I’m delighted to announce that Mike Halsey, that’s me writing about myself in the third-person again, will be making a return appearance on the ComputerAmerica radio show this coming Friday (11th February 2011). I’ll be on the show for the full two hours again discussing various topics around Windows 7 and Windows Phone. There will [...]

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For those in the US (or insomniacs in Europe) gHacks editor Mike Halsey will be the guest on the Computer America radio show tonight for a whole two hours.  The show has been running for 19 years and is the #1 daily tech podcast according to the New York Times. The show will be broadcast [...]

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Mike Halsey will be appearing on Craig Crossman’s Computer America radio show on Friday 19th November 2010.  The show has been running for 19 years and is the #1 daily podcast in the US according to the New York Times. Mike will be talking about his new book “Troubleshooting Windows 7 Inside Out” from Microsoft Press, [...]

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gHacks editor Mike Halsey will be appearing on BBC Radio Sheffield tomorrow (Thursday 26th Aug 2010) at 11:30am in the UK (06:30 est, 03:30 pst, 12:30 Europe, 20:30 Aus) talking about his work in ICT and how it led to writing two books about Windows 7 including his forthcoming Troubleshooting Windows 7 Inside Out which [...]

Categories: ghacks, Microsoft

Shoutcast is a popular music radio directory owned by AOL. It offers an efficient way to find radio stations based on genre and other parameters such as bitrate or compression. Shoutcast made the news recently when it was removed by the developers of the popular media player VLC from their application. You can read up [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

If you think radio you either think of the good old fashioned radio or Internet radio, both with little to no interaction and user contributions. Jelli tries to change that by offering Internet radio stations that are run by its users. It basically works by allowing users to vote for songs with the most voted [...]

Categories: Music and Video, The Web

Internet radio has become very popular lately with thousands of radio stations at the user’s disposal at all time. Most music players are capable of playing Internet Radio without installation of add-ons; All that is needed to start listening to Internet radio is the url of the radio station. Radiosure is a radio music player [...]

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Web services like Last.fm are hard pressed to find ways to monetize their inventory to even come close to the bills for the server structure, administrative and development teams, bandwidth and everything else that is connected to their service.This is especially true for services that stream contents on their websites as this usually results in [...]

Categories: Online Services, The Web

Regular readers already know that I recently switched from using XMPlay to AIMP2 which provides the better total package. One of the interesting functions of AIMP2 is to record Internet radio (yes XMPlay can do that as well). It took a while to find out how this function could be enabled in the player and [...]

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