January 5, 2012
Make listening to NPR online more like listening to the radio. Open one website then start listening to public radio news stories. Skip stories you don’t like or give them a thumbs up or down rating. Over time, the stories you hear better match your interests. Basically, NPR’s new Infinite Player is Pandora for news.
January 4, 2012
Do you listen to podcasts? You should. Not only are they a great way to keep up with the news, they can also be incredibly entertaining and enlightening. Even better, it’s the ultimate multitasking medium. I no longer mind cleaning around the house, for example, because it gives me time to listen to amazing things.
December 22, 2011
Apple’s popular home music production suite GarageBand has been iOS-friendly on the iPad for a while now, and thanks to last month’s update iPhone and iPod Touch users can finally jam along too. This article is for anyone who has never used GarageBand before, and is not sure what to expect. It’s also for anyone still considering whether the app is worth the token $5 Apple are asking (hint: it is).
December 21, 2011
There are a lot of really weird things that you can accomplish when you start combining different technologies that exist today. Today, you’ve got email, text messaging, RSS feeds, chat rooms, and countless other text-based methods to communicate. There are so many ways to communicate information to each other, that sometimes it’s easy to forget all of the methods we’ve used in the past to communicate.
December 14, 2011
Looking for the best way to manage and sync your favorite podcasts on Linux? Stop looking. With a simple user interface, built-in syncing to iPod, MTP and file-system based devices, and an online service for managing your collection away from your computer, gPodder isn’t just the best podcast client for Linux: it’s among the best podcast clients out there full stop.
November 5, 2011
Let your computer do the talking. Install eSpeak and you can make your computer say anything, in a wide variety of languages. Looking for a lightweight text to speech program? Whether you want to listen to your favorite blog while doing the dishes, or just make your computer say naughty words to your friends so you can giggle like schoolchildren, eSpeak is a great tool for the job.
November 4, 2011
Is radio listening back in vogue? I think it has been for quite some time. One only needs to follow the trail of advertisers, or for us who live in the online world – the number of internet radio stations that are crowding the ‘airwaves’. Perhaps, that explains my search for the next big thing in internet radio. Perhaps that also explains why I am going to talk about a new one called TuneIn here.
September 5, 2011
When I listened to podcasts in my browser I would always go to the website hosting the podcast and play it from there. This was a major pain, but no longer. Podcast Player Pro is a convenient app available from the Google App Store that rescued me from having to seek podcasts the hard way.
August 25, 2011
Podcasts are great entertainment while on the go, be it running across town for exercising or driving across town for work. That makes an Android smartphone an excellent place to store and play them, since your phone will always be with you. There is just one problem. Android’s audio player isn’t great for organizing multiple [...]
August 23, 2011
As other manly men know, it can be a difficult lifestyle. Chopping down trees with your bare hands sounds awesome, but after doing it for an hour or two it can become a bit dull. That goes double if there are no bears to wrestle nearby. Podcasts have always been a great way to reduce tedium, but a real manly man can’t listen to just any podcast.
