My initial verdict of the radioShark was great looks, shame about the sound. You can even add files to the list, including MP3s and AACs (non-DRM), if you care to. The same window provides a second pane, which lists and allows you to play recordings you've made, but you can play the files back in any other audio app if you wish. You can line up a whole series of scheduled recordings, and the software is smart enough to check through the list and warn you of timing clashes. Regular programming is catered for with hourly, daily or weekly repeat-recording options. Pick start and end times, on the same or different days, select your station and recording format, and you're away. Windows users' recordings are saved as WAV files. You can buffer as much programming as you wish - it all depends on how much free hard drive space you have - and record to uncompressed AIFF or iTunes-friendly compressed AAC formats. The unit has its own earphone socket and, best of all, it's bus-powered, so you only need one cable. There's a rubber pad on the base, for instance, so it doesn't slide around or fall over. The look may be iPod-inspired, but Griffin hasn't shown any less attention to detail. Each side sports a cool-blue backlit wave design. Said fin is stylishly cast in shiny (great?) white iMac/iPod-friendly plastic, mounted on a shiny chrome base. Oh, and 'radioShark' sounds a bit like 'radioShack', geddit?!? You've got to sculpt a casing one way or another, and the curvy, 18cm high, 1.5cm thick fin is a darn sight more interesting to look at than an oblong box. The 'radio' part of the name gives away the device's function. Its iTrip - a beautifully designed, AA battery-sized FM radio transmitter - has become one of the key accessories every iPod user should own.īut Griffin hasn't ignored the Mac - or, now the iPod is cross-platform, Windows machines - and radioShark sees the company bringing its new-found design savvy and product nous to the desktop. He said he plans to file a motion asking a judge to dismiss the lawsuit." More.Reg review Griffin Technology has been offering a nice line in Mac accessories for over ten years now, but it's only in the iPod era that its add-ons have become seriously cool. "Terry Gross, of the San Francisco-based firm Gross and Belsky, said in an interview that Ciarelli and his Web site used proper newsgathering techniques and deserve First Amendment protection. Think Secret retains pro bono lawyer The Associated Press reports that a lawyer specializing in freedom of speech and the Internet said Wednesday he will defend free of charge Nicholas Ciarelli, publisher of the site Think Secret and a Harvard University student. He has a regular audience of about 50 people who download his ''definitely not polished" spoken musings about life, personal electronics, and even the importance of getting your brakes checked - a ''podcast" he made and instantly posted from his cellphone while sitting outside the Sears repair shop one day recently." More. Carey is not just a daily consumer of podcasted talk shows about technology and politics but a fledgling podcaster himself. "(Richie) Carey, a 38-year-old website developer and marketing consultant from Sandwich, is among an early wave of fans for a new broadcast medium dubbed 'podcasting' - audio content that listeners download from websites to iPods or similar digital music player devices. Computer, microphone, iPod make broadcasting personal A Boston Globe article profiles one avid member of the podcasting community.
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