Archive for the ‘Software’ Category

To Satellite Radio or Not — Part 1: XM

Tuesday, December 9th, 2008

Not to totally knock satellite radio, but from what I've experienced so far, it is just not worth it. I recently signed up for a free XM trial online.  Limited to roughly 80 channels, the trial lasts only a few days and takes place entirely online where it seems all the ...

Songbird releases version 1.0

Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008

I've been using Songbird for some time now. It's basically an open source iTunes with Firefox built in.  Today they released version 1.0.  If you want to know more, check out their website or the TechCrunch post/review.  It is a fine piece of cross-platform software for music and audio ...

C-Span Embedded Player Error

Wednesday, September 24th, 2008

So I thought I'd check out C-Span and see what they are serving up today.  And lo and behold I had almost forgotten that you need the ever crappy Windows Media Player or the equally crappy Real Player to tune into one of several channels of their content. Ben Bernanke and ...