yeah right keller

The Instacast iPad app came out today, which looks pretty nice (though I don’t have an iPad right now to try it out). But, this struck me as a pretty good description of how I felt when starting to use Instacast (which really is a great app):

[…] it is one of those apps that at first blush you think: “yeah but I can just do that with the built in iOS tools.” Then you use the app and you think: “pretty nice, well done.”

Then a month later you are still using it.

Then you go to another device (your iPad) that doesn’t have Instacast and you immediately think: “well this sucks.”

I still use Instacast every day, mostly to listen to shows from 5by5 (including Hypercritical, Back to Work, Build & Analyze, and The Critical Path, which are all top-notch), and also the Nerdist, The Sound of Young America, Radiolab, Freakonomics, and This American Life (apparently since I don’t have a car radio, this is my substitue for NPR). And, I still have You Look Nice Today in there, with secret hopes that one day there will be a new episode. Until that day comes, Merlin’s new Roderick on the Line is doing a nice job of filling in (along with the entire YLNT back catalog, which I have cached and still listen to, and still crack up in public, because they’re so great).