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Super rainy day... unfortunately. But this didn't stop anybody :)
More bad weather to come in the next day.

That's us here (Pashnit forum link)

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Sunday, March 6, 2011

Although I have an iPhone for couple years, I just realized recently that I can use my iPhone to listen to Internet radio stations. Doh!

The search for an app began. I started googling for "Interet Radio" or "tune in radio", but the results were not all that good. I wanted a FREE app, simple and customizable. There are some really cool looking apps out there, like TuneIn Radio or Spark Radio, but they are either not free, or coming with a predefined list of thousand of stations that can't be modified. I didn't like that! Who is going to listen to 35,000 stations? I just have a dozen of stations or so that I listen to and I want to be able to specify them myself.

There comes FStream (AppStore link here), which is just what I wanted. It has a very simple interface, which I like, but the major features are:

customizable station list: the user specifies the URL of each station, it name and position in the list;
web interface: the user can access, modify, reorder, etc the station list from a web browser. The iPhone needs to be connected the a WIFI network. Then user can access the FStream built-in website from any computer/browser on the network.

Combine this with the Motorola MOTOROKR T505 and you got yourself a cool solution to listen to your favorite Internet radio while on the move. Mind you, you will need the following to have this working:

3G connection available, subscription to data
Audio device with Bluetooth A2DP file support (e.g. iPhone 3Gs+ / iOS 3+)
FM car radio (yes, this is mandatory ;-> )

The following is a list of Romanian Internet radio stations I usually listen to:

EuropaFM Romania - http://astreaming.europafm.ro:8000/europafm_aacp48k
KissFM Romania - http://80.86.106.136
ProFM - http://stream.profm.ro:8012/profm.mp3
ProFM Chillout - http://stream.profm.ro:8232/chillout.mp3
ProFM Gold - http://stream.profm.ro:8112/gold.mp3
ProFM Hot - http://stream.profm.ro:8252/hot.mp3
ProFM Love - http://stream.profm.ro:8072/love.mp3
ProFM Reggae - http://stream.profm.ro:8062/reggae.mp3
ProFM Rock - http://stream.profm.ro:8142/rock.mp3
Guerrilla Radio - http://live.eliberadio.ro:8000/
Radio Zu - http://stream.radiozu.ro:8020/

Netherlands:

Kink ClassX - http://81.173.3.24
Radio 538 - http://82.201.100.9:8000/radio538

Monday, January 17, 2011

Pashnit NorCal Motorcycle Paradise - Day 3

Day 3 of the Pashnit NorCal Motorcycle Paradise taken from pashnittours.com.

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Sunday, January 16, 2011

Pashnit NorCal Motorcycle Paradise - Day 2

Day 2 of the Pashnit NorCal Motorcycle Paradise taken from pashnittours.com.

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Pashnit NorCal Motorcycle Paradise - Day 1

Day 1 of the Pashnit NorCal Motorcycle Paradise taken from pashnittours.com.

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Sunday, January 9, 2011

Norway Motorcycle Tours

Here are few links to resources about touring Norway on a motorcycle:

http://www.beachs-mca.com/articles/citybike/nor98.html - good description of a Beach tour, comparing Norway to California riding
http://www.beachs-mca.com/articles/norway_reviews.htm - reviews of Beach tours
http://travel.zerogdesigns.com - 3 travel logs from '96, '97, '98 describing each tour in detail