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Pocket Casts

Mon, 07 Mar 2011 07:45:21 +0000

Stay up to date with all the latest podcasts with one easy to use app. Simply add your favorite podcasts, and you'll be able to download or stream new episodes as they become available. With cross device syncing support, an extremely sexy UI, tablet support and built in variable speed playback, Pocket Casts is the best way to listen to podcasts, on any platform.

Standout features:
- Syncing and backup: back up your subscriptions, podcasts, playlists & progress with our server and your other android devices. You can now drop your phone in a toilet and not lose your podcasts. After syncing, setting up a new phone has never been easier
- Powerful smart playlists: Want a list of every unplayed, downloaded podcast? Right here. How about a list of video episodes that you haven’t downloaded yet? Easy
- Built in variable speed playback: all the way from 0.5x to 3.0x, no dodgy plugins to download, no fuss, just pure unadulterated speed
- Stunning phone and tablet interface: We've kept a close eye on the Android design guidelines while building the simplest and most powerful Pocket Casts interface yet. Simple, powerful, beautiful.
- Dark & Light: two themes to choose from, to suit your location and mood.
- Video & audio: Pocket Casts lets you toggle video podcasts to audio (when Leo comes on), then back again (when someone better looking is speaking)
- Absolute control: Control your podcasts from the widget, notification center, lock screen, headphones, bluetooth and many other ways

But wait, there's more!
- Auto download: configure the smart playlist of your choice, and then tell the app to auto-download your favorite episodes
- Play while downloading: start a download, and then when you have the first bit of it tap play to start it immediately
- Skippety Skip: quick skip back and forward controls, that are configurable to whatever time you want
- Sleep Timer: Fall asleep to your favorite boring podcasts
- Auto cleanup: set how many episodes of a podcast you want to keep, and have our app clean up the old ones for you.
- Instant refresh: Refresh 50 podcasts in the same time it takes other apps to do 1! (our server monitors your feeds, so your phone doesn't have to)
- OPML export/import: the playground is always open
- Download to SD Card or phone
- Landscape support: because longer is better
- Download resuming: because flakey networks are annoying
- Sharing: share your favorite podcasts, episodes and positions in episodes.

> "It looks great, and is near perfect" - Beautiful Pixels
> "The interface follows new holo guidelines, but has its own bit of style with a red, white and grey color scheme that is clean and intuitive" - Android Central
> "Pocket Casts is a Gorgeous Cross-Platform Mobile Podcast Manager." - Lifehacker

Recent changes:
v4.2.4:
- Option to turn off bluetooth track info, which also disables last.fm scrobbling. Believe you me, we had no idea that turning on bluetooth track info would scrobble your nobbles. We don't even know what nobbles are.
- OPML import folder is now created on app launch. As much fun as it was to have you searching for a folder that didn't exist, we thought we should fix that.
- Other minor fixes
- No more jokes, sorry please stop reading
- Really
- No really
- Damn it people…we meant it!

DoggCatcher Podcast Player

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 13:00:20 +0000

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Manage your podcasts and RSS/news feeds with the first Podcatcher in the Google Market.

Highlights
-Easy import of feeds from Google Listen.
-Android Central's Editors' Choice podcatcher of the year
-Android Central's Readers' Choice runner up podcatcher of the year
-Lifehacker (Nov-2011) finds DoggCatcher to be "The Best Podcast Manager for Android"
-Easy to find new podcasts/feeds
-Fully automated download and cleanup of media files
-Offline playback of audio and video
-Categories for feeds
-Updated frequently - 100+ updates since first release in November 2008
-Active user community - 10000+ forum posts
-Highly configurable
-Variable speed playback (this requires the purchase of a third party audio library named Presto)

Automation
-Automatically updates feeds on a configurable interval
-Automatically download new media
-Automatically deletes media that has been listened to

Add feeds by
-Browsing Top 100 DoggCatcher feeds
-Getting recommendations based on your feed subscriptions
-Searching podcast and news directories
-Importing for Google Reader/Listen
-Importing from OPML

Integrated Audio/Video Player
-Plays downloaded audio/video
-Streams audio over network (wifi/cell)
-Remembers play position of media file
-Plays video formats supported by Android

Community and support
-Frequently updated
-Very active user community in forums

Playlists
-Audio playlist for continuous play of new media
-Video/News playlists for easy navigation of new media

RSS/News feeds
-Supports RSS 1.0, 2.0, and ATOM
-Displays inline images

Other
-Battery/data plan friendly - can limit downloads based on network/power connections
-Media download queue can be viewed and managed
-Bluetooth support (A2DP/AVRCP)
-Supports authenticated feeds (username/password)

For any questions about application permissions, please see http://www.doggcatcher.com/permissions

Community and support at doggcatcher.com

Recent changes:
Improvements:
Display audio file metadata on bluetooth device (only works on some devices)

Bugs:
Done episodes that are failed/partials should not get added to download queue on a feed update
Seekbar is not aligned correctly when variable speed button is hiddenEpisodes can get deleted and re-downloaded when they were manually downloaded and feed uses 'keep most recent x' delete policy
Crash when playing an audio file from a feed with a huge thumbnail

gReader Pro (Google Reader)

Sun, 25 Jul 2010 17:15:34 +0000

gReader is an unofficial Google Reader client for Android. Read all your rss/feed news in one place with Google Reader, where keeping up with your favorite websites is as easy as checking your email. More on http://greader.co

NOTES:
* Please let us know of any issues you encounter via email.
* If you still get ads: Clear the cache of the market and check the license in gReader again (Menu->More->Check License)
* Read the FAQ before commenting: http://greader.co/faq
* You want to suggest new features or report issues, use the Feedback button.
* Localization If you are interested in translating gReader to other languages, visit http://bit.ly/gr_translate
* Beta: http://greader.co/beta
* Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.noinnion.android.greader.readerpro

FEATURES (PRO):
* Support developers
* Ad free version
* Better Widgets (Ticker)
* Downloading Podcasts
* Voice-Reading

FEATURES:
* Google Reader synchronization: Use gReader at home, at your office, or anywhere you go and keep your feeds, tags and shared items synched in one place.
* 2-Way Sync: Synchronize your read items between gReader and Google Reader. Keep your articles up-to-date
* Auto synchronization
* User Interface: Simple, fast and intuitive
* Tablet optimized: Read your news more comfortable on a tablet
* Themes: Light, Black and Dark
* Night Mode: Read your articles with white font on black background. Save battery and increase readability in the night.
* Offline Reading with full article content
* Mark read on scroll
* Podcast support (streaming)
* Voice-Reading (Text-To-Speech)
* Folders / Tags support
* Notification
* Share articles via Email, Facebook, Twitter, ...
* Services: Tranlation, Mobilizer
* Save to Pocket (Read it later) / Instapaper / Readability
* Search feature: Search and filter keywords, save search results
* Sort: by newest, by oldest, by feed
* Quick and swipe actions: faster access to funtions
* Rich article list (snippet and thumbnail)
* Widget: Icon widget with unread badge
* Easy Reading: Reading mode view, inverse webpage color
* Quick actions, Swipe actions
* Fullscreen mode: Enlarge your reading space
* Recommended items / sources
* HTTPS connection: Use Http Secure to get your feeds
* App2SD
* OAUTH
* Backup/Restore: Backup/Restore your preferences

Try it yourself and build your own opinion.

PERMISSIONS:
* GET_ACCOUNTS, USE_CREDENTIALS: Allows access to the list of accounts for quick login to Google Reader account.
* READ_LOGS: Used for feedback feature. User could send logs to developer for identifying issues.

Recent changes:
*** gReader will work after the closure. We are working on a solution.

What's new in v3.2.3
* Fixed: Sync issue (Google has changed an url so that synchronization could not complete)

What's new in v3.2.2
* Added: Hide article list pane (Settings->Look and Feel->Hide article list)
* Added: Show feed list after marking all as read (Settings->Reading Preferences->Show feeds after Mark all as read)

What's new in v3.2.0
* New: Holo UI
* New: DashClock extension
* New: Navigation gestures