Via Slashdot, I found this Ars Technica review of the radioShark. Solid details over four pages, with ample illustrations. I didn’t learn much, to be honest, but I read the whole thing hoping that maybe there was a workaround for the main issue: no guide. There doesn’t appear to be, although in the Slashdot thread, I learned about RadioTime, which is offering a guide, and will (the Slashdot poster said) work with the radioShark soon.
Reality check: I wasn’t using mine regularly before the iMac issues, and since the iMac returned from its bad RAM trip, I haven’t plugged it back in. Also, of all the crazy typographical conventions… radioShark?? I’ll try it again eventually, but I have no time for listening.
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1 clock — watching time, the only true currency » 2005, Year in Review // Jan 1, 2006 at 10:32 am
[...] February: Via Slashdot, I found this Ars Technica review of the radioShark. Solid details over four pages, with ample illustrations. (More details on the radioShark, Feb 1, 2005) [...]
2 Brief notes on items which captured more attention in the past | clock — watching time, the only true currency // Nov 23, 2007 at 10:02 am
[...] RadioShift and the radio SHARK 2 combine to make me consider pulling my original radio SHARK out of the drawer. When the device finally arrived in September 2004, I was disappointed by the lack of a workable, integrated guide. Just a few months later, I noted that I had abandoned the Shark because of that gap. Since I started using the iPhone’s iPod capabilities, I actually have a renewed interest. Maybe RadioShift is the answer. [...]