![]() NPR fans know when "All Things Considered" comes on during broadcasts on KPLU-FM (88.5) and KUOW-FM (94.9), for instance. Most radio listeners tune to the same stations to hear scheduled programs, however, so this isn't much of an issue. ![]() RadioShark also lacks a programming guide such as the ones automatically updated as part of TiVo and ReplayTV's subscription or one-time fee services. Instead, you must tune or seek to each station and enter a preset for it. Griffin doesn't preload the radio-tuner software with any stations, which seems odd given that no more than a few hours of work would have yielded the top 50 radio markets' full roster of call letters and frequencies. The application includes a time-shifting feature to store a buffer of whatever you're listening to. Software for both platforms records the converted audio to digital files. The stylish device is an antenna and digital audio converter that connects to the USB port on a Macintosh or a Windows PC. RadioShark is a TiVolike USB device for broadcast radio ($70, Griffin Technology showed off RadioShark way back at the July 2003 Macworld Expo it recently started shipping. There's no such button on radio equipment yet.īut a piece of hardware and two software packages make it possible for me to now have that much-vaunted time shifting that led Federal Communications Commission Chairman Michael Powell to call TiVo "God's machine." This column is about how, when I want to interrupt listening to a radio program, my hand automatically reaches for the pause button on my radio, but that doesn't exist. ReplayTV is a TiVo competitor that can record television programs to a hard drive directly from a cable feed or antenna for later viewing - or live viewing with a buffer that lets you pause and replay some number of previous minutes. I'm addicted to my ReplayTV, but this column isn't about that.
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