{"id":7960,"date":"2013-09-24T16:49:48","date_gmt":"2013-09-24T21:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=7960"},"modified":"2013-10-19T12:56:14","modified_gmt":"2013-10-19T17:56:14","slug":"naming-overcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/24\/naming-overcast\/","title":{"rendered":"Naming Overcast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marco.org\/2013\/09\/24\/naming-overcast\">Marco Arment<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.marco.org\/2013\/09\/24\/naming-overcast\"><p>I brainstormed many potential names in a giant text file over a couple of weeks, enlisting help from friends, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.degraeve.com\/invent-a-word\/index.php\">Invent-a-Word<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/wordoid.com\/\">Wordoid<\/a>, and lists of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/English_prefixes\">English prefixes<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_English_prepositions\">prepositions<\/a>. Even if I knew a name was bad or unusable immediately, I still wrote it down in case it could later inspire a usable variation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I like the name. I&rsquo;ll be interested to see the app.<\/p>\n<p>In iOS 7, the Music app no longer plays podcasts, and I&rsquo;m still not that fond of the Podcasts app. So I will be giving <a href=\"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/20\/podcasts-in-ios-6\/\">third-party podcast apps<\/a> another try. Unfortunately, since some of the episodes are only stored on my Mac, it&rsquo;s not as easy to (fully) switch between them as with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marco.org\/2013\/09\/23\/overcast-coming-soon\">Twitter clients and weather apps<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The other issue is that I like to use iTunes to maintain a local archive, offloading played episodes to another hard drive. I don&rsquo;t see a good way to sync the played status with other apps.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marco Arment: I brainstormed many potential names in a giant text file over a couple of weeks, enlisting help from friends, Invent-a-Word, Wordoid, and lists of English prefixes and prepositions. Even if I knew a name was bad or unusable immediately, I still wrote it down in case it could later inspire a usable variation. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,469,26,647,112],"class_list":["post-7960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-ios","tag-ios7","tag-iosapp","tag-overcast","tag-podcasts"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8047,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7960\/revisions\/8047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}