made a post about this system before, has some more details.
iWishlist
I am looking forward to the Apple Tablet. The main thing I’d want to be able to do is to use it instead of my Toshiba M200 for sketching. I did a Thousand Sketches 2006-7 on the Toshiba M200 which has a Wacom style pen only touch screen. Worked well for me. It is pressure sensitive, and highly responsive. So I hope the Tablet will have something like a pen or better.
A long iWishlist follows.
Persist
For some biographical info about this effort look here.
Blue
Circle Doodle
Is it just me or is this lovely in it’s simplicity and ease of execution on the I Doodle app?
Signed one follows
Art from the phone
I think I can now post to this blog from the phone! Watch the increase in posts!
Here are a few recent ones in my Signature exploration.
Three more images follow.
Writing Blog from the iPhone
WordPress 2 iPhone app came out and it is a bit better.
I can see myself blogging from the phone.
Pictures I need to add manually though, I think?
My iPhone sketches on flickr
Items are from between 16 Sep 2008 & 24 Sep 2009.
[22 December 2022 – found some originals and added one and the a lot more at the end
Aleatoric iPhone Image
Somehow this was created with the jingling of keys & coins while the phone was in my pocket.