I’m a bit of an NPR junkie. By day, I usually listen to WNYC, NPR’s New York affiliate, which features mostly local programming like The Brian Lehrer Show (10am – 12pm), The Leonard Lopate Show (12pm – 2pm) and Soundcheck (3pm – 4pm). The rest of the programming day is left mostly to NPR programming like Fresh Air with Terry Gross and On The Media.
To make my addiction to public radio even more convenient, NPR has released an amazing iPhone app, which enables me to listen to broadcasts of NPR programming, read and share NPR News stories, hear the hourly news broadcasts and much more. Here is the feature list of the app:
Hear, read and share NPR News stories
Keep up with the news via our hourly five-minute newscasts
Listen live to your favorite NPR program wherever it’s on air, or listen to the most recent show on demand
Bookmark your NPR station(s)
Use audio controls to pause or skip forward in any story or program
Create a playlist of stories to hear in any order – right away or later on
Listen to audio while browsing text stories
Cache text and photos for viewing offline
All my favorite NPR programs are available for listening, like All Things Considered, Morning Edition, Car Talk (I don’t own a car, but these Boston brothers are hilarious), Fresh Air, Wait, Wait… Don’t Tell Me! and On The Media.
And the best part? The NPR iPhone app is FREE. Download it and enjoy.
As I sit here waiting for the M11 bus to take me to 42nd & 9th, I’m writing on the WordPress iPhone app for the first time. It’s amazing to me that I can post to my blog from my phone from anywhere where I can get a connection.
The WordPress iPhone app is a free download and had me connected to my blog admin within two minutes. Absolutely fantasic.
One of these photos I just took with the iPhone of the great little park at the intersection of Columbus and Broadway where I wait for the bus. (I’m sitting in one of the cafe chairs as I write and post this.)
The other picture is one of the reference photos I took a few weeks ago of The Coffee Shop for the design of their website.
This all seems quite banal, but I am still geeked as hell that I can post this (and a photo) in real time with the phone.
UNIQLO – the Japanese clothing design company – has the most delightful web installation I’ve ever seen. It is a real-time clock, called the UNIQLOCK, set to timed dancing to music. The music must always be 120 bpm (beats per minute) so the girls are timed as beautifully and perfectly as they are. I’ve been known to stare at this for a substantial chunk of minutes because it’s so damn entrancing.
Everytime you go to the UNIQLOCK, you may never hear the same music or see the same color palette twice, since it seems to rotate randomly. Simply beautiful. View Full Article »
Artist, bicyclist, eclecticist, musician, singer, producer, former Talking Heads frontman, and consummate New Yorker David Byrne also adds the titles of internet rado D.J. and Program Director to his extensive skill set. View Full Article »
CDs and AIFF files
The digital files on an audio CD (like the Streisand album you rushed out to get last week) are in an industry-standard digital format called aiff (audio interchange file format). The aiff is the leading digital audio format used by professional audio and video applications, and it is the purest, uncompressed format of digital audio, offering the best sound quality. View Full Article »
To make my addiction to public radio even more convenient, NPR has released an amazing iPhone app, which enables me to listen to broadcasts of NPR programming, read and share NPR News stories, hear the hourly news broadcasts and much more. Here is the feature list of the app:
UNIQLO – the Japanese clothing design company – has the most delightful web installation I’ve ever seen. It is a real-time clock, called the UNIQLOCK, set to timed dancing to music. The music must always be 120 bpm (beats per minute) so the girls are timed as beautifully and perfectly as they are. I’ve been known to stare at this for a substantial chunk of minutes because it’s so damn entrancing.