I love podcasts. When I’m stuck on a train, cooking in the kitchen or running around my local park, they offer a wonderful escape and explore many of my favorite hobbies, interests and pastimes. There are an overwhelming number of podcasts to choose from – it’s never been easier to produce a show and share it with the world – so keeping up with them all can feel like a full-time job....
Keeping up with the news used to be pretty simple. You picked up your favorite tabloid or broadsheet newspaper on the way to work, or tuned into a scheduled news bulletin at some point on the radio or TV....
It’s time for another grab bag, selected from the many questions I get from readers. In this week’s column, I look at some questions about font size in iTunes (spoiler: your options are limited), identifying music file types in iTunes, finding which tracks iTunes has lost track of (spoiler: there’s an easy way), and moving podcasts to another Mac....
Congratulations on unwrapping your brand-new iPhone! Undoubtedly, you’ve already fired up the device and are eagerly exploring what the phone has to offer. Now that you’ve learned your way around a bit, it’s time to load your iPhone up with apps, both fun and functional....
By now, we’ve all heard that Apple’s Maps app is a major dud and the company’s decision to jettison Google Maps caused about as m…
The one big omission in Apple’s reimagined Podcasts app is the ability to organize and create playlists for your podcasts. If this feature is still important to you, you may want to consider one of these third-party alternatives.
There aren't many podcast managers, or "podcatchers," for iOS, but perhaps that's because there's one that's already next to perfect. Downcast handles practically every podcast need you've got, offering easy updating, streaming, multitouch gestures, and much more. Platform: iPhonePrice: $2Download Page Downcast is really fantastic, especially if you've been stuck with the built-in iPod app until today—when you're going to switch to something far better. Aside from the necessary features Downcast...
Podcasts are a great way of staying up to date with your favourite topics and expanding your mind by listening to new points of view or discovering new music. Your…