Another interesting thing about this app is it will also play SiriusXM channels. Just another alternative for doing this. On Aug 20, 2011, at 10:54 PM, Frank Ventura wrote:
> Thank you very much for this. I finally got back to trying this today > and it seems to work pretty good. > Frank > > -----Original Message----- > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Esther > Sent: Monday, August 15, 2011 9:27 AM > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: Radio tuner aps for the Mac > > Hi Frank, > > I've only played with the trial version of Radium, but if you are using > TrackPad Commander, you can navigate to the Radium icon in the Dock and > double tap on the TrackPad to bring up the menu. You'll be in the > search field, and can type in the station you want, and flick to the > menu button and other controls to configure shortcuts and preferences. > However, I'm used to using keyboard shortcuts, and if you don't want to > use TrackPad Commander, once you launch Radium, you can just press > Command+comma to bring up the preferences menu, then navigate to the > "Controls" tab, and interact with the table of keyboard shortcuts, > checking the boxes for any that you want to activate. Among these will > be a shortcut to start/stop Radium (Command+Shift+E by default). Once > this is checked, and the preferences window is closed, using this > shortcut will take you to the search field in the Radium menu and allow > you to start a search for a station, or else access the other parts of > the menu (e.g. view the last selected station, resume playing, check it > to mark as a favorite, access the menu button for other options > including setting preferences, etc.) The keyboard shortcut of > Command+Shift+E toggles open and closed the menu window that you would > normally get by clicking the Radium icon on the status menu bar. (If you > want to change this to a different keyboard shortcut, in the table on > the "Controls" pane in the "Preferences" menu where you checked the box > for the "Start/Stop Radium" option, use VO-Space on the column listing > the keyboard shortcut, then type in a new shortcut sequence.) > > As far as I know there are no Tutorials. I find it helpful to Google for > a review when I want to learn about an app's features and capabilities. > You can use the Mail Archive search to find and read my earlier posts, > which give a bit more details on the menu layout and other preference > tab options, such as subscriptions. > > The Mail Archive page for this list is: > http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries%40googlegroups.com/ > > Type your search terms like: > Esther radium > to bring up links to relevant posts. Since the Mail Archive supports > searching by author, a better search would be to use terms like: > from: Esther radium > where there is a colon after "from" > > This will get you the link to the first post: > * Re: radio app for macbook air > http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries%40googlegroups.com/msg51385.h > tml > > To read down the thread to my later posts, press Control+n (for > "next"). To read the earlier posts in the thread, discussing Radioshift > and Piano Pub, press Control+p (for "previous"). User of different > browsers can substitute the appropriate access key (e.g., use "Alt" > instead of "Control" for Internet Explorer.) > > You can read more about Mail Archive search syntax options and shortcut > keys from their FAQ: > http://www.mail-archive.com/faq.html > > HTH. Cheers, > > Esther > > On Aug 14, 2011, at 22:24, Frank Ventura wrote: > >> Thanks for the recommendation. Can anyone tell me how to operate this >> with VO. From my understanding it should sit in the menu bar. I can't >> seem to find it in any menu. When I launch the Radium app from the >> apps folder it just Radium has no Windows. I don't see anything >> helpful in the help menu. Is there a tutorial somewhere? Any help >> would be appreciated. >> Frank >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >> [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Mary Otten >> Sent: Sunday, August 14, 2011 11:54 AM >> To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >> Subject: Re: Radio tuner aps for the Mac >> >> Recently, Esther posted abgout an application called Radium. It is >> available in the app store for $25, but there is a free trial demo >> available from the developer as well. The most recently update had >> comments that it has been made voice-over accessible. I love it when >> developers go out of their way to do that and then comment on it! >> >> Mary >> >> Mary Otten >> motte...@gmail.com >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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