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The biggest thing I have been missing from my iPod since moving to an Android phone is the ability to listen to podcasts at double speed. For podcasts I am using an application called Listen , from Google Labs, but it does not have a speed option, the way iPod does. I found a website this morning called PodShifter .  What this lets you do is paste the RSS feed of the podcasts you want into a textbox, and choose a speed (from 0.6x to 3.0x).  It gives you another feed, which can then be added to Google Reader 's Listen Subscription folder, and now I have all my podcasts at double speed.

I am trying to let go of Apple. I don't mean completely, my main home computer is a MacBook, and I don't want to, not do I need to get a new computer for home. The main problem is with the two applications I use most on the Mac are just starting to annoy me. The first is iPhoto.  I don't use it every day, but it doesn't seem to be going anywhere.  I think Google Picasa is just as good, and some things that I might even prefer about it (firstly it is cross platform).  iPhoto hasn't been updated since early 2009, and if a new version of iLife came out if would have to have some super features I can't even think of to make me want to upgrade, and it probably wouldn't be long for Google to catch up anyway. The next application is iTunes. It has actually always been a program I have liked, but it really does seem to just be getting slower every time it is updated. I have also realized that iTunes is music prison.  Once you are in, it is very difficult to get o...