#IPOD RADIOSHARK SOFTWARE#
#IPOD RADIOSHARK PC#

(It's certainly cheaper than a real lighting kit!)Д«TW, there's a switch on the SightLight to reduce brightness, making the 'headlight in your face' effect a little easier to take.

For 40 bucks, it does a good job at the job it's supposed to do. Using the SightLight mitigates a lot of this, particularly the eye shadows. That's why a lot of people look like Hermann Munster on a web cam.

Especially with overhead lighting, a lot if people get horrible shadows under their eyes and cheeks, well-defined forehead wrinkles, and the like. The way to use the SightLight is as a secondary fill source. If you use it that way, (depening on ambient light) you'll get an image with a lot of contrast and noise. The SightLight isn't supposed to be the primary light source for the iSight. I've done a lot of lighting for both video and stage, and you're missing the point. I returned mine the very next day, and I now approach Griffin products with skepticism. A face lit by the SightLight will look ghostly pale and near-dark to the person on the other end, and the user has to be very close to the light to be seen at all. And you'd think that in return for being blinded, you could at least be seen better by the person on the other end of the conversation - but no, that's not true for as retina-piercingly bright as the SightLight is, it does a terrible job of actually lighting you up. Sounds clever, right?Д®xcept that using the SightLight is like trying to talk to an automobile headlight two feet in front of your face. It's a light for the iSight webcam it's a ring of white LEDs which mounts around the iSight lens to illuminate you so that people can see you when you're using the webcam in an otherwise dark room. The SightLight is one of the most poorly-conceived products on the market. If I'm abducted now, it won't be from lack of sleep.His glowing review almost convinced me, until I got to the end where he similarly praises the Griffin SightLight. With RadioShark, the vast interplanetary conspiracies are waiting for me in the morning, thanks to this useful new device. , who does his best to unravel various alien agendas in the wee hours of the night. If you're a fan of late-night radio talk shows, or odd-hours disc jockey music programs that air while you're at work or asleep, RadioShark may be the answer for you. In AM mode, RadioShark found additional stations and played them fine, but it still displayed the old station frequency I'd left seconds earlier. The 'seek' station button worked in both AM and FM modes, but for some reason, only the FM frequency mode showed me the new station I'd just discovered.

#IPOD RADIOSHARK SOFTWARE#

The software did have some minor drawbacks. RadioShark created a permanent file and stored it in the folder of my choice.

When I wanted to record something to keep, I just clicked the instant-record button. When I exited the RadioShark program, that temporary audio file was automatically deleted for good. Like the song you just heard on an FM station? Rewind it and listen to it again with RadioShark.Д«e careful with the time-shifting, though. That 30 minutes of time-shifting requires 327 megabytes of available hard drive space. Thirty minutes should suffice for most casual radio listening and the most recent half-hour will always be accessible. You can specify the length of that timeframe (30, 60, or 90 minutes, etc.) and you're only limited by the size of your hard drive. The time-shifting panel can be toggled from the main screen and, similar to TiVo for television, RadioShark records a rolling timeframe of audio. The next time they synchronize to the desktop, they'll have their RadioShark recording for the road.

IPod users will appreciate that RadioShark can create a folder in the iTunes application. Only one station at a time can be recorded, by the way. It will also record to WAV files if you choose, and Apple users have the option of capturing the audio files to the AAC audio file format. When I clicked 'record,' three backlit blue 'gills' on the RadioShark unit began to glow red, an indication I had begun capturing the broadcast to a WMA file. Within seconds I was listening to the San Francisco Bay area's KNBR sports talk radio station from my computer speakers. To tune the RadioShark to a desired station, I simply dragged a sliding notch near the frequency numbers at the top of the display. Up on my screen popped a small gray square that clearly listed station-tuning, volume controls and time-shifting tools.

#IPOD RADIOSHARK PC#

There are no buttons or dials or station-setting on the unit itself - that's all accessed via software (for PC or Mac).ДЄfter installing the RadioShark application, I plugged in the unit and launched the program. You connect the device to your PC using a USB connection, from which the RadioShark also gets its power. Inside that shiny white shark fin, there's an AM/FM radio.

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