Monthly Archives: June 2011

Coming in January – www.kdka.radio

Posted on June 20, 2011 by Fred Stiening

ICANN just officially approved the creation of new generic Top Level Domains. If you have $165,000 for the application and can run your own domain registration, you can be in business. Instead of just .com, .org, .gov or country codes, … Continue reading →

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Iraq accuses US of “losing” $20 billion in Iraqi assets

Posted on June 20, 2011 by Fred Stiening

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2011/06/201161962910765678.html The claim is that the money taken from Iraq and set aside to rebuild Iraq after we “liberated” Iraq. There is no documentation of where all that cash went.

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The Death of StreamingRadioGuide

Posted on June 19, 2011 by Fred Stiening

If you’re curious how the events of April 15th( and Easter) affected the web site:

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Upcoming events

Posted on June 18, 2011 by Fred Stiening

Monday is uVerse install day. Since this is not a brand new product for AT&T , I hope it goes smoothly, but prepare for it to not go smoothly. My web hosting company agreed to cut the price in half … Continue reading →

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NATO to “free” Libya – where are your manpad?

Posted on June 17, 2011 by Fred Stiening

The manpad is a highly lethal Russian made shoulder launched surface to air missile – useful for shooting down planes and helicopters. Before NATO decided to protect their brothers in Benghazi, LIBYA had an estimated 20,000 of these things. Most … Continue reading →

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Introducing “Hide All Players of this Type”

Posted on June 17, 2011 by Fred Stiening

Bow before the new mighty icon So you don’t ever want to see a Clear Channel Player?   uStream?  Flash? Wherever you see that icon, you can make every station using that player vanish with one click (if you have an account … Continue reading →

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Meeting of two crazy people

Posted on June 16, 2011 by Fred Stiening

Russian civilization may have many failings, but it always worth remembering that the national sport of Russia is playing chess. Last weekend, Myanmar Qaddafi invited the head of the World Chess Federation to come from Russia to Tripoli to play … Continue reading →

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SecureNet w/no video ad – ~200 kb

Posted on June 16, 2011 by Fred Stiening

List of examples: http://streamingradioguide.com/adm/player-type.php?playerid=9&action=listall What it does: Loads up about 40k of Javascript and 40k of graphics (a Flash app would download all of that in one file) If you don’t have a cookie for the station, it pesters you … Continue reading →

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StreamTheWorld LivePlayer – 1.6 MB

Posted on June 16, 2011 by Fred Stiening

http://streamingradioguide.com/adm/player-type.php?playerid=24&action=listall Liveplayer is the Targetspot version of the basic STW player. What it does: Downloads a 219k “General Ad Server” Flash App Says “Hi” to Google Analytics Gets configuration info via XML loads the player Flash App (144k) downloads a … Continue reading →

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Player Bloat – Cox Radio – 6 MB

Posted on June 16, 2011 by Fred Stiening

http://streaming.y100fm.com/_players/coxradio/index.php?callsign=KCYYFM&referringsite=johngalt.streamingradioguide.com Cox Radio is doing their own thing.   They used to use StreamAudio, now they are using StreamTheWorld for the actual stream – but not using the lean mean STW player, but instead the TargetSpot streaming ad insertion with extra … Continue reading →

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