Category Archives: About the Guide

Making this web site “Mobile Friendly”

This project is about 5 years overdue – but since all my time was being burned keeping track of 240 Rush Limbaugh affiliates, it never got done. The first step is to accurately detect if you’re using a “mobile” device … Continue reading →

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The danger of “free”

Everyone has accepted the notion that everything on the Internet is “free”. Nothing in life is free – it’s just the costs are hidden in different ways. This blog software (WordPress) is “free”. It leaks information to third parties on … Continue reading →

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Website challenge of the day

This “looking at web sites and tell me what the format it is” can be much harder than you think. There are no “Trophies” for wrong answers. See if you can identify the format of this web site only by … Continue reading →

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Well that didn’t take long – Changing Music Station formats

I really really asked nicely that people not change closely related music formats without really strong evidence. Radio DJs live to have these arguments, and I want no part of it.. I guess the point here is I can’t rely … Continue reading →

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Understanding Website Aliases

It is very common for a website to have more than one name. Deciding what to do can be tricky, and there may be no “correct” answer Let’s say a station has 2 names a.com and b.com. When you go … Continue reading →

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Helping Out

You may have noticed a lot of change here in the past month, including the requirement that you be a registered user to view the website. I think the message is clear that if I don’t get a lot of … Continue reading →

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Reworking website navigation

Streaming Radio Guide’s roots go back to about 1999 when I started creating FindAnISP.com – much of the “guts” of the web site is still based on that code. When I decided in 2004 to split the gathering of streaming … Continue reading →

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Password reset

Part of what I’ve been doing recently is to substantially strengthen the password protection on user accounts. Because I do not store your original password and cannot reverse engineer it, I had to reset all user passwords. What this means … Continue reading →

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Do you have native IPv6 connectivity?

Since you are either brave or foolish enough to have found the new server, I’m in need of someone who understands IPv6 and has native IPv6 connectivity. If you don’t understand what that means without asking Google, I’m not looking … Continue reading →

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Random thoughts

I’m pondering if there is a way to create a voting system as motivation to get people to pull the wagon instead of me. You may be familiar with social sites that work based on group consensus of what is … Continue reading →

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