Category Archives: About the Guide

Closer to the final product

It’s basically working now – there is no page waiting to actually show you the station (that’s a few minutes of work) – but you can see how it modifies the list as you type, and it’s pretty darn responsive … Continue reading →

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Playing with AJAX

While y’all are busy updating the station data :), I’m building new web skills for my resume now that I have lots of free time since y’all are going to do a lot of the data work. 🙂 A long … Continue reading →

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Volunteering Update

I’m continuing to streamline the process and trying not to break too much The Needs Review page now has filters by State and Genre/Format. The default is still to show stations where the software already flagged the station as needing … Continue reading →

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Cleaned up Station Editor

Moss doesn’t grow under my feet when I’m motivated. This screen will look somewhat familiar to WesternMA, but probably not anyone else who still reads the blog. This screen should now be functional – while I generally dislike Frames, it … Continue reading →

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Revisting the volunteer concept

Most of you know that I abandoned trying to maintain player links a few months ago, due to the end of Windows XP support, the shift toward mobile listening with dedicated apps and the general notion of getting away from … Continue reading →

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Something broke!

The “what’s on now” and stats look broken. “Unknown” is suddenly very popular.

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Favorites

It’s a challenge to maintain a format that doesn’t totally confuse new users (especially a blind user with a text to speech device) and at the same time satisfy “power users”. The former is really the target audience – this … Continue reading →

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Repaired Station List by State

http://streamingradioguide.com/radio-station-list-by-state.php Available from the main page – a long time user of the web site pointed out (correctly) that I seriously broke that page, and it has never really worked totally correctly. I broke it when I added the ability … Continue reading →

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T-Mobile announces Music Freedom

T-mobile is coming after AT&T and Verizon. They’ve announced that streaming of music to your T-Mobile cell phone will not count against your cell data limits. This includes a number of popular services including iHeartRadio, Pandora, Spotify, iTunes… http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/06/t-mobile-broadens-uncarrier-ness-with-unlimited-music-iphone-test-drives/ T-Mobile … Continue reading →

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Have you got the time?

I might have written about this before – not sure 🙂 At some point, I was having issues with Windows XP not keeping its time synced. Keeping all of the computers on the Internet agreeing on the precise time is … Continue reading →

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