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Saturday, August 16, 2008

How icons are born



Felix Sockwell walks through the creation of the custom icons he designed for the just-out New York Times iPhone App.

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Thursday, June 12, 2008

Thursday Top 5



Sublime surf art by Wolfgang Bloch
www.surfline.com/surfnews/
[via Jason]

Superhero Fashion Emergency
Yep, pretty gay.



Jyoti, the smallest girl in the world
She stands just 1ft 11in tall and the average two-year-old would tower over her. But Jyoti Amge is 14 years old.
www.sundaymirror.co.uk/news/sunday/2008/04/06/

iPhone TV ad spoofs
www.illicitphone.com

The Big Picture
The Boston Globe's website, Boston.com, has started a new photoblog with amazing, large-size news photos from around the world. So much better than the tiny front-page photos you see on most news sites.
www.boston.com/bigpicture

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Thursday, February 14, 2008

Thursday Top 5

Mural Mosaic
Interesting large murals made by putting together squares painted by numerous artists.
www.muralmosaic.com



Fake Ben Folds
The piano man teams up with Improv Everywhere to pull some fast ones on his fans.
www.improveverywhere.com

20 Things You Didn’t Know About Science Fiction
Proving how geeky the truly geeky can be.
discovermagazine.com

Philip K. Dick wrote a young adult novel?
papercuts.blogs.nytimes.com

iPhone's magic apps
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcB8CKa73B0

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Tuesday, May 25, 2004

Air America Radio on iTunes and iPhone

October 2008 update: A reader called Mr tells us about FStream (free download), which allows you to listen to Air America on your iPhone (he says you need to update your firmware if you’re using a first generation iPhone). Here’s an FStream review/how-to at Mac360.

May 2008 update: A reader alerted me today in the comments below that Air America is no longer listed in iTunes (I confirmed this by looking myself — I have no idea why it's gone). However, the link to the stream, described in the March 2007 update below, still works.

March 2007 update: Air America has changed the location of their stream, and now if you click on it in iTunes, you'll probably get a "loading" bar forever, like I did.

Per Alan's comment at the end of this thread, you can solve this by selecting "Advanced > Open Stream..." in iTunes and paste this URL into the dialog box: http://aarlive.voxcdn.com/live.m3u (see screenshots below).

You can also just download the .m3u (right-click and save as...) and open it in iTunes.





October 2006 update: Air America is available in iTunes under "Radio > Talk/Spoken Word". In iTunes 7x it'll look like this picture. See Rob's comments at the end of this thread for more info. (Thanks Rob!)



March 2006 update: It appears that the WKIZ playlist file is no longer viable. Air America is apparently now charging for their podcasts (info here, tutorial here), and I haven't been able to find an iTunes stream anymore. There are, however, various radio stations listed on this page where you can still listen to free streams using Windows Media Player or RealPlayer.

Original post: Thanks to bitter-girl (hey Velms, and she has a knitting blog [!] ), I learned that WKIZ radio in Key West, FL, has an iTunes feed of Air America Radio. Finally, I don't have to listen on RealPlayer anymore!

So, to use it, download this .pls file (.pls = playlist), then drag and drop its icon onto your iTunes, and voila, you're listening to the radio.

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