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Re: [Swprograms] Listening To Internet
- Subject: Re: [Swprograms] Listening To Internet
- From: Richard Cuff <rdcuff@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 12:19:13 -0400
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Good comments!
As someone a few years your junior, Will, I generally *am* doing
something else while listening -- either washing dishes, doing e-mail,
paying bills, writing a grocery list, or driving. I confess that I
don't follow John Figliozzi's sage advice of listening in a quiet,
distraction-free environment.
I listen 3 different ways.
1. I have a little $30 wireless FM transmitter that I plug into the
speaker jack on my laptop; I then listen to an FM radio in the kitchen
or on my Walkman. Works if I am doing something around the house.
2. If I am at my desk, I simply listen on the PC's speakers.
3. Most of the time I plug in a cassette recorder and patch cord to
the speaker jack on the laptop, and save the audio onto cassette. I
then listen to the cassette in the car while I'm driving, or in a
Walkman on those rare days when I exercize.
Notice that "podcast" doesn't appear on this list...although that's a
variation of #3, except you are directly downloading a digital file to
a portable player.
Why didn't Kerbango succeed at the time? Two guesses: 1) It was too
expensive for the value delivered; 2) the user interface didn't work
well. As you know there isn't a "frequency display" for a webcast.
Nowadays, with WiFI-based home Internet networks, along with these
citywide WiFi initiatives like in Philadelphia, this makes the
portability issue largely vaporize. You move the computer -- or
whatever Internet access device you imagine -- to where you are.
Hope this helps...
Richard Cuff / Allentown, PA USA
On 7/27/05, William Martin <wgmartin@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Some of you know that I don't have a computer; I get on-line either
> at a local library, or, mainly these days, on my next-door neighbors'
> system.
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