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Let’s Talk iOS 005: Inbox Zero

Episode 005: Sebastien describes his work environment, including his power-adjustable desk and his $700 stool. Jeff explains his recent change of heart regarding the smart watch and other wearables. Cody runs down his Black Friday experience. The trio also discusses Evernote paperless strategies and how to best achieve the elusive inbox zero.

Let’s Talk iOS 004: Working in a onesie

Episode 004: Sebastien, Cody, and Jeff talk about what it's like to work from home and write about iOS all day, Sebastien's Oceanhorn addiction, favorite Google Reader Replacements, exciting ideas for the future of Touch ID, iPhone 6 rumors and more. Unfortunately, we experienced some technical difficulties with this week's episode, so the sound quality is significantly beneath our standard sound. This should be fixed going forward. Thank you for tuning in.

Hurry, Instacast for Mac is on sale for 50% off

One of the better podcast clients for the Mac is available for 50% off its retail price. Instacast, the podcasting client from Vemedio is going for $9.99 on the Mac App Store for a limited time.

The nice thing about Instacast is that you can use it to sync your playlists with its iOS counterpart. That means that it's extremely easy to listen on your Mac, and pick up where you left off on your iPhone, and vice versa.

Instacast is a great way to keep up with all of the episodes of Let's Talk iOS. According to its description on the Mac App Store, this deal is slated to end in one day, so you'll want to be quick if interested.

Let’s Talk iOS 003: Drove eight hours for an iPad mini

This week's episode is all about the iPad mini with Retina display. We discuss the Retina iPad mini's launch, our order and pickup experiences, and our initial thoughts on the newest device to join the iOS family. We also talk about Apple's rumored PrimeSense acquisition, and a variety of other hot topics involving everyone's favorite fruit company.

Let’s Talk iOS 002: iPad Air – the final decision

This episode of Let's Talk iOS features an extremely diverse discussion ranging from the iPad Air, to Pinboard, to the various fitness apps and gadgets we use. We also talk about how to get more out of your Mac using keyboard shortcuts, Google's new Search App update, Jeff's experience with T-Mobile, and so much more. It's Let's Talk iOS, episode 002. You need not miss this.

How to subscribe to Let’s Talk iOS

Each week, Sebastien, Cody, and Jeff join forces to discuss the latest ongoings in the wonderful world of iOS. The result? An entertaining podcast entitled Let's Talk iOS.

If you want to know what makes iDownloadBlog tick, if you want to know the personalities behind the content that you read each day; most of all, if you want a comprehensive take on all of the week's Apple news, ladies and gentlemen, this is the place you want to be.

But how does one go about acquiring each savory episode of Let's Talk iOS? There are many methods, actually. We'll show you several ways to do so inside...

Let’s Talk iOS 001: Now we’re talking

Welcome to the first episode of Let's Talk iOS. In this episode, we break down our feelings about the new iPad Air after a few days of intense usage. Jeff talks about his ability to use the iPad Air as a full fledged work machine, and Cody and Sebastien reiterate their plans to purchase the new iPad mini with Retina Display.

Let’s Talk Jailbreak 35: iPad Air special

It's iPad Air launch day, and each member of the iDB crew just scored some new hardware from the Apple Store. What was the launch day experience like? What about first impressions? Join us for a special episode of Let's Talk Jailbreak, as the trio of Cody, Sebastien, and Jeff discuss the iPad Air in-depth. Should you get it? Is it better than its predecessor? How does it stack up to the iPad mini? Listen in for the full lowdown.

Let’s Talk Jailbreak 34: It’s getting weird

Cody kicks off this week's episode as we discuss lots of new jailbreak tweaks, Apple's earnings call, and the new iPad Air and iPad mini with Retina Display. As you might expect, we talk about our upcoming purchase decisions, carrier choices, and the accessories we're thinking about picking up come iPad launch day.

Pocket Casts updated with 64-bit support and other goodies

I still have yet to find the perfect podcast app that does everything I want, but most of them are good enough to get by. I will say that I seem to fare best with my podcast app flavor of the month, Pocket Casts.

There's a reason why Pocket Casts is my podcast app of choice, at least for the moment. It's fast, well designed, and its developers are quick on the draw when it comes to pushing out timely updates. Updates just like this one...

Let’s Talk Jailbreak 33: Let’s talk iPad

We delayed this episode of Let's Talk Jailbreak by a couple of days so that we could talk to you about our thoughts on Apple's iPad event. Join us for in-depth discussions about the new iPad Air, the iPad mini with Retina Display, iOS 7.0.3 and its potential jailbreakability, Apple's new free software initiative, and more.

iPad keynote now available on YouTube and iTunes

Apple rather uncharacteristically not only live-streamed yesterday's keynote through its website and on Apple TV, iPhone, iPod touch and iPad devices, but has also made a replay available shortly thereafter. The October 2013 Apple Special Event video is now available on-demand through the Apple Events section of the company's website.

I typically prefer to keep Apple's keynote clips handy for later reference and offline viewing. As a bonus, I get to keep the videos forever and make as much copies as my heart desires. Right on cue, the iPhone maker has now made the entire iPad keynote available as a downloadable video podcast on iTunes...