Overcast is My Friend
Long Time Castro user - but it was time to explore the alternatives again. (Same exercise as the RSS reader project a few weeks ago). So of course my first stop was back to Apple Podcasts .. because I keep thinking that of all companies Apple should be able to deliver the best experience …. right?
The app managed to annoy me in less than a couple of days. But it did trigger me to look at synching … enter Overcast - my new friend.
Moved over about three weeks ago. Been getting used to it, and so wasn’t ready to say bye-bye to Castro … until today.
I don’t think Overcast is any better or worse than Castro when it comes to managing the play lists - different for sure. But oh boy - synching.
I like the sound from my iPad better than my phone, so is great to listen to at home - but the iPad doesn’t travel around with me when I am walking.
Overcast synching is just GREAT.
I stop listening on my iPad, grab my phone - head out - and it just works1 … picking up where I was in the podcast and continuing on the new device.
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Seriously, someone should use that as a marketing phrase! ↩︎
“One way to make that less confusing is to embrace the metaphor from Finder’s Column view (Steve Jobs’s favorite view!) and let the app get wider, displaying multiple levels of hierarchy.”
💬 Jason Snell
Who knew that ‘Steve’ and I shared a favorite finder view!
The Flow Of Liquid
The title is not representative of the piece which is actually about ‘Google Maps’ and ‘personal memory’ but is pulled from the quote.
I might have to reallocate my time for the next 5 coreints … so I can listen to all of @danielpunkass with @gruber …
Apparently “saving children at risk” is not an acceptable phrase for the image generation AI engines that I am playing with.
“We finally have it working in the new feed reader I’ve been working on, and it’s fantastic. Markdown is just enough HTML and not too much. Exactly the right amount for what we need in the world of feeds.”
Dave just discovered Markdown?
You know it won’t be a short wait when they provide chairs to sit in whilst waiting in line.
I do try to read publications from the right … you know just to keep myself balanced … but it is getting increasingly hard to not finish a piece without my blood boiling.
Any recommendations as to who I should try?
Harry and George
I wonder how long before Stelter arrives on a new channel?
Talking about following … and I have reported this in the past and officially logged the issue - but here is an example …
I see @simonwoods is following someone I am not
so I click through and ….
… and this happens a lot across the site.
If you are in GMail or Outlook and thinking about a new email client … I like the Superhuman website … can’t speak to the product - and no idea about pricing … but heh - break out!
“The best-case scenario for Peloton shareholders is that Amazon will use the distribution deal to get a sense of the demand for Peloton products from its customers, helping it figure out the right price to pay in an acquisition.”
💬 The Information
.. of course there is no way that Amazon would use such a clear and unfair advantage to do this and if they did, the FTC would surely step in?
‘#SomeHope
Source of this which is in plain sight …
Erik Prince wants to sell you a “secure” smartphone that’s too good to be true.
One a lying scumbag always a lying scumbag.
I note his sister is now suggesting that Biden ‘sexually harassed’ her ….
It clearly runs in the family.
Oracle exists so far below the surveillance visibility line that it really is time that something like this happened …
Class action against Oracle’s worldwide surveillance machine.
Amazon is fixing the AC at a warehouse where a worker died on Prime Day.
The horse may have bolted - but there are plenty more horses in the warehouses … so something needed to be done.
If It’s Not About The People …
Careful what you measure … Gaping Void nailing it.
Reminds me of the Blair mandate about waiting for doctor appointments.
Why Barber’s Poles Have All Those Stripes.
Filed in the bucket of ‘Today I Learned’ … fascinating how such branding lives over centuries.