text: Dynomite Dynamometer Accessport Tuning: Jon Drenas Baseline Pros The '08 model Subaru Impreza STI, powered by a 2.5L boxer engine is rated at a factory 305 hp and 290 lb-ft of torque. The Impreza is an extremely capable and fun-to-drive machine thanks in part to its symmetrical all-wheel-drive system and turbocharged powerplant. Cons The '07-08 Subarus (and some '06 WRXs) were tuned from the factory to pass strict emissions testing often sacrificing the true potential of the EJ25 engine. They run stoichiometric air/fuel ratios (14.7:1) through peak boost to about 4,000 rpm, which is great for fuel economy but considered bad for power and driveability. The '07-08 ECUs also have multiple timing tables that upon certain situations add, subtract, or even multiply the timing values the motor runs. There are tables within the factory ECU that multiply and add to the total amount of timing (bad). 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Cobb Tuning Catted Downpipe (tuned) Parts Downpipe Tools 10, 12, 14, and 17mm sockets; 10, 12, 14, 17, and 22mm open ends; ratchet; extension; screwdriver; and WD-40 Installation time 90 minutes Pros Using a cast bell-mouth housing, the 3-inch downpipe terminates into a metallic core (200 cell count) high-flow catalyst with improved efficiency. We could have easily opted for a non-catted downpipe in search of additional horsepower but the thought of killing the ozone layer was too heart wrenching for us to bear. Living under the strict emission laws of Cali, we kept to the idea of maintaining at least one catalyst to ward off the toxic fumes the Subaru generates when sitting in traffic or at a stoplight. Cons Removal of the factory downpipe can become a time-consuming affair. Take your time to properly install the turbo-back exhaust system to prevent horsepower-robbing exhaust leaks or dreaded stripped bolts. When removing the downpipe, be careful not to sever or loosen the wastegate lines that regulate your factory boost. The last thing you want on your hand is an overboosting EJ motor that punches a rod out the side of your block. Notes With the newly installed Cobb downpipe in place, we made use of the AccessPort and remapped the ECU with a more aggressive AVCS and timing map, while turning up the boost to 20 psi. The high-flowing Cobb downpipe allowed us to tune more aggressively whereas using the factory downpipe would limit any tuner's ability to properly extract horsepower. The Cobb downpipe along with tuning offered a significant horsepower and torque increase over our exhaust run. At lower rpm the dyno recorded a gain of 60 lb-ft of torque from 2,500 to 2,850 rpm. A consistent gain of 25 hp was documented from 2,500 to 3,600 rpm while the largest margin of gain was 27 hp and 45 lb-ft of torque at 3,250 rpm. 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In perhaps an unsurprising move, the Chicago Tribune has announced that starting in January, the Chicago-based paper and several other Tribune-owned papers will be dropping the Associated Press as its chief wire service.
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Reports from Tribune insiders were confirmed Sunday by Paul Colford, director of media relations for AP. "We're disappointed by this development but recognize this is a time of transition for these seven Tribune newspapers," Colford said. "We hope they'll return to AP as their circumstances change. AP continues to diversify its business to enhance the value of our newsgathering for our 1,400 member newspapers and other news organizations worldwide. The Los Angeles Times has indicated that it plans to stay with AP. The Times has been a great partner in innovation and developing new AP services for many years."
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|August 23, 2009 at 11:19 am #669
Hi. As somewhat a follower of ProsNpad & its RegEx Find and Replace functionality, I noticed in recent changelog reports that the RegEx has been updated. I thought it might be of help to report my experience while using Replace with regular expressions attempting to dissect some of what's going on in the YUI(1) JavaScript library component, yahoo-dom-event.js
Most of the time, everything works great (e.g. i often turn to ProsNpad for regular expression operations. for curiosity, i've done some amount of testing for differences between PN, other Scintilla-based editors, .NET-based editors, etc.), and I've been successful with it in some instances where i experienced difficulty with other editors (i.e. it's amazing the variance between different "flavors", as implemented in editors [to quote the Regex Buddy author's texts])
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Programmer's Notepad had previously executed a Replacement Expression successfully on 650+ items in that same file, just as i wanted without error. However, when I first opened the file, i was seeing this error. I enabled (tested), then disabled the "Allow Backslash Expression" option at that time, which seemed to "fix" the error, but that old-trick didn't work this time.
Looking through the code, it must have "went away" for the bulk of my work, i think until trying this particular expression which, btw– i realized, even if successful, wasn't quite what i was going for– but, you know– win some lose some, eh? (a lot of fooling around w/ regex, really– guess i enjoy wasting time… i dunno) heheh… anyway–
I suspect, if i exit the app, and restart it– i'll probably have more success– so, this isn't a complaint, but just an FYI.
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EDIT: geez… i hope i edited that code correctly, to reflect what's going on. note the double-reverse-solidus character which appeared (the unexpected result) in the "After" shot. NOTE: — here, it doesn't appear as PNpad has removed any chars, which was the plan, however– as i mentioned, when i first started, and i saw these reverse-solidus chars, it was removing, for example, instead of returning 1, it removed it, and went on w/ the rest of the expression. damn– too bad it's so difficult to try to explain in a few short sentences, and many long sentences doesn't help much, i guess. oh well! 'least i've tried, eh?
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|August 25, 2009 at 8:39 am #16725
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Yes, it looks like there are a couple of bugs with the handling of escaped expressions and grouped expressions with the regular expressions. Could you please open an issue:
|August 27, 2009 at 11:42 pm #16726
okay. i want to help, so i'll try to open an issue on this soon. coincidentally, i am about to try a regex operation, and i've selected ProsNpad for the job. Perhaps this will lead to something more meaningful in that "issue" entry. otherwise, i'll do my best for creating a proper issue based on what i recall from the previous instance, as stated above.
|August 31, 2009 at 1:42 pm #16727
The expression "(return[ S]+(})(?=S)" is not valid – it should be:
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Also note that the third parentheses are non-capturing (so you cannot really use 3). In fact whatever is matched with "(?=S)" wouldn't be in the match at all (i.e. for "return blah;}abc" the match would be "return blah;}" – without "a").
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The Record Store Of The Present Is Global
The days of High Fidelity are long gone, replaced by the record store of the new millenium: the Internet. The good news is that it has brought the library of the entire planet to our computers. Where we once were at the mercy of music magazines, whose focus was almost entirely on the U.S. and Western Europe, bands from Moscow to Pakistan are available to us through a variety of applications on the Web.
"I remember years ago I'd go to the record store each week to pick up a copy of NME and Melody Maker to keep up on bands from the U.K. and Europe," says influential Detroit DJ Cristina from the radio station 89X, discussing the changing nature of music. "Now, bands from all over the world are available to DJs and music fans," she adds.
Thanks to websites like SoundCloud and BandCamp, adventureous music listeners have the opportunity to search for bands from all over the world. The once fledgling sites of the '00s are now the purveyors of choice for music fans.
SoundCloud has grown at an astronomical rate — increasing from one million users in 2010 to four million in 2011. A new report in 2013 indicated that the number had increased to 180 million!
There's an avalanche of choices on the Internet — and listeners have turned to blogs and DJs to sort it out for them. Shoegaze band //orangenoise hails from Pakistan, but that didn't stop them from being noticed by writers in the U.S. and DJs in England — thanks to the Web. It also has provided them with an avenue to make money selling their music through websites like BandCamp in a part of the world where those opportunities seldom present themselves.
"Our tracks were played on XFM in England by Mary Anne Hobbs, who found us on Soundcloud," says band member Talha Asim Wynn. "She'd left a message in our inbox saying she'd play 'Getaway' from the our newly released LP. That was quite unbelievable — until we actually heard it on air!"
"[The exposure] provided us with an opportunity to profit from record sales directly," the musician says. "In Pakistan there are no record labels that would go for something as experimental as our sound."
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Why companies will stick with Twitter
I was offline for much of Friday for various reasons, with the World Cup not even being the main one. Instead, I was across the street from Reuters, at the Nasdaq, sitting on one panel and giving a keynote speech to a group of financial PR professionals interested in social media in general, and Twitter in particular.
The main thrust of my speech was that if blogs started to blur the distinction between journalists and the public at large, then Twitter has made things even fuzzier: everybody (companies, executives, PRs, hacks, flacks, bloggers, individuals) is interacting on a very level playing field. And insofar as there are certain people on Twitter who are very influential, there's a good chance that they're not the journalists at large media outlets whom PR people have historically spent most of their time trying to cultivate.
What's more, Twitter gives companies the ability to speak directly to the public without going via journalists (or even mere bloggers); and it also allows them to keep tab on what the public thinks without using journalists and media commentators as an imperfect proxy. Public relations is, after all, the art of relating with the public: journalists are just a means to an end. And the public has never been as easy to relate with as it is now, in the age of Twitter.
Which is why I think that Simon Dumenco is wrong. He's convinced that corporate presence on Twitter is going to end up feeling much more like those toll-free customer service lines, sooner rather than later:
Social-media as a corporate meme is still pretty interesting and exciting and attractive… a lot of the smart, ambitious, college-educated, well-socialized people in corporate environments are getting sucked into social media. Some of these bright young folks can say things like, "Oh, I manage social media for X Corp." or "I monitor social media for Y Industries" — and it sounds pretty cool. But what they're really doing is slaving away at a virtual call center. (If Mom and Dad, who helped pay for college, really understood that, they'd weep.)
Which ain't gonna last. Old-school customer-service phone lines tend to be staffed by not-so-helpful, not-particularly-well-educated, not-so-patient workers because, let's be honest, talking to cranky, pissy customers is shit work. (Or the call center employees are well-educated, but non-native speakers of English squeezed into cubicles on another continent. Either way, they're probably biding time.)
But the difference with Twitter is that it's public. Every so often, some enterprising blogger will put a customer-service call online, to one company's embarrassment and everybody else's general merriment. But most of the time, companies can get away with shabby service because they can't be seen behaving unhelpfully.
A company with a large number of Twitter followers, and which engages helpfully with its customers on Twitter, in full view of the world, is a company which is doing wonders for its reputation and which is well placed to be able to deal nimbly with any reputational problems that might arise. Whereas a company which doesn't have that infrastructure in place is likely to end up like Eurostar. (Let's not even get started on BP.)
More generally, Twitter is growing so fast that the executive ranks of most companies are increasingly full of people who use Twitter regularly. Just as corporate flacks try to get interviews with executives into the WSJ because that's the paper the executives read, they're also going to try to keep the company's presence on Twitter high-profile and shiny because that's something the executives are likely keeping a close eye on themselves.
So expect a lot more pressure, both top-down and bottom-up, on companies to embrace the Twittersphere. Meanwhile, the people being squeezed will be those in the middle, who have to actually implement the corporate response. If the delegates at the conference on Friday are any indication, they're still a bit slow to engage. But they'll get there soon. They have no choice.
Why NVG companies are sticking with Twitter in 2010:
- companies think it makes them look incredibly important, rip-roaringly successful and far too busy to read or write actual emails with big words
- clients who don't mind being compared to birds are likely to be complacent, unfocused consumers
- you can't be too critical in a Tweet or it would be called a "Croak"
- Tweets are [fingers crossed] inadmissible as evidence in court
Whereas by 2011 it shall be broadly recognized that:
- Tweeting doesn't make you look busy, it makes you look stupid, semi-literate and ADD-afflicted
- customers who Tweet are in fact mentally feeble, therefore screwing them is statutory rape
- wait up: Steve Jobs' deathbed legacy, in atonement for his sins with AT&T, the RIAA and DRM will be the iCroak – an instrument of popular revenge on venal corporatists everywhere, eats Tweets for breakfast… and it's free!
- increasingly, court cases will be settled by apps; Tweets containing >1 smiley/frowny punctuation item become punishable by law…ZZAAP!!!!
Bring on the future, say I.
I don't think it's an either/or proposition, but rather an also/and… some companies may find that their customers are best engaged by this sort of media, while other (bigger) companies will use it as they do the automated directory. I don't think it belies sophistication or any such thing… but I DO find that twitter comes with it's enormous share of spam and crap, so I'd tend to stay away from it as a main portal for engaging clients/customers.
Twitter has very low recall value. Companies will need to constantly update and will need to be interesting.
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Mages poor survivability is a myth that still hangs around from the pre-TBC days when it was true.
It's still true post TBC days even with Ice Block a trained skill its still not the end all be all whe nit comes to surviving.
Mages have iceblock which gives them much better survivability than other classes less blessed and blink is pretty great too. Lol you must live under a rock because Blink is far from Great its not 100% reliable and thats a liability trying to get some distance to cast and you go nowhere. Warlocks are getting their own semi blink with that demonic circle. I wish at least their would be a higher rank of Blink but you travel a farther distance.
Mages do great in 3v3 arena great in dps and are on the upswing overall in arenas.
To get to that in arena you basically have to be Frost... what happened to other trees surely everyone doesn't want to be frost to be competent in pvp.
And their damage is certainly overpowered in pvp.
Only time our damaged is overpowered in Pvp is when shatter combo's or trinkets are involved. We have to work for that damaged as opposed to a warlock running around dotting everyone and their on top of the charts.
This is a good solid class with nothing to complain about.
Yea nothing to complain about except those who except whatever Blizz hand feeds you.
Glad to see some people aren't holding their breath for the proposed spells and talents Blizzard has given us.
I do agree however that with Frostfire bolt being Elemental will be more competent if they dont nerf the mechanic of the spell receiving bonuses from the spell.


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NBA Playoff Betting Preview
Phoenix Suns at San Antonio Spurs (Spurs lead 1-0)
Tuesday, 9:35 pm Eastern – TNT
SBG Global Opening Line: Spurs – 3.5 , Total 192
The Phoenix Suns will try and bounce back from a heart-breaking loss in game one to the San Antonio Spurs as the teams meet for game two on Tuesday night. The Suns had the Spurs on the ropes a few times in game number one but couldn't put them away and ended up losing in double overtime. "We didn't catch a bullet," Phoenix head coach Mike D'Antoni said. "They dodged a bullet." SBG Global reports that early NBA betting has the public taking Spurs at Home.
The Suns will need better play out of Shaquille O'Neal and a more consistent game out of Steve Nash if they want to win on Tuesday. O'Neal was not happy with the refereeing in game one. "I'll never change, because of inconsistency in the way the game is called," O'Neal said. "I always get in trouble when I worry about how the refs call a game. I got four (championships) doing it my way. It's the playoffs, let's play it off. I play like a man all the time, not acting like I just got shot. If they want to flop, I'll give them something to flop about." Phoenix knows that it is a long series but game two is important for the Suns. "We've got seven games. We'll be fine," D'Antoni said. "If we're the best team, we'll win it." The Suns were not able to stop Tim Duncan at all and Manu Ginobili cut through them like a knife through butter for most of the first game. The Spurs scored 72 of their 117 points in the paint. "I think staying out of foul trouble would help," D'Antoni said. "We'll tweak it a little, too. Having said that, that's why they've won four championships, because nobody has figured out a way to stop them."
SBG Global Current Line: Spurs – 2 , Total 192
Suns forward Grant Hill re-injured his groin while taking a charge from Michael Finley early in game one and didn't do much afterwards. "It was bothering me yesterday (Saturday)," Hill said. "I felt pretty good to start the game but as we went along, it started to wear on me." Steve Nash was battling the flu and was very weak in game one. He did come on late though as he had 20 points from the fourth quarter on.
The winner of game one in an NBA playoff series wins 78.5 percent of the time and if that game is at home, the percentage jumps to 86.2 percent. Phoenix head coach D'Antoni doesn't want to hear any of it though. "Most first-round series are mismatches. (A No.1 seed) against (No. 8), that's almost 99.9 percent." he said, "Two against a seven? That's about 90 (percent). "Now go to the NBA Finals and see what the stats are. That's when you have two evenly matched teams. That's what you have here. So you can take that stat and forget it. They might win, but it won't be because they won the first game."
Here are the NBA betting stats for Tuesday's game. The Suns are 6-0 ATS in their last 6 games playing on 2 days of rest. The Suns are 7-1 ATS in their last 8 Tuesday games. The Suns are 6-2 ATS in their last 8 vs. the Southwest. The Suns are 12-4-1 ATS in their last 17 vs. the Western Conference. The Suns are 7-3 ATS in their last 10 Conference Quarterfinals games. The Suns are 2-5 ATS in their last 7 games as a road underdog. The Suns are 4-1 ATS in the last 5 meetings in San Antonio. The road team is 4-1 ATS in the last 5 meetings between the two teams and the underdog is 5-0 ATS in the last 5 meetings.
The Spurs are 4-0-1 ATS in their last 5 Tuesday games. The Spurs are 13-3-1 ATS in their last 17 playoff games as a favorite. The Spurs are 4-1 ATS in their last 5 Conference Quarterfinals games. The Spurs are 5-2 ATS in their last 7 games as a home favorite. The Spurs are 2-6 ATS in their last 8 games overall. The Spurs are 2-6 ATS in their last 8 vs. the Western Conference.
The Spurs are 1-7 ATS in their last 8 games playing on 2 days of rest. The Spurs are 0-4 ATS in their last 4 vs. the Pacific.
The Over is 7-1 in the Suns last 8 games as a road underdog. The Over is 4-1 in the Suns last 5 Conference Quarterfinals games. The Over is 6-2 in the Suns last 8 Tuesday games.
The Over is 4-0 in the Spurs last 4 overall. The Over is 4-0 in the Spurs last 4 vs. the Western Conference. The Under is 6-1 in the Spurs last 7 Conference Quarterfinals games. The Over is 5-1 in the Spurs last 6 vs. the Pacific. The Over is 5-1 in the Spurs last 6 home games vs. a team with a winning road record. The Under is 5-2 in the Spurs last 7 games playing on 2 days of rest. The Under is 4-1 in the last 5 meetings between the two teams.


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Corporations today wield unprecedented power in politics and society, and they have a tremendous effect on human welfare around the globe. At the same time, they are increasingly difficult to regulate. Corporations are savvy and mobile, and they can relocate to avoid burdensome domestic regulation with surprising ease. The agility of corporations creates a dilemma for government decisionmakers seeking to balance the need to attract the wealth that corporations create with the desire to protect consumers and pursue other policy priorities. One potential solution to this dilemma is international cooperation, and a growing number of scholars in the corporations literature have argued that formal or informal agreements are necessary to solve many of the regulatory problems associated with corporate agility. This emphasis on multilateral solutions, however, obscures the extent to which countries, and in particular large economic powers, can and do unilaterally impose their domestic regulations on international firms. This Article argues that unilateral corporate regulation can solve, or at least mitigate, many of the global problems that countries face. At the same time, a state's assertion of unilateral regulatory authority in any particular issue area is costly and may reduce the effectiveness of regulation in other areas. The Article concludes by providing some prudential considerations for governments when they choose whether and how to enact unilateral corporate regulations.
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Why Downcast
June 29th, 2012 at 3:14 pm by Dr. Drang
At some point in the 53 hours of podcasts Merlin Mann was on over the past week or so, he mentioned Downcast, the iOS podcast player/manager, and likened it to Emacs—powerful, but probably not appropriate for most people because of all its options. It'd be a shame if people pass up Downcast because of Merlin's comment. Of the four podcast players I've tried out, Downcast was by far the simplest and easiest to use.
The dedicated podcast player is a phenomenon of iOS 5 and iCloud syncing. It's not that there weren't such apps before—I've been hearing Stitcher ads on podcasts for years—but the category exploded when we no longer had to connect our iOS devices to a computer and sync via iTunes. For many of us, podcast episodes were the only part of our iOS audio lineup that changed regularly; they were the last link with iTunes. Podcast players came in to break that last link. They allow you to download and play new episodes without being anywhere near the computer you sync with.
I confess I had a warm spot in my heart for Downcast even before I tried it. For several years, Laurie Taylor, host of Thinking Allowed, has been telling listeners they can "downcast our podload," a bit of wordplay I never tire of. But I've given three others a fair hearing and genuinely believe Downcast is the best.
For a while, Instacast seemed to be everyone's favorite, and many people still swear by it. I used it for a while but never liked it. I was continually baffled by its response to swiping, which was inconsistent. Swiping (in either direction) on a podcast would bring up the Unsubscribe button, as expected,
but swiping on an individual episode wouldn't bring up a Delete button. Instead, it toggled either the played/unplayed status if you swiped one way or the starred/unstarred status if you swiped the other. This was not only inconsistent, but maddening. If I accidentally swiped on an episode, my instinctive response was to swipe in the other direction to undo. Not only would that not undo my accidental action, it would cause another action, leaving me with two things to undo.
Another thing I didn't like about Instacast was that tapping on an episode in the episode list wouldn't take you to the playing screen, but to an intermediate screen that described the episode and included a Play or Stream button in the upper right.
It's only after tapping that button that you start playing. I suppose there's some logic to showing you what the episode is about before playing it, but in practice I always just want to start listening.
Finally, there's the playing screen, which has no volume control and puts the position control where the Music app has the volume slider. Yes, I've fast-forwarded when all I wanted to do was make it a bit louder.
Instacast allows you to set bookmarks within a podcast, which is probably a nice feature, but I never used it. It can also export your subscriptions, either directly to another podcast app or as an OPML file. You can import an OPML file generated elsewhere (via iTunes on your computer, say) by emailing it to yourself and telling Mail to open the attachment in Instacast.
Update 6/29/12
Unsurprisingly, Instacast fans in the comments have pointed out some features that I missed. In particular, if you tap and hold on an episode, a menu comes up that allows you to start playing the episode without going to the intermediate screen first. That's still more actions to start playing than it ought to be, but it's not quite as slow as I thought.
After dumping Instacast, I used iCatcher! for a few weeks. It's main screen is a little cluttered but easily navigable.
The same can be said for the podcast screen
and the playing screen.
Note that iCatcher (I'm dumping the ! for the duration) has both volume and position sliders in their standard places.
iCatcher has more options than I care to discuss, but its defaults make sense; I could use it immediately without feeling the need to dig into the settings to fix things. Swiping on an episode brings up a set of four buttons, including the expected Delete.1
In addition to using the 30-second jump buttons on the playing screen, you can also swipe left or right to jump back or forward a user-settable amount of time. I like having the left swipe jump back 10 seconds so I can relisten to something I didn't catch the first time.
iCatcher exports OPML files and can import an OPML email attachment the same way Instacast does. As best I can tell, it doesn't have a bookmarking feature.
I liked iCatcher much more than Instacast and would probably still be using it if I hadn't tried Downcast.
Apple's podcast-playing app is an abomination of which we really shouldn't speak. I didn't even like the idea of reinstalling it on my iPhone to get screenshots.
Let's start with the controls on the player screen.
Where's the position slider? I'm not sure how I discovered this, but to find it, you have to swipe up to "raise" the artwork up out of the way. Does this make the app easier to use? No, it just adds a level of complexity and user frustration with no payoff.
"Behind" the artwork are other controls (including the position slider) and a tape deck animation. The reels of the tape deck rotate during playback.
Let's put aside the question of whether a tape deck is an appropriate analogy for podcast playback—even if it is inspired by Dieter Rams—and focus on the controls themselves. The position slider is fairly smooth when you're making fine adjustments but terribly jumpy when you're making a big move. And the thin red line doesn't feel right as a control. At first, the rotating speed control seemed impossible to use; I could almost never grab and turn it. Then I learned through experimentation that sliding my finger through an arc—which is what the design of the control suggests—is unnecessary and counterproductive. Just sliding left and right moves the control perfectly.2
As I've said before, I'm not against skeuomorphism on principle, but when the digital control doesn't work like the physical control it's aping, the design should be scrapped.
Navigation among the various screens is a little weird, even after you recognize that Catalog means "Apple's list of available podcasts" and Library means "What's on your device." The search and discovery features for subscribing to new podcasts seem fine, but there's no obvious way to enter a podcast's feed URL directly. Fortunately, Don McAlister found a way:
Ah! You can subscribe to a non listed podcast by pasting the URL into the search field in your podcast list. Doesn't support protected feeds
— Don McAllister (@donmcallister) Tue Jun 26 2012
Be careful here. Don is talking about the search field at the top of the podcast list in the Library, not the search field in the Catalog.
Basic functionality like this shouldn't be treated like an Easter egg. I'd love to hear how Don found this out.
Finally, what I dislike the most about Podcasts is the inability to delete old, undownloaded episodes from a podcast's episode list. As in iTunes on your computer, when you first subscribe to a podcast, the name and other metadata of every episode gets downloaded to your device and displayed in the podcast's episode list.
This happens in Instacast and iCatcher, too, but the difference is that those apps let you delete the undownloaded episodes from the list. Podcasts apparently doesn't. I've tried every gesture and setting I could think of and I've asked on Twitter—it seems like these episodes you don't want are there forever. I'll bet these episodes don't even show up if you transfer your subscription list to Podcasts by syncing with iTunes, but since the whole point of the app is to avoid syncing with iTunes, there ought to be a way to delete them directly. Maybe if I'd played with Podcasts longer I would've discovered the secret, but I just couldn't.
What makes this app so disappointing is not its lack of features—Apple's applications, especially in their first iteration, often are light on features. But the features they have usually work well. Not so with Podcasts.
And the poor quality of the Podcasts app is even more disappointing when you consider Apple's history in this area. When Apple added podcast subscriptions to iTunes in 2005 it blew every other podcasting program out of the water and mainstreamed the very idea of podcasting. Although Apple didn't include every last bell and whistle in its iTunes offering, it included enough essentials and customizations to get new users going and to entice almost all the old hands away from the applications they had been using. It was an almost perfect blend of features and ease of use. The Podcasts app is a stain on Apple's "design is how it works" ethic.
Downcast is what Podcasts should have been. It's interface is simple and obvious, its defaults are well-chosen, and it offers the kinds of customizations you see in iTunes.
The first thing I liked about Downcast was how it handled episode lists of new subscriptions. By default, it downloads the most recent episode (which is what the others do, too) and hides the list of older episodes.
This is exactly right. Show what's most likely to be of interest, and make the rest available through obvious means.
Adding new subscriptions is just as clear. When you're looking at your list of podcasts, which puts them in alphabetical order after separating them into played and unplayed, the toolbar at the bottom has a nice Add Podcasts button.
Tapping it takes to you a screen with a set of buttons. There's not a lot of pizzazz here, but there's no question what each button does.
The player screen has no surprises, either. Everything you want where you expect it to be.
In addition to the jumps available through the buttons at the top of the screen, you can also set up gestures to have swipes jump forward and backward. My left-to-right swipe jump 30 seconds ahead, and my right-to-left swipe jumps 10 seconds backward.
I guess the complexity Merlin was talking about has to do with the settings for when to delete podcasts, how many to keep, and so on. There's a general setting for these options, to which you can make per-podcast adjustments. I don't see this as especially geeky because these are, as I said above, the same sorts of options you have in iTunes. There are lots of adjectives that could be applied to iTunes, but "geeky" isn't one of them.
Like Instacast and iCatcher, Downcast imports and exports OPML files. It doesn't have Instacast's bookmarking, which is fine with me.
Apple's Podcasts app is abysmal. I can't imagine anyone liking it.
Instacast might be OK for you if you don't get annoyed by the things that annoy me.
iCatcher is quite usable, but its user interface is a bit cluttered and frantic.
Downcast is what Podcasts should have been. It doesn't have the whizbang UI that a developer like Tapbots would give it, but everything is straightforward and operates smoothly.
The animation as the buttons appear is a sort of flip-around like when you tap the "i" button in the Weather app, but it's disconcertingly fast. I don't understand why iCatcher's programmers didn't just match the animation speed of Weather. ↩
Or better yet, don't even bother. There are only three speeds, and the differences between them are so great you'll never want to listen at anything other than the center, normal position. ↩
27 Responses to "Why Downcast"
Clark says:
I have Instacast but I'm continually baffled by when a podcast actually downloads. How do I tell it to download now? It's just not that intuitive.
Honestly I don't mind the iTunes way. Plus it has the benefit of actually syncing what I listen to on iTunes with what I listen to on my phone or iPad.
Nick says:
@clark baffled me too, now use Downcast and have it set to only download over wifi, the app checks over cellular and tells you there's a new episode, and starts downloading when you get in wifi range.
Jason Berberich says:
Great post.
I'll admit that I haven't tried Downcast yet, but I've been an Instacast user for about a year and a half. Instacast Pro 2.1 is pretty much my ideal podcast client, though it still has a few things that bug me. The biggest by far is the swipe inconsistency that you mentioned. I think I've starred one podcast, ever.
However, since Instacast 2, you can long-press on a podcast episode to bring up a menu with the following actions:
- Play/Continue playing (thus avoiding that intermediate screen)
- Mark as played
- Mark as favorite
- Delete Download
- Delete Episode
This satisfies my desire to take quick action on an individual episode.
The yet to be released version 2.2 of Instacast will have a few more features that I'm looking forward to, including automatically deleting the download when an episode is marked as played, and the ability to "park" subscriptions.
Jason Berberich says:
@nick and @clark: Yes, that is confusing. In the Pro version, you can use the per-subscription settings to tell it to download new episodes automatically:
Subscription Settings (long-press the subscription) > Download > toggle Audio (and/or video) to On.
The next time it refreshes and finds a new episode, it will start downloading right away.
Marco Arment says:
Great post. And I take full credit for getting Merlin to try Downcast.
I found the same issues with Instacast: the intermediate screen between the list and playback, in particular, drove me nuts.
You may also want to look at Pocket Casts since it offers some unique features (server-side feed parsing and new-episode push notifications are big ones). I didn't care for its style, but its features are quite good.
Downcast is definitely my podcast client of choice. It could use a few design touch-ups, but overall, it's solid.
Michael Batz says:
Hear hear! I finally bought Instacast just before 2.0, then went ahead and paid for the "controversial" upgrade. I didn't mind, but I soon realized that once the joy of cutting the iTunes cord wore off, a lot of UI stuff drove me nuts: the inconsistent swiping, the extra taps, the need to pull up to get volume, the bookmark stuff I never understood.
What finally sold me on Downcast, and why I love it now, is the straightforward and powerful approach to global vs. podcast-specific settings for if/when to download and delete. With Instacast, you have similar (though less comprehensive) control, but no "obey global" switch. So if you want to go from generally keeping 3 episodes to 1 episode due to space (not a hypothetical), you have to go through each podcast one by one. Trust me, do that for 20+ podcasts once and you'll never want to use Instacast again.
Gilbert Irias says:
Your review is spot on. A Downcast feature that I'm thankful for is the ability to listen to video podcasts outside of the app or with the screen turned off. (I'm fairly certain that I didn't have this capability when I used InstaCast.)
Gabriel Pinto says:
You didn't even mention the fact that Downcast is the only app that has Playlists— a feature that many users can simply no longer live without! Even with the release of a built-in Podcast app, it's clear that Downcast will continue to battle on with loyal customers like us- there are plenty of other examples in the industry, Instapaper anyone?
Conlan says:
For what it's worth, in Instacast you can begin playing a podcast episode with one tap by tapping the "album artwork" in the episodes list (I think that's what the white "play" icon overlay means).
Alan says:
@Gabriel Instacast 2 has playlists too, for what it's worth.
I think Instacast's biggest problem is that so many of its most powerful features are hard to discover.
Ceri Morgan says:
I've been using the iPod app for podcasts forever. I tried Instacast about a year ago, and the new Podcasts app this week, but didn't really like either of them.
My biggest dislike with other apps is that they don't seem to reliably start playing when I double tap the home button on the lock screen and hit play (or plug in headphones and click the mic button. This is how I initiate the playing of podcasts 95% of the time and I found that it would work sometimes, but frequently the iPod app would start playing instead.
I'm guessing this is an iOS problem rather than an Instacast or Podcast app problem, but have you seen this with Downcast?
Arek says:
I loved Downcast 'till my library got rather big. Around 100+ episodes, the app became so unresponsive I had to stop using it. Tapping on an episode and waiting 10-20 seconds before it opens is unacceptable.
Preparing.. Preparing.. Preparing..
Right now I'm checking few different apps but none (so far) comes close to features Downcast offers.
Tobias says:
Did anybody find a way to get from Apple Podcasts to the notes for a particular episode, or even the homepage of the feed?
Unfortunately Downcast is unusably slow on my original iPad. The playback controls are also very cramped, usually takes five attempts to enable AirPlay.
Guthrie says:
It would really bother me if by accessing the lock screen controls my iPhone played iTunes instead of the current podcast. I've never had that happen with Downcast.
Why is Instacast so wildly popular with Apple oriented bloggers and podcasters? At first I thought it was an anomaly but the praise just kept mounting when I read my newsfeeds. I've found it unstable and for lack of a perfect term, "flabby" in it's design.
Janne says:
For streaming-only solutions, how about TuneIn Radio? I use it for online radio-stations, but it also supports podcasts. Since its manly geared for radio, it doesnt support (as far as I can see) downloading episodes. But the pro version does support recording live radio.
Dan Wearsch says:
I was halfway through writing my own post about how disappointing Podcasts is when I read this. I agree with you completely. Downcast isn't perfect, but it gets it most right out of all those I've tried. I'm really baffled that Apple didn't include iCloud sync in their own app—it's my favorite part of Downcast.
Jerry Goldbaum says:
I have used all the podcast apps mentioned above (including a few not worth mentioning). My choice is Instacast for the cleanest UI and implementation I find the swiping to mark a podcast as "listened" a great time saver. Plus, the auto downloading of episodes is a big plus over PocketCasts which I enjoyed using but found it very unstable over time. I also think the podcast refresh is extremely quicker than most of the other apps. My main complaint about Downcast was its overall look, the playback screen is extremely busy and marking an episode as played was a bit of a pain (this might have been corrected in an update).
As for Apple's Podcast app, that is a bloody mess. Within an hour of using it, I found several bugs and things that just make it overall unusable. Duplicate downloads, "blank podcasts in the playlist", podcast album art, older episodes downloading even when you mark "All as played", and NO d/l of episodes > 50mb on 3g were some of the killer things. Also, I found that some of the UI design choices to be suspect like small touch points on the podcast list for downloading and episode information. Finally, I thought the omission of iCloud sync of episodes and subscriptions to other iDevices a major omission.
Sticking with Instacast (for now).
Floris says:
Since the day I heard about Downcast I've been using it daily. The iPad version is amazing, and beats the competition easily. In my personal opinion. Their support over Twitter is equally impressive. They update, innovate, and develop frequently. Something I really like. Great article. Completely support it. If not only for the Merlin mention. :)
Marco says:
Re: Instacast episode playing: just tap the episode artwork/icon and it starts playing right away.
I'm going back and forth between Instacast and Downcast. I like tha latter for its simplicity, the former for its nice auto download and local push notification. Podcasts is a big pile of dung, it takes down my iPhone 4S and seems to randomly download old episodes..
Chris Gonzales says:
I already mentioned this to you on Twitter, but you don't have to deal with the intermediary episode screen, NOR do you have to "tap and hold" an episode. While you're looking at the list of episodes, did you notice that the artwork next to each item has a play button? Just tap that artwork button and the episode plays right away.
This isn't an "easter egg" and in fact is quite easy to see. I figured it out the first time I used the app.
jhn says:
I just switched to Podcasts from Instacast. I like it better than Instacast—I haven't missed any features from Instacast that I actually use, and Instacast is always pretty buggy—and I like the idea of sticking with first-party solutions, even when they're less fully featured.
"Protected" podcasts might not be supported but paid ones are—many Economist podcasts are subscriber-only and they work fine
Jerry Goldbaum says:
Instacast buggy? I have been using Instacast as my primary podcasting app for months now and I rarely (if ever) have a problem with it. As for the Apple podcasting app, I found several bugs just using it for a couple of hours.
Richard Barg says:
There's a lot of things not to like about the new Apple Podcasts app, but one thing it does better than any of the other apps is that it is lightening fast in serving up new podcasts. Of the non-Apple podcast apps, I agree that Downcast is the best one. However, I often have to wait for mintues before the latest episode of a Podcast I like is available. With the Apple "Podcasts" app, the new apps are there instantaneously. Despite the wierd nomenclature, seaching and subscribing to podcasts on the Podcasts app is also incrediby easy and fast, much faster than Downcast. Obviously the Podcasts app is simpler to use because its more Spartan, but I also like the large buttons. Moving 30 seconds forward in Downcast is sometimes not an easy task due to location of the buttons. What I don't like about Podcasts:
-The reel to reel tape drive is annoying to look at and distracting. I'd like to be able to turn it off. Even when you pull down the album art, you can still see it turning. -How the company that invented iCloud can't seamlessly sync Podcasts between IOS devices and maintain the place last listened to is beyond me. Shades of MobileMe. -A general lack of options -Bugs - in videos, the play/ff buttons stay on the screen even when the screen is clicked on
Nonetheless, for its core functions, serving up podcasts quickly and instantaneously and for its lightening fast searches, this program has supplanted the snail like Downcast. No more waiting for Podcasts to refresh.
Andre says:
I just discovered Downcast last week after Merlin's comment on MPU. I didn't see it mentioned here, but my favorite feature of Downcast is its display of show note links right in the Now Playing screen. When the host mentions putting a link in the show notes, you don't have to remind yourself to look the notes up later. You can click on the link as soon as it's mentioned.
Darren says:
@Chris Gonzales -
The feature you are talking about only shows up in the 'Playlist' view, and not in the 'Subscriptions' view. If you use the subscriptions view exclusively, you won't ever see the artwork/play button.
I have bought and used (and re-used, and switched back and forth etc) Instacast, Downcast, PocketCasts, Podcaster, RSS Radio, and Podcasts. After recently trying Instacast again for a few weeks I'm back to Downcast for many of the reasons mentioned here plus one other big one: Downcast always remembers what's 'Now Playing' so no matter what I do between listening to 'casts I can come right back to where I was, whereas Instacast forgets this far too easily…
QuarterSwede says:
@Darren, that's a bug in the Instacast 2.0 rewrite. It always remembered in v1.
I personally like Instacast better than the rest, including DownCast. Every time I hear a feature somebody mentions that Downcast has over Instacast they're wrong (ex. Instacast has a slew of global settings in Settings (gear icon) > General). I will admit that the 2.0 rewrite is odd but it greatly helps if you've used Instacast version 1.
Oh, and to the writer of the article. The volume slider is under the player in the same spot. Just slide up like you would the camera from the lock screen.
Dr. Drang says:
The volume slider is under the player in the same spot.
I rest my case.


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