#INSTACAST CLOUD FOR FREE#
You can read more about the 1.4 update on Vemedio, and download the update for free from the App Store (it’s only $1.99 for new customers). If you want to get caught up on what Instacast does and how great it really is, check out our previous reviews.
#INSTACAST CLOUD TV#
Instacast 1.4 has a new audio engine inside for iOS 5 compatibility, bringing back scrolling titles on the lock screen (a bigger deal if you were an early iOS 5 adopter) and adding Apple TV support for AirPlay.
A pull-to-refresh will sync changes down from iCloud while uploading takes place automatically. With that said, syncing shouldn’t take five minutes, but I wouldn’t expect it to be split-second instant. You treat it like you treat Tweet Marker - it’s all designed to be very casual. Coming in at 4.99 for the iPad version and 1.99 for the iPhone version, you better love your podcasts to pay these prices. I imagine this is more true for big podcast libraries. Instacast HD / Instacast by Vermedio One of the first players in the podcast listening application market is both one of the best and most expensive. If you don’t allow Instacast to get its data in the cloud, you may run into conflicts where your impatience could overwrite the changes you wanted to save. Geeks will immediately try, two devices in hand, to see how instant syncing is. With the amount of data being synced, there are some things to remember about Instacast’s iCloud sync. While there’s not much I can add beyond Martin’s blog post on Vemedio, the wow-factor can’t be emphasized enough. Instacast syncs lots of data to keep everything in sync. This is one of the best use cases for iCloud. There were so many problems on so many levels that we decided to roll out our own sync solution. The app APIs are confusing, unclear and unreliable. Making iCloud reliable is nearly impossible for a 3rd party developer. Resuming a podcast is as simple as tapping the up arrow after a refresh. Vemedio have chosen to do just that with the upcoming Instacast 3. The last item is the magical part: it syncs track position and loads that episode you were listening to in the now playing window if you pause the podcast and want to pick up from another device later. It remembers to update which episodes you’ve marked as played, it remembers to add new podcasts you’ve subscribed to across devices, and it even remembers what episode you were listening to. Instacast goes beyond simply syncing your lists of podcasts. What if we could sync something like RSS feeds between devices? Now you’re thinkin’. Just think about being able to sync your Angry Birds progress between devices. Beyond document syncing, iCloud opens up a world of added convenience that wasn’t available previously. If you think automatically syncing spreadsheets and documents across iCloud from your iPad to iPhone is cool, that’s just the tip of the iceberg. The premise is pretty amazing, even if the initial majority of it is between iOS devices. If you have a day job and had just started upgrading your iOS devices when you got home yesterday evening, it’s likely haven’t even spent a few hours with iCloud yet.
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