Roy’s interpretation to Steve Jobs’s iPad announcement and what would his older brother, the iPhone, say/sing.
I have been getting many questions & comments about my two posts on how to listen to Israeli radio stations on the iPhone and iPod Touch using the FStream app (here). That’s the “price” I had to pay for being ranked first on google for queries like “israeli radio on iphone”. Hopefully this post will provide answers to many of the questions.
Recently a new free application was released to the App Store called “Visual Radio” (download link). It was developed in Israel by Unicell and it offers the capability to listen to over 10 stations using a clean and elegant user interface.
Unlike the FSTream solution which requires configuring the radio stations’ streams urls into the app and changing the urls whenever those change, Visual Radio comes pre-configured with many radio stations which leads to an easy “install and play” experience. A few stations are still missing and I hope the Unicell team there will add them soon. Other nice features include:
1. Radio Dial that lets you preview what song is being played in a station before actually switching to it – big time saver
2. Displaying artist and song names
3. Song’s lyrics (when available)
4. Programming for every station
Kudos for the Unicell team for a great app. One small tip to the developers – change the app name to say something like “Visual Israeli Radio” so people who search iTunes will be able to easily find it.
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Update (1/26/2010):
There is a new iPhone app that eliminates the need to configure FStream. Read about it here.
Original post starts here:
According to Google Analytics this old post of mine is one of the most popular on this blog. It is time to refresh the list, add new Israeli radio stations streams and fix the broken ones.
The updated list below uses a stream url structure from fm1.co.il. Simply launch FStream on your iPhone / iPod Touch and configure it to use the following streams. Enjoy.
Galaz - http://www.fm1.co.il/playnow/glz.asx
GalGalaz - http://www.fm1.co.il/playnow/glgltz.asx
88fm - http://www.fm1.co.il/playnow/88fm.asx
Kol Hamusica (classical music) - http://www.fm1.co.il/playnow/kol-hamusica.asx
Reshet Aleph - http://www.fm1.co.il/playnow/reshet-aleph.asx
Reshet Bet - http://www.fm1.co.il/playnow/reshet-bet.asx
Reshet Gimel - http://www.fm1.co.il/playnow/reshet-gimel.asx
Regional stations
Kol Hacampus (one of my favorites, run by students, plays plenty of alternative music) – http://www.fm1.co.il/playnow/campus.asx
Radius 100fm - http://www.fm1.co.il/playnow/100fm.asx
Radio Tel Aviv 102fm - http://www.fm1.co.il/playnow/102fm.asx
Radio Lelo Hafsaka 103fm - http://www.fm1.co.il/playnow/103fm.asx
Radio Lev Hamedina - http://www.fm1.co.il/playnow/91fm.asx
Radio Emza Haderech - http://www.fm1.co.il/playnow/90fm.asx
Radio Kol Rega - http://www.fm1.co.il/playnow/96fm.asx
Radio Jerusalem - http://www.fm1.co.il/playnow/101fm.asx
Radio Haifa - http://www.fm1.co.il/playnow/radio-haifa.asx
Kol Ramat Hasharon – http://www.fm1.co.il/playnow/kol-ramat-hasharon.asx
Have you noticed the small print that appears on the Verizon-Droid iDon’t ads? “DROID is a trademark of Lucasfilm Ltd. and its related companies. Used under license.”
On that someone once said “there is only one thing better than a good name, a trademarked good name”.
btw, Less than 5 years ago George Lucas partnered with Cingular. Now he is going to profit from Verizon.
During the past month there have been a few important developments related to the availability of free Hebrew fonts and localized interface for iPhone and iPod Touch. First, HebDev, a group that developed a popular free open source solution suspended their project, leaving users with only one alternative – pay about $60 to a competitor. Second, Apple released iPhone 3.0 to developers and based on early previews, it looks like Hebrew support will finally be part of it. However, this version will become available to the public only in the summer, so this does not help those who have recently bought an iPhone or iPod Touch or those who have upgraded to firmware 2.2.1.
But today a new solution called OpenHebrew was released to the public. OpenHebrew is a package of basic Hebrew support (fonts and keyboard but not a localized interface) and it supports iPhone and iPod Touch running firmware 2.2 & 2.2.1. The creators used the Hebrew translation made by project iVrit (fully localized interface) and made it possible to install the iVrit package from the same source.
Installing OpenHebrew requires that you have a jailbroken device. If you have not done it, download QuickPwn and use it to jailbreak (5 min task even for non-techies). Then do the following:
Step 1 – Launch Cydia
Step 2 – add this new source: http://tom.zickel.org/openhebrew
Step 3 – Pick one of the two options:
Personally I prefer the second option which keeps the iPhone interface in English but properly handles right to left display of everything within applications that is written in Hebrew, like email subject lines and content, iPod song titles and artist names, text messages, contacts, etc.
Kudos to the iVrit team and to Tom Zickel at OpenHebrew (and in english) who worked hard on this and made Hebrew free to all iPhone & iPod Touch users once again. You can follow OpenHebrew on twitter as well.
Now, show some digg love.
The man behind it told me it is going to be worthwhile…
Have you registered?
I think there are still some places left in the black level.
Jason finally jailbreaked his iPhone and asked me yesterday for a list of recommended applications he should install. Instead of sending the list to him via email, I am posting it for everyone’s benefit.
I have plenty of applications installed, but the ones I use most are:
In case you are interested in the complete list, you can find it below. Putting it together was simple. I used Capture to take screenshots of the “Uninstall” tab. This way you can see all the applications installed, including those that don’t create an icon on the dock. You can also see the category each application belongs to, so you can easily find them under the “Install” tab.
Feel free to recommend more using the comments section. Enjoy.
In case you use Twitter on an iPhone using the popular & excellent web based client by Thincloud, you will see ads, strategically placed, as the first post when viewing recent posts. I noticed them this morning. Here are two examples.
I really wanted to try Yahoo Mobile on the iPhone. I swear I did. So as soon I saw this invite to upgrade to the best mobile experience for the iPhone, I hit the Download link.
But then I got this message that my phone is not currently supported…
Confused? Me too.
I guess I will have to keep using the Yahoo Mobile Web version, a poor client, that has no way to select & delete emails without opening the email and scrolling all the way to the bottom!
Good thing that I’ve migrated most of my email accounts to GMAIL (with IMAP support) which works great on the iPhone.
I am attending OMMA Hollywood today. Snap has a booth ad the exhibit floor and I am spending my time meeting people at the booth, and listening to sessions & worskshops.
The exhibit floor is pretty compact with about 50 companies that have a presence here. Once cool product has caught my attention so far. It is called Snaptell (no connection to Snap.com) and it offers image recognition based mobile marketing.
One of their offering is called Mobile Movie Explorer, which is a very impressive mashup of mobile & web technologies. Snaptell utilized Amazon’s web services and their image recognition technology to provide movie reviews sent back to the phone. Try it – simply take a picture of the cover any DVD movie with your camera phone, send it to dvd@snaptell.com, and check your email.
