PocketCast for Android: App Review

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Pocket Casts is a podcast player. If you've never listened a podcast before, this would be a great way to start. There are podcasts on every subject imaginable and Pocket Casts has some great discovery features.

The search features for Pocket Casts are awesome. You can search by podcast name as well as browse by Popular Podcasts, Podcast Networks, Categories or add the podcast URL directly.

Pocket Casts has a great grid layout showcasing the podcast artwork, making it easy to distinguish one from another. The images are colorful as well as sporting a red number in the corner indicating how many new episodes are waiting for you.  There are also push notifications to indicate new episodes.  Episodes can be streamed over 3G or downloaded with no file size limits. This is a podcast player made by podcast lovers.

That being said, I did experience some issues with playback. Sometimes when trying to stream, I received a "Playback Failed" error. This occurred over WiFi and 3G both. It was an odd error that seemed sort of "hit or miss", sometimes working, sometimes not. I have emailed the developers notify them of the problem. I'm running a Droid X on Gingerbread and have had some buggy issues with various apps since upgrading, so the problems could be related to hardware. I'd be interested if anyone else experiences the same problem on different hardware.

Although I snagged this from Amazon as a Free App of the Day, I would gladly pay the $2.70 for it. I highly  recommend this app to anyone who enjoys podcasts or is embarking on their first podcast discovery.

Download from Amazon or the Android Marketplace.

Don't Waste Another Dollar to Netflix!

Feedfliks.com is a great website to maximize your Netflix account.  Login using your Netflix credentials and it automatically pulls all of your information.  It gives you lots of details on your DVD queue: how long you keep a movie, average cost of the movies based on how many you rent per year, and how long others keep movies before returning them. Feedfliks also has a search feature to find movies that you can then add to your queue, DVD or streaming, based on availability.

I think the most awesome feature of Feedfliks is it's ability to show you

• Movies coming to Netflix
• Movies new to Netflix
• Movies EXPIRING from Netflix

If you're like me and have dozens of movies queued up to watch instantly, don't let some expire before you get around to watching them. Feedfliks will sort your queue by when the titles expire so that you maximize your viewing and never miss that great movie you wanted to see.

This site provides a ton of information about Netflix such as:

• Most Streamed Titles
• Most Rented Titles
• Most Queued on DVD
• Most Queued on Instant
• Most Recommended

So check out Feedfliks.com and make every dollar sent to Netflix count!

Droid X Tips - Changing Dock Apps

Changing the dock apps on the Droid X running the new Android 2.3.3 can be a little confusing.

A quick tip to change the default apps on the dock:

• Go to your App Drawer, find the app that you'd like to add to the dock and long press it. 
• On the pop-up screen, Click Add to Home and when your Home Screen shows up, you'll have plus signs over your Dock at the bottom of the screen. 
• Drag the app over the plus sign and you've replaced it!

You can also hold down the app on the Dock that you would like to change and when the pop-up list appears, scroll down until you find the app you'd like to replace it with. I find that this takes a little longer than the previously mentioned method tho.