Posted on July 27, 2008, 8:11 pm, by Andrew, under
Internet.
My posting a week or so ago about the threat to XM and Sirius has been picked up, echo’d a bit, and expanded upon in a few articles this week. First was Doc Searls who wrote about it in his Linux Journal Blog Then he had another piece that cited a CBS News guru who [...]
Posted on July 26, 2008, 9:08 pm, by Andrew, under
Internet.
Well it’s been a week and I’ve been playing with nearly every iphone radio application I can get my hands on. I thought I’d take a moment and write down a few thoughts on what is out there. AOL Radio This is one of the top free downloads for the iPhone nearly every week. It [...]
Posted on July 25, 2008, 4:24 pm, by Andrew, under
Internet.
p>Yea, I don’t know how to do it yet either… BBC Radio has about 80 different channels of content, from the big dozen or so national feeds to zillions of local feeds across the UK. Unfortunately, the BBC is tied up heavily with Real Audio and has recently done (a heavily criticized) deal with Windows [...]
Posted on July 21, 2008, 12:43 pm, by Andrew, under
Internet.
Because it was free. I mean basically, that’s it. My old iPhone is making its way on Ebay right now and the current prices they are fetching are incredibly similar to the price of buying a new iPhone (which I did earlier today). I’m not one to rush and get the newest of the new [...]
Posted on July 15, 2008, 7:35 am, by Andrew, under
Uncategorized.
My iPhone screen is getting filled up pretty quickly with all the cool new applications. At the moment I have: Tuner (my favorite radio app but still lacking a few features) VisuaRadio/Allradio (no search makes it difficult to use) AOL Radio (best radio interface) Last.fm (need to add more content to my last.fm profile) Virgin [...]
Posted on July 14, 2008, 6:02 pm, by Andrew, under
Internet.
Now that you have your new iPhone and you want to start writing applications, you’ll probably find one of the dozen or so ‘how to’ videos from Apple a great place to start. Unfortunately, while they updated the SDK and the Xcode application, they forgot to upgrade the tutorials. So I, like a bunch of [...]
Posted on July 11, 2008, 4:20 pm, by Andrew, under
Internet.
It’s over. I’ve just spent about 30 minutes in my car and the very thought of buying XM or Sirius satellite radio has been purged from my mind forever. Internet radio on your iPhone will doom XM and Sirius. It will get to the point that the only saving grace they will have is the [...]