![]() ![]() There is another app called Downcast that is similar to Instacast it organizes and downloads podcast subscriptions. (I have no association, financial or otherwise, with Instacast or its publisher Vemedio. Instacast HD for the iPad with added functions is $4.99. It is available from the iTunes app store for $1.99. Instacast makes the iPhone - and especially the iPad - an amazingly versatile medical education tool. (You can also play at half standard speed so that the lecturer sounds like she's just taken a Quaalude.) In addition, to save time the material can be played at twice standard speed, if you like your podcasters sounding highly caffeinated. Notifications of new posts are pushed automatically. Subscriptions are entered by touching one button, podcasts can be streamed or downloaded for offline listening or viewing, and show notes can be browsed while the podcast is playing - all without going through the iTunes store. Recently, I discovered Instacast, an app that makes it blissfully easy to subscribe to and follow podcasts on an iPhone or iPad. There must, I have long felt, be a better way. It keeps dropping my subscriptions, does not give adequate notice of new posts, and is generally frustrating to manage. In this, the iTunes store is a pain - cumbersome, cluttered, and not user-friendly. So much great material is constantly becoming available, and I find it is essential to be able to organize the podcasts I subscribe to and know when new episodes are posted. Most of these podcasts are available for free by subscription through the iTunes store. Over the past three or four years, a large number of high quality educational medical podcasts has become available online, and more are popping up every day. As a distribution engine for music popular and obscure, the iTunes store is amazing.īut iTunes can do much more than simply deliver music. ![]() and simply must listen to, say, the stunning Gillian Welch/David Rawlings cover of Jefferson Airplane's “White Rabbit,” or the Sonics' classic “Strychnine,” or Hermione Gingold's wonderfully macabre and poison-ridden ditty “The Borgias Are Having an Orgy.” A click, a very short wait, and the songs are yours forever. The iTunes store is great if you're awake at 3 a.m. ![]()
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