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Serious lovin for iPhone at FlyTunes NOW 480 RADIO CHANNELS!
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4phun - 20 Apr 2008 03:07 GMT FlyTunes adds AccuRadio in the mix; Goes from 160 channels to almost 500! Today, April 19, 2008, 16 hours ago | dusanb Just as we reported that FlyTunes has added more than 100 new channels to its offering, they've announced a partnership with AccuRadio.com that will bring all 320+ channels of AccuRadio to iPhones and iPod Touch models.
AccuRadio, with nearly a half-million listeners per month, is among the top Internet radio broadcasters in the world. AccuRadio's channels cover a sweeping range of musical interests, including rock, pop, jazz, country, classical music, and Broadway. AccuRadio founder and CEO Kurt Hanson is also the publisher of the aforementioned "RAIN: Radio And Internet Newsletter", and, as such, is one of the most prominent voices in the webcaster community.
FlyTunes CEO Sam Abadir commented: "Today's announcement that AccuRadio is bringing over 320 stations to millions of iPhone and iPod Touch owners proves that mobile Internet radio is now ready for prime time — and I expect terrestrial broadcasters to follow this trend shortly."
Full release is available on PRNewswire http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=109&STORY=/www/story/04-14-200 8/0004792137&EDATE=
Larry - 20 Apr 2008 04:35 GMT 4phun <vic.healey@gmail.com> wrote in news:fda333dd-925c-4f64-bf5a- ad79c0aaa5ab@e39g2000hsf.googlegroups.com:
> FlyTunes CEO Sam Abadir commented: "Today's announcement that > AccuRadio is bringing over 320 stations to millions of iPhone and iPod > Touch owners proves that mobile Internet radio is now ready for prime > time - and I expect terrestrial broadcasters to follow this trend > shortly." Ol' Sam needs to hang up the phone with his rabbi and get on the net.
There's: Statistics
* Total streams: 1579 * Ogg Vorbis: 301 * MP3: 1137 on Icecast at: http://dir.xiph.org/index.php of every kind of music imaginable across the open source planet, tonight. There's even free software to make it easy to browse through, assuming you have a real computer.
Shoutcast has even more as I type this:
Current Statistics: Listeners - 210,797 Servers - 22,561 4,050,048,089 served All Natural No Preservatives 98% FAT FREE!
Can 210,000 listeners be wrong?? One of those is me!
Doesn't the iPhone play streaming MP3? I thought it did.
Why is it every time I see something for the iPhone it has to have a "store" attached to it??
"Coming Soon - the “FlyTunes Best" store FlyTunes is a different kind of radio service, so we're preparing a different kind of online store for you to enjoy. The “FlyTunes Best” store will carry only one item in each category, and that will be the item we've chosen as the “Best” after personally beating up, testing and comparing with competing products.
Because we’re creating a store for people on the go, we won’t waste your time with pages and pages of the same products – We’ll only be carrying products that matter for you, our listener. The store will be available on the FlyTunes mobile site your iPhone or Touch as well."
An online store for me to "ENJOY"? "Enjoy" what, handing over money for internet radio everyone else gets for free?? What a "JOY" that must be!
You must be "Thrilled"!
http://maemo.org/downloads/product/OS2008/streamtuner/
http://www.nongnu.org/streamtuner/
Ever been to Seymour, Texas? http://www.radioksey.com/ To hear good cowboy music, you gotta go where there's COWBOYS!
YEEEEEE HAAAAA!
Kevin Weaver - 20 Apr 2008 17:06 GMT > 4phun <vic.healey@gmail.com> wrote in news:fda333dd-925c-4f64-bf5a- > ad79c0aaa5ab@e39g2000hsf.googlegroups.com: [quoted text clipped - 62 lines] > > YEEEEEE HAAAAA! I used a friend iPhone to check this out. Dam iPhone will not remember your login. PITA..... That must be the more lovin part. That and it sounds like crap thru the built in speaker.
Larry - 21 Apr 2008 00:12 GMT > I used a friend iPhone to check this out. Dam iPhone will not remember > your login. > PITA..... That must be the more lovin part. That and it sounds like > crap thru the built in speaker. http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/products/Gadgets_Internet_Devices/produc tdetail.aspx?c=us&l=en&cs=19&sku=A0973567
Nokia N800 Linux tablets.....BELOW $200!.....From Dell?????
DTC - 21 Apr 2008 03:00 GMT > http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/products/Gadgets_Internet_Devices/produc > tdetail.aspx?c=us&l=en&cs=19&sku=A0973567 > > Nokia N800 Linux tablets.....BELOW $200!.....From Dell????? http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/products/Gadgets_Internet_Devices/productdeta il.aspx?c=us&l=en&cs=19&sku=A0973567
http://tinyurl.com/5u6drf
Temporarily Out Of Stock. Please call sales number at the top of this page for assistance.
Larry - 21 Apr 2008 05:06 GMT http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/products/Gadgets_Internet_Devices/p
>> roduc tdetail.aspx?c=us&l=en&cs=19&sku=A0973567 >> [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > Temporarily Out Of Stock. Please call sales number at the top of this > page for assistance. Oops...sorry. I pulled some tricks to get mine cheaper:
http://www.buy.com/prod/nokia-n800-internet- tablet/q/loc/101/204055141.html Go here. Click on the Buy.com VISA card app and get a $30 credit = $198.99
Then, if you haven't done Google Checkout yet, get another $10 off by checking out through Google Checkout for more data mining...it's painless.
Price $188.99.
Getting the Buy.com CHASE VISA puts you on the Chase Inundating Preapproved Credit Card Mailing List....ad nauseum.... Your first pre-approved Chase card app is the BUSINESS Chase card which gives you 3% back for fuel, computers, office supplies, and lots of other stuff. Not listed stuff gives you 1% back. So, cut up your Buy.com VISA and send it in with your first Chase Business VISA payment in a couple of months.
I kept getting MORE Chase Business card pre-approvals. I stacked them up for a while, got pissed at their stupidity, so fill them all out and mailed them separately all at once. Now, I have 8 Chase VISA cards with 3% cashback, free airline insurance, no fees at all and the last one that came in, #8, my credit approval had increased from $12K to $36K, still short of my $95K credit limit on Bank America's VISA, but I'm gaining. The business card has a great interest rate, as business cards go, but that means nothing to me as I simply pay off the balance, having used Chase's money free for >30 days from when I bought the item until the check clears. Works great, no fees at all. Rotate the cards every month so you only get one bill and keep all of them active.....(c; Someone must have noticed because after I got my 8th card, the stupid mass mailings stopped coming in for more.
So, I got a great little computer for $188, 8 Chase VISA cards with no fees and 3% cash back on most purchases with good credit limits that look good on your credit report because they think you're rich. What could be better, iPhone?? How silly....(c;
Meet me at the airport. We'll use one of 'em and be in Hawaii for lunch on Wednesday!
If some doctor said I had 3 weeks to live, I'd already be on the first plane to ANYWHERE, sitting in FIRST CLASS....I wanna die $5M in debt!
Todd Allcock - 20 Apr 2008 16:23 GMT > FlyTunes adds AccuRadio in the mix; Goes from 160 channels to almost > 500! That'll make us non-iPhone users jealous...
...until we play those streams directly from here: http://www.accuradio.com/mobile/
> CEO Kurt Hanson is also the publisher of the aforementioned "RAIN: > Radio And Internet Newsletter", and, as such, is one of the most > prominent voices in the webcaster community. I hear he's the Fring of webcasting... ;-)
> FlyTunes CEO Sam Abadir commented: "Today's announcement that > AccuRadio is bringing over 320 stations to millions of iPhone and iPod > Touch owners proves that mobile Internet radio is now ready for prime > time and I expect terrestrial broadcasters to follow this trend > shortly." Actually thousands of terrestrial broadcasters are already streaming to smartphones and MP3 phones. A handy compilation of broadcasters from the US,
Canada, Australia, the UK, Ireland, and the Netherlands are conveniently located here: http://tuned.mobi
Larry - 21 Apr 2008 00:14 GMT Todd Allcock <elecconnec@AmericaOnLine.com> wrote in news:fufnbi$jqj$1 @aioe.org:
> That'll make us non-iPhone users jealous... > > ...until we play those streams directly from here: > http://www.accuradio.com/mobile/ Now, now....be nice, Todd.....
http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/products/Gadgets_Internet_Devices/produc tdetail.aspx?c=us&l=en&cs=19&sku=A0973567 N800's UNDER $200 from Dell! Way cool....(c;
Todd Allcock - 21 Apr 2008 02:05 GMT > Now, now....be nice, Todd..... > > http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/products/Gadgets_Internet_Devices/produc > tdetail.aspx?c=us&l=en&cs=19&sku=A0973567 > N800's UNDER $200 from Dell! Way cool....(c; I hope you get a commission- they're sold out! ;-)
Larry - 21 Apr 2008 04:34 GMT >> Now, now....be nice, Todd..... http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/products/Gadgets_Internet_Devices/p
>> roduc tdetail.aspx?c=us&l=en&cs=19&sku=A0973567 >> N800's UNDER $200 from Dell! Way cool....(c; > > I hope you get a commission- they're sold out! ;-) Thanks for the info. Some friends here wanted one. Hope Dell gets some more to sell at this price point.
I paid $198 for mine after accepting a branded Chase credit card for a $50 discount when I got mine. Google Checkout also had a deal, too.
It's still a great price for a great little computer.
Today, the maemo hackers posted a new FLAC audio codec for us, which works great! I can now play all my FLAC audio on the tablet, and with two 16GB SDHC cards have plenty of room to store FLAC-encoded music.
This has been a great week on the tablet. I downloaded the new "Minefield" and "Fennec" alpha versions of Firefox 3 browser, which benchmark tests show runs Javascript tests 5.9X as fast as the default mozilla browser that comes on OS2008, the upgraded N810 Maemo Linux I switched to with the PC-based system blaster. I'm watching BBC News on Firefox 3 as I'm typing this on the PC. There are still many issues like the switching from normal to full screen that need some more polishing and debugging, but, hey, it's alpha software and we're all part of the reporting system at Mozilla to make it what the users want.
The Firefox 3 port is made for the N810 with the slideout keyboard. It, so far but I think that will change, doesn't support popping up the stylus keyboard on the N800, but that doesn't really matter because it works great with the Bluetooth external folding keyboard I carry around for text entry, anyways. I type URLs much better on real keys...(c;
I've been playing wtih a cracked iPhone that belongs to a guy that works at Circuit City and we've been comparing notes. Crayon Physics is a game he has on his iPhone and someone ported it to the Maemo OS as Numpty Physics. They run almost the same on both, but the double resolution of the N800 and the accuracy of the stylus touchscreen runs all over the iPhone version as I can draw fine lines under objects I want to lever up much more accurately. The tablet not involved in running simultaneous phone software is much smoother on games, too.
I'm still exploring all the stuff I can do with the new USB Control app. So far, I've run my USB hard drives, HP printer, my Staples USB hub, etc. in Host mode. I can now connect to non-Bluetooth printers.
Hope you find an under $200 tablet soon enough. Do you know anything about how to program TI programmable scientific calculators? TIEMU for the tablet supports TI calc models V200PLT, TI89t, TI89 and TI92+. These are .img files that run under Flash 9 from memory and I think after I learn now to program the calc language I can use them for navigation. The thing does calculus and graphing on its virtual screen.
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Cloud Burst - 21 Apr 2008 01:50 GMT >FlyTunes adds AccuRadio in the mix; Goes from 160 channels to almost >500! [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] >Full release is available on PRNewswire >http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=109&STORY=/www/story/04-14-200 8/0004792137&EDATE= One thing I noticed about Flytunes -- it's not live streaming. It's somehow packaged and replayed when you start playing. I could tell this because I was listening to talk radio. I lost connection and when I reconnected it started over from the beginning.
This seems like a waste of server and/or bandwidth resources. Just streaming live would require a single broadcast. But restarting the broadcast requires more.
Unless this is just somehow a byproduct of the way the iPhone works.
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