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From: Ben Shimmin on 22 Jun 2010 18:21 Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk>: > Ben Shimmin <bas(a)llamaselector.com> wrote: [...] >> I suppose it's pretty true though. Most of the people I know who are >> likely to care about their mobile phone will either have an iPhone >> (the majority, in fact) or an HTC Incredible (a few people of late). >> Admittedly a goodly number of the people I know have BlackBerries too, >> but this is unsurprising since my workplace gives them to anybody >> who's a manager, and pretty much everyone who has a BlackBerry only uses >> it for work email and free calls. (I think I've opened the web browser >> twice.) > > I know quite a few teenage and early 20s girls with blackberries as that > is what they wanted Fair point -- I think the BlackBerry Messenger thing is quite popular with that demographic. I have never used it, at least in part because the only people I know with BlackBerries would also, like me, never use it. b. -- <bas(a)bas.me.uk> <URL:http://bas.me.uk/> `Zombies are defined by behavior and can be "explained" by many handy shortcuts: the supernatural, radiation, a virus, space visitors, secret weapons, a Harvard education and so on.' -- Roger Ebert
From: zoara on 22 Jun 2010 18:57 Mark <captain.black(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, 22 Jun 2010 13:27:54 +0100, James Jolley wrote > (in article <88boiaFaklU1(a)mid.individual.net>): > >> I've been using that tune in app for many months. Used to use OOTunes > > >> but now prefer that because of the backgrounding. I'll post more on > > the >> accessibility improvements in iOS4 later on, but one of the nicer >> things that they managed to do was make VoiceOver lower any audio >> volume when it's speaking. This was always the case in the iPod app > > but >> now it's universal. >> > > Options -> Play in background? That starts the stream in Safari, which > you > can then close & use other apps. Or did you mean something else? That doesn't work in TuneIn for Radio 4 (there aren't any other radio stations, are there). Will ooTunes play live Radio 4 in the background? Or is it something that the BBC have done to stop that being possible? I notice live Radio 4 streaming has stopped working in iPlayer on the Squeezebox, possibly the same thing? -z- -- email: nettid1 at fastmail dot fm
From: Mark on 23 Jun 2010 05:18 On Tue, 22 Jun 2010 23:57:09 +0100, zoara wrote (in article <1954255897298926447.778757me18-privacy.net(a)news.individual.net>): > Mark <captain.black(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> On Tue, 22 Jun 2010 13:27:54 +0100, James Jolley wrote >> (in article <88boiaFaklU1(a)mid.individual.net>): >> >>> I've been using that tune in app for many months. Used to use OOTunes >>> >>> but now prefer that because of the backgrounding. I'll post more on >>> the >>> accessibility improvements in iOS4 later on, but one of the nicer >>> things that they managed to do was make VoiceOver lower any audio >>> volume when it's speaking. This was always the case in the iPod app >>> but >>> now it's universal. >>> >> >> Options -> Play in background? That starts the stream in Safari, which >> you >> can then close & use other apps. Or did you mean something else? > > That doesn't work in TuneIn for Radio 4 (there aren't any other radio > stations, are there). Will ooTunes play live Radio 4 in the background? > Or is it something that the BBC have done to stop that being possible? I > notice live Radio 4 streaming has stopped working in iPlayer on the > Squeezebox, possibly the same thing? > > -z- > Ah yes, you're right. Tried it with Internet Radio Box also (my preferred radio app), and that's the same. But it does tell you why; Safari will only play mp3 and AAC streams in the background, /not/ WMA - which is what Radio 4 is. It works with Backgrounder on a jailbroken iPhone here (but obviously not of any use on an iPad unless you jailbreak) Cheers ... Mark
From: zoara on 28 Jun 2010 08:21 Mark <captain.black(a)gmail.com> wrote: > BTW, my Tune In app has both Pause and Stop icons, and both seem to do > what > they're supposed to. Good grief - I completely missed the stop button. Absolutely blind to it, and I spent a good few minutes looking round the app and its settings for something that would do exactly that. Turns out Hannah spotted it, and had been using it. If only she'd told me before I posted... ;) -z- (who still can't get over how he missed something so obvious) -- email: nettid1 at fastmail dot fm
From: Mark on 28 Jun 2010 10:45
On Mon, 28 Jun 2010 13:21:51 +0100, zoara wrote (in article <729175531299417041.188707me18-privacy.net(a)news.individual.net>): > Mark <captain.black(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > >> BTW, my Tune In app has both Pause and Stop icons, and both seem to do >> what >> they're supposed to. > > Good grief - I completely missed the stop button. Absolutely blind to > it, and I spent a good few minutes looking round the app and its > settings for something that would do exactly that. > > Turns out Hannah spotted it, and had been using it. If only she'd told > me before I posted... ;) > > -z- (who still can't get over how he missed something so obvious) > Forest/trees/etc :-) Mark |